This introductory textbook on international relations theory brings together a selection of
leading experts to offer an unparalleled insight into the main paradigms and latest …

What would constitute a definitively" green" state? In this important new book, Robyn
Eckersley explores what it might take to create a green democratic state as an alternative to …

This book is about global social policy. Global social policy consists of two things: first, it is
the social policy prescriptions for national social policy being articulated by global actors …

Do requirements for legitimate global governance vary across intergovernmental and non-
state governance institutions? The author introduces a framework to address this question …

Increasing global economic integration and recent military interventions in the name of
human rights have forced questions of global justice into political discussions. In presenting …

Taking account of the political, economic and cultural changes that have impacted on social
work over recent years, this book explores the challenges and presents the realities of …

Historically, the study of state formation has involved a focus on the urban and national
conditions under which states monopolize the means of coercion, generate legitimacy, and …

NGOs that operate as part of transnational advocacy networks face a number of 'legitimacy
challenges' concerning their rights to participate in the shaping of global governance …

This is a study of legitimacy in a global order, not legitimacy of the global order. It explores
the challenging issue of what legitimacy might mean within such a context, and on what …

It is not uncommon to argue that 'the notion of Europe as a continent is a social construction'.
1 The concern of this article, however, is to explore the ways in which 'Europe'is imagined in …