Global Horizons
About the Book Series
We live in a moment that urgently calls for a reframing, reconceptualizing, and reconstituting of the political, cultural and social practices that underpin the enterprises of international relations.
While contemporary developments in international relations are focused upon highly detailed and technical matters, they also demand an engagement with the broader questions of history, ethics, culture and human subjectivity.
GLOBAL HORIZONS is dedicated to examining these broader questions.
The Colonial Art of Demonizing Others: A Global Perspective
1st Edition
By Esther Lezra
October 26, 2017
The Colonial Art of Demonizing Others examines European mistranslations and misrepresentations of black freedom dreams and self-activity as monstrous in the period of modern imperial consolidation –roughly from 1750 to 1848. This book argues that Europe’s archives of self-understanding are ...
Out of Line: Essays on the Politics of Boundaries and the Limits of Modern Politics
1st Edition
By R.B.J. Walker
October 06, 2015
A collection of essays on the politics of boundaries, this book addresses a broad range of cases, some geographical, some legal, and some involving less tangible practices of inclusion and exclusion. The book begins by exploring the boundary between modern Western forms of international relations ...
Politics of Difference: Epistemologies of Peace
1st Edition
By Hartmut Behr
August 25, 2015
This book develops a notion of differences and 'otherness' beyond hegemonic and hierarchical thinking as represented by the legacies of Western philosophical and political thought. In doing so, it relates to the phenomenological discourse of the twentieth century, especially to Georg Simmel, Alfred...
Humanitarian Intervention and Legitimacy Wars: Seeking Peace and Justice in the 21st Century
1st Edition
By Richard Falk
August 11, 2014
In the aftermath of the Cold War there has been a dramatic shift in thinking about the maintenance of peace and security on a global level. This shift is away from a preoccupation with how to prevent major wars between sovereign states to a preoccupation about non-state transnational warfare and ...
(Re)Imagining Humane Global Governance
1st Edition
By Richard Falk
October 11, 2013
In this important and path-breaking book, esteemed scholar and public intellectual Richard Falk explores how we can re-imagine the system of global governance to make it more ethical and humane. Divided into three parts, this book firstly scrutinizes the main aspects of Global Governance including...
Ideas to Die For: The Cosmopolitan Challenge
1st Edition
By Giles Gunn
May 06, 2013
Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents seeks to address the kinds of challenges that cosmopolitan perspectives and practices face in a world organized increasingly in relation to a proliferating series of global absolutisms – religious, political, social, and economic. While these challenges are often...
After the Globe, Before the World
1st Edition
By R.B.J. Walker
October 22, 2009
This book explores the implications of claims that the most challenging political problems of our time express an urgent need to reimagine where and therefore what we take politics to be. It does so by examining the relationship between modern forms of politics (centred simultaneously within ...
The Liberal Way of War: Killing to Make Life Live
1st Edition
By Michael Dillon, Julian Reid
April 15, 2009
The liberal way of war and the liberal way of rule are correlated; this book traces that correlation to liberalism's original commitment to 'making life live'. Committed to making life live, liberalism is committed to waging war on behalf of life, specifically to promote the biopolitical life of ...
Cinematic Geopolitics
1st Edition
By Michael J. Shapiro
December 01, 2008
In recent years, film has been one of the major genres within which the imaginaries involved in mapping the geopolitical world have been represented and reflected upon. In this book, one of America's foremost theorists of culture and politics treats those aspects of the "geopolitical aesthetic" ...
Beyond the Global Culture War
1st Edition
By Adam K. Webb
January 20, 2006
"Beyond the Global Culture War" presents a cross-cultural critique of global liberalism and argues for a broad-based challenge that can meet it on its own scale. Adam Webb is one of our most exciting and original young scholars, and this book is certain to generate many new debates. This timely ...
Rethinking Refugees: Beyond State of Emergency
1st Edition
By Peter Nyers
December 12, 2005
Rethinking Refugees: Beyond State of Emergency examines the ways in which refugees have been made objects of the complex discourse, practices, and strategies of humanitarianism making visible the link between our knowledge of refugees and questions about the changing status of political power, ...
Human Rights and Private Wrongs: Constructing Global Civil Society
1st Edition
By Alison Brysk
December 25, 2004
Human Rights and Private Wrongs breaks new ground by considering a series of fascinating issues that are normally ignored by human rights specialists because they are too "private" to consider as policy issues: children's labor migration; refugee policy towards unaccompanied minors; financial ...