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1. Interpreting Global Security

   Edited by Mark Bevir, Oliver Daddow, Ian Hall

   Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

   This edited collection explores the fruitfulness of applying an interpretive approach to the study of global security. The interpretive approach concentrates on unpacking the meanings and beliefs of various policy actors, and, crucially, explains those beliefs by locating them in historical...

   To Be Published August 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. Histories of Postmodernism

   Edited by Mark Bevir, Jill Hargis, Sara Rushing

   Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

   Histories of Postmodernism reexamines the history of the constellation of ideas and thinkers associated with postmodernism. The increasingly dominant historical narrative depicts a relatively smooth development of ideas from Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger, through a range of French...

   Published June 20th 2012 by Routledge
3. Governance Stories

   By Mark Bevir, Rod Rhodes

   Series: Routledge Advances in European Politics

   An incisive examination of Britain today, which breaks from traditional studies, and takes a new approach to account for massive changes in the make-up of the nation. Over the last twenty years Britain has changed from being governed as a unitary state to a country ruled by the interplay of various...

   Published October 21st 2007 by Routledge
4. New Labour

   A Critique

   By Mark Bevir

   New Labour is the most innovative and powerful political movement in Britain today. However, New Labour: A Critique argues that its apparent pragmatism disguises an ideological commitment to particular forms of social science, deploying new institutionalism and communitarianism to respond to the...

   Published January 26th 2005 by Routledge
5. Interpreting British Governance

   By Mark Bevir, Rod Rhodes

   How is Britain governed? Have we entered a new era of governance? Can traditional approaches to governance help us to interpret 21st century Britain?This book develops the argument that we can understand political practices only by grasping the beliefs on which people act. It offers a governance...

   Published March 26th 2003 by Routledge