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.
South Africa and the UN Human Rights Council: The Fate of the Liberal Order
1st Edition
By Eduard Jordaan
June 30, 2021
This book provides a detailed analysis of South Africa’s actions on the UN Human Rights Council, examining the country’s positions on civil and political rights, economic rights and development, social groups whose rights are frequently violated, and abuses in specific countries.The most detailed ...
The Global Politics of Jazz in the Twentieth Century: Cultural Diplomacy and "American Music"
1st Edition
By Yoshiomi Saito
June 30, 2021
From the mid-1950s to the late 1970s, jazz was harnessed as America’s "sonic weapon" to promote an image to the world of a free and democratic America. Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington and other well-known jazz musicians were sent around the world – including to an array...
Changing Arms Control Norms in International Society
1st Edition
By Kenki Adachi
April 30, 2021
When states’ survival is at stake, do states behave according to norms, do states refrain from using certain weapons based on norms against their use? Adachi presents a comprehensive analytical framework for analysing norm dynamics, incorporating the existing literature, while expanding the norm ...
Social Media Impacts on Conflict and Democracy: The Techtonic Shift
1st Edition
Edited
By Lisa Schirch
April 27, 2021
Social media technology is having a dramatic impact on social and political dynamics around the world. The contributors to this book document and illustrate this "techtonic" shift on violent conflict and democratic processes. They present vivid examples and case studies from countries in Africa, ...
American Hegemony in the 21st Century: A Neo Neo-Gramscian Perspective
1st Edition
By Jonathan Pass
September 30, 2020
For many years now debates over America hegemony and its supposed decline have circulated academic circles. The neo-Gramscians have greatly enriched our knowledge in this field, developing some key theoretical tools and concepts, yet ontological inconsistencies, notably the downgrading of structure...
New Geographies of Global Policy-Making: South-South Networks and Rural Development Strategies
1st Edition
By Carolina Milhorance
September 30, 2020
International institutions and agencies from the Global North are no longer the sole initiators of development norms and best practices. The proliferation of exports and imports of social, economic and policy management models have called for a rethinking of South–South relations. To date, most ...
Norm Dilemmas in Humanitarian Intervention: How Bosnia Changed NATO
1st Edition
By Yuki Abe
September 30, 2020
NATO, an organisation brought together to function as an anti-communist alliance, faced existential questions after the unexpected collapse of the USSR at the beginning of the 1990s. Intervention in the conflict in Bosnia between 1992 and 1995 gave it a renewed sense of purpose and a redefining of ...
Christianity and American State Violence in Iraq: Priestly or Prophetic?
1st Edition
By Christopher A. Morrissey
August 14, 2020
The world continues to be threatened by non-state, religiously-rationalized violence. While some fail to the see the connections between the United States’ intervention in the Middle East and this ongoing threat, the non-state perpetrators of terror consistently identify American meddling as one of...
The Political Psychology of Attitudes towards the West: An Empirical Analysis from Tamil Nadu
1st Edition
By Björn Goldstein
August 14, 2020
Why do some individuals from the imagined "non-West" view the "West" favorably and others do not? Grounded in psychological authoritarianism and the psychological reactions to experiences of rejection, Björn Goldstein provides a theoretical model to explain and predict attitude toward the "West." ...
Contested Multilateralism 2.0 and Asian Security Dynamics
1st Edition
Edited
By Kai He
May 12, 2020
In the 1990s there was a wave of multilateralism in the Asia Pacific, led primarily by ASEAN. Since the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, however, many non-ASEAN states have attempted to seize the initiative, including the USA, Japan, China, South Korea, and Australia. Kai He and his contributors ...
Joining the Non-Proliferation Treaty: Deterrence, Non-Proliferation and the American Alliance
1st Edition
Edited
By John Baylis, Yoko Iwama
May 07, 2020
What were the calculations made by the US and its major allies in the 1960s when they faced the signing of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)? These were all states with the technological and financial capabilities to develop and possess nuclear weapons should they wish to do so. In the end, only ...
Russia's Relations with Kazakhstan: Rethinking Ex-Soviet Transitions in the Emerging World System
1st Edition
By Yelena Nikolayevna Zabortseva
December 12, 2019
Recent political developments in post-Soviet countries have raised novel issues regarding the stability of the post-Cold War world order. A new direction in policy has been exemplified by the recent bolstering of a number of post-Soviet political and economic institutions - such as CSTO, SCO and ...