Books in the New International Relations series

Asks how and why specific interpretations of international terrorism and drug abuse have become hegemonic at the global level. Looking at the language of policy and theory, this book compares efforts to counter terrorism at the international level from 1972 to 2008 with developments in international drug prohibition from 1961 to 1988.

A collection of essays that explains the author's approach to international relations and how his thinking has developed over the years. It addresses topical themes and issues, including sovereignty, law, epistemology, boundaries, global governance and world society.

Examines the issue of collective political identity formation and expands the concept of the international beyond the notion of states. Providing a dialogical approach to questions of identity and alterity in International Relations, this book considers how identity is formed, maintained and transformed in continuous processes with alterity.

Introduces and defines the concept of social power and examines how it works in international politics. Including perspectives from the EU, the US, Middle East and China, this title features a range of case studies on culture and pop culture, media, public diplomacy and branding.

Considers various demands for justice within the international system, examining how such aspirations often conflict with norms of state sovereignty and non-intervention. This book explores how new norms develop within international society, and how these norms generate both resistance and compliance from state actors.

Examines the relations between security, identity and collective memory by focusing on the dynamics of identity formation among the elites of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland in relation to security and foreign policy in the post-Cold War era. Drawing on the idea of Orientalism, this book explores how a state can become European.

Adam Watson was one of the members of the British Committee on the Theory of International Politics and a founding member of the English School. This work records the development of Adam Watson's thinking about international theory from the 1950s onwards. It also explores his contribution to, and the development of, the English School.

Presents a critical understanding of contemporary world politics by arguing that the neoliberal approach to international relations seduces many of us into investing our lives in projects of power and alienation. This work intertwines non-Western and Western traditions by drawing on Marxist, postcolonial, feminist and critical security approaches.

Examines the influence of International Society on East Asia, and how its attempts to introduce 'civilisation' to 'barbarous' polities contributed to conflict between China and Japan. This book contends that imperialism - along with an ideology premised on 'civilising' 'barbarous' peoples - played a central role in its historic development.

A framework that helps the reader understand both the differences and commonalities in modernist and postmodernist emancipatory thinking in International Relations. It critically analyzes modernist theories, discourses, narratives and postmodernist theory and practice, feminist emancipatory discourses and postmodernist international discourse.

This book explores whether and how IR theory may be used by policy-makers to change the world. It critically examines a variety approaches within international relations and offers a novel conventional-causal alternative.

Examines the impact of European regionalism in the Mediterranean, focusing on the politics of representation and constructions of identity. This book is suitable for students and scholars of politics, international relations and the European Union.

Previous constructivist works have investigated the temporal contingency of state sovereignty, neglecting the spatial contingency of this concept. This book shows how the meaning of state sovereignty was constituted differently in the case of the intervention in Kosovo and the case of non-intervention in Algeria in the late 1990s.

Using the frameworks of structural realism, institutionalism and liberalism, this book examines how major powers responded to the collapse of the Soviet Union and developed their foreign policies during post-Cold War transition.

Examines the role of culture in contemporary security policies, providing a critical overview of the ways in which culture has been theorized in security studies. This volume also attempts to develop a theoretical framework that stresses the relationship between culture, power, security and strategy.

This volume of essays, with a new introduction and connective sections, brings together John Gerard Ruggie's most influential theoretical ideas and their application to critical policy questions concerning the post-Cold War international order.

This book provides an analysis of the political viability of basic human rights and offers an in-depth investigation of the largest violation of human rights: world hunger.

Offers a detailed account of how to use discourse analysis to study foreign policy. Divided into two parts, this book provides a poststructuralist theory of the relationship between identity and foreign policy and an in-depth discussion of the methodology of discourse analysis. It is suitable for students and scholars of international relations.

Presents an introduction to the existence and relevance of European approaches to IR theory and sets an agenda for the progressive development of a 'Eurodiscipline' of IR studies.

This text seeks to offer a general interpretation and critique of both methodolgical and substantive aspects of International theory. It focuses intially on the "problem of order" in international politics, and traces responses to the problem.

Analyses and investigates the processes of securitization, and the details of migration, asylum and refuge in the post 9/11 European Union.

The authors use a wide range of case studies to explore the ways in which people in different societies at different times perceived and felt about war and peace in the world around them.

The range of recent upheavals are used to show the interplay of international law and politics in the changing international system. The author is former Deputy Foreign Minister of Estonia and a distinguished professor.

Is internationalism plausible in today's world or must global relations be characterised by tension and war? The author analyses internationalism's coercive and accomodative dimensions and considers practical problems.

Emanuel Adler is one of the leading IR theorists of his generation. This volume brings together a collection of his articles, including four new and previously unpublished chapters.

Small states are dependent on the economic, political, and societal shelter provided by larger states and international organizations to survive and prosper. This book demonstrates the size-related disadvantages and unique needs of small states in order to evaluate, explain, and predict small state behaviour.

Foreign and security policy have long been removed from the political pressures that influence other areas of policymaking. This book shows that the making of foreign policy is a much more complex process.