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.
Party Systems and Voter Alignments Revisited
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
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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 ...
The EU-Russia Strategic Partnership: The Limits of Post-Sovereignty in International Relations
1st Edition
By Hiski Haukkala
April 21, 2011
Why have the European Union and the Russian Federation encountered severe difficulties in developing their relationship? Why haven’t the parties lived up to the initial promise and enthusiasm of the early 1990s? Beginning with the immediate aftermath of the dissolution of the Soviet Union, this ...
Transnational Activism in the UN and the EU: A comparative study
1st Edition
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By Jutta Joachim, Birgit Locher
February 08, 2011
Comparing non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the United Nations and the European Union across a range of different issue areas, this volume examines how the choice of venue and institution affects the strategies of NGOs. Despite significant differences with respect to their scope, membership...
Violence and Non-Violence in Africa
1st Edition
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By Pal Ahluwalia, Louise Bethleham, Ruth Ginio
February 08, 2011
This unique volume seeks both to historicize and to deconstruct the pervasive, almost ritualistic, association of Africa with forms of terrorism as well as extreme violence, the latter bordering on and including genocide. Africa is tendentiously associated with violence in the popular and academic ...
International Cooperation and Arctic Governance: Regime Effectiveness and Northern Region Building
1st Edition
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By Olav Schram Stokke, Geir Hønneland
September 30, 2010
A new exploration of the impacts of Arctic regimes in such vital areas as pollution, biodiversity, indigenous affairs, health and climate change. The post-Cold War era has seen an upsurge in interest in Arctic affairs. With new international regimes targeting Arctic issues at both the global and ...
International Relations and Security in the Digital Age
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By Johan Eriksson, Giampiero Giacomello
September 30, 2010
This book examines the impact of the information revolution on international and domestic security, attempting to remedy both the lack of theoretically informed analysis of information security and the US-centric tendency in the existing literature. International Relations and Security in the ...
Law and Legalization in Transnational Relations
1st Edition
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By Christian Brütsch, Dirk Lehmkuhl
September 23, 2010
This volume addresses the emergence of multiple legal and law-like arrangements that alter the interaction between states, their delegated agencies, international organizations and non-state actors in international and transnational politics. Political scientists and legal scholars have been ...
War, Peace and Hegemony in a Globalized World: The Changing Balance of Power in the Twenty-First Century
1st Edition
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By Chandra Chari
September 10, 2010
This book focuses on how the US could adapt its foreign policy initiatives to fit in with the growing aspirations of a multipolar world for a more balanced international order. Written by leading scholars, such as Joseph Nye, Eric Hobsbawm and Akira Iriye, the volume examines if the absence of a ...
Ethics, Liberalism and Realism in International Relations
1st Edition
By Mark D. Gismondi
August 10, 2010
This book explores the complex issue of international ethics in the two dominant schools of thought in international relations; Liberalism and Realism. Both theories suffer from an inability to integrate the ethical and pragmatic dimensions of foreign policy. Liberal policy makers often suffer ...