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international relations THEORY
Seeking Peace and Justice in the 21st Century
Humanitarian Intervention, Responsibility To Protect,
and Legitimacy Wars
Richard Falk, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Series: Global Horizons
Esteemed scholar Richard Falk draws on his vast experience as a public intellectual
and special rapporteur for the United Nations to examine the ethics and politics of
humanitarian intervention in the 21st Century. As well as analysing the theoretical and
conceptual basis of the responsibility to protect, the book also contains a number of
case studies looking at Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo and Libya. The final section explores
when humanitarian intervention can succeed and the changing nature of international
political legitimacy in countries such as India, Tibet, South Africa and Palestine.
July 2013: 234x156: 224pp
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READER
Realism Reader
Colin Elman, Maxwell School of Syracuse University, USA
Despite some years in the doldrums, political realism is recovering its previously
dominant role as the leading paradigm in the international relations sub-field.
Realism’s return to prominence has been accompanied by a surge of new research,
and by the development of several distinct variants within the research tradition.
Covering the most important realist works, the book will be organized around
different approaches, important critiques of realism, and debates realists and their
critics have engaged in concerning recent events. The Realism Reader will provide
a ‘one-stop-shop’ for all students taking a course in contemporary international
relations theory, with a particular focus on realism.
June 2013: 246x174: 304pp
Hb: 978-0-415-77354-6: $150.00
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Making Sense, Making Worlds
Constructivism in Social Theory and International Relations
Nicholas Onuf, University of Florida, USA
Series: New International Relations
This powerful collection of essays clarifies Onuf’s approach
to international relations and makes a decisive contribution
to the debates in IR concerning theory. Onuf updates earlier
themes and develops some newer lines of research,
embedding the theoretical project in the wider horizon of
how we understand ourselves and the world.
TEXTBOOK
Democratic Futures
Re-Visioning Democracy Promotion
Milja Kurki, Aberystwyth University, UK
Series: Interventions
The promotion of democratic governance in developing and
authoritarian states has been one of the key cornerstones of
post-Cold War international politics. This text explains the
different models of democracy and the varied approaches
taken by a number of international actors to promote (or
impose) democratic and economic reform. Drawing on a
broad spectrum of empirical examples, it exposes the
challenges faced by Western governments in trying to
reshape the political and economic landscape across the
world and tentatively offers some policy recommendations
of how to improve facilitate democratization.
December 2012: 234x156: 312pp
Hb: 978-0-415-69032-4: $150.00
Pb: 978-0-415-69034-8: $47.95
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TEXTBOOK
Postcolonial Theory and International Relations
A Critical Introduction
edited by Sanjay Seth
Series: Interventions
What can postcolonialism tell us about international
relations? What can international relations tell us about
postcolonialism? In recent years, postcolonial perspectives
and insights have challenged our conventional
understanding of international politics. Postcolonial Theory
and International Relations is the first book to provide a
comprehensive and accessible survey of how postcolonialism
radically alters our understanding of international relations.
Each chapter is written by a leading international scholar
and looks at the core components of international relations
– theories, the nation, geopolitics, international law, war, international political
economy, sovereignty, religion, nationalism, Empire etc. – through a postcolonial lens.
In so doing it provides students with a valuable insight into the challenges that
postcolonialism poses to our understanding of global politics.
December 2012: 234x156: 216pp
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September 2012: 234x156: 256pp
Hb: 978-0-415-62416-9: $145.00
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eBook: 978-0-203-09671-0
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TEXTBOOK
Critical International Relations - An Introduction
From the Barbarian to the Cyborg
James Der Derian, Brown University, USA
Critical Encounters in International Relations, provides an innovative text based on
the critical encounters throughout history that have transformed international
relations. It focuses on the perspective of the under-represented, the demonized,
and the neglected ‘other’ who are also actors of world politics. Ten historic struggles
for recognition and power in world politics - from the Greeks and Barbarians to
Humans and Cyborgs - will be narrated from the point of view of emblematic
historical figures. The focus will not be on who wins or loses but rather on how
International Relations is changed by alien encounters.
July 2013: 246x174: 224pp
Hb: 978-0-415-77244-0: $150.00
Pb: 978-0-415-77245-7: $39.95
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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 in the 1940s.
May 2012: 234x156: 192pp
Hb: 978-0-415-66894-1: $135.00
Pb: 978-0-415-66895-8: $56.95
eBook: 978-0-203-12011-8
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