Filter By
Books (109)
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
The Star and the Stripes: A History of the Foreign Policies of American Jews by Michael N. Barnett 9780691180724
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $36.21An incisive account of the foreign policy beliefs of American Jews from the nineteenth century to the presentHow do American Jews envision their role in the world? Are they tribal-a people whose... -
Captured Peace: Elites and Peacebuilding in El Salvador by Christine J. Wade 9780896802971
RRP: $124.80Booksplease Price: $102.16El Salvador is widely considered one of the most successful United Nations peacebuilding efforts, but record homicide rates, political polarization, socioeconomic exclusion, and corruption have... -
Agenda Setting, the UN, and NGOs: Gender Violence and Reproductive Rights by Jutta M. Joachim 9781589011755
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $85.31In the mid-1990s, when the United Nations adopted positions affirming a woman's right to be free from bodily harm and to control her own reproductive health, it was both a coup for the international... -
Peace Formation and Political Order in Conflict Affected Societies by Oliver P. Richmond 9780190237646
Booksplease Price: $79.13As Oliver Richmond explains, there is a level to peacemaking that operates in the realm of dialogue, declarations, symbols and rituals. But after all this pomp and circumstance is where the reality... -
Conceptualizing International Practices: Directions for the Practice Turn in International Relations by Alena Drieschova 9781316511398
RRP: $152.10Booksplease Price: $146.11This book brings together the key scholars in the international practice debate to demonstrate its strengths as an innovative research perspective. The contributions show the benefit of practice... -
Conceptualizing International Practices: Directions for the Practice Turn in International Relations by Alena Drieschova 9781009055604
RRP: $50.68Booksplease Price: $50.54This book brings together the key scholars in the international practice debate to demonstrate its strengths as an innovative research perspective. The contributions show the benefit of practice... -
Civilizations in World Politics: Plural and Pluralist Perspectives Peter J. Katzenstein 9780415777117
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $88.98A highly original and readily accessible examination of the cultural dimension of international politics, this book provides a sophisticated and nuanced account of the relevance of cultural... -
Rebel Economies: Warlords, Insurgents, Humanitarians by Nicola Di Cosmo
Booksplease Price: $186.79As a pervasive occurrence in the contemporary world, wars and their economic sources are defining social and political processes in a variety of national and transnational contexts. Rebel Economies:... -
For Humanity or for the Umma?: Aid and Islam in Transnational Muslim NGOs by Marie Juul Petersen
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $71.86In the wake of 9/11 and the 'War on Terror', transnational Muslim NGOs have too often been perceived as illegitimate fronts for global militant networks such as al-Qaeda or as backers of national... -
Just Intervention by Anthony F. Lang 9780878403417
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $85.31What obligations do nations have to protect citizens of other nations? As responsibility to our fellow human beings and to the stability of civilization over many years has ripened fully into a... -
The NGO Challenge for International Relations Theory William E. DeMars 9781138845305
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $90.66It has become commonplace to observe the growing pervasiveness and impact of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). And yet the three central approaches in International Relations (IR) theory,... -
American Defense Policy by Miriam Krieger 9781421441481
RRP: $86.78Booksplease Price: $55.79American Defense Policy, first published in 1965 under the leadership of Brent Scowcroft, has been a mainstay in courses on political science, international relations, military affairs, and American... -
In the Cause of Humanity: A History of Humanitarian Intervention in the Long Nineteenth Century by Fabian Klose
RRP: $70.20Booksplease Price: $66.50In the Cause of Humanity is a major new history of the emergence of the theory and practice of humanitarian intervention during the nineteenth century when the question of whether, when and how the... -
The International Politics of the Middle East by Raymond A. Hinnebusch 9780719099755
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $146.64One of the major internationally recognised works on the international politics of the Middle East, this book systematically combines international relations theory and Middle East case studies to... -
Comanche Ethnography: Field Notes of E. Adamson Hoebel, Waldo R. Wedel, Gustav G. Carlson, and Robert H. Lowie by Thomas W. Kavanagh 9780803227644
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $81.61In the summer of 1933 in Lawton, Oklahoma, a team of six anthropologists met with eighteen Comanche elders to record the latter's reminiscences of traditional Comanche culture. The depth and breadth... -
The International Politics of the Middle East by Raymond A. Hinnebusch 9780719095252
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $35.31One of the major internationally recognised works on the international politics of the Middle East, this book systematically combines International Relations theory and Middle East case studies to... -
Theorizing World Orders: Cognitive Evolution and Beyond by Piki Ish-Shalom 9781009061001
RRP: $50.68Booksplease Price: $50.54We need new analytical tools to understand the turbulent times in which we live, and identify the directions in which international politics will evolve. This volume discusses how engaging with... -
Theorizing World Orders: Cognitive Evolution and Beyond by Piki Ish-Shalom
RRP: $171.60Booksplease Price: $162.81We need new analytical tools to understand the turbulent times in which we live, and identify the directions in which international politics will evolve. This volume discusses how engaging with... -
Advocacy in Conflict: Critical Perspectives on Transnational Activism by Alex de Waal 9781783602728
Booksplease Price: $50.52Conflicts in Africa, Asia and Latin America have become a common focus of advocacy by Western celebrities and NGOs. This provocative volume delves into the realities of these efforts, which have... -
The Localization Agenda: Aid's Failure to Deliver on Its Grand Promise Marie-Claude Savard 9781350579040
