Political Philosophy Books

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1. Leo Strauss and the Invasion of Iraq

   Encountering the Abyss

   By Aggie Hirst

   Series: Interventions

   The political philosophy of Leo Strauss has been the subject of significant scholarly and media attention in recent years, particularly in the context of the decision to invade Iraq in 2003. Allegations that a group of Strauss-inspired Neo-conservatives intervened in the foreign policy...

   Published June 18th 2013 by Routledge
2. Parliaments and Citizens

   Edited by Cristina Leston-Bandeira

   Series: Library of Legislative Studies

   The relationship between parliaments and citizens is one of the least studied subjects in legislative studies, yet this is a crucial dimension to understand parliaments and the role they play in our political systems. Furthermore, this relationship has gained considerable visibility over the...

   Published June 13th 2013 by Routledge
3. The EU’s Democracy Promotion and the Mediterranean Neighbours

   Orientation, Ownership and Dialogue in Jordan and Turkey

   By Ann-Kristin Jonasson

   Series: Routledge Advances in European Politics

   This book provides a systematic analysis of the EU’s extensive, but so far largely failed, efforts to promote democracy in the Mediterranean region, thoroughly assessing its democracy promotion in relation to two Mediterranean countries – Jordan and Turkey. By pinpointing essential prerequisites...

   Published June 13th 2013 by Routledge
4. The Politics of National Character

   A Study in Interwar East European Thought

   By Balázs Trencsényi

   Series: Routledge Studies in Comparative Political Thought

   The book is a comparative analysis of the ideological constructions of national specificity in Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary. Studying the growing infatuation with "national essence" it seeks to understand the radicalization of nationalism in East Central Europe in connection with the shift of the...

   Published June 12th 2013 by Routledge
5. 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
6. Global Citizenship and the Legacy of Empire

   Marketing Development

   By April Biccum

   Series: Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy

   This book investigates the parallels between mainstream development discourse and colonial discourse as theorized in the work of Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak and Edward Said. Aiming to repoliticize post-colonial theory by applying its understandings to contemporary political discourses, author April...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
7. The Politics of Becoming European

   A study of Polish and Baltic Post-Cold War security imaginaries

   By Maria Mälksoo

   Series: New International Relations

   This book weaves together perspectives drawn from critical international relations, anthropology and social theory in order to understand the Polish and Baltic post-Cold War politics of becoming European. Approaching the study of Europe’s eastern enlargement through a post-colonial critique,...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
8. The Legacies of Caribbean Radical Politics

   Edited by Shalini Puri

   The year 2009 marked the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution and the thirtieth anniversary of the Grenadian and Nicaraguan Revolutions, and as such offered an occasion to assess the complex legacies of revolutionary politics in the Caribbean. This volume considers what we might learn from such...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
9. The Liberal Peace and Post-War Reconstruction

   Myth or reality?

   Edited by Roger MacGinty, Oliver Richmond

   The post-Cold War has witnessed enormous levels of western peacekeeping, peacemaking and reconstruction intervention in societies emerging from war. These western-led interventions are often called ‘liberal peacebuilding’ or ‘liberal interventionism’, or statebuilding, and have attracted...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
10. The European Union, Russia and the Shared Neighbourhood

    Edited by Jackie Gower, Graham Timmins

    Series: Routledge Europe-Asia Studies

    The conflict in South Ossetia in the summer of 2008 and the Ukrainian energy crisis in early 2009 served to highlight the tensions that continue to influence EU-Russia relations in regard to the region comprising the former republics of the Soviet Union or the ‘shared neighbourhood’. This book...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge