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Africa and the International System
Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 34.00The author examines how awkward, how ambiguous, how unsatisfactory, and often how tragic the encounter has been between African and Western conceptions of statehood. more...
Sovereignty in Fragments
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 78.00A broad overview of the nature and contemporary significance of the concept of sovereignty. more...
Practical Judgement in International Political Theory
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 44.95Chris Brown is a prominent international political theorist who has contributed to debates on pluralism, justice and human rights. This book draws together seventeen of his most important and influential articles from the last twenty years. These essays include influential statements on the role of normative theory and international ethics, the... more...
The Millennium Development Goals and Beyond
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 44.95The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have contributed to reductions in poverty and improvements in the human condition in many parts of the world since their "invention" in 2000 and 2001. It nonetheless remains the case that today, as on all the previous days of the twenty-first century, almost one billion people will go hungry. Debates about... more...
New Threats and New Actors in International Security
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 100.00Non-state threats and actors have become key topics in contemporary international security as since the end of the Cold War the notion that state is the primary unit of interest in international security has increasingly been challenged. Statistics show that today many more people are killed by ethnic conflicts, HIV/AIDS or the proliferation of small... more...
Global Security Governance
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 53.95This book demarcates the barriers and pathways to major power security cooperation and provides an empirical analysis of threat perception among the world?s major powers. Divided into three parts, Emil Kirchner and James Sperling use a common analytical framework for the changing security agenda in Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Russian... more...
Qualitative Methods in International Relations
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 31.00We still lack practical answers to one of the most basic questions in empirical research:How should researchers interpret meanings? The contributors take seriously the goals of both post-modernist and positivist researchers, as they offer detailed guidance on how to apply specific tools of analysis and how to circumvent their inherent limitations. more...
European Security Culture
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2009; US$ 124.95Grounded on tenets of cultural realism and social constructivism, Monica Gariup develops a theoretical framework to enhance our understanding of security culture at the European Union level and the implications of discourse and practice in European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP). more...
The Next Decade
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.95The author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Next 100 Years now focuses his geopolitical forecasting acumen on the next decade and the imminent events and challenges that will test America and the world, specifically addressing the skills that will be required by the decade?s leaders. The next ten years will be a time of massive... more...
Making EU Foreign Policy
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00A novel explanation of how EU member states overcome their divergent preferences to reach agreement on common foreign policies, with fourteen in-depth case studies covering diplomatic and security issues, enlargement, trade, development and environmental protection. more...









