Staff Publications: older books

The Global 1989: continuity and change in world politics
|(Cambridge University Press, 2010)
George Lawson, Chris Armbruster and Michael Cox (eds)

This volume leads the way in defining how 1989 can be assessed both in terms of its world historical impact and in terms of its contribution to the shape of contemporary world politics.

China, the United States and Global Order| 
|(Cambridge University Press, December 2010)
Rosemary Foot and Andrew Walter

The US and China are the two most important states in the international system and are crucial to the evolution of global order. Both recognize each other as vital players in a range of issues of global significanc

Genocide and the Europeans|
(Cambridge University Press, Oct 2010)
Karen E Smith

The first book to consider the attitudes of European governments towards genocide and the 1948 Genocide Convention. Describes European confusion surrounding the definition of genocide, and differing European views on what action is required of states in the event of genocide.

The South in World Politics
|(Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
Chris Alden, Sally Morphet and Marco Antonio

This book is a timely analysis of the influence and effectiveness of developing states in shaping the international order from the politics of the Cold War to the challenges of globalization and the rising power of emerging economies. Serving as a mobilizing symbol for a diverse set of developing countries, the idea of the South is part of a strategy for managing relations with the more powerful industrialized North through collective activism in multilateral and regional organizations. Key themes addressed by the book include the dynamic role of leading states like India, Brazil and China, the growing importance of regional organizations and the rise of Southern civil society in shaping the political agenda and the ideological outlook of the global South. Finally, the book focuses on the implications of a raft of new challenges for the security and economic aspirations of developing states.

Hegel's Philosophy and Feminist Thought: Beyond Antigone?
|(Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2010)
Kimberly Hutchings and Juija Pulkkinen (eds)

This book offers a new generation of feminist readings of Hegel from leading scholars in the field.

Global Ethics: an introduction
|(Polity Press, Cambridge, 2010)
Kimberly Hutchings

An accessible introduction to the field of global ethics for students of politics, international relations and globalisation. It offers an overview and assessment of key perspectives in global ethics and their implications for substantive moral issues in global politics.

Capital Ideas: The IMF and the Rise of Financial Liberalization
|(Princeton University Press, 2010)
Jeffrey M Chwieroth

This book provides an important case study of how international organizations work and evolve.

Practical Judgement in International Political Theory|
(Routledge, 2010)
Chris Brown

These essays include influential statements on the role of normative theory and international ethics, the so-called 'cosmopolitan-communitarian debate' and anti-foundationalist thought in international relations. 

Barbarous Philosophers: Reflections on the Nature of War from Heraclitus to Heisenberg| 
(Hurst & Co, 2010)
Christopher Coker

This is a book on contemporary conflict in which the author invokes philosophy to help understand the problems that we face in fighting war today.

America, the UN and Decolonisation|
(Routledge, 2010)
John Kent

This book examines the role of the UN in conflict resolution in Africa in the 1960s and its relation to the Cold War.

Business Power and Conflict in International Environmental Politics|
(Palgrave Macmillan, hb 2008, pb 2009).
Robert Falkner

Provides a distinctive theoretical approach and analytical framework for studying business as an international actor in the environmental field, with case studies on the ozone layer, global climate change and agricultural biotechnology.

Land, Liberation and Compromise in Southern Africa
|(Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
Chris Alden and Ward Anseeuw

This book provides a novel framework for understanding the inherent volatility of the politics of land in contemporary Southern Africa. The link between the established political economy of settler colonialism, the role of liberation politics and the enduring impact of the transition to democracy in Southern Africa, key factors inhibiting attempts to embark on substantive agrarian reform after independence, are crucial to comprehending why the Zimbabwean crisis impacted so profoundly on regional politics. By exposing the lingering contradictions in former settler states between society's heightened expectations of liberation movements and the constitutional and the ideological constraints that bind them to the past, this book offers a comprehensive regional perspective into the dynamics of the politics of land and their impact on democracy in Southern Africa.

Analyzing the Global Political Economy|
(Princeton, 2009)
Andrew Walter & Gautam Sen

A concise look at the foundations of analysis in the political economy of global trade, money, finance, and investment.

Time and world politics: Thinking the present
|(Manchester University Press, 2008)
Kimberly Hutchings

This book offers the first authoritative guide to assumptions about time in theories of contemporary world politics.