New International Relations
About the Book Series
The field of international relations has changed dramatically in recent years, with new subject matter being brought to light and new approaches from in and out of the social sciences being tried out. This series offers itself as a broad church for innovative work that aims to renew the discipline.
Chile’s Struggles for International Status and Domestic Legitimacy: Standing at the Liberal Order’s Edge
1st Edition
By Cristóbal Bywaters
November 04, 2025
This detailed study of Chile’s upward trajectory from the 1973 military coup to its accession to the OECD in 2010 shows how foreign policy elites utilise international status to build legitimacy, consolidate power, and shape collective agency in the world. It moves beyond treatments of status as a ...
How the EU and Russia Narrate the World: Struggling for Recognition
1st Edition
By Mario Baumann
July 25, 2025
In times of increasing challenges to ‘the Western idea,’ this book illuminates how Russian and EU foreign policy discourses interact. While official Russian and EU articulations on issues of sovereignty, human rights and the shared neighbourhood diverge greatly, they are not articulated in ...
Uncertainty in Global Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Anastasia Shesterinina, Miriam Matejova
June 27, 2025
This book engages in a constructive, practical debate on the nature and effects of uncertainty in global politics. International contributors explore the processes associated with different forms of uncertainty in the context of environmental issues, diplomacy and international negotiations, and ...
Competing Metaphors for International Relations: Jungle or Playground?
1st Edition
By Riikka Kuusisto
May 10, 2025
This book examines how the thinking towards international relations of political leaders, researchers, the media and the public is fundamentally metaphorical in nature: the abstract and far away constantly made concrete and familiar through the imaginative rationality of metaphors. It delves into ...
Democratic Peace: A Historical and Cultural Practice
1st Edition
By Jorg Kustermans
May 06, 2025
This book advances the theory that “democratic peace” does not exclusively refer to an absence of war among democracies but should also be thought of as a particular way of “doing, thinking, and feeling” peace. Democratic peace is not only then a statistical finding or a rhetorical commonplace ...
Geoeconomics in International Relations: Neorealist and Neoliberal Conceptualizations
1st Edition
By Christian Pfeiffer
April 14, 2025
This book provides a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the concept of geoeconomics in International Relations (IR). It offers an accessible overview of the most important approaches, including their history, means and ends, methodology, ideological underpinnings, normative aspects, and ...
Boredom, Colonialism and War: Dreams of Power and Agency, 1870-1930
1st Edition
By Erik Ringmar
January 01, 2025
Why is liberalism unable to account for the violence which persists in modern society? Boredom, Colonialism and War is a wide ranging IR study which looks at the role of cutural systems in warfare, the modern condition and the failure of globalization to halt war through international free trade. ...
Liberalism and War: The Victors and the Vanquished
2nd Edition
By Andrew J. Williams
December 27, 2024
In this book, leading scholar Andrew J. Williams examines contemporary liberal thinking on the ending of wars and puts it into its historical context. Using a vast range of archival material, he examines the main strategies used by liberal states to consolidate their gains in the aftermath of war ...
The Identity Factor in Chinese Relations with Europe: China and the Barbarian Civilization
1st Edition
By Bjørnar Sverdrup-Thygeson
December 26, 2024
This book offers a sustained, historically grounded analysis of the identity factor in China-Europe relations. The identity of the modern Chinese state was forged in the context of European emissaries, gunboats, and books. The effects still shape China’s policies towards Europe today, as it becomes...
Small States and Security in Europe: Between National and International Policymaking
1st Edition
Edited
By Tomáš Weiss, Geoffrey Edwards
September 25, 2023
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 ...
The Rhetoric of Inquiry in International Relations: A Hermeneutic Investigation into the Forms of Argumentation in International Relations Meta-Theory
1st Edition
By Torsten Michel
May 31, 2023
This book argues that our current lack of recognising and understanding the different forms meta-theorising takes hampers the ways in which fruitful engagement between meta-theories can be conducted. It proposes a radical break with the ways in which meta-theorising in International Relations (IR...
The Globality of Governmentality: Governing an Entangled World
1st Edition
Edited
By Jan Busse
January 09, 2023
This book reinvigorates the governmentality debate in International Relations (IR) by stressing the interconnectedness between governmentality and globality. It addresses a widening gap in the social sciences and humanities by reconciling Michel Foucault’s concept of "governmentality" with global ...