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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 234, £14.95, ISBN 0 521 89462 X
Readership: Postgraduates, academic/research
Rating:**
Reviewer: MARLIES GLASIUS (London School of Economics)
In his new book, John Keane's colourful prose evokes well the multifaceted nature of its subject matter. However, the profusion of sparkling imagery and erudite allusions can be a little dizzying, obscuring the sober analysis one supposes must lie underneath.
In his preface, he promises a ‘clearly articulated vision of global civil society’, and he does, to some extent, deliver on this promise. His vision is intensely liberal, some would even say neo-liberal, rather than radical or cosmopolitan. He takes clear positions on two major definitional disputes: profit-making corporations are included in global civil society, but any use of violence is out.
One of the most interesting features of the book is the attention to non-Western, particularly Islamic, antecedents of (global) civil society. An astounding omission is the complete lack of any reference either to the East European dissidents so central to Keane's own earlier work, or to the Brazilian and other Latin American intellectuals who were rediscovering and reinvigorating the civil society idea at the same time. According to most accounts, both were crucial to the emergence, and theorisation, of global civil society. One possible explanation for this remarkable brushing-out may be that both were to a large extent inspired by Antonio Gramsci, who Keane detests (see pp. 63, 75ff).
The book's strongest points are its reflections on violence and its wealth of examples taken directly from global civil society, including many web-references. Its weakest point, apart from the bombastic style, is the discussion of ‘cosmocracy’, which confounds global connectedness, international law and power. Finally, and unfortunately for a book published in 2003, it fails to discuss the consequences of the Bush administration?s unilateralist policies for global civil society.
Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2003. 229, £60.00, ISBN 1 4020 1167 9
Reviewer: KATARINA ECKERBERG (Umeå University, Sweden)
In this book, which builds upon a PhD thesis, the Swedish environmental support to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania during 1991–1996 is analysed. The main question concerns the rationality of the donor in providing this assistance: to what extent is it guided by altruism versus self-interest or joint gains? Theoretically, the study relies on the rational-choice model and tries to test whether self-interest may explain the design of the environmental aid programme. A background on the history of Swedish foreign aid and environmental cooperation is presented, and the support from Swedish political parties towards the programme is examined. The empirical analysis classifies identified prioritised environmental issue-areas according to their collective-good content and shows that the Swedish selection of support areas was biased in favour of those with a high content. In particular, Sweden chose to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the Baltic states as an integral part of its own national policy in a cost-efficient way. Still, both actors gained, compared to if no joint projects were implemented.
There is much information here for those who take interest in the design of foreign aid programmes and its implications. It provides an in-depth analysis of considerable amounts of quantitative data for this region and is empirically well structured and quite easy to follow. Nevertheless, the reader is left unconvinced of how the preferences of the Baltic states are really assessed, and the definitions of ‘self-interest’ and ‘altruism’ could have been better explained. Also, the rational model itself could be criticised for being overly simplified, since the donor and the recipient country may have different utility functions. The reliance on quantitative data has its shortcomings, and further investigations into time allocated, expert resources and engagement from various actors would have improved the empirical basis for the analysis.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 378, £17.95, ISBN 0 521 52538 1
Readership: Advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, academic/research, professional
Rating:****
Reviewer: JOHANNA KANTOLA University of Bristol)
This collection is an interesting and useful intervention into the globalisation debates. The subtitle reveals its key aim to ‘bring domestic institutions back in’ – in other words, to explore what is going on inside nation states as national authorities respond to the global economy. The book does not challenge the process of globalisation as much as it challenges the arguments of the so-called ‘constraints school’, where globalisation is understood as a constraining force on states. In contrast to this view of external constraints, the book poses the question of to what extent the outcome depends on the character of domestic institutional context. Furthermore, it argues that globalisation has to be studied as a process with enabling effects on policy. A political logic of competition and insecurity generates incentives for governments to take initiatives that will strengthen the national system of innovation and social protection (p. 15).
The book consists of a number of rigorous case studies evaluating the above arguments. They focus on a wide range of countries (France, Thailand, China, India, US, Japan) and issue areas (fiscal policy in the OECD, telecommunications and contemporary welfare states). The arguments are supported particularly well by Ramesh's contribution on Korea and Taiwan expanding their statutory social security (income maintenance and health) in the last 15 years and Singapore avoiding it. A detailed study on the role of political institutional arrangements in these countries explains the trend.
The collection is compelling and persuasive in its argument, and its detailed case studies effectively complicate the picture of constraints generated by globalisation. It is highly recommendable to all scholars interested in states, global political economy and globalisation and it is bound to provide the reader with new arguments and material.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. 327, £50.00, ISBN 0 19 925120 7
Readership: Postgraduates, academic/research
Rating: ****
Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2002. 326, £15.95, ISBN 0 262 54133 5
Readership: Postgraduates, academic/research
Rating: ***
Reviewer: KENT J. KILLE (College of Wooster, Ohio)
These two edited volumes address the theme of international justice. Most of the essays in Order and Justice in International Relations are derived from a University of Oxford seminar series with the same name. The primarily Oxford-based scholars consider the relationship between order and justice in the international arena. The volume is designed to consider the historical interchange between the concepts and whether global society has entered an era where solidarist hopes for reconciling justice and order are better realized. Following an introduction by Rosemary Foot and first-chapter conceptual statement by Andrew Hurrell arguing for the intertwined standing of the ‘density’ of justice that has developed while the ‘deformity’ of unequal international order remains, subsequent chapters explore the relationship within the international institution context of the UN, international financial and trade institutions and the EU and the individual states of Russia, the US, China and India, before a final chapter on Islam in the global community.
In the introduction, Foot does a good job laying out the core ideas underlying the volume as well as providing an overview of the chapters. The exploration of the order/justice relationship holds together coherently across all of the chapters, with each author tying their discussion directly to this theme. The authors do not employ common definitions or approaches for considering ‘order’ or ‘justice’, but this serves to strengthen the volume, as the reader is engaged in the difficulty of reaching an agreement on these terms and their place in international relations. Indeed, it is the tension that can still occur between justice and order, despite a post-cold-war era facing globalization and the need to address shared problems, which is reinforced across the chapters. The chapters are thought-provoking, well written, clearly structured and are supported by a helpful select bibliography at the end of the volume.
Global Justice, part of the ‘Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought’ series, contains a philosophic perspective on international justice in the face of globalization. The authors provide a range of normative considerations related to the possibilities of just global governance. Following an introduction, the book is broken into three sections – weak universalism; strong universalism and transnational commitments; and transnational politics and national identities. The authors in the first section are reacting to John Rawls's perspective on international justice, while the later two sections examine the place of justice in cross-border commitments and in relation to the EU and nationalism, respectively.
As individual essays, the chapters present useful normative thoughts on justice within transnational relations. The two chapters on weak universalism by Sen and Wenar stand out as particularly well presented and organized. Overall, the essays are not overly noteworthy in terms of ground-breaking innovations offered, but they represent a solid effort to build upon and extend previous work in this area. As a collective volume, the idea is that the essays present much-needed normative perspectives on developing international institutions and transnational connections that might address globalization in a just manner, but the end result lacks coherence in comparison to the other volume. The introduction by the editors is primarily a summary of the chapters and does not provide much depth as a separate statement to engage the reader in the subject matter. The editors, who do not contribute substantive chapters to the volume, do not return with a conclusion to put their statement on top of the diverse essays (something which is also lacking from Foot, Gaddis and Hurrell) and also do not provide an overview bibliographic reference for the reader.
