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"Race(ing) International Relations: A Critical Overview of Postcolonial Feminism in International Relations" published on by Oxford University Press.

Kathrin Bachleitner traces the influence of collective memory in International Relations through time. The book presents an important and novel theoretical framework for the academic discipline of IR and illustrates the theories in a comparative study of two cases: (West) Germany and Austria after World War II.

This special issue provides a collection of new interpretations of Africa's international relations. Africa's place in the contemporary international system presents a series of challenges to scholars & practitioners alike. Not only, for example, must we try to understand the impact of changes in the world economic & political landscapes such as the rapid development of China & the growing influence of developing countries in governance projects such as the G20, we must also seek to better understand changes within Africa. A series of transformations form the modern renaissance of Africa arising from the end of apartheid in South Africa to the emergence of new or reinvigorated institutional mechanisms of governance such as the African Union & the Southern African Development Community (SADC), & the democratisation of a number of African states. Vital issues like conflict & peacemaking, aid, health, migration & liberalisation, are given new form in Africa as a result of the continent's engagements with a range of other sub-regional, regional & systemic level actors including states, governmental & non-governmental organisations, multinational business, & civil society groups. Adapted from the source document.

This revised edition updates the post-Keynesian analysis of the earlier edition by providing a greater emphasis on capital movements, the development of regional common markets and the global debt and payments problems spawned in the 1980s. It explains why orthodox economic policies have often failed to achieve their objectives and if they work they do so only by inflicting unnecessarily high costs on society. The civilized policies developed in this volume, on the other hand, can achieve society's goals while enhancing the many benefits of an entrepreneurial economy.

Introduction : human being(s) in international relations / Daniel Jacobi and Annette Freyberg-Inan -- Between fear and despair : human nature in realism / Annette Freyberg-Inan -- "Human nature" and the paradoxical order of liberalism / Stephen J. Rosow -- Disciplining human nature : the evolution of American social scientific theorizing / Jennifer Sterling-Folker and Jason F. Charrette -- The Marxist perspective from "species-being" to natural justice / Chris Brown -- In biology we trust : biopolitical science and the elusive self / Duncan Bell -- Greeks, neuroscience, and international relations / Richard Ned Lebow -- Constructivism, realism, and the variety of human natures / Samuel Barkin -- Feminism and the figure of man / Elisabeth Prügl -- Realism, agency, and the politics of nature / Colin Wight -- A global human condition / Mauro J. Caraccioli -- Imagining man : forgetting society? / Benjamin Herborth -- On the social (re)construction of the human in world politics / Daniel Jacobi -- Observing visions of man / Oliver Kessler -- Who is acting in international relations? / Jan-Hendrik Passoth and Nicholas J. Rowland -- Conclusion : toward an international political (post- )anthropology / Annette Freyberg-Inan and Daniel Jacobi.

"Posthumanism represents a significant new research direction both for International Relations and the social sciences. It emerges from questions about inter-species relations which challenge dominant perceptions of what it means to be human. Rather than seeing the human species as'in nature' posthumanist thinking considers the species as'of nature'. The work of posthumanist thinkers has sought to dispute accepted notions of what it means to be human, raising profound questions about our relations with the rest of nature. The volume commences with an overview of the influence thinkers have had on the development of posthumanist thinking.Key ideas in International Relations are interrogated and reconceptualised and specific case studies are presented with a focus on inter-species relations. The work allows for a consideration of the limits of the posthumanist move and provides space for critics to argue that such an approach opens the discipline up to a biological determinism, and that a focus on inter-human relations should mark the boundaries of the discipline. The essays collected in this volume provide an overview of contributions from posthumanist thinkers with the particular intention of providing a succinct introduction to the area and should appeal to scholars and students in Politics, IR and philosophy."--Provided by publisher.

Compares trade, 1983 with 1984.

The world we live in happens to be a diversified, highly partitioned space. The surface of the earth is partitioned in a great many ways: politically and physically, economically and culturally. The political divisions are the raison d'être of international relations; the variety of thedifferent parts of the earth's surface is the raison d'être of geography. If the earth were uniform—well polished, like a billiard ball—there probably would not be any such science as geography, and international relations would be much simpler. Because the general principles of geology, geophysics, botany, or economics do not apply in the same way throughout the different compartments existing on the earth, geographical studies appeared and were useful, cutting across the abstraction of the topical disciplines and attempting a scientific analysis of regions and their interrelations.