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'Sorry for the Genocide': How Public Apologies Can Help Promote National Reconciliation

Andrieu, K. — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:23:42 PDT

The aim of this article is to defend the politics of official apologies as part of a liberal conception of state and society. To acknowledge this is to defend a subjective conception of state legitimacy, not solely based on its objective efficiency but also on the meaning that citizens give to it and their belief in its legitimacy. I will argue that official apologies for past wrongs can be an essential component of this belief, and help building or rebuilding civic trust in the aftermath of mass atrocity. The acknowledgment of a wrongdoing, the acceptance of one's responsibility, and the expression of sorrow and regret for it can therefore appear as a reliable way to promote national reconciliation. I will show that in order to understand how pure words can provoke such an important shift, we need to `unfold' the meaning of an apology and to review our conception of reconciliation itself. Only if we consider reconciliation as the achievement of trust can apologies become part of the reconstruction process of post-conflict societies. I will draw upon a Habermassian conception of discursive solidarity to show that, rightly understood and formulated, apologies, as a form of dialogue, could become an essential norm-affirming and community-binding measure in the aftermath of mass atrocities, one compatible with a liberal project of transitional justice.

'A Fresh Crop of Human Misery': Representations of Bosnian 'War Babies' in the Global Print Media, 1991--2006

Carpenter, R. C. — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:23:42 PDT

During the war in the former Yugoslavia, women of all ethnic backgrounds were raped and many gave birth to children as a result of this violence. Although numerous journalists wrote about the pregnancies and the babies during the war, almost no attention has been paid to these children as such by human rights organisations during or since. Given the purported agenda-setting role of the global media in drawing attention to new human rights problems, this case represents an interesting puzzle and a site for exploring the interrelationship between gendered, nationalist and rights-based frames in the global media's representations of atrocity. This article explores how these representations both figured in gendered constructions of genocide and negatively affected the prospects of human rights attention to the children in their own right.

Capacity and its Fallacies: International State Building as State Transformation

Hameiri, S. — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:23:42 PDT

Considerable effort in recent years has gone into rebuilding fragile states. However, the debates over the effectiveness of such state-building exercises have tended to neglect that capacity building and the associated good governance programmes which comprise contemporary state building are essentially about transforming the state — meaning the ways in which political power is produced and reproduced. State capacity is now often presented as the missing link required for generating positive development outcomes and security. However, rather than being an objective and technical measure, capacity building constitutes a political and ideological mechanism for operationalising projects of state transnationalisation. The need to question prevailing notions of state capacity has become apparent in light of the failure of many state-building programmes. Such programmes have proven difficult to implement, and implementation has rarely achieved the expected development turnarounds or alleviation of violent conflict in those countries. In this article it is argued that, to identify the potential trajectories of such interventions, we must understand the role state building currently plays in domestic politics, and in particular, the ways in which processes of state transformation affect the development of different and often conflicting power bases within the state. This argument is examined using examples from the Australian-led Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands.

Sovereign-less Subject and the Possibility of Resistance

Zevnik, A. — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:23:42 PDT

This article explores exclusionary practices of contemporary politics and alternative forms of resistance. It starts off explaining how Giorgio Agamben's theory can be understood in the context of resistance. In so doing, it turns to the arguments put forward by Edkins and Pin-Fat. In their article `Through the Wire', they identify two forms of resistance. Drawing on Agamben's thought: refusal and the assumption of bare life. This article argues that these two forms are not sufficient for thinking resistance. This is so because of a gap in Agamben's thought and the way Edkins and Pin-Fat read him. In order to explore resistance in a more fruitful way, the article critiques Edkins and Pin-Fat's conclusions on the understanding bare life as a form of resistance; it amends Agamben's account by explaining the move from bare life to whatever being, and ultimately, the article finds whatever being as a fruitful way of understanding resistance on the example of Tiananmen. At the end I conclude that the Tiananmen protest successfully challenged the sovereign power from the position of in-between.

Still on the Long Road to Theory

Little, R. — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:23:42 PDT

This review endeavours to identify the essential features of Lebow's attempt in A Cultural Theory of International Relations to provide a new grand theory of international relations. Lebow's starting point is that all existing grand theories in the field are fundamentally flawed because they operate on the basis of one-dimensional and oversimplified views of human motivation. He is particularly critical of interest-based theories of international relations, and his aim is to establish a conception of the human psyche that will allow him to introduce a cultural or social dimension to human motivation, and it is on this basis that he then endeavours to generate a cultural theory of international relations.

A Fanonian Critique of Lebow's A Cultural Theory of International Relations

Shilliam, R. — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:23:42 PDT

Ned Lebow's new project is not so much a cultural theory of international relations as an affective praxis of modernity. Lebow seeks to elucidate the psychical drivers of intersubjective identity formation that dynamically constitute status hierarchies in societies. And through this understanding Lebow holds that present-day possibilities of structural transformations in international relations might be clearly guided by practical reason. In what follows I mount a sympathetic critique of Lebow's affective praxis based upon its effective circumscription of psychical life to elite European men. Lebow pays hardly any attention to the psychic drivers of colonisation and decolonisation as felt by the colonised. Using the work of Frantz Fanon, I shall suggest that shifting the focus to the colonial and post-colonial world brings to light a set of considerations on the psychic sources of affect in modernity that remain obfuscated when the European elite man is conflated as the modern subject.

Culture, Change and the Meaning of History: Reflections on Richard Lebow's New Theory of International Relations

Osiander, A. — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:23:42 PDT

In my critique of Richard Lebow's new A Cultural Theory of International Relations I highlight a lack of sensitivity to the problem of structural change. Contrary to Lebow's claim to be more attuned to change than existing IR theory, I contend that his exclusive focus on the recurrence of certain behavioural patterns in the course of history is insufficient as a foundation for a new grand theory. Interesting as it may be, this focus is restrictive even with regard to the concept of culture on which it is based. Thus, religion and ideology, which surely must be classified as cultural phenomena, are virtually ignored. Last but not least, I fault the book for its cavalier, indeed often cartoonish, treatment of the historical record. The book falls far short of the `sympathetic reliving' of the past that it promises; the argument is, moreover, seriously impaired by the myriad factual mistakes that the book contains.

