New International Relations

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1. European Integration and Postcolonial Sovereignty Games

   The EU Overseas Countries and Territories

   Edited by Rebecca Adler-Nissen, Ulrik Gad

   Series: New International Relations

   This book examines how sovereignty works in the context of European integration and postcolonialism. Focusing on a group of micro-polities associated with the European Union, it offers a new understanding of international relations in the context of modern sovereignty. This book offers a...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
2. Maritime Piracy and the Construction of Global Governance

   Edited by Michael J. Struett, Jon D. Carlson, Mark T. Nance

   Series: New International Relations

   Piratical attacks have become more frequent, violent, costly and increasingly threaten to undermine order in the international system. Much attention has focused on Somalia, but piracy is a problem worldwide. Recent coordination efforts among states in South East Asia appear to have helped in the...

   Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge
3. Making Sense, Making Worlds

   Constructivism in Social Theory and International Relations

   By Nicholas Onuf

   Series: New International Relations

   Nicholas Onuf is a leading scholar in international relations and introduced constructivism to international relations, coining the term constructivism in his book World of Our Making (1989). He was featured as one of twelve scholars featured in Iver B. Neumann and Ole Wæver, eds., The Future of...

   Published September 17th 2012 by Routledge
4. China in UN Security Council Decision-Making on Iraq

   Conflicting Understandings, Competing Preferences

   By Suzanne Xiao Yang

   Series: New International Relations

   With the rupture of the UN Security Council in March 2003 over the US spearheaded intervention in Iraq, the attempts made to subject the use of force to the rule of law had failed. Widespread Europe-US disagreement of the role of the UNSC has hindered more effective decisions for China and its...

   Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge
5. Bourdieu in International Relations

   Rethinking Key Concepts in IR

   Edited by Rebecca Adler-Nissen

   Series: New International Relations

   This book rethinks the key concepts of International Relations by drawing on the work of Pierre Bourdieu. The last few years have seen a genuine wave of publications promoting sociology in international relations. Scholars have suggested that Bourdieu’s vocabulary can be applied to study security,...

   Published September 3rd 2012 by Routledge
6. The Scandinavian International Society

   Primary Institutions and Binding Forces, 1815-2010

   By Laust Schouenborg

   Series: New International Relations

   This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Scandinavia as a regional international society, including the Nordic Peace and the rise of the Scandinavian welfare state. Schouenborg aims to take the next big step in the theoretical development of the English School of International Relations -...

   Published July 17th 2012 by Routledge
7. NATO’s Security Discourse after the Cold War

   Representing the West

   By Andreas Behnke

   Series: New International Relations

   This book analyses the way in which the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) defines the West after the end of the Cold War and the demise of its constitutive ‘Other’, the Soviet Union. The book offers a theoretical critique of liberal approaches to security, and focuses on NATO’s...

   Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge
8. World of Our Making

   Rules and Rule in Social Theory and International Relations

   By Nicholas Onuf

   Series: New International Relations

   World of our Making is a major contribution to contemporary social science. Now reissued in this volume, Onuf’s seminal text is key reading for anyone who wishes to study modern international relations. Onuf understands all of international relations to be a matter of rules and rule in foreign...

   Published July 5th 2012 by Routledge
9. International Relations and the First Great Debate

   Edited by Brian Schmidt

   Series: New International Relations

   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...

   Published May 9th 2012 by Routledge
10. Constructing Sovereignty between Politics and Law

    By Tanja Aalberts

    Series: New International Relations

    This book explores the interplay between sovereignty, politics and law through different conceptualizations of sovereignty. Despite developments such as European integration, globalization, and state failure, sovereignty proves to be a resilient institution in contemporary international politics....

    Published May 3rd 2012 by Routledge