This marvellously comprehensive dictionary offers an authori tative overview of the complex-and constantly shifting world of contemporary international relations. Ranging from a succinct explanation of the Clinton Doctrine to coverage of the latest developments in the former Yugoslavia via an account of the workings of the G7, this is an indispensable guide to the events, organizations, theorie…
Using the lenses of realism, liberalism, the English School and constructivism, this book explains how the divisions and differences in African identities affect African international politics. This book explores the African condition in the twenty-first century. It analyses how geographical, racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious and power differences shape continental and intercontinental rela…
Bordering intimacy is a study of how borders and dominant forms of intimacy, such as family, are central to the governance of postcolonial states such as Britain. The book explores the connected history between contemporary border regimes and the policing of family with the role of borders under European and British empires. Building upon postcolonial, decolonial and black feminist theory, the …
Most questions commonly asked about international politics are ethical ones, Should the international community intervene in Bosnia What do we owe the starving in Somalia? What should be done about the genocide in Rwanda? Yet, Mervyn Frost argues, ethics is accorded a marginal position within the academic study of international relations. In this book he examines the reasons given for this, and…