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 Politics of Protection: Sites of Insecurity and Political Agency
1st Edition
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By Jef Huysmans, Andrew Dobson, Raia Prokhovnik
February 27, 2009
This new book shows how from the end of the Cold War, the security agenda has been transformed and redefined, academically and politically. It focuses on the theme of protection. It moves away from the dominant question of whom or what is threatening to the crucial questions of who is to...
Human Security: Concepts and implications
1st Edition
By Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh, Anuradha Chenoy
December 09, 2008
This book, now available in paperback, traces the key evolutions in the development of the concept of human security, the various definitions and critiques, how it relates to other concepts, and what it implies for polities, politics, and policy. Human security is an important subject for the...
Peacebuilding: Women in International Perspective
1st Edition
By Elisabeth Porter
July 24, 2008
This book clarifies some key ideas and practices underlying peacebuilding; understood broadly as formal and informal peace processes that occur during pre-conflict, conflict and post-conflict transformation. Applicable to all peacebuilders, Elisabeth Porter highlights positive examples of women’s ...
Autonomy, Self Governance and Conflict Resolution: Innovative approaches to Institutional Design in Divided Societies
1st Edition
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By Marc Weller, Stefan Wolff
June 10, 2008
Conflicts over the rights of self-defined population groups to determine their own destiny within the boundaries of existing states are among the most violent forms of inter-communal conflict. Many experts agree that autonomy regimes are a useful framework within which competing claims to ...
International Relations in Europe: Traditions, Perspectives and Destinations
1st Edition
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By Knud Erik Jørgensen, Tonny Brems Knudsen
June 10, 2008
A new and illuminating critical examination of international relations in Europe. This new volume presents all of the state of the art thinking, focusing particularly on international relations theory and theoretical debates in Western and Central European countries.The contributors seek...
Interregionalism and International Relations: A Stepping Stone to Global Governance?
1st Edition
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By Jürgen Rüland, Heiner Hänggi, Ralf Roloff
June 10, 2008
Interregionalism, the institutionalized relations between world regions, is a new phenomenon in international relations. It also a new layer of development in an increasingly differentiated global order. This volume examines the structure of this phenomenon and the scholarly discourse it is ...
Postcolonial Politics, The Internet and Everyday Life: Pacific Traversals Online
1st Edition
By M.I. Franklin
December 04, 2007
In this ground-breaking study M.I. Franklin explores the form and substance of everyday life online from a critical postcolonial perspective. With Internet access and social media uses accelerating in the Global South, in-depth studies of just how non-western communities, at home and living abroad,...
The International Criminal Court: A Global Civil Society Achievement
1st Edition
By Marlies Glasius
December 03, 2007
A new examination of the International Criminal Court (ICC) from a political science and international relations perspective. It describes the main features of the court and discusses the political negotiations and the on-going clashes between those states who oppose the court, particularly ...
Culture and International Relations: Narratives, Natives and Tourists
1st Edition
By Julie Reeves
October 01, 2007
Culture and International Relations contextually re-examines the history of international relations in order to explore how the discipline has imported and employed the concept of culture. The author challenges the notion that IR has only been interested in culture since the end of the Cold War by ...
Gender and Civil Society
1st Edition
By Jude Howell, Diane Mulligan
November 30, 2006
Over the last two decades there has been considerable enthusiasm for the concept of civil society amongst researchers, practitioners and activists. Yet despite this enthusiasm for the concept, the gendered nature of civil society and the impact of feminist organizing on civil society has received ...
Global Civil Society: Contested Futures
1st Edition
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By Gideon Baker, David Chandler
November 22, 2006
For many commentators, global civil society is revolutionising our approach to global politics, as new non-state-based and border-free expressions of political community challenge territorial sovereignty as the exclusive basis for political community and identity. This challenge 'from below' to the...
Mediating International Crises
1st Edition
By Jonathan Wilkenfeld, Kathleen Young, David Quinn, Victor Asal
November 01, 2006
This new book shows how international crises are dangerous episodes that can be destabilizing not only to the actors directly involved but also to the entire international system. Recognizing the primacy of crises as defining moments in international relations, scholars and policy makers ...