International relations Books

Book SynopsisAs International Relations enters its second century as an academic discipline, leading expert Knud Erik Jørgensen provides a provocative assessment of its past, present and future. In this book, Jørgensen traces International Relations scholarship, from its formative interwar years through to rapid growth in students and researchers in the wake of globalization. He examines the resultant widening of scholarship in the field, and the effects that this has had on the global discipline. The result is a concise and challenging appraisal of International Relations, one which both celebrates its value and maps possible future directions.Table of ContentsIntroduction What is the Subject Matter? What are the Human Sciences? What is a Discipline? What is Theory? What is Disciplinary Diversity? What is Community? Globalizing International Relations? Conclusion

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Book SynopsisAs International Relations enters its second century as an academic discipline, leading expert Knud Erik Jørgensen provides a provocative assessment of its past, present and future. In this book, Jørgensen traces International Relations scholarship, from its formative interwar years through to rapid growth in students and researchers in the wake of globalization. He examines the resultant widening of scholarship in the field, and the effects that this has had on the global discipline. The result is a concise and challenging appraisal of International Relations, one which both celebrates its value and maps possible future directions.Table of ContentsIntroduction What is the Subject Matter? What are the Human Sciences? What is a Discipline? What is Theory? What is Disciplinary Diversity? What is Community? Globalizing International Relations? Conclusion

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Book SynopsisParliamentary diplomacy has provided a crucial, promising outlet in Taiwan’s challenging pursuit of its own interests in the international arena. This book assesses both the potentials and the constraints of parliamentary diplomacy for Taiwan. Through a comparative perspective, and using evidence from the relations of the Legislative Yuan in Taiwan with the US Congress and the European Parliament, the authors investigate the implementation of parliamentary diplomacy in Taiwan and its impact in Taiwan’s foreign policy. In their analysis, the authors draw vital lessons that will have important implications for other entities which have similar challenges and aspirations.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. About Parliamentary Diplomacy 3. Unrecognised and Unrepresented States 4. Taiwan 5. Taiwan's Parliamentary Diplomacy 6. Barrier's Surrounding Taiwan's Parliamentary Diplomacy 7. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisMoving beyond state-centric and elitist perspectives, this volume examines everyday security in the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and written by scholars from Central Asia and beyond, it shows how insecurity is experienced, what people consider existential threats, and how they go about securing themselves. It concentrates on individuals who feel threatened because of their ethnic belonging, gender or sexual orientation. It develops the concept of ‘securityscapes’, which draws attention to the more subtle means that people take to secure themselves – practices bent on invisibility and avoidance, on disguise and trickery, and on continually adapting to shifting circumstances. By broadening the concept of security practice, this book is an important contribution to debates in Critical Security Studies as well as to Central Asian and Area Studies.Table of ContentsPreface ~ Nina Bagdasarova Introduction~ Marc von Boemcken and Aksana Ismailbekova Studying Danger in Central Asia: Towards a concept of everyday securityscapes ~ Marc von Boemcken Security Practices and the Survival of Cafés in Southern Kyrgyzstan ~ Shavkhat Atakhanov and Abylabek Asankanov Securing the Future of Children and Youth: Uzbek private kindergartens and schools in Osh ~ Aksana Ismailbekova Selective Memories, Identities and Places: Everyday security practices of the Mughat Lyulis in Osh ~ Hafiz Boboyorov and Shavkhat Atakhanov How to Live with a Female Body: Securityscapes against sexual violence and related interpretation patterns of Kyrgyz women ~ Kathrin Oestmann and Anna M. Korschinek Romantic Securityscapes of Mixed Couples: Resisting moral panic, surviving in the present, and imagining the future ~ Asel Myrzabekova The Space-Time Continuum of the ‘Dangerous’ Body: LGBT securityscapes Kyrgyzstan ~ Nina Bagdasarova Postscript: Towards a Research Agenda on Security Practices ~ Conrad Schetter

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Book SynopsisGender is widely recognized as an important and useful lens for the study of International Relations. However, there are few books that specifically investigate masculinity/ies in relation to world politics. Taking a feminist-inspired understanding of gender as its starting point, the book: • explains that gender is both an asymmetrical binary and a hierarchy; • shows how masculinization works via ‘nested hierarchies’ of domination and subordination; • explores the imbrication of masculinities with the nation-state and great-power politics; • develops an understanding of the arms trade with commercial processes of militarization. Written in an accessible style, with suggestions for further reading, this book is an invaluable resource for students and teachers applying ‘the gender lens’ to global politics.Table of Contents1. Wasn’t It Always Just About Men Anyway? 2. Sovereign States, Warring States, Queer States 3. Arms and the Men 4. Gender at Work! ‘Get Pissed and Buy Guns’ 5. Looking Back/Pushing Ahead

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Book SynopsisBringing together leading scholars from Asia and the West, this book investigates how the dynamics of China’s rise in world politics contributes to theory-building in International Relations (IR). The book demonstrates how the complex and transformative nature of China’s advancement is also a point of departure for theoretical innovation and reflection in IR more broadly. In doing so, the volume builds a strong case for a genuinely global and post-Western IR. It contends that ‘non-Western’ countries should not only be considered potential sources of knowledge production, but also original and legitimate focuses of IR theorizing in their own right.Table of ContentsIntroduction The Rise of China and Its Challenges to International Relations Theory - Chengxin Pan and Emilian Kavalski PART I: Theorizing China’s Rise: Beyond Eurocentric Knowledge Production 1 Putting China in the World: From Universal Theory to Contextual Theorizing - John Agnew 2 Heart and Soul for World Politics: Advaita Monism and Daoist Trialectics in International Relations - L.H.M. Ling 3 What Can Guanxi International Relations Be About? - Emilian Kavalski 4 Friendly Rise? China, the West and the Ontology of Relations - Astrid H.M. Nordin and Graham M. Smith 5 Re-worlding the ‘West’ in Post-Western International Relations: The ‘Theory Migrant’ of Tianxia in the Anglosphere - Yih-Jye Hwang, Raoul Bunskoek and Chih-yu Shih PART II Theorizing China’s Rise: Critical Reflection on Mainstream Frameworks 6 China in the International Order: A Contributor or a Challenger? - Wang Jisi 7 China’s Rise in English School Perspective - Barry Buzan 8 Deconstructing the Established Westphalian Architecture in Light of China’s Rise - Hung- jen Wang 9 Sino-capitalism’s Dialectical Processes and International Relations Theory - Christopher A. McNally 10 China’s Rise as Holographic Transition: A Relational Challenge to International Relations’ Newtonian Ontology - Chengxin Pan Epilogue: Towards International Relations beyond Binaries - Emilian Kavalski and Chengxin Pan

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Book SynopsisAnalysing social change has too often been characterized by parochialism, either a Eurocentrism that projects European experience outwards or a disciplinary narrowness that ignores insights from other academic disciplines. This book moves beyond these limits to develop a global perspective on social change. The book provincializes Europe in order to analyse European modernity as the product of global developments and brings together renowned scholars from international relations, history and sociology in the search for common understandings. In so doing, it provides a range of promising theoretical approaches, analytical takes and substantive research areas that offer new vistas for understanding change on a global scale.Table of ContentsIntroduction: World Society and Its Histories: The Sociology and Global History of Global Social Change ~ Mathias Albert and Tobias Werron Every Epoch, Time Frame or Date that Is Solid Melts into Air. Does It? The Entanglements of Global History and World Society ~ Mathias Albert Periodization in Global History: The Productive Power of Comparing ~ Angelika Epple Communication, Diff erentiation and the Evolution of World Society ~ Boris Holzer Field Theory and Global Transformations in the Long Twentieth Century ~ Julian Go Organization(s) of the World ~ Martin Koch Particularly Universal Encounters: Ethnographic Explorations into a Laboratory of World Society ~ Teresa Koloma Beck From the First Sino-Roman War (That Never Happened) to Modern International-cum-Imperial Relations: Observing International Politics from an Evolution Theory Perspective ~ Stephan Stetter Nationalism as a Global Institution. A Historical-Sociological View ~ Tobias Werron States and Markets: A Global Historical Sociology of Capitalist Governance ~ George Lawson The Impact of Communications in Global History ~ Heidi Tworek The ‘Long Twentieth Century’ and the Making of World Trade Law ~ James Stafford Third-Party Actors, Transparency and Global Military Affairs ~ Thomas Müller Technical Internationalism and Global Social Change: A Critical Look at the Historiography of the United Nations ~ Daniel Speich Chassé

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Book SynopsisAnalysing social change has too often been characterized by parochialism, either a Eurocentrism that projects European experience outwards or a disciplinary narrowness that ignores insights from other academic disciplines. This book moves beyond these limits to develop a global perspective on social change. The book provincializes Europe in order to analyse European modernity as the product of global developments and brings together renowned scholars from international relations, history and sociology in the search for common understandings. In so doing, it provides a range of promising theoretical approaches, analytical takes and substantive research areas that offer new vistas for understanding change on a global scale.Table of ContentsIntroduction: World Society and Its Histories: The Sociology and Global History of Global Social Change ~ Mathias Albert and Tobias Werron Every Epoch, Time Frame or Date that Is Solid Melts into Air. Does It? The Entanglements of Global History and World Society ~ Mathias Albert Periodization in Global History: The Productive Power of Comparing ~ Angelika Epple Communication, Diff erentiation and the Evolution of World Society ~ Boris Holzer Field Theory and Global Transformations in the Long Twentieth Century ~ Julian Go Organization(s) of the World ~ Martin Koch Particularly Universal Encounters: Ethnographic Explorations into a Laboratory of World Society ~ Teresa Koloma Beck From the First Sino-Roman War (That Never Happened) to Modern International-cum-Imperial Relations: Observing International Politics from an Evolution Theory Perspective ~ Stephan Stetter Nationalism as a Global Institution. A Historical-Sociological View ~ Tobias Werron States and Markets: A Global Historical Sociology of Capitalist Governance ~ George Lawson The Impact of Communications in Global History ~ Heidi Tworek The ‘Long Twentieth Century’ and the Making of World Trade Law ~ James Stafford Third-Party Actors, Transparency and Global Military Affairs ~ Thomas Müller Technical Internationalism and Global Social Change: A Critical Look at the Historiography of the United Nations ~ Daniel Speich Chassé

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Book SynopsisPaying close attention to its domestic roots, this textbook provides a valuable introduction to the construction and application of US foreign policy in the modern era. Accessibly written and including helpful illustrative material, a glossary and guide to further reading, it is organised around four broad themes: • the ideologies of US foreign policy; • the institutions of US foreign policy making; • the actors who influence and shape the content of US foreign policy; • the policy goals and ideas that motivate US foreign policy. Drawing from analyses of the broader history of US foreign policy throughout the post-Second World War period, the book encourages readers to think about how these ideas, institutions and goals have been at work in the foreign policy of recent presidential administrations, including those of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: The Ideologies and Languages of US Foreign Policy 1. The Study of US Foreign Policy 2. The Ideology of American Exceptionalism Part II: The Domestic Institutions of US Foreign Policy 3. The Executive Branch: The President, Defense and State 4. The Legislative Branch Part III: The Politicians and Publics of US Foreign Policy 5. Public Opinion, the Media and Partisanship 6. Interest Groups, Religion and Money 7. Race, Diasporas and Ethnic Politics Part IV: The Goals of US Foreign Policy 8. Realism: Order, Security and Prosperity 9. Idealism: Democracy Promotion and the Paradoxes of US Foreign Policy Conclusion

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Book SynopsisPaying close attention to its domestic roots, this textbook provides a valuable introduction to the construction and application of US foreign policy in the modern era. Accessibly written and including helpful illustrative material, a glossary and guide to further reading, it is organised around four broad themes: • the ideologies of US foreign policy; • the institutions of US foreign policy making; • the actors who influence and shape the content of US foreign policy; • the policy goals and ideas that motivate US foreign policy. Drawing from analyses of the broader history of US foreign policy throughout the post-Second World War period, the book encourages readers to think about how these ideas, institutions and goals have been at work in the foreign policy of recent presidential administrations, including those of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: The Ideologies and Languages of US Foreign Policy 1. The Study of US Foreign Policy 2. The Ideology of American Exceptionalism Part II: The Domestic Institutions of US Foreign Policy 3. The Executive Branch: The President, Defense and State 4. The Legislative Branch Part III: The Politicians and Publics of US Foreign Policy 5. Public Opinion, the Media and Partisanship 6. Interest Groups, Religion and Money 7. Race, Diasporas and Ethnic Politics Part IV: The Goals of US Foreign Policy 8. Realism: Order, Security and Prosperity 9. Idealism: Democracy Promotion and the Paradoxes of US Foreign Policy Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe decision to mount an armed foreign intervention is one of the most consequential that a US president can take. This book sets out to explain why and when presidents choose to use force. The book examines decisions to use force throughout the post-Cold War period, via flashpoints including the Balkans, the ‘War on Terror’ and the Middle East. It develops new explanations for variation in the use of force in US foreign policy by theorizing and demonstrating the effects of the displacement and repression of ideas within and across different US presidential administrations, from George H.W. Bush to Donald Trump. For students, scholars and anyone with an interest in international relations and global security, this book is an original perspective on a defining issue of recent decades.Table of ContentsPart 1: Disaggregating Ideas in American Foreign Policy 1. Ideas and the Use of Force in American Foreign Policy Part 2: US Foreign Policy and Mass Atrocities in the Balkans 2. ‘We Don’t Have a Dog in the Fight’: Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia 3. ‘What Should I Tell My Daughter?’: The Massacre at Srebrenica Part 3: US Foreign Policy and Terrorism 4. ‘Wag the Dog’: Terrorism in the 1990s 5. ‘America Is Under Attack’: From the War on Terror to Iraq Part 4: Obama and Mass Atrocities in the Middle East 6. ‘This Is Like Rwanda’: How the Road to Libya Ran Through Rwanda 7. Syria: ‘There Was No Benghazi To Be Saved’ Part 5: ‘America First’ and the Use of Force 8. From ‘America First’ to Saving ‘Beautiful Babies’ in Syria 9. The 2020 Iranian Crisis: De-escalating from the Use of Force Part 6: Conclusions 10. Ideas and Foreign Policy Variation

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Book SynopsisKnown as ‘the land of fire’, Azerbaijan’s politics are materially and ideologically shaped by energy. In the country, energy security emerges as a mix of coercion and control, requiring widespread military and law enforcement deployment. This book examines the extensive network of security professionals and the wide range of practices that have spread in Azerbaijan’s energy sector. It unpacks the interactions of state, supra‐state, and private security organizations and argues that energy security has enabled and normalized a coercive way of exercising power. This study shows that oppressive energy security practices lead to multiple forms of abuse and poor energy policies.Table of ContentsIntroduction An Analysis of Actually Existing Energy Securitizations Energy Securitization in the Land of Fire Everyday Practices of Energy Security in Azerbaijan Beyond the National Borders: NATO and Energy Security in Azerbaijan Energy Securitization and the Private Sector: The case of BP Energy (In)securitization: Abusive Security Practices and Poor Energy Choices Conclusion

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Book Synopsis‘Capitalism may be teetering once again on the edge of a terminal crisis, but there are no gravediggers in sight. This time around not only are there no gravediggers there are no longer any rival economic systems either …’ In ‘The Western Ideology’ Andrew Gamble demonstrates the contradictions and the resilience of the doctrines that define liberal modernity, and examines the contemporary possibilities for dissent and change. This volume brings together for the first time this seminal essay with a collection of Andrew Gamble’s writings on political ideas and ideologies, which have been chosen by the author to illustrate the main themes of his writing in intellectual history and the history of ideas. Themes include the character of economic liberalism and neoliberalism, especially as expressed in the work of Friedrich Hayek, as well as critiques from both social democratic and conservative perspectives and from critics as varied as Karl Marx, Michael Oakeshott and Bob Dylan. The collection includes a new autobiographical introduction, notes on the essays and an epilogue putting the essays into the context of today’s society. Andrew Gamble provides a unique exploration of the debates and the ideas that have shaped our politics and Western ideology. A companion volume of Andrew Gamble’s essays, After Brexit and Other Essays, focusing on political economy and British politics, is also available from Bristol University Press.Table of ContentsIntroduction: An Intellectual Journey Notes on the Essays The Western Ideology (2008) Neo-liberalism and the Tax State (2013) Ideas and Interests in British Economic Policy (1989) Hayek on Knowledge, Economics and Society (2006) Marxism After Communism (1999) G.D.H. Cole and the History of Socialist Thought (2002) Social Democracy in a Global World (2009) The Quest for a Great Labour Party (2018) Oakeshott’s Ideological Politics (2012) Oakeshott and Totalitarianism (2016) The Drifter’s Escape (2004) Epilogue: The Western Ideology Revisited

