Product Description: This unique work looks at the relationship between psychopathology and world politics. What happens when the brain/mind ceases to function properly? How does this impinge on world affairs? What is to be done, for example, when a leader ceases to act in a seemingly sane fashion and yet still commands the loyalty of those who maintain him or her in office? What is to be done when a leader's advisers seem rational but are clearly not? Indeed, what is to be done when a whole society goes insane? This is to raise more questions than a single work can adequately answer...read more

Product Description: Taken from the papers presented at the fourth Wellington Conference on World Affairs, this collection of essays focuses on New Zealand's role both in the Pacific and in a globalizing world. The chapters include a deconstruction of globalization, an exploration of the role of diplomacy, a discussion of security in Oceania in the post–September 11 era, a survey of international politics with regard to nuclear testing by the French, and an investigation of the differing worldviews held by Australia and New Zealand...read more

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Fully accessible to students and scholars alike, this engaging book introduces the constructivist approach to understanding world affairs. In a highly readable and witty way, it shows how people and their social relations are the basis for everything around us -- International Relations included. (view table of contents)

This introductory text offers a comprehensive survey of interational political economy. Built around a selected set of non-academic readings, the book reviews the traditional analytic narratives. It critiques the rationalist bias of the discipline, and documents the transition from international to world political economy. The book demonstrates that information and insights can be gained from the less, as well as the more, conventional accounts of what is involved.

Product Description: As an introduction to international politics this publication looks at wealth-making and how people feel about the world they live in. Systematically, it looks not only at the politics of strategy and diplomacy but at the social movements and structures of the world...read more

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