Bücher der Reihe New International Relations

This book studies how domestic contestation influences the security policy of small states within the European Union (EU) and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).A multinational group of expert contributors consider how domestic contestation is translated into small states' foreign policies, how membership of international organisations alters attitudes to security policy in small states and how patterns of small states' behaviour across domestic traditions, security cultures and geographical location can be identified. Anchored in new institutionalism, the book explores the influence of international organisations on security policies and the tensions created by connecting four strands of literature, on Europeanisation, on the impact of and on institutions, on the way foreign and security policy is made, and the security/strategic culture of small states.It will be of interest to all scholars and students of international relations, security studies, EU studies, area studies and politics.

Guzzini takes a fresh look at the development of realism in International Relations both in terms of external movement in international affairs and the paradigmatic alterations which have taken place within the intellectual discourse itself.

This book develops a new approach to research methods and methodology in critical security studies (CSS).

This book provides an analysis of the political viability of basic human rights and offers an in-depth investigation of the largest violation of human rights: world hunger.

This book provides an authoritative account of the controversy about the first great debate in the field of International Relations. Of all the self-images of International Relations, none is as pervasive and enduring as the notion that a great debate pitting idealists against realists took place in the 1940s.

This book evaluates how knowledge is produced by scholarly research into international relations. The authors explore: to what extent is scientific progress and accumulation of knowledge possible? What are the different accounts of how this process takes place? What are the dominant critiques of these understandings of the application of scientific methods to understanding world politics? This is the first book to survey the full range of perspectives available for evaluating scientific progress as well as dominant critiques of scientism. As such it provides a unique key guide to these important, salient debates, and will interest students and scholars dealing with research methods in IR.

Presents a critical understanding of contemporary world politics by arguing that the neoliberal approach to international relations seduces many of us into investing our lives in projects of power and alienation. This work intertwines non-Western and Western traditions by drawing on Marxist, postcolonial, feminist and critical security approaches.

Status-seeking is an important aspect of the foreign policies of a number of small states, but one that has been rarely studied. This book aims to contribute to our understanding not only of status-seeking, by coming at that question from a new angle, that of a small state, but also to our understanding of foreign policy, by discussing the importance of status for foreign policy overall.If status is a hierarchy, then it is important to focus not just on the highest-ranking powers, but also those at lower levels. As the distribution of power is becoming more diffuse, the role of small and medium powers becomes more significant than it was during the Cold war. The book chapters go beyond familiar explications of "soft power" or conflict resolution to highlight new aspects of Norway¿s foreign policy, including contributions to national defense, global warming, and management of Arctic resources.This book will be of interest to students and scholars in areas including US Foreign Policy, International Relations and European Politics.

This book rethinks the key concepts of International Relations by drawing on the work of Pierre Bourdieu.

Is internationalism plausible in today's world or must global relations be characterised by tension and war? The author analyses internationalism's coercive and accomodative dimensions and considers practical problems.

The range of recent upheavals are used to show the interplay of international law and politics in the changing international system. The author is former Deputy Foreign Minister of Estonia and a distinguished professor.

By bringing into dialogue modern systems theory and international relations, this text provides theoretical perspectives on conflicts in world society. It includes chapters on key issues such as: conflicts and human rights; conflicts in the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa; war and violence; conflict management after 9/11; and more.

This volume of essays, with a new introduction and connective sections, brings together John Gerard Ruggie's most influential theoretical ideas and their application to critical policy questions concerning the post-Cold War international order.

Using the frameworks of structural realism, institutionalism and liberalism, this book examines how major powers responded to the collapse of the Soviet Union and developed their foreign policies during post-Cold War transition.

Addresses both Wendt's social theory and international relations theory, exploring a variety of constructivist debates without reducing constructivism to one single position.

Presents an introduction to the existence and relevance of European approaches to IR theory and sets an agenda for the progressive development of a 'Eurodiscipline' of IR studies.

Analyses and investigates the processes of securitization, and the details of migration, asylum and refuge in the post 9/11 European Union.

This text seeks to offer a general interpretation and critique of both methodolgical and substantive aspects of International theory. It focuses intially on the "problem of order" in international politics, and traces responses to the problem.

Examines the role of culture in contemporary security policies, providing a critical overview of the ways in which culture has been theorized in security studies. This volume also attempts to develop a theoretical framework that stresses the relationship between culture, power, security and strategy.

This book explores whether and how IR theory may be used by policy-makers to change the world. It critically examines a variety approaches within international relations and offers a novel conventional-causal alternative.

Offers a detailed account of how to use discourse analysis to study foreign policy. Divided into two parts, this book provides a poststructuralist theory of the relationship between identity and foreign policy and an in-depth discussion of the methodology of discourse analysis. It is suitable for students and scholars of international relations.

Previous constructivist works have investigated the temporal contingency of state sovereignty, neglecting the spatial contingency of this concept. This book shows how the meaning of state sovereignty was constituted differently in the case of the intervention in Kosovo and the case of non-intervention in Algeria in the late 1990s.

Neumann and Waever present the state of the art of IR theory through an analysis of the work of twelve key contemporary thinkers. The book's format makes for easy comparision, and gives students ready access to some complex theory.

Adam Watson was one of the members of the British Committee on the Theory of International Politics and a founding member of the English School. This work records the development of Adam Watson's thinking about international theory from the 1950s onwards. It also explores his contribution to, and the development of, the English School.