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.
Kinship in International Relations
1st Edition
Edited
By Kristin Haugevik, Iver B Neumann
July 12, 2022
While kinship is among the basic organizing principles of all human life, its role in and implications for international politics and relations have been subject to surprisingly little exploration in International Relations (IR) scholarship. This volume is the first volume aimed at thinking ...
Discourse and Affect in Foreign Policy: Germany and the Iraq War
1st Edition
By Jakub Eberle
June 13, 2022
Foreign and security policy have long been removed from the political pressures that influence other areas of policymaking. This has led to a tendency to separate the analytical levels of the individual and the collective.Using Lacanian theory, which views the subject as ontologically incomplete ...
International Relations Narratives: Plotting World Politics
1st Edition
By Riikka Kuusisto
December 13, 2021
This book presents an innovative approach to research in International Relations by examining 12 theoretical contributions to the field as competing narrative bids. It demonstrates the pervasive nature of storytelling and considers narratives as a means of causal explanation in the human ...
Tactical Constructivism, Method, and International Relations
1st Edition
Edited
By Brent Steele, Harry Gould, Oliver Kessler
December 13, 2021
This is a book on methods, how scholars embody them and how working within, from or against Constructivism has shaped that use and embodiment.A vibrant cross-section of contributors write of interdisciplinary encounters, first interactions with the ‘discipline’ of International Relations, discuss ...
Memories of Empire and Entry into International Society: Views from the European periphery
1st Edition
Edited
By Filip Ejdus
September 30, 2021
What is the role of memories for the expansion of international society? By drawing on the English School approach to International Relations this edited volume argues that the memories of empire and suzerainty are key to understanding sociological aspects of the expansion of anarchical society. ...
Coercive Sanctions and International Conflicts: A Sociological Theory
1st Edition
By Mark Daniel Jaeger
June 30, 2021
Perhaps the most common question raised in the literature on coercive international sanctions is: "Do sanctions work?" Unsurprisingly, the answer to such a sweeping question remains inconclusive. However, even the widely-presumed logic of coercive sanctions – that economic impact translates into ...
Raymond Aron and International Relations
1st Edition
Edited
By Olivier Schmitt
June 30, 2021
At a time when the field of International Relations (IR) is diverting from grand theoretical debates, rediscovering the value of classical realism and exploring its own intellectual history, this book contributes to these debates by presenting a cohesive view of Raymond Aron’s theory of IR. It ...
Special Relationships in World Politics: Inter-state Friendship and Diplomacy after the Second World War
1st Edition
By Kristin Haugevik
December 18, 2020
Claims of inter-state ‘specialness’ are commonplace in international politics. But how do some relationships between states come to be seen and categorized as ‘special’ in the first place? And what impact, if any, do recurring public representations of specialness have on states’ political and ...
Security, Defense Discourse and Identity in NATO and Europe: How France Changed Foreign Policy
1st Edition
By Falk Ostermann
September 30, 2020
Analyzing changes in the role and place of NATO, European integration, and Franco-American relations in foreign policy discourse under Presidents Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy, this book provides an original perspective on French foreign policy and its identity construction. The book employs a...
Evaluating Progress in International Relations: How do you know?
1st Edition
Edited
By Annette Freyberg-Inan, Ewan Harrison, Patrick James
August 14, 2020
This edited volume offers a systematic evaluation of how knowledge is produced by scholarly research into International Relations. The contributors explore three key questions: To what extent is scientific progress and accumulation of knowledge possible? What are the different accounts of how this ...
Great Power Multilateralism and the Prevention of War: Debating a 21st Century Concert of Powers
1st Edition
Edited
By Harald Muller, Carsten Rauch
August 14, 2020
Great-power conflict and great-power war are still the most dangerous risks the international community is facing today. This edited volume investigates the feasibility of a modern day concert of powers as a way for managing the risk of great power conflicts in the 21st century. The volume takes ...
The Use of Force under International Law: Lawyerized States in a Legalized World
1st Edition
By Fernando Nuñez-Mietz
June 30, 2020
The international system is becoming increasingly legalized, with legal arguments and legal advisors playing an increasingly important part in the state policymaking process. Presenting a practice-oriented theory of compliance with international law, this book shows how international law affects ...