Political Philosophy Books

New and Published Books

1. Feminist Geopolitics

   At the Sharp End

   Edited by Deborah P. Dixon, Sallie A. Marston

   Building on a trans-disciplinary, feminist project that foregrounds the bodies of those at the ‘sharp end’ of various forms of international activity, such as immigration, development and warfare, the chapters included in this book cover a variety of sites, concerns, and hopes. These range from the...

   Published May 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. Transatlantic Regulation

   Edited by Susanne Lütz

   The European and American economies are closely interlinked as mutually important investment and trading partners. The growing intensity of economic interdependence has spurred the transatlantic coordination of rules and standards that can lead to the formation of non-tariff barriers to...

   Published May 21st 2013 by Routledge
3. Marx and Living Labour

   By Laurent Baronian

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   From his early economic works on, Marx conceived the labour of any kind of society as a set of production activities and analysed the historical modes of production as specific ways of distributing and exchanging these activities. Political economy on the contrary considers the labour...

   Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge
4. Right-Wing Radicalism Today

   Perspectives from Europe and the US

   Edited by Sabine von Mering, Timothy Wyman McCarty

   Series: Extremism and Democracy

   This book highlights recent developments in the radical right providing comparative analysis of current extremist activity in Eastern and Western Europe and the United States. It reveals the growing amount of connections and continuities of rightwing movements and ideologies across national borders...

   Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge
5. Institutional Legacies of Communism

   Change and Continuities in Minority Protection

   Edited by Timofey Agarin, Karl Cordell, Alexander Osipov

   Series: Routledge Advances in European Politics

   Twenty years after the demise of communist policy, this book evaluates the continuing communist legacies in the current minority protection systems and legislations across a number of states in post-communist Europe. The fall of communism and the process of democratisation across post-communist...

   Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge
6. Understanding European Movements

   New Social Movements, Global Justice Struggles, Anti-Austerity Protest

   Edited by Cristina Flesher Fominaya, Laurence Cox

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   European social movements have been central to European history, politics, society and culture, and have had a global reach and impact. Yet they have rarely been taken on their own terms in the English-language literature, considered rather as counterpoints to the US experience. This has been...

   Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge
7. Civil Disobedience and Deliberative Democracy

   By William Smith

   Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

   Civil disobedience is a public, nonviolent, conscientious yet political act, contrary to law, carried out to communicate opposition to law and policy of government. This book presents a theory of civil disobedience that draws on ideas associated with deliberative democracy. This book explores the...

   Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge
8. Contemporary Political Agency

   Theory and Practice

   Edited by Bice Maiguashca, Raffaele Marchetti

   Series: Global Order Studies

   This book explores and critically reflects on the theory and practice of political agency in contemporary global politics. In light of the changing relationship between the state, the market and the society, it seeks to map both theoretically and empirically contemporary forms of global political...

   Published May 15th 2013 by Routledge
9. Nazism as Fascism

   Violence, Ideology, and the Ground of Consent in Germany 1930-1945

   By Geoff Eley

   Offering a dynamic and wide-ranging examination of the key issues at the heart of the study of German Fascism, Nazism as Fascism brings together a selection of Geoff Eley’s most important writings on Nazism and the Third Reich. Featuring a wealth of revised, updated and new material, Nazism as...

   Published May 15th 2013 by Routledge
10. Independence Movements in Subnational Island Jurisdictions

    Edited by Eve Hepburn, Godfrey Baldacchino

    The dynamics for any moves for political independence in the 21st century are very different from those of the 20th. The aspirations of former colonies to independence are grinding to a halt; the rationale for selfdetermination is increasingly driven by strategic and pragmatic economic arguments,...

    Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge