Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
About the Book Series
International relations is a rapidly changing area of research, reacting to and anticipating an ever more integrated and globalised world. This series aims to publish the best new work in the field of international relations, and of politics more generally. Books in the series challenge existing empirical and normative theories, and advance new paradigms as well as presenting significant new research.
Globalization and Religious Nationalism in India: The Search for Ontological Security
1st Edition
By Catarina Kinnvall
May 14, 2009
Exploring the effects of globalization in India and the problem of identity formation, this book contributes to the theoretical and empirical debate on identity, globalization, religious nationalism and (in)security. The author puts forward a new approach based on political psychology, to ...
A Human Security Doctrine for Europe: Project, Principles, Practicalities
1st Edition
Edited
By Marlies Glasius, Mary Kaldor
April 29, 2009
A Human Security Doctrine for Europe explores the actual needs of individual people in conflict areas, rather than using a conventional institutional or geo-political perspectives. This new volume proposes that Europe should develop a new kind of human security capability that ...
Russia and NATO since 1991: From Cold War Through Cold Peace to Partnership?
1st Edition
By Martin A. Smith
March 25, 2009
This is the first comprehensive analysis of the development of relations between Russia and NATO since 1991. Since the re-emergence of Russia as an independent state in December 1991, debates and controversies surrounding its evolving relations with NATO have been a prominent feature of the ...
Diplomacy and Developing Nations: Post-Cold War Foreign Policy-Making Structures and Processes
1st Edition
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By Maurice A. East, Justin Robertson
February 27, 2009
This volume explores the foreign policy environment facing developing nations and their particular foreign policy-making structures and processes. By defining foreign policy broadly to incorporate the activities of a range of state actors and non-state actors, the book broadens the range of ...
State-Building: Theory and Practice
1st Edition
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By Aidan Hehir, Neil Robinson
February 27, 2009
This study brings together internationally renowned academics to provide a detailed insight into the theory and practice of state-building. State-building is one of the dominant themes in contemporary international relations. This text addresses both the theoretical logic behind state-building and ...
The Politics of Protection: Sites of Insecurity and Political Agency
1st Edition
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By Jef Huysmans, Andrew Dobson, Raia Prokhovnik
February 27, 2009
This new book shows how from the end of the Cold War, the security agenda has been transformed and redefined, academically and politically. It focuses on the theme of protection. It moves away from the dominant question of whom or what is threatening to the crucial questions of who is to...
Human Security: Concepts and implications
1st Edition
By Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh, Anuradha Chenoy
December 09, 2008
This book, now available in paperback, traces the key evolutions in the development of the concept of human security, the various definitions and critiques, how it relates to other concepts, and what it implies for polities, politics, and policy. Human security is an important subject for the...
Peacebuilding: Women in International Perspective
1st Edition
By Elisabeth Porter
July 24, 2008
This book clarifies some key ideas and practices underlying peacebuilding; understood broadly as formal and informal peace processes that occur during pre-conflict, conflict and post-conflict transformation. Applicable to all peacebuilders, Elisabeth Porter highlights positive examples of women’s ...
Autonomy, Self Governance and Conflict Resolution: Innovative approaches to Institutional Design in Divided Societies
1st Edition
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By Marc Weller, Stefan Wolff
June 10, 2008
Conflicts over the rights of self-defined population groups to determine their own destiny within the boundaries of existing states are among the most violent forms of inter-communal conflict. Many experts agree that autonomy regimes are a useful framework within which competing claims to ...
International Relations in Europe: Traditions, Perspectives and Destinations
1st Edition
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By Knud Erik Jørgensen, Tonny Brems Knudsen
June 10, 2008
A new and illuminating critical examination of international relations in Europe. This new volume presents all of the state of the art thinking, focusing particularly on international relations theory and theoretical debates in Western and Central European countries.The contributors seek...
Interregionalism and International Relations: A Stepping Stone to Global Governance?
1st Edition
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By Jürgen Rüland, Heiner Hänggi, Ralf Roloff
June 10, 2008
Interregionalism, the institutionalized relations between world regions, is a new phenomenon in international relations. It also a new layer of development in an increasingly differentiated global order. This volume examines the structure of this phenomenon and the scholarly discourse it is ...
Postcolonial Politics, The Internet and Everyday Life: Pacific Traversals Online
1st Edition
By M.I. Franklin
December 04, 2007
In this ground-breaking study M.I. Franklin explores the form and substance of everyday life online from a critical postcolonial perspective. With Internet access and social media uses accelerating in the Global South, in-depth studies of just how non-western communities, at home and living abroad,...