This book develops a theoretical and empirical argument about the disintegration of security communities, and the subsequent breakdown of stable peace among nations, through a process of norm degeneration. It draws together two key bodies of contemporary IR literature – norms and security communities – and brings their combined insights to bear on the empirical phenomenon of disintegration.The investigation of normative change in IR is becoming increasingly popular. Most studies, h...

This book addresses the question of how the American continent engages with various forms of interregionalism, including how different regions within the Americas deal with other regions of the world as well as how they relate among themselves. The presence of different political, economic, and cultural sub-regions within the Americas makes the continent a perfect setting to explore differences and commonalities in the western hemisphere’s relationship with other regions across the globe. ...

American politics have scarcely ever been as controversial as they are today. A good understanding of the USA=s political system and the way in which it works is therefore all the more urgently needed. In three well-founded sections, this book is devoted to the basic institutions and fields of U.S. politics. In the first section, Christoph M. Haas describes the various political institutions and protagonists in the USA; Christian Lammert then characterizes the country=s domestic politics s...

Over the past two decades, the study of emotions has emerged as a transformative frontier within International Relations (IR). The Oxford Handbook of Emotions in International Relations aims to capture and contextualize these developments, highlighting how the analysis of emotions has allowed for deeper understandings of international and global politics. The handbook provides a systematic overview, mapping an inherently multi-disciplinary field. Contributions to the volume reveal that emo...

This book argues that the link between emotions and discourse provides a new and promising framework to theorize and empirically analyse power relationships in world politics.Examining the ways in which discourse evokes, reveals, and engages emotions, the expert contributors argue that emotions are not irrational forces but have a pattern to them that underpins social relations. However, these are also power relations and their articulation as socially constructed ways of feeling a...

Dieses Lehrbuch eröffnet neben einer theoretisch-konzeptionellen Orientierung vergleichende Einblicke in die unterschiedlichen regionalen Ordnungsmodelle, Normen und Institutionen Europas, Asiens, Afrikas und den Amerikas. In einem zweiten Schritt werden interregionale Beziehungsgeflechte und Zusammenarbeit anhand ausgewählter Fallbeispiele und Politikfelder analysiert. Diese Einführung ist somit die Antwort auf das Wiederaufleben der Bedeutung und Erforschung von Regionen und Regionalismu...