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.
Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
The information flow about crises and conflicts is highly selective, the media only focus on a few major conflicts at a time. Many conflicts are neglected, others soon forgotten after the fighting ends. This book fills the gaps and offers a systematic overview of all crises and conflicts in and...
Published January 19th 2000 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
Globalisation is widely understood as a set of processes driven by technological, economic and cultural change. Few have successfully defined the changing character and role of politics in global change. Political institutions such as the nation-state have been seen as undermined by globalisation,...
Published October 27th 1999 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
This book is a major contribution to the debate about philosophy and method in history and international relations. The author analyses IR scholarship from classical realism to quantitative and postmodern work....
Published July 7th 1999 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
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...
Published December 2nd 1998 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
This book tackles the issues involved and explores strategies to deal with many of the problems of establishing equivalence. Each contribution focuses on a theoretically relevant theme, such as: tolerance; political values; religious orientations; gender roles; voluntary associations; party...
Published October 28th 1998 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
This book explores the current anatomy of regional cooperation and why it has often failed to take hold. It offers an alternative view of politics and international relations in the Middle East. The findings show that co-operation between many of the more open regimes, such as Israel, Jordan, Egypt...
Published October 21st 1998 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
This book provides an original analysis of recent work by key historical sociologists through the prism of International Relations. Stephen Hobden investigates the number of issues which overlap between the two disciplines by focusing on three main themes: * the ways in which historical...
Published September 30th 1998 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
This book is a study of power. In particular, it is a study of governmental power in Britain and France. Its focus is the changing relationship between the government and the central bank in the two countries, and it examines the politics of this relationship since the time when the Bank of England...
Published July 22nd 1998 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
The concepts of agency and structure are of increasing and defining importance to international relations and politics as fields of enquiry and knowledge. This is the first book to explore the two concepts in depth in that context.The agent-structure problem refers to questions concerning the...
Published November 19th 1997 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
Henrik Larsen presents discourse analysis as an alternative approach to foreign policy analysis. Through an extensive empirical study of British and French policies towards Europe in the 1980s, he demonstrates the importance of political discourse in shaping foreign policy.The author discusses key...
Published October 1st 1997 by Routledge
