Global and Regional Problems (2^nd Ed.) Towards an Interdisciplinary Study New Regionalisms Series

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.

List of Figures, Notes on Contributors, Acknowledgements, List of Abbreviations, 1 Introduction, 2 Foreign Policy Meets the Non-Interstate International: The English School as a Framework of Foreign Policy Analysis, 3 Africa and Human Security after 2010: Learning with Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 4 European/Eurasian Energy Security: From Vulnerability to Viability and Sustainability, 5 Political Economy of US-led Financial Crisis: A World View Analysis, 6 What is Asia? International Studies as Political Linguistics, 7 Feminist Interdisciplinarity and Gendered Parodies of Nuclear Iran, 8 Circumpolar Arctic in ‘Global’ Climate Change: (De)Securitizing the Ice, 9 Creating State Competitiveness, Re-scaling Higher Education: The Case of Finland, 10 Conclusions: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Global and Regional Relations, Index

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.