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.
National and International Conflicts, 1945-1995: New Empirical and Theoretical Approaches
1st Edition
By Frank R. Pfetsch, Christoph Rohloff
February 05, 2015
The information flow about crises and conflicts is highly selective, the media only focus on a few major conflicts at a time. Many conflicts are neglected, others soon forgotten after the fighting ends. This book fills the gaps and offers a systematic overview of all crises and conflicts in and ...
The Politics of the Globalization of Law: Getting from Rights to Justice
1st Edition
Edited
By Alison Brysk
December 16, 2014
How does the globalization of law, the emergence of multiple and shifting venues of legal accountability, enhance or evade the fulfillment of international human rights? Alison Brysk’s edited volume aims to assess the institutional and political factors that determine the influence of the ...
Foreign Policy and Discourse Analysis: France, Britain and Europe
1st Edition
By Henrik Larsen
December 01, 2014
Henrik Larsen presents discourse analysis as an alternative approach to foreign policy analysis. Through an extensive empirical study of British and French policies towards Europe in the 1980s, he demonstrates the importance of political discourse in shaping foreign policy.The author discusses key ...
Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect: The Power of Norms and the Norms of the Powerful
1st Edition
By Theresa Reinold
November 10, 2014
This book explores how the bedrock institution of today’s global order – sovereignty – is undergoing transformation as a result of complex interactions between power and norms, between politics and international law. This book analyses a series of controversial military interventions into the ...
Rethinking Foreign Policy
1st Edition
Edited
By Fredrik Bynander, Stefano Guzzini
September 11, 2014
This edited volume is a tribute to, and a debate with, the scholarship of Walter Carlsnaes and his contribution to the study of foreign policy in both its conceptualization and application. This book probes the theoretical boundaries of Foreign policy analysis, and questions orthodox ...
The Emerging Politics of Antarctica
1st Edition
Edited
By Anne-Marie Brady
September 11, 2014
This book examines the post-Cold War challenges facing Antarctic governance. It seeks to understand the interests of new players in Antarctic affairs such as China, India, Korea and Malaysia, and how other key players such as Russia and the USA or claimant states such as New Zealand or France are ...
Regional Cooperation and International Organizations: The Nordic Model in Transnational Alignment
1st Edition
Edited
By Norbert Götz, Heidi Haggrén
August 12, 2014
This book explores the roles of national actors within international organizations, with particular emphasis on the collaborative approach adopted by Nordic governments and associations. Analyzing Nordic regional cooperation within international organizations, this volume seeks to shed light on ...
The Scourge of Genocide: Essays and Reflections
1st Edition
By Adam Jones
July 03, 2014
The Scourge of Genocide collects essays, reviews, and reportage on the subjects of genocide and crimes against humanity by Adam Jones, recently selected as one of "Fifty Key Thinkers on the Holocaust and Genocide." The volume includes a number of previously-unpublished essays, and explores a range ...
International Relations, Security and Jeremy Bentham
1st Edition
By Gunhild Hoogensen
April 09, 2014
The first comprehensive presentation and discussion of Jeremy Bentham's contributions to international relations theory. Bentham is best known amongst political theory scholars as most of his brilliant work addresses legal theory, reform, and the ideal relationship between the governors and the ...
Meaning and International Relations
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Mandaville, Andrew Williams
March 31, 2014
This innovative volume brings together specialists in international relations to tackle a set of difficult questions about what it means to live in a globalized world where the purpose and direction of world politics are no longer clear-cut. What emerges from these essays is a very clear sense that...
History and International Relations
1st Edition
By Thomas W. Smith
February 25, 2014
This book is a major contribution to the debate about philosophy and method in history and international relations. The author analyses IR scholarship from classical realism to quantitative and postmodern work....
Agency, Structure and International Politics: From Ontology to Empirical Inquiry
1st Edition
By Gil Friedman, Harvey Starr
February 14, 2014
The concepts of agency and structure are of increasing and defining importance to international relations and politics as fields of enquiry and knowledge. This is the first book to explore the two concepts in depth in that context.The agent-structure problem refers to questions concerning the ...