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1 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

12 POLITICAL THEORY & IDEOLOGIES

20 GENERAL & COMPARATIVE

24 REGIONAL POLITICS
24 EUROPE
27  NORTH AMERICA
34  LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN
38  MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA
41  REST OF AFRICA
43 ASIA
48 AUSTRALASIA

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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS International Relations 1

HIGHLIGHT HIGHLIGHT

AMERICAN FORGING THE
GRAND WORLD
STRATEGY IN THE Strategic Narratives
AGE OF TRUMP and International
Relations

Brookings Institution Press University of Michigan Press

HIGHLIGHT HIGHLIGHT

AFRICA’S INTERNATIONAL SHADOW
RELATIONS COLD WAR
Balancing Domestic and Global Interests The Sino-Soviet
Competition for the
Third World

The New Cold War History

Lynne Rienner Publishers

The University of North Carolina Press

2 International Relations

Academica Press The University of Georgia Press

EXPLAINING WARS OF CHOICE THE DECISION TO
Armed Humanitarian Intervention and ATTACK
Framing Military and
Intelligence Cyber
John M. Callahan Decision-Making
Feb 2018 277pp
9781680530612 Hardback £102.00 / €114.00 Aaron Franklin Brantly
John Callahan answers a series of questions related to Mar 2018 248pp
National Security Decision Making. Using the examples of 9780820353791 Paperback
America’s armed humanitarian interventions, including £27.95 / €31.00
Somalia, Kosovo, and Libya, the work focuses on the Studies in Security and International
processes by which the intervention decisions were Affairs Series
undertaken. The personalities of each administration, the
operation of organizations such as the National Security Investigates how states decide
Council, and the role of outside national and international to employ cyber in military
actors are addressed. and intelligence operations against other states and how
rational those decisions are. In his examination, Brantly
The University of Arizona Press contextualises broader cyber decision-making processes
into a systematic expected utility–rational choice approach
VERNACULAR SOVEREIGNTIES to provide a mathematical understanding of the use of
Indigenous Women Challenging World Politics cyber weapons at the state level.

Manuela Lavinas Picq INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION ON WMD
Apr 2018 232pp, 23 b&w photos, 1 map NONPROLIFERATION
9780816537358 Hardback £56.95 / €63.00
Indigenous women are rarely accounted for in world Edited by Jeffrey W. Knopf
politics. In Vernacular Sovereignties, Manuela Lavinas Picq Mar 2018 352pp
shows that Indigenous women have long been dynamic 9780820353814 Paperback £28.50 / €32.00
political actors who have partaken in international politics Studies in Security and International Affairs Series
and have shaped state practices carrying different forms of
resistance. Explores the emergence of international cooperation
beyond the core global non-proliferation treaties. The
contributors examine why these other cooperative non-
proliferation mechanisms have emerged, assess their
effectiveness, and ask how well the different pieces of the
global non-proliferation regime complex fit together.

Berkshire Publishing Group REGIONAL APPROACHES TO NUCLEAR
NONPROLIFERATION
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE
UNITED STATES Wilfred Wan
From 1492 to 2022, Second Edition Jun 2018 232pp
9780820353302 Hardback £57.50 / €64.00
Edited by Laurien Alexandre et al Studies in Security and International Affairs Series
Jul 2018 600pp, two volume
9781614729488 Hardback £436.00 / €485.00 Makes a case for a reorientation of the nuclear
This unique, nonpartisan survey, written by experts from nonproliferation regime, posing an alternative
around the world, is the second edition of the first general conceptualisation of nuclear order centred on the regional
resource to explore the United States from the viewpoints level. It draws on an array of theoretical tools from the
of the peoples and nations of the world. The second literatures on regionalism, security governance, and
edition combines update material from the three volumes international institutions, developing a framework that
of the first edition, all in one set of three books. analyses the conditions that would allow for more robust
regional nuclear cooperation

