Books in the Security and Governance series

Explores a liberal realist theory of international politics. This book is of interest to scholars of international relations.

Explores American hegemony from during the Cold War to the 21st Century and asks whether this is sustainable for a democratic state.

What kind of international humanitarian order is being imagined, created and practiced? This collection offers a critical assessment of the practices and politics of global ethical interventions in the context of the post-cold war transformation of the international humanitarian order.

Uses a multi-method approach to examine the impact of truth commissions on subsequent human rights protection and democratic practice and features cross-national case studies on South Africa, El Salvador, Chile and Uganda.

Focusing on Bosnia after the Dayton Peace Agreement (DPA) in 1995, this book examines the role of the international community in state building and intervention. It explores the idea that effective intervention requires moving beyond the dichotomy between international imposition of state-building measures and local self-government.

Contains essays which focus on Japan's championing of "comprehensive security". This book focuses on counter-terrorism and national security. It is suitable for students and scholars of Japanese politics, security studies and international relations.

Investigates the relationship between protest, repression and political regimes in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa. Considering how different political regimes use repression and respond to popular protest, this book analyzes the relationship between protest and repression in these areas from late 1970s to the beginning of the 21st century.

Bringing together leading international scholars with practicing intelligence, military, and police officers this book provides different theoretical and empirical perspectives on international security cooperation.

Observes how the growth of the political authority of the Council challenges the idea that states have legal autonomy over their domestic affairs. Demonstrating how world politics has come to accommodate the institutions of international authority and anarchy, this book contributes to how we understand international organizations and law.

The United States is currently the linchpin of global trade, technology, and finance, and a military colossus, extending across the world with a network of bases and alliances. This book anticipates the possible issues raised by a transition between American dominance and the rise of alternative powers.

The United States is currently the linchpin of global trade, technology, and finance, and a military colossus, extending across the world with a network of bases and alliances. This book anticipates the possible issues raised by a transition between American dominance and the rise of alternative powers.

Bringing together some of the leading international scholars with practicing intelligence, military, and police officers, this book provides different theoretical and empirical perspectives on international security cooperation.

Examines the Darfur crisis to address wider debates within IR theory including: the "responsibility to protect", humanitarian intervention, sovereignty, peacekeeping, relationships between the world's great powers, and international mediation.

The promotion of the rule of law has become an important element of peacekeeping and peacebuilding operations, particularly in Africa. This book explores the international efforts to promote rule of law in countries emerging from violent conflict. It examines the impact of these activities in relation to liberal peacebuilding.

Explores the contradictions that emerge in international statebuilding efforts in war-torn societies. This book argues that international efforts to construct effective, legitimate governmental structures in these countries are necessary but fraught with contradictions and vexing dilemmas. It draws on the research on postwar peace operations.

Explores the contradictions that emerge in international statebuilding efforts in war-torn societies. This book argues that international efforts to construct effective, legitimate governmental structures in these countries are necessary but fraught with contradictions and vexing dilemmas. It draws on the research on postwar peace operations.

Observes how the growth of the political authority of the Council challenges the idea that states have legal autonomy over their domestic affairs. Demonstrating how world politics has come to accommodate the institutions of international authority and anarchy, this book contributes to how we understand international organizations and law.