Books in the New International Relations series

This book provides an authoritative account of the controversy about the first great debate in the field of International Relations. Of all the self-images of International Relations, none is as pervasive and enduring as the notion that a great debate pitting idealists against realists took place in the 1940s.

This book provides an authoritative account of the controversy about the first great debate in the field of International Relations. Of all the self-images of International Relations, none is as pervasive and enduring as the notion that a great debate pitting idealists against realists took place in the 1940s.

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.

This book develops a new approach to research methods and methodology in critical security studies (CSS).

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.

These essays can be read either as introductions to the work of these theorists or as companions to it. Each chapter attempts to place the thinker in the landscape of the discipline, to identify how they go about studying international relations, and to discuss what others can learn from them.

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.

This new text examines key questions about the future of European integration. Addressing the crucial role played by national identity, this work argues that the EU debate draws on ideas of the nation as well as the state.

Introduces pragmatism to the study of international relations and evaluates its potential for the theory and practice of global politics. This book aims to outline the potential of pragmatism to reconstruct IR. It is suitable for students of International Relations, International Relations Theory and Social Theory.

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.

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.

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.

Neumann and Waever present the state of the art of IR theory through an analysis of the work of twelve key contemporary thinkers. The book's format makes for easy comparision, and gives students ready access to some complex theory.

By bringing into dialogue modern systems theory and international relations, this text provides theoretical perspectives on conflicts in world society. It includes chapters on key issues such as: conflicts and human rights; conflicts in the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa; war and violence; conflict management after 9/11; and more.

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.

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.

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.

This volume discusses Africa's place in the international system, examining how the Westphalian system, continues to play a major role in the structuring of Africa's international relations.

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 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.

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.

Addresses both Wendt's social theory and international relations theory, exploring a variety of constructivist debates without reducing constructivism to one single position.