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This book examines contemporary militarism in international
politics, employing a variety of different theoretical viewpoints
and international case studies. Militarism - understood as the
social and international relations of the preparation for, and
conduct of, organized political violence - is an abiding and
defining characteristic of world politics. Yet despite the ongoing
social, political and economic reach of military institutions,
practices and values, the concept and subject of militarism has not
received significant attention within recent debates in
International Relations. This book intends to fill the gap in the
current body of literature. It has two key overarching aims: to
make the case for a renewed research agenda for IR centred on the
concept of militarism; and to provide a series of empirically
focused and theoretically informed case studies of contemporary
militarism in practice. Containing a wide-ranging selection of
chapters, the volume presents a diverse and eclectic body of
research on militarism, designed to act as a stimulus to further
research and debate. This book will be of much interest to students
of military studies, war and conflict studies, international
political economy and IR/security studies in general.
This book examines contemporary militarism in international
politics, employing a variety of different theoretical viewpoints
and international case studies. Militarism - understood as the
social and international relations of the preparation for, and
conduct of, organized political violence - is an abiding and
defining characteristic of world politics. Yet despite the ongoing
social, political and economic reach of military institutions,
practices and values, the concept and subject of militarism has not
received significant attention within recent debates in
International Relations. This book intends to fill the gap in the
current body of literature. It has two key overarching aims: to
make the case for a renewed research agenda for IR centred on the
concept of militarism; and to provide a series of empirically
focused and theoretically informed case studies of contemporary
militarism in practice. Containing a wide-ranging selection of
chapters, the volume presents a diverse and eclectic body of
research on militarism, designed to act as a stimulus to further
research and debate. This book will be of much interest to students
of military studies, war and conflict studies, international
political economy and IR/security studies in general.
"Taking Aim at the Arms Trade" takes a critical look at the ways in
which NGOs portray the arms trade as a problem of international
politics and the strategies they use to effect change. While NGOs
have been pivotal in bringing the suffering caused by the arms
trade to public attention and documenting its negative impacts on
human rights, conflict, security and development around the world,
their overall activity has the perverse effect of justifying the
status quo in the arms trade. They unintentionally contribute to
the generation of consent for a hierarchical and asymmetrical world
military order, facilitating intervention in the global South based
on liberal understandings of the arms trade and associated issues
of conflict, development and human rights. As a consequence, their
actions contribute to the construction of the South as a site of
Northern benevolence and intervention, a stark contrast to NGOs'
self-image and widespread reputation as progressive actors. In
exposing the contradictions inherent in NGOs engagement with the
arms trade, Stavrianakis argues forcefully for a change of approach
that can avoid such damaging outcomes.
"Taking Aim at the Arms Trade" takes a critical look at the ways in
which NGOs portray the arms trade as a problem of international
politics and the strategies they use to effect change. While NGOs
have been pivotal in bringing the suffering caused by the arms
trade to public attention and documenting its negative impacts on
human rights, conflict, security and development around the world,
their overall activity has the perverse effect of justifying the
status quo in the arms trade. They unintentionally contribute to
the generation of consent for a hierarchical and asymmetrical world
military order, facilitating intervention in the global South based
on liberal understandings of the arms trade and associated issues
of conflict, development and human rights. As a consequence, their
actions contribute to the construction of the South as a site of
Northern benevolence and intervention, a stark contrast to NGOs'
self-image and widespread reputation as progressive actors. In
exposing the contradictions inherent in NGOs engagement with the
arms trade, Stavrianakis argues forcefully for a change of approach
that can avoid such damaging outcomes.
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