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Regions and Powers
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 40.00Buzan and Wæver argue that in the post-Cold War world regional patterns of security are more important than ever before. Analysing regions throughout the world, this original and comprehensive study offers a distinctive interpretation of the nature of the 'new world security order' that has followed the Cold War. more...
The Democratic Peace and Territorial Conflict in the Twentieth Century
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 38.00It is commonly said that democracies very seldom fight each other. Huth and Allee re-evaluate this claim by testing three theoretical models using 348 territorial disputes from 1919-95. The results support the importance of democratic accountability and norms in shaping the diplomatic and military policies of democratic leaders. more...
State Identities and the Homogenisation of Peoples
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 37.00Victimization of ethnic and religious minorities has been used by rulers throughout history to assert their own control and legitimacy over communities brought together against alleged 'outsiders'. Rae demonstrates how these practices predate nationalism and how they prompted the development of international norms for legitimate state behaviour. more...
Democracy and Coercive Diplomacy
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 30.00Schultz explores the effects of democratic politics on coercive diplomacy. He argues that open political competition between government and opposition parties influences threats in international crises and how rival states interpret those threats. Schultz uses game-theoretic models and tests the resulting hypothesis using both statistical analyses... more...
Justice, Community and Dialogue in International Relations
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 41.00Shapcott considers the issue of cultural diversity and international morality. Conversation, and our ability to understand each other despite differences, provide the basis for the development of a world-wide, cosmopolitan, moral community. Students and scholars of international relations, politics and philosophy will be interested in this original... more...
The Dynamic of Secession
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 34.00Secessionist activity has been increasing in the developing world, in Western liberal democracies, and especially in the former Communist states of Eastern Europe. This timely book offers a general explanation for the occurrence of the phenomenon, arising from a comparative study of numerous historical examples of secession and separatist conflict. more...
Feminist International Relations
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 36.00Christine Sylvester examines the history of feminists' efforts to include gender relations in the study of international relations. Tracing the author's own 'journey' through the subject, the book examines theories, methods, people and locations which have been neglected by conventional scholarship. more...
Perfect Deterrence
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 48.00This book provides the first general analysis of deterrence since the end of the Cold War, offering a new approach to its assumptions, and analyzing them using game theory. Drawing on numerous historical examples, the authors' analysis provides a new understanding of threats and responses, and yields some surprising conclusions. more...
Normative Theory in International Relations
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 37.00Molly Cochran offers an account of the development of normative theory in international relations over the past two decades. In particular, she analyses the tensions between cosmopolitan and communitarian approaches to international ethics and offers an argument for a pragmatist approach. more...
US Foreign Policy and the Iran Hostage Crisis
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 34.00Why did Iranian students seize the American embassy in Tehran in 1979? Why did the Carter administration launch a rescue mission, and why did it fail so spectacularly? Using interviews with key decision-makers on both sides, this book provides an original analysis of a great foreign policy disaster. more...









