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Who Governs the Globe?
Av Deborah D. Avant, Martha Finnemore m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
572 kr
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Academics and policymakers frequently discuss global governance but they treat governance as a structure or process, rarely considering who actually does the governing. This volume focuses on the agents of global governance: 'global governors'. The global policy arena is filled with a wide variety …
After Defeat
How the East Learned to Live with the West
Häftad, 2010
471 kr
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Not being of the West; being behind the West; not being modern enough; not being developed or industrialized, secular, civilized, Christian, transparent, or democratic - these descriptions have all served to stigmatize certain states through history. Drawing on constructivism as well as the …
Hierarchies in World Politics
Inbunden, 2017
1338 kr
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Globalizing processes are gathering increased attention for complicating the nature of political boundaries, authority and sovereignty. Recent examples of global financial and political turmoil have also created a sense of unease about the durability of the modern international order and the …
Hierarchies in World Politics
Häftad, 2017
553 kr
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Globalizing processes are gathering increased attention for complicating the nature of political boundaries, authority and sovereignty. Recent examples of global financial and political turmoil have also created a sense of unease about the durability of the modern international order and the …
Argument and Change in World Politics
Ethics, Decolonization, and Humanitarian Intervention
Häftad, 2002
780 kr
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Arguments have consequences in world politics that are as real as the military forces of states or the balance of power among them. Neta Crawford proposes a theory of argument in world politics which focuses on the role of ethical arguments in fostering changes in long-standing practices. She …
Regions of War and Peace
Häftad, 2002
569 kr
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In this contribution to the literature on the causes of war, Douglas Lemke asks whether the same factors affect minor powers as affect major ones. He investigates whether power parity and dissatisfaction with the status quo have an impact within Africa, the Far East, the Middle East and South …
The Social Construction of the Ocean
Av Philip E. Steinberg, Steve Smith
Häftad, 2001
569 kr
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This 2001 book presents a history of the uses, regulations and representation of the world-ocean, from approximately 1450 through the present. This history is told through a 'territorial political economy' lens, borrowing from world-systems theory, economic-geographic studies of the spatiality of …
The Strategic Defense Initiative
Av Edward Reiss
Häftad, 2008
569 kr
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This history of the Strategic Defense Initiative ranges across politics, economics, strategic studies and international relations, and provides the latest research into the SDI interest groups, the distribution of contracts, and the politics of influence. It discusses the wider contexts of 'Star …
From Polaris to Trident
The Development of US Fleet Ballistic Missile Technology
Häftad, 2008
557 kr
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This book provides a complete history of the US Fleet Ballistic Missile programme from its inception in the 1950s and the development of Polaris to the deployment of Trident II in 1990. Writing in an accessible yet scholarly manner, Graham Spinardi bases his historical documentation of FBM …
Systems in Crisis
New Imperatives of High Politics at Century's End
Häftad, 2008
557 kr
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Uncertainty is the watchword of contemporary world politics. Monumental changes are occurring throughout the international system and statespeople are wrestling with peaceful solutions to the transformation in relative power of the USA, Soviet Union and China, Japan and in Europe. In this book, …
The Domestic Analogy and World Order Proposals
Häftad, 2008
569 kr
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How profitable is it for world order to transfer the legal and political principles, which sustain order within states to the domain of relations between states? This has been one of the central and most contentious questions in the study of international relations. The term 'domestic analogy' …
National Choices and International Processes
Av Zeev Maoz
Häftad, 2008
846 kr
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National Choices and International Processes brings together the various conflicting approaches to the study of foreign policy decision-making under a single theoretical framework. Initially examining decision processes within states, Zeev Maoz continues by exploring the relationship between the …
Interstate Crisis Behavior, 1816-1980
Häftad, 2009
569 kr
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Why have some interstate crises escalated to war when other have not? Are there patterns of behavior that war-prone disputes share in common? These are some of the questions considered by Russell Leng as he examines the behavior of nations in forty militarised crises occurring between 1816 and …
Justifying Ballistic Missile Defence
Technology, Security and Culture
Inbunden, 2009
976 kr
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Technology is championed as the solution to modern security problems, but also blamed as their cause. This book assesses the way in which these two views collide in the debate over ballistic missile defence: a complex, costly and controversial system intended to defend the United States from …
International Security in Practice
The Politics of NATO-Russia Diplomacy
Häftad, 2010
569 kr
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How do once bitter enemies move beyond entrenched rivalry at the diplomatic level? In one of the first attempts to apply practice theory to the study of International Relations, Vincent Pouliot builds on Pierre Bourdieu's sociology to devise a theory of practice of security communities and applies …
War, Religion and Empire
