The second edition of this widely acclaimed book takes as its main theme the question of how states and societies pursue freedom from threat in an environment in which ...

Functional differentiation has long been at the heart of sociological thought, and as such has become a defining feature in the evolution of modern society; one which ...

Presented as a successor to the Cold War era book An Introduction to Strategic Studies, this volume explores issues of military security through a framework that links the ...

Arguing that we live in a world where great powers - such as China and the EU - are not helpless in the face of the United States, this text contends that the other major ...

-- James Der Derian, University of Massachusetts

A new and systematic view of how global international society (GIS) came into being and acquired its current structure and dynamics. Buzan and Schouenborg integrate states ...

Barry Buzan offers an extensive and long overdue critique and reappraisal of the English school approach to International Relations. Starting on the neglected concept of world ...

This book develops the idea that since decolonisation, regional patterns of security have become more prominent in international politics. The authors combine an operational ...

12 key contemporary thinkers express their views on the current state of the art of international relations, with the prominent feminist theorist Jean Bethke Elshtain ...

Developing the key work of Gerry Segal, this book examines China in the context of the world economy, the Asian economy, as a global military power, as a regional military ...