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Book Synopsis‘Being more like America again and less like Europe is the heart of the UK model of capitalism … [but] there are many respects in which Britain remains unlike America despite its strong appeal to the British political class ...’ In 'After Brexit' Andrew Gamble sets out the economic models and external relationships that Britain has pursued since the Second World War and examines the choices it now faces as it adjusts to life outside of the European Union. This volume brings together this essay with some of Andrew Gamble’s most important and influential writings on British politics and political economy from the last forty years. They reflect on many of the issues that animate British politics, from the relative decline of the economy and the reshaping of the welfare state to the transformation of the Conservative and Labour parties and the changing constitutional order with the devolution of power to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The volume is introduced by the author and includes his notes on each of the essays as well as an epilogue, which considers their original context and what has changed since. Taken together, the essays in this volume are testament to the acuity of one of Britain’s foremost political thinkers and provide rich insight into debates and ideas that continue to influence British politics and Britain’s place in the world. A companion volume of Andrew Gamble’s essays, The Western Ideology and Other Essays, focusing on political ideas and ideologies, is also available from Bristol University Press.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Historical Contexts Notes on the Essays After Brexit (2019) Explanations of British Decline (1999) The European Disunion (2006) The Anglo-American World View (2019) The Free Economy and the Strong State (1979) Thatcherism and Conservative Politics (1983) Economic Growth and Political Dilemmas (1983) The Crisis of Conservatism (1995) The Thatcher Myth (2015) Theories of British Politics (1990) The Constitutional Revolution in the United Kingdom (2006) What’s British about British Politics? (2016) Epilogue: Last Thoughts

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Book SynopsisBuilding on the recent initiative to truly globalize the field of international relations, this book provides an innovative interrogation of regionalism. The book applies a globalizing framework to the study of regional worlds in order to move beyond the traditional conception of regionalism, which views regions as competing blocs dominated by great powers. Bringing together a wide range of case studies, the book shows that regions are instead dynamic configurations of social and political identities in which a variety of actors, including the less powerful, interact and partake in regionalization processes and have done so through the centuries.Trade Review“This book takes readers on a new journey to the future of international relations (IR) where the monolithic understanding of the world is by no means possible or appropriate. Its publication is not only timely but also much needed in materialising the study of regionalism and IR in contemporary world affairs transcending the Eurocentric imagination of the world.” Kosuke Shimizu, Ryukoku University, Kyoto“This book is a crucial contribution to the study of the international. The view that the study of regions is a privileged lens for the development of global and decolonized International Relations is borne out by the analysis on offer here.” Monica Herz, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro"[T]his volume should find a place on the shelves of many students, bureaucrats and politicians with an interest or participation in international affairs and especially those who believe, with the editor, that we now inhabit ‘a post-Western world." Journal of Contemporary European StudiesTable of ContentsPart I: Content 1. Introduction: Globalizing (the Study of) Regionalism in International Relations - Pinar Bilgin and Beatrix Futák-Campbell 2. A Global Perspective on Pan Movements: Regional Anomalies or Abnormal Regions? - Alanna O’Malley 3. Embracing the Particular: A Research Agenda for Globalizing International Relations - Vanessa Newby Part II: Theory 4. Building Regional Communities: The Role of Regional Organizations in Africa - Densua Mumford 5. Environmental Regionalism in the Caspian Sea: A Functionalist Approach - Agha Bayramov 6. Environmental Regionalism in East Asia - Aysun Uyar Makibayashi Part III: Case Studies 7. Is There Such a Thing as a Confucianist Chinese Foreign Policy? A Case Study of the Belt and Road Initiative - Beatrix Futák-Campbell and Jue Wang 8. India and West Asia: Re-Emerging Region(s)? - Nicolas Blarel 9. The Rise and Fall of an Emerging Power: Agency in Turkey’s Identity-Based Regionalism - Müge Kınacıoğlu

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Book SynopsisIn a world that has returned to great power rivalry, understanding the grand strategy of these powers is crucial. This book introduces ten key terms for analysing grand strategy and shows how the world’s great powers – the United States, China, Russia and the European Union (EU) – shape their strategic decisions today. Outlining the steps needed for a less confrontational grand strategy and a more peaceful and stable world order, this lively and accessible introduction shows how the choices made in each of these ten areas will determine the course of world politics in the first half of the 21st century.Trade Review“This is a timely analysis that – crucially – also manages to feel both very real for the time it is written and future-proof in terms of the insights it includes and the lessons it uncovers… a great contribution to the global debates around the current and future dynamics of great power politics.” The Progressive Post“Elegant and sophisticated” Journal of Common Market StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: No Peace from Corona – Why Grand Strategy and Great Powers Remain Important 1. Simple: But Not Easy 2. Competitive: The Other Players Have a Strategy Too 3. Rational: Reason Trumps Ideology, Religion, and Emotion 4. Allied: One Needs Allies but Cannot Always Choose Them 5. Comprehensive: There Is No Hard, Soft or Smart Power – Just Power 6. Creative: An Art as Well as a Science 7. Agile: Taking Decisions, Acting, and Taking New Decisions 8. Courageous: Dare to Go in, Dare to Get out, Dare to Stay out 9. Dirty: No Great Power Can Keep its Hands Clean 10. Proactive: A Strategy for Action Conclusion: Power to Engage

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Book SynopsisThe European Union (EU) is often portrayed as sacrificing national diversity for European unity. This book explores the alternative of a flexible EU based on differentiated rather than uniform integration. The authors combine normative theory with empirical research on political party actors to assess the desirability and political acceptability of differentiated integration as a means of accommodating heterogeneity in the EU. They examine the circumstances and institutional design needed for flexibility to promote rather than undermine fairness and democracy within and between member states. Clear, balanced, and accessible, the book provides fresh thinking on the future of the EU.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Normative Perspectives on Differentiated Integration 1. Differentiated Integration as a Fair Scheme of Cooperation 2. Democracy, Domination, and Differentiated Integration 3. Democratic Backsliding and the Limits to Differentiated Integration Part 2: Political Party Perspectives on Differentiated Integration 4. Party Views on Differentiated Integration 5. Party Views on the Substantive Fairness of Differentiated Integration 6. Party Views on the Democratic Dilemmas of Differentiated Integration 7. Party Views on Democratic Backsliding and Differentiated Integration Conclusion

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Book SynopsisEPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Drawing on decolonial perspectives on peace, statehood and development, this illuminating book examines post-liberal statebuilding in Central Asia. It argues that, despite its emancipatory appearance, post-liberal statebuilding is best understood as a set of social ordering mechanisms that lead to new forms of exclusion, marginalization and violence. Using ethnographic fieldwork in Southern Kyrgyzstan, the volume offers a detailed examination of community security and peacebuilding discourses and practices. Through its analysis, the book highlights the problem with assumptions about liberal democracy, modern statehood and capitalist development as the standard template for post-conflict countries, which is widespread and rarely reflected upon.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2, Theorizing Post-Liberal Forms of Statebuilding and Order-Making Globally 3. From Imaginary to Practice: Capturing the Multiple Meanings of Peace, Security and Order 4. Imaginaries and Discourses of Social Order in Kyrgyzstan 5. Local Crime Prevention Centres and the (After) Lives of the State in Rural Kyrgyzstan 6. Shaping Peace, Social Order and Resilience: Territorial Youth Councils and the Field of Youth Policy 7. Reform Deadlock for Stability? The Civic Union ‘For Reforms and Result’ 8. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis collection brings together leading figures in the study of International Relations to explore praxis as a perspective on international politics and law. With its focus on competent judgements, the praxis approach holds the promise to overcome the divide between knowing and acting that marks positivist International Relations theory. Building on the transdisciplinary work of Friedrich Kratochwil – and with a concluding chapter from him – this book reveals the scope, limits and blind spots of praxis theorizing. For anyone involved in international politics, this is an important contribution to the reconciliation of theory and practice and an inspiration for future research. EPDFs of Chapters 1, 4, 9, 13, 15 and 16 are available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Praxis as a Perspective on International Politics - Gunther Hellmann and Jens Steffek Part 1: Theorizing Praxis 2. Knowing, Remembering, Showing But Still Not Seeing: Critical Praxis, Slavery and the Modern ‘We’ - K.M. Fierke 3. Friedrich Kratochwil: Prophet of Doubt? - Cecelia Lynch 4. Styles of Theorizing International Practice - Christian Bueger 5. Practising Theorizing in Theorizing Praxis: Friedrich Kratochwil and Social Inquiry - Gunther Hellmann Part 2: Praxis and the Law 6. If Not Rome or The Hague, Where? Reflections on Sanctioning and Punishing - Chris Brown 7. Practical Constitutionalism - Anthony F. Lang, Jr. 8. Rules, Institutions and Decisions: Taking Distribution Seriously - Jan Klabbers Part 3: Biology, Contingency and History 9. I Think, Therefore IR? Psychology, Biology and the Notion of Praxis - James W. Davis 10. Practice, Intersubjectivity and the Problem of Contingency - Oliver Kessler 11. The Praxis of Change and Theory - Mathias Albert 12. Thinking on Time: How Scholarly Praxis Can Sustain, Subvert and Transform Social Reality - Jörg Friedrichs Part 4: Theorizing as Intervention 13. Practising Academic Intervention: An Agonistic Reading of Praxis - Antje Wiener 14. Between Science and Politics: Friedrich Kratochwil’s Praxis of ‘Going On’ - Patrick Thaddeus Jackson 15 Praxis, Humanism and the Quest for Wholeness - Jens Steffek Part 5: Conversing with Critics 16. Acting, Representing, Ruling: A Conversation with My Critics on Social Reproduction and the Logic of Social Inquiry - Friedrich Kratochwil

