Politics, social theory, history of ideas

Security

A Philosophical Investigation

David A. Welch | University of Waterloo, Ontario

A philosophical approach to the concept of ‘security’, offering practical guidance to help states better allocate resources better to security problems. The book’s from-the-ground-up approach, interdisciplinary nature, and far-reaching analysis of ecospheric, state, cultural, and human security, will interest students, scholars, and practitioners.

294pp

Aug. 2022 9781009270120 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

Aug. 2022 9781009270106 Hardback GBP 64.99 / USD 84.99 eISBN 9781009270113

Signing Away the Bomb

The Surprising Success of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime

Jeffrey M. Kaplow | College of William and Mary, Virginia

This book explains how and why the nuclear nonproliferation regime has been successful, even without the characteristics usually seen in effective institutions. It will appeal to scholars and advanced students of international relations, security studies, and international law, as well as international security policymakers and analysts.

320pp

Nov. 2022 9781009216739 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009216746

States and Nature

The Effects of Climate Change on Security

Joshua W. Busby | University of Texas, Austin Busby explains how climate change can affect security outcomes, including violent conflict and humanitarian emergencies. Through case studies from sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia, the book develops a novel argument explaining why climate change leads to especially bad security outcomes in some places but not in others.

The Politics of Climate Change

356pp

Mar. 2022 9781108958462 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99

Mar. 2022 9781108832465 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108957922

The Architects of International Relations

Building a Discipline, Designing the World, 1914-1940

Jan Stöckmann

Based on extensive archival research, this book provides a new and stimulating history of International Relations as an academic discipline. It will appeal to students and scholars in History and International Relations (IR) as well as neighbouring fields, especially International Law and Political Science.

280pp

Mar. 2022 9781316511619 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009053341

The Counterinsurgent Imagination

A New Intellectual History

Joseph MacKay | Australian National University, Canberra

This book shows counterinsurgencies are conservative worldmaking projects: attempts to reimagine the world in response to insurrection. MacKay traces the emergence of these ideas from early modernity, as they changed over successive conflicts and periods, focusing on military manuals as records of practice, varying with the status quo they defend.

LSE International Studies

300pp

Nov. 2022 9781009225823 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99

Nov. 2022 9781009225816 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009225847

The Distributive Politics of Environmental Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean

Isabella Alcañiz

This Element seeks to address the lack of a comprehensive research agenda in Latin American and Caribbean environmental politics and helps integrate the existing, disparate literatures. This Element also focuses on the beneficiaries from the appropriation and pollution of the environment.

Elements in Politics and Society in Latin America

75pp

Aug. 2022 9781009263436 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781009263429

The Quest for Knowledge in International Relations

How Do We Know?

Richard Ned Lebow | Dartmouth College, New Hampshire

What kinds of knowledge do international relations theories seek? How do they search for it and claim to have found it? Lebow uses his answers to these questions to say something important about the theory project in IR, and in the social sciences more generally.

320pp

Apr. 2022 9781009102919 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

Apr. 2022 9781009098922 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 eISBN 9781009106573

TEXTBOOK

U.S. and Latin American Relations

Third edition

Gregory B. Weeks | University of North Carolina, Charlotte This textbook offers detailed theoretical and historical analyses essential for understanding US-Latin American relations. Utilizing four international relations theories as a framework, the text recounts the historical background from Latin American independence through the present before examining contemporary issues such as immigration.

326pp 14 b/w illus. 8 tables

Dec. 2022 9781009205962 Paperback GBP 31.99 / USD 42.99

Dec. 2022 9781009205993 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009206006

Uncertainty and Its Discontents

Worldviews in World Politics

Peter J. Katzenstein | Cornell University, New York

This volume considers the ways in which alternative worldviews, fostered by advances in twentieth century natural science and other intellectual developments questioning anthropocentrism take full account of uncertainty in contrast to conventional Newtonian humanism and its presumption of controllable risk.

Cambridge Studies in International Relations

320pp

Jul. 2022 9781009068970 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99

Jul. 2022 9781316512661 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781009070997

War, States, and International Order

Alberico Gentili and the Foundational Myth of the Laws of War

Claire Vergerio | Universiteit Leiden

Vergerio examines the legacy of Alberico Gentili’s treatise on the laws of war to undermine conventional narratives about when, why, and how the legal right to wage war became restricted to sovereign states, providing new insights into the history of the laws of war and the sources of international order.

Cambridge Studies in International Relations

320pp

Aug. 2022 9781009098014 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009105712

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Why Allies Rebel

Defiant Local Partners in Counterinsurgency Wars

Barbara Elias | Bowdoin College, Maine

Analysing policy documents from nine counterinsurgency wars, Elias asks why powerful militaries have difficulty managing local partners. Revealing a critical political dynamic in military interventions, this book will appeal to academics and policymakers addressing counterinsurgency issues in foreign policy, security studies and political science.

351pp 15 b/w illus. 27 tables

Sep. 2022 9781108748063 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99

Jul. 2020 9781108490108 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108784979

Latin American government, politics, policy

Beyond ‘Plata O Plomo’

Drugs and State Reconfiguration in Colombia

Gustavo Duncan

This Element explores three central elements to the interpretation of the interaction between drug trafficking and reconfiguration of the state in Colombia. This discusses the flaws of the state authority and the offensive of Marxist guerrillas since the early 80s, which shaped the oligopolies of coercion that drug traffickers later imposed.

Elements in Politics and Society in Latin America

75pp

Sep. 2022 9781108810326 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108893909

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Checking Presidential Power

Executive Decrees and the Legislative Process in New Democracies

Valeria Palanza | Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

The first to offer an explanation of the levels of reliance on executive decrees in comparative perspective, this book intends to reach an audience of scholars and non-academics interested in the behavior of legislators, the struggles behind the concentration of power by presidents, and Latin American politics.

265pp 26 b/w illus. 31 tables

Apr. 2022 9781108446631 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

Jan. 2019 9781108427623 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108573580

Contemporary State Building

Gustavo A. Flores-Macías | Cornell University, New York Governments around the world struggle to get the wealthy to pay more in taxes. This book explains how modern state-building can take place by adopting elite taxes to improve public safety. Using Latin America as an example, the book helps scholars and policymakers understand contemporary state-building in the developing world.

260pp

Jun. 2022 9781316515129 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009091992

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Decadent Developmentalism

The Political Economy of Democratic Brazil

Matthew M. Taylor | American University, Washington DC This book describes the institutional context that has thwarted the emergence of either a capable developmental or a neoliberal alternative in Brazil since the return to democracy in 1985. The work is a key source for scholars and students of comparative political economy, political science, economics, sociology, and development studies.

383pp

Apr. 2022 9781108827553 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99

Nov. 2020 9781108842280 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108900072

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Democracy at Work

Pathways to Well-Being in Brazil

Brian Wampler | Boise State University, Idaho Democratic practices - participation, citizenship rights, and an inclusionary state - enhance human development. The book uncovers how local democratic governance improves well-being, related to poverty, health, women’s empowerment, and education. Municipalities that invest in democracy attain greater human development. Commitments to democracy thus have real consequences for citizens.

373pp 4 b/w illus. 47 tables

Apr. 2022 9781108717335 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 29.99

Nov. 2019 9781108493147 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108675949