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This article bridges the Copenhagen school's (CS) framework and framing theory. Framing theory focuses on how a text frames its topic and is often applied to media sources. This is important because the media often is our sole source of learning about events and issues in the world. This article argues that bridging the CS framework and framing theory allow us to understand how the media conveys these issues and with what consequences. Through the bridging, the article makes two contributions to the existing debates on securitization. First, it introduces the concept of a (de)securitizing schema as an innovative way to analyze the media as a (de)securitizing actor. Second, the article uses the concept of a (de)securitizing schema to understand how contesting frames exist in the media. Empirically, the article analyzes two Danish case studies surrounding the migration movements on the European Union's southern border by undertaking a discourse analysis of four Danish newspapers. This empirical analysis shows how the media can be a securitizing actor, capable of employing multiple contesting frames—sometimes within a single news item. In addition, the Danish case illustrates how securitizing and desecuritizing frames evolve over time and from one case study to the next. The article concludes by reflecting on what the concept of securitizing schemas and contesting frames may imply for securitization studies and other case studies.

The study of revolutions is at the forefront of the growing field of International Historical Sociology. As International Historical Sociology scholars have sought to uncover the spatio-temporally changing character of international relations, they have come a long way in overcoming 'unilinear' and 'internalist' conceptions of revolutionary modern transformation. In this article, I re-evaluate the extent to which the International Historical Sociology of 'bourgeois revolutions' has succeeded in remedying unilinear conceptions of the transition to modernity. I argue that 'consequentialist' approaches to the study of bourgeois revolutions tend to obscure the radically heterogeneous character of revolutionary transformations, both within and outside Western Europe. Drawing on Political Marxism and Robbie Shilliam's discussion of Jacobinism, I first provide a non-consequentialist reading of the revolutions of modernity within Western Europe, and then utilize this reinterpretation to provide a new interpretation of the Turkish Revolution (1923–1945). My aim is to demonstrate that a non-consequentialist conception of 'bourgeois revolutions' will enable us to historicize and theorize more accurately the co-constitution of international relations and revolutionary processes, hence providing a stronger foundation for the International Historical Sociology of modern revolutions.

New perspectives on asymmetrical relations / Thomas R. Klassen, Nara Park and Ian Roberge -- Canada and the United States : a symbiotic relationship or complex entanglement? / Charles Conteh -- Dealing with Russia : Georgia's endeavor to escape trampling / Salome Minesashvili, Frédéric Labarre, and Pierre Jolicoeur -- Endless integration of Russia and its "difficult ally" Belarus / Leonid Karabeshkin, Pierre Jolicoeur and Frédéric Labarre -- Legacies of a trans-Tasman relationship : the evolution of asymmetry between New Zealand and Australia / Jennifer Curtin and Dominic O'Sullivan -- Living in the shadow of elephants : the case of Timor-Leste / Nicholas Morris -- Living peacefully or in the shadow? Elucidating the relationship between Ghana and Togo / Frank L.K. Ohemeng and Emmanuel K. Sakyi -- The middle power diplomacy of South Korea : four strategic choices vis-à-vis Japan and China / Nara Park -- Mongolia's balancing act : sandwiched between a bear and a dragon / Undraa Agvaanluvsan -- Balancing the elephant and the dragon : Nepal's struggle for political in(ter)dependence / Jawad Hussain Qureshi -- The little red dot that roared : Singapore between the giants / Yohanes Sulaiman -- A tripartite dilemma : Turkey, Armenia, and Azerbaijan relations at the intersection of identity and national interest / Merve Özdemirkiran-Embel -- Stepping out of the shade : Qatari-Saudi relations amidst the rise of 'cosmopolitan Qatar' / Gertjan Hoetjes -- Colombian economic foreign policy towards Brazil : limited cooperation and competition for regional leadership / Eduardo Pastrana Buelvas and Diego F. Vera Piñeros -- The mouse fights back : the manoeuvring room of smaller states with respect to their larger neighbor / Ian Roberge.

Chimni, B.S. and Mallavarapu, Siddharth (Eds), International Relations, Perspectives for the Global South (New Delhi: Dorling Kindersley [India] Pvt. Ltd, 2012). Pp. 472, Price INR 350.

Recent years have seen the growth of approaches critical of traditional state-centred examinations of international relations, arguing instead for analyses that recognise actors and methods previously held largely silent within the mainstream International Relations (IR) discourse. This article argues that children are a group of actors worthy of similar recognition. Despite the fact that 'childhood studies' are comparatively well established in a number of academic disciplines, similar recognition has been later in coming to the study of IR. This article aims to address this perceived gap in the literature by first of all outlining the ways in which the discourse surrounding the child in IR has so far developed. This leads into an examination of how the child may potentially best be conceptualised within the mainstream discourse and the implications of the inclusion of children as a 'site of knowledge' through which the international system may be more clearly understood.

In 1912 a debate erupted between Alfred Thayer Mahan and Norman Angell. The debate revolved around what motivates states and what constitutes the fundamental bases of human conduct in relation to war, peace and material interests. The article traces the thrusts and counter thrusts of Angell and Mahan as they lay bare the errors and misconceptions of each other in a heated exchange that marked an important stage in the development of Angell's thought and a fascinating coda for Mahan's influential career. The article concludes that revisiting the debate entails a combination of estrangement and familiarity. To read Angell and Mahan's imperialistic and often racist discourse is jarring and the level of disconnection experienced is evidence some progress has occurred in the field of IR theory. Yet there is also a certain degree to which we continue to live in Angell and Mahan's world, one of competing theories of civilisational clashes and the supposedly pacific effects of trade and the rule of law.