Culture and International Relations: The Culture of International Relations

Lebow, R. N. — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:23:42 PDT

In a response to my critics I further elaborate some of the concepts central to A Cultural Theory of International Relations. I explain why it is a cultural theory, as distinct from a theory of culture; the different levels of reason conceptualised by the Greeks and their utility in moving our thinking beyond the exclusive focus on instrumental rationality of modern social science; and Aristotle's concept of anger and its implications for the behaviour of the weak and the powerful. I justify my case selection and its Western bias, but defend the universality of my theory and its non-hegemonic application to the study of other cultures.

List of Books Reviewed

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:23:42 PDT

Book Review: General International Relations: Jean-Marc Coicaud and Nicholas J. Wheeler (eds), National Interest and International Solidarity: Particular and Universal Ethics in International Life (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2008, 317 pp., US$36.00 pbk)

Betti, A. — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:23:42 PDT

Book Review: Richard J. Samuels, Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007, 296 pp., US $29.95/{pound}14.95 hbk)

Manicom, J. — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:23:42 PDT

Book Review: Bahar Rumelili, Constructing Regional Community and Order in Europe and Southeast Asia (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, 192 pp., {pound}45 hbk)

Guillaume, X. — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:23:42 PDT

Book Review: Robert Dover, Europeanization of British Defence Policy (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007, 190 pp., {pound}55.00 hbk)

McCourt, D. M. — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:23:42 PDT

Book Review: Simon Chesterman and Chia Lehnardt (eds), From Mercenaries to Markets: The Rise and Regulation of Private Military Companies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, 287 pp., {pound}61.75 hbk)

Dinev Ivanov, I. — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:23:42 PDT

Book Review: Madeleine Fagan, Ludovic Glorieux, Indira Hasimbegovic and Marie Suetsugu (eds), Derrida: Negotiating the Legacy (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007, 246 pp., {pound}18.99 pbk, {pound}55.00 hbk)

Halas, M. — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:23:42 PDT

Book Review: William E. Connolly, Democracy, Pluralism and Political Theory edited by Samuel A. Chambers and Terrell Carver (Oxon: Routledge, 2008, 335 pp., {pound}21.99, pbk): Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth (ed.), Rewriting Democracy: Cultural Politics in Postmodernity (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007, 148 pp., {pound}55.00 hbk)

Mallick, S. — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:23:42 PDT

Book Review: Conflict and Peace Studies: Saleem H. Ali (ed.), Peace Parks: Conservation and Conflict Resolution (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2007, 406 pp., {pound}18.95 pbk)

Glaesel Frontani, H. — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:23:42 PDT

Book Review: Ruth Deyermond, Security and Sovereignty in the Former Soviet Union (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008, 234 pp., US$55.00 hbk)

Kavalski, E. — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:23:42 PDT

Book Review: David Keen, Complex Emergencies (Cambridge: Polity, 2008, 221 pp., {pound}15.99 pbk)

Kirby, P. — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:23:42 PDT

Book Review: Gender and Human Rights: Jane L. Parpart and Marysia Zalewski (eds), Rethinking the Man Question: Sex, Gender and Violence in International Relations (London: Zed Books, 2008, 211 pp., {pound}18.99 pbk). Shirin M. Rai and Georgina Waylen (eds), Global Governance: Feminist Perspectives (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, 308 pp., {pound}20.99 pbk)

Manjikian, M. — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:23:42 PDT

Book Review: Governments and Theories of Governance: Markus Kornprobst, Vincent Pouliot, Nisha Shah and Ruben Zaiotti (eds), Metaphors in Globalization. Mirrors, Magicians and Mutinies (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, 304 pp., {pound}52.25 hbk)

Helmig, J. — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:23:42 PDT

Book Review: Anisseh Van Engeland and Rachael M. Rudolph, From Terrorism to Politics (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008, 230 pp., {pound}55.00 hbk)

Burke, F. — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:23:42 PDT

Book Review: Raffaele Marchetti, Global Democracy: For and Against. Ethical Theory, Institutional Design and Social Struggles (London and New York: Routledge, 2008, 212 pp, {pound}65.00 hbk)

Patomaki, H. — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:23:42 PDT

Book Review: James Bohman, Democracy Across Borders: From Demos to Demoi (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2007, 219 pp., {pound}21.95 hbk)

Shisheva, M. — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:23:42 PDT

Book Review: William E. DeMars, NGOs and Transnational Networks: Wild Cards in World Politics (London and Ann Arbor, MI: Pluto Press, 2005, 250 pp., {pound}24.00 pbk, {pound}75.00 hbk)

Gotz, N. — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:23:42 PDT

Book Review: Volker Heins, Nongovernmental Organizations in International Society: Struggles over Recognition (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, 211 pp, {pound}42.50 hbk)

Greenhill, B. — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:23:42 PDT

Book Review: International History: Leigh A. Payne, Unsettling Accounts: Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008, 374 pp., {pound}13.99 pbk). Maja Zehfuss, Wounds of Memory: The Politics of War in Germany (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, 294 pp., {pound}50.00 hbk)

Hutchison, E. — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:23:42 PDT

Book Review: International Political Economy: David A. Deese, World Trade Politics. Power, Principles and Leadership (Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2008, 224 pp., {pound}21.99 pbk)

Erhard Wehner, L. — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:23:42 PDT

Book Review: Religion and Politics: Angel Rabasa, Cheryl Benard, Lowell H. Schwartz and Peter Sickle, Building Moderate Muslim Networks (Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2007, 216 pp., US$30.00 pbk)

Bryn Roberts, D. — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:23:42 PDT

Editors' Introduction

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:14:30 PDT

Restructuring Global Governance: Cosmopolitanism, Democracy and the Global Order

Held, D. — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:14:30 PDT

Democracy in a Multipolar World

Mouffe, C. — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:14:30 PDT

Democracy in International Society: Promotion or Exclusion?

Clark, I. — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:14:30 PDT

Mobilising (Global) Democracy: A Political Reading of Mobility between Universal Rights and the Mob

Aradau, C., Huysmans, J. — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:14:30 PDT

This article argues that a political reading of mobility is instrumental for understanding the role of democracy within globalised structures of power. Relegated to a socio-economic background that prompts new engagements with democracy, mobility has been neglected as a condition of possibility and as a form of political democratic practice. Drawing on Georg Simmel's sociology of money, we show that practices of mobility become democratic moments in relation to structures of power that are constituted across the territorial circumscription of national states. Understood as a particular form of sociality, mobility can work upon structures of power through universal rights and the politics of the `mob'. In this sense, practices of mobility are also democratic inscriptions of equality.

Power to the People: Nationally Embedded Development and Mass Armies in the Making of Democracy

Halperin, S. — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:14:30 PDT

Much current thinking about democracy and how it can be promoted is based on myths about how democracy was achieved in the West. For example, the association of economic openness with democratisation — the focus of a vast literature and the rationale for most, if not all, major democracy promotion proposals and programme — is based, implicitly or explicitly, on the erroneous assumption that the emergence of democracy in the West was associated, in some way, with the development of more open economies. This article argues that, in fact, the achievement of Western democracy is associated, not with greater economic openness, but with a number of socio-economic changes, such as the wartime mobilisation of workers, that led to the emergence of a relatively more nationally `embedded' capitalism, involving greater restrictions on capital and an increase in state regulatory and welfare functions.

Beyond the End of History: The Need for a `Radical Historicisation' of Democracy in International Relations

Hobson, C. — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:14:30 PDT

To properly comprehend democracy's present and future role in politics, particularly in regards to processes of democratisation and democracy promotion, we must cultivate a more nuanced reading of democracy's past. Needed is `a radical historicisation of democracy', in Frank Ankersmit's words, which foregrounds that democracy is a contingent historical fact, necessarily conditioned by its past. This position is contrasted to the standard account of democracy and its history provided by liberalism. Rather than comfortably accepting the current prominence of liberal democracy and the widespread normative agreement on this form of rule, this article instead considers the much longer tradition of thought which regarded democracy as something negative and very distinct from liberalism. In so doing, a sensitive reading of democracy's past promotes a much more reflexive position, which opens space for considering whether the present state of affairs is actually much less secure and more fragile than many liberal proponents of democracy tend to suggest. At the same time, this approach also points the way towards a more considered case for democracy.

The Symbiosis of Democracy and Tragedy: Lost Lessons from Ancient Greece

Chou, M., Bleiker, R. — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:14:30 PDT

Democracy and tragedy were intrinsically linked during the time of the Athenian city-state. But though vital at the time, this symbiosis is largely forgotten today. We address this puzzling silence. What was it about democracy that encouraged, even needed, the ascendancy of tragedy? Why did the mass performances of tragedy play so central a role in the democratic polis of Athens? We address these questions not as historians or philologists, but as scholars of contemporary international relations. Our hope, in particular, is to uncover whether the Greek experiment, radical and short-lived as it was, can provide us with clues about how to extend democracy to the global realm, which increasingly shapes people's lives but so far lacks mechanisms for democratic participation and accountability. We explore how the paradoxical plots that lie at the heart of tragedies remind us — as they did the Greeks — that no order is ever complete or void of contradictions; that democracy is not about complete control but about recognising the limits of politics and dealing with the forces of chaos and change. We illustrate the issues at stake — along with their relevance for contemporary international relations — through tragedy's so-called multivocal form, which brought into the public realm a multitude of voices and issues that could not otherwise be heard in democratic deliberations.

Pragmatic Cosmopolitanism: A Deweyan Approach to Democracy beyond the Nation-State

Bray, D. — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:14:30 PDT

Contemporary normative debates about democracy beyond nation-states have largely centred on the claims of two broad camps: the `liberal cosmopolitans' and the `deliberative democrats'. This article offers an alternative perspective developed from the work of philosopher John Dewey that I call `pragmatic cosmopolitanism'. First, my argument for pragmatic cosmopolitanism briefly outlines the Deweyan ethical ideas that serve as my normative grounding for the transnationalisation of democratic life. This grounding is primarily based on an ethic of growth that sees the use of critical intelligence and imaginative representation as the key basis for extending moral and political boundaries beyond nation-states. In the second part, I flesh out this framework by providing normative responses to what I identify as the four problems of transnational democracy: problems of constituency, democratic scope, social prerequisites and practical institutionalisation. These responses focus attention on the important roles of leadership and representation in constituting the political agency of transnational democratic publics. The role of leaders and representative practices is emphasised because they are central elements in the development of transnational democracy that are neglected by the liberal cosmopolitan and deliberative approaches.

The Right to Democracy in International Law: A Classical Liberal Reassessment

Fabry, M. — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:14:30 PDT

The end of the cold war brought with it arguments in favour of international institutional and legal mechanisms that would protect democracy worldwide. These arguments have by no means been confined to the academic departments of international law or political science: in the aftermath of extensive democratisation in the 1980s and early 1990s, a growing number of global and regional organisations have, in fact, come to regard democracy as the only acceptable system of domestic rule within their domains and sought to implement measures to delegitimise non-democratic regimes as well as to defend democratic regimes against major internal threats. This article questions this trend. Drawing on the classical liberal approach to international relations, it argues that democracy, as a system of domestic government, must ultimately be the choice and responsibility of those who live within its bounds, and not of outside governments or institutions.

