Global and Regional Problems: Towards an Interdisciplinary Study

by Pami Aalto, Sami Moisio, Vilho Harle, Timothy M Shaw

Overview

Distinctive due to explicit and systematically developed links between international relations (IR) and related disciplines, this book addresses global and regional interactions and the complex policy problems that often characterise this agenda. Such enhanced communication is crucial for improving the capacity of IR to engage with concrete issues that today are of high policy relevance for international organisations, states, diplomats, mediators and humankind in general.

Whilst the authors do not reject the present IR, they offer a wider research agenda with new directions intended not only for those IR scholars who are unsatisfied with the analytical power of the current discipline, but also for those working on 'international', 'foreign', 'global' or 'interregional' issues in other disciplines and fields of research. In this instance they pay particular attention to linking up with peace research, international political economy (IPE) and cultural political economy (CPE), sociology, political geography, development studies, linguistics, cultural studies, environmental studies and energy research, gender studies, and traditions of area studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781409476580
Publisher:	Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	04/28/2013
Series:	The International Political Economy of New Regionalisms Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	18 MB
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About the Author

Pami Aalto is Jean Monnet Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations and Director of the Jean Monnet Centre, University of Tampere, Finland. Vilho Harle is Chair of International Politics in the Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Tampere, Finland. Professor Sami Moisio, University of Helsinki, Finland.

Pami Aalto, Vilho Harle, Sami Moisio, Timothy M. Shaw, Dicle Korkmaz Temel, Raymond C. Miller, Pekka Korhonen, Saara Särmä, Sanjay Chaturvedi, Anni Kangas, Fred Chernoff.

Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction, Pami Aalto, Vilho Harle and Sami Moisio; Foreign policy analysis meets the non-interstate international: the English school as a framework of foreign policy analysis, Vilho Harle; Africa and human security after 2010: learning with interdisciplinary perspectives, Timothy M. Shaw; European/Eurasian energy security: from vulnerability to viability and sustainability, Pami Aalto and Dicle Korkmaz Temel; Political economy of US-led financial crisis: a world view analysis, Raymond C. Miller; What is Asia? International studies as political linguistics, Pekka Korhonen; Feminist interdisciplinarity and gendered parodies of nuclear Iran, Saara Särmä; Circumpolar Arctic in 'global' climate change: (de)securitizing the ice, Sanjay Chaturvedi; Creating state competitiveness, re-scaling higher education; the case of Finland, Anni Kangas and Sami Moisio; Conclusions: interdisciplinary approaches to the study of global and regional relations, Fred Chernoff; Index.