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.
Small State Status Seeking: Norway's Quest for International Standing
1st Edition
Edited
By Benjamin de Carvalho, Iver Neumann
October 10, 2016
Status-seeking is an important aspect of the foreign policies of a number of small states, but one that has been rarely studied. This book aims to contribute to our understanding not only of status-seeking, by coming at that question from a new angle, that of a small state, but also to our ...
The International Political Sociology of Security: Rethinking Theory and Practice
1st Edition
By Trine Villumsen Berling
October 10, 2016
This book builds a theoretical approach to the intractable problem of theory/practice in international relations (IR) and develops tools to study how theory and practice ‘hang together’ in international security. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s political sociology, the book argues that theory and ...
Alker and IR: Global Studies in an Interconnected World
1st Edition
Edited
By Renée Marlin-Bennett
August 19, 2016
International Relations have rarely been considered a synthesis of humanistic and social sciences approaches to understand the complex connections of a global, and globalizing, world. One of the few scholars to have accomplished this creative blend was Hayward R. Alker. Alker and IR presents a set ...
The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations: Philosophy of Science and Its Implications for the Study of World Politics
2nd Edition
By Patrick Thaddeus Jackson
April 05, 2016
The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations first edition was winner of the ISA-Northeast’s Yale H. Ferguson Award, and the ISA Theory Section’s Best Book of the Year award. The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations provides an introduction to the philosophy of science issues and ...
Reflexivity and International Relations: Positionality, Critique, and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Jack L Amoureux, Brent J. Steele
October 15, 2015
Reflexivity has become a common term in IR scholarship with a variety of uses and meanings. Yet for such an important concept and referent, understandings of reflexivity have been more assumed rather than developed by those who use it, from realists and constructivists to feminists and ...
Justice, Order and Anarchy: The International Political Theory of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
1st Edition
By Alex Prichard
May 21, 2015
This book provides a contextual account of the first anarchist theory of war and peace, and sheds new light on our contemporary understandings of anarchy in International Relations. Although anarchy is arguably the core concept of the discipline of international relations, scholarship has largely ...
Observing International Relations: Niklas Luhmann and World Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Mathias Albert, Lena Hilkermeier
December 22, 2014
Observing International Relations draws upon the modern systems theory of society, developed by Niklas Luhmann, to provide new perspectives on central aspects of contemporary world society and to generate theoretically informed insights on the possibilities and limits of regulation in global ...
Critical Security Methods: New frameworks for analysis
1st Edition
Edited
By Claudia Aradau, Jef Huysmans, Andrew Neal, Nadine Voelkner
August 05, 2014
Critical Security Methods offers a new approach to research methods in critical security studies. It argues that methods are not simply tools to bridge the gap between security theory and security practice. Rather, to practise methods critically means engaging in a more free and experimental ...
China in UN Security Council Decision-Making on Iraq: Conflicting Understandings, Competing Preferences
1st Edition
By Suzanne Xiao Yang
July 03, 2014
With the rupture of the UN Security Council in March 2003 over the US spearheaded intervention in Iraq, the attempts made to subject the use of force to the rule of law had failed. Widespread Europe-US disagreement of the role of the UNSC has hindered more effective decisions for China and its...
Constructing Global Enemies: Hegemony and Identity in International Discourses on Terrorism and Drug Prohibition
1st Edition
By Eva Herschinger
July 03, 2014
Constructing Global Enemies asks how and why specific interpretations of international terrorism and drug abuse have become hegemonic at the global level. The book analyses the international discourses on terrorism and drug prohibition and compares efforts to counter both, not only from a ...
Arguing Global Governance: Agency, Lifeworld and Shared Reasoning
1st Edition
Edited
By Corneliu Bjola, Markus Kornprobst
June 19, 2014
This book deals with the questions of how global governance can and ought to effectively address serious global problems, such as financial instability, military conflicts, distributive injustice and increasing concerns of ecological disasters. Providing a unified theoretical framework, the ...
International Relations and Identity: A Dialogical Approach
1st Edition
By Xavier Guillaume
June 19, 2014
International Relations and Identity examines the issue of collective political identity formation and expands the concept of the international beyond the notion of states. Providing a dialogical approach to questions of identity and alterity in International Relations, the author considers how ...