Lust/Caution in IR: Democratising World Politics with Culture as a Method

Boyu Chen, , Hwang, C.-C., Ling, L.H.M. — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:14:30 PDT

International Relations (IR) needs democratising. Currently, IR theorising remains under the hegemony of a singular worldview (`warre of all against all') with a singular logic (`conversion or discipline') for all actors and activities. This top-down, state-centric and exclusivist approach is fundamentally anti-democratic for a field of inquiry and practice crowded with multiple worlds. The Humanities, we propose, will help to mitigate these totalitarian tendencies by expressing and examining what hegemonic IR cannot but must: that is, a richness of being in global life. We present Ang Lee's Lust/ Caution (2007) as an example. If seen as an allegory for Taiwan—China relations, this film shifts attention from the national security state, a defining concern for hegemonic IR, to the transnational solidarities that bind peoples and societies despite inter-state conflicts, thereby offering a way out of the statist impasse that incarcerates the region. This approach extends beyond recent calls for a `linguistic' or `artistic' turn in IR. Culture, we argue, can serve as a method.

Some Pitfalls of Democratisation in a Globalising World: Thoughts from the 2008 Millennium Conference

Cerny, P. G. — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:14:30 PDT

The problems and prospects of the expansion of democracy at international, transnational and/or global levels were the focus of numerous fascinating and penetrating analyses by the participants in the 2008 Millennium Conference. However, there were also a number of gaps and unresolved issues. This article attempts to identify and evaluate several potential pitfalls confronting the expansion of democratic institutions and processes. Five of those potential pitfalls are particularly problematic and interact with each other to reinforce and intensify the obstacles to wider democratisation processes at several levels. The first of these can be illustrated by examining the problematic historical `roads to democracy' taken within nation states. The second looks at some of the paradoxes in empirical democratic theory, especially questions like democratic stability and the background role of non-democratic infrastructures. The third concerns normative dimensions of democratic theory, in particular the existence of different conceptions of democracy and the gap between procedural democracy and substantive democracy. The fourth asks `Who democratises?' and considers the democratising potential of different types of various actors and the challenges they face. The fifth focuses on international regimes and institutions — `global governance' — and argues that this system actually constitutes a major obstacle to wider democratisation. The challenges confronting democratisation are significantly greater than the potential for the spread of genuine democracy across borders, although some niches and relatively circumscribed issue areas may develop limited forms of quasi-democratisation more akin to pluralism.

List of Books Reviewed

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:14:30 PDT

Book Review: GENERAL INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Anthony Burke and Matt McDonald (eds), Critical Security in the Asia-Pacific (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007, 306 pp., {pound}16.99 pbk.)

Aris, S. — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:14:30 PDT

Book Review: Cecile Fabre, Justice in a Changing World (London: Polity, 2007, 184 pp., {pound}15.99 pbk., {pound}50.00 hbk.)

Fogel, C. — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:14:30 PDT

Book Review: Raia Prokhovnik, Sovereignties: Contemporary Theory and Practice (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, viii + 264 pp., {pound}50.00 hbk.)

Holland, B. — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:14:30 PDT

Book Review: Prem Kumar Rajaram and Carl Grundy-Warr (eds), Borderscapes: Hidden Geographies and Politics at Territory's Edge (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007, 376 pp., US$25.00 pbk.)

Woodling, M. — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:14:30 PDT

Book Review: Robert Jackson, Sovereignty: The Evolution of an Idea (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2007, 180 pp., {pound}14.00 pbk, {pound}45.00 hbk.)

Van De Haar, E. — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:14:30 PDT

Book Review: CONFLICT AND PEACE STUDIES Beatrice Pouligny, Simon Chesterman and Albrecht Schnabel (eds), After Mass Crime: Rebuilding States and Communities (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2007, 314 pp., pbk.). Marie Breen Smyth, Truth Recovery and Justice after Conflict: Managing Violent Pasts (New York: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution, 2007, 210 pp., {pound}75.00 hbk.)

Robins, S. — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:14:30 PDT

Book Review: John Davis (ed.), Africa and the War on Terrorism (Hampshire: Ashgate, 2007, 200 pp., {pound}55.00 hbk.)

Naftalin, M. — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:14:30 PDT

Book Review: Robert J. Art and Louise Richardson (eds), Democracy and Counterterrorism: Lessons from the Past (Washington: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2007, 639 pp, $35.00 pbk., $65.00 hbk.)

Voznyak, V. — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:14:30 PDT

Book Review: Michael C. Desch, Power and Military Effectiveness: The Fallacy of Democratic Triumphalism (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008, 232 pp., {pound}30.00 hbk.)

Scarinzi, F. — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:14:30 PDT

Book Review: DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENT Robert Falkner, Business Power and Conflict in International Environmental Politics (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, 242 pp., $74.95 hbk.)

Macleod, M. — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:14:30 PDT

Book Review: FOREIGN POLICY ANALYSIS Jeffrey Lewis, The Minimum Means of Reprisal: China's Search for Security in the Nuclear Age (Cambridge, MA: MIT University Press, 2007, 262 pp., {pound}14.95 pbk.)

Ong-Webb, G. G. — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:14:30 PDT

Book Review: Gavan McCormack, Client State: Japan in the American Embrace (London: Verso, 2007, 246 pp., {pound}17.99 pbk.)

Heng, Y.-K. — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:14:30 PDT

Book Review: GOVERNMENTS AND THEORIES OF GOVERNANCE Daniel P. Aldrich, Site Fights: Divisive Facilities and Civil Society in Japan and the West (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008, 254 pp., $39.95 hbk.)

Dobson, H. — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:14:30 PDT

Book Review: INTEGRATION AND TRANSITION Susan Bibler Coutin, Nations of Emigrants: Shifting Boundaries of Citizenship in El Salvador and the United States (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2007, 263 pp., {pound}11.94 pbk.). Montserrat Guibernau, The Identity of Nations (Cambridge and Malden: Polity Press, 2007, 235 pp., {pound}17.99 pbk.)