International Relations 3

IGI Global GETTING NUCLEAR WEAPONS RIGHTS
Managing Danger & Avoiding Disaster
POLITICAL MEDIATION IN MODERN
CONFLICT RESOLUTION Stephen J. Cimbala
Emerging Research and Opportunities Feb 2018 250pp
9781626377127 Hardback £86.50 / €95.00
José Pascal da Rocha Can we avoid nuclear war? Why are we more at risk today
Feb 2018 205pp than at the end of the Cold War? Can the world powers
9781522551188 Hardback £134.00 / €149.00 work together to ensure international stability? Stephen
Examines the pursuit of peace in global civil war and Cimbala provides a comprehensive assessment of these
conflict through the use of mediation. Featuring complex issues, ranging from the prospects for nuclear
coverage on a broad range of topics, such as intercultural abolition, to the management of nuclear crises, to the
communication, social psychology, and conflict theory, imperative need for nuclear arms control worldwide.
this publication is aimed at academics, students, and
researchers seeking relevant and current research on McFarland
governmental approaches to pursuing peace in instances
of conflict and strife. THE UNITED STATES
AND THE RISE OF
Lynne Rienner Publishers TYRANTS
Diplomatic Relations
HIGHLIGHT with Nationalist
Dictatorships Between
AFRICA’S INTERNATIONAL the World Wars
RELATIONS
Balancing Domestic and Global Interests Lawrence E. Gelfand &
John Day Tully
Beth Elise Whitaker & John F. Clark Jun 2018 174pp
Oct 2018 380pp 9780786476923 Paperback
9781626377370 Paperback £24.95 / €32.00 £46.50 / €52.00
9781626377349 Hardback £69.50 / €77.00 In the 1920s and ‘30s,
For full details of this title, please see page 1. dictatorships, also eager to maintain political order and
create economic growth, looked to American corporations
AFRICAN ACTORS IN INTERNATIONAL for investment to modernise their nation’s infrastructure
SECURITY and economy. In turn, American bankers and investors
Shaping Contemporary Norms invested heavily in these areas. Through an examination
of consular records, this book examines the logistics and
Edited by Katharina P. Coleman & Thomas K. Tieku consequences of this decision.
Apr 2018 310pp
9781626376960 Hardback £83.95 / €93.00 University of Michigan Press
For full details of this title, please see page 47.
HIGHLIGHT
EVOLVING PATTERNS OF PEACEKEEPING
International Cooperation at Work FORGING THE WORLD
Strategic Narratives and International
Hikaru Yamashita Relations
Jan 2018 210pp
9781626376625 Hardback £73.50 / €80.00 Alister Miskimmon, Ben O’Loughlin & Laura Roselle
Though historically the term peacekeeping has essentially Jan 2018 352pp, 7 tables, 6 figures
been shorthand for UN peacekeeping, recent years have 9780472037049 Paperback £41.50 / €46.00
seen a proliferation of actors and initiatives in a shift For full details of this title, please see page 1.
to global peacekeeping cooperation. Hikaru Yamashita
explores the motivations behind this development, what
forms it is taking, and what it means for the international
community.

4 International Relations

TRUST AND HEDGING The University of North Carolina Press
IN INTERNATIONAL
RELATIONS HIGHLIGHT

Kendall Stiles SHADOW COLD WAR
Feb 2018 320pp, 12 tables The Sino-Soviet Competition for the
9780472130702 Hardback Third World
£82.50 / €92.00
Do States trust each other? Jeremy Friedman
What are the political and Aug 2018 304pp
ethical implications of trust? 9781469645520 Paperback £28.95 / €32.00
Drawing from a wide range of The New Cold War History
disciplines, Trust and Hedging in For full details of this title, please see page 1.
International Relations adds to
the emerging literature on trust Rutgers University Press
in international relations by offering a systematic measure of
state-to-state trust. AT WAR
The Military and
Naval Institute Press American Culture in the
Twentieth Century and
DEGLOBALIZATION Beyond
The Fragmenting World
Economy and the Edited by David Kieran &
Impact on International Edwin A. Martini
Security Feb 2018 256pp,
19 colour images,12 b&w photos
T.X. Hammes 9780813584300 Paperback
Apr 2018 320pp, £28.95 / €33.00
6 images, 8 graphs 9780813584317 Hardback
9781682472910 Hardback £78.50 / €88.00
£27.50 / €30.00 War Culture
Advances the argument Offers short, accessible essays addressing the central issues
that the emerging fourth in the new military history - ranging from diplomacy and
industrial revolution is the history of imperialism to the environmental issues that
reversing globalisation. This war raises and the ways that war shapes and is shaped by
book contends that while social, and political factors are discourses of identity, to questions of who serves in the US
contributing to the slowdown in international trade, military and why and how US wars have been represented
the driving factor is profit. The convergence of new in the media and in popular culture.
technologies is changing how and where we create wealth.
Simply, business will make more money by producing and UNDERSTANDING THE AGE OF
selling locally. TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE
Crimes, Courts, Commissions, and Chronicling
GREAT POWERS, GRAND STRATEGIES
The New Game in the South China Sea Edited by Nanci Adler
Jun 2018 250pp, 10 figures, 4 tables
Anders Corr 9780813597768 Paperback £28.95 / €33.00
Jan 2018 336pp, 1 map 9780813597775 Hardback £78.50 / €88.00
9781682472354 Hardback £32.95 / €37.00 Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
Focuses on grand strategic approaches to the South China Analyses the processes, products, and efficacy of a number
Sea dispute by major powers in the region - those capable of transitional justice mechanisms and looks at how
of projecting force to the South China Sea and abroad. genocide, mass political violence, and historical injustices
It explores international dimensions of the South China are being institutionally addressed. Contributors invite
Sea dispute, and how military, diplomatic, and economic readers to speculate on what (else) the transcripts produced
strategies of global actors have both contributed to by these institutions tell us about the past and the present.
solutions and exacerbated conflict.

International Relations 5

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Cognella Academic Publishing
BESTSELLERS
CASE STUDIES IN DOMESTIC AND
Brookings Institution Press INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST
ORGANIZATIONS
THE EAGLE AND THE TRIDENT
U.S.-Ukraine Relations in Turbulent Times Robert Kirkland
2016 76pp
Steven Pifer 9781634879927 Paperback £39.95 / €45.00
2017 366pp Increases understanding of how domestic and
9780815730408 Hardback £24.95 / €28.00 international groups formed and evolved, and they
Provides the first detailed account of US diplomacy toward currently operate. The book can serve as a stand-alone text
independent Ukraine, covering the formative dozen years or a supplemental reader for courses studying terrorism,
following the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of international relations, or current events.
1991. Steven Pifer, who worked on US Ukraine relations
at the State Department and the White House and as CONSTRUCTING INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
ambassador to Ukraine, has written an insider’s narrative of
the ups and downs in the relationship. Christopher M. Brown
2016 382pp
THE FOG OF PEACE 9781516502929 Paperback £99.95 / €105.00
A Memoir of A collection of writings that explores the most
International progressive edge of international relations. Through
Peacekeeping in diverse perspectives and issues, the book gives students
the 21st Century a thorough understanding of how the field is developing
presently. By incorporating the conceptual thinking that
Jean-Marie Guéhenno will frame the next generation of international studies, it
2015 276pp provides students an understanding of the contemporary
9780815726302 Paperback discussions and prepares them for meaningful future
£21.50 / €25.00 engagement in the field.
A firsthand reckoning by Jean-
Marie Guéhenno, the man CONTENDING PERSPECTIVES ON
who led UN peacekeeping NEOLIBERAL GLOBALIZATION
efforts for eight years and
has been at the centre of all Edited by Godfrey T. Vincent & Joe B. Jimmeh
the major crises since the beginning of the 21st century. 2014 256pp
He argues that nothing is more damaging than excessive 9781621317944 Paperback £86.95 / €96.00
ambition followed by precipitous retrenchment. Uses accessible readings to introduce students to the
realities of neoliberal globalization and its impact on the
RUSSIA AND THE NEW WORLD DISORDER lives of people around the world. The material sidesteps
theory to focus on real-world cases that reflect the
Bobo Lo consequences and implications of globalization.
2015 336pp
9780815726098 Paperback £22.50 / €25.00 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS IN THE
The Russian annexation of Crimea was one of the great GLOBAL VILLAGE
strategic shocks of the past twenty-five years. For many Changing Interdependencies
in the West, Moscow’s actions in early 2014 marked the
end of illusions about cooperation, and the return to Edited by Merve Safa Kavakci-Islam
geopolitical and ideological confrontation. Renowned 2014 204pp
scholar Bobo Lo analyses the broader context of the crisis 9781621319825 Paperback £105.00 / €114.00
by examining the interplay between Russian foreign policy Informative and highly relevant to contemporary global
and an increasingly anarchic international environment. politics, the readings in the anthology teach students
about fundamental international relations theories and
explain the implications these theories have for nation-
states, sub-national groups, supranational organizations,
and the people who comprise them.