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Book SynopsisThis collection brings together leading figures in the study of International Relations to explore praxis as a perspective on international politics and law. With its focus on competent judgements, the praxis approach holds the promise to overcome the divide between knowing and acting that marks positivist International Relations theory. Building on the transdisciplinary work of Friedrich Kratochwil – and with a concluding chapter from him – this book reveals the scope, limits and blind spots of praxis theorizing. For anyone involved in international politics, this is an important contribution to the reconciliation of theory and practice and an inspiration for future research. EPDFs of Chapters 1, 4, 9, 13, 15 and 16 are available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Praxis as a Perspective on International Politics - Gunther Hellmann and Jens Steffek Part 1: Theorizing Praxis 2. Knowing, Remembering, Showing But Still Not Seeing: Critical Praxis, Slavery and the Modern ‘We’ - K.M. Fierke 3. Friedrich Kratochwil: Prophet of Doubt? - Cecelia Lynch 4. Styles of Theorizing International Practice - Christian Bueger 5. Practising Theorizing in Theorizing Praxis: Friedrich Kratochwil and Social Inquiry - Gunther Hellmann Part 2: Praxis and the Law 6. If Not Rome or The Hague, Where? Reflections on Sanctioning and Punishing - Chris Brown 7. Practical Constitutionalism - Anthony F. Lang, Jr. 8. Rules, Institutions and Decisions: Taking Distribution Seriously - Jan Klabbers Part 3: Biology, Contingency and History 9. I Think, Therefore IR? Psychology, Biology and the Notion of Praxis - James W. Davis 10. Practice, Intersubjectivity and the Problem of Contingency - Oliver Kessler 11. The Praxis of Change and Theory - Mathias Albert 12. Thinking on Time: How Scholarly Praxis Can Sustain, Subvert and Transform Social Reality - Jörg Friedrichs Part 4: Theorizing as Intervention 13. Practising Academic Intervention: An Agonistic Reading of Praxis - Antje Wiener 14. Between Science and Politics: Friedrich Kratochwil’s Praxis of ‘Going On’ - Patrick Thaddeus Jackson 15 Praxis, Humanism and the Quest for Wholeness - Jens Steffek Part 5: Conversing with Critics 16. Acting, Representing, Ruling: A Conversation with My Critics on Social Reproduction and the Logic of Social Inquiry - Friedrich Kratochwil

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Book SynopsisTensions between the US and China have escalated as both powers seek to draw countries into their respective political and economic orbits by financing and constructing infrastructure. Wide-ranging and even-handed, this book offers a fresh interpretation of the territorial logic of US–China rivalry, and explores what it means for countries across Eurasia, Africa, and Latin America. The chapters demonstrate that many countries navigate the global infrastructure boom by articulating novel spatial objectives and implementing political and economic reforms. By focusing on people and places worldwide, this book broadens perspectives on the US–China rivalry beyond bipolarity. It is an essential guide to 21st century politics.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Geopolitics, Infrastructure, and the Emergent Geographies of US–China Competition - Jessica DiCarlo and Seth Schindler Part I: Grounding Infrastructural Rivalry 2. Mediating the Infrastructure State: The Role of Local Bureaucrats in East Africa’s Infrastructure Scramble - Charis Enns, Brock Bersaglio, and Masalu Luhula 3. Roads, Debt, and Kyrgyzstan’s Quest for Geopolitical Kinship - Rune Steenberg, Ulan Shamshiev, and Farzana Abdilashimova 4. Chinese Investment Meets Zambian Policy: The Planning and Design of Multifacility Economic Zones in Lusaka - Dorothy Tang 5. Infrastructure as Symbolic Geopolitical Architecture: Kenya’s Megaprojects and Contested Meanings of Development - Wangui Kimari and Gediminas Lesutis Interlude: The Emergence of a Sino-Centric Transnational Capitalist Class? - Steve Rolf Part II: Infrastructural Governance and State Restructuring 6. Contradictory Infrastructures and Military (D)Alliance: Philippine Elite Coalitions and Their Response to US–China Competition - Alvin Camba, Jerik Cruz, and Guanie Lim 7. Infrastructure-Led Development with Post-Neoliberal Characteristics: Buen Vivir, China, and Extractivism in Ecuador - Nicholas Jepson 8. Centralizing Infrastructure in a Fragmenting Polity: China and Ethiopia’s ‘Infrastructure State’ - Zhengli Huang and Tom Goodfellow 9. Radioactive Strategies: Geopolitical Rivalries, African Agency, and the Longue Durée of Nuclear Infrastructures in Namibia - Meredith J. DeBoom 10. Argentina and the Spatial Politics of Extractive Infrastructures under US–China Tensions - Marcelo I. Saguier and Maximiliano F. Vila Seoane 11. Turkey Between Two Worlds: EU Accession and the Middle Corridor to Central Asia - Mustafa Kemal Bayırbağ and Seth Schindler 12. Multipolar Infrastructures and Mosaic Geopolitics in Laos - Jessica DiCarlo and Micah Ingalls Interlude: Locating Host-Country Agency and Hedging in Infrastructure Cooperation - Cheng-Chwee Kuik Part III: Geopolitics and State Spatial Strategies 13. Himalayan Geopolitical Competition and the Agency of the Infrastructure State in Nepal - Dinesh Paudel and Katharine Rankin 14. Indonesia’s ‘Beauty Contest’: China, Japan, the US, and Jakarta’s Spatial Objectives - Angela Tritto, Mary Silaban, and Alvin Camba 15. Vietnam’s Spatial and Hedging Strategies in Response to Chinese and Japanese Infrastructural Statecraft - Jessica C. Liao 16. Diversifying Dependencies? Hungary, the EU, and the Multifaceted Geopolitics of Chinese Infrastructure Investments - Ferenc Gyuris 17. 'No One Stole Anyone Else’s Cheese’: The Politics of Infrastructural Competition in Kazakhstan - Jessica Neafie 18. Outer Space Infrastructures - Julie Klinger 19. Conclusion: 21st-Century Third Worldism? - Seth Schindler and Jessica DiCarlo

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Book SynopsisTensions between the US and China have escalated as both powers seek to draw countries into their respective political and economic orbits by financing and constructing infrastructure. Wide-ranging and even-handed, this book offers a fresh interpretation of the territorial logic of US–China rivalry, and explores what it means for countries across Eurasia, Africa, and Latin America. The chapters demonstrate that many countries navigate the global infrastructure boom by articulating novel spatial objectives and implementing political and economic reforms. By focusing on people and places worldwide, this book broadens perspectives on the US–China rivalry beyond bipolarity. It is an essential guide to 21st century politics.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Geopolitics, Infrastructure, and the Emergent Geographies of US–China Competition - Jessica DiCarlo and Seth Schindler Part I: Grounding Infrastructural Rivalry 2. Mediating the Infrastructure State: The Role of Local Bureaucrats in East Africa’s Infrastructure Scramble - Charis Enns, Brock Bersaglio, and Masalu Luhula 3. Roads, Debt, and Kyrgyzstan’s Quest for Geopolitical Kinship - Rune Steenberg, Ulan Shamshiev, and Farzana Abdilashimova 4. Chinese Investment Meets Zambian Policy: The Planning and Design of Multifacility Economic Zones in Lusaka - Dorothy Tang 5. Infrastructure as Symbolic Geopolitical Architecture: Kenya’s Megaprojects and Contested Meanings of Development - Wangui Kimari and Gediminas Lesutis Interlude: The Emergence of a Sino-Centric Transnational Capitalist Class? - Steve Rolf Part II: Infrastructural Governance and State Restructuring 6. Contradictory Infrastructures and Military (D)Alliance: Philippine Elite Coalitions and Their Response to US–China Competition - Alvin Camba, Jerik Cruz, and Guanie Lim 7. Infrastructure-Led Development with Post-Neoliberal Characteristics: Buen Vivir, China, and Extractivism in Ecuador - Nicholas Jepson 8. Centralizing Infrastructure in a Fragmenting Polity: China and Ethiopia’s ‘Infrastructure State’ - Zhengli Huang and Tom Goodfellow 9. Radioactive Strategies: Geopolitical Rivalries, African Agency, and the Longue Durée of Nuclear Infrastructures in Namibia - Meredith J. DeBoom 10. Argentina and the Spatial Politics of Extractive Infrastructures under US–China Tensions - Marcelo I. Saguier and Maximiliano F. Vila Seoane 11. Turkey Between Two Worlds: EU Accession and the Middle Corridor to Central Asia - Mustafa Kemal Bayırbağ and Seth Schindler 12. Multipolar Infrastructures and Mosaic Geopolitics in Laos - Jessica DiCarlo and Micah Ingalls Interlude: Locating Host-Country Agency and Hedging in Infrastructure Cooperation - Cheng-Chwee Kuik Part III: Geopolitics and State Spatial Strategies 13. Himalayan Geopolitical Competition and the Agency of the Infrastructure State in Nepal - Dinesh Paudel and Katharine Rankin 14. Indonesia’s ‘Beauty Contest’: China, Japan, the US, and Jakarta’s Spatial Objectives - Angela Tritto, Mary Silaban, and Alvin Camba 15. Vietnam’s Spatial and Hedging Strategies in Response to Chinese and Japanese Infrastructural Statecraft - Jessica C. Liao 16. Diversifying Dependencies? Hungary, the EU, and the Multifaceted Geopolitics of Chinese Infrastructure Investments - Ferenc Gyuris 17. 'No One Stole Anyone Else’s Cheese’: The Politics of Infrastructural Competition in Kazakhstan - Jessica Neafie 18. Outer Space Infrastructures - Julie Klinger 19. Conclusion: 21st-Century Third Worldism? - Seth Schindler and Jessica DiCarlo

