Palgrave series in International Relations.
General Editors
Knud Erik Jørgensen, Department of Political Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Audie Klotz, Department of Political Science, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, USA
Palgrave Studies in International Relations, produced in association with the ECPR Standing Group for International Relations, provides students and scholars with the best theoretically-informed scholarship on the global issues of our time. Edited by Knud Erik Jørgensen and Audie Klotz, this book series is comprised of cutting-edge monographs and edited collections which bridge schools of thought and cross the boundaries of conventional fields of study.
Theorising International Society: English School Methods; Edited by Cornelia Navari
Theorising International Society outlines the methods appropriate to an English School understanding of international relations and their assumptions about how knowledge of the social is gained. It makes clear what is involved in ‘an English School approach’ and what such an approach delivers in the contemporary understanding of international relations.
International Society and the Middle East: English School Theory at the Regional Level; Edited by Barry Buzan and Ana Gonzalez-Pelaez
International Society and the Middle East is the first to apply ideas about international and world society to the Middle East. It brings together a distinguished cast of theorists and Middle East experts who combine their knowledge to provide a fresh view of this troubled but important region. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the region’s history and how its own traditions have mixed, often uncomfortably, with the political structures imposed by the expansion of Western international society. It reveals the powerful and ongoing tensions among the Western-defined political order, the post-colonial state system, and the strong transnational cultural elements in the region.
Securitizing Immigration: The Politics of Risk in the EU; by Rens van Munster
Securitizing Immigration develops an original framework for analyzing the securitization of immigration in the EU. Focusing on bureaucratic practices and political discourses since the late 1970s, van Munster explains how immigration has become increasingly central in EU policy-making as a security issue that requires new forms of control. He also shows how securitizing immigration has had profound political implications for the EU. The EU is increasingly thought of as a place of unease where individuals are integrated through their concerns and worries about undocumented immigrants and other unwanted forms of mobility. This book critically discusses these tendencies and considers other, less exclusive forms of imagining European belonging.
German Thought and International Relations: The Rise and Fall of a Liberal Project; by Robbie Shilliam
One of the fundamental questions for International Relations is whether the value system of liberalism can be universalised, of if, in fact, the illiberal reality of international politics systematically rules out such a universalisation. This book addresses this issue by focusing on the rise and fall of a specific liberal project supported by influential German intellectuals from the French Revolution up to the rise of Nazism, and manifested in the political philosophies of Immanuel Kant, Georg Hegel, Max Weber, and Hans Morgenthau. The book historically contextualises the thought of these influential authors from within the context of Germany’s comparative ‘backwardness’ vis-à-vis republican France and capitalist Britain. In so doing, the book provides new vistas from which to theoretically and substantively reassess the condition of individual freedom in an illiberal world of politics.