6 International Relations

INTERNATIONAL STUDIES WORLD POLITICS
Perspectives on a Rapidly Changing World Money, Wealth, and
Global Power
Edited by Greta Uehling
2017 264pp Edited by Aref Naji Hassan
9781516513796 Paperback £86.95 / €96.00 2016 184pp
The selected readings in this book have been carefully 9781631897498 Paperback
chosen to familiarize students with the debates concerning £107.00 / €119.00
globalisation and give them the conceptual tools needed While traditional introductory
to analyse a complex, interdependent world. textbooks in the field of
international relations tend to
THE LOGIC OF WORLD focus on theory and history,
POLITICS IN THE NEW the readings in this book highlight the significant but often
WORLD DIS-ORDER ignored role of money and the pursuit of wealth in shaping
global politics. It offers students a fresh perspective on
M. Kent Bolton international events and politics as they learn to view them
2015 308pp through the lens of economic and financial interests and
9781626616653 Paperback the interplay of overt and covert players.
£99.95 / €112.00
In addition to the traditional WORLD POLITICS AND
theories used in studying THE AMERICAN
world politics, this book QUEST FOR SUPER-
provides students with a new VILLAINS, DEMONS,
conceptual tool to help them make sense of the complex AND BAD GUYS TO
international system that has evolved since the Cold War. DESTROY
It is appropriate for use on courses in world politics and
international relations. Christopher I. Xenakis
2014 616pp
THE U.S., JAPAN, AND ASIA IN 9781621317111 Paperback
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS £107.00 / €119.00
Second Edition Introduces students to basic
concepts in world politics by
Andrew Hanami addressing common misperceptions and their impact
2012 290pp on foreign policy, and it explores forms of bureaucratic
9781609273170 Paperback £38.50 / €42.00 dysfunction in key American agencies. It gives readers the
The United States needs to understand each of the many conceptual tools they need to decide for themselves what
Asian states in detail: while there are similarities, they all they believe about vital and perplexing issues
have situations that are difficult to compare. This book
explores if U.S. policy is improving on the problems found in Lynne Rienner Publishers
a suddenly larger Asia, or in some way compounding them.
THE ARMS DYNAMIC IN
WORLD PERSPECTIVES WORLD POLITICS
An Introduction to Global Political Affairs
Barry Buzan & Eric Herring
Edited by Ginger Silvera 1998 330pp
2013 364pp 9781555875961 Paperback £27.50 / €31.00
9781609274481 Paperback £130.00 / €144.00 What is the relationship between the arms dynamic and
Delivers a comprehensive overview of international world politics? This text considers this question and argues
relations theory, international political economy, that while the arms dynamic does not determine directly
international security, and other global issues. This text what happens in world politics, it does shape in dramatic
seeks to help students understand how countries interact ways the context and possibilities of world politics.
and operate on the global level by examining a variety of
critical issues, including trade, terrorism, and human rights.

International Relations 7

CRITICAL SECURITY STUDIES AND EU SECURITY POLICY
WORLD POLITICS What It Is, How It Works, Why It Matters

Edited by Ken Booth Michael Merlingen
2004 300pp 2011 250pp
9781555878269 Paperback £27.95 / €31.00 9781588267993 Paperback £27.50 / €31.00
Realist assumptions of security studies increasingly have What is the European Union’s security and defence policy
been challenged by an approach that places the human (CSDP)? How does it work? Does it make a difference in
being, rather than the state, at the centre of security international security affairs? How do other global actors
concerns. This book is structured around three concepts - react to Europe’s new assertiveness? And how do theories
security, community, and emancipation - that arguably are of international relations account for the trajectory of EU
central to the future shape of world politics. integration in the high politics of national security? In this
comprehensive survey and analysis, Michael Merlingen
DISARMAMENT, DEMOBILIZATION, AND brings together the key issues, themes, and debates related
REINTEGRATION to the CSDP.
Theory and Practice
GUERRILLA DIPLOMACY
Desmond Molloy Rethinking International Relations
2016 240pp
9781626375680 Paperback £26.95 / €30.00 Daryl Copeland
9781626375673 Hardback £76.50 / €84.00 2009 320pp
Disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) 9781588266552 Paperback £27.95 / €31.00
has been widely advocated for decades as an essential Rethinking issues of security and development, this book
component of post-conflict peacebuilding. But DDR in provides the tools needed to frame and manage issues
practice has generated more questions than answers. ranging from climate change to pandemic disease to
Drawing on his extensive experience in the field, Desmond asymmetrical conflict and weapons of mass destruction.
Molloy considers these questions as he traces the evolution of
DDR theory and practice from the mid-1980s to the present. HUMAN RIGHTS IN
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
THE DYNAMICS OF DIPLOMACY An Introduction

Jean-Robert Leguey-Feilleux Franke Wilmer
2009 450pp 2015 350pp
9781588266057 Paperback £29.95 / €34.00 9781626371491 Paperback £26.95 / €40.00
Offers a look at the evolution, politics, and practice of This comprehensive introduction to the study of
diplomacy. This book reviews the forces of contemporary human rights in international politics blends concrete
change - the dramatic developments in both international developments with theoretical inquiry, illuminating both
politics and the realm of technology that have affected in the process. Franke Wilmer presents the nuts and bolts
the practice of diplomacy - and explores the range of of human rights concepts, actors, and implementation
diplomatic modes. before grappling with issues ranging from war and
genocide to social and economic needs to racial and
religious discrimination.

8 International Relations

INTERNATIONAL LAW IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
WORLD POLITICS From the Cold War to the
An Introduction, Third Edition Globalized World

