This book assesses the forces of social struggle shaping the past and present of the global
political economy from the perspective of historical materialism. Based on the philosophy of …

Can one use emotion at anything other than the individual level of analysis? Emotion
happens in biological bodies, not in the space between them, and this implies that group …

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 …

Most analyses of China's renewed engagement with Africa treat China as the driving force,
and little recognition is given to the role of African agency, especially beyond the level of …

The role of international law in global politics is as poorly understood as it is important. But
how can the international legal regime encourage states to respect human rights? Given that …

This article is concerned with the ontology of political community, specifically the nation-
state, as a bounded entity in time and space. Juxtaposed against the reading of it as an …

To venture into explanation of political action we need some map of our basic options: what
kinds of explanations are out there? Even advanced students and scholars can find the …

This article aims to show the theoretical added value of focussing on discourse to study
identity in international relations (IR). I argue that the discourse approach offers a more …

In our daily lives few things are as important to us as being treated with respect. Yet in
International Relations (IR), we regularly assume that actors follow just their material …

The structural components of a state are regularly conflated with a state's national identity. In
reality, however, the assumption that the boundaries of a state and its national identity are …