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Book SynopsisThe defeat of Donald Trump in November 2020 followed by the attack on the US Congress on 6th January 2021 represented a tipping point moment in the history of the American republic. Divided at home and facing a world sceptical of American claims to be the ‘indispensable nation’ in world politics, it is clear that the next few years will be decisive ones for the United States. But how did the US, which was riding high only 30 years ago, arrive at this critical point? And will it lead to the fall of what many would claim has been one of the most successful empires of modern times? In this volume, Michael Cox, a leading scholar of American foreign policy, outlines the ways in which five very different American Presidents – Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump and now Biden – have addressed the complex legacies left them by their predecessors while dealing with the longer-term problems of running an empire under increasing stress. In so doing, he sets out a framework for thinking critically about US foreign policy since the end of the Cold War without ever losing sight of the biggest question of all: can America continue to shape world affairs or is it now facing long-term decline?Trade Review“With great power comes great responsibility, but as Michael Cox deftly shows in this persuasive account of US foreign policy since the end of the Cold War, only when a country’s leaders can turn that power into judicious policy. In an era when American power has outstripped national will, Cox’s balanced assessment of the foreign policy missteps, miscalculations, and lapses it has wrought makes for essential reading. Scholars and students alike will benefit from these penetrating essays on what ails the American colossus.” Peter Trubowitz, Phelan US Centre at LSE“Written in an easy, conversational style that would make it an ideal introduction for college students, […] Cox’s study also deserves an audience beyond academia.” Financial Times“An illuminating survey of post-Cold War American foreign policy that will be of great use to students and professors alike.” International AffairsTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Rise of an Empire Part I – Clinton: Liberal Leviathan 1. From Geopolitics to Geo-Economics 2. The Wilsonian Moment? Promoting Democracy 3. Failed Crusade? The United States and Post-Communist Russia Part II – Bush Jnr: Empire in an Age of Terror 4. American Power after the Towers 5. Empire, Imperialism and the Bush Doctrine Part III – Obama: Towards a Post-American World? 6. Navigating the Rapids 7. Stresses across the Atlantic 8. Axis of Opposition: China, Russia and the West Part IV – Trump: Turbulence in the Age of Populism 9. Populism, Trump and the Crisis of Globalization 10. Trump’s World: The Legacy Part V – Biden: Is America Back? 11. After the Deluge or Whither the Empire?

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Book SynopsisTaking a broadly interdisciplinary approach, this book provides a unique angle on the COVID-19 pandemic and its implications for global theory and practice. The book bridges two important debates regarding the relevance of quantum theory to the social sciences, and the pressing need for a more global international relations (IR). It brings the parallels between quantum physics and ancient Asian traditions – Daoism, Buddhism and Hinduism – to an investigation of mind, action and strategy in conditions of radical uncertainty. Engaging with both theory and real-world problems, including climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic and economic and racial inequality, this book explores what it might mean to successfully navigate the potentials of a post-pandemic world.Table of ContentsIntroductions: Repositioning the Apparatus Getting to Know the Apparatus SECTION I: Impermanence 1. Self/No-Self 2. Mind/ No-Mind SECTION II: Complementarity and Yinyang 3. Action/No Action 4. War/No War SECTION III: Entanglement and Karma 5. Navigating a Participatory Universe 6. What Goes Around Comes Around Endings/Beginnings: At Home in the Universe

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Book SynopsisTaking a broadly interdisciplinary approach, this book provides a unique angle on the COVID-19 pandemic and its implications for global theory and practice. The book bridges two important debates regarding the relevance of quantum theory to the social sciences, and the pressing need for a more global international relations (IR). It brings the parallels between quantum physics and ancient Asian traditions – Daoism, Buddhism and Hinduism – to an investigation of mind, action and strategy in conditions of radical uncertainty. Engaging with both theory and real-world problems, including climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic and economic and racial inequality, this book explores what it might mean to successfully navigate the potentials of a post-pandemic world.Table of ContentsIntroductions: Repositioning the Apparatus Getting to Know the Apparatus SECTION I: Impermanence 1. Self/No-Self 2. Mind/ No-Mind SECTION II: Complementarity and Yinyang 3. Action/No Action 4. War/No War SECTION III: Entanglement and Karma 5. Navigating a Participatory Universe 6. What Goes Around Comes Around Endings/Beginnings: At Home in the Universe

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Book SynopsisThe 21st century has been characterized by great turbulence, climate change, a global pandemic, and democratic decay. Drawing on post-structural political theory, this book explores two dominant concepts used to make sense of our disturbed reality: the state and the network. The book explains how they are inextricably interwoven, while showing why they complicate the way we interpret our present. In seeking a better understanding of today’s world, this book argues that we need to pull apart the familiar lines of our maps. By looking beneath and across these lines, an ‘unmapping’ presents new insights and opportunities for a better future.Trade Review"Michelsen and Bolt’s argument casts a new light on our perception of politics and world order through time and space, and the book certainly deserves close attention." Aleksandra Spalińska, University of Warsaw, Poland for International AffairsTable of ContentsChapter 1: Taking the Lines off the Map Chapter 2: A Great Unmapping Chapter 3: Capitalism and Imperialism Chapter 4: Thinking Like a State Chapter 5: Bureaucracy and Power Chapter 6: The Battle Swarm Chapter 7: Information and the State Chapter 8: Romance of Networks Chapter 9: Borders and Impermanence Conclusion

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Book SynopsisCoups d’état continue to present one of the most extreme risks to democracy and stable governance worldwide. This book examines the unique role played by regional organizations (ROs) following the occurrence of a coup d’état. The book analyses the factors that influence the strength of reactions demonstrated by ROs and explores the different post-coup solutions ROs pursue. It argues that, when confronted with a coup, ROs take both basic democratic standards and regional stability into account before forming their responses. Using a mixed-methods approach, the book concludes that ROs’ response to a coup depends on how detrimental it will be for the state of democracy in a country and how far it risks destabilizing the region.Table of Contents1: Introduction 2: Theorizing the Role of ROs After Coups 3: Mapping the Global Pattern of RO Responses to Coups 4: Explaining the Strength of RO Responses to Coups 5: Examining Differential Post-coup Solutions 6: Conclusion

