Routledge Series on Global Order Studies
About the Book Series
This series focuses on the major global issues that have surfaced in recent years which will pose significant and complex challenges to global governance in the next few decades. The books will explore challenges to the current global order and relate to these themes:
- The Challenge to Western Dominance
- The Challenge to International Governance
- Religion, Nationalism and Extremism
- Sustainable Growth
- Global Justice and the Poorest Countries
- The Implications of the Global Economic Crisis for Future World Order
Formerly co-edited with David Armstrong, University of Exeter, UK.
Competing Visions for International Order: Challenges for a Shared Direction in an Age of Global Contestation
1st Edition
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By Ville Sinkkonen, Veera Laine, Matti Puranen
November 12, 2025
This book explores the international ordering visions of key global and regional powers in the international system from 2014 onwards. Using a four-fold analytical framework based on the distributional, normative, institutional and temporal dimensions of the visions propagated by the relevant ...
The Transatlantic Community and China in the Age of Disruption: Partners, Competitors, Rivals
1st Edition
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By Daniel S. Hamilton, Joe Renouard
August 29, 2025
This volume analyzes what China’s rise means for the transatlantic community in a new age of disruption—an age marked by great power rivalry, technological upheavals, and the diffusion of power. The book explores how today’s conditions—including heightened Western concerns about Chinese influence ...
The EU in a Globalized World
1st Edition
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By Thomas Hoerber, Alexandre Bohas, Stefano Valdemarin
May 06, 2025
This book fosters critical reflection on Europe's place in a fast-changing global environment, covering the soft and hard facets of EU power along the spectrum of low politics–high politics. Taking an innovative case-study approach, it provides a wide understanding of European Studies and ...
State Fragility: Case Studies and Comparisons
1st Edition
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By Nematullah Bizhan
May 27, 2024
Presenting case studies and comparisons across seven countries, this book addresses key questions as to the nature of state fragility, policies used to mitigate it, assessment of outcomes and prospects. It offers a novel empirical contribution in examining a range of distinct but interdependent ...
Refugee Externalisation Policies: Responsibility, Legitimacy and Accountability
1st Edition
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By Azadeh Dastyari, Amy Nethery, Asher Hirsch
January 29, 2024
This book examines the impact and effects of refugee externalisation policies in two regions: Australia’s border control practices in Southeast Asia and the Pacific and the activities of the European Union and its member states in North Africa. The book assesses the underlying motivations, ...
The Multidimensionality of Regions in World Politics
1st Edition
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By Paul J. Kohlenberg, Nadine Godehardt
December 19, 2022
This book examines what counts regarding the role and conceptualization of regions in world politics. It presents a fresh look at which narratives awake, persist, fall dormant or re-emerge amidst diverse interlocking processes of environmental, technological and global political changes. It puts ...
Contested Concepts in Migration Studies
1st Edition
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By Ricard Zapata-Barrero, Dirk Jacobs, Riva Kastoryano
November 30, 2021
This volume demonstrates that migration- and diversity-related concepts are always contested, and provides a reflexive critical awareness and better comprehension of the complex questions driving migration studies. The main purpose of this volume is to enhance conceptual thinking on migration ...
Immigration Detention: The migration of a policy and its human impact
1st Edition
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By Amy Nethery, Stephanie Silverman
February 07, 2017
Before the turn of the century, few states used immigration detention. Today, nearly every state around the world has adopted immigration detention policy in some form. States practice detention as a means to address both the accelerating numbers of people crossing their borders, and the ...
Nordic Cooperation: A European region in transition
1st Edition
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By Johan Strang
February 07, 2017
The recent crises in global economy and in European integration have caused a considerable revival of interest in the Nordic Welfare Model. However, less attention has been given to the ways in which the nations that form Scandinavia or ‘Norden’ are connected through various forms of inter- and ...
The European Union’s Broader Neighbourhood: Challenges and opportunities for cooperation beyond the European Neighbourhood Policy
1st Edition
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By Sieglinde Gstöhl, Erwan Lannon
February 07, 2017
Over the past decade the European Union (EU) has gradually developed the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) with its neighbours. At the same time, the ‘neighbours of the EU’s neighbours’ have presented new challenges. This book addresses the EU’s broader neighbourhood, comprising of the ENP ...
Redefining Regional Power in International Relations: Indian and South African perspectives
1st Edition
By Miriam Prys
August 19, 2016
This book examines the concept of regional power in international relations. Using the emerging powers of India and South Africa as the case studies, it explores how regional powers simultaneously differ and share common features. The book develops a method to classify and evaluate different types...
EU Policies in a Global Perspective: Shaping or taking international regimes?
1st Edition
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By Gerda Falkner, Patrick Müller
September 03, 2015
Recent decades have seen a rise in the significance of governance layers beyond the nation state and even Europe. Nonetheless, few efforts have been made thus far to systematically examine the EU’s interaction with global policy regimes. This book maps the relative importance of EU policies in the ...