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1. Ideas to Die For

   The Cosmopolitan Challenge

   By Giles Gunn

   Series: Global Horizons

   Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents seeks to address the kinds of challenges that cosmopolitan perspectives and practices face in a world organized increasingly in relation to a proliferating series of global absolutisms – religious, political, social, and economic. While these challenges are often...

   Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge
2. After the Globe, Before the World

   By RBJ Walker

   Series: Global Horizons

   This book explores the implications of claims that the most challenging political problems of our time express an urgent need to reimagine where and therefore what we take politics to be. It does so by examining the relationship between modern forms of politics (centred simultaneously within...

   Published September 20th 2009 by Routledge
3. The Liberal Way of War

   Killing to Make Life Live

   By Michael Dillon, Julian Reid

   Series: Global Horizons

   The liberal way of war and the liberal way of rule are correlated; this book traces that correlation to liberalism's original commitment to 'making life live'. Committed to making life live, liberalism is committed to waging war on behalf of life, specifically to promote the biopolitical life of...

   Published February 19th 2009 by Routledge
4. Cinematic Geopolitics

   By Michael J. Shapiro

   Series: Global Horizons

   In recent years, film has been one of the major genres within which the imaginaries involved in mapping the geopolitical world have been represented and reflected upon. In this book, one of America's foremost theorists of culture and politics treats those aspects of the "geopolitical aesthetic"...

   Published October 7th 2008 by Routledge
5. Beyond the Global Culture War

   By Adam K. Webb

   Series: Global Horizons

   Published January 19th 2006 by Routledge
6. Rethinking Refugees

   Beyond State of Emergency

   By Peter Nyers

   Series: Global Horizons

   Published December 11th 2005 by Routledge
7. Human Rights and Private Wrongs

   Constructing Global Civil Society

   By Alison Brysk

   Series: Global Horizons

   Human Rights and Private Wrongs breaks new ground by considering a series of fascinating issues that are normally ignored by human rights specialists because they are too "private" to consider as policy issues: children's labor migration; refugee policy towards unaccompanied minors; financial...

   Published December 24th 2004 by Routledge
8. The Declining World Order

   America's Imperial Geopolitics

   By Richard Falk

   Series: Global Horizons

   This work delineates the impact of terrorism--and the American response--on the basic structure of international relations, the dimming prospects for global reform and the tendency to override the role of sovereign territorial states. Falk examines the changing role of the state, the relevance of...

   Published June 14th 2004 by Routledge
9. Methods and Nations

   Cultural Governance and the Indigenous Subject

   By Michael J. Shapiro

   Series: Global Horizons

   Methods and Nations critiques one of the primary deployments of twentieth-century social science: comparative politics whose major focus has been "nation-building" in the "Third World," often attempting to universalize and render self-evident its own practices. International relations theorists,...

   Published January 1st 2004 by Routledge
10. International Relations and the Problem of Difference

    By Naeem Inayatullah, David L. Blaney

    Series: Global Horizons

    International Relations and the Problem of Difference has developed out of the sense that IR as a discipline does not assess the quality of cultural interactions that shape, and are shaped by, the changing structures and processes of the international system. In this work, the authors re-imagine...

    Published December 29th 2003 by Routledge