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  1. The Future of Political Community

    Edited by Gideon Baker, Jens Bartelson

    Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

    This book explores the alternative futures of political community and moves beyond the critique of what is wrong with existing, state-based forms of political community. It does so not with the defence of a particular normative model of political community in mind, but rather in the quest for new...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge

  2. Power, Realism and Constructivism

    By Stefano Guzzini

    Series: New International Relations

    Framed by a new and substantial introductory chapter, this book collects Stefano Guzzini’s reference articles and some less well-known publications on power, realism and constructivism. By analysing theories and their assumptions, but also theorists following their intellectual paths, his...

    Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge

  3. The Promise and Perils of Transnationalization

    NGO Activism and the Socialization of Women’s Human Rights in Egypt and Iran

    By Benjamin Stachursky

    Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

    To date, most constructivist international relations studies have characterized the influence of transnationalism on domestic forms of activism as uniformly positive. In particular, transnational interactions are viewed as positive factors for the development and daily impact of gender activism....

    Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge

  4. Joy and International Relations

    A New Methodology

    By Elina Penttinen

    Series: War, Politics and Experience

    This book aims to develop new methodology for the study of international relations (IR) based on joy, informed by current thinking about posthumanism, feminist theory and positive psychology. It examines how the mechanistic-deterministic worldview derived from the Newtonian model has influenced the...

    Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge

  5. The Persistence of Nationalism

    From Imagined Communities to Urban Encounters

    By Angharad Closs Stephens

    Series: Interventions

    This is a book about the difficulties of thinking and acting politically in ways that refuse the politics of nationalism. The book offers a detailed study of how contemporary attempts by theorists of cosmopolitanism, citizenship, globalism and multiculturalism to go beyond nationalism often...

    Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge

  6. More Than Just War

    Narratives of the Just War and Military Life

    By Charles Jones

    Series: Interventions

    This book raises questions about the just war tradition through a critical examination of its revival and by juxtaposing it with a literary phenomenology of war. Recent public debate about war has leaned heavily on a just-war tradition dating back many...

    Published February 27th 2013 by Routledge

  7. The Politics of Speed

    Capitalism, the State and War in an Accelerating World

    By Simon Glezos

    Series: Interventions

    Everyone agrees that the world is accelerating. With advances in communication, transportation and information processing technologies, it is clear that the pace of events in global politics is speeding up at an alarming rate. The implications of this new speed however, continue to be a significant...

    Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge

  8. Bourdieu in International Relations

    Rethinking Key Concepts in IR

    Edited by Rebecca Adler-Nissen

    Series: New International Relations

    This book rethinks the key concepts of International Relations by drawing on the work of Pierre Bourdieu. The last few years have seen a genuine wave of publications promoting sociology in international relations. Scholars have suggested that Bourdieu’s vocabulary can be applied to study security,...

    Published February 18th 2013 by Routledge

  9. Battlestar Galactica and International Relations

    Edited by Nicholas Kiersey, Iver Neumann

    Series: Popular Culture and World Politics

    Looking at a television franchise like Battlestar Galactica (BSG) is no longer news within the discipline of International Relations. A growing number of scholars in and out of IR are studying the importance of cultural artifacts – popular or otherwise – for the phenomena that make up the core of...

    Published February 3rd 2013 by Routledge

  10. Oil and World Power (Routledge Revivals)

    By Peter Odell

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    The oil industry is the world’s largest commercial enterprise. Its extent is global; international issues are consistently influenced by considerations of oil production and consumption, while the international communications networks of the larger oil companies rival those of many nations. In this...

    Published January 23rd 2013 by Routledge