Selected publications from the Centre
2012
Militarism and international relations: political economy, security, theory
Anna Stavrianakis and Jan Selby (eds.)
Cass Military Studies. Routledge, London, August 2012
This book examines contemporary militarism in international politics, employing a variety of different theoretical viewpoints and international case studies.
Militarism – understood as the social and international relations of the preparation for, and conduct of, organized political violence – is an abiding and defining characteristic of world politics. Yet despite the ongoing social, political and economic reach of military institutions, practices and values, the concept and subject of militarism has not received significant attention within recent debates in International Relations.
Missing the target: NGOs, global civil society and the arms trade
Anna Stavrianakis
Journal of International Relations and Development, 15. pp. 224-249, 2012
Exploring the everyday world of hate victimization through community mediation
Mark Austin Walters and Carolyn Hoyle
International Review of Victimology, 18 (1). pp. 7-24. ISSN 0269-7580, 2012
2011
Small arms control and the reproduction of imperial relations
Anna Stavrianakis
Contemporary Security Policy, 32 (1). pp. 193-214, 2011
A General Theories of Hate Crime? Strain, Doing Difference and Self Control
Mark Austin Walters
Critical Criminology, 19 (4), 2011
2010
Taking aim at the arms trade. NGOs, global civil society and the world military order
Anna Stavrianakis
Zed Books, London and New York, June 2010
This book takes a critical look at the ways in which non-governmental organisations (NGOs) portray the arms trade as a problem of international politics and the strategies they use to effect change. The book analyses the tensions inherent in NGOs' engagement with the arms trade and argues for a re-examination of dominant assumptions about NGOs as global civil society actors.