HOVI, Jon. Games, Threats & Treaties - Understanding Commitments in International Relations. London, Pinter, 1998, 160 p.

Jon Warwick, London South Bank University

As reported in a previous paper, teaching mathematics to non-specialist undergraduate students in the UK has become particularly problematic in recent years. A larger scale survey of first year undergraduate students was subsequently undertaken to explore levels of mathematical anxiety among the student group. This paper illustrates and reports on the application of Rasch analysis to these surv...

Art–State Relations: Art and Power through the Lens of International Treaties

As one manifestation of the rising salience of informationpolicy issues that has been observable since the late 1980s, art is now of central interest to political scientists and practicing policymakers. Wallerstein’s (1990) theoretical argument—“culture is the battleground of the world system”—has been operationalized in developments as diverse as research method innovations that investigate vi...

The Concept of Power in International Relations

The terms of Power, influence and authority could be heard in political world vastly, but using these terms is not leaving only to this realm. Despite its visual simplicity, generally there is not similar and equal perception about term of Power among people. Understanding about by politicians differs from lawyer perception about this term.  What people takes about Power, totally differ from wh...

Effects of International Human Rights Treaties

Bilateral Investment Treaties and International Integration

This paper studies how bilateral investment treaties (BITs) affect the trade integration between partner countries. While the overall results from the full sample show that BIT signing is associated with an increase in overall imports that is generally smaller than the effect of WTO membership, BIT signing is found to have a considerable effect on capital goods imports and on imports of differe...