Böcker i New International Relations-serien

Observing International Relations draws upon the modern systems theory of society, as developed by Niklas Luhmann, to provide new perspectives on central aspects of contemporary world society.

Examines Hayward Alker's contribution to the study of global IR and Politics.

Small states are dependent on the economic, political, and societal shelter provided by larger states and international organizations to survive and prosper. This book demonstrates the size-related disadvantages and unique needs of small states in order to evaluate, explain, and predict small state behaviour.

This is a book on methods, how scholars embody them and how working within, from or against constructivism has shaped that use and embodiment.

Reflexivity has become a common term in IR scholarship with a variety of uses and meanings. Yet for such an important concept and referent, understandings of reflexivity have been more assumed rather than developed by those who use it, from realists and constructivists to feminists and post-structuralists.

This book challenges the Eurocentric foundations of modern International Relations scholarship, presenting a series of regional case studies from experts on East Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America, and Russia to explore patterns of cross-cultural exchange and civilizational encounters, emphasising the central role of non-European agency in shaping global history.

This book evaluates how knowledge is produced by scholarly research into international relations. The authors explore: to what extent is scientific progress and accumulation of knowledge possible? What are the different accounts of how this process takes place? What are the dominant critiques of these understandings of the application of scientific methods to understanding world politics? This is the first book to survey the full range of perspectives available for evaluating scientific progress as well as dominant critiques of scientism. As such it provides a unique key guide to these important, salient debates, and will interest students and scholars dealing with research methods in IR.

A wide ranging account of the implications for international relations of the dissatisfaction of modern society with the failed promises of globalization, and the related fascination with warfare

This edited collection offers a synthetic approach to Raymond Aron¿s theory of International Relations by bringing together some of the most prominent specialists of Raymond Aron, thus filling an important gap in the current market of books devoted to IR theories and the historiography of the field.

Reflexivity has become a common term in IR scholarship with a variety of uses and meanings. Yet for such an important concept and referent, understandings of reflexivity have been more assumed rather than developed by those who use it, from realists and constructivists to feminists and post-structuralists.

Status-seeking is an important aspect of the foreign policies of a number of small states, but one that has been rarely studied. This book aims to contribute to our understanding not only of status-seeking, by coming at that question from a new angle, that of a small state, but also to our understanding of foreign policy, by discussing the importance of status for foreign policy overall.If status is a hierarchy, then it is important to focus not just on the highest-ranking powers, but also those at lower levels. As the distribution of power is becoming more diffuse, the role of small and medium powers becomes more significant than it was during the Cold war. The book chapters go beyond familiar explications of "soft power" or conflict resolution to highlight new aspects of Norway¿s foreign policy, including contributions to national defense, global warming, and management of Arctic resources.This book will be of interest to students and scholars in areas including US Foreign Policy, International Relations and European Politics.

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

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

This book challenges the Eurocentric foundations of modern International Relations scholarship, presenting a series of regional case studies from experts on East Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America, and Russia to explore patterns of cross-cultural exchange and civilizational encounters, emphasising the central role of non-European agency in shaping global history.

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.

A handpicked group of leading experts in the field of International Relations use maritime piracy as a means to expose the incongruities in our understanding of global governance.

This book rethinks the key concepts of International Relations by drawing on the work of Pierre Bourdieu.

This book rethinks the key concepts of International Relations by drawing on the work of Pierre Bourdieu.

Examines Hayward Alker's contribution to the study of global IR and Politics.

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.

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.

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.

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.