ZIB Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen

This contribution is based on the unequivocal normative content of „peace“ in public discourse and at the same time illustrates the context dependency of references to peace. The currently observable "war effects" on peace motivate to take an...

The establishment of International Relations as a field of study in part responded to the experience of World War One. Its consolidation and differentiation after World War Two went hand in hand with the entanglement of the incipient discipline with...

Cases of contestation and de-/legitimation are not only omnipresent in research on the international order and multilateralism. They are also prominently used as concepts in international relations. However, two different research camps deal with...

Peace is too complex to be researched in a single academic discipline, not to mention to be depicted in a single one of its theories. IB can also contribute to multidisciplinary research into peace. However, it has largely lost sight of it in its...

The crisis phenomena of recent decades are characterised by substantive overlaps, concurrences, normative ambiguities and unclear perspectives for addressing. As they demonstrate, crises are also normative crises. Since pluralisation and the...