Politics and International Relations 2011 (UK) - Routledge

International
Statebuilding
The Rise of Post-Liberal Governance
david Chandler, University of Westminster, UK
Series: Critical Issues in Global Politics
This concise and accessible new
text offers original and
insightful analysis of the policy
paradigm informing
international statebuilding
interventions. The book covers
the theoretical frameworks and
practices of international
statebuilding, the debates they
have triggered, and the way
that international statebuilding
has developed in the post-Cold
War era.
Selected Contents: 1. Introduction: The Statebuilding
Paradigm 2. The ‘Liberal Peace’ Critique of International
Intervention 3. Rethinking the State 4. Post-Liberal
Governance 5. The EU’s Export of ‘The Rule of Law’ and
‘Good Governance’ 6. Security and Statebuilding: From
Intervention to Prevention 7. Development as Freedom:
From Colonialism to Climate Change 8. Race, Culture and
Civil Society: Statebuilding and the Privileging of Difference
9. Conclusion
August 2010: 216 x 138: 240pp
Hb: 978-0-415-42117-1: £80.00
Pb: 978-0-415-42118-8: £23.99
eBook: 978-0-203-84732-9
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ForthcomiNg
Security
International Society, Democracy &
Insecurity
Jef Huysmans, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
Series: Critical Issues in Global Politics
This book introduces students to the central concepts in
security studies and one of the most important issues in
international relations. Jef Huysmans:
• explains recent conceptual and theoretical
developments in security studies
• introduces contemporary security questions and
changes in dominant security issues since the end of
the Cold War
• draws on insights from security studies, criminology,
and sociology and cultural studies of fear
• introduces a political rather than strategic analysis of
security practice
• focuses on the tensions between international
democratic political practice and security policies
• uses a story-led approach to introduce concepts and
theories.
Selected Contents: 1. Democracy and Security in
International Relations 2. Insecurity as Exception: Law and
Sovereignty 3. Insecurity as Exception: Popular Will and
Sovereignty 4. Insecurity as Unease: Technology as Politics
5. Insecurity as Fear: Emotions as International Currency and
Organizing Principle 6. Insecurity as Terror: Managing
Contingency 7. Insecurity as Violence 8. Democratic
Insecurity 9. Appendix: Summary Table of Analytical
Concepts of Insecurity, Concepts of Democracy, Concepts of
International Society
December 2011: 216 x 138: 192pp
Hb: 978-0-415-44020-2: £80.00
Pb: 978-0-415-44021-9: £24.99
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criticAl
security
studies
Critical Security Studies
An Introduction
Columba Peoples, Swansea University, UK and
Nick Vaughan-Williams, University of Warwick, UK
Critical Security Studies
introduces students of Politics
and International Relations to
the sub-field through a detailed
yet accessible survey of
emerging theories and
practices.
Written in an accessible and
clear manner, this textbook:
• offers a comprehensive and
up-to-date introduction to
critical security studies
• locates critical security studies within the broader
context of social and political theory
• evaluates fundamental theoretical positions in critical
security studies against backdrop of new security
challenges.
The book is divided into two main parts. The first part,
‘Approaches’, surveys the newly extended and contested
theoretical terrain of Critical Security Studies, and the
different schools within the subdiscipline, including
Feminist, Postcolonial and Poststructuralist viewpoints.
The second part, ‘Issues’, will then offer examples of
how these various theoretical approaches have been put
to work against the backdrop of a diverse range of
issues in contemporary security practices, from
environmental, human and homeland security to border
security and the War on Terror.
The historical and geographical scope of the book is
deliberately broad and readers will be introduced to a
number of key illustrative case studies. Each of the
chapters in Part two will act to concretely illustrate one
or more of the approaches discussed in Part one, with
clear internal referencing allowing the text to act as a
holistic learning tool for students.
Selected Contents: Part 1: Approaches 1. Critical Theory
and Security 2. Feminist and Gender Approaches
3. Postcolonial Perspectives 4. Poststructuralism and
International Political Sociology 5. Securitization Theory
Part 2: Issues 6. Environmental Security 7. Homeland
Security and the ‘War against Terrorism’ 8. Human Security
and Development 9. Migration and Border Security
10. Technology and Warfare in the Information Age
June 2010: 246 x 174: 192pp
Hb: 978-0-415-48443-5: £90.00
Pb: 978-0-415-48444-2: £23.99
eBook: 978-0-203-84747-3
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criticAl security studies
PRIO New Security Studies
series edited by J. Peter burgess, PRIo,
oslo, Norway
The aim of this new book series is to
gather state-of-the-art theoretical reflection
and empirical research into a core set of
volumes that respond vigorously and
dynamically to new challenges to security
studies scholarship.
ForthcomiNg
Biopolitics of Security in
the 21st Century
A Political Analytic of Finitude
Michael dillon, University of Lancaster, UK
This book is a volume of essays on the Biopolitics of
Security in the 21st Century, by Professor Mick Dillon. It
is a first of its kind in that no other study currently
available covers the same field of research with the same
degree of innovation. This volume will provide a
genealogy of the biopolitics of security beginning with
Michel Foucault’s original account of the rise of
biopolitics at the beginning of the 18th century, and will
clarify and further develop Foucault’s original analytic of
the biopolitics of security.
This work is an original introduction to the emerging
field of the biopolitics of security, tracking its
development into the 21st century, which will serve as
an intellectual provocation to researchers as much as it
will a pedagogical guide to graduate and undergraduate
teachers.
Selected Contents: Introduction: Problematising Security
1. The Life and Times of Species Being: Radical Contingency
and the Unconscious Metaphysics of the Biopolitical
Philosophy of Life 2. Governing Through Security: Biopolitics
of Security as the Extension of War by Other Means
3. Securing Species Life: The Biopolitical Economy of
Circulation, Connectivity and Complexity 4. Compressing
Morbidity: Securing Population in the 20th and 21st
Centuries 5. Underwriting Security: Risk, Finance and
Futures 6. Preferred Lives: Race and Sorting Mechanisms
7. Extra and Post Human Biopolitics: Digitalisation, Disease,
and Virtuality 8. Necropolitics: The Biopolitics of the Living
Dead 9. Conclusion: In Excess of Biopolitics
August 2011: 234 x 156: 240pp
Hb: 978-0-415-48432-9: £90.00
Pb: 978-0-415-48433-6: £24.99
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