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With the rapid development of computing and telecommunications infrastructure, a new electronic space has emerged which coexists, and sometimes intertwines, with the physical space and place of our world. This has greatly increased the complexity and flexibility of the new space economy for organisations and individuals, and increasingly we have to live in 'two spaces'. Since the late 1980s researchers have successfully dismissed the misconception about the 'death of distance' in the information economy. However, the dissemination of this progress has been slow and fragmented. Utopian views about the 'end of geography' remain very influential in current business thinking and in research on information systems and organisational innovations. Numerous failed business applications of information systems have resulted from a lack of geographical considerations. This situation has been significantly exacerbated in the last few years by the rapid developments of the Internet and new applications based on it, such as e-commerce and e-business. Researchers have a duty not only to understand the new geography of the information economy, but also to inform the public about the key features of the 'two spaces' that all organisations and individuals have to live in. In this paper, some case studies and emerging business phenomena are used to illustrate the importance of introducing a geographical dimension into research on information systems and organisational innovations. Several new themes for further research are also highlighted.

This article analyses the writings of a prominent German social and political theorist - Jürgen Habermas - on the process of (re)unification in Germany and examines responses to his interventions by right-wing thinkers opposed to his views. (Re)unification is a setting of rapidly developing and changing events which present a challenge to Habermas' thinking. Put simply, Habermas is highly critical of the "rush towards (re)unification" and the process which has followed it. In particular, he objects to attempts by right-wing thinkers, predominantly historians, to rewrite German history and which elude German responsibility in respect of the horrors of the Holocaust. Equally, he has explicitly shown the links between questions of German identity and the rewriting of German history and argues that the only viable identity for Germany post-(Re)unification is that of "constitutional identity" and not national identity. His writings have, however, been the subject of sometimes vehement and vitriolic critiques and this article seeks not only to engage with these but also to examine the interventions of Habermas in relation to his earlier more theoretical writings. (German Politics / FUB)

A new edition of a standard work which places Fukuyama's concept of the End of History in the context of a major intellectual tradition in Western philosophy, and which looks at how his more recent work engages with such vital issues such as the spread of democracy and threat of global terror.

Chapter 1. Introduction (David Boucher, Alexandros Koutsoukis, David Reidy, David Sullivan, Peter Sutch, Howard Williams) -- Part VII: Challenges to the World Order -- Chapter 2. Rethinking Money and Trade (Aaron James) -- Chapter 3.Security in the Global Context: Blurring the Internal-External Divide (Alistair J. K. Shepherd) -- Chapter 4. Global Climate Change: Political Realism and the Case for a World Climate Bank (Alyssa R. Bernstein) -- Chapter 5. Environmental Responsibility: Oceans and the Polar Regions (Hannes Hansen-Magnusson) -- Chapter 6. Reparations for Loss and Damage? The Cosmopolitan Right in the Context of the Coloniality of Climate (Milla Vaha) -- Chapter 7. The Legitimacy of International Law (Paul B. Stephan) -- Part VIII: Justice, Reconciliation and Restoration -- Chapter 8. Global Distributive Justice (Peri Roberts) -- Chapter 9. Global Inequalities, Pluralism and Tolerance (Justyna Miklaszewska) -- Chapter 10. Crimes Against Humanity (Andrew Altman) -- Chapter 11. Private Property and the International Law System (Alice Pinheiro Walla) -- Part IX: Peace, Conflict and Force in the 21st Century -- Chapter 12. Political Violence Misliked: the Meaning of 'Terrorism' (Christopher J Finlay) -- Chapter 13. Desire and the Political Theology of the International (John-Harmen Valk) -- Chapter 14. Humanitarian Interventions: Ethical Dilemmas for Humanitarian NGOs (Charlotte Dany) -- Chapter 15. Just War Theory and Drone Warfare: Morality, Virtual Wars and Human Security in the War on Terror (Lily Hamourtziadou) -- Chapter 16. Democratic Peace? (Jeff Bridoux) -- Part X: Global (Mis)Conceptions -- Chapter 17. The Nature and Limits of Rawls's International Vision (David Reidy) -- Chapter 18. Cosmopolitanism: Power Matters (Antonio Franceschet and Holly Ching) -- Chapter 19. Gender Politics: Towards a Feminist Rethinking of Disaster Response (Jordan Pascoe and Mitch Stripling) -- Chapter 20. The Clash of Civilizations and the End of History (David Sullivan) -- Chapter 21. The Open Society and Attitudes to Transnational Migration: A Process Sociological Approach to Liberal Democratic Anxieties (Alexander Mack) -- Chapter 22. The Crisis of Decency in World Politics (Steven C. Roach) .

