Books in the Interventions series

"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"--

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.

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

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

Offers understanding of significant periods in contemporary British and EU foreign policy by reading them through the concepts of subjectivity, responsibility and hospitality.

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

This volume will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, critical theory, research methods and politics in general.

This volume offers a state-of-the-art study of the diverse methodological approaches and issues in the study of emotions in international relations research.

This volume draws on a Foucauldian understanding of governmentality to explore how EU civil society funding policies depoliticise civil society organisations. It questions whether international civil society funding always depoliticises civil society organisations, as literature on governmentality and international civil society policies argues.

This book re-thinks the way in which the subject is inscribed in the modern political by exploring the potentiality of a monist ontology in a Lacano-Deleuzian theoretical framework.

Politics and Suicide draws heavily on the work of Deleuze and Guattari and argues that whilst the historical lineage of suicidal politics is recognised, the fundamental significance of autodestruction to the political remains under examined.

This work seeks to highlight that an understanding of aesthetic practices is essential to the analysis of politics and political processes

This work focuses on the biopolitical use of lifestyle to govern individual choice and secure population health from the threat of obesity. The characterization of obesity as a threat to society caused by the cumulative effect of individual lifestyles has led to the politicization of daily choices, habits and practices as potential threats.

This work seeks to illuminate the various ways in which the management of imperial or hegemonic spaces contribute to the emergence of more coercive apparatuses of state control.

A growing number of scholars have sought to re-centre emotions in our study of international politics. This volume is aimed at filling that gap, proceeding from the assumption that a nuanced understanding of emotions can only enhance our engagement with contemporary conflict and war.

This book re-thinks the way in which the subject is inscribed in the modern political by exploring the potentiality of a monist ontology in a Lacano-Deleuzian theoretical framework. It concerns a different ontology and a non-dualist understanding of political and legal being, focusing on the questions: how to think alternative notions of existence and what their political, social and legal implications are? This book will be of interest to postgraduates and scholars working on critical normative ideas in international politics, critical security studies and critical legal studies.

This work seeks to highlight that an understanding of aesthetic practices is essential to the analysis of politics and political processes

This work brings together critical theorists, artists, and poets using time and temporality as the conceptual framework for investigating a diverse array of experiences and structures of oppression and exploitation in International Relations, focusing on the tensions produced by histories of slavery and colonization, disrupting dominant modes of understanding our present times.