Routledge Global Cooperation Series
About the Book Series
The Routledge Global Cooperation series develops innovative approaches to one of the most pressing questions of our time – how to achieve cooperation in a culturally diverse and politically contested global world?
Many key contemporary problems such as climate change and forced migration require intensified cooperation on a global scale. Accelerated globalisation processes have led to an ever-growing interconnectedness of markets, states, societies and individuals. Many of today’s problems cannot be solved by nation states alone and require intensified cooperation at the local, national, regional and global level to tackle current and looming global crises.
We favour books that take an interdisciplinary approach and appeal to an international readership comprised of scholars and postgraduate students.
To submit proposals, please contact the Development Studies Editor, Helena Hurd ([email protected]).
Series Editors:
Tobias Debiel, Dirk Messner, Sigrid Quack and Jan Aart Scholte are Co-Directors of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Their research areas include climate change and sustainable development, global governance, internet governance and peacebuilding. Tobias Debiel is Professor of International Relations and Development Policy at the University of Duisburg-Essen and Director of the Institute for Development and Peace in Duisburg, Germany. Dirk Messner is Director of the Institute for Environment and Human Security at the United Nations University in Bonn, Germany. Sigrid Quack is Professor of Sociology at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Jan Aart Scholte is Professor of Global Transformations and Governance Challenges at Leiden University, Netherlands.
Patricia Rinck is editorial manager of the series at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research.
Rethinking North–South Discourses: Reparations and Historical Injustice
1st Edition
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By Bianca Sola Claudio, Filipe Campello
February 27, 2026
This book challenges the asymmetries in dialogues between the Global South and Global North. The book considers how the literature on reparative politics in itself often perpetuates Western-centric models which risk leading to paternalistic approaches, as well as undermining the agency of thinkers,...
European Union Communities of Practice: Diplomacy and Boundary Work in Ukraine
1st Edition
By Maren Hofius
August 26, 2024
This book provides a practice-based analysis of European Union (EU) diplomacy and community-building. Unlike studies focusing on how EU community-building proceeds centrally in Brussels, this book turns to EU diplomacy in its bordering state of Ukraine. At a time when the EU’s internal cohesion is ...
Global Digital Data Governance: Polycentric Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Carolina Aguerre, Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn, Jan Aart Scholte
January 30, 2024
This book provides a nuanced exploration of contemporary digital data governance, highlighting the importance of cooperation across sectors and disciplines in order to adapt to a rapidly evolving technological landscape. Most of the theory around global digital data governance remains scattered and...
Power and Authority in Internet Governance: Return of the State?
1st Edition
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By Blayne Haggart, Natasha Tusikov, Jan Aart Scholte
September 26, 2022
Power and Authority in Internet Governance investigates the hotly contested role of the state in today's digital society. The book asks: Is the state "back" in internet regulation? If so, what forms are state involvement taking, and with what consequences for the future? The volume includes case ...
China’s New Role in African Politics: From Non-Intervention towards Stabilization?
1st Edition
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By Christof Hartmann, Nele Noesselt
June 30, 2021
China's rise to global power status in recent decades has been accompanied by deepening economic relationships with Africa, with the New Silk Road's extension to Sub-Saharan Africa as the latest step, leading to much academic debate about the influence of Chinese business in the continent. ...
Rethinking Governance in Europe and Northeast Asia: Multilateralism and Nationalism in International Society
1st Edition
By Uwe Wissenbach
June 30, 2021
This book explores how nationalism and multilateralism transform international society and global governance. It does so by comparing the governance model of the EU – a constitutionalised and increasingly polycentric form of multilateralism – with Northeast Asia. There nationalist administrations ...
Refugee Governance, State and Politics in the Middle East
1st Edition
By Zeynep Şahin Mencütek
September 30, 2020
The movement of displaced people, migrants and refugees has become increasingly important around the world, leading to a need for increased scrutiny of global responses and policies towards migration. This book focuses on the Middle East, where many nations are part of this global phenomenon as ...
Hegemony and World Order: Reimagining Power in Global Politics
1st Edition
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By Piotr Dutkiewicz, Tom Casier, Jan Aart Scholte
September 24, 2020
Hegemony and World Order explores a key question for our tumultuous times of multiple global crises. Does hegemony – that is, legitimated rule by dominant power – have a role in ordering world politics of the twenty-first century? If so, what form does that hegemony take: does it lie with a leading...
The Justification of Responsibility in the UN Security Council: Practices of Normative Ordering in International Relations
1st Edition
By Holger Niemann
March 04, 2020
The UN Security Council has been given the primary responsibility for maintaining international peace and security. The precise meaning of this responsibility, however, is contested. This lack of clarity is frequently criticised as a source of incoherent and selective decision-making, undermining ...
Region-Making and Cross-Border Cooperation: New Evidence from Four Continents
1st Edition
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By Elisabetta Nadalutti, Otto Kallscheuer
December 12, 2019
This book explores the nature of regions and how they function, particularly at the local and micro-level. Whilst recent years have seen a resurgence in debates around the roles which regions can play in development, the focus has tended to be on 'macro' regional institutions such as the EU, ASEAN,...
Trust in International Relations: Rationalist, Constructivist, and Psychological Approaches
1st Edition
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By Hiski Haukkala, Carina van de Wetering, Johanna Vuorelma
October 17, 2019
Trust is a core concept in International Relations (IR), representing a key ingredient in state relations. It was only relatively recently that IR scholars began to probe what trust really is, how it can be studied, and how it affects state relations. In the process three distinct ways of ...
Democracy and Climate Change
1st Edition
By Frederic Hanusch
June 07, 2019
Democracy and Climate Change explores the various ways in which democratic principles can lead governments to respond differently to climate change. The election cycle can lead to short-termism, which often appears to be at odds with the long-term nature of climate change, with its latency between ...