Bücher der Reihe Interventions

Using a set of geo-culturally diverse investigations, this book intends to sketch out, on the grounds of IR, the theoretical and substantive contours of an engagement with non-Western thought that refuses to approach this body of thought as either exotic to, or derivative of, the orthodox Western canon.

Provides a novel approach to international relations. This title describes how life events brought the authors to their subject matter. It places their narratives in the larger context of world politics, culture, and history. It demonstrates how to reengage the 'I' while simultaneously sustaining theoretical precision and historical awareness.

Wartime rape has been virulent in wars of sovereignty, territory, conquest, religion, ideology and liberation, yet attention to this crime has been sporadic throughout history. This book asks some critical questions about the relationship between mass rape, politics and law.

Offers a genealogical interrogation of the relationship between security and risk through its materialisation in insurance.

Examines whether feminism has succeeded in transforming International Relations by assessing what feminist theories offer to study of international politics and exploring feminism's relationship with the study of International Relations.

A theoretically-informed empirical examination of the political consequences of the World Summit on Sustainable Development.

Introduces students to key debates about ethics in international relations theory.

This edited volume analyses the global making of security institutions and practices in our postcolonial world.

The volume aims to introduce Lacan¿s vast opus to the field of international politics in a coherent and approachable manner.

This volume brings together important work at the interstection of politics and performance studies. While the languages of theatre and performance have long been deployed by other disciplines such as psychology (Freud¿s primal `scene¿), sociology (Goffman¿s `backstage¿), and politics (politicians `play¿ to the public, stage debates), this metaphorical attribution has seldom been taken seriously and pursued systematically to discover the actual nature of the relationship between performance as a set of behavioural practices and the forms and the transactions of these other realms.

This volume explores the virtual explosion of narrative writing in contemporary academic international politics.

Offers understanding of significant periods in contemporary British and EU foreign policy by reading them through the concepts of subjectivity, responsibility and hospitality.

Suitable for undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars of international relations, this title provides a wide-ranging introduction to thirty-two important theorists whose work has been influential in thinking about global politics. Each chapter is written by an expert with a detailed knowledge of the theorist concerned.

Global climate change is perceived to be one of the biggest challenges for international politics in the 21st century. This work seeks to fuse a global governance perspective together with different interpretive approaches, offering a novel way of looking at international climate politics. This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental politics, political theory and climate change.

Recent world events have emphatically shown our need for tools with which to develop better understandings of the politics of suicide.

Postcolonial theory has had the most impact in disciplines such as literature and, to some degree, history, and perhaps the least impact in the discipline of politics. However, there is growing interest in postcolonial theory within politics, and interest in especially high in the subfield of international relations. This text provides a comprehensive survey of how postoclonial theory shapes our understanding of international relations.

Stanley Hauerwas is one of the most important and robustly creative theologians of our time, and his work is well known and much admired. But Nicholas Healy -- himself an admirer of Hauerwas''s thought -- believes that it has not yet been subjected to the kind of sustained critical analysis that is warranted by such a significant and influential Christian thinker. As someone interested in the broader systematic-theological implications of Hauerwas''s work, Healy fills that gap in Hauerwas: A (Very) Critical Introduction. After a general introduction to Hauerwas''s work, Healy examines three main areas of his thought: his method, his social theory, and his theology. According to Healy, Hauerwas''s overriding concern for ethics and church-based apologetics so dominates his thinking that he systematically distorts Christian doctrine. Healy illustrates what he sees as the deficiencies of Hauerwas''s theology and argues that it needs substantial revision.

The volume aims to introduce Lacan's vast opus to the field of international politics in a coherent and approachable manner.

"This critical introduction to democracy promotion seeks to provide the reader with an understanding of some of the key dynamics and contentions revolving around this controversial policy agenda"--