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Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

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.

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1-10 of 111 results in Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
  1. The Scourge of Genocide

    Essays and Reflections

    By Adam Jones

    Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

    The Scourge of Genocide collects essays, reviews, and reportage on the subjects of genocide and crimes against humanity by Adam Jones, recently selected as one of "Fifty Key Thinkers on the Holocaust and Genocide." The volume includes a number of previously-unpublished essays, and explores a range...

    Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge

  2. Climate Change and Foreign Policy

    Case Studies from East to West

    Edited by Paul G. Harris

    Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

    Climate Change and Foreign Policy: Case Studies from East to West and its companion volume, Environmental Change and Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice, examine and explain the role of foreign policy politics, processes and institutions in efforts to protect the environment and natural resources....

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  3. The Securitization of Humanitarian Migration

    Digging moats and sinking boats

    By Scott D. Watson

    Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

    This book examines how western liberal states are progressively restricting access to refugees and asylum seekers, even though these states have signed international agreements obliging them to offer protection to those fleeing persecution and to advocate the spread of human rights and humanitarian...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  4. Securitizations of Citizenship

    Edited by Peter Nyers

    Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

    Securitizations of Citizenship investigates how the fate of citizenship is now caught up in a dramatic and dangerous process of securitizing political communities. In the nervous state of affairs of the post-9/11 period, technologies of surveillance and control are rapidly proliferating, creating...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  5. United Nations Reform

    Heading North or South?

    By Spencer Zifcak

    Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

    This book examines recent attempts at reform within the United Nations in the wake of the institutional crisis provoked by the invasion of Iraq. It contends that efforts at reform have foundered owing to fundamental and bitter political disagreements between the nations of the global North and...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  6. International Politics of the Arctic

    Coming in from the Cold

    By Peter Hough

    Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

    This book offers a wide-ranging account of the emerging issues of international politics in the Artic, and the emerging Geopolitical debates that surround the region. In this thorough but accessible book covering environmental issues, the author examines the Geopolitics of emerging land and...

    Published May 27th 2013 by Routledge

  7. Understanding Transatlantic Relations

    Whither the West?

    By Serena Simoni

    Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

    In light of the Arab Spring and after days of public quarreling that highlighted the divisions among NATO’s members on an agreement to give command of the "no-fly" zone in Libya to the Alliance, it is evident that the U.S. is having problems engaging with its European allies and partners. Why is...

    Published May 5th 2013 by Routledge

  8. New Norms and Knowledge in World Politics

    Protecting people, intellectual property and the environment

    By Preslava Stoeva

    Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

    This book examines the process of norm development and knowledge creation in international politics, and assesses these processes in case studies on protection from torture, intellectual property rights and climate change. Drawing on the theories of constructivism and the sociology of scientific...

    Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge

  9. Power, Resistance and Conflict in the Contemporary World

    Social movements, networks and hierarchies

    By Athina Karatzogianni, Andrew Robinson

    Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

    This book examines issues of organisation in resistance movements, discussing topics including the integration of the world system, the intersection of networks with discourses of identity, and the possibility of social transformation. Drawing on a number of theorists including Deleuze and...

    Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge

  10. Mediation in the Asia-Pacific Region

    Transforming Conflicts and Building Peace

    Edited by Dale Bagshaw, Elisabeth Porter

    Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

    This book examines mediation in connection with peacebuilding in the Asia-Pacific region, providing practical examples which either highlight the weaknesses within certain mediation approaches or demonstrate best-practice. The authors explore the extent to which current ideas and practices of...

    Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge