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Forthcoming Political Theory Books

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Forthcoming Books

  1. Class, States and International Relations

    A critical appraisal of Robert Cox and neo-Gramscian theory

    By Adrian Budd

    Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

    This book provides an outline and a critique of neo-Gramscian international relations theory, from a Marxist perspective. Focusing on the pioneering work of Robert Cox, but also drawing on the wider neo-Gramscian literature, this book presents a comprehensive account of neo-Gramscian international...

    To Be Published May 29th 2013 by Routledge

  2. 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...

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  3. 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,...

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  4. The Concept of the Public Realm

    Edited by Noel O'Sullivan

    In its political form, the existence of a public realm is the basis of a shared relationship between rulers and ruled which makes politics more than mere power or domination. How to construct and maintain a public realm in the political sphere is, however, a matter of especial dispute at the...

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  5. Climate Change and Liberal Priorities

    Edited by Gideon Calder, Catriona McKinnon

    Can, and should, liberalism make itself hospitable to a politics which does justice to climate change? To what extent are the values, methods, and assumptions of liberalism adaptable to the challenges raised? Liberal thinking – broadly construed – may dominate the Academy and the political...

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  6. The Case for Multinational Federalism

    Beyond the all-encompassing nation

    By Alain-G. Gagnon

    Series: Routledge Series in Federal Studies

    Throughout the world, liberal-democracies are grappling with increasing claims made in the name of minority national, socio-cultural and ethno-cultural identities that seek greater recognition in the institutions of the nation-state. This work inserts itself into debates centred on diversity...

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  7. Counter-Enlightenments

    From the Eighteenth Century to the Present

    By Graeme Garrard

    Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

    The Enlightenment and its legacy are still actively debated, with the Enlightenment acting as a key organizing concept in philosophy, social theory and the history of ideas. Counter-Enlightenments is the first full-length study to deal with the history and development of counter-enlightenment...

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  8. Economic Justice, Labor and Community Practice

    Edited by Louise Simmons, Scott Harding

    Facing economic upheaval and growing inequality, people in local communities are fighting for economic justice. Coalitions from labor, grassroots community organizations, the faith community, immigrant communities and other progressive forces are emerging across the U.S. and Canada and winning...

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  9. Foucault and International Relations

    New Critical Engagements

    Edited by Nicholas Kiersey, Doug Stokes

    Series: Interventions

    The recent debate about biopolitics in International Relations (IR) theory may well prove to be one of the most provocative and rewarding engagements with the concept of power in the history of the discipline. Building on Foucault's arguments concerning the role played by the concept of security in...

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  10. Violence and Phenomenology

    By James Dodd

    Series: Studies in Philosophy

    This book pursues the problem of whether violence can be understood to be constitutive of its own sense or meaning, as opposed to being merely instrumental. Dodd draws on the resources of phenomenological philosophy, and takes the form of a series of dialogues between figures both inside and...

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge