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.
Meaning and International Relations
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Mandaville, Andrew Williams
March 31, 2014
This innovative volume brings together specialists in international relations to tackle a set of difficult questions about what it means to live in a globalized world where the purpose and direction of world politics are no longer clear-cut. What emerges from these essays is a very clear sense that...
History and International Relations
1st Edition
By Thomas W. Smith
February 25, 2014
This book is a major contribution to the debate about philosophy and method in history and international relations. The author analyses IR scholarship from classical realism to quantitative and postmodern work....
Agency, Structure and International Politics: From Ontology to Empirical Inquiry
1st Edition
By Gil Friedman, Harvey Starr
February 14, 2014
The concepts of agency and structure are of increasing and defining importance to international relations and politics as fields of enquiry and knowledge. This is the first book to explore the two concepts in depth in that context.The agent-structure problem refers to questions concerning the ...
Securitizations of Citizenship
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Nyers
December 11, 2013
Securitizations of Citizenship investigates how the fate of citizenship is now caught up in a dramatic and dangerous process of securitizing political communities. In the nervous state of affairs of the post-9/11 period, technologies of surveillance and control are rapidly proliferating, creating ...
United Nations Reform: Heading North or South?
1st Edition
By Spencer Zifcak
December 11, 2013
This book examines recent attempts at reform within the United Nations in the wake of the institutional crisis provoked by the invasion of Iraq. It contends that efforts at reform have foundered owing to fundamental and bitter political disagreements between the nations of the global North and ...
Anglo-American Relations: Contemporary Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Steve Marsh, Alan Dobson
December 03, 2013
This book provides an examination of contemporary Anglo-American relations. Sometimes controversially referred to as the Special Relationship, Anglo-American relations constitute arguably the most important bilateral relationship of modern times. However, in recent years, there have been frequent ...
Political Loyalty and the Nation-State
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew Linklater, Michael Waller
September 03, 2013
Political Loyalty and the Nation-State examines the gradual weakening of the state's ability to order the political allegiances of its subjects. At the focal centre of the book lies the question of the extent to which it is possible to invest political principles, such as the rules and procedures ...
New Norms and Knowledge in World Politics: Protecting people, intellectual property and the environment
1st Edition
By Preslava Stoeva
April 24, 2013
This book examines the process of norm development and knowledge creation in international politics, and assesses these processes in case studies on protection from torture, intellectual property rights and climate change. Drawing on the theories of constructivism and the sociology of scientific ...
Mediation in the Asia-Pacific Region: Transforming Conflicts and Building Peace
1st Edition
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By Dale Bagshaw, Elisabeth Porter
April 09, 2013
This book examines mediation in connection with peacebuilding in the Asia-Pacific region, providing practical examples which either highlight the weaknesses within certain mediation approaches or demonstrate best-practice. The authors explore the extent to which current ideas and practices of ...
Power, Resistance and Conflict in the Contemporary World: Social movements, networks and hierarchies
1st Edition
By Athina Karatzogianni, Andrew Robinson
April 09, 2013
This book examines issues of organisation in resistance movements, discussing topics including the integration of the world system, the intersection of networks with discourses of identity, and the possibility of social transformation. Drawing on a number of theorists including Deleuze and ...
The Securitization of Humanitarian Migration: Digging moats and sinking boats
1st Edition
By Scott D. Watson
March 28, 2013
This book examines how western liberal states are progressively restricting access to refugees and asylum seekers, even though these states have signed international agreements obliging them to offer protection to those fleeing persecution and to advocate the spread of human rights and humanitarian...
Climate Change and Foreign Policy: Case Studies from East to West
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul G. Harris
February 28, 2013
Climate Change and Foreign Policy: Case Studies from East to West and its companion volume, Environmental Change and Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice, examine and explain the role of foreign policy politics, processes and institutions in efforts to protect the environment and natural resources. ...