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What's the Point of International Relations casts a critical eye on
what it is that we think we are doing when we study and teach
international relations (IR). It brings together many of IR's
leading thinkers to challenge conventional understandings of the
discipline's origins, history, and composition. It sees IR as a
discipline that has much to learn from others, which has not yet
lived up to its ambitions or potential, and where much work remains
to be done. At the same time, it finds much that is worth
celebrating in the discipline's growing pluralism and views IR as a
deeply political, critical, and normative pursuit. The volume is
divided into five parts: * What is the point of IR? * The origins
of a discipline * Policing the boundaries * Engaging the world *
Imagining the future Although each chapter alludes to and/or
discusses central aspects of all of these components, each part is
designed to capture the central thrust of the concerns of the
contributors. Moving beyond western debate, orthodox perspectives,
and uncritical histories this volume is essential reading for all
scholars and advanced level students concerned with the history,
development, and future of international relations.
Is global climate change likely to become a significant source of
violent conflict, and should it therefore be seen as a national
security challenge? Most Northern governments, militaries, think
tanks and NGOs believe so, as do many academic researchers, on the
grounds that increased temperatures, changing precipitation
patterns and rising sea levels will worsen existing social
stresses, especially within poor societies and marginal communities
across Africa and Asia. This book argues otherwise. The first
collection of its kind, it brings together leading scholars of
Anthropology, Geography, Development Studies and International
Relations to provide a series of critical analyses of mainstream
thinking on the climate-security nexus. It shows how policy
discourse on climate conflict consistently misrepresents the causes
of violence, especially by obscuring its core political dimensions.
It demonstrates that quantitative research provides a flawed basis
for understanding climate-conflict linkages. It argues that climate
security discourse is in hoc with a range of questionable military,
authoritarian and developmental agendas. And it reveals that the
greening of global capitalism is already having violent
consequences across the global South. Climate change, the book
argues, does indeed have serious conflict and security implications
- but these are quite different from how they are usually imagined.
This book was published as a special issue of Geopolitics.
What's the Point of International Relations casts a critical eye on
what it is that we think we are doing when we study and teach
international relations (IR). It brings together many of IR's
leading thinkers to challenge conventional understandings of the
discipline's origins, history, and composition. It sees IR as a
discipline that has much to learn from others, which has not yet
lived up to its ambitions or potential, and where much work remains
to be done. At the same time, it finds much that is worth
celebrating in the discipline's growing pluralism and views IR as a
deeply political, critical, and normative pursuit. The volume is
divided into five parts: * What is the point of IR? * The origins
of a discipline * Policing the boundaries * Engaging the world *
Imagining the future Although each chapter alludes to and/or
discusses central aspects of all of these components, each part is
designed to capture the central thrust of the concerns of the
contributors. Moving beyond western debate, orthodox perspectives,
and uncritical histories this volume is essential reading for all
scholars and advanced level students concerned with the history,
development, and future of international relations.
Is global climate change likely to become a significant source of
violent conflict, and should it therefore be seen as a national
security challenge? Most Northern governments, militaries, think
tanks and NGOs believe so, as do many academic researchers, on the
grounds that increased temperatures, changing precipitation
patterns and rising sea levels will worsen existing social
stresses, especially within poor societies and marginal communities
across Africa and Asia. This book argues otherwise. The first
collection of its kind, it brings together leading scholars of
Anthropology, Geography, Development Studies and International
Relations to provide a series of critical analyses of mainstream
thinking on the climate-security nexus. It shows how policy
discourse on climate conflict consistently misrepresents the causes
of violence, especially by obscuring its core political dimensions.
It demonstrates that quantitative research provides a flawed basis
for understanding climate-conflict linkages. It argues that climate
security discourse is in hoc with a range of questionable military,
authoritarian and developmental agendas. And it reveals that the
greening of global capitalism is already having violent
consequences across the global South. Climate change, the book
argues, does indeed have serious conflict and security implications
- but these are quite different from how they are usually imagined.
This book was published as a special issue of Geopolitics.
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.
What are the implications of climate change for
twenty-first-century conflict and security? Rising temperatures, it
is often said, will bring increased drought, more famine,
heightened social vulnerability, and large-scale political and
violent conflict; indeed, many claim that this future is already
with us. Divided Environments, however, shows that this is
mistaken. Focusing especially on the links between climate change,
water and security, and drawing on detailed evidence from
Israel-Palestine, Syria, Sudan and elsewhere, it shows both that
mainstream environmental security narratives are misleading, and
that the actual security implications of climate change are very
different from how they are often imagined. Addressing themes as
wide-ranging as the politics of droughts, the contradictions of
capitalist development and the role of racism in environmental
change, while simultaneously articulating an original
'international political ecology' approach to the study of
socio-environmental conflicts, Divided Environments offers a new
and important interpretation of our planetary future.
This original analysis of the Middle East water problems highlights
questions and issues which have so far only received minimal
attention. The author develops a multi-layered account of the
nature and causes of the conflict and the Pealestinian water
crisis. Each chapter addresses a particular aspect of the
Israeli-Palestine water conflict and the author uses these to
illustrate both the broader nature of Israeli-Palestinian relations
and factors that the existing water literature underplays or simply
gets wrong. The book should interest students, scholars and
practitioners in a wide range of disciplines including Middle East
studies, politics and international relations, water policy,
geography, environmental studies and environmental management.
What are the implications of climate change for
twenty-first-century conflict and security? Rising temperatures, it
is often said, will bring increased drought, more famine,
heightened social vulnerability, and large-scale political and
violent conflict; indeed, many claim that this future is already
with us. Divided Environments, however, shows that this is
mistaken. Focusing especially on the links between climate change,
water and security, and drawing on detailed evidence from
Israel-Palestine, Syria, Sudan and elsewhere, it shows both that
mainstream environmental security narratives are misleading, and
that the actual security implications of climate change are very
different from how they are often imagined. Addressing themes as
wide-ranging as the politics of droughts, the contradictions of
capitalist development and the role of racism in environmental
change, while simultaneously articulating an original
'international political ecology' approach to the study of
socio-environmental conflicts, Divided Environments offers a new
and important interpretation of our planetary future.
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