Routledge Studies in Global and Transnational Politics
About the Book Series
The core theme of the series is the outcomes and implications of global and transnational processes on states and emerging and re-emerging social movements. This includes historical and contemporary processes underlying state development and social movements. The series aims to promote greater theoretical innovation and inter-disciplinarity in the academic study of global transformations, as well as local movements with global relevance or connections. The understanding of globalization that it employs accords centrality to forms and processes of political, social, cultural and economic connectivity (and dis-connectivity) and relations between the global and the local.
The series aims to publish high quality and original work by leading and emerging scholars critically engaging with key issues in the study of global and transnational politics, including local phenomena that feed into, and are fed by, global processes and structures. It will comprise research monographs, edited collections and advanced textbooks for scholars, researchers, policy analysts, and students.
Series Editor: Ibrahim Halawi
Founding Series Editors: Sandra Halperin & Chris Rumford
Are Islamists Still Islamists?: An Ontological-Relational Analysis
1st Edition
By Sümeyye Sakarya
September 18, 2025
This book offers an ontological study of Islamism and its transformation with a specific focus on Türkiye, Bangladesh, and Senegal. The dominant reading of the transformation of Islamism from a discernibly Islamist, then anti-systemic discourse to a more systemic one has been through the arguments ...
Global Perspectives on Nationalism: Political and Literary Discourses
1st Edition
Edited
By Debajyoti Biswas, Panos Eliopoulos, John C. Ryan
August 26, 2024
Global Perspectives on Nationalism takes an interdisciplinary approach informed by recent theorisations of nationalism to examine perennial questions on the topic. The idea of nationalism centres on questions of ethnicity, culture, religion, language, and access to resources. What determines ...
The Rise and Decline of Modern Democracy
1st Edition
By Damien Kingsbury
April 07, 2023
The Rise and Decline of Modern Democracy assesses the rise of, subsequent political challenges to, and decline of, contemporary liberal democratic processes, in particular since the ‘third wave’ of democratization from the 1990s. Democracy is in global decline. Fewer countries are democratic and ...
Political Sociologies of the Cultural Encounter: Essays on Borders, Cosmopolitanism, and Globalization
1st Edition
Edited
By Barrie Axford, Alistair Brisbourne, Sandra Halperin, Claudia Lueders
May 06, 2022
This book offers transdisciplinary scholarship which challenges the agendas of and markers around traditional social scientific fields. It builds on the belief that the study of major issues in the global cultural and political economies benefit from a perspective that rejects the limitations ...
Critical Geopolitics and Regional (Re)Configurations: Interregionalism and Transnationalism Between Latin America and Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Heriberto Cairo, Breno Bringel
December 18, 2020
This book seeks to develop our understanding of the contemporary geopolitical reconfigurations of two regions of the world system with high cultural affinity and traditional close relations: Latin America and Europe. Relations between Latin America and Europe have been interpreted generally in the ...
Egyptian Diaspora Activism During the Arab Uprisings: Insights from Paris and Vienna
1st Edition
By Lea Müller-Funk
June 30, 2020
Diaspora politics is often expressed as an emancipating experience and can therefore give agency to migrants. Yet, rather than interpreting transnational political practices as globally liberal or cosmopolitan, Müller-Funk’s findings underline that diaspora politics is a highly diverse political ...
The Transnational Politics of Higher Education: Contesting the Global / Transforming the Local
1st Edition
Edited
By Meng-Hsuan Chou, Isaac Kamola, Tamson Pietsch
June 30, 2020
This edited volume introduces readers to the relationship between higher education and transnational politics. It shows how higher education is a significant arena for regional and international transformation as well as domestic political struggle replete with unequal power relations.This volume ...
Human Rights and the Reinvention of Freedom
1st Edition
By Nick Stevenson
December 12, 2019
This volume seeks to propose a reinvention of freedom under contemporary conditions of globalization, cross-border mobility, and neo-liberal dominance. There are currently two predominant myths circulating about freedom. The first is that in a global age growing numbers of citizens are less ...
Re-Living the Global City: Global/Local Processes
1st Edition
Edited
By John Eade, Chris Rumford
December 12, 2019
Living the Global City (1996) was a landmark text in the field of Global Studies, offering an analysis of globalization and global/local processes by focussing on specific issues and themes which include community, culture, milieu, socioscapes and sociospheres, microglobalization, poverty, ...
Rethinking Ideology in the Age of Global Discontent: Bridging Divides
1st Edition
Edited
By Barrie Axford, Didem Buhari-Gulmez, Seckin Baris Gulmez
December 12, 2019
Over the last decade, anti-government demonstrations worldwide have brought together individuals and groups that were often assumed unlikely to unite for a common cause due to differences in ideological tendencies. They have particularly highlighted the role of youth, women, social media, and ...
The World-Making Power of New Media: Mere Connection?
1st Edition
By Barrie Axford
December 09, 2019
In this new work, Axford seeks to contribute to the development of global theory, particularly where it engages with the contested idea of globality; a concept which musters as consciousness, condition, framework, even system. By examining emergent globalities through the lens of world-making ...
Genocide, Geopolitics and Transnational Networks: Con-textualising the destruction of the Unión Patriótica in Colombia
1st Edition
By Andrei Gomez-Suarez
October 26, 2017
This volume seeks to uncover and discuss the links between genocide, geopolitics and transnational networks. By studying the destruction of the Union Patrotica (UP) in Colombia - a process usually regarded as one of the extreme by-products of the Colombian armed conflict- through the lens of ...