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Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
Since they were pioneered in the 1970s by Robert Keohane and others, the broad range of neoliberal institutionalist theories of international relations have grown in importance. In an increasingly globalized world, the realist and neorealist focus on states, military power, conflict, and anarchy has...
Historical Institutionalism and International Relations
Explaining Institutional Development in World Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
This book applies the analytical approach called Historical Institutionalism (HI)- so far mostly used within comparative politics-to the field of International Relations (IR). It provides an introduction to HI concepts and makes an argument for why it is particularly well-suited for understanding...
Comparative, International, and Global Justice
Perspectives from Criminology and Criminal Justice
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
*Comparative, International and Global Justice: Perspectives from Criminology and Criminal Justice ***presents and critically assesses a wide range of topics relevant to criminology, criminal justice and global justice. The text is divided into three parts: comparative criminal justice, international...
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
The Handbook of Latin America in the World explains how the Latin American countries have both reacted and contributed to changing international dynamics over the last 30 years. It provides a comprehensive picture of Latin America’s global engagement by looking at specific processes and issues that...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
The end of the Cold War and subsequent dissolution of the Soviet Union resulted in a new unipolar international system that presented fresh challenges to international relations theory. Since the Enlightenment, scholars have speculated that patterns of cooperation and conflict might be systematically...
Introduction to International Relations
Perspectives, Connections, and Enduring Questions
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2018
The hotly awaited second edition of this bestselling introductory textbook provides a truly comprehensive and accessible guide to international affairs. Bringing together the combined decades of experience in researching and teaching global politics of three acclaimed scholars, this text introduces...
by J. Ann Tickner
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
J. Ann Tickner is ranked among the most influential scholars of international relations. As one of the founders of the field of feminist international relations, she is also among the most pioneering. In many ways her academic career has traced the development of the feminist subfield of IR, and it...
Diplomatic Games
Sport, Statecraft, and International Relations since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
International sporting events, including the Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup, have experienced profound growth in popularity and significance since the mid-twentieth century. Sports often facilitate diplomacy, revealing common interests across borders and uniting groups of people who are otherwise...
by Professor Philippe Sands, Professor Jacqueline Peel
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
The third edition of this classic textbook offers comprehensive and critical commentary on international environmental law. It fully covers the key topics of the course and is clearly structured to include the history and framework in which international environmental law exists, key areas of regulation...
Living Weapons
Biological Warfare and International Security
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
"Biological weapons are widely feared, yet rarely used. Biological weapons were the first weapon prohibited by an international treaty, yet the proliferation of these weapons increased after they were banned in 1972. Biological weapons are frequently called 'the poor man's atomic bomb,' yet they cannot...
Bringing Sociology to International Relations
World Politics as Differentiation Theory
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Functional differentiation has long been at the heart of sociological thought, and as such has become a defining feature in the evolution of modern society; one which distinguishes it from pre-modern societies which have instead typically differentiated by means of segmentation, or stratified social...
Beyond the Ivory Tower
International Relations Theory and the Issue of Policy Relevance
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2001
The gap between academics and practitioners in international relations has widened in recent years, according to the authors of this book. Many international relations scholars no longer try to reach beyond the ivory tower and many policymakers disdain international relations scholarship as arcane...
Bourdieu in International Relations
Rethinking Key Concepts in IR
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
This book rethinks the key concepts of International Relations by drawing on the work of Pierre Bourdieu.
The last few years have seen a genuine wave of publications promoting sociology in international relations. Scholars have suggested that Bourdieu’s vocabulary can be applied to study...