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27 produkter
Securing the Sacred
Religion, National Security, and the Western State
Häftad, 2016
383 kr
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Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Western nations have increasingly recognized religion as a consideration in domestic and foreign policy. In this empirical comparison of the securitization of Islam in Britain, France, and the United States, Robert M. Bosco argues that religion is …
Politics of Expertise
Competing for Authority in Global Governance
Häftad, 2017
263 kr
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Experts dominate all facets of global governance, from accounting practices and antitrust regulations to human rights law and environmental conservation. In this study, Ole Jacob Sending encourages a critical interrogation of the role and power of experts by unveiling the politics of the ongoing …
Capital, the State, and War
Class Conflict and Geopolitics in the Thirty Years' Crisis, 1914-1945
Häftad, 2014
458 kr
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The history of the modern social sciences can be seen as a series of attempts to confront the challenges of social disorder and revolution wrought by the international expansion of capitalist social relations. Alexander Anievas focuses on one particularly significant aspect of this story: the …
Britain and World Power since 1945
Constructing a Nation's Role in International Politics
Häftad, 2014
457 kr
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?Though Britain’s descent from global imperial power began in World War II and continued over the subsequent decades with decolonization, military withdrawal, and integration into the European Union, its foreign policy has remained that of a Great Power. David M. McCourt maintains that the lack of …
Making Human
World Order and the Global Governance of Human Dignity
Häftad, 2015
564 kr
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Differences between human beings have long been used to justify a range of degrading, exclusionary, and murderous practices that strip people of their humanity and dignity. While considerable scholarship has been devoted to such dehumanization, Matthew S. Weinert asks how we might conceive its …
Distinction of Peace
A Social Analysis of Peacebuilding
Häftad, 2017
383 kr
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“Peacebuilding” serves as a catch-all term to describe efforts by an array of international organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and agencies of foreign states to restore or construct a peaceful society in the wake—or even in the midst—of conflict. Despite this variety, practitioners …
Decisiveness and Fear of Disorder
Political Decision-Making in Times of Crisis
Av Julius Maximilian Rogenhofer
Häftad, 2024
295 kr
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Decisiveness and Fear of Disorder examines how democratic representatives make decisions in crisis situations. By analyzing parliamentary asylum debates from Germany’s Asylum Compromise in 1992-1993 and the 2015-2016 refugee crisis, Julius Rogenhofer identifies representatives’ ability to project …
Cosmopolitan Imaginaries and International Disorder
Häftad, 2025
383 kr
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While the idea of a cosmopolitan order embracing all humankind is ancient, after the Cold War it was widely believed to be an emerging future. As global interdependence and interaction through new technologies increased, literature of cosmopolitan globalization argued that these changes were …
Chasing Greatness
On Russia's Discursive Interaction with the West over the Past Millennium
Häftad, 2024
436 kr
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Over the last two decades, it has become clear that Russia insists on its great power status, even at considerable cost. Chasing Greatness provides an interpretive explanation of the tacit rules that shape Russia's great power identity today. Anatoly Reshetnikov argues that this never-ending chase …
Expedition Escape from the Classroom
Political Outings on the Campus and the Anxiety of Teaching IR
Häftad, 2024
471 kr
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Despite facing profound teaching anxiety stemming from the politically intense surroundings in Israel and his own writer’s block, Oded Löwenheim crafted an innovative college course that breaks free from the traditional classroom setting to explore the depths of Jerusalem’s Mount Scopus campus. He …
Beyond International Intervention
Politics of Improvement in Serbia
Häftad, 2025
443 kr
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Studies of statebuilding and peacebuilding have been criticized for their disregard of people living the consequences of intervention projects. Beyond International Intervention takes on the task of engaging with spaces and peoples not usually present in IR scholarship to rethink the very concept …
Politics of Beginning
The Origin of Private Authority in the Process of Translation
Häftad, 2025
383 kr
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2026 APSA Jeffrey Friedman Best Book on Ideas, Knowledge, and Politics Award WinnerThe Politics of Beginning traces the formation of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), now the most authoritative private organization for forestry certification. It starts with recounting the highly politicized …
Claiming Impartiality
Peacebuilding Organizations as Actors in Multiple Fields of Global Governance
Häftad, 2026
504 kr
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Why has multilateral peacebuilding in conflict-ridden states emerged as a depoliticized practice that rarely engages with local actors and agendas? And why has depoliticization persisted despite continued criticisms? Claiming Impartiality offers an innovative answer to the puzzling persistence of …
Decisiveness and Fear of Disorder
Political Decision-Making in Times of Crisis
Av Julius Maximilian Rogenhofer
Inbunden, 2024
909 kr
