Posts Tagged ‘IR’

Norway: The Moral Guardian or the arms merchant?

I was pretty excited to come over a report – or should I say book? – that details the Norwegian practices and regulations regarding arms exports from 1935 to 1992. Not only are the practices put into periods and put in both domestic and international contexts, the author, as the title suggests, also briefly discusses [...]

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The Social Construction of Man, the State, and War

I bought this book by Franke Wilmer for the following reasons:
1. The title refers directly to Kenneth Waltz’ Man, the state and War, which means the author is not hiding her ambitions with this book. That’s the same thing Alex Wendt did with his Social Theory of International Politics which  countered Waltz’ book Theory of [...]

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