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Concepts of International Relations, for Students and Other Smarties

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Concepts of International Relations, for Students and Other Smarties

By: Iver B. Neumann

Concepts of International Relations, for Students and Other Smarties is not a stereotypical textbook, but an instructive, entertaining, and motivating introduction to the field of International Relations (IR). Rather than relying on figures or tables, this book piques the reader’s interest with a pithy narrative that presents apposite nutshell examples, stresses historical breaks, and throws in the odd pun. Based on Iver B. Neumann’s introductory lectures to his students at the London School of Economics, this book is proven for the classroom. In a relaxed style, Neumann introduces the long-term historical emergence of concepts such as state (European), state (global), empire, nonstate agents, foreign policy, state system, nationalism, globalization, security, international society, great powers, diplomacy, war and peace, balance of power, international law, power and sovereignty, intervention, gender, and class. He demonstrates how such phenomena have been understood in different ways over time. First, the reader learns how the use of concepts is an integral part of politics. Second, the reader sees how social change has worked in the past, and is working now. Third, the book demonstrates how historical and social context matters in ongoing international relations.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472054074

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Uses of the Other

"The East" in European Identity Formation

By: Iver B. Neumann

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Uses of the Other

"The East" in European Identity Formation

By: Iver B. Neumann

The field of international relations has recently witnessed a tremendous growth of interest in the theme of identity and its formation, construction, and deconstruction. In Uses of the Other, Iver B. Neumann demonstrates how thinking about identity in terms of the self and other may prove highly useful in the study of world politics. Neumann begins by tracing the four different paths along which this thinking has developed during this century -- ethnographic, psychological, Continental philosophical, and "Eastern excursion" -- and he shows how these blended at the margins of the discipline of international relations at the end of the 1980s. There follow several incisive readings of European identity formations on the all-European, regional, and national levels. The theme that draws these readings together is how "the East" is used as a sign of otherness at all three levels. Whereas previous studies framed this process as part of colonial and postcolonial developments, this book suggests that "Easternness" is also present as a marker in contemporary discourses about Russia, Turkey, Central Europe, and Bashkortostan, among others.

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816630836

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Power, Culture and Situated Research Methodology

Autobiography, Field, Text

By: Cecilie Basberg Neumann,Iver B. Neumann

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Power, Culture and Situated Research Methodology

Autobiography, Field, Text

By: Cecilie Basberg Neumann,Iver B. Neumann

This book explores the extent to which our lives become an important underlying context for data production. Drawing on insights from Gestalt psychology, feminism and post-structuralism, it discusses how to situate yourself in the different phases of research.

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Springer

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3319592173

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Russia and the Idea of Europe

A Study in Identity and International Relations

By: Iver B. Neumann

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Russia and the Idea of Europe

A Study in Identity and International Relations

By: Iver B. Neumann

The end of the Soviet system and the transition to the market in Russia, coupled with the inexorable rise of nationalism, brought to the fore the centuries-old debate about Russia's relationship with Europe. In this revised and updated second edition of Russia and the Idea of Europe, Iver Neumann discusses whether the tensions between self-referencing nationalist views and Europe-orientated liberal views can ever be resolved. Drawing on a wide range of Russian sources, this book retains the broad historical focus of the previous edition and picks up from where the it off in the early 1990s, bringing the discussion fully up to date. Discussing theoretical and political developments, it relates the existing story of Russian identity formation to new foreign policy analysis and the developments in the study of nationalism. The book also offers an additional focus on post-Cold War developments. In particular it examines the year 2000, when Putin succeeded Yeltsin as president, and 2014, when Russian foreign policy turned from cooperation to confrontation. Bringing to life the various debates surrounding this complicated relationship in an accessible and clear manner, this book continues to be a unique and vital resource for both students and scholars of international relations.

