Routledge Innovations in Political Theory
About the Book Series
This series examines contemporary developments and controversies within political theory and features cutting edge interventions into current debates.
National-Cultural Autonomy and its Contemporary Critics
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By Ephraim Nimni
December 10, 2009
In his seminal essay 'Staat und Nation' ('State and Nation') Karl Renner presents his model for national-cultural autonomy, with a two-tier system of government that devolves considerable non-territorial autonomy to national communities, while sustaining the administrative unity of the Multination ...
European Integration and the Nationalities Question
1st Edition
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By John McGarry, Michael Keating
June 29, 2009
A highly topical examination of the effect of European integration on relations between states and minority nations. This new collection brings together the leading specialists in the field, and covers a wide range of cases, from Northern Ireland in the West, to Estonia and Latvia in the ...
Capabilities Equality: Basic Issues and Problems
1st Edition
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By Alexander Kaufman
February 27, 2009
The capabilities approach to equality, developed by Amartyr Sen and Martha Nussbaum, seeks to answer the question: what is a proper measure of a person's condition for the purposes of determining what we owe each other, as a matter of justice? While the capabilities theory has avoided many of the ...
Political Reconciliation
1st Edition
By Andrew Schaap
February 27, 2009
Since the end of the Cold War, the concept of reconciliation has emerged as a central term of political discourse within societies divided by a history of political violence. Reconciliation has been promoted as a way of reckoning with the legacy of past wrongs while opening the way for community in...
Power and Politics in Poststructuralist Thought: New Theories of the Political
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By Saul Newman
February 27, 2009
This book explores the impact of poststructuralism on contemporary political theory by focussing on problems and issues central to politics today. Drawing on the theoretical concerns brought to light by the ‘poststructuralist’ thinkers Foucault, Derrida, Lacan, Deleuze and Max Stirner, Newman ...
Logics of Critical Explanation in Social and Political Theory
1st Edition
By Jason Glynos, David Howarth
August 19, 2008
The Social Science Wars have precipitated a renewed interest in the character, purpose and methods of social science. Positivists and naturalists are criticized by interpretivists and critical theorists, while quantitative researchers are challenged by those who favour qualitative and ethnographic ...
In Defense of Human Rights: A Non-Religious Grounding in a Pluralistic World
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By Ari Kohen
June 10, 2008
The argument that religion provides the only compelling foundation for human rights is both challenging and thought-provoking and answering it is of fundamental importance to the furthering of the human rights agenda. This book establishes an equally compelling non-religious foundation for the ...
The International Political Thought of Carl Schmitt: Terror, Liberal War and the Crisis of Global Order
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By Louiza Odysseos, Fabio Petito
March 28, 2008
Presenting the first critical analysis of Carl Schmitt's The Nomos of the Earth and how it relates to the epochal changes in the international system that have risen from the collapse of the ‘Westphalian’ international order. There is an emerging recognition in political theory circles that core ...
Citizenship and Identity: Towards a New Republic
1st Edition
By John Schwarzmantel
October 22, 2007
Citizenship and Identity offers an analysis of contemporary politics and of the scepticism and apathy which characterise the political life of modern democracies. Starting from exploration of liberal-democracy and a critique of the fragmentation of contemporary politics, this book develops a ...
The Political Theory of Global Citizenship
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By April Carter
February 20, 2006
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the meaning of cosmopolitanism and world citizenship in the history of Western political thought, and in the evolution of international politics since 1500.Providing an invaluable overview of earlier political thought, recent theoretical literature and...
Political Theory of Global Justice: A Cosmopolitan Case for the World State
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By Luis Cabrera
February 03, 2006
Could global government be the answer to global poverty and starvation?Cosmopolitan thinkers challenge the widely held belief that we owe more to our co-citizens than to those in other countries. This book offers a moral argument for world government, claiming that not only do we have strong ...
Democracy, Nationalism and Multiculturalism
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By Ramón Máiz, Ferrán Requejo
January 20, 2005
Democracy, Nationalism and Multiculturalism provides an up-to-date review of subnational and multicultural issues in Western multinational states. The book includes normative, institutional and comparative accounts of key issues such as:* politics and policies of accommodation* multiculturalism* ...