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

Using a critical theory approach to analyze the globalization of the world economy, this book presents economic globalization as a familiar process that has occurred throughout history.

Examines the weakening of the state's ability to order political allegiances of its subjects. Is it possible to invest political principles with loyalty and can political loyalty become merely a matter of choice and personal responsibility?

The Doha Round of WTO negotiations commenced in November 2001 to further liberalize international trade and to specifically seek to remove trade barriers so developing countries might compete in major markets. This book explores the main issues of the Doha Round trade negotiations, such as agriculture, pharmaceuticals and services trade.

This book examines the post-Cold War challenges facing Antarctic governance. It seeks to understand the interests of new players in Antarctic affairs such as China, India, Korea and Malaysia, and how other key players such as Russia and the USA or claimant states such as New Zealand or France are coping in the new global order.

This book is invaluable in identifying the necessary ingredients for long term, legitimate and effective peace-maintenance at a time when it is needed most.

The author seeks to bring new perspectives to current debates and argues that control of the missile threats cannot be achieved without addressing ecological, economic, social and cultural elements in a stable world order.

Using an historical approach, this title provides an analysis of issues surrounding UN Security Council reform. It presents an overview of the debates - emphasising the potential for, and modalities of, adjustment in the post-Cold War era - through a systematic investigation of the various reform proposals and the attitudes of member states.

Re-examines the history of international relations in order to explore how the discipline has imported and employed the concept of culture. This book challenges the notion that IR has only been interested in culture since the end of the Cold War by tracing different understandings of culture throughout its history.

Examines the International Criminal Court (ICC) from a political science and international relations perspective. This book describes the main features of the court and discusses the political negotiations and the on-going clashes between those states who oppose the court, particularly the United States, and those who defend it.

Explores the technical, political economic and sociocultural implications of technological change. Using an international political economy approach, this book focuses on how the Internet is used by ethnic minorities to communicate.

Analysse the characteristics of the social contexts and environments in conflict situations and the impact that these socialising environments may have in the political learning and emerging citizenship orientations of youngsters.

This book demonstrates that the crises of the Horn states stem from their political behaviour and structural forces.

Interregionalism, the institutionalized relations between world regions, is a new phenomenon in international relations and has the potential to become a new layer in an increasingly differentiated global order.

This new volume explores the needs of people in conflict areas, rather than taking an institutional or geo-political perspective. It proposes that Europe should develop a new kind of human security capability that involves the military, the police and civilians all working together to enforce law rather than to fight wars.

This is the first integrated account of citizen responses to the new global order. Based on a comprehensive survey administered at the end of 2000 in nine European and nine Asian countries, it demonstrates the diverse responses to globalization, within, and between, two of the world's major ¿ and most globally integrated ¿ regions.

This edited volume is a tribute to, and a debate with, the scholarship of Walter Carlsnaes and his contribution to the study of foreign policy in both its conceptualization and application.

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."