The Transformation of International Orders
Häftad, 2010
557 kr
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What are international orders, how are they destroyed, and how can they be defended in the face of violent challenges? Advancing an innovative realist-constructivist account of international order, Andrew Phillips addresses each of these questions in War, Religion and Empire. Phillips argues that …
Moral Movements and Foreign Policy
Häftad, 2010
569 kr
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Why do advocacy campaigns succeed in some cases but fail in others? What conditions motivate states to accept commitments championed by principled advocacy movements? Joshua W. Busby sheds light on these core questions through an investigation of four cases - developing-country debt relief, climate …
Britain's Policy for West German Rearmament 1950-1955
Häftad, 2010
569 kr
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The integration of West Germany into the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) became one of the most important and contentious problems of post-war security. Increasing Cold War tensions during and after 1949 had led Britain to consider the need to rearm West Germany. Yet fears of a resurgent …
Soviet Policy Towards Japan
An Analysis of Trends in the 1970s and 1980s
Häftad, 2010
557 kr
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This study of the development of Soviet policy towards Japan during the 1970s and 1980s inaugurated the major series Cambridge Studies in International Relations. Dr Robertson provides a comprehensive analysis of a vital but often neglected contemporary relationship, and suggests that portrayals of …
Justifying Ballistic Missile Defence
Technology, Security and Culture
Häftad, 2009
693 kr
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Technology is championed as the solution to modern security problems, but also blamed as their cause. This book assesses the way in which these two views collide in the debate over ballistic missile defence: a complex, costly and controversial system intended to defend the United States from …
The Trouble with the Congo
Local Violence and the Failure of International Peacebuilding
Häftad, 2010
428 kr
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The Trouble with the Congo suggests a new explanation for international peacebuilding failures in civil wars. Drawing from more than 330 interviews and a year and a half of field research, it develops a case study of the international intervention during the Democratic Republic of the Congo's …
The Trouble with the Congo
Local Violence and the Failure of International Peacebuilding
Inbunden, 2010
1302 kr
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The Trouble with the Congo suggests a new explanation for international peacebuilding failures in civil wars. Drawing from more than 330 interviews and a year and a half of field research, it develops a case study of the international intervention during the Democratic Republic of the Congo's …
War, Religion and Empire
The Transformation of International Orders
Inbunden, 2010
1286 kr
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What are international orders, how are they destroyed, and how can they be defended in the face of violent challenges? Advancing an innovative realist-constructivist account of international order, Andrew Phillips addresses each of these questions in War, Religion and Empire. Phillips argues that …
After Defeat
How the East Learned to Live with the West
Inbunden, 2010
1628 kr
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Not being of the West; being behind the West; not being modern enough; not being developed or industrialized, secular, civilized, Christian, transparent, or democratic - these descriptions have all served to stigmatize certain states through history. Drawing on constructivism as well as the …
Who Governs the Globe?
Av Deborah D. Avant, Martha Finnemore m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
807 kr
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Academics and policymakers frequently discuss global governance but they treat governance as a structure or process, rarely considering who actually does the governing. This volume focuses on the agents of global governance: 'global governors'. The global policy arena is filled with a wide variety …
International Security in Practice
The Politics of NATO-Russia Diplomacy
Inbunden, 2010
1628 kr
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How do once bitter enemies move beyond entrenched rivalry at the diplomatic level? In one of the first attempts to apply practice theory to the study of International Relations, Vincent Pouliot builds on Pierre Bourdieu's sociology to devise a theory of practice of security communities and applies …
Ideas, Interests and Foreign Aid
Häftad, 2011
569 kr
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Why do countries give foreign aid? Although many countries have official development assistance programs, this book argues that no two of them see the purpose of these programmes in the same way. Moreover, the way countries frame that purpose has shaped aid policy choices past and present. The …
International Practices
Av Emanuel Adler, Vincent Pouliot
Häftad, 2011
553 kr
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It is in and through practices - deeds that embody shared intersubjective knowledge - that social life is organized, that subjectivities are constituted and that history unfolds. One can think of dozens of different practices (from balancing, to banking or networking) which constitute the social …
Isolated States
A Comparative Analysis
Häftad, 2011
786 kr
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This 1991 book examines a largely neglected phenomenon in the field of international relations - the concept of the isolated state. Deon Geldenhuys begins by discussing how he measures both voluntary and enforced international isolation by, among other things, membership of international …
The Domestic Analogy and World Order Proposals
Av Hidemi Suganami, Steve Smith m. fl.
Inbunden, 1989
1791 kr
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How profitable is it for world order to transfer the legal and political principles, which sustain order within states to the domain of relations between states? This has been one of the central and most contentious questions in the study of international relations. The term 'domestic analogy' …
