"Noam Chomsky, world renowned dissident intellectual, discusses Western power and propaganda with filmmaker and investigative journalist Andre Vltchek. The discussion weaves together a historical narrative with the two men's personal experiences which led them to a life of activ…
For the past forty years the images flashing across our television screens from the Middle East have provoked anger, outrage and, sometimes, military action from the international community. But the stories behind them were rarely understood. In 2011 the revolutions of the Arab …
"There remains substantial agreement among the international community on many aspects of the contemporary UN drug control regime. However, diverging views on the non-medical and non-scientific use of a range of controlled substances make drug policy an increasingly contested an…
The first integrated analysis of the causes and effects of diverging views of drug use within the international community.
"Friends and foes of international cooperation puzzle about how to explain order, stability, and predictability in a world without a central authority."--Page 4 of cover.
"Friends and foes of international cooperation puzzle about how to explain order, stability, and predictability in a world without a central authority."--Page 4 of cover.
From the bestselling authors of The Right Nation, a visionary argument that our current crisis in government is nothing less than the fourth radical transition in the history of the nation-state. Dysfunctional government: It's become a cliche. And most of us are resigned to the …
Un ouvrage provoquant qui explique comment la mémoire de l'Holocauste a été exploitée pour promouvoir des intérêts politiques, c'est-à-dire la politique israélienne. Pour "désacraliser" la Shoah, l'auteur invite à comparer et à ouvrir la mémoire juive aux malheurs des autres peu…
Drawing on a wealth of expertise from a global team of contributors, the third edition of International Relations Theories provides an up-to-date and comprehensive account of all the major IR theories--including some of the more alternative understandings not found in other text…
In this collection, Martti Koskenniemi, one of the great theorists & historians of international law examines the recent debates on humanitarian intervention, collective security, protection of human rights & the 'fight against impunity' & reflects on the use of the techniques o…
This Oxford handbook assembles the world's leading scholars in international relations to present diverse perspectives about purposes, questions, theories, and methods. It will become the first point of reference for scholars and students interested in these key issues.
"In International relations since the end of the Cold War many of the world's leading historians and historically oriented political scientists deal with the Cold War legacy and many of the new issues that have emerged since the end of the Cold War. Stewart Patrick sums up the m…
"John Hobson claims that throughout its history most international theory has been embedded within various forms of Eurocentrism. Rather than producing value-free and universalist theories of inter-state relations, international theory instead provides provincial analyses that c…
Reveals international theory as embedded within Eurocentrism such that its purpose is to celebrate/defend the idea of Western civilization.