International Relations Theory

In this important and path-breaking book, esteemed scholar and public intellectual Richard Falk explores how we can re-imagine the system of global governance to make it more ethical and humane...

This book is aimed at shedding light on seemingly intractable problems associated with pressing international and global issues and on offering new possibilities for agency and action. And, by rejecting the normative/analytical bifurcation that pervades the field of IR, ‘ethical reflexivity’ also se..

This book is aimed at shedding light on seemingly intractable problems associated with pressing international and global issues and on offering new possibilities for agency and action. And, by rejecting the normative/analytical bifurcation that pervades the field of IR, ‘ethical reflexivity’ also se..

Analysing diplomatic discourse, performance, and entangled agency, this work provides the first account of Kosovo’s everyday making of statehood...

In this innovative new work, Steele shows how we might recognize how an alternative form of accountability in global politics has been present for some time, and that, furthermore, this form’s continued presence remains one of the most politically powerful, if not endurable, possibilities for resist..

Instead of departing from the ‘push’ or ‘pull’ factors that initiate cross-border movement, Puumala begins with the moving body and examine the kinds of relations of the international that the body makes visible through its relations, engagements and movement_x005F_x000D_ Based on extensive fieldwor..

China's International Relations and Harmonious World..

China's International Relations and Harmonious World..

As scholars and publics look for alternatives to what is understood as a violent Western world order, many claim that China can provide such an alternative through the Chinese dream of a harmonious world. This book considers this claim and examines its effects by tracing the notion across several co..

This integrated analysis of conflict and conciliation in protracted insurgency and civil war in societies divided on ethnicity, language and nationality, combines exposition of conflict management theory with detailed examples and case studies on the Northern Ireland peace process, the Israeli-Pales..

_x005F_x000D_ Cosmopolitan Government in Europe is an important and timely intervention in contemporary debates about democratic Europe and its shortcomings and will be of great interest to students and scholars of international political theory, European studies and international political economy...

Providing not only a novel theoretical framework explaining the workings of democratic politics this book also offers a non-traditional reading of Spinoza and Schmitt. Going beyond the analysis of Spinoza and Schmitt, the author aims for a new theory of political action._x005F_x000D_..