International Relations Theory
The South Asia to Gulf Migration Governance Complex
In this book, a team of international contributors examine the often-overlooked complex governance of the South Asia to Gulf migration corridor. The conclusions drawn enable readers to better understand migration in this region, while also providing a model for analyzing global migration governance in practice in different parts of the world.
Unmapping the 21st Century
Between Networks and the State
Drawing on post-structural political theory, this book explores two concepts used to make sense of our disturbed reality: the state and the network. It argues that, in order to better understand today’s world, we must pull apart the familiar lines of our maps to find new insights and opportunities for a better future.
Environmental Anarchy?
Security in the 21st Century
This book explains why insecurity has become such a ubiquitous feature of life in the 21st century and why policymakers, strategic analysts and many scholars are failing to recognise or address its underlying causes.
Snapshots from Home
Mind, Action and Strategy in an Uncertain World
This book brings the parallels between quantum physics and ancient Asian traditions – Daoism and Buddhism – to an investigation of mind, action and strategy in conditions of radical uncertainty. Engaging with both theory and real-world problems, it explores what it might mean to successfully navigate the potentials of a post-pandemic world.
Fuelling Insecurity
Energy Securitization in Azerbaijan
This book examines the extensive network of security professionals and the wide range of practices that have spread in Azerbaijan’s energy sector. It unpacks the interactions of state, supra‐state, and private security organisations and argues that energy security has enabled and normalised a coercive way of exercising power.
Broken Solidarities
How Open Global Governance Divides and Rules
Felix Anderl’s book is a stimulating analysis of the decline of the social movement against the World Bank and the rise of a new form of transnational rule. The book observes international organizations and social movements in their interaction, demonstrating how social movements are divided and ruled in the absence of a ruler.
Care and the Pluriverse
Rethinking Global Ethics
This book examines the concept of the pluriverse alongside global ethics and the ethics of care in order to contemplate new ethical horizons for engaging across difference. Offering a challenge to the current state of the field, this book argues for a rethinking of global ethics as it has been conceived thus far.
The New Constructivism in International Relations Theory
Tracing constructivist work on culture, identity and norms within the historical, geographical and professional contexts of world politics, this book makes the case for new constructivist approaches to international relations scholarship.
China’s Rise and Rethinking International Relations Theory
Bringing together leading scholars from Asia and the West, this book investigates how the dynamics of China’s rise in world politics contributes to theory-building in International Relations (IR). In doing so, the volume builds a strong case for a genuinely global and post-Western IR.
In the Beginning
Secretary-General Trygve Lie and the Establishment of the United Nations
This book reviews the formative years of the United Nations (UN) under its first Secretary-General Trygve Lie.
Confucian Governmentality and Socialist Autocracy in Contemporary China
Exploring Confucian and socialist principles, this book examines the relationship between citizens and leaders in Chinese autocracy, challenging the binary of authoritarianism and democracy.