Shirley V. Scott Andreas Wenger & Doron Zimmermann
2017 350pp 2003 405pp, glossary
9781626376045 Paperback £21.95 / €28.00 9781588260741 Paperback £26.50 / €30.00
Reflecting a dramatically changing global context, the Tracing the evolution of international relations since
third edition introduces the actors, structures, processes, the onset of the Cold War, this volume draws on archival
and issues of international law in a way that makes sense resources to narrate world affairs from 1945 to the present.
to students of political science. The result is a text that Events are addressed chronologically, with attention to
effectively explains the role that international law plays in both their motivations and their significance.
the arena of world politics today.
INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS An Analytical Survey
The Politics & Processes of
Global Governance, Third Edition Michael Sheehan
2005 180pp
Margaret P. Karns, Karen A. Mingst & Kendall W. Stiles 9781588262981 Paperback £18.95 / €25.00
2015 600pp Michael Sheehan provides a survey of the varied positions
9781626371514 Paperback £26.95 / €36.00 that scholars have adopted in interpreting “security”,
The third edition of the award-winning International revealing his own interpretation of security, he makes the
Organizations has been thoroughly revised and case for a post-positivist conception that links human
updated to take into account new developments and emancipation, justice, and peace.
shifting power relations since 2009, as well as the most
current scholarship. As before, the authors provide a INTRODUCING GLOBAL ISSUES
comprehensive, in-depth examination of the full range of Sixth Edition
international organizations.
Edited by Michael T. Snarr & D. Neil Snarr
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 2016 360pp
IN ACTION 9781626375468 Paperback £22.50 / €31.00
A World Politics Simulation How is new technology affecting global security? Are the
2015 Sustainable Development Goals having an impact?
Brock F. Tessman What progress are governments making in dealing with
2006 120pp, map, forms climate change? Is there a viable solution to the Syrian
9781588264640 Paperback £15.95 / €20.00 refugee crisis? How do we reconcile the concepts of
Allows students to relate the concepts and issues at the universal human rights and national sovereignty? These
foundation of global politics to the realities of international are among the difficult questions addressed in this new,
politics. This book provides summaries, analysis, study fully revised edition.
questions, and additional sources of information for each of
the theories and issues encountered during the simulation.

International Relations 9

JAPAN IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS THE POLITICAL LIFE OF MARY KALDOR
The Foreign Policies of an Adaptive State Ideas and Action in International Relations

Edited by Thomas U. Berger, Mike M. Mochizuki & Melinda Rankin
Jitsuo Tsuchiyama 2017 265pp
2007 350pp 9781626375932 Hardback £76.50 / €84.00
9781588264596 Paperback £25.95 / €29.00
Although more than a little controversial, Mary Kaldor’s
How have shifts in both the international environment academic work and ideas have both stimulated and
and domestic politics affected the trajectory of Japanese influenced debate in the Pentagon, the UN, the EU,
foreign policy? This work presents a picture of Japanese NATO, and beyond. How did this come about? And how
foreign policy, emphasizing the ways in which slow, did Kaldor reach the conclusions outlined in her seminal
adaptive changes, informed by pragmatic liberalism, books? Melinda Rankin traces the evolution of Kaldor’s
have served the national interest. work, revealing how her thinking developed.

MAKING SENSE OF INTERNATIONAL THE POLITICS OF
RELATIONS THEORY GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
Second Edition International Organizations in an
Interdependent World, Fifth Edition
Edited by Jennifer Sterling-Folker
2013 482pp Edited by Brian Frederking & Paul F. Diehl
9781588268228 Paperback £22.50 / €28.00 2015 450pp
What does it mean to adopt a realist, or a world systems, 9781626372320 Paperback £21.50 / €28.00
or a green approach to international relations? Does the Covering decision making processes, peace and security
plethora of “isms” have any relevance to the real world affairs, and economic, social, and humanitarian issues, The
of global politics and policymaking? Making Sense of Politics of Global Governance helps students of international
International Relations Theory addresses these questions organisations to understand the major themes, theories,
by illustrating theories in action. and approaches central to the subject. The new selections
in this revised edition reflect an increased emphasis on
THE MANAGEMENT OF UN PEACEKEEPING transnational governance and emerging global norms.
Coordination, Learning, and Leadership in
Peace Operations RESOLVING INTERNATIONAL CONFLICTS
Theory and Practice of Mediation
Edited by Julian Junk et al
2017 435pp Edited by Jacob Bercovitch
9781626375864 Paperback £35.95 / €39.00 1995 290pp
9781626375857 Hardback £86.50 / €95.00 9781555876012 Paperback £25.95 / €29.00
Brings the insights of organisation and public A Leonard Davis Institute Study of International Politics
administration theories to the analysis and enhancement Mediation is one of the most important methods of
of complex peace operations. Focusing on three essential settling conflicts in the post-Cold War world. This text
and interrelated aspects of organisations – coordination, represents the most recent trends in the process and
learning, and leadership – the authors bridge the gap practice of international mediation.
between research on UN peacekeeping and the realities
confronted both in the office and in the field.

