ZIB Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen

Liberal norms such as human rights have long been the focus of constructivist norm research, but feminist, post- and de-colonial approaches have reconstructed them as ambivalent: The revelation of both emancipatory potential and principled exclusion...

Reflexivity matters, both in relation to oneself as a researcher and in relation to one’s own scientific-theoretical basic assumptions. Reflexivity is a prerequisite for successful communication within research fields, but it is not yet the status...

The increasing importance of artificial intelligence (AI) in many areas of politically relevant decision-making leads to new questions regarding the role of norms. Existing norm research offers important, diversified concepts, particularly on the...

Cooperation in the United Nations Security Council is becoming increasingly difficult due to global political tensions. This is also reflected in the failure to pass resolutions. But what drives the voting behavior of countries in the UN Security...

Women’s rights have been developing in a liberal-progressive manner on the international stage since the creation of the United Nations. Although the contestation of norms is not an unusual phenomenon, the increased critique of the human right to...

What is the significance of the military in German foreign and security policy? This article focuses on the development of the German government's convictions in the confrontation with multiple crises between 2014 and 2020. It shows that the German...