International relations Books

EU law consists of several thousand acts of which the overwhelming majority are made by the Commission. The Commission is controlled by comitology, a system of committees of member state representatives that are consulted when new acts are proposed. This...

This book critically evaluates more than 10 years of Russian membership in the Council of Europe. Starting from the second term of Putins presidency, one can observe a Russian strategy to undermine the normative power of the Council of Europe. As a...

MAGDALENA BEXELL is Researcher and Lecturer at the Department of Political Science at Lund University, Sweden. She is also Pro Futura Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala. ULRIKA MÖRTH is Professor of Political Science at Stockholm...

Focusing on transboundary river systems and their basins, the authors explore the fresh water crisis of Himalayan Asia. While the region hosts some of the world's mightiest rivers, it is also home to rapidly modernizing, increasingly affluent, and...

Nowhere are clashes between competing ethical perspectives more prevalent than in the realm of international relations. Thus, understanding tragedy is directly relevant to understanding IR. This volume explores the various ways that tragedy can be used...

Mufti argues that Turkey's security policy is dominated by an insular and risk-averse 'Republican' strategic culture paradigm, that this paradigm has fallen into crisis, bringing some of its core elements in conflict with others, and that this crisis has...

Interrogates and extends Friedrich Kratochwil's pathbreaking work on knowledge, normative phenomena, and political practice in international relations. Contributors reflect on the ways in which normative phenomena, politics, and knowledge claims are...

Decolonization changed the spatial order of the globe, the imagination of men and women around the world and established images of the globe. Both individuals and social groups shaped decolonization itself: this volume puts agency squarely at the center...

Based on the research of the EU-6th framework funded research consortium on 'New Modes of Governance in the European Union', this volume explores the roots, execution and applications of new forms of governance and evaluates their success.

List of Illustrations Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction Institutional Change and the IMF Expanding the International Monetary Order after the Cold War The Disintegration of the Ruble Zone Designer Capitalism in Central Asia The Scope of the...

Combining case studies with normative theory, this book analyzes the democratic credentials of transnational actors participating in global governance, ranging from corporations and philanthropic foundations to NGOs and social movements. This leads to...

The nature of global governance is changing, as are the standards by which we judge its legitimacy. We are witnessing a gradual and partial shift from inter-state co-operation to more complex forms of governance, involving participation by transnational...

Does EU participation in the multilateral system lead to the goal of effective multilateralism? This book examines 8 multilateral organizations, showing how EU policies harm the organizations they mean to help. The multilateral system is too...

This book argues that the new actors in global health constitute a 'private turn' in global health governance, and provides theoretical and practical grounds for viewing global health partnerships and philanthropic foundations as closely aligned in their...

What is a 'global polity' and can it be squared with the continued strength of nation-states? This book argues that our current understanding of globalization makes it impossible to grasp some crucial changes in world politics. Drawing innovatively on...

This book examines the changing nature of the policies adopted to promote international financial stability. Specifically, it investigates the policies that the IMF followed in response to the Mexican, Asian, and subprime crisis. The book argues that...

Explores the paths of development unfolding from the inter-dependent histories of postwar Germany and the European integration process. The contributors explore these histories within the idea of 'semi-sovereignty': a set of constraints on the German...

Evaluates the nature of the international governance of minority rights in the context of the enlargement of the European Union. This book examines the origin and development of the European Minority Rights Regime paying particular attention to the...

Is 'development' the answer for positive social change or a cynical western strategy for perpetuating inequality? Moving beyond an increasingly entrenched debate about the role of NGOs, this book reveals the practices and social relations through which...

New Systems Theories of World Politics uses systems theoretical approaches to analyze the structure and dynamics of the international system. Drawing from different systems theoretical traditions, it argues that the system of world politics can be...

This is the only book of its kind devoted to exploring contentious politics from a North American perspective including protests, social movements, transnational contention, and emergent regional governance processes between Canadian, U.S. and Mexican...

This book explores the intersection of the study of transatlantic relationships and the study of public support for the use of force in foreign policy. It contributes to two important debates: one about the nature of transatlantic partnership, and...

Institutions are man-made entities and their workings, as well as the changes they may undergo, is fundamentally imbued in language and communication. In analyzing the role of socio-cultural values, this book argues that communication and language is...

Introduction; A.Gamble & D.Lane PART I: THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT The United States and the European Union: The End of Hegemony?; A.Gamble The EU: Divisions and Unity in European External Policies; M.Telò Russia's Transformation: The Rise of a World...

The question of conflict in Islam has now for sometime been interpreted in the Western diplomatic circles through the violent actions of fundamentalist groups and amongst many academics through a jurisprudential outlook. This work, however, views war and...

Foreword; R.Morningstar Introduction: American and European Strategies to Promote Democracy; A.Magen & M.A.McFaul Venus Approaching Mars? The EU's Approaches to Democracy Promotion in Comparative Perspective; T.A.Börzel & T.Risse Governance and Foreign...

Introduction New Moralities for International Criminal Justice A Framework for Trial Transformation Activating Victim Constituency in International Criminal Justice Truth and Responsibility v Fact and Liability Transformed Process Through Enhanced...

ASEANs Security Enterprise explores the significance of ASEANs cooperative security enterprise the questions of whether and in what sense this enterprise matters.

This book focuses on human trafficking in Europe for labour and sexual exploitation. It includes empirical work on trafficking throughout Europe, identifying underlying causes in globalisation, migration policies and gender inequality. It questions...

How can global problems be solved without sacrificing legitimacy? This book explores this question on the basis of a thorough empirical reconstruction of institutions and activities in the field of global chemical safety. It shows how experts from...

The scholarship of historian and political economist, Robert W Cox, spans some thirty to fifty years. As an outsider to the fields of IR/IPE the inspiration wellspring of his work is often misunderstood and incorrectly represented. This comprehensive...

This book is distinguished by its use of the antebellum US experience as a foil to address the under-explored question of what makes the EU viable. The nature of political conflict in both cases is defined in terms of four contested rules of the game:...

Introduction UN Deployments: Alternatives to Ad Hoc Sovereign Forces From Mercenary to UN Contractor? The Public - Private Security Environment Other Industry Hazards A Modest Proposal Conclusion Appendices Bibliography Index

A fundamental question for IR is whether the value system of liberalism can be universalized, or if, in fact, the illiberal reality of international politics systematically rules out such a universalization. The book addresses this issue by focusing on...