Global Governance Books

New and Published Books

1. Genocide and Mass Atrocities in Asia

   Legacies and Prevention

   Edited by Deborah Mayersen, Annie Pohlman

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

   The twentieth century has been labelled the ‘century of genocide’, and according to estimates, more than 250 million civilians were victims of genocide and mass atrocities during this period. This book provides one of the first regional perspectives on mass atrocities in Asia, by exploring the...

   Published May 19th 2013 by Routledge
2. Transnational Companies and Security Governance

   Hybrid Practices in a Postcolonial World

   By Jana Hönke

   Series: PRIO New Security Studies

   This book examines non-state governance in areas of limited statehood by looking at the security practices of multinational companies. It investigates the everyday security practices of mining companies in Subsaharan Africa to illustrate a much broader and highly relevant phenomenon: hybrid...

   Published May 9th 2013 by Routledge
3. Land and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

   Edited by Jon Unruh, Rhodri Williams

   Series: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and Natural Resource Management

   Claims to land and territory are often a cause of conflict, and land issues present some of the most contentious problems for post-conflict peacebuilding. Among the land-related problems that emerge during and after conflict are the exploitation of land-based resources in the absence of authority,...

   Published April 28th 2013 by Routledge
4. 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
5. Transnational Activism and National Movements in Latin America

   Bridging the Divide

   Edited by Eduardo Silva

   Series: Routledge Studies in Latin American Politics

   During the 1990s, as widespread perception spread of declining state sovereignty, activists and social movement organizations began to form transnational networks and coalitions to pressure both intergovernmental organizations and national governments on a variety of issues. Research has focused on...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
6. Re-Envisioning Global Development

   A Horizontal Perspective

   By Sandra Halperin

   Series: Critical Issues in Global Politics

   Re-Envisioning Global Development offers an original conceptualisation of capitalist development from its origins to the present day. Most approaches to understanding contemporary development assume that industrial capitalism was achieved through a process of nationally organised economic growth,...

   Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge
7. Private Contractors and the Reconstruction of Iraq

   Transforming Military Logistics

   By Christopher Kinsey

   Series: Contemporary Security Studies

   Private Contractors and the Reconstruction of Iraq examines the controversial role of military contractors in the reconstruction of Iraq. When 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' was launched in March 2003, few, if any, of the Coalition's political leaders could have envisaged that within a few months the...

   Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge
8. Nuclear Terrorism and Global Security

   The Challenge of Phasing out Highly Enriched Uranium

   Edited by Alan J. Kuperman

   Series: Routledge Global Security Studies

   This book examines the prospects and challenges of a global phase-out of highly enriched uranium—and the risks of this material otherwise being used by terrorists to make atom bombs. Terrorist groups, such as Al Qaeda, have demonstrated repeatedly that they seek to acquire nuclear weapons....

   Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
9. The Politics of the Globalization of Law

   Getting from Rights to Justice

   Edited by Alison Brysk

   Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

   How does the globalization of law, the emergence of multiple and shifting venues of legal accountability, enhance or evade the fulfillment of international human rights? Alison Brysk’s edited volume aims to assess the institutional and political factors that determine the influence of the...

   Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
10. The Political Economy of the Conflict Trade

    Contextualising Illicit Miners and Informal Traders

    By Morten Boas

    Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

    The economies of conflict play a crucial part in motivating and sustaining the illicit extraction and trade of diamonds, coltan, gold and other natural resources from conflict zones in Sub-Saharan Africa. This book focuses on the political economy of life and death for ordinary people in extreme...

    Published March 27th 2013 by Routledge