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.
The War on Terror and the Growth of Executive Power?: A Comparative Analysis
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By John E Owens, Riccardo Pelizzo
October 02, 2012
The 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington prompted a "global war on terror" that led to a significant shift in the balance of executive-legislative power in the United States towards the executive at the expense of the Congress. In this volume, seasoned scholars examine the extent to which ...
International Relations Theory and Philosophy: Interpretive dialogues
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By Cerwyn Moore, Chris Farrands
September 05, 2012
This book discusses the contribution of philosophers and thinkers whose ideas have recently begun to permeate international relations theory. It provides an introduction to the contemporary debates regarding theories and methodologies used to study international relations, particularly the ...
The Power of Ideology: From the Roman Empire to Al-Qaeda
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By Alex Roberto Hybel
May 28, 2012
Since the Roman Empire, leaders have used ideology to organize the masses and instil amongst them a common consciousness, and equally to conquer, assimilate, or repel alternative ideologies. Ideology has been used to help create, safeguard, expand, or tear down political communities, states, ...
The World Bank and HIV/AIDS: Setting a Global Agenda
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By Sophie Harman
May 28, 2012
The governance of the HIV/AIDS pandemic has come to represent a multi-faceted and complex operation in which the World Bank has set and sustained the global agenda for by the World Bank. The governance of HIV/ AIDS. Through economic incentive they have restructured the is a political foundations of...
Role Theory in International Relations
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By Sebastian Harnisch, Cornelia Frank, Hanns W Maull
May 12, 2012
Role Theory in International Relations provides a comprehensive, up-to-date survey of recent theoretical scholarship on foreign policy roles and extensive empirical analysis of role behaviour of a variety of states in the current era of eroding American hegemony. Taking stock of the evolution of ...
Superpower Rivalry and Conflict: The Long Shadow of the Cold War on the 21st Century
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By Chandra Chari
April 10, 2012
Variously described by historians and thinkers as the ‘most terrible century in Western history’, ‘a century of massacres and wars’ and the ‘most violent century in human history’, the 20th century – and in particular the period between the First World War and the collapse of the USSR – forms a ...
Coping and Conformity in World Politics
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By Hugh C. Dyer
February 17, 2012
Conformity is a common coping strategy for dealing with stresses in political situations, as well a strategy for dealing with the lack of agreed foundations. This work introduces the conceptual frameworks of coping and conformity to provide a new analysis of the ethical and political demands of ...
The Contested Politics of Mobility: Borderzones and Irregularity
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By Vicki Squire
February 10, 2012
Irregular migration has emerged as an issue of intensive political debate and governmental practice over recent years. Critically intervening in debates around the governing of irregular migration, The Contested Politics of Mobility explores the politics of mobility through what is defined as an ...
Party Systems and Voter Alignments Revisited
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By Lauri Karvonen, Stein Kuhnle
November 24, 2011
This timely book updates, and takes stock of, Lipset and Rokkan's classic work Party Systems and Voter Alignments: Cross-National Perspectives, an influential work since its publication in 1967. It examines the significance of the original volume for the history of political sociology, and assesses...
Globalisation, Public Opinion and the State: Western Europe and East and Southeast Asia
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By Takashi Inoguchi, Ian Marsh
November 15, 2011
This is first integrated book-length account of citizen responses to the new global order. Based on a comprehensive survey, administered at the end of 2000, in nine European and nine Asian countries, this book demonstrates the diverse responses to globalization, within, and between, two of the ...
Gender Inclusive: Essays on violence, men, and feminist international relations
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By Adam Jones
September 03, 2011
Gender Inclusive offers a challenging and unconventional reinterpretation of gender and mass violence. Compiling essays and excerpts drawn from nearly two decades of Adam Jones’s writing on gender and politics, this stimulating and diverse collection of essays explores vital issues surrounding ‘...
The Empire of Security and the Safety of the People
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By William Bain
June 23, 2011
This is an accessible new examination of what ‘security’ means today, contextualizing the term amongst other key ideas, such as the nation state, diplomacy, war and autonomy. By exploring the many differing conceptions of security, this study clearly explains how the idea of security in ...