Product Description: Looking beyond categories including ‘civil society’, ‘international institutions’, ‘international organizations’ and ‘new social movements’ this book brings together an interdisciplinary dialogue on what constitutes political agency today...read more

Challenging the neglect of feminism in accounts of the global justice movement, this book explores the origins, ideas, and practices of what Catherine Eschle and Bice Maiguashca term "feminist antiglobalization activism." Drawing on fieldwork undertaken at the World Social Forum, the authors argue that feminists constitute a distinct, if diverse, sector of the global justice movement. Taking feminism seriously, the authors conclude, points us toward a richer and more theoretically nuanced understanding of the global justice movement and its struggle to create other possible worlds. Their book thus offers vital insights not only for feminists but also for all those interested in contemporary social movements and in global governance and resistance.

Product Description: Social movements are rarely the analytical or theoretical focus of studies in international relations. They are often used just as starting points to elaborate more central concepts, or are displaced by NGOs and organizational networks as the preferred units of analysis...read more

Product Description: War is invariably accompanied by debate, if not controversy, over the legitimacy of using force. Alongside the longstanding state practice of justifying use of force is the increasing codification of legal rules on the use of force...read more

Product Description: This book provides a comprehensive and nuanced analysis of the 'anti-globalisation' struggles taking place around the world. It shows the complexity and diversity of these movements and illustrates this with detailed empirical studies of local, national and transnational resistance in the United States, Europe, Asia and Africa...read more

Product Description: The emergence of global governance challenges conventional interpretations of world politics regarding conflicts of interests between sovereign states under conditions of anarchy. At the same time, the new phenomena of anti-globalization demonstrations, transnational social movements, and an emergent global civil society point to important developments in international relations...read more