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Taylor & Francis

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131729470X

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Undertaking Discourse Analysis for Social Research

By: Kevin C. Dunn,Iver B. Neumann

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Undertaking Discourse Analysis for Social Research

By: Kevin C. Dunn,Iver B. Neumann

Kevin C. Dunn and Iver B. Neumann offer a concise, accessible introduction to discourse analysis in the social sciences. A vital resource for students and scholars alike, Undertaking Discourse Analysis for Social Research combines a theoretical and conceptual review with a “how-to” guide for using the method. In the first part of the book, the authors discuss the development of discourse analysis as a research method and identify the main theoretical elements and epistemological assumptions that have led to its emergence as one of the primary qualitative methods of analysis in contemporary scholarship. Then, drawing from a wide-range of examples of social science scholarship, Dunn and Neumann provide an indispensable guide to the variety of ways discourse analysis has been used. They delve into what is gained by using this approach and demonstrate how one actually applies it. They cover such important issues as research prerequisites, how one conceives of a research question, what “counts” as evidence, how one “reads” the data, and some common obstacles and pitfalls. The result is a clear and accessible manual for successfully implementing discourse analysis in social research.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472121901

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Uses of the Other

"The East" in European Identity Formation

By: Iver B. Neumann

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Uses of the Other

"The East" in European Identity Formation

By: Iver B. Neumann

In the wake of the Cold War, European identities are up for grabs. Identity formation is an integral and tangible aspect of contemporary European politics. Drawing on an array of approaches, the author investigates empirically how six national, regional and all-European identities involve the exclusion of the East. The focus is on how identities are being renegotiated in practice. The readings of how Europe is constituted by its discourse on Turkey and Russia respectively argue that European identity of marked by these exclusions. The exclusions are part of the preconditions for action which are undertaken in political forums where European identity is seen as relevant, such as the debates about NATO and EU enlargement. Readings of regional discourses constituting repectively Northern and Central Europe argue that the politics of these regions serve to exclude those living further East. The two readings of Bashkir and Russian discourse demonstrate how the self/other nexus may be used as a springboard for analyzing national identities. The conclusion addresses the question of how far our present theoretical approaches may take us.

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Manchester University Press

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0719056535

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9780719056536

The Financialization of Commodity Markets

Investing During Times of Transition

By: A. Zaremba,Iver B. Neumann

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The Financialization of Commodity Markets

Investing During Times of Transition

By: A. Zaremba,Iver B. Neumann

The landscape of commodity markets has drastically changed in recent years. Once a market of refineries and mines, it has become the market of investment funds and commodity trading advisors. Given this transformation, are commodity investments still as beneficial as 20 or 30 years ago? This book is an attempt to answer these questions.

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1137476397

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The Steppe Tradition in International Relations

Russians, Turks and European State Building 4000 BCE-2017 CE

By: Iver B. Neumann,Einar Wigen

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The Steppe Tradition in International Relations

Russians, Turks and European State Building 4000 BCE-2017 CE

By: Iver B. Neumann,Einar Wigen

Neumann and Wigen counter Euro-centrism in the study of international relations by providing a full account of political organisation in the Eurasian steppe from the fourth millennium BCE up until the present day. Drawing on a wide range of archaeological and historical secondary sources, alongside social theory, they discuss the pre-history, history and effect of what they name the 'steppe tradition'. Writing from an International Relations perspective, the authors give a full treatment of the steppe tradition's role in early European state formation, as well as explaining how politics in states like Turkey and Russia can be understood as hybridising the steppe tradition with an increasingly dominant European tradition. They show how the steppe tradition's ideas of political leadership, legitimacy and concepts of succession politics can help us to understand the policies and behaviour of such leaders as Putin in Russia and Erdogan in Turkey.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108368913

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9781108368919

Diplomatic tenses

A social evolutionary perspective on diplomacy

By: Iver Neumann

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Diplomatic tenses

A social evolutionary perspective on diplomacy

By: Iver Neumann

Offering an alternative and a complement to existing histories of diplomacy, this book discusses change in the form of ‘tipping points’, which it understands as the culmination of long-term trends. Part I discusses social evolution on the general level of institutions. It argues that in cases where a diplomatic institution’s tipping points are defined by the types of entities that make it up, the consular institution has evolved from concerning polities of independent traders to becoming ever more of a state concern. Part II challenges the existing literature’s treatment of diplomacy as an elite, textual affair. It lays the groundwork for studying visual diplomacy and observes that the increasingly marginal vision of diplomacy as a confrontation between good and evil survives in popular culture. The book concludes by identifying the future of diplomacy as a struggle between state-to-state based diplomacy and diplomacy as networked global governance.

