Böcker av Piki Ish-Shalom

The Democratic Peace Thesis holds that democracies rarely make war on other democracies. Political theorist Piki Ish-Shalom sketches the origins and early academic development of the thesis. He then focuses on the ways in which various Democratic Peace Theories were used by Bill Clinton and George W. Bush both to shape and to justify US foreign policy.

In this fascinating collection, Piki Ish-Shalom and the contributors interrogate the 'conceptions of concepts' in international relations. Using theoretical frameworks from Gramsci and Bourdieu, the authors show that not interrogating the meaning of the language we use to talk about international relations obscures the way we understand IR.

Is there a need to remodel constructivism to be more politically attuned? Piki Ish-Shalom calls for an activist academy that engages society and the polity to prevent the watering down of democracy, while helping to create a space for criticism.