globalac

Martin Shaw/Global Society and International Relations/Contents/1/2/3/4/5/6/7

Acknowledgements

This book has been written over a period of engagement with international relations, stimulated by my involvement from 1989-92 as Director of the Centre for Security Studies (formerly Defence and Disarmament Studies) at the University of Hull. I owe a particular debt to my then colleague, Nick Wheeler (now at Aberystwyth) for his encouragement, friendly criticism and generous sharing of ideas. I must also thank my MA students in Security Studies, on whom I have tried out many of the ideas developed here.

Earlier versions of several of the chapters have appeared as follows: chapter 2, 'War and the Nation-State in Social Theory', in David Held and John Thompson, eds, Social Theory of Modern Societies: Anthony Giddens and his Critics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989; chapter 3, 'State Theory and the Post Cold War World', in Michael Banks and Martin Shaw, eds, State and Society in International Relations, Hemel Hempstead: Harvester-Wheatsheaf, 1991, pp 1-24; chapter 4, as '"There is no such thing as society": beyond individualism and statism in international security studies', in Review of International Studies, 19, 2, April 1993, pp 159-76; chapter 5, as 'Global society and global responsibility: the theoretical, analytical and practical limits of international society', in Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 21, 3, Winter 1992-93, pp 421-34; and chapter 6, as War is Over? The Left and the New World Order, as a Democratic Left Discussion Paper, London, 1992. I am grateful to the editors and publishers of the original versions for their permission to republish.

I also wish to thank Barry Buzan and Ken Booth for their comments on earlier versions of chapter 4; Rosemary Bechler for her support in publishing and stimulating discussion of War is Over?; Steve Platt, editor of New Statesman and Society, for encouraging me to write the article on the politics of military intervention, 'Grasping the nettle' (15 January 1993), in which some of the ideas of the final chapter were first aired; and John Westergaard, President of the British Sociological Association, for inviting me to contribute to his 1993 Presidential Symposium on 'New Directions in Sociology'. Some of the ideas in chapter 1 were first presented there.