Essays on the early disciplinary history of international relations.

Recounts and evaluates the worldwide effort to ban landmines.

A path-breaking look at the international response to ozone depletion and climate change.

Argues that international relations ought to be anchored in realistic models of human decision making.

Argues that international institutions are becoming increasingly democratized.

A critical look at the image of human nature that underlies the realist theory of international relations.

Examines the nature of international economic leadership since the seventeenth century.

Explores issues of political identity and the social changes that ended apartheid in South Africa.

Uses Heidegger’s philosophy to critique and remedy “world order thinking” in international politics.

Applies the concept of space to international relations to arrive at novel interpretations.

Looks at alternatives to international financial institutions such as the IMF and World Bank.

The impact of internet technologies on international politics.

Makes the perhaps surprising argument that in the last quarter of the twentieth century the Arab-Israeli conflict has been winding down.

Argues the state and not markets should be the center of analysis when attempting to explain international cooperation.

Examines how information technologies may be shifting power and authority away from the state.

Explains why military interventions with humanitarian goals consistently fail.

Examines the political, social, and economic issues confronted by each of the newly independent republics in the Transcaucasus and Central Asian regions.

Details the West German peace movement's impact on German, U. S., and NATO politics and security dynamics in the 1980s.

Traces the history of European monetary negotiations from the 1960s to the 1990s.

Explores the limits of Kantian approaches to the study of international affairs.

Argues that marginalized states and peoples are capable of initiating their own foreign policy agendas.

Challenges the parochialism and "Americanization" of the field of International Relations.

Analyzes the underlying basis for state participation in cooperative international structures.

Christopher Hemmer offers a model for how U. S. decision makers use the lessons of history to diagnose and make policy choices.

Presents a constructively critical reappraisal of the boundaries that define the social scientific analysis of international life.