Sert, D. — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:14:30 PDT

Book Review: INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY Benjamin J. Cohen, International Political Economy: An Intellectual History (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008, 210 pp., {pound}15.95 pbk., {pound}32.95 hbk.). Robert Albritton, Economics Transformed: Discovering the Brilliance of Marx (London and Ann Arbor, MI: Pluto Press, 2007, 214 pp., {pound}15.95 pbk., {pound}50.00 hbk.)

Tyfield, D. — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:14:30 PDT

Book Review: Ray Bush, Poverty and Neoliberalism: Persistence and Reproduction in the Global South (London and Ann Arbour, MI: Pluto Press, 2007, 256 pp., {pound}19.99 pbk.)

Kirkup, A. — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:14:30 PDT

Book Review: John M. Hobson and Leonard Seabrooke (eds), Everyday Politics of the World Economy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, 254 pp., {pound}18.99 pbk.)

Strange, M. — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:14:30 PDT

Book Review: RELIGION AND POLITICS Mike King, Secularism: The Hidden Origins of Disbelief (Cambridge: James Clarke & Co., 2007, 323 pp., {pound}25.00 pbk.)

Stummvoll, A. A. — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:14:30 PDT

Book Review: Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, The Politics of Secularism in International Relations (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008, 247 pp., {pound}13.50 pbk.)

Abou-El-Fadl, R. — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:14:30 PDT

Errata

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Affect and the Rise of the Self-Regulating Market

Gammon, E. — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:43:40 PST

This article outlines a post-rationalist approach to international political economy that factors in the role of affect in social causation. There are key historical junctures where social transformations cannot be neatly explained by instrumental logics, such as the profit motive or the pursuit of increasing productive efficiency. Affect, in the form of anxiety and aggression, overdetermines social behaviour in ways that belie conventional notions of rationality, premised on a clear ordering of needs or preferences by social actors. This analysis specifically reassesses the role of affect in the rise of market civilisation in Britain in the early part of the nineteenth century. It critiques Karl Polanyi's account, which privileges technology and pecuniary greed as the expedients of the institution of the self-regulating market. As an alternative, this article explains the rise of the self-regulating market as a retributive mechanism, whereby the market became conceived as a means of punishing and disciplining social behaviour in the early Victorian period. The market, I argue, was an aggressive response to anxiety that plagued Victorian society regarding social order, an anxiety precipitated by the waning belief in a natural moral economy guided by the hand of Providence.

The Strange Case of Ethnography and International Relations

Vrasti, W. — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:43:40 PST

Over the past couple of decades a growing number of International Relations (IR) scholars have adapted and adopted ethnographic research and writing modes, hoping that ethnography would introduce an emancipatory research agenda and refurbish the discipline's parochial vestiges. This article discusses the promising and problematic implications of this move. It argues that the `ethnographic turn' in IR ignores recent anthropological literature on the topic and employs a selective and often instrumental notion of what ethnography is and does. By reviewing some of the most prominent ethnographic contributions made by feminist and social constructivist authors, this article demonstrates that, in international relations, the complexity of ethnography has been reduced to (1) an empiricist data-collection machine, (2) a writing style, or (3) a theoretical sensibility. However, this intervention also hopes to encourage students of global politics to rewrite international relations from an ethnographical stance and take full advantage of ethnography's radical promise.

Neoliberal Governance of States: The Role of Competitiveness Indexing and Country Benchmarking

Fougner, T. — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:43:40 PST

This article engages in a critical analysis of two of the most influential contemporary economic publications — namely, the competitiveness reports published annually by the World Economic Forum and the International Institute for Management Development. Drawing on Michel Foucault's work on governmentality, it emphasises the governmental work that these reports do in relation to ongoing efforts aimed at governing states in a neoliberal fashion. In and through competitiveness indexing and country benchmarking, they are argued to contribute not only to constitute states as flexible market subjects, but also to guide their `rational' conduct thus constituted. Acknowledging that there is nothing natural or given about states striving to improve their `national competitiveness', the article concludes with some broader reflections on the future prospects for neoliberal governance of states.

Narrative Explanation and International Relations: Back to Basics

Suganami, H. — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:43:40 PST

One of the central concerns of International Relations (IR), as well as International History (IH), is to explain how a given event came to occur. However, the importance and effectiveness of narrative as explanation is often neglected in IR. By focusing on the structure and role of narrative causal accounts, this article argues that drawing a distinction between IR and IH on the basis of their treatment of narrative is senseless. In the course of the discussion, a number of standard philosophical distinctions underpinning mainstream IR are challenged: in particular, reasons and causes, understanding and explanation, history and social science, and history and theory. It contends that the historical mode of knowledge production is indispensable to IR in addressing its substantive issues. However, it also warns that if IR is to take advantage of history in this way, it should also take seriously the epistemological and political critique of history and the narrative mode of representation. It ends by taking a critical glance at the works of Hollis and Smith, Lebow, and Edkins, and identifies a number of important meta-historical questions that need to be addressed in order to deepen our understanding of our ways of knowing world politics.

The Role of History in International Relations

Elman, C., Elman, M. F. — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:43:40 PST

Polities Past and Present

Ferguson, Y. H., Mansbach, R. W. — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:43:41 PST

The English School and British Historians

Keene, E. — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:43:41 PST

Reading History through Constructivist Eyes

Reus-Smit, C. — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:43:41 PST

What is History in International Relations?