Introduction (David Boucher, Alexandros Koutsoukis, David Reidy, David Sullivan, Peter Sutch, and Howard Williams) -- Part I: The Ancient World -- Chapter 1. The Chinese Contribution to Theorizing International Relations (Rosita Dellios) -- Chapter 2.Thucydides and Social Processes: Beyond Tragedy (Alexandros Koutsoukis) -- Chapter 3. Stoicism, Cicero and Relations Among Nations (David Boucher) -- Part II: Early Christianity and Early Modern Christianity -- Chapter 4. Augustine, Realism, and their Revealed Truth (Huw L. Williams) -- Chapter 5. The Roman Empire and the Universal Church (Cary C. Nederman) -- Chapter 6. Crusader-Muslim Relations: The Power of Diplomacy in a Troubling Age (Suleiman A. Mourad) -- Chapter 7. The Conceptual Challenge: Europe and the New World (Camilla Boisen) -- Part III: The Westphalian Moment -- Chapter 8.Dynamic cosmopolis: The "Westphalian world order" and beyond (Georg Cavallar) -- Chapter 9.The Cosmopolitan Challenge: Cosmopolitan Ideas in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century (Oliver Eberl) -- Chapter 10. The Positivist Challenge, the Rise of Realism, and the Demise of Nationalism (Felix Rösch) -- Part IV: Colonialism, Decolonisation and Postcolonialism -- Chapter 11. Amílcar Cabral and the International: Race, Colonialism, Liberation (Branwen Gruffydd Jones) -- Chapter 12. Imperialism and its critics (Demin Duan and Howard Williams) -- Chapter 13. The African Challenge and its Aftermath: Colonial Legacies and the (Re)making of the International Legal Order (Sara Dezalay) -- Chapter 14. New Imperialism (Brett Bowden) -- Part V: Progress and Promise of International Law -- Chapter 15. Practicing Humanity: Humanisation and Contemporary International Political Theory (Peter Sutch and Oliver Pierce) -- Chapter 16. Hegel and International Political Theory (Tony Burns) -- Chapter 17. Just War Theory: Past, Present, and Future (Cian O'Driscoll) -- Chapter 18. Three Axial Ages of Religion, Law and Global Constitutionalism (Hauke Brunkhorst) -- Part VI: Challenges to Sovereignty, Territory and Borders -- Chapter 19. Conceptual Foundations of Sovereignty and the Rise of the Modern State (Silviya Lechner) -- Chapter 20. Nationalism and Intrastate Diversities (Andrew Vincent) -- Chapter 21. Universal Obligations: Jus Cogens and Obligations (Erga Omnes Christian Tomuschat) -- Chapter 22. Self-Determination and Secession: An Act of Collective Emancipation (Costas Laoutides) -- Chapter 23. Migration Across Borders (Gillian Brock) -- Chapter 24. Remedying Cosmopolitan Wrongs: Indigenous Peoples, Kant, and Historical Injustice (Timothy Waligore) -- Chapter 25.Women and War (Caron E. Gentry and Rebecca Wilson).

Over the past 10 years, the literature on the normative dimensions of partisanship and party politics has rapidly grown. Yet, however rich and diverse, this literature lacked so far a single text able to comprehensively map the contours of the existing debates and, at the same time, open up a range of future research avenues. Jonathan White and Lea Ypi's The Meaning of Partisanship does an excellent job at fulfilling both tasks. First, it offers a wide-ranging and sustained engagement with key debates in the history of political thought, contemporary democratic theory and analytical political philosophy. Second, it opens up new areas of research ranging from partisanship across time to revolutionary and transnational partisanship. In this symposium, White and Ypi re-examine some of the book's main themes by responding to the commentaries offered by six political theorists.

A major new reference volume - The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Liberalism is the premier collection of material on a comprehensive range of topics in contemporary liberalism.Liberal theory has been caricatured by its critics as an abstract, unworldly, trivial philosophical navel-gazing pursuit. The Companion counters this view by showing how liberalism can tackle wide-ranging practical concerns that urgently demand attention in twenty-first century politics. Rather than presenting contemporary liberalism simply and narrowly as a survey of what its main academic protagonists have said over the past 30 years, the guiding principle of the volume is to conceptualise it primarily as a set of themes and approaches informed by the challenges to the practice of liberal politics.Issues such as human rights, citizenship, nationalism, feminism, international communities, supranational orders, post-communism and ecocentrism take their place alongside the more familiar and well-worked themes of justice and justification as topics for liberal theorising. The reader is vividly shown the ways in which liberalism engages directly with the problems of practical political life today.This wide-ranging account of contemporary liberal thinking places the emphasis on agenda-setting, showing that contemporary liberalism is live - relevant, proactive, continuously engaged and adaptable - and that the problems faced by the liberal order are sufficiently complex and perplexing to demand the serious, rigorous philosophical reflection offered by contemporary liberal political theory.The Companion allows the reader to explore liberalism's contemporary relevance and to look to its likely future developments. With contributors including Will Kymlicka, Michael Freeden, Richard Bellamy, Rex Martin, Margaret Canovan, Diana T. Meyers, and Kate Soper, this large, definitive edition will be a must-buy for all libraries and a key reference tool for all those with an interest in contemporary liberalism.Key FeaturesMajor reference work - the only comprehensive reference work on contemporary liberalismShows how liberalism is relevant to practical issues such as human rights, citizenship, international communities and post-communismLooks to the future development of liberalismContributions from the leading figures in the field of liberalism including Will Kymlicka, Michael Freeden and Rex Martin