Books in the Interventions series

This is a broad ranging introduction to 21st century anarchism which includes a wide array of theoretical approaches as well as a variety of empirical and geographical perspectives.

In this visual age, images and visual artefacts shape international events and our understanding of them. Photographs, film and television influence how we view and approach phenomena as diverse as war, diplomacy, financial crises and election campaigns. This book offers the first comprehensive engagement with visual global politics.

The volume aims to introduce Lacan's vast opus to the field of international politics in a coherent and approachable manner.

"This critical introduction to democracy promotion seeks to provide the reader with an understanding of some of the key dynamics and contentions revolving around this controversial policy agenda"--

Provides a novel approach to international relations. This title describes how life events brought the authors to their subject matter. It places their narratives in the larger context of world politics, culture, and history. It demonstrates how to reengage the 'I' while simultaneously sustaining theoretical precision and historical awareness.

Provides a novel approach to the study of security and global governance by demonstrating that psychological interventions are integral to global governmentality. This book traces a 'diagnostic competition' over the psychological state of a targeted population.

"Prozorov reinterprets the familiar principles of community, equality and freedom in ontological terms as attributes of pure being, subtracted from all positive determinations, and presents them as axioms of universalist politics valid in any world whatsoever"--

The aim of this book is to bring together geographers, and Schmitt experts who are attuned to the spatial dimensions of his work, to discuss The Nomos of the Earth in the International Law of the Jus Publicum Europaeum (Schmitt, 1950 [2003]).

Provides an overview of the debates in International Relations theory concerning the applicability of the research and methods of Michel Foucault to contemporary world order. This book was published as a special issue in "Global Society".

This volume explores the virtual explosion of narrative writing in contemporary academic international politics.

Wartime rape has been virulent in wars of sovereignty, territory, conquest, religion, ideology and liberation, yet attention to this crime has been sporadic throughout history. This book asks some critical questions about the relationship between mass rape, politics and law.

Offers a genealogical interrogation of the relationship between security and risk through its materialisation in insurance.

Examines whether feminism has succeeded in transforming International Relations by assessing what feminist theories offer to study of international politics and exploring feminism's relationship with the study of International Relations.

A theoretically-informed empirical examination of the political consequences of the World Summit on Sustainable Development.

Suitable for undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars of international relations, this title provides a wide-ranging introduction to thirty-two important theorists whose work has been influential in thinking about global politics. Each chapter is written by an expert with a detailed knowledge of the theorist concerned.

Introduces students to key debates about ethics in international relations theory.

This edited volume analyses the global making of security institutions and practices in our postcolonial world.

The volume aims to introduce Lacan¿s vast opus to the field of international politics in a coherent and approachable manner.