This is the first study of the relevance and applicability of international relations theory to the contemporary global push for the spread of liberal democracy. Contributors discuss the theory and practice of the push for the internationalization of liberal democracy and outline an alternative research program for future work.
This is the first study of the relevance and applicability of international relations theory to the contemporary global push for the spread of liberal...
Interest in globalization has been growing since 1990, and it has become clear that mass popular movements are increasingly concerned with the politics of globalization. In these circumstances, the revival of interest in historical materialism within international studies takes on a broader significance.
Interest in globalization has been growing since 1990, and it has become clear that mass popular movements are increasingly concerned with the politic...
Now that Soviet style socialism has collapsed upon itself and liberal capitalism offers itself as the natural, necessary and absolute condition of human social life on a worldwide scale, this book insists that the potentially emancipatory resources of a renewed, and perhaps reconstructed, historical materialism are more relevant in today's world than ever before. Rather than viewing global capitalism as an eluctable natural force, these essays seek to show how a dialectic of power and resistance is at work in the contemporary global political economy, producing and contesting new realities...
Now that Soviet style socialism has collapsed upon itself and liberal capitalism offers itself as the natural, necessary and absolute condition of hum...
As the European Union is not a nation state, it is not generally perceived to have a foreign policy. However, Hazel Smith argues that quite the reverse is true: that an over-emphasis on procedure and structures has disguised the fact that the EU has a clear foreign policy that can be analysed in much the same way as that of the sovereign state. Conventional assessments of the EU focus on the mechanisms, institutions and treaties through which policies are implemented. Smith shows how this can lead to a massive underestimation of the capacities of the EU. Rather than concentrating on how the...
As the European Union is not a nation state, it is not generally perceived to have a foreign policy. However, Hazel Smith argues that quite the revers...
This book provides an evaluation of the European Community's transformation from a rather uncoordinated small group of member states, with a barely visible foreign policy, into a relatively cohesive and independent foreign policy actor, that is today known as the European Union. The EC's extensive and hitherto undocumented intervention in the high-profile Central American conflict of the 1980s demonstrates a coherence and convergence around a policy that was different from that of the United States and, in the end, more effective. The book also discusses how four key member states - Britain,...
This book provides an evaluation of the European Community's transformation from a rather uncoordinated small group of member states, with a barely vi...
