Publications

New Atlantis is a utopian novel by Sir Francis Bacon in which he portrays a vision of the future of human discovery and knowledge, expressing his aspirations and ideals for humankind. The novel depict...chevron_right

This book uses legal foundations as a base for examining order and security in the community of states. Grotius wrote this volume while the Thirty Years’ War raged around him in the hope that rational...chevron_right

The City of the Sun is presented as a dialogue between a Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller and a Genoese Sea-Captain. Inspired by Plato's Republic and the description of Atlantis in Timaeus, it d...chevron_right

This work discusses the role of secular authority, the proper Christian attitude towards it, and the responsibilities of Christian princes.chevron_right

Utopia, originally written in Latin, is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society called Utopia. The framework of the book is the tale of a sailor who has lived in Utopia, a soc...chevron_right

Niccolò Machiavelli’s best-known book contains a number of maxims concerning politics, concentrating on the possibilities and methods of becoming and remaining the ruler of a society - becoming its "p...chevron_right

The Magna Carta, signed 1215, was the first charter by a King of England to set detailed limits on royal authority.chevron_right

Plutarch's "Life of Alexander" is one of only five extant tertiary sources on the Macedonian conqueror Alexander the Great. It includes anecdotes and descriptions of events that appear in no other sou...chevron_right

How can third party peacemakers make good decisions when faced with competing priorities? In this article, Simon J. A. Mason, Owen Frazer et al propose a framework to help such actors. They argue that the difficultly of such decisions can be eased and poor compromises avoided by 1) making oneself aware of how a decision is perceived; and 2) exploring a set of different strategies for creating new unexpected options. The article also demonstrates the real-world benefits of the framework through examples from the authors’ peacemaking activities in Myanmar, Thailand and Ukraine.chevron_right

Miguel Alberto Gomez writes that as the number of politically relevant cyber incidents rises, the correct attribution of these incidents becomes ever more crucial. In this publication, Gomez investigates how foreign policy elites evaluate cyber operations, finding that pre-existing beliefs and perspectives often shape attribution. Due to such perspectives, elites are susceptible to false-flag operations and insufficiently accounting for new information. More information about a cyber-incident is thus not enough to guarantee sound attribution. This reinforces the need to develop mechanisms that minimize the impact of biased judgements on state behavior.chevron_right

This yearbook analyzes the peace processes and negotiations that took place around the world during 2017. More specifically, it examines the development and dynamics of peace talks worldwide to provide a comprehensive overview of peace processes, identify trends and comparativelychevron_right

This publication provides an insight into the concerns, viewpoints and situations of the Buddhist minority in the conflict-affected provinces of southern Thailand. More specifically, it outlines the information gathered through interviews, dialogues and other activities by Weaving Peace Together (WTP), which was established in 2015 to help understand and find solutions to conflicts between the local Buddhist and Muslim communities. The publication also includes WPT’s recommendations on how to further the ongoing peace dialogues as well as inter-religious relations and peaceful coexistence in the region.chevron_right

This paper, which is the final one in a series of three, analyzes how the EU has both conceptualized and characterized the Mediterranean region since 2003. Basically, since that time Brussels’ boundary-drawing perception of the area has been either/or -- i.e., it has distinguished...chevron_right

This report reviews the work of IPI’s Independent Commission on Multilateralism (ICM), which looked at whether the UN-based multilateral system is ‘fit for purpose’ to face the 21st century. The report ultimately provides ten principles that...chevron_right

After reviewing the cross-national evidence, this paper concludes that social media has one overriding political value -- i.e., it enhances the ability of citizens in non-democratic states to mobilize...chevron_right