London: Zed Books, 2003. 300, £15.95, ISBN 1 84277 219 8
Readership: Undergraduates, advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, academic/research
Rating: ****
Reviewer: FLAVIA MONCERI (University of Pisa, Italy)
The core assumption of Sophie Bessis's stimulating book is that ‘we may speak of a veritable culture of supremacy as the foundation of the entity today called ‘the West’ – a foundation upon which its relations with others continue to be built’ (p. 3). As the aim is to show how this self-image was gradually constructed, she gives a broad account of the different steps through which the West achieved its hegemony over ‘the Rest’, at the same time elaborating a complex notion of ‘superiority’ at the theoretical level. What is peculiar to the West is not the mere fact of a successful hegemony, but rather the fact that ‘the nations of the West … are the only ones to have produced a theoretical (philosophical, moral and scientific) apparatus to legitimate it’ (p. 4). Her survey exhaustively covers the period between 1492 and the present day, still witnessing various attempts to adapt the notion of supremacy to the contemporary ‘globalized world’, in which ‘the others’ can no longer be conceived as passive subjects of a political, economic and cultural colonization. She succeeds in showing that a notion of supremacy actually underpins the last 500 years of Western history and that it still does – for example, in the assumptions underlying notions such as ‘human rights’ and ‘modernization’. Her conclusion may also be accepted, according to which the West is not yet able to give up the belief in its own superiority, despite the increasing opposite signs that indicate it's becoming more and more a particular civilization amongst many others. The only point I cannot fully agree with is her insistence on the North/South dichotomy as the keystone of contemporary global dynamics, in that it seems to me to reproduce the dichotomy ‘the West/the Rest’ – a relevant feature of Western supremacy discourse.
Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. 352, £22.95, ISBN 0 7425 2288 1
Reviewer: GEORGE LAMBIE (De Montfort University)
The central theme of this book is the Cuban missile crisis and its impact on the formation of relations between revolutionary Cuba and the two cold-war superpowers. The authors argue that while the US response to Cuba during the crisis was fairly predictable from Havana's perspective, the actions of the Soviet Union, and particularly Khrushchev's decision to seek an agreement with Kennedy without consulting the Cubans, was a disappointment and was interpreted by Castro as a betrayal of the international socialist cause. This is not a new argument, but the authors bring to the debate previously unavailable documentation, supplied by Cuba, in the form of a speech that was delivered by Castro in 1968. Judicious use of this document, along with interviews and extensive knowledge of existing literature, cohere into an excellent analysis that covers old ground well and introduces new and enlightening views on such issues as Cuba's attitude to Soviet imperialism and the Cuban understanding of socialism. The analysis falls within the discipline of international relations and is a good example of this academic approach.
However, perhaps because of the constraints of international relations, particularly given the supranational forces generated by globalisation, the authors do not make full use of their argument and reach the rather limp conclusion that if the US could show more empathy and respect towards Cuba's national sovereignty, relations might be improved. In a world driven, like at no other time, by US hegemonic power and transnational market forces, such a scenario is unlikely. What might be a more interesting speculation, based on the arguments in the book, is whether Cuba's tenacity in defending its own style of socialism could produce alternative ideas for the future in an unstable and unjust world order? Despite this quibble, the book is well written, meticulously researched, balanced and is an excellent read.
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Chris Alden and Katsumi Hirano (eds) (2003) Japan and South Africa in a Globalising World: a distant mirror. Aldershot: Ashgate, 307, £49.95, ISBN 0 7546 1826 9
