Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
About the Book Series
International relations is a rapidly changing area of research, reacting to and anticipating an ever more integrated and globalised world. This series aims to publish the best new work in the field of international relations, and of politics more generally. Books in the series challenge existing empirical and normative theories, and advance new paradigms as well as presenting significant new research.
Globalizing Resistance against War: Theories of Resistance and the New Anti-War Movement
1st Edition
By Tiina Seppälä
September 29, 2015
The political revival of the anti-war movement after 9/11 launched a controversial debate on global resistance. Through detailed study of the anti-war movement in Britain, this book critically evaluates the theoretical debate from the perspective of ‘critical theory in political practice’. This ...
Foreign Policy, Domestic Politics and International Relations: The case of Italy
1st Edition
By Elisabetta Brighi
July 22, 2015
This book offers a re-examination of foreign policy, in its relation with domestic politics and international relations (IR). Bringing together a vast body of literature from IR, foreign policy analysis, comparative politics and public policy, this book systematically reconceptualises foreign ...
A Strategic Understanding of UN Economic Sanctions: International Relations, Law and Development
1st Edition
By Golnoosh Hakimdavar
July 16, 2015
Economic Sanctions are increasingly used as a legal, non-military technique of combating abusers of international peace. However it remains unclear how the success or failure of these sanctions is measured. This book examines the seldom-explored United Nations’ economic sanctions deliberation ...
Politics and the Bomb: The Role of Experts in the Creation of Cooperative Nuclear Non-Proliferation Agreements
1st Edition
By Sara Z. Kutchesfahani
July 16, 2015
Epistemic communities represent networks of knowledge-based experts that help articulate cause-and-effect relationships of complex problems, define the self-interests of a state, or formulate specific policies for state decision makers. However, the role of these scientists and ...
Understanding Transatlantic Relations: Whither the West?
1st Edition
By Serena Simoni
July 16, 2015
In light of the Arab Spring and after days of public quarreling that highlighted the divisions among NATO’s members on an agreement to give command of the "no-fly" zone in Libya to the Alliance, it is evident that the U.S. is having problems engaging with its European allies and partners. Why is ...
The Promise and Perils of Transnationalization: NGO Activism and the Socialization of Women’s Human Rights in Egypt and Iran
1st Edition
By Benjamin Stachursky
June 08, 2015
To date, most constructivist international relations studies have characterized the influence of transnationalism on domestic forms of activism as uniformly positive. In particular, transnational interactions are viewed as positive factors for the development and daily impact of gender activism. ...
Caribbean Sovereignty, Development and Democracy in an Age of Globalization
1st Edition
Edited
By Linden Lewis
May 21, 2015
Many of the nations of the Caribbean that have become independent states have maintained as a central, organizing, nationalist principle the importance in the beliefs of the ideals of sovereignty, democracy, and development. Yet in recent years, political instability, the relative size of ...
Genocide, Ethnonationalism, and the United Nations: Exploring the Causes of Mass Killing Since 1945
1st Edition
By Hannibal Travis
May 21, 2015
Genocide, Ethnonationalism, and the United Nations examines a series of related crises in human civilization growing out of conflicts between powerful states or empires and indigenous or stateless peoples. This is the first book to attempt to explore the causes of genocide and other mass killing by...
India in South Asia: Domestic Identity Politics and Foreign Policy from Nehru to the BJP
1st Edition
By Sinderpal Singh
May 21, 2015
South Asia is one of the most volatile regions of the world, and India’s complex democratic political system impinges on its relations with its South Asian neighbours. Focusing on this relationship, this book explores the extent to which domestic politics affect a country’s foreign policy. The book...
Defining and Defying Organised Crime: Discourse, Perceptions and Reality
1st Edition
Edited
By Felia Allum, Francesca Longo
April 09, 2015
Organized crime is now a major threat to all industrial and non-industrial countries. Using an inter-disciplinary and comparative approach this book examines the nature of this threat. By analysing the existing, official institutional discourse on organized crime it examines whether or not it has ...
Authority, Ascendancy, and Supremacy: China, Russia, and the United States' Pursuit of Relevancy and Power
1st Edition
By Gregory O. Hall
February 27, 2015
Authority, Ascendancy, and Supremacy examines the American, Chinese, and Russian (Big 3) competition for power and influence in the Post-Cold War Era. With the ascension of regional powers such as India, Iran, Brazil, and Turkey, the Big 3 dynamic is an evolving one, which cannot be ignored because...
International Politics of the Arctic: Coming in from the Cold
1st Edition
By Peter Hough
February 27, 2015
This book offers a wide-ranging account of the emerging issues of international politics in the Artic, and the emerging Geopolitical debates that surround the region. In this thorough but accessible book covering environmental issues, the author examines the Geopolitics of emerging land and ...