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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
The modern discipline of International Relations (IR) is largely an Anglo-American social science. It has been concerned mainly with the powerful states and actors in the global political economy and dominated by North American and European scholars. However, this focus can be seen as Eurocentrism....
by Stephen McGlinchey
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
This book is designed to be a ‘Day 0’ introduction to International Relations. As a beginner’s guide, it has been structured to condense the most important information into the smallest space and present that information in the most accessible way.
Written by a range of emerging and established...
Uncertainty in International Law
A Kelsenian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
Re-engaging with the Pure Theory of Law developed by Hans Kelsen and the other members of the Viennese School of Jurisprudence, this book looks at the causes and manifestations of uncertainty in international law. It considers both epistemological uncertainty as to whether we can accurately perceive...
by Jan Klabbers, Anne Peters, Geir Ulfstein
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
The book examines one of the most debated issues in current international law: to what extent the international legal system has constitutional features comparable to what we find in national law. This question has become increasingly relevant in a time of globalization, where new international institutions...
by James A. Caporaso, Mary Anne Madeira
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
The study of international relations now goes well beyond state-to-state politics and even regional politics. Technological forces are working their effects on the world as a whole, bringing state and non-state actors into contact with one another. Globalization, Institutions and Governance...
Regulation of Foreign Investment
Challenges to International Harmonization
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
The main aim of this book is to assess the importance of international rules for foreign direct investment and the major challenges to international harmonization of those rules. Particular attention is paid to the most controversial and contentious issues with the view of appraising the prospects...
International Law and Empire
Historical Explorations
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
In times in which global governance in its various forms, such as human rights, international trade law, and development projects, is increasingly promoted by transnational economic actors and international institutions that seem to be detached from democratic processes of legitimation, the question...
War and the State
The Theory of International Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
War and the State exposes the invalid arguments employed in the unproductive debate about Realism among international relations scholars, as well as the common fallacy of sharply distinguishing between conflict among states and conflict within them. As R. Harrison Wagner demonstrates, any understanding...
Psychology, Strategy and Conflict
Perceptions of Insecurity in International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
This volume examines the explanatory nesting approach in the analysis of international relations and its continuing relevance in the 21st century.
International relations theory urgently needs strategies for coping with the growing complexity of the international system following the collapse...
Kosovo, Intervention and Statebuilding
The International Community and the Transition to Independence
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
This book examines international engagement with Kosovo since NATO’s intervention in 1999, and looks at the three distinct phases of Kosovo’s development; intervention, statebuilding and independence.
Kosovo remains a case study of central importance in international relations, illustrative...
by Roger O'Keefe
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
International Criminal Law provides a comprehensive overview of an increasingly integral part of public international law. It complements the usual accounts of the substantive law of those international crimes tried to date before international criminal courts and of the institutional law of those...
Civilization and Empire
China and Japan's Encounter with European International Society
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2009
This book critically examines the influence of International Society on East Asia, and how its attempts to introduce ‘civilization’ to ‘barbarous’ polities contributed to conflict between China and Japan.
Challenging existing works that have presented the expansion of (European) International...
by Thomas Nektarios Papanastasiou
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
'The Legal Protection of Foreign Investments Against Political Risk' examines how political risks associated with foreign direct investment in the energy sector are managed or mitigated, and suggests new ways to deal with the possibility of such risk. It applies its analysis—using case studies and...
Prosecuting International Crimes and Human Rights Abuses Committed Against Children
Leading International Court Cases
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
This casebook addresses selected precedent-setting rulings of various international human rights and international criminal courts with a focus on the child victims of international crimes and human rights abuses. The cases are analysed from the children’s human rights perspective and the question...