Mark D. Alleyne (2003) Global Lies?: propaganda, the UN and the world order. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 260, £15.99, ISBN1 4039 2100 8
Zygmunt Bauman (2002) Society Under Siege. Cambridge: Polity, 264, £14.99, ISBN 0 7456 2985 7
Mark Bevir and Frank Trentmann (eds) (2002) Critiques of Capital in Modern Britain and America: transatlantic exchanges 1800 to the present day. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 235, £45.00, ISBN 0 333 98081 6
Jagdish Bhagwati (2002) Free Trade. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 151, £17.95, ISBN 0 691 09156 0
Richard A. Bitzinger (2003) Towards a Brave New Arms Industry? Adelphi Paper 356. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 102, £00.00, ISBN 0 19 852835 3
Morten Bøås and Desmond McNeill (2003) Multilateral Institutions: a critical introduction. London: Pluto Press, 202, £14.99, ISBN 0 7453 1920 3
Camille Bonora-Waisman (2003) France and the Algerian Conflict: issues in democracy and political stability, 1988–95. Aldershot: Ashgate, 246, £45.00, ISBN 1 84014 751 2
Michael Brecher and Frank P. Harvey (eds) (2002) Millennial Reflections on International Studies. Ann Arbor MI: University of Michigan Press, 713, £18.00, ISBN 0 472 11273 2
Shaun Breslin, Christopher W. Hughes, Nicola Phillips and Ben Rosamond (eds) (2002) New Regionalisms in the Global Political Economy: theories and cases. London: Routledge, 271, £19.99, ISBN 0 415 27768 X
Alison Brysk (ed.) (2002) Globalization and Human Rights. Berkeley CA: University of California Press, 321, £19.95, ISBN 0 520 23238 0
David Carment and Albrecht Schnabel (eds) (2003) Conflict Prevention: path to peace or grand illusion? Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 308, $33.00, ISBN 92 808 1081 2
Sylvia Chan (2002) Liberalism, Democracy and Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 283, £16.95, ISBN 0 521 00498 5
David Chandler (ed.) (2002) Rethinking Human Rights: critical approaches to international politics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 259, £47.50, ISBN 0 333 97716 5
John Clark (ed.) (2003) Globalising Civic Engagement: civic society and transnational action. London: Earthscan, 208, £18.95, ISBN 1 85383 989 2
John Clark (2003) Worlds Apart: civic society and the battle for ethical globalization. London: Earthscan, 304, £15.99, ISBN 1 85383 987 6
Robert P. Clark (2002) Global Awareness: thinking systematically about the world. Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 299, £18.95, ISBN 0 7425 1593 1
Bruno Coppieters and Nick Fotion (eds) (2002) Moral Constraints on War: principles and cases. Lanham MD: Lexington Books, 339, $29.95, ISBN 0 7391 0437 3
Neta C. Crawford (2002) Argument and Change in World Politics: ethics, decolonization, and humanitarian intervention. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 482, £21.95, ISBN 0 521 00279 6
Wolfgang Danspeckgruber (ed.) (2002) The Self-Determination of Peoples: community, nation and state in an interdependent world. Boulder CO: Lynne Reinner, 482, £18.50, ISBN 1 55587 793 1
Michael D. V. Davies (2002) The Administration of International Organizations: top down and bottom up. Aldershot: Ashgate, 470, £55.00, ISBN 0 7546 0905 7
Carolyn L. Deere and Daniel C. Esty (eds) (2002) [foreword by José, María Figueres-Olsen] Greening the Americas: NAFTAa's lessons for hemispheric trade. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 398, £18.50, ISBN 0 262 54138 6
Indra de Soysa (2003) Foreign Direct Investment, Democracy, and Development: assessing contours, correlates, and concomitants of globalization. London: Routledge, 170, £55.00, ISBN 0 415 25054 4
Toby Dodge and Steven Simon (eds) (2003) Iraq at the Crossroads: state and society in the shadow of regime change. Adelphi Paper 354. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 178, £20.00, ISBN 0 19 852837 X
Nigel Dower (2003) An Introduction to Global Citizenship. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 199, £12.99, ISBN 0 7486 1470 2
Edward Drachman and Alan Shank, with Karla J. Cunningham and Jeremy Grace (2003) You Decide! Controversial global issues. Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 304, £14.95, ISBN 0 7425 0822 6
Rosaleen Duffy (2002) A Trip Too Far: ecotourism, politics and exploitation. London: Earthscan, 224, £15.95, ISBN 1 85383 759 8
