ZIB Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen

Affects and emotions shape political discourses and practices not only by structuring collective identities and contributing to group and state decision-making but also as highly contested objects themselves. The fire at the Moria refugee camp in...

Research on contestation, grounded in a relational ontology, situates the inherent contentiousness of normative practices at the site of the social, offering a framework for analyzing the construction of social reality. Yet the connections between...

What role do the limits of international humanitarian law still play for military force? The wars in Ukraine and in Gaza have recently raised doubts as to whether international law is still relevant for international politics. This article shows...

This article examines the complex relationship between contestation and democracy using conspiracist ideologies as an example. While contestation is still a somewhat elusive concept in democratic theory, it is nevertheless a tangible and essential...

Contestation of international orders has increased noticeably in recent years. Driven by a diffuse sense of permanent crisis, international institutions are grappling to find strategies to deal with these challenges productively. While research on...

This paper is an interdependence theory-based analysis of burden-sharing in NATO. It demonstrates how the recent political focus on the two or five percent of GDP defense expenditure goals deviate from the historically grown more complex...

The essay pays tribute to Helga Haftendorn's contribution to the professionalization of the discipline of international relations and, in particular, security policy research through her consistently theory-conscious and theory-oriented research and...