Booksplease Price: $167.02This book tells the story of the humanitarian industry's latest failed attempt at reform, identifies the key contradiction at the heart of it, and suggests ways to do things better.In 2016, the... -
Advocacy in Conflict: Critical Perspectives on Transnational Activism by Alex de Waal 9781783602735
Booksplease Price: $177.20Conflicts in Africa, Asia and Latin America have become a common focus of advocacy by Western celebrities and NGOs. This provocative volume delves into the realities of these efforts, which have... -
Night on Earth: A History of International Humanitarianism in the Near East, 1918-1930 by Davide Rodogno
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $59.96Night on Earth is a broad-ranging account of international humanitarian programs in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the Near East from 1918 to 1930. Davide Rodogno shows that... -
Sovereignty in the South: Intrusive Regionalism in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia by Brooke N. Coe 9781108496797
RRP: $183.30Booksplease Price: $174.90As international organisations gain greater power to monitor and manage the domestic affairs of their member states, the relationship between state sovereignty and international intervention becomes... -
Rebel Economies: Warlords, Insurgents, Humanitarians by Nicola Di Cosmo 9781793635211
Booksplease Price: $65.31As a pervasive occurrence in the contemporary world, wars and their economic sources are defining social and political processes in a variety of national and transnational contexts. Rebel Economies:... -
Informal Governance in World Politics by Kenneth W. Abbott 9781009180535
RRP: $50.68Booksplease Price: $48.81Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, cooperation among nations was based on international regimes and formal intergovernmental organizations. However, since the 1990s, informal modes of... -
'Innocent Women and Children': Gender, Norms and the Protection of Civilians R. Charli Carpenter 9780367605773
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $75.72Examining the influence of gender constructs on the international regime protecting war-affected civilians, R. Charli Carpenter examines how in practice belligerents, advocates and humanitarian... -
Night on Earth: A History of International Humanitarianism in the Near East, 1918-1930 by Davide Rodogno 9781108498913
RRP: $193.05Booksplease Price: $184.10Night on Earth is a broad-ranging account of international humanitarian programs in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the Near East from 1918 to 1930. Davide Rodogno shows that... -
American Defense Policy by Miriam Krieger 9781421441474
RRP: $117.00Booksplease Price: $86.48A vital text for understanding the twenty-first-century battlefield and the shifting force structure, this book prepares students to think critically about the rapidly changing world they'll inherit... -
The Violence of Law: The Formation and Deformation of Gacaca Courts in Rwanda Jens Meierhenrich 9781108442282
RRP: $68.23Booksplease Price: $64.35'Lawfare' describes the systematic use and abuse of legal procedure for political ends. This provocative book examines this insufficiently understood form of warfare in post-genocide Rwanda, where it... -
Global Governance: Why? What? Whither? by Thomas G. Weiss 9780745660455
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $95.65Friends and foes of international cooperation puzzle about how to explain order, stability, and predictability in a world without a central authority. How is the world governed in the absence of... -
The Purpose of Intervention: Changing Beliefs about the Use of Force by Martha Finnemore 9780801438455
RRP: $105.30Booksplease Price: $83.66Violence or the potential for violence is a fact of human existence. Many societies, including our own, reward martial success or skill at arms. The ways in which members of a particular society use... -
Sword & Salve: Confronting New Wars and Humanitarian Crises by Peter J. Hoffman 9780742539785
Booksplease Price: $84.49Arguing forcefully that changing times are a clarion call for new thinking, this book convincingly shows that if humanitarian organizations continue to operate as they have in the past, they will... -
Humanitarianism, War, and Politics: Solferino to Syria and Beyond by Peter J. Hoffman 9781442266124
Booksplease Price: $201.65What is humanitarianism? This authoritative book provides a comprehensive analysis of the original idea and its evolution, exploring its triangulation with war and politics. Peter J. Hoffman and... -
Global Governance: Why? What? Whither? Thomas G. Weiss (City University of New York) 9780745660462
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $33.21Friends and foes of international cooperation puzzle about how to explain order, stability, and predictability in a world without a central authority. How is the world governed in the absence of... -
Humanitarianism, War, and Politics: Solferino to Syria and Beyond by Peter J. Hoffman 9781442266131
Booksplease Price: $85.33What is humanitarianism? This authoritative book provides a comprehensive analysis of the original idea and its evolution, exploring its triangulation with war and politics. Peter J. Hoffman and... -
Spaces of Aid: How Cars, Compounds and Hotels Shape Humanitarianism by Lisa Smirl
Booksplease Price: $52.46Aid workers commonly bemoan that the experience of working in the field sits uneasily with the goals they've signed up to: visiting project sites in air-conditioned Land Cruisers while the intended... -
The Taming of Democracy Assistance: Why Democracy Promotion Does Not Confront Dictators by Sarah Sunn Bush
Booksplease Price: $62.63Few government programs that aid democracy abroad today seek to foster regime change. Technical programs that do not confront dictators are more common than the aid to dissidents and political... -
The Purpose of Intervention: Changing Beliefs about the Use of Force by Martha Finnemore 9780801489594
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.26Violence or the potential for violence is a fact of human existence. Many societies, including our own, reward martial success or skill at arms. The ways in which members of a particular society use... -
Spaces of Aid: How Cars, Compounds and Hotels Shape Humanitarianism by Lisa Smirl 9781783603503
Booksplease Price: $176.61Aid workers commonly bemoan that the experience of working in the field sits uneasily with the goals they've signed up to: visiting project sites in air-conditioned Land Cruisers while the intended... -
The Power of Global Performance Indicators by Judith G. Kelley
RRP: $214.50Booksplease Price: $208.42Global performance indicators (GPIs), such as ratings and rankings, permeate nearly every type of human activity, internationally and nationally, across public and private spheres. While some...