Thanh Duong (2002) Hegemonic Globalisation: US centrality and global strategy in the emerging world order. Aldershot: Ashgate, 380, £47.50, ISBN 0 7546 3013 7
Renata Dwan (ed.) (2002) Executive Policing: enforcing the law in peace operations. SIPRI Research Report No. 16. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 154, £30.00, ISBN 0 19 925824 4
Yale H. Ferguson and R. J. Barry Jones (eds) (2002) Political Space: frontiers of change and governance in a globalizing world. Albany NY: State University of New York Press, 325, $23.95, ISBN 0 7914 5460 6
A. Belden Fields (2003) Rethinking Human Rights for the New Millennium, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 255, £17.99, ISBN 1 4039 6062 3
Ann Florini (2003) The Coming Democracy: new rules for running a new world. Washington DC: Island Press, 271, $25.00, ISBN 1 55963 289 5
Vassilis K. Fouskas (2003) Zones of Conflict: US foreign policy in the Balkans and the greater Middle East. London: Pluto Press, 189, £14.99, ISBN 0 7453 2029 5
Ellen M. Freeberg (2002) Regarding Equality: rethinking contemporary theories of citizenship, freedom, and the limits of moral pluralism. Lanham MD: Lexington Books, 155, £18.95, ISBN 0 7391 0155 2
Graham E. Fuller (2003) The Future of Political Islam. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 247, £19.99, ISBN 1 4039 6136 0
E. Bruce Geelhoed and Anthony O. Edmonds (2003) Eisenhower, Macmillan and Allied Unity, 1957–61. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 228, £45.00, ISBN 0 333 64227 9
Christopher Gelpi (2003) The Power of Legitimacy: assessing the role of norms in crisis bargaining. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 223, £27.95, ISBN 0 691 09248 6
Kristian Skrede Gleditsch (2002) All International Politics is Local: the diffusion of conflict, integration, and democratization. Ann Arbor MI: University of Michigan Press, 276, £34.00, ISBN 0 472 11267 8
Peter I. Hajnal (ed.) (2002) Civil Society in the Information Age. Aldershot: Ashgate, 312, £45.00, ISBN 0 7546 1838 2
Paul N. Hehn (2002) A Low Dishonest Decade: the Great Powers, Eastern Europe, and the economic origins of World War II, 1930–41. London: Continuum, 528, £21.99, ISBN 0 8264 1449 4
David Held and Mathias Koenig-Archibugi (2003) Taming Globalization: frontiers of governance. Cambridge: Polity, 208, £12.99, ISBN 0 7456 3077 4
Howard M. Hensel (ed.) (2002) The United States and Europe: policy imperatives in a globalizing world. Aldershot: Ashgate, 268, £47.50, ISBN 0 7546 3319 5
Christopher Hill (2003) The Changing Politics of Foreign Policy. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 396, £18.99, ISBN 0 333 75423 9
Michael J. Hiscox (2002) International Trade and Political Conflict: commerce, coalitions, and mobility. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 223, £13.95, ISBN 0 691 08855 1
Carsten Holbraad (2003) Internationalsim and Nationalism in European Political Thought. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 194, £35.00, ISBN 1 4039 6123 9
Jolyon Howarth and John T.S Keeler (eds) (2003) Defending Europe: the EU, NATO and the quest for European autonomy. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 247, £40.00, ISBN 1 4039 6114 x International Institute for Strategic Studies (2003) Strategic Survey 2002/3: an evaluation and forecast of world affairs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 354, £25.00, ISBN 0 19 852705 5
Scott A. Jones (2002) Whither Ukraine? Weapons, state building, and international cooperation. Aldershot: Ashgate, 233, £45.00, ISBN 0 7546 0971 5
Alain Joxe [translated by Ames Hodges and edited by Sylvère Lotringer] (2002) Empire of Disorder. Los Angeles CA: Semiotext(e), 221, £6.50, ISBN 1 58435 016 4
Mary Kaldor (2003) Global Civil Society: an answer to war. Cambridge: Polity, 200, £14.99, ISBN 0 7456 2758 7
Inge Kaul, Pedro Conceiç£~o, Katell Le Goulven and Ronald U. Mendoza (eds) (2003) Providing Global Public Goods: managing globalization. New York: Oxford University Press, 668, £47.99, ISBN 0 19 515740 0
William R. Keylor (2003) A World of Nations: the international order since 1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 464, £21.99, ISBN 0 19 510602 4