Hobson, J. M., Lawson, G. — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:43:41 PST

Embedded Liberalism in Counterpoint: Reading Woody Guthrie's Reciprocal Economy

Aitken, R. — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:43:41 PST

`Culture' and cultural analysis have recently become important to our understanding of world politics and international studies. Cultural analysis has been less central, however, to work in International Political Economy (IPE). This article is an experiment in thinking through the possibilities of one cultural methodology — contrapuntal analysis — and the potential it might have in opening up discussions of cultural analysis in IPE. To explore these possibilities, this article works though a cultural reading of `embedded liberalism'; a moment key to founding narratives in both critical and mainstream strands of IPE. The article uses a strategy of counterpoint — the attempt to place objects in relational relief in order to stress atonal contrast — as a way to highlight `other' stories of embedded liberalism. To make this case, the article retells the story of Woody Guthrie's conception of debt as a relational practice of belonging. Guthrie's alternative conception of finance, formulated in the 1940s, can, I argue, help place our conventional stories of embedded liberalism in counterpoint. This is a critical gesture, moreover, which might also help provoke more relational analyses of our own globalised and neo-liberal present.

Vagaries of Interpretation: A Rejoinder to David Chandler's Reductionist Reading of Carl Schmitt

Odysseos, L., Petito, F. — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:43:41 PST

Textual and Critical Approaches to Reading Schmitt: Rejoinder to Odysseos and Petito

Chandler, D. — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:43:41 PST

List of Books Reviewed

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:43:41 PST

Book Review: General International Relations: Audie Klotz and Cecelia Lynch, Strategies for Research in Constructivist International Relations (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2007, 135 pp., {pound}45.00 pbk.)

Chou, S.-Y. — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:43:41 PST

Book Review: Hall Gardner, American Global Strategy and the `War on Terrorism' (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007, 252 pp., {pound}25.00 pbk.). Terrence Paupp, Exodus From Empire: The Fall of America's Empire and the Rise of the Global Community (London: Pluto Press, 2007, 424 pp., {pound}25.00 pbk.)

Joshi, S. — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:43:41 PST

Book Review: Sarah Percy, Mercenaries: The History of a Norm in International Relations (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2007, 272 pp., {pound}25.00 hbk.)

Kenny, P. D. — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:43:41 PST

Book Review: Conflict and Peace Studies: Stephen Ryan, The Transformation of Violent Intercommunal Conflict (Hampshire: Ashgate, 2007, 202 pp., {pound}55.00 hbk.)

Johns, M. — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:43:41 PST

Book Review: Henry Shue and David Rodin (eds), Preemption: Military Action and Moral Justification (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007, 267 pp., {pound}45.00 hbk.)

Ceulemans, C. — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:43:41 PST

Book Review: Hugo Slim, Killing Civilians: Method, Madness and Morality in War (London: Hurst, 2007, 319 pp., {pound}20.00 hbk.)

Bennett, H. — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:43:41 PST

Book Review: Development and Environment: Dennis A. Rondinelli and John M. Heffron, Globalization and Change in Asia (London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007, 278 pp., $24.50 pbk., $59.95 hbk.). Sebastian Oberthur and Thomas Gehring, Institutional Interaction in Global Environmental Governance: Synergy and Conflict among International and EU Policies (Cambridge: MIT Press, 405 pp., $28.00 pbk., $68.00 hbk.). Ikechi Mgbeoji, Global Biopiracy: Patents, Plants, and Indigenous Knowledge (New York: Cornell University Press, 2006, 311 pp., $32.95pbk., $95.00 hbk.)

Mishra, A. K. — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:43:41 PST

Book Review: Foreign Policy Analysis: M. Kent Bolton, US National Security and Foreign Policy Making After 9/11: Present at the Re-Creation (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2008, 432 pp., {pound}19.99 pbk.)

Futter, A. — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:43:41 PST

Book Review: Dov Waxman, The Pursuit of Peace and the Crisis of Israeli Identity (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2006, 254 pp., {pound}45.00 hbk.)

Rynhold, J. — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:43:41 PST

Book Review: Governments and Theories of Governance: Sumit Ganguly, Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner (eds), The State of India's Democracy (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, xxvii + 232 pp., {pound}12.50 pbk.)

Thakur, M. K. — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:43:41 PST

Book Review: Integration and Transition: Sonia Lucarelli and Ian Manners (eds), Values and Principles in European Union Foreign Policy (London: Routledge, 2006, 254 pp., {pound}70.00 hbk.)

Kissack, R. — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:43:41 PST

Book Review: International History: Abdullah Ocalan, Prison Writings: The Roots of Civilisation, trans. Klaus Happel (London: Pluto Press, 2007, 320 pp., $40.00 hbk.)

Bar-On, T. — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:43:41 PST

Book Review: Nira Wickramasinghe, Sri Lanka in the Modern Age: A History of Contested Identities (London: Hurst Publishers, 2006, 360 pp., {pound}19.50 pbk., {pound}35.00 hbk.)

Coperahewa, S. — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:43:41 PST

Book Review: International Political Economy: Shaun Breslin, China and the Global Political Economy (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, 246 pp., {pound}45.00 hbk.). Giovanni Arrighi, Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century (London: Verso Press, 2008, 418 pp., {pound}25.00 hbk.)

Deer, L. — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:43:41 PST

Book Review: Ricardo M. S. Soares de Oliveira, Oil and Politics in the Gulf of Guinea (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007, 400 pp., {pound}19.00, $32.00, pbk.)

Moreira, S. — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:43:41 PST

Book Review: Andrew Walter, Governing Finance: East Asia's Adoption of International Standards (New York: Cornell University Press, 2008, 256 pp., {pound}17.95 pbk.)

Vlcek, W. — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:43:41 PST

Book Review: Religion and Politics: John Gray, Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007, 243 pp., $24.00 hbk.)

Mcqueen, A. — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:43:41 PST

Situating Identities: Enacting and Studying Europe at a Russian Elite University

Muller, M. — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:21:13 PDT

The majority of studies on identity in the discipline of International Relations have analysed identities from an analytical perspective of distance; they elide the fact that identities are situated productions which unfold in specific contexts and through different forms of signification. In this article, I seek to work towards greater attentiveness to the situatedness of identities. I propose a reconsideration of the concept of discourse for situating identities and argue that ethnography can be a useful methodology for analysing the discursive construction of identities in micro-settings. This conceptual argument is illustrated by drawing on data from ethnographic research within Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), a Russian elite university. I analyse how identification with Europe shifts across multiple contexts as it is enacted in everyday life and represented in the multiple processes of studying international relations at this educational institution. Foregrounding the situatedness of identities in this way brings their ambiguities and instabilities into view, while cautioning against an all-too-easy universalization in identity research.

