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.
State Responses to International Law
1st Edition
By Kendall Stiles
December 02, 2016
Do countries keep their promises to the international community? When they sign treaties or learn about new expectations, do they take them seriously and implement them? Since we already know intuitively that not all countries do, the next question – and the topic of this book – is: who complies? ...
Peace Maintenance: The Evolution of International Political Economy
1st Edition
By Jarat Chopra
November 18, 2016
Peace-Maintenance explores the controversial concept that has evolved from diplomatic peacekeeping and military peace-enforcement. Jarat Chopra, the architect of peace-maintenance, outlines the limitations of traditional peacekeeping principles reliant on the increasingly questionable consent of ...
Regional Integration and Democratic Conditionality: How Democracy Clauses Help Democratic Consolidation and Deepening
1st Edition
By Gaspare M. Genna, Taeko Hiroi
November 18, 2016
How effective are democracy clauses of regional integration organizations (RIOs) in promoting democratization and democratic consolidation among member-states? RIOs are increasingly adopting "democracy only" clauses in their treaties, requiring democracy and political stability as a condition of ...
Exercising Human Rights: Gender, Agency and Practice
1st Edition
By Robin Redhead
November 16, 2016
Exercising Human Rights investigates why human rights are not universally empowering and why this damages people attempting to exercise rights. It takes a new approach in looking at humans as the subject of human rights rather than the object and exposes the gendered and ethnocentric aspects of ...
The Politics of Conflict Economies: Miners, merchants and warriors in the African borderland
1st Edition
By Morten Bøås
November 10, 2016
Conflict economies cannot be approached in isolation but must instead be contextualised socially and historically. These economies did not emerge in vacuum, but are part and parcel of the history of people and place. This book explores the informal and illicit extraction and trade of minerals and ...
The Role, Position and Agency of Cusp States in International Relations
1st Edition
Edited
By Marc Herzog, Philip Robins
November 08, 2016
This work seeks to develop a new concept with which to analyse the actions and activities of states that tend to be relatively ignored by the discipline of International Relations (IR). As a discipline, IR has a tendency to lean towards the analytically safe. Given the current and recent dynamism ...
Interpreting Global Security
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Bevir, Oliver Daddow, Ian Hall
October 10, 2016
This edited collection explores the fruitfulness of applying an interpretive approach to the study of global security. The interpretive approach concentrates on unpacking the meanings and beliefs of various policy actors, and, crucially, explains those beliefs by locating them in historical ...
Comparative Politics: The Problem of Equivalence
1st Edition
Edited
By Jan van Deth
July 11, 2016
This book tackles the issues involved and explores strategies to deal with many of the problems of establishing equivalence. Each contribution focuses on a theoretically relevant theme, such as: tolerance; political values; religious orientations; gender roles; voluntary associations; party ...
The Politics of Central Banks
1st Edition
By Robert Elgie, Helen Thompson
May 31, 2016
This book is a study of power. In particular, it is a study of governmental power in Britain and France. Its focus is the changing relationship between the government and the central bank in the two countries, and it examines the politics of this relationship since the time when the Bank of England...
Idealism and Realism in International Relations
1st Edition
By Robert M. A. Crawford
May 20, 2016
The author argues for a revised conception of international relations that acknowledges the irreconcilability of realist and idealist theories, and concerns itself instead with important substantive issues....
Rethinking Ethical Foreign Policy: Pitfalls, Possibilities and Paradoxes
1st Edition
Edited
By David Chandler, Volker Heins
May 13, 2016
This new volume moves beyond the limits of current debate to show how today’s foreign policy is increasingly about values rather than interests and why ethics are now playing a central role. Rather than counterposing interests and ethics, trying to find ‘hidden agendas’ or emphasizing the ...
Networked Governance and Transatlantic Relations: Building Bridges through Science Diplomacy
1st Edition
By Gabriella Paar-Jakli
April 11, 2016
In today’s complex and interconnected world, scholars of international relations seek to better understand challenges spurred by intensified global communication and interaction. The complex connectedness of modern society and politics compels us to investigate the pattern of interconnections among...