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Strategic Choice and International Relations by David A. Lake
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.55The strategic-choice approach has a long pedigree in international relations. In an area often rent by competing methodologies, editors David A. Lake and Robert Powell take the best of accepted and... -
The Statebuilder's Dilemma: On the Limits of Foreign Intervention by David A. Lake 9781501700309
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £74.57The central task of all statebuilding is to create a state that is regarded as legitimate by the people over whom it exercises authority. This is a necessary condition for stable, effective... -
The Statebuilder's Dilemma: On the Limits of Foreign Intervention by David A. Lake 9781501704468
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48The central task of all statebuilding is to create a state that is regarded as legitimate by the people over whom it exercises authority. This is a necessary condition for stable, effective... -
Regional Orders: Building Security in a New World by David A. Lake 9780271017044
Booksplease Price: £44.33Conflict among nations for forty-five years after World War II was dominated by the major bipolar struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union. With the end of the Cold War; states in... -
Indirect Rule: The Making of US International Hierarchy by David A. Lake 9781501773747
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46Indirect Rule examines how states indirectly exercise authority over others and how this mode of rule affects domestic and international politics. Indirect rule has long characterized interstate... -
Indirect Rule: The Making of US International Hierarchy by David A. Lake 9781501773730
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £92.50Indirect Rule examines how states indirectly exercise authority over others and how this mode of rule affects domestic and international politics. Indirect rule has long characterized interstate... -
Entangling Relations: American Foreign Policy in Its Century by David A. Lake 9780691059914
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £42.09Throughout what publisher Henry Luce dubbed the "American century," the United States has wrestled with two central questions. Should it pursue its security unilaterally or in cooperation with... -
The International Spread of Ethnic Conflict: Fear, Diffusion, and Escalation by David A. Lake 9780691016900
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £46.79The wave of ethnic conflict that has recently swept across parts of Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and Africa has led many political observers to fear that these conflicts are contagious... -
The Canon of Thomas Middleton's Plays: Internal Evidence for the Major Problems of Authorship by David J. Lake 9780521134620
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £27.11'Only numbers can annihilate.' This book sets out to solve by statistics the many problems of disputed authorship that surround the work of Thomas Middleton, one of the greater Jacobean dramatists... -
Power, Protection, and Free Trade: International Sources of U.S. Commercial Strategy, 1887-1939 by David A. Lake 9781501727993
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Why do nations so frequently abandon unrestricted international commerce in favor of trade protectionism? David A. Lake contends that the dominant explanation, interest group theory, does not... -
Free Radicals and Inflammation by David R. Blake 9783034895866
Booksplease Price: £46.74As in so many fields of scientific endeavour following the molecular biology revo lution, our knowledge of the role of radicals not only in pathological states, but in basic physiology has developed... -
The Prosthetic Arts of Moby-Dick David Haven Blake 9780197780510
RRP: £59.00Booksplease Price: £54.63The Prosthetic Arts of Moby-Dick is a meditation on wounding, disability, and the representation of Islam in U.S. narratives of aggrievement. It offers the first book-length study of how disability... -
Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity by David Haven Blake 9780300217131
Booksplease Price: £29.69What is the relationship between poetry and fame? What happens to a reader's experience when a poem invokes its author's popularity? Is there a meaningful connection between poetry and advertising,... -
Liking Ike: Eisenhower, Advertising, and the Rise of Celebrity Politics by David Haven Blake 9780190278182
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £38.53To most historians, the first televised presdential debate between the haggard, unshaven Richard Nixon and the clean-cut, handsome John F. Kennedy provides the first example of television, then a new... -
Water, Technology and the Nation-State Filippo Menga (The University of Reading, UK) 9780367506117
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94Just as space, territory and society can be socially and politically co-constructed, so can water, and thus the construction of hydraulic infrastructures can be mobilised by politicians to... -
Proxy Wars: Suppressing Violence through Local Agents by Eli Berman
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.66The most common image of world politics involves states negotiating, cooperating, or sometimes fighting with one another; billiard balls in motion on a global pool table. Yet working through local... -
Power, Trade, and War by Edward D. Mansfield
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £56.55This book presents the first attempt to model the relationships among the distribution of power, international trade, and war. Edward Mansfield dispels the widespread belief that a monotonic... -
Left Side, Right Side: A Review of Laterality Research by Alan Beaton 9780300105360
Booksplease Price: £37.44A masterly summary of the anatomical, psychological, and physiological findings made to date concerning human manual and cerebral asymmetry. Among the topics covered are handedness, split-brain... -
The Challenge of Hegemony: Grand Strategy, Trade and Domestic Politics by Steven E. Lobell 9780472030804
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.14The Challenge of Hegemony explains how international forces subtly influence foreign, economic, and security policies of declining world powers. Using detail-rich case studies, this sweeping study... -
Proxy Wars: Suppressing Violence through Local Agents by Eli Berman 9781501733055
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £92.50The most common image of world politics involves states negotiating, cooperating, or sometimes fighting with one another; billiard balls in motion on a global pool table. Yet working through local... -
Models, Numbers, and Cases: Methods for Studying International Relations by Detlef F. Sprinz 9780472068616