The Revival of Carl Schmitt in International Relations: The Last Refuge of Critical Theorists?

Chandler, D. — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:21:13 PDT

This article seeks to question the 'critical' readings of Carl Schmitt's understanding of international law and the use of force in international relations, particularly the approaches taken by many critical cosmopolitan theorists and many post-structuralists who have used Schmitt to distance themselves from, and to critique, American foreign policy, especially under the Bush administrations. I suggest that these critical theorists engage in a highly idealized understanding of Schmitt, focusing on his contingent political conclusions, using his work descriptively rather than analytically. It is argued that the idealist approach to Schmitt stems from these commentators' concerns to describe their work as critical rather than from any attempt to use Schmitt's underlying ontological framing of the relationship between law, ethics and the use of force to develop analytical insights into the practice and jurisprudence of the international sphere today. The revival of Schmitt in international relations therefore tells us more about the crisis of critical theorizing than the relevance of Schmitt's analysis to today's world.

War Crimes and the Ruin of Law

Dauphinee, E. — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:21:13 PDT

This article explores the manner in which the logic of the war crimes trial authorizes and legitimates the practice of war more generally. It proceeds from the recognition that all war involves injuring or the threat of injuring, and that articulating particular types of injuring as especially problematic takes as one of its effects the normalization of injuring in war more generally. The article queries the function of law through an analysis of the state of exception that is produced in the identification of 'war crimes'. It argues that the logic of excision, which produces the political conditions in which war crimes become possible is structurally replicated through the excision of the perpetrator in the context of the trial. It also explores the manner in which the narrative strategies of what Elaine Scarry calls 'active redescription' associated with war render most war-related deaths and injuries politically invisible. The article concludes with a number of strategies for rethinking what it means to account for violence.

Cosmopolitanism and Realism: Towards a Theoretical Convergence?

Beardsworth, R. — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:21:13 PDT

On both theoretical and analytic accounts, cosmopolitanism and realism seem destined to bypass each other, one entering, at best, the normative dimension of social science, the other, stressing its positive dimension. In this article, I want to suggest that this opposition needs to be unsettled for future theorization and (perhaps) practice of world politics. Taking these two schools of thought is exemplary since their respective theoretical modalities and tenets seem so far opposed. Arguing for convergence between them constitutes part of an emerging attempt, on the part of political philosophers, theorists and international relations scholars today, to recast the conceptual landscape of international relations in response to present complexities of political agency. This convergence is here situated in terms of: (1) the legitimacy of power; (2) the increasing immanence of justice to power in an interdependent world; and (3) the importance of moral leadership in the world political domain. The article is theoretical in modality and diction; outstanding empirical questions are posed once these points are made.

1988 and 1998: Contrast and Continuity in Feminist International Relations

Hutchings, K. — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:21:13 PDT

This article considers contrasts and continuities in feminist IR scholarship over the past twenty years. It traces various shifts in the substantive and methodological concerns of feminist IR in the decade between 1988 and 1998. It concludes with some reflections on the extent to which the agenda for feminist IR scholars in 2008 remains continuous with the last twenty years and the extent to which it has changed or is likely to change.

Men in the Feminist Gaze: What Does this Mean in IR?

Carver, T. — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:21:13 PDT

Some of the contributors to the 1988 and 1998 special issues of Millennium on women/gender and IR queried conventional accounts of sex and gender. Some of these put down markers for the study of sexuality in IR. The political thrust of this enterprise was broadly inclusive in character, deriving from various forms of identity politics, while also presuming a transformative outcome of some sort. A few contributors looked forward to a world beyond the confines of gender hierarchy. This article poses the question: 'What would it be like if "feminist IR" actually were "IR tout court "?' Answering this question requires a non-referential theory of language that goes 'all the way down' — as the 'constructivism' deployed in IR does not, because it relies instead on an unexamined acceptance of 'the material'. The answer also requires an analytical view of masculinity as both apparently ungendered and overtly gendered, thus asymmetrical with femininity. Following through on this analysis resolves the dilemma that many IR feminists feel they face: how to sustain a critique of the manly content and masculinized framing of IR without reinvoking the gender binary through which 'woman' and the feminine are always and already subordinated to men and masculinity, and marginalized as subject and object of knowledge.

Feminist Scholarship in International Relations and the Politics of Disciplinary Emotion

Soreanu, R., Hudson, D. — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:21:13 PDT

The article engages with the relationship between feminist scholarship and the discipline of International Relations. Taking a step back from the recurrent concerns with marginality and those with the absent feminist revolution in IR, we recast the problem of the complicated ménage between feminism and the field of IR as a case of a failure to love. Drawing on the sociology of thinking of Randall Collins and his theory of interaction ritual chains, we read the logic of practice in intellectual fields as one rooted in emotion. In this framework, we theorize citation practices as bearing the trace of intellectuals' emotion-loaded coalitions of the mind. The article maps out the intellectual coalitions in IR with respect to the feminist question by reconstructing the citation networks emerging from the special issue of Millennium, published in 1988 on 'Women in IR'. The maps we put together are read as snapshots of the emotional economy of IR, allowing further reflection about the status of feminist scholarship in IR, about intellectual creativity and about change and stasis in our discipline. We conclude that it is IR which is in trouble, not feminists, with regard to creative potential. Feminists are not marginal in or to IR; instead they are part of a ring of creativity connecting the emotional energies of different disciplinary fields.

