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1. Civilization and Empire

   China and Japan's Encounter with European International Society

   By Shogo Suzuki

   Series: New International Relations

   This book critically examines the influence of International Society on East Asia, and how its attempts to introduce ‘civilization’ to ‘barbarous’ polities contributed to conflict between China and Japan. Challenging existing works that have presented the expansion of (European) International...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. War in International Society

   By Lacy Pejcinovic

   Series: New International Relations

   Is war an institution of international society and how is it constituted as such across the evolution of international society? This book is an inquiry into the purpose of war as a social institution, as originally put forward by Hedley Bull. It offers a comprehensive examination of what is...

   Published April 4th 2013 by Routledge
3. Justice, Order and Anarchy

   The International Political Theory of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

   By Alex Prichard

   Series: New International Relations

   This book provides a contextual account of the first anarchist theory of war and peace, and sheds new light on our contemporary understandings of anarchy in International Relations. Although anarchy is arguably the core concept of the discipline of international relations, scholarship has largely...

   Published April 1st 2013 by Routledge
4. Power, Realism and Constructivism

   By Stefano Guzzini

   Series: New International Relations

   Framed by a new and substantial introductory chapter, this book collects Stefano Guzzini’s reference articles and some less well-known publications on power, realism and constructivism. By analysing theories and their assumptions, but also theorists following their intellectual paths, his...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
5. Bourdieu in International Relations

   Rethinking Key Concepts in IR

   Edited by Rebecca Adler-Nissen

   Series: New International Relations

   This book rethinks the key concepts of International Relations by drawing on the work of Pierre Bourdieu. The last few years have seen a genuine wave of publications promoting sociology in international relations. Scholars have suggested that Bourdieu’s vocabulary can be applied to study security,...

   Published February 18th 2013 by Routledge
6. European Integration and Postcolonial Sovereignty Games

   The EU Overseas Countries and Territories

   Edited by Rebecca Adler-Nissen, Ulrik Gad

   Series: New International Relations

   This book examines how sovereignty works in the context of European integration and postcolonialism. Focusing on a group of micro-polities associated with the European Union, it offers a new understanding of international relations in the context of modern sovereignty. This book offers a...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
7. Maritime Piracy and the Construction of Global Governance

   Edited by Michael J. Struett, Jon D. Carlson, Mark T. Nance

   Series: New International Relations

   Piratical attacks have become more frequent, violent, costly and increasingly threaten to undermine order in the international system. Much attention has focused on Somalia, but piracy is a problem worldwide. Recent coordination efforts among states in South East Asia appear to have helped in the...

   Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge
8. Making Sense, Making Worlds

   Constructivism in Social Theory and International Relations

   By Nicholas Onuf

   Series: New International Relations

   Nicholas Onuf is a leading scholar in international relations and introduced constructivism to international relations, coining the term constructivism in his book World of Our Making (1989). He was featured as one of twelve scholars featured in Iver B. Neumann and Ole Wæver, eds., The Future of...

   Published September 17th 2012 by Routledge
9. China in UN Security Council Decision-Making on Iraq

   Conflicting Understandings, Competing Preferences

   By Suzanne Xiao Yang

   Series: New International Relations

   With the rupture of the UN Security Council in March 2003 over the US spearheaded intervention in Iraq, the attempts made to subject the use of force to the rule of law had failed. Widespread Europe-US disagreement of the role of the UNSC has hindered more effective decisions for China and its...

   Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Scandinavian International Society

    Primary Institutions and Binding Forces, 1815-2010

    By Laust Schouenborg

    Series: New International Relations

    This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Scandinavia as a regional international society, including the Nordic Peace and the rise of the Scandinavian welfare state. Schouenborg aims to take the next big step in the theoretical development of the English School of International Relations -...

    Published July 17th 2012 by Routledge