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £27.94Scholars and students of international relations must contend with increasingly sophisticated methods for studying world politics. Models, Numbers, and Cases is a comprehensive assessment of the... -
Who Adjusts?: Domestic Sources of Foreign Economic Policy during the Interwar Years by Beth A. Simmons 9780691017105
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £57.20In this work Beth Simmons presents a fresh view of why governments decided to abide by or defect from the gold standard during the 1920s and 1930s. Previous studies of the spread of the Great... -
Regional Integration: Choosing Plutocracy by Kathleen J. Hancock 9780230616738
Booksplease Price: £46.74Hancock argues that there are three governance structures states can use when designing integration accords: plutocratic, supranational and intergovernmental. The first, in which states delegate to a... -
Allies, Adversaries, and International Trade by Joanne Gowa
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.55During the Cold War, international trade closely paralleled the division of the world into two rival political-military blocs. NATO and GATT were two sides of one coin; the Warsaw Treaty Organization... -
Globalization and the National Security State by T. V. Paul 9780195393903
Booksplease Price: £71.40In the past two decades, many have posited a correlation between the spread of globalization and the decline of the nation-state. In the realm of national security, advocates of the globalization... -
Politics in the New Hard Times: The Great Recession in Comparative Perspective by Miles Kahler
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £20.89The Great Recession and its aftershocks, including the Eurozone banking and debt crisis, add up to the worst global economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Although economic... -
Delegation and Agency in International Organizations by Darren G. Hawkins
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £35.97Why do states delegate certain tasks and responsibilities to international organizations rather than acting unilaterally or cooperating directly? Furthermore, to what extent do states continue to... -
Global Security Governance: Competing Perceptions of Security in the Twenty-First Century by Emil J. Kirchner 9780415391627
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.80This book demarcates the barriers and pathways to major power security cooperation and provides an empirical analysis of threat perception among the world's major powers. Divided into three parts,... -
Settling for Less: Why States Colonize and Why They Stop by Lachlan McNamee
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08Why countries colonize the lands of indigenous people Over the past few centuries, vast areas of the world have been violently colonized by settlers. But why did states like Australia and the United... -
Sustainable Peace: Power and Democracy after Civil Wars by Philip G. Roeder 9780801443732
RRP: £116.00Booksplease Price: £93.32How can leaders craft political institutions that will sustain the peace and foster democracy in ethnically divided societies after conflicts as destructive as civil wars? Under turbulent conditions... -
Effective Governance Under Anarchy: Institutions, Legitimacy, and Social Trust in Areas of Limited Statehood by Tanja A. Börzel 9781107183698
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £80.25Policy makers and academics alike have mistakenly promoted an agenda which takes well-governed democratic and consolidated 'Weberian' states as the model for the world and the goal of development... -
Effective Governance Under Anarchy: Institutions, Legitimacy, and Social Trust in Areas of Limited Statehood by Tanja A. Börzel
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £27.94Policy makers and academics alike have mistakenly promoted an agenda which takes well-governed democratic and consolidated 'Weberian' states as the model for the world and the goal of development... -
International Political Economy: An Intellectual History by Mr. Benjamin J. Cohen
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £30.47The field of international political economy gained prominence in the early 1970s--when the Arab oil embargo and other crises ended the postwar era of virtually unhindered economic growth in the... -
Grasping the Democratic Peace: Principles for a Post-Cold War World by Bruce Russett
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.55By illuminating the conflict-resolving mechanisms inherent in the relationships between democracies, Bruce Russett explains one of the most promising developments of the modern international system:... -
Settling for Less: Why States Colonize and Why They Stop by Lachlan McNamee 9780691237800
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £78.62Why countries colonize the lands of indigenous people Over the past few centuries, vast areas of the world have been violently colonized by settlers. But why did states like Australia and the United... -
Globalization and the National Security State by T. V. Paul 9780195393910
RRP: £33.49Booksplease Price: £30.04In the past two decades, many have posited a correlation between the spread of globalization and the decline of the nation-state. In the realm of national security, advocates of the globalization... -
The Invisible Hand of Peace: Capitalism, the War Machine, and International Relations Theory by Patrick J. McDonald 9780521744126
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £25.43The Invisible Hand of Peace shows that the domestic institutions associated with capitalism, namely private property and competitive market structures, have promoted peace between states over the... -
Advanced Introduction to International Political Economy: Second Edition Benjamin J. Cohen 9781788971560
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £20.28Acclaim for previous edition:'Benjamin J. Cohen's Advanced Introduction to International Political Economy evaluates the fragmented intellectual landscape of international political economy and... -
Governance in a Global Economy: Political Authority in Transition by Miles Kahler 9780691114026
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £44.50Critics of globalization claim that economic integration drains political authority from states: devolving authority to newly empowered regions, delegating it to supranational organizations, and... -
Sustainable Peace: Power and Democracy after Civil Wars by Philip G. Roeder
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.51How can leaders craft political institutions that will sustain the peace and foster democracy in ethnically divided societies after conflicts as destructive as civil wars? Under turbulent conditions...