Boundaries in Question
New Directions on International Relations
Published on 1. April 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-85567-266-6 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of essays aims to present a challenge to neo-realist approaches, highlighting the dynamic quality and potential of international relations. This volume presents an alternative theoretical perspective on international relations, united by issues of the state. A range of subjects are covered, dealing with the analysis and limitations of the state, as well as challenges and changes to it. The "Analysis" tackles our basic understanding of the state, looking at how it maintains itself and the role of belief systems, as well as innate systems of privilege. The impact of global issues on inter-state relations is examined under the umbrella of "Challenges"; in the section on "Change", contributors highlight the tension between growing social, cultural, technological and economic influences and the ability of states to maintain their traditional areas of competence. The final section identifies changes in the international environment which question the proficiency, and sometimes the legitimacy, of the state as an international actor.
This book aims to provide a review of the field of international relations, to challenge familiar concepts and theories, and to act as a springboard for further debate.
This book aims to provide a review of the field of international relations, to challenge familiar concepts and theories, and to act as a springboard for further debate.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
413 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85567-266-6 (9781855672666)
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Content
Part 1 Boundaries revisited: Incomplete states - Theories and practices of statecraft, Richard Devetak; Cosmopolitanism and communitarianism in a post-Cold War world, Molly Cochran; Globalization and the end of the national project, Robin Brown; Central Europe since the revolutions of 1989 - states, economies and culture in a time of flux, Rick Fawn; Part 2 Boundaries contested: International political economy and international relations - apprentice or teacher?, Robert O'Brien; Towards a new understanding of international trade policies - ideas, institutions and the political economy of foreign economic policy, Simon Mercado; The international dimension of gender inequality and feminist politics - a "new direction" for international political economy? Jill Krause; A neo-Gramscian approach to international organization - An expanded analysis of current reforms to UN development activities, Kelley Lee; Conflict and co-operation in a context of change - a case study of the Senegal River Basin, Anne Guest; the West and the future of military intervention, Thomas G. Otte, Andrew M. Dorman and Wyn Q. Bowen. Part 3 Boundaries redrawn: Earth, power, knowledge - towards a critical global environmental politics, Peter Doran; Radicalizing regimes? Ecology and the critique of IR theory, Matthew Paterson; Rethinking international political economy, Simon Bromley; The end of international relations? The state and international theory in the age of globalization, Julian Saurin.