New International Relations

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1. 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 8th 2012 by Routledge
2. 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 2nd 2012 by Routledge
3. Alker and IR

   Global Studies in an Interconnected World

   Edited by Renée Marlin-Bennett

   Series: New International Relations

   International Relations have rarely been considered a synthesis of humanistic and social sciences approaches to understand the complex connections of a global, and globalizing, world. One of the few scholars to have accomplished this creative blend was Hayward R. Alker. Alker and IR presents a set...

   Published October 11th 2011 by Routledge
4. The International Politics of Judicial Intervention

   Creating a more just order

   By Andrea Birdsall

   Series: New International Relations

   This volume considers the most recent demands for justice within the international system, examining how such aspirations often conflict with norms of state sovereignty and non-intervention. From an interdisciplinary approach that combines issues of International Relations with International Law,...

   Published October 6th 2011 by Routledge
5. Civilization and Empire

   China and Japan's Encounter with European International Society

   By Shogo Suzuki

   Series: New International Relations

   This book critically examines the influence of International Society on East Asia, and how its attempts to introduce ‘civilization’ to ‘barbarous’ polities contributed to conflict between China and Japan. Challenging existing works that have presented the expansion of (European) International...

   Published April 29th 2011 by Routledge
6. State Sovereignty and Intervention

   A Discourse Analysis of Interventionary and Non-Interventionary Practices in Kosovo and Algeria

   By Helle Malmvig

   Series: New International Relations

   This new volume shows how state sovereignty is more fluid and contested than is usually appreciated within both conventional and constructivist literature. Whereas previous constructivist works have investigated the temporal contingency of state sovereignty, the spatial contingency of this...

   Published February 14th 2011 by Routledge
7. Pragmatism in International Relations

   Edited by Harry Bauer, Elisabetta Brighi

   Series: New International Relations

   This collection of essays introduces pragmatism to the study of international relations and evaluates its potential for the theory and practice of global politics. Seeking to reorient the discipline of International Relations (IR) towards practices and problematic situations, the editors of this...

   Published February 1st 2011 by Routledge
8. Constructing Global Enemies

   Hegemony and Identity in International Discourses on Terrorism and Drug Prohibition

   By Eva Herschinger

   Series: New International Relations

   Constructing Global Enemies asks how and why specific interpretations of international terrorism and drug abuse have become hegemonic at the global level. The book analyses the international discourses on terrorism and drug prohibition and compares efforts to counter both, not only from a...

   Published November 25th 2010 by Routledge
9. International Relations and Identity

   A Dialogical Approach

   By Xavier Guillaume

   Series: New International Relations

   International Relations and Identity 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, the author considers how...

   Published September 16th 2010 by Routledge
10. Arguing Global Governance

    Agency, Lifeworld and Shared Reasoning

    Edited by Corneliu Bjola, Markus Kornprobst

    Series: New International Relations

    This book deals with the questions of how global governance can and ought to effectively address serious global problems, such as financial instability, military conflicts, distributive injustice and increasing concerns of ecological disasters. Providing a unified theoretical framework, the...

    Published September 8th 2010 by Routledge