10 International Relations

THE RETURN OF WAR GAMES
CULTURE AND US-Russian Relations
IDENTITY IN IR and Nuclear Arms
THEORY Control

Edited by Yosef Lapid & Stephen J. Cimbala
Friedrich Kratochwil 2017 260pp
1996 253pp 9781626376199 Hardback
9781555877279 Paperback £76.50 / €84.00
£26.50 / €30.00 Does it make sense for the US
Critical Perspectives on World to cooperate with Russia to
Politics resolve international security
In an examination of cultural issues? Is it possible for the two
change in the post-Cold War countries to work together to
era, this work addresses a series of questions covering reduce the dangers associated
topics such as the lack of interest in culture and identity in with nuclear weapons? Where does Vladimir Putin fit into
IR theory, and the case for rethinking the contemporary the calculus? Engaging the debate on these issues, Stephen
theoretical reach of the concepts. Cimbala provides context for and policy-relevant analysis
of current US-Russian nuclear relations.
THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL IN THE
21ST CENTURY THE WORLD SINCE 1945
A History of International Relations,
Edited by Sebastian von Einsiedel, David M. Malone & Eighth Edition
Bruno Stagno Ugarte
2015 998pp Wayne C. McWilliams & Harry Piotrowski
9781626372597 Paperback £26.95 / €36.00 2014 620pp
After grappling for two decades with the realities of the 9781626370746 Paperback £21.95 / €30.00
post–Cold War era, the UN Security Council must now New emphasis on the impacts of globaliation, events
meet the challenges of a resurgence of great power rivalry. in the Middle East, and political and economic changes
Reflecting this new environment, this title provides a in East Asia - as well as new information and maps
comprehensive view of the council’s internal dynamics, its throughout - are among the features of this thoroughly
role and relevance in world politics, and its performance in revised edition. The text traces the political, economic, and
addressing today’s major security challenges. ideological patterns that have evolved in the global arena
from the end of World War II to the present, providing
THE U.N. SECURITY the background needed for a solid understanding of
COUNCIL contemporary international relations.
From the Cold War to
the 21st Century University of Michigan Press

Edited by David M. Malone CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN THE TWENTY-
2004 730pp FIRST CENTURY
9781588262400 Paperback Principles, Methods, and Approaches
£36.95 / €41.00
The scope of UN Security Jacob Bercovitch & Richard Jackson
Council decisions has 2009 232pp, 7 tables, 6 figures
enormous implications for 9780472050628 Paperback £34.95 / €39.00
the conduct of foreign policy. In the face of terrorism, intrastate wars, and the multitude
Focusing on the evolution of other threats in the post-Cold War era, the conflict
of the UN Security Council treatment of key issues, the resolution tool kit must include preventive diplomacy,
authors discuss concerns that must be accommodated humanitarian intervention, regional task-sharing, and
in the decision-making process, the challenges of truth commissions. This book examines each one of these
enforcement, and shifting personal and institutional conflict resolution tools and describes how it works.
factors.

International Relations 11

The University of North Carolina Press Syracuse University Press

INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL AND PREPARING FOR PEACE
GLOBAL STUDIES Conflict Transformation Across Cultures
Second Edition
John Paul Lederach
Shawn Smallman & Kimberley Brown 1996
2015 416pp, 7 halftones, 1 figure, 10 maps, 8 tables 9780815627258 Paperback £20.95 / €23.00
9781469621654 Paperback £46.50 / €52.00 Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution
This innovative introduction to international and global Drawing on his experience, Lederach explains the process
studies, updated and revised in a new edition, offers and key variables used in teaching conflict resolution.
instructors in the social sciences and humanities a core Lederach uses anecdotes and pertinent experiences to
textbook for teaching undergraduates in this rapidly demonstrate his resolution techniques. The book will
growing field. Encompassing the latest scholarship in appeal to those involved in resolution activities through
what is a markedly interdisciplinary endeavour, Shawn development, relief, and nongovernmental agencies.
Smallman and Kimberley Brown introduce key concepts,
themes, and issues. United Nations Publications

Pentagon Press CHARTER OF THE UNITED NATIONS
And Statute of the International Court of Justice
WORLD PEACE AND GLOBAL ORDER
Gandhian Perspectives United Nations, Department of Public Information
2015 128pp
Edited by R.P. Mishra, D. Gopal & Sailja Gullapalli 9789211012835 Paperback £4.95 / €6.00
2013 284pp The Charter of the United Nations was signed in 1945 by
9788182747319 Hardback £34.95 / €42.00 51 countries, paving the way for the creation of the UN in
This edited volume is a rich collection of research- October 1945. The Statute of the International Court of
based studies on a variety of themes of relevance to Justice forms part of the Charter. The aim of the Charter is
contemporary international relations by a galaxy of social to save humanity from war; to reaffirm human rights and
scientists, specialists and scholars. the dignity and worth of the human person; to proclaim
the equal rights of men and women and of nations large
and small; and to promote the prosperity of all humankind.