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Book SynopsisBringing together an international team of contributors, this volume draws on international political theory and intellectual history to rethink the problem of a pluralistic world order. Inspired by the work of international political theorist Nicholas Rengger, the book focuses on three main areas of Rengger’s contribution to the political theory of international relations: his Augustine-inspired idea of an ‘Anti-Pelagian Imagination’; his Oakeshottian argument for a pluralist ‘conversation of mankind’; and his ruminations on war as the uncivil condition in world politics. Through a critical engagement with his work, the book illuminates the promises and limitations of civility as a sceptical, non-utopian, anti-perfectionist approach to theorizing world order that transcends both realist pessimism and liberal utopianism.Table of Contents1. Rengger’s anti-Pelagianism: international political theory as civil conversation – Vassilios Paipais Part 1: Anti-Pelagianism and the Civil Condition in World Politics 2. Revisiting Rengger’s Anti-Pelagianism – Noel O’Sullivan and Sophia Dingli 3. Poetics and Politics: Rengger, Weber, and the Virtuosi of Religion – John-Harmen Valk 4. ‘Keep your mind in hell, and despair not’: Gillian Rose’s anti-Pelagianism – Kate Schick Part 2: Challenging the Anti-Pelagian Imagination 5. ‘A Dangerous Place to Be’? Nicholas J. Rengger, the English School, and International Disorder – Ian Hall 6. Rengger’s War on Teleocracy – Chris Brown 7. Conservatism, Civility, and the Challenges of International Political Theory – Michael Williams Part 3: The Uncivil Condition in Word Politics 8. Rengger the Reluctant Rule Follower – Anthony Lang Jr. 9. Rengger and the ‘Business of War’ – Caroline Kennedy-Pipe 10. Just War as Tradition in a Civil International Order – Valerie Morkevičius Afterword 11. Rengger, History, and the Future of International Relations – Richard Whatmore

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Book SynopsisHow is peace built at the local level? Covering three Lebanese municipalities with striking sectarian diversity, Saida, Bourj Hammoud and Tyre, this book investigates the ways in which local service delivery, local interactions and vertical relationships matter in building peace. Using the stories and experiences of municipal councillors, employees and civil society actors, it illustrates how local activities and agencies are performed and what it means for local peace in Lebanon. Through its analysis, the book illustrates what the practice of peacebuilding can look like at the local level and the wider lessons - both practical and theoretical - that can be drawn from it.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Theorizing Local Peacebuilding 2. Lebanese Municipalities, Centralized Peacebuilding and Possibilities for Change 3. Service Delivery: Providing for Local Needs 4. Local Interactions: Formal and Informal Everyday Interactions 5. Vertical Relationships: Connecting the Local to the National and Global Conclusion

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Book SynopsisExploring the digital frontiers of feminist international relations, this book investigates how gender can be mainstreamed into discourse about technology and security. With a focus on big data, communications technology, social media, cryptocurrency and decentralized finance, the book explores the ways in which technology presents sites for gender-based violence. Crucially, it examines potential avenues for resistance at these sites, especially regarding the actions of major tech companies, surveillance by repressive governments and attempts to use the Global South as a laboratory for new interventions. The book draws valuable insights that will be essential to researchers in international relations, security studies and feminist security studies.Trade Review"Henshaw’s Digital Frontiers in Gender and Security offers a comprehensive analysis of the role of digital technologies in promoting gender security, while also providing a nuanced exploration of the potential benefits and challenges of digital technologies in the context of gender-based violence." International AffairsTable of Contents1. Introduction Part 1: Conceptualizing Inequality and Insecurity in the Digital Age 2. Big Data and the Security of Women: Where We Are and Where We Could Be Going 3. Addressing the Digital Gender Gap Part 2: Social Media, Surveillance, and Gender-Based Violence Online 4. Extremism and Gender-Based Violence Online 5. Technological Surveillance, States, and Gendered Insecurity Part 3: Futures of Technology, Gender, and Security 6. Resistance, Resilience, and Innovation 7. Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance, and Blockchain: Gender Issues in Political Economy and Security 8. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book unpacks the political economy of China’s COVID-19 vaccine supplies to the Global South. Examining the political and economic forces at play, the book demonstrates how China’s vaccine provisions have been determined by a complex set of commercial interests, domestic politics and geopolitical relationships. The book sheds light on how domestic interests shape China’s role in global governance and its international economic engagement. Its analysis contributes to broader academic debates on the politics and economics of crises, as well as offering new insights on how pre-existing political and market forces shape aid and trade in the context of crisis.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Contextualizing China’s Position in Global Health 3. ‘Vaccine Diplomacy’ 4. Market Forces and Commercial Chinese Vaccine Sales 5. Conclusion: Between Politics and Business

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Book SynopsisChina’s vision for international order is a matter of great global interest. This book analyses China’s vision for foreign policy and how it is seeking to achieve its goals with its immediate neighbours. The book provides a historically informed account by examining the legacy of China’s imperial past and traditional political philosophy, giving insights into the country’s view of its place in today’s world. It argues that China today sees the maintenance of order as its own responsibility and that it believes this order needs to attribute different roles to ‘small’ and ‘big’ states to ensure stability. Furthermore, it explores the different tools China employs to achieve its vision, including a proactive diplomacy, the control of international discourse, threat of punishment for ‘misbehaviour’, and the promise of economic benefits in return for compliance.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Aspects of Asia as an International System 2. The Ideal of Hierarchical Order 3. Statecraft in the Long Imperial Era 4. China’s Forced Entry into International Society and the Transformation of the Ideal of Hierarchical Order 5. The Pursuit of a Hierarchical Order in the People’s Republic of China 6. Moral Discourse and Ritual in Contemporary Chinese Diplomacy 7. Traditional Tools of Rulership in the Modern World Conclusion

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Book SynopsisWhy do international actors, including powerful states, often fail to develop clear foreign policies and instead adopt indecisive, ‘muddling-through’ approaches? This book develops a concept and a theory of reluctance in world politics. Applying it to the study of regional crisis management by leading powers, it finds that reluctance emerges when governments fail to devise clear foreign policy preferences and face competing international pressures. The study of reluctance in world politics sheds new light on some of the most pressing problems of our time, from weak crisis management to cooperation deficits in global governance.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Conceptualizing Reluctance 3. Theorizing Reluctance in World Politics 4. India’s Reluctant Crisis Management in South Asia 5. Germany’s Mixed Approach: Not Always a Reluctant Hegemon 6. Brazil’s Non-Reluctant Approach to Regional Crisis Management 7. Explaining Reluctance in Other Contexts 8. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThough children have never been absent from international studies discourse, they are too often reduced to a few simplistic and unidimensional framings. This book seeks to recover children’s agency and to recognize the complex variety of childhoods and the global issues that affect them. Written by an international list of contributors from Europe, Africa, North America, and Australasia, chapters present highly nuanced accounts of children and childhoods across global political time and space split into three broad sections: imagined childhoods, governed childhoods, and lived childhoods. Through its analysis, the book demonstrates how international relations is, somewhat paradoxically, quite deeply invested in a particular rendering of childhood as, primarily, a time of innocence, vulnerability, and incapacity.Trade Review"Extending and enriching our understanding of how children and childhoods are always already imbricated in the practices of global politics, the various essays in this impressive and diverse volume demonstrate the significance of children as subjects of political discourse and intervention, and agents of political change. The collection is both coherent and wide-ranging, articulating clearly not only why children and childhoods matter in global politics but also how these political actors and processes can be – indeed, are – pivotal to the constitution of global-local connections and to the reproduction of, or resistance to, existing structures of power." Laura J. Shepherd, The University of Sydney“This groundbreaking volume demonstrates in brilliant and wide-ranging detail why studies of children and childhoods are not just peripheral but essential for understanding the realities and possibilities of global politics.” John Wall, Rutgers UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Children and Childhoods in Global Political Perspective - J. Marshall Beier and Helen Berents Part 1: Imagined Childhoods 1. ‘Anchor Babies’ and ‘Imposter Children’: Childhoods’ Representations in Global Migration Politics - Patrícia Nabuco Martuscelli 2. Creating Inclusive Reconciliation and Reporting Spaces with Children: Valuing Their Stories - Caitlin Mollica 3. Stories about Children Born of Violence: Counternarratives in the Peruvian Truth Commission’s Archive and Popular Culture - Ana Lucia Alonso Soriano 4. (Un)Recognition of Child Soldiers’ Agency in UN Peacekeeping Practice - Dustin Johnson Part 2: Governed Childhoods 5. Contested Children’s and Young People’s Political Representation in Global Health - Anna Holzscheiter and Laura Pantzerhielm 6. The Representative Breakthrough? Children and Youth Representation in the Global Governance of Migration - Jonathan Josefsson 7. The Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict: A Normative Agenda and Children’s Agency in Armed Conflict - Vanessa Bramwell 8. In/visible Subjects: Global Migration Management and the Integration of Refugee Children into Schools in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Alebachew K. Haybano and Jennifer Riggan 9. Alone and on the Move: Unaccompanied Children in UK Parliamentary Debates 2015–2016 - Lesley Pruitt and Antje Missbach 10. Pathologies of Child Governance: Safe Harbor Laws and Children Involved in the Sex Trade in the United States - Robyn Linde Part 3: Lived Childhoods 11. Childhood, Playing War, and Militarism: Beyond Discourses of Domination/ Resistance and Towards an Ethics of Encounter - Sean Carter and Tara Woodyer 12. Troubling Girl Power Environmentalism: Indigenous Girls, Climate Change Activism, and a Relational Ethic of Responsibility - Lindsay Robinson 13. Children’s Intifada: Children as Participants in a Violent Conflict - Timea Spitka 14. Children’s Agency and Co-construction of Everyday Militarism(s): Representations and Realities of War in Ukrainian Children’s Art, 2014–2022 - Kristina Hook and Iuliia Hoban 15. Centring the Demand for Critical Climate Justice Education - Bennett Collins and Ali Watson

