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.
World Politics in Translation: Power, Relationality and Difference in Global Cooperation
1st Edition
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By Tobias Berger, Alejandro Esguerra
June 06, 2019
Virtually all pertinent issues that the world faces today – such as nuclear proliferation, climate change, the spread of infectious disease and economic globalization – imply objects that move. However, surprisingly little is known about how the actual objects of world politics are constituted, how...
The Globalization of Foreign Aid: Developing Consensus
1st Edition
By Liam Swiss
May 07, 2019
Why do aid agencies from wealthy donor countries with diverse domestic political and economic contexts arrive at very similar positions on a wide array of aid policies and priorities? This book suggests that this homogenization of policy represents the effects of common processes of globalization ...
Public Participation in African Constitutionalism
1st Edition
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By Tania Abbiate, Markus Böckenförde, Veronica Federico
April 16, 2019
During the last decade of the 20th century, Africa has been marked by a "constitutional wind" which has blown across the continent giving impetus to constitutional reforms designed to introduce constitutionalism and good governance. One of the main features of these processes has been the promotion...
Moral Agency and the Politics of Responsibility
1st Edition
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By Cornelia Ulbert, Peter Finkenbusch, Elena Sondermann, Tobias Debiel
April 15, 2019
At a time when globalization has side-lined many of the traditional, state-based addressees of legal accountability, it is not clear yet how blame is allocated and contested in the new, highly differentiated, multi-actor governance arrangements of the global economy and world society. Moral Agency ...
American Hegemony and the Rise of Emerging Powers: Cooperation or Conflict
1st Edition
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By Salvador Santino Regilme, James Parisot
March 05, 2019
Over the last decade, the United States' position as the world's most powerful state has appeared increasingly unstable. The US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, non-traditional security threats, global economic instability, the apparent spread of authoritarianism and illiberal politics, together ...
Integrating Sustainable Development in International Investment Law: Normative Incompatibility, System Integration and Governance Implications
1st Edition
By Manjiao Chi
March 05, 2019
The current international investment law system is insufficiently compatible with sustainable development. To better address sustainable development concerns associated with transnational investment activities, international investment agreements should be made more compatible with ...
Knowledge Production, Area Studies and Global Cooperation
1st Edition
By Claudia Derichs
January 17, 2019
Whereas Area Studies and cross-border cooperation research conventionally demarcates groups of people by geographical boundaries, individuals might in fact feel more connected by shared values and principles than by conventional spatial dimensions. Knowledge Production, Area Studies and Global ...
Mapping and Politics in the Digital Age
1st Edition
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By Pol Bargués-Pedreny, David Chandler, Elena Simon
November 05, 2018
Throughout history, maps have been a powerful tool in the constitutive imaginary of governments seeking to define or contest the limits of their political reach. Today, new digital technologies have become central to mapping as a way of formulating alternative political visions. Mapping can also ...
Democratization and Memories of Violence: Ethnic minority rights movements in Mexico, Turkey, and El Salvador
1st Edition
By Mneesha Gellman
April 25, 2018
Ethnic minority communities make claims for cultural rights from states in different ways depending on how governments include them in policies and practices of accommodation or assimilation. However, institutional explanations don’t tell the whole story, as individuals and communities also protest...
Humanitarianism and Challenges of Cooperation
1st Edition
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By Volker Heins, Kai Koddenbrock, Christine Unrau
January 03, 2018
Humanitarianism as a moral concept and an organized practice has become a major factor in world society. It channels an enormous amount of resources and serves as an argument for different kinds of interference into the "internal affairs" of countries and regions. At the same time, and for these ...
Peacebuilding in Crisis: Rethinking Paradigms and Practices of Transnational Cooperation
1st Edition
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By Tobias Debiel, Thomas Held, Ulrich Schneckener
January 03, 2018
The 1990s saw a constant increase in international peace missions, predominantly led by the United Nations, whose mandates were more and more extended to implement societal and political transformations in post-conflict societies. However, in many cases these missions did not meet the high ...
Gifts of Cooperation, Mauss and Pragmatism
1st Edition
By Frank Adloff
December 21, 2017
This book focuses on the contribution of Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) to social theory and a theory of cooperation. It shows that Mauss’s essay "The Gift" (1925) can be seen as a classic of a pragmatist, interactionist and anti-utilitarian sociology. It critiques the dichotomy of self-interest and ...