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Cover of Essay Collections in International Relations
by Moorhead Wright, Jane Davis, Michael Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015

This bibliography, originally published in 1977, details original material on international relations since 1870 written in English and appearing in non-recurrent multi-author works published between 1945 and 1975. The authors have distinguished between core topics such as foreign policy, defence,...
Cover of The Growth of International Business (RLE International Business)
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Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013

This book integrates the work of economists, management scientists and business historians. It applies the related concepts of transaction costs, internalisation, corporate strategy and market structure to explain the historical process of corporate growth in the international economy. Each chapter...
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Jus Cogens

International Law and Social Contract

by Thomas Weatherall
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015

One of the most complex doctrines in contemporary international law, jus cogens is the immediate product of the socialization of the international community following the Second World War. However, the doctrine resonates in a centuries-old legal tradition which constrains the dynamics of voluntarism...
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by Jens Bartelson
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014

This book is a critical inquiry into sovereignty and argues that the meaning and functions performed by this concept have changed significantly during the past decades, with profound implications for the ontological status of the state and the modus operandi of the international system as a whole. Although...
Cover of What's the Point of International Relations?
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Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017

What’s the Point of International Relations casts a critical eye on what it is that we think we are doing when we study and teach international relations (IR). It brings together many of IR’s leading thinkers to challenge conventional understandings of the discipline’s origins, history, and...
Cover of Theories of International Relations
by Scott Burchill, Andrew Linklater, Richard Devetak
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013

The 5th edition of this best-selling textbook provides a systematic and comprehensive introduction to the main theoretical approaches in the study of international relations. While maintaining focus on the core theories and assessing the importance of theory in the study of International Relations,...
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International Peacebuilding

An introduction

by SungYong Lee, Alpaslan Ozerdem
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015

International Peacebuilding offers a concise, practical and accessible introduction to the growing field of peacebuilding for students and practitioners. This new textbook comprises three parts, each dealing with a key aspect of peacebuilding: Part I defines the core concepts and theoretical...
Cover of Sovereignty Referendums in International and Constitutional Law
by İlker Gökhan Şen
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015

This book focuses on sovereignty referendums, which have been used throughout different historical periods of democratization, decolonization, devolution, secession and state creation. Referendums on questions of sovereignty and self-determination have been a significant element of the international...
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Who's Afraid of Children?

Children, Conflict and International Relations

by Helen Brocklehurst
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017

Brocklehurst's impressive work breaks new ground in normative international political theory. It develops a new theoretical framework which exposes how children are present in international relations and security practices using an empirical and comparative assessment of the role of children and youth...
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Rethinking the Man Question

Sex, Gender and Violence in International Relations

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Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013

The reality of international relations and its academic study are still almost entirely constituted by men. Rethinking the Man Question is a crucial investigation and reinvigoration of debates about gender and international relations. Following on from the seminal The Man Question in International...
Cover of Rethinking Democracy Promotion in International Relations
by Jessica Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015

This book traces and conceptualises the changing notion of democracy and demonstrates how democracy promotion finds itself at the heart of contemporary international discourses and policies. Democracy promotion is widely considered to constitute a hypocritical and failed ‘grand international...
Cover of Legal Consequences of Peremptory Norms in International Law
by Daniel Costelloe
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017

When is a norm peremptory? This is a question that has troubled legal scholars throughout the development of modern international law. In this work, Daniel Costelloe suggests - through an examination of State practice and international materials - that it is the legal consequences of a norm which...
Cover of The Responsibility to Protect in Darfur
by Abdel Salam Sidahmed, Walter C. Soderlund, Donald E. Briggs
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010

Long-simmering conflict in the Sudanese region of Darfur came to a boil in the spring of 2003 and became a focus of American media attention in September 2004. After the genocide in Rwanda the international community developed a new way to deal with genocide-the 'Responsibility to Protect' doctrine...
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Human Rights and Conflict Resolution

Bridging the Theoretical and Practical Divide

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Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017

Human rights and conflict resolution have been traditionally perceived as two separate fields, sometimes in competition or in tension and occasionally with contradictory approaches towards achieving a lasting peace. Although human rights norms have been incorporated and institutionalized by various...
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