Roundtable Discussion: Reflections on the Past, Prospects for the Future in Gender and International Relations

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:21:13 PDT

Slow Looking: The Ethics and Politics of Aesthetics: Jill Bennett, Empathic Vision: Affect, Trauma, and Contemporary Art (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2005) Mark Reinhardt, Holly Edwards, and Erina Duganne, Beautiful Suffering: Photography and the Traffic in Pain (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2007) Gillo Pontecorvo, director, The Battle of Algiers (Criterion: Special Three-Disc Edition, 2004)

Shapiro, M. J. — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:21:13 PDT

This review essay treats three texts: Jill Bennett, Empathic Vision: Affect, Trauma, and Contemporary Art; Mark Reinhardt, Holly Edwards, and Erina Duganne, Beautiful Suffering: Photography and the Traffic in Pain; and The Battle of Algiers, directed by Gillo Pontecorvo.

List of Books Reviewed

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:21:13 PDT

Book Review: GENERAL INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Jonathon W. Moses and Torbjorn L. Knutsen, Ways of Knowing: Competing Methodologies in Social and Political Research (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, 330 pp., {pound}20.99 pbk.). Sean Molloy, The Hidden History of Realism: A Genealogy of Power Politics (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, 187 pp., {pound}42.00 hbk.)

Stocchetti, M. — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:21:13 PDT

Book Review: Raffaella Del Sarto, Contested State Identities and Regional Security in the Euro-Mediterranean Area (London: Palgrave, 2006, 296 pp., {pound}45.00 hbk.)

Barbullushi, O. — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:21:13 PDT

Book Review: Elizabeth Dauphinee, The Ethics of Researching War: Looking for Bosnia (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007, 160 pp., {pound}14.99 pbk.)

Hutchison, E. — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:21:13 PDT

Book Review: Mats Berdal and Spyros Economides (eds), United Nations Interventionism, 1991--2004 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, 303 pp., {pound}17.99 pbk.)

Ker-Lindsay, J. — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:21:13 PDT

Book Review: Francois Debrix, Tabloid Terror: War, Culture, and Geopolitics (London and New York: Routledge, 2008, 193 pp., $41.95 pbk.). Philip Hammond, Media, War and Postmodernity (London and New York: Routledge, 2007, 175 pp., $34.95 pbk.)

Rowley, C. — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:21:13 PDT

Book Review: CONFLICT AND PEACE STUDIES Oded Lowenheim, Predators and Parasites. Persistent Agents of Transnational Harm and Great Power Authority (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2007, 280 pp., $25.95 pbk.)

Leander, A. — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:21:13 PDT

Book Review: Tan See Seng, The Role of Knowledge Communities in Constructing Asia-Pacific Security. How Thought and Talk Make War and Peace (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2007, 284 pp., {pound}69.95 hbk.)

Freistein, K. — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:21:13 PDT

Book Review: Vivienne Jabri, War and the Transformation of Global Politics (Houndmills and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, 240 pp., {pound}45.00 hbk.)

Varada Raj, K. — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:21:13 PDT

Book Review: DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENT Radoslav S. Dimitrov, Science and International Environmental Policy: Regimes and Nonregimes in Global Governance (Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006, 222 pp., {pound}21.99 pbk.). Robert Falkner (ed.), The International Politics of Genetically Modified Food: Diplomacy, Trade and Law (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, 280 pp., {pound}58.00 hbk.)

Mallick, S. — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:21:13 PDT

Book Review: FOREIGN POLICY ANALYSIS Stephen Holmes, The Matador's Cape: America's Reckless Response to Terror (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007, 332 pp., $19.80 hbk.)

Brown, R. S. — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:21:13 PDT

Book Review: Valerie M. Hudson, Foreign Policy Analysis: Classic and Contemporary Theory (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007, 225 pp., $21.21 pbk.)

Bilgin, P. — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:21:13 PDT

Book Review: Cornelius Friesendorf, US Foreign Policy and the War on Drugs: Displacing the Cocaine and Heroin Industry (London and New York: Routledge, 2007, 230 pp., {pound}65 hbk.)

Friedrichs, J. — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:21:13 PDT

Book Review: James Mann, The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression (London: Viking, 2007, 144 pp., {pound}9.92 hbk.). Susan Shirk, China: Fragile Superpower: How China's Internal Politics Could Derail Its Peaceful Rise (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, 336 pp., {pound}15.99 hbk)

Lemish, L. — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:21:13 PDT

Book Review: George A. MacLean, Clinton's Foreign Policy in Russia: From Deterrence and Isolation to Democratisation and Engagement (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2006, 172 pp., {pound}55.00 hbk.)

Oskanian, K. — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:21:13 PDT

Book Review: GOVERNMENTS AND THEORIES OF GOVERNANCE James N. Rosenau, David C. Earnest, Yale H. Ferguson, Ole R. Holsti, On the Cutting Edge of Globalization: An Inquiry into American Elites (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006, viii + 201 pp., {pound}21.99 pbk.)

Akturk, S. — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:21:13 PDT

Book Review: John S. Dryzek, Deliberative Global Politics. Discourse and Democracy in a Divided World (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2006, 191 pp., $24.95 pbk., $59.95 hbk.)

Beckstein, M. — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:21:13 PDT

Book Review: INTERNATIONAL HISTORY Lorna Lloyd, Diplomacy with a Difference: the Commonwealth Office of High Commissioner, 1880--2006 (Leiden: Brill, 2007, 353 pp., $168 hbk.)

Davies, T. — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:21:13 PDT

Book Review: INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY Brett Bowden and Leonard Seabrooke (eds), Global Standards of Market Civilization (London: Routledge, 2006, 248 pp., {pound}70 hbk.)

Strange, M. — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:21:13 PDT

Book Review: RELIGION AND POLITICS Maryam Panah, The Islamic Republic and the World: Global Dimensions of the Iranian Revolution (London: Pluto Press, 2007, 232 pp., {pound}45 pbk.)

Gocer, D. — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:21:13 PDT

Book Review: Martha C. Nussbaum, The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India's Future (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007, 403 pp., $29.95 hbk.)

Rao, R. — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:21:13 PDT