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POLITICAL THEORY & IDEOLOGIES Brookings Institution Press

HIGHLIGHT THE FUTURE OF WORK
Robots, AI, and Automation
THE RISE OF THE
ALT-RIGHT Darrell M. West
Jul 2018 175pp
9780815732938 Hardback £18.50 / €21.00
Looks for ways to handle the transition to a digital economy.
Looking past today’s headlines, political scientist and cultural
observer Darrell M. West argues that society needs to rethink
the concept of jobs, reconfigure the social contract, move
toward a system of lifetime learning, and develop a new
kind of politics that can deal with economic dislocations.

Brookings Institution Press University Press of Florida

HIGHLIGHT WINNING WHILE
LOSING
SACRED Civil Rights, The
INTERESTS Conservative
The United States Movement and the
and the Islamic Presidency from Nixon
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This pioneering collection of
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in the years following the 1960s civil rights movement by
chronicling the ways in which presidential politics both
advanced and constrained the quest for racial equality in
the United States.

The University of North Carolina Press Hoover Institution Press

UNSTABLE MAJORITIES
Polarization, Party Sorting, and
Political Stalemate

Morris P. Fiorina
Jan 2018 264pp
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In a time marked by gridlock and incivility, it seems the
only thing Americans can agree on is this: we’re more
divided today than we’ve ever been in our history. In
Unstable Majorities Morris P. Fiorina surveys American
political history to reveal that, in fact, the American public
is not experiencing a period of unprecedented polarisation.

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IGI Global JUST WAR
RECONSIDERED
HANDBOOK OF RESEARCH ON CIVIC Strategy, Ethics, and
ENGAGEMENT AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN Theory
CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY
James M. Dubik
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Examines the unexplored field of applying social change Battles and Campaigns
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child labour, this publication is geared towards academics, and strategic studies to
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engagement and public welfare. case studies to reveal the inaccuracies and moral bankruptcy
that inform some of the literature on military ethics. Dubik
TECHNOLOGY AND argues that political and military leadership should be
THE NEW held accountable for the planning and execution of war in
GENERATION OF addition to the decision to initiate conflict.
ACTIVE CITIZENS
Emerging Research and RUSSELL KIRK
Opportunities American Conservative

Paolo Beneventi Bradley J. Birzer
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competence framework, multimedia, and social media, conservative movement in
this publication is a resource for professionals, consultants, the 1950s and began a sea
university teachers, practitioners, community organizers, change in Americans’ attitudes
government administrators, citizens, and activists. toward traditionalism. In this
volume, Bradley J. Birzer investigates the life and work of
the man known as the founder of post-war conservatism
in America.

The University Press of Kentucky University Press of Kansas

IMAGINATIVE CONSERVATISM EMPIRE OF THE PEOPLE
The Letters of Russell Kirk Settler Colonialism and the Foundations of
Modern Democratic Thought
Edited by James E. Person Jr.
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precocious young man to a public intellectual. In its focus on the disavowal of Native dispossession in
democratic thought, the book provides a new perspective on
the problematic relationship between race and democracy.

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PRESIDENTS ON THE NEW ASEAN IN
POLITICAL GROUND ASIA PACIFIC &
Leaders in Action and BEYOND
What They Face
Shaun Narine
Bruce Miroff Mar 2018 300pp
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president really have? Theories effectiveness, and even
and arguments abound - the purpose, of ASEAN,
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context in which presidents operate. Borrowing from economic development and explores its impact within
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that presidents must traverse: media, economic interests, layered analysis critically addresses the question of just
political coalitions, the politics of domestic policy, and the how ASEAN is evolving to fit the demands of a new era.
partisan politics of foreign policy.
NONTRADITIONAL SECURITY CHALLENGES
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the complex realities of direct democracy in action. democratic theory have no answers to these questions?

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THE US INSTITUTE OF PEACE HIGHLIGHT
A Critical History
SACRED INTERESTS
Michael D. English The United States and the Islamic World,
May 2018 175pp 1821-1921
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has come to take the shape that it has today. For full details of this title, please see page 12.
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In the wake of Barack Obama’s
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University of Michigan Press NewSouth Publishing

ELECTORAL INCENTIVES IN CONGRESS POPULISM NOW!
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Syracuse University Press POLITICAL THEORY & IDEOLOGIES
BESTSELLERS
THE PARADOX OF
REPRESSION AND Broadview Press
NONVIOLENT
MOVEMENTS HUMAN RIGHTS
Concept and Context
Edited by Lee A. Smithey &
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brings scholars and activists together to address multiple can those supportive of human rights best respond?These
dimensions and significant cases of this phenomenon. and other conceptual issues are discussed in full in the first
part of this book.The second part offers a detailed account
University of Virginia Press of how the human rights idea came to be such a powerful
force in the contemporary world.
CRUCIBLE
The President’s First Year Cognella Academic Publishers

Edited by Michael Nelson, Jeffrey L. Chidester & INFLUENTIAL POLITICAL SYSTEMS AND
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Delivers concise, yet insightful, summaries of the crucial
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and political discourse. limitations of various research strategies are contrasted.