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Decisiveness and Fear of Disorder examines how democratic representatives make decisions in crisis situations. By analyzing parliamentary asylum debates from Germany’s Asylum Compromise in 1992-1993 and the 2015-2016 refugee crisis, Julius Rogenhofer identifies representatives’ ability to project …
Cosmopolitan Imaginaries and International Disorder
Inbunden, 2025
1195 kr
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While the idea of a cosmopolitan order embracing all humankind is ancient, after the Cold War it was widely believed to be an emerging future. As global interdependence and interaction through new technologies increased, literature of cosmopolitan globalization argued that these changes were …
Chasing Greatness
On Russia's Discursive Interaction with the West over the Past Millennium
Inbunden, 2024
1057 kr
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Over the last two decades, it has become clear that Russia insists on its great power status, even at considerable cost. Chasing Greatness provides an interpretive explanation of the tacit rules that shape Russia's great power identity today. Anatoly Reshetnikov argues that this never-ending chase …
Expedition Escape from the Classroom
Political Outings on the Campus and the Anxiety of Teaching IR
Inbunden, 2024
1195 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Despite facing profound teaching anxiety stemming from the politically intense surroundings in Israel and his own writer’s block, Oded Löwenheim crafted an innovative college course that breaks free from the traditional classroom setting to explore the depths of Jerusalem’s Mount Scopus campus. He …
Beyond International Intervention
Politics of Improvement in Serbia
Inbunden, 2025
1401 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Studies of statebuilding and peacebuilding have been criticized for their disregard of people living the consequences of intervention projects. Beyond International Intervention takes on the task of engaging with spaces and peoples not usually present in IR scholarship to rethink the very concept …
Politics of Beginning
The Origin of Private Authority in the Process of Translation
Inbunden, 2025
1195 kr
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2026 APSA Jeffrey Friedman Best Book on Ideas, Knowledge, and Politics Award WinnerThe Politics of Beginning traces the formation of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), now the most authoritative private organization for forestry certification. It starts with recounting the highly politicized …
Claiming Impartiality
Peacebuilding Organizations as Actors in Multiple Fields of Global Governance
Inbunden, 2026
1539 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Why has multilateral peacebuilding in conflict-ridden states emerged as a depoliticized practice that rarely engages with local actors and agendas? And why has depoliticization persisted despite continued criticisms? Claiming Impartiality offers an innovative answer to the puzzling persistence of …
Securing the Sacred
Religion, National Security, and the Western State
Inbunden, 2014
919 kr
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Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Western nations have increasingly recognized religion as a consideration in domestic and foreign policy. In this empirical comparison of the securitization of Islam in Britain, France, and the United States, Robert M. Bosco argues that religion is …
Politics of Expertise
Competing for Authority in Global Governance
Inbunden, 2015
1126 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Experts dominate all facets of global governance, from accounting practices and antitrust regulations to human rights law and environmental conservation. In this study, Ole Jacob Sending encourages a critical interrogation of the role and power of experts by unveiling the politics of the ongoing …
State of Translation
Turkey in Interlingual Relations
Av Einar Wigen
Inbunden, 2018
1195 kr
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International politics often requires two or more languages. The resulting interlingual relations mean translation, either by interpreters who are quite literally in the middle of conversations, or by bilingual statesmen who negotiate internationally in one language and then legitimize domestically …
Angry Public Rhetorics
Global Relations and Emotion in the Wake of 9/11
Inbunden, 2018
1195 kr
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In Angry Public Rhetorics, Celeste Condit explores emotions as motivators and organizers of collective action—a theory that treats humans as “symbol-using animals” to understand the patterns of leadership in global affairs—to account for the way in which anger produced similar rhetorics in three …
Decency and Difference
Humanity and the Global Challenge of Identity Politics
Inbunden, 2019
1126 kr
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Decency remains one of the most prevalent yet least understood terms in today’s political discourse. In evoking respect, kindness, courage, integrity, reason, and tolerance, it has long expressed an unquestioned duty and belief in promoting and protecting the dignity of all persons. Today this …
Interspecies Politics
Nature, Borders, States
Av Rafi Youatt
Inbunden, 2020
988 kr
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This book explores the ways that international politics is a form of interspecies politics, one that involves the interactions, ideas, and practices of multiple species, both human and nonhuman, to generate differences and create commonalities. While we frequently think of having an international …
Politics of Military Force
Antimilitarism, Ideational Change, and Post-Cold War German Security Discourse
Inbunden, 2020
1126 kr
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The Politics of Military Force examines the dynamics of discursive change that made participation in military operations possible against the background of German antimilitarist culture. Once considered a strict taboo, so-called out-of-area operations have now become widely considered by German …
