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.
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 Paár-Jákli
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...
The History and Politics of UN Security Council Reform
1st Edition
By Dimitris Bourantonis
November 24, 2015
This is a penetrating analysis of UN Security Council reform. It presents an overview of the current debates - emphasising the potential for, and modalities of, adjustment in the post-Cold War era - through a systematic investigation of the various reform proposals and the attitudes of member ...
International Relations and Historical Sociology: Breaking Down Boundaries
1st Edition
By Stephen Hobden
October 12, 2015
This book provides an original analysis of recent work by key historical sociologists through the prism of International Relations. Stephen Hobden investigates the number of issues which overlap between the two disciplines by focusing on three main themes: * the ways in which historical ...
The Politics of Arctic Sovereignty: Oil, Ice, and Inuit Governance
1st Edition
By Jessica Shadian
October 12, 2015
Interest in Arctic politics is on the rise. While recent accounts of the topic place much emphasis on climate change or a new geopolitics of the region, the history of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) and Arctic politics reaches back much further in time. Drawing out the complex relationship ...