Interventions
About the Book Series
The Interventions Series provides a globally recognised forum for high quality, innovative, and interdisciplinary research in international politics. In 15 years, we have published 150 volumes authored or edited by a diverse network of leading scholars across all career stages.
We aim to advance understanding of the key areas in which scholars working with critical, post-structural, feminist, postcolonial, decolonial, psychoanalytic, and cultural approaches have chosen to make their interventions, and to present original analyses of politically significant topics.
All titles in the Series engage with critical thinkers in philosophy, sociology, geography, politics, and other disciplines, and provide situated historical, empirical, and textual studies in international politics.
This combination of theoretically-informed, empirically-grounded work is a hallmark of the Series, which continues to shape key debates across arts, humanities, and social sciences.
We warmly invite proposals for a variety of books from both established and up-and-coming authors including: single-authored/edited survey/textbooks; ‘big idea’ research monographs; edited books on cutting edge topics; and the very best doctoral theses converted into research monographs.
We are very happy to discuss your ideas at any stage of the project: please contact us for advice or proposal guidelines.
Proposals should be submitted directly to the Series Editors:
- Jenny Edkins ([email protected]) and
- Nick Vaughan-Williams ([email protected]).
‘As Michel Foucault has famously stated, "knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting" In this spirit The Edkins - Vaughan-Williams Interventions series solicits cutting edge, critical works that challenge mainstream understandings in international relations. It is the best place to contribute post disciplinary works that think rather than merely recognize and affirm the world recycled in IR's traditional geopolitical imaginary.’
Michael J. Shapiro, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA
Memoryscapes of disappearance in Mexico
1st Edition
By Danielle House
July 03, 2026
This book argues for a broadening of the ways memory is conceptualised and practiced. Drawing on extensive fieldwork with artists, relatives, activists, and academics who are engaging in memory practices to fight for justice and search for Mexico's disappeared, it takes a rich empirical approach to...
Visual Border Politics: Images and Migration Governance in Europe
1st Edition
By Laura Holderied
March 30, 2026
The book highlights how images shape Europe’s migration policies, using the pivotal 2015 ‘refugee crisis’ as a lens to examine the complex intersection of visual media and border governance. Understanding visual border politics as situated practices of meaning-making that operate against the ...
Decolonisation in the 21st Century: Rethinking Coloniality, Resistance and Solidarity
1st Edition
Edited
By Joyce C.H. Liu, Brett Neilson
January 30, 2026
Amidst rising global inequality, intensifying geopolitical frictions, and the renewed force of colonial logics, this volume offers a critical interrogation of coloniality, decolonial practices, global capitalism, and the technologies of governance that entrench social and environmental injustice. ...
Vernacular Security Studies: Concepts, Cases, and Critiques
1st Edition
Edited
By Lee Jarvis, Michael Lister, Akinyemi Oyawale
January 22, 2026
This book covers new conceptual, methodological, and empirical issues that will progress debate on Vernacular Security Studies (VSS) and the value of studying ordinary articulations of (in)security. Bringing together established and emerging scholars, it offers a timely and much needed engagement ...
Cities under Fire: The Urbanisation of War
1st Edition
Edited
By Martin Coward
December 30, 2025
This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of urban destruction. It argues that it is necessary to address the widespread and deliberate destruction of buildings as a distinct form of political violence. In this sense it is productive to see this phenomenon as ‘urbicide’, or the ...
Humanitarian Intervention and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion and Naïveté: Beyond Suspicion
1st Edition
By Dimitrios E. Akrivoulis
August 01, 2025
This book uses Paul Ricoeur’s hermeneutic phenomenology of suspicion and naïveté to shift the focus of the ideology of humanitarian intervention from the distorting (Marxism, realism) and legitimizing (social constructivism) to the integrating function of this ideology. In this context, the book ...
The Politics of Antagonism: Populist Security Narratives and the Remaking of Political Identity
1st Edition
By Georg Löfflmann
July 30, 2025
This book demonstrates how populist security narratives served as the driving force behind the mobilization of Republican voters and the legitimation of an ‘America First’ policy agenda under the Trump presidency. Going beyond existing research on both populism and security narratives, the author ...
White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, Modernist Architecture, and Contemporary Preservation: Remaking the Past, Preserving Power
1st Edition
By Robert Flahive
June 27, 2025
This book examines the afterlives of the built environment produced through early 20th-century settler colonialism. The author analyzes contemporary architectural preservationists’ narrative strategies to remake what were designed as racialized “European” zones – in opposition to “Indigenous” zones...
Politics as Activity: Praxis, Poiēsis, and Gesture in the Work of Giorgio Agamben
1st Edition
By Katarina Sjöblom
June 06, 2025
Engaging with a fundamental question at the heart of the Western tradition of political thought, namely the question of political action, this book considers a broad range of issues, from resistance to political mobilization. It explores the nature of political activity by engaging with Giorgio ...
Targeting in International Law: Counterinsurgency and the Legal Materiality of the Principle of Distinction
1st Edition
By Amin Parsa
May 06, 2025
This book is about how distinctions are drawn between civilians and combatants in modern warfare and how the legal principle of distinction depends on the technical means through which combatants make themselves visibly distinguishable from civilians. The author demonstrates that technologies of ...
Counterterrorism and Colonialism: Everyday Violence in Britain and Egypt
1st Edition
By Alice Finden
March 31, 2025
This book uses feminist and postcolonial approaches to archival research and interviews to interrogate the persistence of colonial logics in contemporary counterterrorism practice, exposing how forms of state violence are normalised and legitimised. The book investigates the historical development ...
Climate Change Mitigation and the European Union: A Lacanian Exploration of Desire and Enjoyment
1st Edition
By Valeria Tolis
February 20, 2025
This book focuses on the European Union’s (EU) climate change mitigation actions, developing a critical framework for the 2030 Clean energy for all Europeans package and the 2050 long-term decarbonisation strategy, which informed the European Green Deal. Reflecting on the possibility of real change...