Bücher der Reihe New International Relations

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.