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 ...

An engaging and sophisticated new IR text that will inspire a new generation of scholars and practitioners

In Russia and the Idea of Europe Iver Neumann discusses whether the tensions between self-referencing romantic nationalist views and Europe-orientated liberal views can ever be resolved.

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 ...

An entertaining investigation of the parameters and semiotics of the new diplomacy

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.

This book explores the extent to which our lives become an important underlying context for data production.

In this book he shows us how diplomacy is conducted on a day-to-day basis.

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.

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