Routledge Innovations in Political Theory
About the Book Series
This series examines contemporary developments and controversies within political theory and features cutting edge interventions into current debates.
Ethical and Hermeneutical Reflections on War, Violence, and Responsibility: Listening to Ukrainian Voices
1st Edition
By Cynthia R. Nielsen
November 17, 2025
This book employs an interdisciplinary lens to help readers understand why Russia invaded Ukraine, as well as why and by what means it continues to wage war against the Ukrainian people, state, nation, culture, and the country’s environmental well-being. Through listening to, learning from, and ...
The Normative and the Political: Kelsen, Schmitt, Morgenthau, and the Future International Order
1st Edition
By Leon Sosnowski
October 07, 2025
In recent years, much has been written about the interaction between international law and the political. Yet, the field of International Relations has paid limited attention to how centering the interpretation of the ‘international’ on each of these favors radically different orders. With this ...
The General Will in the Modern Constitutional State
1st Edition
By Joseph R. Reisert
September 11, 2025
In The General Will in the Modern Constitutional State, Joseph R. Reisert challenges standard interpretations of Rousseau, according to which his political theory either has nothing to offer the present but a radical critique or commends an illiberal, plebiscitary democracy. Reisert argues that the...
Hegemony and the Politics of Labour: Towards a Discourse Theory of Value in Contemporary Capitalism
1st Edition
By Simon Tunderman
May 05, 2025
Hegemony and the Politics of Labour takes up a question that goes to the heart of the debate about politics, capitalism, and discourse: how can labour relations and value production be understood as discursive processes? When they launched their poststructuralist discourse theory almost 40 years ...
Political Narratosophy: From Theory of Narration to Politics of Imagination
1st Edition
By Senka Anastasova
December 18, 2024
Political Narratosophy offers a critically subversive rethinking of the political and philosophical significance of narrative, and why feminist epistemology and feminist social theory matters for the meaning of the ‘self’ and narrativity. Through a re-examination of the notions of democracy and ...
Justice, Care, and Value: A Values-Driven Theory of Care Ethics
1st Edition
By Thomas Randall
November 28, 2024
In Justice, Care, and Value Thomas Randall argues for the radical potential of care ethics as a distinct and preferable theory of distributive justice. Advancing the feminist literature, this book defends a vision of society that can best enable caring relations to flourish. Specifically, Randall ...
Constituent Power, Violence, and the State: The Political Thought of Georges Sorel, Walter Benjamin, and Hannah Arendt
1st Edition
By Dimitri Vouros
November 25, 2024
In Constituent Power, Violence, and the State, Dimitri Vouros examines the question of political violence by placing the thought of Georges Sorel, Walter Benjamin, and Hannah Arendt in conversation with contemporary theories of sovereignty and constituent power. Vouros argues that the violence ...
Autonomy and Identity: The Politics of Who We Are.
1st Edition
By Ros Hague
October 14, 2024
Autonomy and Identity are key concepts in both political and feminist thought and have played central roles in both fields. Although there has been much academic work on both concepts there has arguably been little that has addressed the connections between autonomy and identity. Autonomy and ...
Liberal Democracy as the End of History: Fukuyama and Postmodern Challenges
1st Edition
By Christopher Hughes
October 14, 2024
Francis Fukuyama claims that liberal democracy is the end of history. This book provides a theoretical re-examination of this claim through postmodernist ideas.The book argues that postmodern ideas provide a valuable critique to Fukuyama’s thesis, and poses the questions: can we talk about a ...
Utopian Politics: Citizenship and Practice
1st Edition
By Rhiannon Firth
October 14, 2024
In the context of global problems such as the economic downturn, escalating inequality, terrorism, resource depletion and climate change, cynicism prevails in contemporary politics, which need not be the case. Utopian Politics confronts a world intensely aware of the problems that we face and sadly...
Husserlian Phenomenology and Contemporary Political Realism: The Legitimacy of the Life-World
1st Edition
By Michael F. Hickman
October 09, 2024
Drawing on Husserl’s concepts of communalization and intersubjectivity, this book aspires to an orientation in which human beings are understood in the context of their full-blooded, concrete existence – the life-world. Michael F. Hickman offers a fresh return to the raw experience of politics ...
Ecological Relations: Towards an Inclusive Politics of the Earth
1st Edition
By Susan Board
June 24, 2024
International relations (IR) traditionally theorises the social relationships between different peoples. In so doing, it ignores the ecological bases to life - the ground upon which we walk, the all-encompassing bind of nature. In the current climate of environmental degradation, international ...