Critical Issues in Global Politics

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1. Re-Envisioning Global Development

   A Horizontal Perspective

   By Sandra Halperin

   Series: Critical Issues in Global Politics

   Re-Envisioning Global Development offers an original conceptualisation of capitalist development from its origins to the present day. Most approaches to understanding contemporary development assume that industrial capitalism was achieved through a process of nationally organised economic growth,...

   Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge
2. Governmentality

   Critical Encounters

   By William Walters

   Series: Critical Issues in Global Politics

   First developed by Michel Foucault more than thirty years ago, "governmentality" has become an essential set of tools for many researchers in the social and political sciences today. What is "governmentality"? How does this perspective challenge the way we understand political power and its...

   Published June 6th 2012 by Routledge
3. International Statebuilding

   The Rise of Post-Liberal Governance

   By David Chandler

   Series: Critical Issues in Global Politics

   This concise and accessible new text offers original and insightful analysis of the policy paradigm informing international statebuilding interventions. The book covers the theoretical frameworks and practices of international statebuilding, the debates they have triggered, and the way that...

   Published August 2nd 2010 by Routledge
4. Global Ethics

   Anarchy, Freedom and International Relations

   By Mervyn Frost

   Series: Critical Issues in Global Politics

   This provocative and original book challenges the commonplace that contemporary international interactions are best understood as struggles for power. Eschewing jargon and theoretical abstraction, Mervyn Frost argues that global politics and global civil society must be understood in ethical terms....

   Published September 25th 2008 by Routledge