Staff Publications: new books

Obama and the Middle East: The End of America's Moment?
|(Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
Fawaz A Gerges

During his presidential campaign, Obama promised to distance the United States from the neoconservative foreign policy legacy of his predecessor, George W. Bush, and usher in a new era of a global, interconnected world. Taking stock of Obama's first two and a half years in the White House, this book places his engagement in the Middle East within the broader context of U.S. foreign policy since 9/11 and examines key areas that have posed a challenge to his administration: negotiation with Israel and Palestine, troop levels in Iraq and Afghanistan, engagement with the Arab Spring, intervention in Libya, and the death of Osama bin Laden.

European Union Economic Diplomacy|
(Ashgate, 2012)
Stephen Woolcock

This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the factors that determine the role of the EU in economic diplomacy. In an up-to-date treatment that includes consideration of the impact of the Treaty of Lisbon, it contains a comprehensive explanation of decision making and negotiating processes in the core areas of trade, financial market regulation, environmental diplomacy and development co-operation. The book is intended for those interested in EU policy making, but also those who simply need to understand how the EU functions in the field of economic diplomacy. 

The Rise and Fall of Al-Qaeda
|(Oxford University Press, 2011)
Fawaz A Gerges

In this concise and fascinating book, Fawaz A. Gerges argues that Al-Qaeda has degenerated into a fractured, marginal body kept alive largely by the self-serving anti-terrorist bureaucracy it helped to spawn. Forceful, incisive, and written with extensive inside knowledge, this book will alter the debate on global terrorism.

A Liberal Peace? The Problems and Practices of Peacebuilding
|(Zed Books, 2011)
Susanna Campbell, David Chandler and Meera Sabaratnam

The West's complex record in post-war intervention is critically examined from alternative theoretical and empirical angles in this collaborative volume, which queries the labels and perceptions traditionally applied.

Foreign Policy Analysis: New Approaches
|(Routledge, Oct 2011)
Chris Alden and Amnon Aran

This exciting new book aims to re-invigorate the conversation between foreign policy analysis and international relations. It opens up the discussion, situating existing debates in foreign policy in relation to contemporary concerns in international relations, and provide a concise and accessible account of key areas in foreign policy analysis that are often ignored.  The work examines: foreign policy and bureaucracies, domestic sources of foreign policy, foreign policy and the state, foreign policy and globalization, and, foreign policy and change. This work builds on and expands the theoretical canvas of foreign policy analysis, shaping its ongoing dialogue with international relations and offering an important introduction to the field. It is essential reading for all students of foreign policy and international relations.

Interrogating Democracy in World Politics
|(London: Routledge, 2011)
Joe Hoover, Meera Sabaratnam and Laust Schouenberg (eds)

It is often assumed that democracy is both desirable and possible in global politics. Interrogating Democracy in World Politics provides an important counter-argument to this assumption by questioning the history, meaning and concepts of democracy in contemporary international and global politics.  

The New Economic Diplomacy: decision-making and negotiation in international economic relations
|(3^rd edition 2011, Ashgate)

Bayne, N.  and Woolcock, S. (eds) 

This book explains how states conduct their external economic relations in the 21st century: how they make decisions domestically; how they negotiate internationally; and how these processes interact. It documents the transformation of economic diplomacy in the 1990s and early 2000s in response to the end of the Cold War, the advance of globalisation and the growing influence of non-state actors like private business and civil society.

Militias and the Challenges of Post-Conflict Peace: Silencing the Guns
|(Zed Books, London 2011)
Chris Alden, Monika Thakur and Matthew Arnold

Bringing together the lessons learned from four intensively-researched case studies - the Democratic Republic of Congo, Timor-Leste, Afghanistan and Sudan - the book argues that the overly rigid 'cookie-cutter' approach to demilitaristation, developed and commonly implemented presently by the international community, is ineffective at meeting the myriad of challenges involving militias. In doing so, the authors propose a radical new framework for demilitarization that questions conventional models and takes into account on-the-ground realities.

Developments in European Politics, 2^nd edition
|(Palgrave Macmillan, May 2011)
Edited by Erik Jones, Paul Heywood, Martin Rhodes and Ulrich Sedelmeier                                                             

Developments in European Politics brings together specially commissioned chapters by leading authorities to give an up-to-date and systematic analysis of European political developments – in institutions, processes and policy – at both national and regional levels. It provides wide-ranging and clear analysis of the factors influencing European politics, from the Europeanization of national politics to the broader forces of globalization, immigration, climate change and international terrorism. 

The International Political Theory of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: A World Without Sovereigns
|(Routledge, 2011)
Alex Prichard

This book provides a methodologically rigorous, contextualised account of the first extensive socialist engagement with world politics in history, one drawn from an original reading of Proudhon's un-translated French works. It looks at how anarchist theory can give a compelling alternative to current conceptions of world politics and IR.

Economic Diplomat
|(The Memoir Club, 2011)
Sir Nicholas Bayne KCMG

From the confrontational atmostphere of the Cold War to the era of globalisation, international economic relations have changed dramatically over the last 50 years.  In this book Nicholas Bayne gives an insider's account of it all.  As a former British Foreign Service officer and seasoned academic, he offers a rare unbroken perspective on the political forces shaping the world economic system.

Islamist Terror and Democracy in the Middle East|
(Cambridge University Press, May 2011)
Katerina Dalacoura

An investigation of the connections between the lack of democracy in the Middle East and Islamist terrorism.The author argues that there is no consistent causal link between repression and political exclusion and Islamist terrorism and highlights alternative explanations.