Bücher der Reihe Cambridge Studies in International Relations

Victimization of ethnic and religious minorities has been used by rulers throughout history to assert their own control and legitimacy over communities brought together against alleged 'outsiders'. Rae demonstrates how these practices predate nationalism and how they prompted the development of international norms for legitimate state behaviour.

The Wealth of States is the first sustained analysis of the overlap between historical sociology and international relations.

Today's maps are filled with uniform states separated by linear boundaries. This book examines the important but overlooked role of cartography in shaping the development of modern states. It explores how maps have altered concepts of political space, organization and authority, and transformed practices of internal rule and international interaction.

Why do transnational advocacy movements for global causes succeed in some cases but fail in others? This book covers the successes and failures of four campaigns - climate change, HIV/AIDS, the International Criminal Court, and the Jubilee 2000 campaign for debt relief - in the G-7 advanced industrialized countries.

This book analyzes relations between NATO and Russia since the end of the Cold War to draw lessons about how former enemies can move beyond entrenched rivalry at the diplomatic level. Paying special attention to security practitioners' viewpoints, Pouliot shows how persisting power struggles have limited progress between the two former enemies.

This book, first published in 2001, argues that political competition between government and opposition parties influences threats in international crises.

Randall Germain explores the changing political economy of finance at the global level. He relates changes in global finance to wider changes in the organisation of the international economy, and considers how commercial and investment banks have responded institutionally to these changes.

Dr Stephen Gill makes an original contribution to the extent and nature of America as a hegemonic state. He challenges arguments concerning the relative decline of American hegemony and develops a novel concept of transnational capital - the rise in the power of internationally mobile capital.

This was the first book-length analysis of the formulation of Britain's strategy for rearming West Germany and will be of interest to specialists and students of international politics, with special reference to post-war diplomatic history, NATO and European security.

Money is a social convention, but with what social consequences? Rodney Bruce Hall offers an original analysis of central banking as global governance, exploring the social relations of money, credit, and debit, and identifying the mechanisms of governance as social rather than material processes.

Milja Kurki examines the meaning of the concept of cause in international relations. Proposing an approach to causal analysis that emphasizes the importance of multi-causality and accepts the validity of many social science methods, she suggests that reinterpreting the notion of 'causation' opens up avenues for future IR scholarship.

Emma Haddad's historical study of refugees demonstrates that state responses to the refugee debate have always been qualitatively the same. She suggests that this is important in conceiving new ways to understand the refugee 'problem' and to formulate responses to it.

In this book, Paul Sharp argues that we can identify a distinct diplomatic tradition of international thought derived from the unique position diplomats occupy between the groups in which we live. This tradition sheds new insights on big questions about international systems and societies and suggests innovative ways of handling contemporary international issues.

This 2006 book analyses the agent-structure problem and argues there are many gaps in IR theory that can only be understood through ontology - the metaphysical study of existence and reality. He integrates international relations theory with social theory, stressing the problem is an issue of concern to the wider human sciences.

In the first half of this century, human society is confronted by a set of converging historical crises that threaten our security. Developing a comprehensive framework for understanding these dangers and for planning a more cosmopolitan future, this book offers a radical and original theory of security for our times.

The author concludes that elements of both realist and psychological perspectives are necessary for an adequate understanding of interstate crisis behavior and that the most effective approach to crisis bargaining combines each perspective in a firm-but-flexible 'reciprocating' strategy.

The conventional wisdom is that economic sanctions do not work in international affairs. If so, why do countries wield them so often? This 1999 book argues that, paradoxically, countries are most likely to be willing to use sanctions under conditions where they will produce the feeblest results.

Molly Cochran offers an account of the development of normative theory in international relations over the past two decades. In particular, she analyses the tensions between cosmopolitan and communitarian approaches to international ethics and offers an argument for a pragmatist approach.

Governing Global Networks analyses the mutual interests which have sustained the regulatory regimes for four major international service industries - shipping, air transport, telecommunications, and postal services.

This book offers the first comprehensive theoretical analysis of US foreign policy toward Africa in the postwar era. Drawing on over 100 interviews, and detailed case studies in Zaire, Ethiopia-Somalia, and South Africa, this book provides a unique analysis of the historical evolution of US foreign policy in the region.

Drawing on Freud, Mead, Erikson, Parsons and Habermas,William Bloom relates mass psychological processes to international relations, and provides a rigorously argued answer to the longstanding theoretical problem of how to aggregate from individual attitudes to mass behaviour.

After outlining social scientific approaches to international relations, Professor Nicholson describes the problems of rational decision-making in conflict situations.

In this study Dr Suganami discusses the role the domestic analogy has played in proposals about world order, peace, justice and welfare in the period since 1814. As well as analysing the ideas of major writers on international law and relations, Hidemi Suganami examines the creation of the League of Nations, the United Nations and its agencies, and the European Community.

This 2001 book uses legal texts, literary and artistic creations, maps and policy debates, to trace the changing uses, regulations, and representations of the world-ocean from 1450 to the present. Steinberg uses theories of social forces and state policy, treating the sea as global space of political, economic, and cultural history.

This book, first published in 1989, gives a critical account of formal international relations theory. That formal and mathematical methods can be applied to the study of international relations is often regarded with surprise, but mathematical methods have been applied to the study of international behaviour since the pioneering work of Lewis Fry Richardson in the 1920s and 1930s.

E. H. Carr was one of the most influential theorists of international relations, and his works are widely read by students of the subject. By examining the political context in which he wrote, this book offers a radical reinterpretation of his work.

International regimes are 'codes of conduct' agreed upon by states to govern their relations in specific areas of international politics. This book describes and critically examines the three most important theories of international regimes: realist, neoliberal, and cognitivist.

This 2004 book offers a contribution to the English school's tradition of thinking aout the idea of society on a global level. It sets out a theoretical framework emphasising social structure that can be used to address globalisation as a complex political interplay among state and non-state actors.

This book offers a critical analysis of the role that international economic law plays in the creation and maintenance of global power relations. By examining the evolution of merchant law it argues that private interests have governed global economic relations through a little understood evolving legal order.

Why do states act through international organizations to protect populations within other states, even though this falls outside traditional definitions of state interest? Cronin argues that states act in this way because a cohesive international order, ensured by international protection, is essential to international stability.