Richard Devetak

Jack Donnelly

Jacqui True

Scott Burchill

Christian Reus-Smit

Terry Nardin

Matthew Paterson

Andrew Linklater

The fully updated and revised fifth edition of this widely-used text provides a comprehensive survey of leading perspectives in the field. Updated throughout to take account of major events and developments, such as the Arab Spring, it also includes new material on neo-realism and neo-liberalism, postcolonialism and cosmopolitanism.

Theories of International Relations

Michael Grubb

This report presents selected papers from a Royal Institute workshop on the differentiation within industrialized countries to limit greenhouse gas emissions, together with an overview of the discussions. The workshop brought together leading negotiators and analysts to explore whether and how emission commitments might be differentiated.

Analysing Options for Differentiating Commitments Under the Framework Convention on Climate Change

Sharing the Effort

Peter Newell

Explores how we should react to the political dilemmas of adapting the global economy to confront climate change.

Global Warming and the Transformation of the Global Economy

Climate Capitalism

Brian Doherty

Benjamin Seel

Filling a gap in British political literature, this title provides the most comprehensive account yet of this part of key radical environmental movement strategy, which has been used recently to address issues from road building to G M foods, consumerism and global financial institutions. It is essential reading for students of Politics and Environmental Studies as well as all those interested in the development and impact of direct action in environmentalism.

Direct Action in British Environmentalism

Harriet Bulkeley

Michele M. Betsill

Thomas Hale

Stacy D. VanDeveer

Charles Roger

Liliana B. Andonova

Daniel Compagnon

Matthew J. Hoffmann

Leading experts provide the first comprehensive account of transnational efforts to respond to climate change, for researchers, graduate students and policy makers.

Transnational Climate Change Governance

Alina Sajed

André Saramago

Toni Haastrup

This introductory textbook on international relations theory brings together a selection of leading experts to offer an unparalleled insight into the main paradigms and latest developments in the discipline. Presenting a full range of theories, from realism and liberalism to institutionalism and green theory, the sixth edition of this book has been extensively revised to offer a more global introduction to international relations. It showcases insights from across the world, and employs a historical and sociological perspective throughout to demonstrate how any understanding of IR is time and place contingent. New to this edition are two new chapters on postcolonialism and institutionalism, as well as boxed cases which apply theory to contemporary empirical examples including gendered policy in the UN, the phenomenon of 'fake news', issues on migration, and the crisis of the Amazon's forest fires. Assuming no prior knowledge of international relations theory, this text remains the definitive companion for all students of international relations and anyone with an interest in the latest scholarship of this fascinating field.

Direct action has become a key part of the strategy of the radical environmental movement since the early 1990s, used to address issues such as road building and car culture, genetically modified foods, consumerism and global finance institutions. It has helped shape the political climate and has transformed the way people view political action, undermining the assumption that the power of politicians and big businesses cannot be contested. At the same time it is highly controversial, often illegal, and, partly due to its move towards greater militancy, may be included in new Prevention of Terrorism legislation. Direct Action in British Environmentalism charts and analyses the nature and impact of this new wave of direct action. The contributors approach the phenomenon from a wide variety of perspectives and disciplines and present data concerning both the quantity and type of recent environmental protest and the sociological and organisational features of those performing it. Subjects covered include; the history of the movement and its influence on contemporary activism the identities and new tribalism of eco-warriors the reaction of the mass media the impact of direct action on mainstream politicians and policy the strategies and tactical innovations which underlie direct action Direct Action in British Environmentalism is the fullest scholarly analysis yet available of this phenomenon. It is essential reading for students of Politics and Environmental Studies as well as all those interested in the development and impact of direct action in environmentalism.

This book addresses the crucial - but oddly neglected - question of what it means to say climate change is political.

In Search of Climate Politics

Jacqueline Best

The global political economy is inescapably cultural. Whether we talk about the economic dimensions of the "war on terror", the sub-prime crisis and its aftermath, or the ways in which new information technology has altered practices of production and consumption, it has become increasingly clear that these processes cannot be fully captured by the hyper-rational analysis of economists or the slogans of class conflict. This book argues that culture is a concept that can be used to develop more subtle and fruitful analyses of the dynamics and problems of the global political economy. Rediscovering the unacknowledged role of culture in the writings of classical political economists, the contributors to this volume reveal its central place in the historical evolution of post-war capitalism, exploring its continued role in contemporary economic processes that range from the commercialization of security practices to the development of ethical tourism. The book shows that culture plays a role in both constituting different forms of economic life and in shaping the diverse ways that capitalism has developed historically – from its earliest moments to its most recent challenges. Providing valuable insights to a wide range of disciplines, this volume will be of vital interest to students and scholars of International Political Economy, Cultural and Economic Geography and Sociology, and International Relations.

Cultural Political Economy

Examines the major theories within international relations, and how these can help us understand the emergence of global warming as a political issue.

Global Warming and Global Politics

This book examines the multitude of ways in which the political, the cultural and the economic interconnect and intersect and provides case studies focusing on finance, tourism, contemporary business discourse, the "war on terror" and migration.

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