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.
Reinventing Regional Security Institutions in Asia and Africa: Power shifts, ideas, and institutional change
1st Edition
By Kei Koga
August 14, 2018
Regional security institutions play a significant role in shaping the behavior of existing and rising regional powers by nurturing security norms and rules, monitoring state activities, and sometimes imposing sanctions, thereby formulating the configuration of regional security dynamics. Yet, their...
Peacebuilding and International Administration: The Cases of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo
1st Edition
By Niels van Willigen
February 12, 2018
This book provides a detailed historical and political analysis of the role and effectiveness of international administration in statebuilding. It analyses how the international administrations in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo have attempted to create sustainable political institutions and to ...
U.S. Security Cooperation with Africa: Political and Policy Challenges
1st Edition
By Robert J. Griffiths
January 24, 2018
As Africa’s strategic importance has increased over the past decade and a half, United States security cooperation with the continent has expanded. The most visible dimension of this increased engagement was the establishment of the U.S. Military Command for Africa (AFRICOM). Some critics are ...
The United States and Turkey's Path to Europe: Hands across the Table
1st Edition
By Armağan Emre Çakır
November 28, 2017
Turkey’s relations with the European Union is one of the most enigmatic topics in the European Studies literature. This country, kept at bay by Europeans for centuries, once came unexpectedly close to full-membership. The progress Turkey recorded in its European quest is difficult to account for ...
Western Muslims and Conflicts Abroad: Conflict Spillovers to Diasporas
1st Edition
By Juris Pupcenoks
October 18, 2017
This book explains why reactive conflict spillovers (political violence in response to conflicts abroad) occur in some migrant-background communities in the West. Based on survey data, statistical datasets, more than sixty interviews with Muslim community leaders and activists, ethnographic ...
Apology and Reconciliation in International Relations: The Importance of Being Sorry
1st Edition
Edited
By Christopher Daase, Stefan Engert, Michel-André Horelt, Judith Renner, Renate Strassner
October 12, 2017
This book looks into the role and effects of public apologies in international relations. It focuses on two major questions - why and when do states issue apologies for historic crimes and how and under what conditions are these apologies successful in remedying conflictive relationships? In ...
The Politics of Self-Determination: Beyond the Decolonisation Process
1st Edition
By Kristina Roepstorff
June 16, 2017
Since the formation of the UN in 1945 the international community has witnessed a number of violent self-determination conflicts such as the disintegration of Yugoslavia, Chechnya, Kashmir, and South Sudan that have been a major cause of humanitarian crises and destruction. This book examines the ...
Profits, Security, and Human Rights in Developing Countries: Global Lessons from Canada’s Extractive Sector in Colombia
1st Edition
Edited
By James Rochlin
March 14, 2017
The extractive sector is a particular area of expertise for Canada and more than half of Canada’s mining assets abroad are located in Latin America, specifically in Brazil, Peru, Chile, and Colombia. The Canada-Colombia accord was the first free-trade agreement in the world to include annual Human ...
Small States and International Security: Europe and Beyond
1st Edition
Edited
By Clive Archer, Alyson Bailes, Anders Wivel
December 02, 2016
This book explains what ‘small’ states are and explores their current security challenges, in general terms and through specific examples. It reflects the shift from traditional security definitions emphasizing defence and armaments, to new security concerns such as economic, societal and ...
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 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 ...