Routledge Studies in Globalisation
About the Book Series
The Routledge Studies in Globalisation series is edited by André Broome (University of Warwick, UK) and Leonard Seabrooke (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark).
Based in the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation at the University of Warwick (www.warwick.ac.uk/csgr), the Routledge Studies in Globalisation series examines key questions related to the theory and practice of globalisation and regionalisation. The Series has an interdisciplinary focus and publishes research that is methodologically and theoretically rigorous and which advances knowledge about the changing dynamics of globalisation and regionalisation, global governance and global order, and global civil society.
Associate Editors:
Shaun Breslin, University of Warwick, UK
Sophie Harman, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Richard Higgott, University of Warwick, UK
Manuela Moschella, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy
Helen Nesadurai, Monash University, Malaysia
Andreas Nölke, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
The Legitimacy of Global Health Governance: Forces and Receptions of Change
1st Edition
By Carmen Huckel Schneider
June 30, 2025
The Legitimacy of Global Health Governance examines organisations which deal with global health governance, differing from intergovernmental organisations such as the WHO. It looks at the new governance forms these organisations represent, showing that they have unprecedented characteristics in ...
WTO, Governance and the Limits of Law
1st Edition
By Jens Mortensen
May 30, 2025
This book takes a critical look at the legalization of multilateral trade governance. It inquires into the process whereby GATT was transformed into the WTO, and asks to what extent WTO governance has become legalistic, and if so, whether the legalization process has produced a more stable and ...
Breakdown and Change of Private Interest Governments
1st Edition
By Claudius Wagemann
August 09, 2018
Private Interest Governments were identified in the 1980s as a special form of public regulation in selected economic sectors, rivalling conventional market, state, or community-based forms of public order. This book examines how these institutional arrangements have changed since their ...
Realising Rights: How Regional Organisations Socialise Human Rights
1st Edition
By Mathew Davies
October 26, 2017
This book presents the hitherto unstudied variety of ways that human rights socialisation is attempted in the context of regional organisations, arguing that existing conceptual accounts of this phenomenon need to be expanded to best explain this diversity. By placing the study of the European ...
Chinese Politics and International Relations: Innovation and Invention
1st Edition
Edited
By Nicola Horsburgh, Astrid Nordin, Shaun Breslin
November 08, 2016
The question of how China will relate to a globalising world is one of the key issues in contemporary international relations and scholarship on China, yet the angle of innovation has not been properly addressed within the field. This book explores innovation in China from an International ...
Civil Society and Global Poverty: Hegemony, Inclusivity, Legitimacy
1st Edition
By Clive Gabay
September 11, 2014
The Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) is world’s largest civil society movement fighting against poverty and inequality, incorporating over 100 affiliated country-level coalitions. It has become a significant global actor and its annual days of mobilisation now attract over 175 million ...
Governance of HIV/AIDS: Making Participation and Accountability Count
1st Edition
Edited
By Sophie Harman, Franklyn Lisk
December 11, 2013
Nearly thirty years since HIV/AIDS was first identified, confusion over effective mechanisms of controlling and eradicating the illness remain prevalent. This book highlights the need for comprehensive approaches to governance, as responses to HIV/AIDS become increasingly focused upon the health ...
Globalisation and European Integration: Critical Approaches to Regional Order and International Relations
1st Edition
Edited
By Petros Nousios, Henk Overbeek, Andreas Tsolakis
November 08, 2013
This book explores the links between European integration and globalisation, and examines the potential for social transformation in the context of the global economic crisis and the resulting EU reforms. Divided into three parts, this book offers both empirical and theoretical analyses of social ...
The Political Consequences of Anti-Americanism
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Higgott, Ivona Malbasic
November 08, 2013
Anti-Americanism as a concept is confused, often used in a contradictory fashion and invariably driven by emotion rather than intellect. Nevertheless, it casts a long policy shadow with adverse consequences (both real and potential) for actors including those who may not support the concept. This ...
The Regional Integration Manual: Quantitative and Qualitative Methods
1st Edition
Edited
By Philippe De Lombaerde, Renato Flores, Lelio Iapadre, Michael Schulz
November 08, 2013
The Regional Integration Manual brings together different methods for monitoring and analysing regional integration processes in a systematic way. Employing a multi-disciplinary approach, it seeks to provide officials in regional organisations, researchers in think tanks, academics and students ...
Comparative Regional Security Governance
1st Edition
Edited
By Shaun Breslin, Stuart Croft
November 07, 2013
This book seeks to understand the role of regions in the provision of security (and insecurity) practices across the globe. Specialists with expertise in the regions they examine present eight case studies and analyses of the Americas, Africa and the Middle East, South and East Asia, and Europe. ...
The Role of Ideas in Political Analysis: A Portrait of Contemporary Debates
1st Edition
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By Andreas Gofas, Colin Hay
September 05, 2012
Despite the proliferation of ideational accounts in the last decade or so, the debate over the role of ideas remains caught up in a series of disputes over the ontological foundations, epistemological status and practical pay-off of the (re)turn to ideational explanations. It is thus unsurprising ...