Bücher der Reihe Interventions

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"--

"This book is the second of a trilogy that analyses how concepts and practices of power, risk and security materialise in the form of insurance as a central instrument of governance in the liberal world"--

Drawing on a wide range of case studies, from South Africa to Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Rwanda and Australia, the authors argue for an alternative approach to post-conflict thought. Featuring contributions from both up and coming and well-established scholars this work is essential reading for all those with an interest in restorative justice, conflict resolution and peace studies.

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

Provides a novel approach to the study of security and global governance by demonstrating that psychological interventions are integral to global governmentality. This book traces a 'diagnostic competition' over the psychological state of a targeted population.

"Prozorov reinterprets the familiar principles of community, equality and freedom in ontological terms as attributes of pure being, subtracted from all positive determinations, and presents them as axioms of universalist politics valid in any world whatsoever"--

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.