To be able to talk intelligently about what looks like the extraordinary amount of intervention
that occurs in the present-day international system, or about the seemingly original network …

During the Cold War the concept of international security was understood in military terms as
the threat or use of force by states. The end of EastÐWest hostilities, however, brought …

Notions of 'sovereignty as responsibility'and 'the responsibility to protect'are often fra-med as
radical departures from the 'traditional'conception of sovereignty. Many assume that …

Focusing on the disconnect between mainstream “liberal” peacebuilding and the discourses
and practices of “new” and “alternative” peacebuilding actors, this article develops a …

In spring 1994 I first heard Richard Whitman ask the question,'what is the international
identity of the European Union?'. The end of the Cold War, the Treaty on European Union …

The conventional story of sovereignty told in the discipline of International Relations (IR) tells
us that there is a “traditional” or “Westphalian” meaning of sovereignty that has prevailed …

Anticipating the strategic confluence between liberal ways of war and liberal ways of
development, the ideas of Michel Foucault have increasingly resonated in the field of …

This is the first detailed study in any language of the single most influential theory of the
modern state: Samuel von Pufendorf's account of the state as a'moral person'. Ben Holland …

The ethics of hospitality–the welcome of the foreigner–is implied in all moral debate in
international relations ranging from questions of asylum to those of humanitarian …

Although its roots can be traced back to Cyprus, Namibia, the move to reform in El Salvador
and the use of executive powers in Cambodia and Haiti, the 'new international policing'truly …