International Relations is a concise and accessible introduction for students new to international relations and for the general reader. It offers the most up-to-date guide to the major issues and areas of debate and:

• explains key issues including humanitarian intervention and economic justice
• features illustrative and familiar case studies from around the world
• examines topical debates on globalization and terrorism
• provides an overview of the discipline to situate the new reader at the heart of the study of global politics...

The household has traditionally been neglected in studies of Asian political economy. While there is an emergent literature that looks at this relationship, to date, it is fragmented. The contributors consider how the household economy has increasingly been incorporated into development planning and policy making within both states and multilateral development agencies. They examine the social consequences of the tendency to view households as marketizable spaces, and explore how the household economy relates to broader structures of industrial production in the region. With case studies on...

In this empirically rich collection of essays, a team of leading international scholarsexplore the way that economic transformation is sustained and challenged by everyday practices across Southeast Asia. Drawing together a body of interdisciplinary scholarship, the authors explore how the emergence of more marketized forms of economic policy-making in Southeast Asia impacts everyday life. The book's twelve chapters address topics such as domestic migration, trade union politics in Myanmar, mining in the Philippines, halal food in Singapore, Islamic finance in Malaysia, education reform in...

This book explores the way that forms of economic policymaking are sustained and challenged by everyday practices across Southeast Asia.