International Relations category: 9182 books
by Niklaus Steiner
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
International migration has emerged in the last decade as one of the world’s most controversial and pressing issues. This thought-provoking textbook offers the reader a more nuanced and knowledgeable understanding of the complex economic, political, cultural, and moral concerns that arise when people...
Governing the World?
Cases in Global Governance
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
‘Global governance’ has become a key concept in the contemporary study of international politics, yet what the term means and how it works remains in question.
Governing the World: Cases in Global Governance takes an alternative approach to understanding the concept by exploring how global...
War and Ideas
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book collects the key essays, together with updating notes and commentary, of Professor John Mueller on war and the role of ideas and opinions.
Mueller has maintained that war (and peace) are, in essence, merely ideas, and that war has waned as the notion that 'peace' is a decidedly good...
United Nations Reform
Heading North or South?
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2009
This book examines recent attempts at reform within the United Nations in the wake of the institutional crisis provoked by the invasion of Iraq. It contends that efforts at reform have foundered owing to fundamental and bitter political disagreements between the nations of the global North and South.
Following...
by Simon Chesterman, Ian Johnstone, David M. Malone
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Law and Practice of the United Nations: Documents and Commentary combines primary materials with expert commentary demonstrating the interaction between law and practice in the UN organization, as well as the possibilities and limitations of multilateral institutions in general. Each chapter begins...
Towards a Postsecular International Politics
New Forms of Community, Identity, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
An investigation of the postsecular in International Relations and how an increasingly postsecular international politics is contributing to the emergence of new patterns of authority, legitimacy and power in the international system.
What Causes War?
An Introduction to Theories of International Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Now in a thoroughly revised and updated edition, this classic text presents a comprehensive survey of the many alternative theories that attempt to explain the causes of interstate war. For each theory, Greg Cashman examines the arguments and counterarguments, considers the empirical evidence and...
Resolving International Conflict
Dynamics of Escalation, Continuation and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2019
Resolving International Conflict rethinks the dynamics of conflict escalation and continuation by engaging with research from the wide range of subfields in this area.
The book suggests a new framework for understanding conflict as a particular form of situation, interaction and tension. It...
State Terrorism and Human Rights
International Responses since the End of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
This book aims to improve understanding of the broad trends in the utilisation of political violence by examining the use of state terror in world politics.
The ending of the Cold War and the overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe led many to assume that this presaged the demise of the one-party...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
International development is a dynamic, vibrant and complex field – both in terms of practices and in relation to framing and concepts. This collection draws together leading experts from a range of disciplines, including development economics, geography, sociology, political science and international...
The International Politics of Fashion
Being Fab in a Dangerous World
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
This book seeks to address and fill a puzzling omission in contemporary critical IR scholarship. Following on from the aesthetic turn in IR, critical and ‘postmodern’ IR has produced an impressive array of studies into movies, literature, music and art and the way these media produce, mediate,...
Emerging Powers in Global Governance
Lessons from the Heiligendamm Process
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
The early twenty-first century has seen the beginning of a considerable shift in the global balance of power. Major international governance challenges can no longer be addressed without the ongoing co-operation of the large countries of the global South. Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa,...
Leadership and Policy Innovation - From Clinton to Bush
Countering the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Throughout the Cold War there were longstanding efforts to control the spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) through extensive arms control, deterrence, and defense programs. Since then counterproliferation efforts by the U.S. and international community have accelerated. Given the attention...
Risk and Hierarchy in International Society
Liberal Interventionism in the Post-Cold War Era
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
The English School of International Relations has traditionally maintained that international society cannot accommodate hierarchical relationships between states. This book employs a unique theoretical and conceptual approach challenging this view and arguing that hierarchies are formed on Western states' need to manage globalised risks.