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POLITICAL THEORY AND THE HUMAN DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS
PREDICAMENT Why, Where, How to Respond
An Introduction to Major Political Thinkers
Roland Rich
Edited by Ramona Grey 2017 215pp
2014 562pp 9781626376717 Hardback £33.50 / €37.00
9781621315254 Paperback £79.95 / €88.00 Democracy is in crisis. After the hope engendered by the
Presents the work of important political theorists from Third Wave, democracies around the world are beleaguered
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students to the political and ethical questions theorists Where did they come from? And how can the challenges
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and offers innovative strategies for turning the tide.
VISIONS OF UTOPIA
A Political Theory Anthology EXPLORING INTERNATIONAL
HUMAN RIGHTS
Jasper Sumner III Essential Readings
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Approaches political theory through analysis of the 2007 300pp
modern ideologies that shape our experience of the world 9781588264374 Paperback £27.50 / €31.00
today. The reading selections shed light on the significant Critical Connections: Studies in Peace, Democracy, and Human Rights
utopian elements in political theory as a whole as well as Presents a range of philosophical debates, policy analyses,
the “non-utopian” traditions that have dominated modern and first-hand accounts. This book offers a comprehensive
political and moral discourse. set of readings on the major themes and issues in the field
of international human rights. It intends to help students’
University Press of Kansas understanding not only of human rights, but also of
differing perspectives on the topic.
POLICY DESIGN FOR DEMOCRACY
ISLAMISM
Anne Larason Schneider & Helen Ingram A New Totalitarianism
1997 256pp, Illustrations
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fail, or can it adapt to changing realities? Addressing these
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framework for understanding the full impact of Islamism
DEMOCRACY, LIBERALISM, AND WAR in the Middle East and beyond.
Rethinking the Democratic Peace Debates
THE NATION-STATE AND
Edited by Tarak Barkawi & Mark Laffey GLOBAL ORDER
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Critical Security Studies
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international system. It interrogates the claim that liberal Opello and Rosow arguethatthe current neo-liberal state does
democratic states do not go to war with each other. not represent a new form, but is an attempt to reconstitute
the managerial state in the context of globalisation.

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THE SELF-RESTRAINING University of Michigan Press
STATE
Power and THE MANY FACES OF
Accountability in POLITICAL ISLAM
New Democracies Religion and Politics in
the Muslim World
Edited by Andreas Schedler,
Larry Diamond & Mohammed Ayoob
Marc F. Plattner 2007 232pp
1999 400pp 9780472069712 Paperback
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This text states that across the American political
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democracies can achieve this goal. work describes the myriad manifestations of this rising
ideology and analyses its impact on global relations.
TOTALITARIAN AND
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REGIMES Foundations and Guidelines

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emphasises the personalistic, lawless, non-ideological type for identifying the variant of process tracing most
of authoritarian rule the author calls the “sultanistic regime”. appropriate for the research question at hand and a set of
guidelines for each stage of the research process.
WHEN DEMOCRACIES
CHOOSE WAR University of Pittsburgh Press
Politics, Public Opinion,
and the Marketplace of TO VOTE OR NOT TO VOTE?
Ideas The Merits and Limits of Rational Choice Theory

Andrew Z. Katz Andre Blais
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while others don’t? Is there an internal mechanism that
constrains the behaviour of democracies when it comes to
war? To answer these questions, Andrew Katz explores the
relationship between public support for wars of choice and
democratic norms in the marketplace of ideas.

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GENERAL & COMPARATIVE TRANSFORMATION
INDEX BTI 2018
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in International
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RIGHTS, AND
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Stephen Goldsmith & University of Hawai’i Press
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the giant leaps that have been made in technology, social have embraced the promise of decentralization and local
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played a critical role in the transformation process.

General & Comparative 21

Hoover Institution Press Lynne Rienner Publishers

INVISIBLE SLAVES POLITICAL COMMUNICATION IN ACTION
The Victims and From Theory to Practice
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surveillance alter the performance of everyday life.

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Rutgers University Press GENERAL & COMPARATIVE
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The University Press of Kentucky The University of North Carolina Press

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NORTH AMERICA The University of Arkansas Press

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LBJ’S GREAT SOCIETY,
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SECOND BEST LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN
The Rise of the American Vice Presidency
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MODERNITY AT BREAD, JUSTICE, AND
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POSTREVOLUTIONARY MIDDLE EAST BESTSELLERS
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change.The focus of this book is on the manner in which
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PARTIES IN THE PERIPHERY SECURITY STRATEGIES OF MIDDLE
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RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY AND LOCAL The University of Wisconsin Press
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