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.
NATO’s Security Discourse after the Cold War: Representing the West
1st Edition
By Andreas Behnke
June 19, 2014
This book analyses the way in which the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) defines the West after the end of the Cold War and the demise of its constitutive ‘Other’, the Soviet Union. The book offers a theoretical critique of liberal approaches to security, and focuses on NATO’s ...
Ontological Security in International Relations: Self-Identity and the IR State
1st Edition
By Brent J. Steele
May 16, 2014
The central assertion of this book is that states pursue social actions to serve self-identity needs, even when these actions compromise their physical existence. Three forms of social action, sometimes referred to as ‘motives’ of state behaviour (moral, humanitarian, and honour-driven) are ...
Constructing Sovereignty between Politics and Law
1st Edition
By Tanja Aalberts
March 13, 2014
This book explores the interplay between sovereignty, politics and law through different conceptualizations of sovereignty. Despite developments such as European integration, globalization, and state failure, sovereignty proves to be a resilient institution in contemporary international politics. ...
Maritime Piracy and the Construction of Global Governance
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael J. Struett, Jon D. Carlson, Mark T. Nance
February 14, 2014
Piratical attacks have become more frequent, violent, costly and increasingly threaten to undermine order in the international system. Much attention has focused on Somalia, but piracy is a problem worldwide. Recent coordination efforts among states in South East Asia appear to have helped in the ...
European Integration and Postcolonial Sovereignty Games: The EU Overseas Countries and Territories
1st Edition
Edited
By Rebecca Adler-Nissen, Ulrik Gad
October 25, 2013
This book examines how sovereignty works in the context of European integration and postcolonialism. Focusing on a group of micro-polities associated with the European Union, it offers a new understanding of international relations in the context of modern sovereignty. This book offers a ...
The Dao of World Politics: Towards a Post-Westphalian, Worldist International Relations
1st Edition
By L. H. M. Ling
October 21, 2013
This book draws on Daoist yin/yang dialectics to move world politics from the current stasis of hegemony, hierarchy, and violence to a more balanced engagement with parity, fluidity, and ethics. The author theorizes that we may develop a richer, more representative approach towards sustainable and...
Power, Realism and Constructivism
1st Edition
By Stefano Guzzini
August 01, 2013
Winner of the 2014 International Studies Association Theory Section Book Award Framed by a new and substantial introductory chapter, the book collects Stefano Guzzini’s research on power, realism and constructivism. It explores the diversity of different schools and their intrinsic tensions and ...
The Politics of Becoming European: A study of Polish and Baltic Post-Cold War security imaginaries
1st Edition
By Maria Mälksoo
June 05, 2013
This book weaves together perspectives drawn from critical international relations, anthropology and social theory in order to understand the Polish and Baltic post-Cold War politics of becoming European. Approaching the study of Europe’s eastern enlargement through a post-colonial critique, ...
Bourdieu in International Relations: Rethinking Key Concepts in IR
1st Edition
Edited
By Rebecca Adler-Nissen
February 20, 2013
This book rethinks the key concepts of International Relations by drawing on the work of Pierre Bourdieu. The last few years have seen a genuine wave of publications promoting sociology in international relations. Scholars have suggested that Bourdieu’s vocabulary can be applied to study security, ...
Making Sense, Making Worlds: Constructivism in Social Theory and International Relations
1st Edition
By Nicholas Onuf
January 03, 2013
Nicholas Onuf is a leading scholar in international relations and introduced constructivism to international relations, coining the term constructivism in his book World of Our Making (1989). He was featured as one of twelve scholars featured in Iver B. Neumann and Ole Wæver, eds., The Future of ...
World of Our Making: Rules and Rule in Social Theory and International Relations
1st Edition
By Nicholas Onuf
July 06, 2012
World of our Making is a major contribution to contemporary social science. Now reissued in this volume, Onuf’s seminal text is key reading for anyone who wishes to study modern international relations. Onuf understands all of international relations to be a matter of rules and rule in foreign ...
International Relations and the First Great Debate
1st Edition
Edited
By Brian Schmidt
June 21, 2012
This book provides an authoritative account of the controversy about the first great debate in the field of International Relations. Of all the self-images of International Relations, none is as pervasive and enduring as the notion that a great debate pitting idealists against realists took place ...