John J. Kirton and Junichi Takase (eds) (2002) New Directions in Global Political Governance: the G8 and international order in the twenty-first century. Aldershot: Ashgate, 393, £45.00, ISBN 0 7546 1833 1
Atul Kohli, Chung-in Moon and Georg Sørensen (eds) (2003) States, Markets, and Just Growth: development in the twenty-first century. Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 305, $21.95, ISBN 92 808 1076 6
Vinay Lal (2002) Empire of Knowledge: culture and plurality in the global economy. London: Pluto Press, 266, £15.99, ISBN 0 7453 1736 7
Gordon Laxer and Sandra Halperin (eds) (2003) Global Civil Society and Its Limits. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 293, £47.50, ISBN 1 4039 0314 X
Kelley Lee (ed.) (2003) Health Impacts of Globalization: towards global governance. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 262, £50.00, ISBN 0 333 80254 3
Corey L. Lofdahl (2002) Environmental Impacts of Globalization and Trade: a systems study. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 273, £22.50, ISBN 0 262 12245 6
William J. Long and Peter Brecke (2003) War and Reconciliation: reason and emotion in conflict resolution. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 245, £15.50, ISBN 0 262 62168 1
Gene M. Lyons and James Mayall (eds) (2003) International Human Rights in the 21st Century: protecting the rights of groups. Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 236, £20.95, ISBN 0 7425 2353 5
David Bruce MacDonald (2002) Balkan Holocausts? Serbian and Croatian victim-centred propaganda and the war in Yugoslavia. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 320, £18.99, ISBN 0 7190 6467 8
Kamal Malhotra et al. (2003) Making Global Trade Work for People. London: Earthscan, 373, £18.95, ISBN 1 85383 982 5
Michael Mandelbaum (2002) The Ideas that Conquered the World: peace, democracy, and free markets in the twenty-first century. Oxford: Public Affairs Ltd, 506, £19.99, ISBN 1 903985 44 7
Rama Mani (2002) Beyond Retribution: seeking justice in the shadows of war. Cambridge: Polity, 256, £15.99, ISBN 0 7456 2836 2
Christopher May (2002) The Information Society: a sceptical view. Cambridge: Polity, 200, £14.99, ISBN 0 7456 2685 8
Michael Mazarr (ed.) (2002) Information Technology and World Politics. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 190, £25.00, ISBN 1 4039 6057 7
Stephen McBride, Laurent Dobuzinskis, Marjorie Griffin Cohen and James Busumtwi-Sam (eds) (2002) Global Instability: uncertainty and new visions in political economy. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 247, £61.00, ISBN 1 4020 0946 1
Colin McInnes (2002) Spectator-Sport War: the West and contemporary conflict. London: Lynne Rienner, 194, £41.50, ISBN 1 58826 047 X
John McMurtry (2002) Value Wars: the global market versus the life economy. London: Pluto Press, 302, £15.99, ISBN 0 7453 1889 4
Sarah E. Mendelson and John K. Glenn (eds) (2002) The Power and Limits of NGOs: a critical look at building democracy in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. New York: Columbia University Press, 272, £19.50, ISBN 0 231 12491 0
Errol Mendes and Ozay Mehmet (2003) Global Governance, Economy and Law: waiting for justice. London: Routledge, 272, £60.00, ISBN 0 415 28263 2
Nicolaus Mills and Kira Brunner (eds) (2002) The New Killing Fields: massacre and the politics of intervention. New York: Basic Books, 287, £17.99, ISBN 0 465 00803 8
Bernard Mommer [foreword by Alí Rodríguez Araque] (2002) Global Oil and the Nation State. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 271, £29.50, ISBN 0 19 730028 6
Mehdi Mozaffari (ed.) (2002) Globalization and Civilizations. London: Routledge, 288, £19.99, ISBN 0 415 28615 8
James A. Nathan (2002) Soldiers, Statecraft, and History: coercive diplomacy and international order. Westport CT: Praeger, 215, $26.95, ISBN 0 275 97641 6
Edward Newman and Joanne Van Selm (2003) Refuges and Forced Displacement: international security, human vulnerability and the state. New York: United Nations University Press, 391, £00.00, ISBN 92 808 1086 3
Randall E. Newnham (2002) Deutsche Mark Diplomacy: positive economic sanctions in German-Russian relations. University Park PA: Penn State University Press, 360, $65.00, ISBN 0 271 02220 5
Meghan L. O'Sullivan (2003) Shrewd Sanctions: statecraft and state sponsors of terrorism. Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 441, £14.75, ISBN 0 8157 0601 4
