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The contributors to this volume offer a reexamination of the basic assumptions and theoretical tools of traditional international relations theory. The book calls for more inclusive, dynamic and interactive forms of theory suited to the realities of the current global scene.

Poised between the end of the Cold War and the start of a new millennium, international relations theory finds itself at a major intellectual crossroads. Globalizing phenomena, emerging non-state actors, revolutionizing technologies, and a self-redefining fluidity in power relations are just a few of the challenges that international relations theorists must find ways to take into account. It is increasingly apparent that traditional paradigms...

The explanatory power of traditional notions of security seem increasingly inadequate to explain the phenomena of changing global security. The contributors to this text offer a reassessment of what constitutes security and insecurity in the present global environment.

At the end of the deadliest century known to mankind, the world still finds itself mired in bloodshed. In addition to formal inter-state conflict, we see an increase in other forms of organized violence, including ethnic warfare, terrorism, civil conflict, and internationally necessitated police actions. Cornered by these powerful global forces, nation-states continue their quest for security. Theirs is a search plagued by futility since the v...

Contributors from a range of disciplines discuss the evolving meaning of citizenship, and the possible future of a global "citizenship by voluntary association.

Interdisciplinary perspectives on the concepts of indeterminacy and indeterminability and the distinctions between the two.

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