ANNOUNCING A NEW BOOK SERIES FROM INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS!

Critical International Studies

Itty Abraham (University of Texas) Gabrielle Hecht (University of Michigan) Willem van Schendel (University of Amsterdam) editors

This book series responds to two interrelated trends in world affairs and scholarship. A range of economic, political, social, and cultural processes at work around the globe, within and among nations, seem increasingly to defy easy classification in terms of the traditional categories of international relations. It has become increasingly apparent that the traditional set of actors, events, norms, boundaries, and topographies that together constituted "international affairs" fail to capture the extent and scale of the interactions, patterns, and outcomes that now make up this complex field. At the same time, international studies as a discipline has been touched by many of the same paradigm shifts that have affected other social sciences and the humanities in the past two decades. Scholars working on related issues in political science, history, anthropology, geography, and even literature, media, and cultural studies share common concerns and approaches in ways that overlap traditional disciplinary boundaries.

Critical International Studies addresses such gaps in traditional international studies by publishing the best new work that: crosses disciplinary boundaries; offers new empirical material and evidence; and produces first-rate theoretical insights by drawing on any appropriate scholarly tradition. Books in the series will frequently address themes and privilege viewpoints that have been marginalized in the study of international relations, but all will offer crucial new understandings of the phenomena being analyzed.

We welcome submissions on these and related themes:

1) Human rights and security in conflict and post-conflict settings: Disasters, crises, and complex emergencies; Peace keeping and peace building; Refugees and refugee camps; Humanitarian issues and agencies; Globalization, development, and human security; Trafficking, smuggling, cross-border and illicit flows.

2) Justice, international law, and global civil society: Transitional justice; International criminal courts and tribunals; Memory and social reconciliation; Social reconstruction of post-conflict societies; Cosmopolitan ethics and transnational citizenship; Indigenous people, states, and international society; Transnational struggles over gender and sexuality; Organic life and international relations (bio-prospecting, genetics and organ flows).

3) New historical and theoretical studies: The Cold War as seen from the peripheries; Critical geopolitics and territoriality; Feminist approaches to international politics; Non-Western theories of international relations; Studies of inter-state relations outside the West; Post-constructivist international relations; Nuclear power and world orders.

4) New scales of international relations: Ethnographic studies of international relations and agencies; Borders, boundaries, diasporas; International relations and cultural studies; International institutions (conventions, conferences, museums, memorials, and monuments).

For more information or to submit a book proposal, contact: Rebecca Tolen, Sponsoring Editor, Indiana University Press, 601 N. Morton St., Bloomington, IN 47404-3797; [email protected].