Risto E. J. Penttilä (2003) The Role of the G8 in International Peace and Security. Adelphi paper 355. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 104, £00.00, ISBN 0 19 852834 5
George H. Quester (2002) Before and After the Cold War: using past forecasts to predict the future. London: Frank Cass, 230, £45.00, ISBN 0 7146 5229 6
Brian Rappert [foreword by Frank Barnaby] (2003) Non-Lethal Weapons as Legitimizing Forces? Technology, politics and the management of conflict. London: Frank Cass, 300, £18.50, ISBN 0 7146 8360 4
Elmar Rieger and Stephan Leibfried (2003) Limits to Globalization. Cambridge: Polity Press, 416, £19.99, ISBN 0 7456 2851 6
Norrin M. Ripsman (2002) Peacemaking by Democracies: the effect of state autonomy on the post-world war settlements. University Park PA: Penn State University Press, 280, $45.00, ISBN 0 271 02222 1
Robbie Robertson (2003) The Three Waves of Globalization: a history of a developing global consciousness. London: Zed Books, 300, £12.99, ISBN 1 85649 861 1
James N. Rosenau (2003) Distant Proximities: dynamics beyond globalization. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 455, £17.95, ISBN 0 691 09524 8
Amin Saikal (2003) Islam and the West: conflict or cooperation? Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 181, £13.99, ISBN 1 4039 0358 1
Mark B. Salter (2002) Barbarians and Civilization in International Relations. London: Pluto Press, 238, £15.99, ISBN 0 7453 1901 7
Richard Sandbrook (ed.) (2003) Civilizing Globalization: a survival guide. Albany NY: State University of New York Press, 292, $27.95, ISBN 0 7914 5668 4
Louise Grace Shaw [foreword by Harold Shukman] (2003) The British Political Elite and the Soviet Union, 1937–1939. London: Frank Cass, 224, £18.50, ISBN 0 7146 8333 7
Seán Ó Siochrú and Bruce Girard, with Amy Mahan (2002) Global Media Governance: a beginner's guide. Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 216, £14.95, ISBN 0 7425 1566 4
Marie Claude Smouts (2003) [translated by Cynthia Schoch] Tropical Forests, International Jungle: the underside of global ecopolitics. Basingstoke: MacMillian, 266, £27.50, ISBN 1 4039 6203 0
Ronald Bruce St John (2002) Libya and the United States: two centuries of strife. Philadelphia PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 255, £33.00, ISBN 0 8122 3672 6
Paul Taylor (2003) International Organization in the Age of Globalization. London: Continuum, 288, £75.00, ISBN 0 8264 6153 0
John Torpey (ed.) (2003) Politics and the Past: on repairing historical injustices. Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 316, $27.95, ISBN 0 7425 1799 3
Marc Trachtenberg (ed.) (2003) Between Empire and Alliance: America and Europe during the Cold War. Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 217, £18.95, ISBN 0 7425 2177 X
Ezra F. Vogel, Yuan Ming and Tanaka Akihiko (eds) (2002) The Golden Age of the US-China-Japan Triangle, 1972–89. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 280, £26.50, ISBN 0 674 00960 6
James Raymond Vreeland (2003) The IMF and Economic Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 215, £16.95, ISBN 0 521 01695 9
Bernard Wasserstein (2003) Israel and Palestine: why they fight and can they stop? London: Profile Books, 236, £9.99, ISBN 1 86197 534 1
Iain Watson (2002) Rethinking the Politics of Globalization: theory, concepts and strategy. Aldershot: Ashgate, 224, £42.50, ISBN 0 7546 1968 0
Mark Webber and Michael Smith, with David Allen, Alan Collins, Denny Morgan and Anoushiravan Ehteshami (2002) Foreign Policy in a Transformed World. Harlow: Pearson Education, 392, £21.99, ISBN 0 13 908757 5
David Weigall (2002) International Relations: a concise companion. London: Arnold, 262, £12.99, ISBN 0 340 76333 7
William C. Wohlforth (ed.) (2003) Cold War Endgame: oral history, analysis, debates. University Park PA: Penn State University Press, 350, $25.00, ISBN 0 271 02238 8
Zoe Young (2002) A New Green Order? The World Bank and the politics of the global environment facility. London: Pluto Press, 304, £16.99, ISBN 0 7453 1548 8
Nicholas Zarimpas (ed.) (2003) Transparency in Nuclear Warheads and Materials: the political and technical dimensions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 276, £40.00, ISBN 0 19 925242 4