The volumes bring together alternative voices and “worldings” – i.e. “I would recommend these complementary as two of the recent most rich and inspiring collections exemplifying the evolving movement and call to diversify and pluralise the otherwise conventional Western-dominated disciplines of International Relations and Diplomacy.
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It is the final book in a widely acclaimed series on world history since 1789.” – Dr Tim Oliver, Director of Studies, and Senior Lecturer for the Institute for Diplomacy and International Governance Arlene Tickner and David Blaney, Claiming the International, (London: Routledge, 2013) and Thinking International Relations Differently (London: Routledge, 2012). Hobsbawm’s breath-taking (if not entirely perfect) review of the world from the start of the First World War to the end of the Cold War puts our current world into perspective by showing how much we have been shaped by that short, bloody but transformative century. “This is one of those required readings from a university course that stays with you for the rest of your life. If you want to understand issues like BlackLivesMatter and contemporary racism then this is essential reading into structures of oppression and how they can be dismantled.” – Dr Aiden McGarry, Reader in International Politics Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991.
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It explains how colonised people fight for freedom, and the political, social and psychological impact of colonisation. “It’s one of the most important books of the 20th century and is vital reading today.
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That matters.” – Professor Helen Drake, Director of the Institute for Diplomacy and International Governance Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth. Oh, and he was nice and generous to other scholars and to his students. He also had a soft spot for Charles de Gaulle and this piece on ‘heroic leadership’ is one I return to again and again when thinking and writing about diplomacy and leadership today. He made the marriage of theory and empirical research seem particularly effortless. Hoffmann’s life experience taught him that boundaries and borders are arbitrary and permeable and he brought this to his scholarship, bringing whatever academic tools he could to the study of the realities and messes of world politics. “Stanley Hoffmann has been an inspiration and a role model for me from the very start of my studies in international relations, and this is one of his most-cited pieces.
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Edinger (ed.) Political Leadership in Industrialized Societies: Studies in Comparative Analysis. (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1967). Hoffmann, Stanley (1967), ‘Heroic Leadership: the Case of Modern France’ in Lewis J. Whether you are currently studying Politics and International Relations or just have an interest in these areas, keep scrolling to find out which books should be on your reading list. We asked academic staff, post-docs and PhD students from the Institute for Diplomacy and International Governance for their book recommendations.