This text traces the reluctant growth of European Union integration in foreign and security policy from the mid-1980s. It explores the national policies and interests that typically obstruct a common policy, and considers ways of addressing these problems and future problems.
Global Management
Explores the relationships between the national state, globalization and sexual dissidence.
Suitable for those who wish to understand and review the importance of gender within their research studies. This book outlines the practical and philosophical issues of... Læs mere
Understandings of globalization have been little explored in relation to gender or related concerns such as identity, subjectivity and the body. This title contrasts 'the natural' and 'the global' as interpretive strategies, using approaches from feminist cultural theory.
Proposes an answer to - how should democratic societies organize cyberspace? - that puts human-rights, rather than profit, at the top of the agenda. The author argues that conventional ethical approaches are all seriously flawed.
This accomplished book provides a peerless account of the French tradition. It provides an overview of French social theory; divides French social theory into three coherent cycles:... Læs mere
What impact does gender difference make to political decision-making? Will the political empowerment of women contribute to a more peaceful world? This book explores the key role of gender in peace research, conflict resolution and international politics.
Gender and Sexuality
The ambivalent status of urban space in terms of emancipation, democratisation, justice and citizenship is central to recent work in urban geography.... Læs mere
This critical introduction to consumption and its geographies provides an engaged summary of the consumption literature and demonstrates that consumption is intimately related to the production of space in everyday life.