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.
Globalization, Prostitution and Sex Trafficking: Corporeal Politics
1st Edition
By Elina Penttinen
August 10, 2010
Globalization has been traditionally interpreted as a phenomenon that takes place at the macro level and is determined by states and markets. This volume takes a different approach to understanding globalization, showing how through the global sex trade, globalization is embodied and enacted by ...
Civil Society, Religion and Global Governance: Paradigms of Power and Persuasion
1st Edition
Edited
By Helen James
June 09, 2010
This is one of the first books to explore the nexus between civil society, religion, and global governance, their impact on human security and well-being, and significance for current debates in international politics. The contributors examine salient aspects of the secular state whose monopoly on,...
Developing Countries and Global Trade Negotiations
1st Edition
Edited
By Larry Crump, S. Javed Maswood
December 21, 2009
The Doha Round of WTO negotiations commenced in November 2001 to further liberalize international trade and to specifically seek to remove trade barriers so developing countries might compete in major markets. This book brings together an international team of leading academics and researchers to ...
Urbicide: The Politics of Urban Destruction
1st Edition
By Martin Coward
December 17, 2009
The term ‘urbicide’ became popular during the 1992-95 Bosnian war as a way of referring to widespread and deliberate destruction of the urban environment. Coined by writers on urban development in America, urbicide captures the sense that the widespread and deliberate destruction of buildings is a ...
Reconstituting the Global Liberal Order: Legitimacy, Regulation and Security
1st Edition
By Kanishka Jayasuriya
September 24, 2009
The events of September 11, 2001 were a significant watershed in the emerging global order. However, the nature and consequences of this changing global order remain unclear. This book argues that this new order is as much the result of issues relating to the evolving methods and ...
Identity Politics in the Age of Genocide: The Holocaust and Historical Representation
1st Edition
By David B. MacDonald
June 30, 2009
In an era of globalization and identity politics, this book explores how Holocaust imagery and vocabulary have been appropriated and applied to other genocides. The author examines how the Holocaust has impacted on other ethnic and social groups, asking whether the Holocaust as a symbol is a ...
Fighting Terrorism and Drugs: Europe and International Police Cooperation
1st Edition
By Jörg Friedrichs
June 29, 2009
Fighting Terrorism and Drugs is an examination of European states in their fight against terrorism and drugs, from the 1960s up to the present day. Jörg Friedrichs explores what makes large European states willing or unwilling to participate in international ...
Globalization and Religious Nationalism in India: The Search for Ontological Security
1st Edition
By Catarina Kinnvall
May 14, 2009
Exploring the effects of globalization in India and the problem of identity formation, this book contributes to the theoretical and empirical debate on identity, globalization, religious nationalism and (in)security. The author puts forward a new approach based on political psychology, to ...
A Human Security Doctrine for Europe: Project, Principles, Practicalities
1st Edition
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By Marlies Glasius, Mary Kaldor
April 29, 2009
A Human Security Doctrine for Europe explores the actual needs of individual people in conflict areas, rather than using a conventional institutional or geo-political perspectives. This new volume proposes that Europe should develop a new kind of human security capability that ...
Russia and NATO since 1991: From Cold War Through Cold Peace to Partnership?
1st Edition
By Martin A. Smith
March 25, 2009
This is the first comprehensive analysis of the development of relations between Russia and NATO since 1991. Since the re-emergence of Russia as an independent state in December 1991, debates and controversies surrounding its evolving relations with NATO have been a prominent feature of the ...
Diplomacy and Developing Nations: Post-Cold War Foreign Policy-Making Structures and Processes
1st Edition
Edited
By Maurice A. East, Justin Robertson
February 27, 2009
This volume explores the foreign policy environment facing developing nations and their particular foreign policy-making structures and processes. By defining foreign policy broadly to incorporate the activities of a range of state actors and non-state actors, the book broadens the range of ...
State-Building: Theory and Practice
1st Edition
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By Aidan Hehir, Neil Robinson
February 27, 2009
This study brings together internationally renowned academics to provide a detailed insight into the theory and practice of state-building. State-building is one of the dominant themes in contemporary international relations. This text addresses both the theoretical logic behind state-building and ...