Bøger i Cambridge Studies in International Relations serien

This 2001 book uses legal texts, literary and artistic creations, maps and policy debates, to trace the changing uses, regulations, and representations of the world-ocean from 1450 to the present. Steinberg uses theories of social forces and state policy, treating the sea as global space of political, economic, and cultural history.

This book, first published in 1989, gives a critical account of formal international relations theory. That formal and mathematical methods can be applied to the study of international relations is often regarded with surprise, but mathematical methods have been applied to the study of international behaviour since the pioneering work of Lewis Fry Richardson in the 1920s and 1930s.

E. H. Carr was one of the most influential theorists of international relations, and his works are widely read by students of the subject. By examining the political context in which he wrote, this book offers a radical reinterpretation of his work.

International regimes are 'codes of conduct' agreed upon by states to govern their relations in specific areas of international politics. This book describes and critically examines the three most important theories of international regimes: realist, neoliberal, and cognitivist.

This 2004 book offers a contribution to the English school's tradition of thinking aout the idea of society on a global level. It sets out a theoretical framework emphasising social structure that can be used to address globalisation as a complex political interplay among state and non-state actors.

This book offers a critical analysis of the role that international economic law plays in the creation and maintenance of global power relations. By examining the evolution of merchant law it argues that private interests have governed global economic relations through a little understood evolving legal order.

Why do states act through international organizations to protect populations within other states, even though this falls outside traditional definitions of state interest? Cronin argues that states act in this way because a cohesive international order, ensured by international protection, is essential to international stability.

How do the weak defeat the strong? In this 2005 book, Ivan Arreguin-Toft argues that although many factors affect asymmetric conflict outcomes, the interaction of each actor's strategy is the best explanation. This book has implications for scholars of international relations, and policy makers grappling with interstate and civil wars, as well as terrorism.

National Choices and International Processes brings together for the first time the various conflicting approaches to the study of foreign policy decision-making under a single theoretical framework.

This book provides an historical account of one of the key weapons developments of the nuclear age. Did technology 'drive' the arms race or were these weapons simply the product of political decisions?

Douglas Lemke's book asks whether the causes of war among great powers also apply to other countries, given different regional circumstances and historical experiences. The book examines Africa, the Far East, the Middle East and South America, and argues that the causes of wars are similar across these regions.

Britain's 1961 application was the first time that the European Community was obliged to consider a membership application from one of its neighbours. Piers Ludlow's 1997 study challenges traditional views of the British application and casts new light on the way in which the EEC responded to the challenge of enlargement.

There has been no use of nuclear weapons since Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Nina Tannenwald argues that this was not inevitable, but that a tradition of non-use of nuclear weapons has grown up, based on the feeling that nuclear weapons are not a legitimate weapon of war.

Maja Zehfuss critiques constructivist theories of international relations. She uses Germany's shift towards using its military abroad to illustrate why constructivism does not work and how it leads to particular analytical outcomes, while foreclosing others. Zehfuss argues that this limits our ability to act responsibly in international relations.

Why 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 analysis of a great foreign policy disaster.

This 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.

In this book Hayward Alker presents his principal methodological 'rediscoveries'and provides a rich set of 'humanistic' alternatives to the conventional scientific approaches within international studies, and social science more generally. He offers a reinterpretation of pre-modern, modern and post-modern thinkers from Aristotle to Connolly.

Shapcott 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 study.

This book demonstrates how popular dissent is becoming an increasingly important aspect of global politics. The author draws upon several case studies, including the collapse of the Berlin Wall, to show how people influence the course of politics at a time when boundaries between domestic and international spheres are blurring.

In this major new study of the causes of wars, David Welch argues that, contrary to the received wisdom in academic and policy circles, states are often motivated by sincere concern for the perceived demands of justice, not merely by self-interest.

This book offers an accessible analysis of recent developments in the study of international politics.

Since 1945 the incidence of interstate war has been declining rapidly, while the incidence of internal war has been increasing. This book surveys some of the foundations of state legitimacy and demonstrates why many weak states will be the locales of war in the future. The author develops some ideas about conflict resolution and peace derived from such recent experiences of war.

The definition of realism is often debated by students of international politics. Michael Williams offers an important re-interpretation of thinkers such as Rousseau, Hobbes and Morgenthau arguing that contemporary realism is at odds with their central concerns. This book will interest scholars of international relations and the history of ideas.

It 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.

In this book, Bill McSweeney discusses the inadequacy of the scientific approach to security and criticizes the most recent attempts to surmount it. Drawing on contemporary trends in sociology, he develops a theory of the international order within which the idea of security takes on a broader range of meaning.

The book examines a number of different issues and actors (such as sovereignty, elections, and constitutions; states, individuals, and militaries) which weave together national and international affairs. James Rosenau's recurring theme is the challenge of achieving governance along the turbulent domestic-foreign Frontier.

Arguments have consequences in world politics that are as real as the military forces of states or the balance of power among them. Neta Crawford shows how ethical arguments, not power politics or economics, explain decolonization, the biggest change in world politics over the last five hundred years.

African independence launched into international politics a group of the world's poorest, weakest, and most artificial states. Christopher Clapham shows how an initially supportive international environment has become increasingly threatening to African rulers and the states over which they preside.

Exploring the interdependence of states and firms, the authors show how global changes can impel governments to seek the cooperation of multinational enterprises. They present the impact on projects of the factors affecting the bargaining relationships between governments and foreign firms.

Examines the theoretical and strategic issues which arise from different forms of political self-sacrifice, including political contestation surrounding the identification of the victim as a terrorist or martyr, the meaning of the death as suicide or martyrdom and the extent to which this contributes to the reconstruction of community identity.