Books in the Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics series

"This book offers a re-examination of foreign policy, in its relation with domestic politics and international relations"--

In the ROUTLEDGE ADVANCES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND POLITICS series, this work examines the ontology of agency and the structure in the international system and derives a theoretical framework for the empirical analysis of international relations from these ontological considerations.

Examines the fight of large European states, against terrorism and drugs.

The author argues for a revised conception of international relations that acknowledges the irreconcilability of realist and idealist theories and concerns itself instead with important substantive issues.

Explores the governance of the global, the international, the regional and other extra-domestic spaces. This book offers interdisciplinary explorations of such issues as international peacekeeping, refugees, political rationalities of security and neoliberalism, the spatiality of globalization, and the ethical governance of corporate activity.

This volume shows how from the end of the Cold War, the security agenda has been transformed and redefined, academically and politically.

Locating Africa on the global stage, this book examines and compares external involvement in the continent, exploring the foreign policies of major states and international organizations towards Africa.

Globalization studies are not really global; they mainly originate from Western countries, not the developing world. This book helps to redress the balance and reveals the nexus between globalization and development.

Security is an essentially contested concept. This volume interprets the meaning of security as it is intelligible in relation to, and in the context of, other ideas that are central to contemporary international life such as: sovereignty; diplomacy; war; great powers and self-determination.

For many commentators, global civil society is revolutionising our approach to global politics, as new non-state-based and border-free expressions of political community challenge territorial sovereignty.

This book focuses on the resolution of self-determined conflicts, in which self-defined population groups fight to determine their own destiny within the boundaries of existing states.

Global civil society and the society of democratic states are the two most inclusive and powerful global practices. This book claims that without an understanding of the role that individual human rights play in these practices, no adequate understanding of any major feature of contemporary world politics, from globalisation to wars, is possible.

This book provides a systematic study of Russian foreign policy and the separatist and civil military conflicts in the former Soviet republics following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Locating Africa on the global stage, this book examines and compares external involvement in the continent, exploring the foreign policies of major states and international organizations towards Africa.

The globalization of law has the potential to move the international human rights regime from the generation of norms to the fulfillment of rights, through direct enforcement, reshaping state policy, granting access to civil society, and global governance of transnational forces. In this volume, edited by Alison Brysk, an international and interdisciplinary team of scholars explores the development of new norms, mechanisms, and practices of international legal accountability for human rights abuse, and tests their power in a series of "hard cases."

Developing the concept of Urbicide - the deliberate destruction of cities - this title outlines a theoretical understanding of the urban condition at stake in such violence. It argues that it is necessary to address the widespread and deliberate destruction of buildings as a distinct form of political violence.

Offers a reinterpretation of gender and mass violence. This work explores issues surrounding 'gendercide' including: how gender shapes men and women as victims and perpetrators of mass violence, including genocide. It discusses genocidal violence throughout modern history, with a particular focus on the Balkans and Rwanda.

This book offers an accessible, coherent and informative analysis of contemporary and future security challenges facing small states and provides a comparative perspective.

This book presents insightful perspectives on the invocation, implementation and application of UN-approved financial sanctions and related issues.

By analysing cases from Japan, Greenland, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, and Singapore, this book sheds light on the mechanisms of base politics that surround US overseas military bases. Beyond bringing America strategic and security benefits, they influence power relations in the entire world.

Examines the problem of global climate change and presents a series of case studies on Australia, China, Turkey, Hungary, Denmark, France, the European Union and the US to assess how they are attempting to deal with it.

Questions the history, meaning and concepts of democracy in contemporary international and global politics.

This book uses postcolonial theory to examine the implications of race, class and gender relations for the structuring of world politics. The implications of these themes are discussed using a wide range of postcolonial readings and critiques.

Discusses contribution of various philosophers and thinkers whose ideas have permeated international relations theory. This book presents an introduction to the contemporary debates regarding theories and methodologies that are used to study international relations, particularly the relationships between interpretive accounts of social action.

Kai He and his contributors debate the reasons for this contested multilateralism and the impacts it will have on the region's security and political challenges.

Drawing on Iran's history and its relations with great powers and regional neighbours, this book addresses the question of how much continuity and/or change there is in Iranian international relations since the Iranian revolution.

Kai He and his contributors debate the reasons for this contested multilateralism and the impacts it will have on the region's security and political challenges.