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.
The United States and Turkey's Path to Europe: Hands across the Table
1st Edition
By Armağan Emre Çakır
November 28, 2017
Turkey’s relations with the European Union is one of the most enigmatic topics in the European Studies literature. This country, kept at bay by Europeans for centuries, once came unexpectedly close to full-membership. The progress Turkey recorded in its European quest is difficult to account for ...
Western Muslims and Conflicts Abroad: Conflict Spillovers to Diasporas
1st Edition
By Juris Pupcenoks
October 18, 2017
This book explains why reactive conflict spillovers (political violence in response to conflicts abroad) occur in some migrant-background communities in the West. Based on survey data, statistical datasets, more than sixty interviews with Muslim community leaders and activists, ethnographic ...
Apology and Reconciliation in International Relations: The Importance of Being Sorry
1st Edition
Edited
By Christopher Daase, Stefan Engert, Michel-André Horelt, Judith Renner, Renate Strassner
October 12, 2017
This book looks into the role and effects of public apologies in international relations. It focuses on two major questions - why and when do states issue apologies for historic crimes and how and under what conditions are these apologies successful in remedying conflictive relationships? In ...
The Politics of Self-Determination: Beyond the Decolonisation Process
1st Edition
By Kristina Roepstorff
June 16, 2017
Since the formation of the UN in 1945 the international community has witnessed a number of violent self-determination conflicts such as the disintegration of Yugoslavia, Chechnya, Kashmir, and South Sudan that have been a major cause of humanitarian crises and destruction. This book examines the ...
Profits, Security, and Human Rights in Developing Countries: Global Lessons from Canada’s Extractive Sector in Colombia
1st Edition
Edited
By James Rochlin
March 14, 2017
The extractive sector is a particular area of expertise for Canada and more than half of Canada’s mining assets abroad are located in Latin America, specifically in Brazil, Peru, Chile, and Colombia. The Canada-Colombia accord was the first free-trade agreement in the world to include annual Human ...
Small States and International Security: Europe and Beyond
1st Edition
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By Clive Archer, Alyson Bailes, Anders Wivel
December 02, 2016
This book explains what ‘small’ states are and explores their current security challenges, in general terms and through specific examples. It reflects the shift from traditional security definitions emphasizing defence and armaments, to new security concerns such as economic, societal and ...
State Responses to International Law
1st Edition
By Kendall Stiles
December 02, 2016
Do countries keep their promises to the international community? When they sign treaties or learn about new expectations, do they take them seriously and implement them? Since we already know intuitively that not all countries do, the next question – and the topic of this book – is: who complies? ...
Peace Maintenance: The Evolution of International Political Economy
1st Edition
By Jarat Chopra
November 18, 2016
Peace-Maintenance explores the controversial concept that has evolved from diplomatic peacekeeping and military peace-enforcement. Jarat Chopra, the architect of peace-maintenance, outlines the limitations of traditional peacekeeping principles reliant on the increasingly questionable consent of ...
Regional Integration and Democratic Conditionality: How Democracy Clauses Help Democratic Consolidation and Deepening
1st Edition
By Gaspare Genna, Taeko Hiroi
November 18, 2016
How effective are democracy clauses of regional integration organizations (RIOs) in promoting democratization and democratic consolidation among member-states? RIOs are increasingly adopting "democracy only" clauses in their treaties, requiring democracy and political stability as a condition of ...
Exercising Human Rights: Gender, Agency and Practice
1st Edition
By Robin Redhead
November 16, 2016
Exercising Human Rights investigates why human rights are not universally empowering and why this damages people attempting to exercise rights. It takes a new approach in looking at humans as the subject of human rights rather than the object and exposes the gendered and ethnocentric aspects of ...
The Politics of Conflict Economies: Miners, merchants and warriors in the African borderland
1st Edition
By Morten Bøås
November 10, 2016
Conflict economies cannot be approached in isolation but must instead be contextualised socially and historically. These economies did not emerge in vacuum, but are part and parcel of the history of people and place. This book explores the informal and illicit extraction and trade of minerals and ...
The Role, Position and Agency of Cusp States in International Relations
1st Edition
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By Marc Herzog, Philip Robins
November 08, 2016
This work seeks to develop a new concept with which to analyse the actions and activities of states that tend to be relatively ignored by the discipline of International Relations (IR). As a discipline, IR has a tendency to lean towards the analytically safe. Given the current and recent dynamism ...