This important text offers a full and detailed account of how to use discourse analysis to
study foreign policy. It provides a poststructuralist theory of the relationship between identity …

Wherever different territorially-based political orders coexist in the same social world, some
form of international relations is to be found–even though the term itself was not coined until …

One of the most important and controversial contributions to a vibrant body of new security
theories since the 1990s has been the idea of securitization. However, rather than providing …

World political processes, such as wars and globalisation, are engendered by complex sets
of causes and conditions. Although the idea of causation is fundamental to the field of …

In 1993 the first Clinton administration declared environmental security a national security
issue, but by the end of the Bush administrations environmental security had vanished from …

It is time for International Relations (IR) to join the relational revolution afoot in the natural
and social sciences. To do so, more careful reflection is needed on cosmological …

The philosophy of social science has played an important role in the formation,
development, and practice of IR as an academic discipline. Often issues concerning the …

Colin Hay's constructivist institutionalism and Vivien A. Schmidt's discursive institutionalism
are two recent attempts to theorize ideas as potential explanations of institutional change …

The evolution of collective interpretations of perceived threats such as 'organized crime'or
'rogue states' often transcends time and space: once established as a relatively stable …

Why have the European Union and the Russian Federation encountered severe difficulties
in develo** their relationship? Why haven't the parties lived up to the initial promise and …