Domestic Politics and Norm Diffusion in International Relations ─ Ideas Do Not Float Freely

This book collects Thomas Risse's most important articles together in a single volume. Covering a wide range of issues – the end of the Cold War and how to explain it, Transatlantic relations, "democratic peace", human rights, governance in areas of limited statehood, European integration theory, Europeanization, European identity and public spheres, most recently diffusion and comparative regionalism - it is testament to the breadth and excellence of this highly respected International Relations scholar's work. The collection is organised thematically - constructivism and international relations theory, domestic politics and transnationalism, and identity politics - and a brand new introductory essay provides additional coherence.

This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of International Relations, European Politics and Comparative Politics.

Prof. Dr. Thomas Risse is director of the Center for Transnational Relations, Foreign and Security Policy at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science at the Freie UniversitA?t Berlin.

Thomas Risse is co-ordinator of the Research Center 700 "Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood", funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). He is also co-ordinar of the DFG funded Kolleg-Forschergruppe "The Transformative Power of Europe". He is founding director of the Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies, and has been chair of the Executive Committee of the Joint Master program in International Relations of the Freie UniversitA?t Berlin, the Humboldt-UniversitA?t zu Berlin, and the University of Potsdam. He is chairman of the Social Science Committees of Science Europe, the association of European Research Funding Organisations (RFO) and Research Performing Organisations (RPO), based in Brussels. He has been asso-ciate editor of the journal International Organization. In 2003, he received the Max Planck Research Prize for International Cooperation.