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Using a critical theory approach to analyze the globalization of the world economy, this book presents economic globalization as a familiar process that has occurred throughout history.

Examines the weakening of the state's ability to order political allegiances of its subjects. Is it possible to invest political principles with loyalty and can political loyalty become merely a matter of choice and personal responsibility?

The Doha Round of WTO negotiations commenced in November 2001 to further liberalize international trade and to specifically seek to remove trade barriers so developing countries might compete in major markets. This book explores the main issues of the Doha Round trade negotiations, such as agriculture, pharmaceuticals and services trade.

A timely study of Lipset and Rokkan's classic work, this book examines the significance of the original volume for the history of political sociology and assesses its theoretical and empirical relevance to the present day.

This book examines the post-Cold War challenges facing Antarctic governance. It seeks to understand the interests of new players in Antarctic affairs such as China, India, Korea and Malaysia, and how other key players such as Russia and the USA or claimant states such as New Zealand or France are coping in the new global order.

This book is invaluable in identifying the necessary ingredients for long term, legitimate and effective peace-maintenance at a time when it is needed most.

The author seeks to bring new perspectives to current debates and argues that control of the missile threats cannot be achieved without addressing ecological, economic, social and cultural elements in a stable world order.

Using an historical approach, this title provides an analysis of issues surrounding UN Security Council reform. It presents an overview of the debates - emphasising the potential for, and modalities of, adjustment in the post-Cold War era - through a systematic investigation of the various reform proposals and the attitudes of member states.

Re-examines the history of international relations in order to explore how the discipline has imported and employed the concept of culture. This book challenges the notion that IR has only been interested in culture since the end of the Cold War by tracing different understandings of culture throughout its history.

Examines the International Criminal Court (ICC) from a political science and international relations perspective. This book describes the main features of the court and discusses the political negotiations and the on-going clashes between those states who oppose the court, particularly the United States, and those who defend it.

Explores the technical, political economic and sociocultural implications of technological change. Using an international political economy approach, this book focuses on how the Internet is used by ethnic minorities to communicate.

Analysse the characteristics of the social contexts and environments in conflict situations and the impact that these socialising environments may have in the political learning and emerging citizenship orientations of youngsters.

This book demonstrates that the crises of the Horn states stem from their political behaviour and structural forces.

Interregionalism, the institutionalized relations between world regions, is a new phenomenon in international relations and has the potential to become a new layer in an increasingly differentiated global order.

This new volume explores the needs of people in conflict areas, rather than taking an institutional or geo-political perspective. It proposes that Europe should develop a new kind of human security capability that involves the military, the police and civilians all working together to enforce law rather than to fight wars.

Explores the nexus between civil society, religion, and global governance, their impact on human security and well-being, and significance for contemporary debates in international politics. This book is of interest to students, policy makers and researchers in the fields of human rights, religion, political science and sociology.

This is the first integrated account of citizen responses to the new global order. Based on a comprehensive survey administered at the end of 2000 in nine European and nine Asian countries, it demonstrates the diverse responses to globalization, within, and between, two of the world's major ¿ and most globally integrated ¿ regions.

The geo-political significance of the Caribbean, its growing importance as a major transshipment gateway for illegal drugs coming from Latin America to the United States, issues of national security, vulnerability to corruption, increases in the level of violence and social disorder, have all raised serious questions not only about the notions of sovereignty, democracy and development but also about the long-term viability of these nations. Recognized experts in the field make a strategic intervention into the discourse on these important topics, but the importance of their contribution resides in its challenge to conventional wisdom on these matters, and the multidisciplinary approach they employ.

This edited volume is a tribute to, and a debate with, the scholarship of Walter Carlsnaes and his contribution to the study of foreign policy in both its conceptualization and application.