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Book SynopsisWithin international relations scholarship, the nature of international organizations and their relationship with each other and nation-states has been widely contested. This edited volume brings together a team of experts to shed new light on inter-organizational relations in world politics. The book covers areas from the rule of law and international security to business and sport. Through its analysis, it demonstrates that, just as inter-organizational relations themselves are diverse and complex, research on this topic should also be pluralistic in order to draw new and valuable results and insights.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Examining Inter-Organizational Relations – Ulrich Franke and Martin Koch 2. Hybrid Anti-Impunity Commissions and the Rule of Law – Theresa Reinold 3. Inter-Organizational Relations in Counter-Terrorism – Eva Herschinger and Martin Koch 4. Changing Models of Peacekeeping and the Downsizing of Human Rights Norms – Anna Geis and Louise Wiuff Moe 5. Political Cleavages and the Competition Over Epistemic Authority – Thomas Müller 6. Individual Linking Pins and the Life Cycle of Inter-Organizational Cooperation – Jutta Joachim and Andrea Schneiker 7. The UN Global Compact As Inter-Organizational Relations – Matthias Hofferberth 8. World Sports and Russia’s War Against Ukraine – Ulrich Franke and Martin Koch 9. Conclusion: A Pragmatist View of Inter-Organizational Relations and World Order – Ulrich Franke

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Book SynopsisBased on the findings of a major research project, this book investigates how European societies confront their troubled pasts today. In particular, the text explores what kinds of measures can be taken and which strategies endorsed to facilitate the process of overcoming difficult historic legacies in seven European states: Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Cyprus and Poland. The book is written by an international team of experts and examines strategies and actions in both policy making and civil society of European countries, as well as throughout the EU as a collective.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Methodology: From Research Results to Recommendations Part I: Non-EU Member States 3. Bosnia and Herzegovina: from Coexistence to Unresolvable Past? 4. Kosovo: Troubled Past and Its Path to Moving On Part II: EU Member States 5. Germany: The Wall is Dead, Long Live the Wall!? 6. Ireland Beyond Ethnopolitics: Recommendations for all Island Integration 7. Spain: How to Overcome the Polarization about the Conflicts of the Past? 8. Cyprus: The EU's Role in Europe's Last Divided Country 9. Poland: Strategies for Challenging the Growing Dominance of Right-wing Memory Politics 10. The European Union 11. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisWritten by leading historians of the mid–nineteenth century United States, this book focuses on the continental dimensions of the U.S. Civil War. It joins a growing body of scholarship that seeks to understand the place of America’s mid-nineteenth-century crisis in the broader sweep of world history. However, unlike other studies that have pursued the Civil War’s connections with Europe and the Caribbean, this volume focuses on North America, particularly Mexico, British Canada, and sovereign indigenous states in the West. As the United States went through its Civil War and Reconstruction, Mexico endured its own civil war and then waged a four-year campaign to expel a French-imposed monarch. Meanwhile, Britain’s North American colonies were in complex and contested negotiations that culminated in confederation in 1867. In the West, indigenous nations faced an onslaught of settlers and soldiers seeking to conquer their lands for the United States. Yet despite this synchronicity, mainstream histories of the Civil War mostly ignore its connections to the political upheaval occurring elsewhere in North America. By reading North America into the history of the Civil War, this volume shows how battles over sovereignty in neighboring states became enmeshed with the fratricidal conflict in the United States. Its contributors explore these entangled histories in studies ranging from African Americans fleeing U.S. slavery by emigrating to Mexico to Confederate privateers finding allies in Halifax, Nova Scotia. This continental perspective highlights the uncertainty of the period when the fate of old nations and possibilities for new ones were truly up for grabs.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The United States Civil War Era and Sovereignty on the North American Continent Brian Schoen and Frank Towers | 1 1 Fugitive Slaves, Free Soil, and the Contest over Sovereignty in the U.S.–Mexico Borderlands, 1821–1867 Alice L. Baumgartner | 19 2 Inveterate Imperialists: Contested Imperialisms, North American History, and the Coming of the U.S. Civil War John Craig Hammond | 36 3 Walker to Riel: State Consolidation on the Margins of Empire Amy S. Greenberg | 65 4 Reform Wars, Royal Visits, and U.S. Views of Popular Sovereignty in 1860 Brian Schoen | 85 5 “The Pirates and Their Abettors in This Province”: Sovereignty, Violence, and Confederate Operations in Britain’s Atlantic Colonies, 1863–1865 Beau Cleland | 119 6 “A Long-Cherished Plan”: Detroit and the U.S. Annexation of Canada during the Nineteenth Century John W. Quist | 152 7 From Memphis to Mexico: The U.S. Army’s Assertion of Sovereignty during Reconstruction Andrew L. Slap | 174 8 “Hold the Fort”: Securing the Soldiers’ State in Nineteenth-Century America Susan-Mary Grant | 189 Conclusion: Law and Order in Nineteenth-Century North America Brian Schoen and Frank Towers | 221 Acknowledgments | 229 List of Contributors | 231 Index | 233

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Book SynopsisWritten by leading historians of the mid–nineteenth century United States, this book focuses on the continental dimensions of the U.S. Civil War. It joins a growing body of scholarship that seeks to understand the place of America’s mid-nineteenth-century crisis in the broader sweep of world history. However, unlike other studies that have pursued the Civil War’s connections with Europe and the Caribbean, this volume focuses on North America, particularly Mexico, British Canada, and sovereign indigenous states in the West. As the United States went through its Civil War and Reconstruction, Mexico endured its own civil war and then waged a four-year campaign to expel a French-imposed monarch. Meanwhile, Britain’s North American colonies were in complex and contested negotiations that culminated in confederation in 1867. In the West, indigenous nations faced an onslaught of settlers and soldiers seeking to conquer their lands for the United States. Yet despite this synchronicity, mainstream histories of the Civil War mostly ignore its connections to the political upheaval occurring elsewhere in North America. By reading North America into the history of the Civil War, this volume shows how battles over sovereignty in neighboring states became enmeshed with the fratricidal conflict in the United States. Its contributors explore these entangled histories in studies ranging from African Americans fleeing U.S. slavery by emigrating to Mexico to Confederate privateers finding allies in Halifax, Nova Scotia. This continental perspective highlights the uncertainty of the period when the fate of old nations and possibilities for new ones were truly up for grabs.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The United States Civil War Era and Sovereignty on the North American Continent Brian Schoen and Frank Towers | 1 1 Fugitive Slaves, Free Soil, and the Contest over Sovereignty in the U.S.–Mexico Borderlands, 1821–1867 Alice L. Baumgartner | 19 2 Inveterate Imperialists: Contested Imperialisms, North American History, and the Coming of the U.S. Civil War John Craig Hammond | 36 3 Walker to Riel: State Consolidation on the Margins of Empire Amy S. Greenberg | 65 4 Reform Wars, Royal Visits, and U.S. Views of Popular Sovereignty in 1860 Brian Schoen | 85 5 “The Pirates and Their Abettors in This Province”: Sovereignty, Violence, and Confederate Operations in Britain’s Atlantic Colonies, 1863–1865 Beau Cleland | 119 6 “A Long-Cherished Plan”: Detroit and the U.S. Annexation of Canada during the Nineteenth Century John W. Quist | 152 7 From Memphis to Mexico: The U.S. Army’s Assertion of Sovereignty during Reconstruction Andrew L. Slap | 174 8 “Hold the Fort”: Securing the Soldiers’ State in Nineteenth-Century America Susan-Mary Grant | 189 Conclusion: Law and Order in Nineteenth-Century North America Brian Schoen and Frank Towers | 221 Acknowledgments | 229 List of Contributors | 231 Index | 233

