International Law Books

New and Published Books

1. Political Economy of Statebuilding

   Power after peace

   Edited by Mats Berdal, Dominik Zaum

   Series: Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding

   This volume examines and evaluates the impact of international statebuilding interventions on the political economy of post-conflict countries over the past 20 years. While statebuilding today is typically discussed in the context of ‘peacebuilding’ and ‘stabilisation’ operations, the current...

   Published June 16th 2013 by Routledge
2. Statelessness and Citizenship

   Camps and the Creation of Political Space

   By Victoria Redclift

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Development Studies

   What does it mean to be a citizen? In depth research with a stateless population in Bangladesh has revealed that, despite liberal theory’s reductive vision, the limits of political community are not set in stone. The Urdu-speaking population in Bangladesh exemplify some of the key problems facing...

   Published June 13th 2013 by Routledge
3. Shifting Global Powers and International Law

   Challenges and Opportunities

   Edited by Rowena Maguire, Bridget Lewis, Charles Sampford

   Series: Challenges of Globalisation

   This book explores the impacts of global economic, political and cultural shifts on various international legal frameworks and legal norms. The economic growth of states throughout Asia, South and Central America and Africa is having a profound effect on the dynamics of international relations,...

   Published June 12th 2013 by Routledge
4. Global Justice, Kant and the Responsibility to Protect

   A Provisional Duty

   By Heather Roff

   Series: Global Politics and the Responsibility to Protect

   This book provides an innovative contribution to the study of the Responsibility to Protect and Kantian political theory. The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine has been heralded as the new international security norm to ensure the protection of peoples against genocide, ethnic cleansing, war...

   Published June 6th 2013 by Routledge
5. 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
6. Securitization, Accountability and Risk Management

   Transforming the Public Security Domain

   Edited by Karin Svedberg Helgesson, Ulrika Mörth

   Series: PRIO New Security Studies

   This edited volume examines the reconstitution of the public security domain since the 9/11 attacks, focusing on the banking sector and anti-money laundering (AML) activity in particular. Since the inception of the ‘Financial Action Taskforce’ (FATF) in 1989, AML has been viewed as a global problem...

   Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
7. Ethics and the Laws of War

   The Moral Justification of Legal Norms

   By Antony Lamb

   Series: Contemporary Security Studies

   This book is an examination of the permissions, prohibitions and obligations found in just war theory, and the moral grounds for laws concerning war. Pronouncing an action or course of actions to be prohibited, permitted or obligatory by just war theory does not thereby establish the moral grounds...

   Published May 12th 2013 by Routledge
8. Comparative and International Criminal Justice Systems

   Policing, Judiciary, and Corrections, Third Edition

   Edited by Obi N. I. Ebbe

   Comparative and International Criminal Justice Systems: Policing, Judiciary, and Corrections, Third Edition examines the history, dynamics, structure, organization, and processes in the criminal justice systems in a number of selected countries. Designed for courses in comparative criminal justice...

   Published May 12th 2013 by CRC Press
9. Peace Operations and Organized Crime

   Enemies or Allies?

   Edited by James Cockayne, Adam Lupel

   Series: Cass Series on Peacekeeping

   Peace operations are increasingly on the front line in the international community’s fight against organized crime; this book explores how, in some cases, peace operations and organized crime are clear enemies, while in others, they may become tacit allies. The threat posed by organized crime to...

   Published May 9th 2013 by Routledge
10. Rules, Politics, and the International Criminal Court

    Committing to the Court

    By Yvonne Dutton

    Series: Global Institutions

    In this new work, Dutton examines the ICC and whether and how its enforcement mechanism influences state membership and the court’s ability to realize treaty goals, examining questions such as: Why did states decide to create the ICC and design the institution with this uniquely strong...

    Published May 8th 2013 by Routledge