Barbarous philosophers: reflections on the nature of war from Heraclitus to Heisenberg

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International Relations theory

Barbarous philosophers: reflections on the nature of war from Heraclitus to Heisenberg. By Christopher Coker.

Visions of world community. By Jens Bartelson.

Rethinking world politics: a theory of transnational neopluralism. By Philip G. Cerny.

Intenational law, human rights and ethics

The limits of ethics in International Relations: natural law, natural rights, and human rights in transition. By David Boucher.

The fog of law: pragmatism, security and international law. By Michael J. Glennon.

Just war on terror? A Christian and Muslim response. Edited by David Fisher and Brian Wicker.

International organization and foreign policy

Deadlocks in multilateral negotiations: causes and solutions. Edited by Amrita Narlikar.

A history of diplomacy. By Jeremy Black.

The secret state: preparing for the worst, 1945-2010. By Peter Hennessy.

The ultimate weapon is no weapon: human security and the new rules of war and peace. By Shannon D. Beebe and Mary Kaldor.

The problem of force: grappling with the global battlefield. By Simon W. Murden.

Governance, civil society and cultural politics

Apart: alienated and engaged Muslims in the West. By Justin Gest.

Political economy, economics and development

Capital ideas: the IMF and the rise of financial liberalization. By Jeffrey M. Chwieroth.

History

M16: the history of the Secret Intelligence Service, 1909-1949. By Keith Jeffery.

Fighting for Britain: African soldiers in the Second World War. David Killingray with Martin Plaut.

Red plenty: inside the fifties' Soviet dream. By Francis Spufford.

Peru and the United States, 1960-1975: how their ambassadors managed foreign relations in a turbulent era. By Richard J. Walter.

Europe

In search of the Balkan recovery: the political and economic reemergence of SouthEastern Europe. By Christopher Cviic and Peter Sanfey.

Russia and Eurasia

Nationalist imaginings on the Russian past: Anatolii Fomenko and the rise of alternative history in post-communist Russia. By Konstantin Sheiko with Stephen Brown.

The new nobility: the restoration of Russia's security state and the enduring legacy of the KGB. By Andrey Soldatov and Irina Borogan.

Persian dreams: Moscow and Tehran since the fall of the Shah. By John W. Parker.

Middle East and North Africa

Meccanomics: the march of the new Muslim middle class. By Vali Nasr.

Invisible war: the United States and the Iraq sanctions. By Joy Gordon.

Islam and peacemaking in the Middle East. By Nathan C. Funk and Abdul Aziz Said.

Sub-Saharan Africa

Blood on the stone: greed, corruption and war in the global diamond trade. By Ian Smillie.

From blood diamonds to the Kimberley Process: how NGOs cleaned up the global diamond industry. By Franziska Bieri.

Famine and foreigners: Ethiopia since Live Aid. By Peter Gill.

The Ethiopian Revolution: war in the Horn of Africa. By Gebru Tareke.

Zimbabwe's exodus: crisis, migration, survival. Edited by Jonathan Crush and Daniel Tevera.

Ending apartheid. By J. E. Spence and David Welsh.

South Asia

The most dangerous place: Pakistan's lawless frontier. By Imtiaz Gul.

The Afghanistan-Pakistan theater: militant Islam, security and stability. Edited by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Clifford May.

Seeds of terror: how heroin is bankrolling the Taliban and al Qaeda. By Gretchen Peters.

Opium: uncovering the politics of the poppy. By Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy.

North America

Washington rules: America's path to permanent war. By Andrew J. Bacevich.

Advancing democracy abroad: why we should and how we can. By Michael McFaul.

The survival and the success of liberty: a democracy agenda for U.S. foreign policy. By Morton H. Halperin and Michael Hochman Fuchs.

Latin America and Caribbean

Evo Morales: the extraordinary rise of the first indigenous president of Bolivia. By Martin Sivak.

Amexica: war along the borderline. By Ed Vulliamy.

Mexico: narco-violence and a failed state? By George W. Grayson.

Cuba: what everyone needs to know. By Julia E. Sweig.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)195-196
Number of pages2
JournalInternational Affairs (London)
Volume87
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jan 2011

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