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1526148706

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Concepts of International Relations, for Students and Other Smarties

By: Iver B. Neumann

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Governing the Global Polity

Practice, Mentality, Rationality

By: Iver B. Neumann,Ole Jacob Sending

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Governing the Global Polity

Practice, Mentality, Rationality

By: Iver B. Neumann,Ole Jacob Sending

Governmentality offers an explanation for the 21st century global web of power relations

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0472050931

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At Home with the Diplomats

Inside a European Foreign Ministry

By: Iver B. Neumann

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At Home with the Diplomats

Inside a European Foreign Ministry

By: Iver B. Neumann

The 2010 WikiLeaks release of 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables has made it eminently clear that there is a vast gulf between the public face of diplomacy and the opinions and actions that take place behind embassy doors. In At Home with the Diplomats, Iver B. Neumann offers unprecedented access to the inner workings of a foreign ministry. Neumann worked for several years at the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he had an up-close view of how diplomats conduct their business and how they perceive their own practices. In this book he shows us how diplomacy is conducted on a day-to-day basis. Approaching contemporary diplomacy from an anthropological perspective, Neumann examines the various aspects of diplomatic work and practice, including immunity, permanent representation, diplomatic sociability, accreditation, and issues of gender equality. Neumann shows that the diplomat working abroad and the diplomat at home are engaged in two different modes of knowledge production. Diplomats in the field focus primarily on gathering and processing information. In contrast, the diplomat based in his or her home capital is caught up in the seemingly endless production of texts: reports, speeches, position papers, and the like. Neumann leaves the reader with a keen sense of the practices of diplomacy: relations with foreign ministries, mediating between other people’s positions while integrating personal and professional into a cohesive whole, adherence to compulsory routines and agendas, and, above all, the generation of knowledge. Yet even as they come to master such quotidian tasks, diplomats are regularly called upon to do exceptional things, such as negotiating peace.

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Cornell University Press

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0801462991

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9780801462993

The Social Evolution of World Politics

By: Mathias Albert,Hauke Brunkhorst,Iver B. Neumann,Stephan Stetter

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The Social Evolution of World Politics

By: Mathias Albert,Hauke Brunkhorst,Iver B. Neumann,Stephan Stetter

How can we understand long-term change in world politics better? Based on readings of thinkers as diverse as Habermas, Foucault and Luhmann, the authors of this book propose a framework for understanding such change in terms of social evolution. They show that processes of social learning and unlearning are key to understanding the long-term historical evolution of complex societies, and propose to approach these with the core concepts of autonomization, hierarchical complexity, and co-evolution. Three case studies illustrate this social evolutionary perspective to the study of world politics, examining the evolution of forms of organizing political authority, of conflicts, of diplomacy, of law as boundary condition.

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transcript Verlag

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3839465273

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At Home with the Diplomats

Inside a European Foreign Ministry

By: Iver B. Neumann

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Inside a European Foreign Ministry

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Undertaking Discourse Analysis for Social Research

By: Kevin C. Dunn,Iver B. Neumann

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By: Kevin C. Dunn,Iver B. Neumann

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University of Michigan Press

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0472053116

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The Steppe Tradition in International Relations

Russians, Turks and European State Building 4000 BCE-2017 CE

By: Iver B. Neumann,Einar Wigen

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Russians, Turks and European State Building 4000 BCE-2017 CE

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Concepts of International Relations, for Students and Other Smarties

Concepts of International Relations, for Students and Other Smarties

Uses of the Other

Uses of the Other

Power, Culture and Situated Research Methodology

Power, Culture and Situated Research Methodology

Russia and the Idea of Europe

Russia and the Idea of Europe

Undertaking Discourse Analysis for Social Research

Undertaking Discourse Analysis for Social Research

Uses of the Other

Uses of the Other

The Financialization of Commodity Markets

The Financialization of Commodity Markets

The Steppe Tradition in International Relations

The Steppe Tradition in International Relations

Diplomatic tenses

Diplomatic tenses

Concepts of International Relations, for Students and Other Smarties

Concepts of International Relations, for Students and Other Smarties

Governing the Global Polity

Governing the Global Polity

At Home with the Diplomats

At Home with the Diplomats

The Social Evolution of World Politics

The Social Evolution of World Politics

At Home with the Diplomats

At Home with the Diplomats

Undertaking Discourse Analysis for Social Research

Undertaking Discourse Analysis for Social Research

The Steppe Tradition in International Relations

The Steppe Tradition in International Relations

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