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Book SynopsisThe Moralist International analyzes the role of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian state in the global culture wars over gender and reproductive rights and religious freedom. It shows how the Russian Orthodox Church in the past thirty years first acquired knowledge about the dynamics, issues, and strategies of Right- Wing Christian groups; how the Moscow Patriarchate has shaped its traditionalist agenda accordingly; and how the close alliance between church and state has turned Russia into a norm entrepreneur for international moral conservativism. Including detailed case studies of the World Congress of Families, anti-abortion activism, and the global homeschooling movement, the book identifies the key factors, causes, and actors of this process. Kristina Stoeckl and Dmitry Uzlaner then develop the concept of conservative aggiornamento to describe Russian traditionalism as the result of conservative religious modernization and the globalization of Christian social conservatism. The Moralist International continues a line of research on the globalization of the culture wars that challenges the widespread perception that it is only progressive actors who use the international human rights regime to achieve their goals by demonstrating that conservative actors do the same. The book offers a new, original perspective that firmly embeds the conservative turn of post-Soviet Russia in the transnational dynamics of the global culture wars. The Moralist International is available from the publisher on an open-access basis.Table of ContentsPreface | vii Introduction | 1 PART I: LEARNING THE CULTURE WARS 1 Religion: Conservative Aggiornamento and the Globalization of the Culture Wars | 17 2 History: The Sources of Russia’s Traditional-Values Conservatism | 29 3 Intellectual Roots: The Shared Legacy of Pitirim Sorokin | 50 4 Context: The Rise of Traditional-Values Conservatism inside Russia | 66 PART II: DOING THE CULTURE WARS 5 Ambitions: The Russian Orthodox Church and Its Transnational Conservative Alliances | 87 6 Networks: Civil Society and the Rise of the Russian Christian Right | 103 7 Strategies: The Russian Orthodox Anti-Abortion Discourse in a Transnational Context | 126 8 Leadership: Russian Traditional-Values Conservatism and State Diplomacy | 136 Epilogue | 153 Acknowledgments | 157 Bibliography | 159 Index | 193

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Book SynopsisWalther Leisler Kiep is one of the most independent and influential German post-war politicians. He is also a successful entrepreneur and longtime chairman of Atlantik-Brücke, the influential German-American friendship organization, which he now serves as honorary chairman. In his autobiography, Kiep speaks frankly about a life at the center of power: as an independent politician and treasurer of the governing CDU party from 1970 to 1991, who did not shrink from conflict with party leaders Helmut Kohl and Franz Josef Strauss; as Minister of Finance in Lower Saxony; as a longtime member of the Volkswagen Supervisory board for 21 years; and as an ambassador for German-American relations, and confidant of several US presidents. As well as presenting an inside history of the relationship between Germany and the United States, the book sheds particular light on the struggle for German unification and that country's complex relationship with the Middle East.Trade Review”Kiep is an entertaining storyteller, and he shows a good sense of narrative pace. His memoirs are also of immediate relevance for scholars of international history. Over the past decade, historians have been eager to uncover the activities of ‘transnational,’ non governmental actors, as opposed to formal government-to-government relations. From this standpoint, Kiep’s wide-ranging activities as a diplomatic and financial trouble shooter are illuminating,” William Glenn Gray, Purdue University.

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Book SynopsisDissatisfied with traditional diplomatic and military interpretations, historians have been investigating the role that political culture played in shaping global conflicts. This text illuminates the political and cultural assumptions underlying US policies from World War II to the mid-1960s.

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Book SynopsisShows that the work of Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835) forms a philosophy of dialogue and communication that is crucially relevant to contemporary debates in the Humanities. Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835) is the progenitor of modern linguistics and the originator of the modern teaching and research university. However, his work has received remarkably little attention in the English-speaking world. Humboldt conceives language as the source of cognition as well as communication, both rooted in the possibility of human dialogue. In the same way, his idea of the university posits the free encounter between radically different personalities as the source of education for freedom. For Humboldt, both linguistic and intellectual communication are predicated firstly on dialogue between persons, which is the prerequisite for all intercultural understanding. Linking Humboldt's concept of dialogue to his idea of translation between languages, persons, and cultures, this book shows how Humboldt's thought is of great contemporary relevance. Humboldt shows a way beyond the false alternatives of "culturalism" (the demand that a plurality of cultural and faith-based traditions be recognized as sources of ethical and political legitimacy in the modern world) and "universalism" (the assertion of the primacy of a universal culture of human rights and the renewal of the European Enlightenment project). John Walker explains how Humboldt's work emerges from the intellectual conflicts of his time and yet directly addresses the concerns of our own post-secular and multicultural age.Trade ReviewThis book is not only an important contribution to the Anglo-American scholarship on Wilhelm von Humboldt. It also constitutes an inspiring enrichment of a multitude of contemporary debates of high social and political relevance and thus demonstrates the prime importance of Humanities research for our time. -- Professor Dr Marko Pajevic, College of Foreign Languages and Cultures, University of TartuTable of ContentsPreface A Note on Texts List of Abbreviations Introduction 1: Humboldt and the Dialectic of Enlightenment: Language, Culture, and Freedom 2: Language, Dialogue, and Translation: The Human Relevance of the Comparative Study of Language 3: Language Interaction and Language Change: Humboldt on the Kawi Language of Java 4: Humboldt, "Orientalism," and Understanding the Other 5: Humboldt, Translation, and Dialogue between Faiths: Emmanuel Levinas, Stanley Hauerwas, and Shahab Ahmed 6: Scriptural Reasoning: Dialogue and Translation in Practice 7: Secularity and Communities of Faith in the Public Sphere 8: Wilhelm von Humboldt: Translation, Dialogue, and the Modern University Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAs the literature on military-media relations grows, it is informed by antagonism either from journalists who report on wars or from ex-soldiers in their memoirs. Academics who attempt more judicious accounts rarely have any professional military or media experience.

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Book SynopsisThis concise historical narrative by a prize-winning Cold War historian covers the entire Cold War period from the Yalta conference of 1945 to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The book analyzes the Cold War as the primary event and framework that dominated American thought and action for half a century.Trade Review"This concise historical narrative by a prize-winning Cold War historian covers the entire Cold War period from the Yalta Conference of 1945 to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. For the student or scholar of American foreign relations, as well as general readers, this book is an excellent introductory overview of a crucially important period in American history." History Online "Fraser Harbutt covers an immense amount of ground in relatively few pages. This is an excellent overview of the Cold War era, providing a balance between the history of the period and the historiographical debates. Harbutt's account is judicious and fair-minded, though he certainly has a point of view and is not afraid to express it." Richard Polenberg, Cornell University "Fraser Harbutt's latest book is important and distinctive because it treats the Cold War era as more than diplomatic history. It reveals a mastery of the historical literature, and is a fine read that provides an evenhanded survey of a complex and critical period in American history." Alonzo L. Hamby, University of Ohio "This in an interesting account and its incorporation of fine summariesof the views of many historians and social thinkers adds to its appeal" Victor Rosenburg, Cleveland, OhioTable of ContentsPreface. 1. Harry S. Truman and the Creation of a Postwar Order. 2. The Cold War Breaks Loose, 1949-54. 3. The Eisenhower Fifties: Consolidation and Confrontation. 4. The 1960s: The Triumph and Tragedy of American Liberalism. 5. America at Bay: The Enigmatic 1970s. 6. Ronald Reagan and the End of the Cold War Era. Notes. Selective Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis concise historical narrative by a prize-winning Cold War historian covers the entire Cold War period from the Yalta conference of 1945 to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The book analyzes the Cold War as the primary event and framework that dominated American thought and action for half a century.Trade Review"This concise historical narrative by a prize-winning Cold War historian covers the entire Cold War period from the Yalta Conference of 1945 to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. For the student or scholar of American foreign relations, as well as general readers, this book is an excellent introductory overview of a crucially important period in American history." History Online "Fraser Harbutt covers an immense amount of ground in relatively few pages. This is an excellent overview of the Cold War era, providing a balance between the history of the period and the historiographical debates. Harbutt's account is judicious and fair-minded, though he certainly has a point of view and is not afraid to express it." Richard Polenberg, Cornell University "Fraser Harbutt's latest book is important and distinctive because it treats the Cold War era as more than diplomatic history. It reveals a mastery of the historical literature, and is a fine read that provides an evenhanded survey of a complex and critical period in American history." Alonzo L. Hamby, University of Ohio "This in an interesting account and its incorporation of fine summariesof the views of many historians and social thinkers adds to its appeal" Victor Rosenburg, Cleveland, OhioTable of ContentsPreface. 1. Harry S. Truman and the Creation of a Postwar Order. 2. The Cold War Breaks Loose, 1949-54. 3. The Eisenhower Fifties: Consolidation and Confrontation. 4. The 1960s: The Triumph and Tragedy of American Liberalism. 5. America at Bay: The Enigmatic 1970s. 6. Ronald Reagan and the End of the Cold War Era. Notes. Selective Bibliography. Index.

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