International relations

Presents a shift from the accepted IR standard of theorizing, by analyzing policy decisions made in non-ideal conditions within a broader framework of practical choices.

Aesthetic philosophy and the arts offer an innovative and attractive approach to enhancing international law in support of peace.

Philippe M.

Draws on recently declassified and unpublished sources to provide an original and in-depth analysis of Russian and Soviet Iranian studies.

Applying insights from cutting-edge theories of international cooperation, this study brings new understanding to China''s approach to contemporary global challenges.

Detailed study of the ICC''s practice in prosecuting gender-based crimes, current up to the ICC Statute''s twentieth anniversary in 2018.

Introduces the idea of a flexible approach to the human rights movement that returns to basics in an increasingly diverse and multipolar world.

This book provides a contextual analysis of ASEAN law and its impact on the business and commercial aspect of laws.

Investigates the struggle between governments, parliaments, the people and courts over who participates in EU treaty making.

Examines how contemporary asymmetric conflicts between the United States and their non-state adversaries have become contests over the two norms of casualty-aversion and civilian protection.

Critically examines the human rights activities of the Council of Europe and the European Union at a time of uncertainty and change.

Explores the development of a ''European security culture'' from the Congress of Vienna to the First World War.

This book represents the first comprehensive analysis of NGO participation at international criminal and human rights courts.

This business history elucidates the international history of the interwar period by putting the armaments sector front and center.

Apocalyptic rhetoric creates dangerous politics; three great thinkers show how clear-eyed realism is our best hope.

Explores how foreign policy was used to promote American nationalism by creating external threats in the early republic.

The book brings together cutting-edge scholarship from the United States and Europe to address political and cultural responses to the arms race of the 1980s.

Based on long-term research in northern Chad, this book provides a unique account of mobility, wealth, and aspirations to political autonomy at the heart of the contemporary Sahara.

Explores the contributions of international courts and tribunals in terms of performance by offering a comparative analysis of international courts.

European criminal law faces many challenges in harmonising states'' criminal justice systems.

An analysis of the role of the interplay between formality and informality in shaping the current state of international law.

The book develops the model of institutional constructivism to aid socio-legal research and to account for patterns of socio-legal change.

Advances our understanding of global and international relations through a ground-breaking philosophical analysis of social practices indebted to Oakeshott, Wittgenstein and Hegel.

Examines the entrenchment of Salafism in Lebanese society while also highlighting the movement''s transnational links to the Persian Gulf.

Explores how and why the rise in international courts impacts on domestic politics on both national and international levels.

This study of military routines is vital for understanding why soldiers from Western democracies participating in multinational missions vary in their use of force.

Argues that North American settler colonialism included episodes of genocide of Indigenous peoples as defined by the United Nations Genocide Convention.

What does it mean to be resilient in an international context?

Analyzes how combinations of instruments at different levels of government, or smart mixes, can effectively regulate transboundary environmental harm.

Offers an innovate approach to ethics and security, combining securitization theory and the just war tradition.

The first modern history of the 1975 European referendum, ranging across 1970s Britain to assess why voters said ''Yes to Europe''.

Why are civilian populations targeted in modern wars despite laws and ethical claims insisting on civilian protections?

This book outlines the legal regime underpinning the European Energy Union, which provides secure, sustainable and affordable energy.

An innovative volume of essays contrasting conceptual and contextual approaches to the modern law of treaties.

Analyses European Union governance from the perspective of polycentric theory, aimed at improvements in achieving individual self-governance.

Shows how migration influenced American foreign policy in Cuban-American relations during the Cold War.

This extended treatment of insurgent fragmentation provides an innovative new theory tested through analysis of the Horn of Africa''s civil wars.

Soldiers rebel when leaders attempt to build or dismantle ethnic armies, posing a deep challenge to contemporary democratization efforts.

Examines the changing meanings Americans invested in their country''s intensifying relationship with Israel from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Explains why the EU interacts and intervenes beyond its borders, using case studies to present a theory of practice-driven action.

Explores which laws and actors govern the negotiation, interpretation and implementation of peace agreements to settle intra-state conflicts.

Peoples'' Tribunals and International Law is the first book to analyse how civil society tribunals implement and develop international law.

Argues that the Eurasian steppe political tradition has been globally influential, particularly in the socio-political formation of modern Russia and Turkey.

Through a comparative study of Morocco and Tunisia, Feuer proposes a compelling theory accounting for complexities in religion-state relations across the Arab world.

Chronicles the critical role the sciences have played in American foreign relations since World War II.

Offers evidence that opportunity structures created by state weakness can allow NGOs to exert unparalleled influence over local human rights law and practice.

Women and Microfinance in the Global South is a grounded exploration of the intersections of neoliberal ideology and feminism.

Explains why successful international peacebuilding depends on the unorthodox actions of country-based staff, whose deviations from approved procedures make global governance organizations accountable to local realities.

Captures significant transformations in the theory and practice of economic and social rights in constitutional and human rights law.

Looks at the situation of Kurds in Turkey through the lens of multiculturalism, giving us a fresh and new comparative perspective.