15 Books to Consider for Politics & International Relations

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1. The Rise of Regional Authority

   A Comparative Study of 42 Democracies

   By Liesbet Hooghe, Gary Marks, Arjan Schakel

   Most countries around the globe have one or two levels of regional or intermediate government, yet we have little systematic idea of how much authority they wield, or how this has changed over time. This book measures and explains the formal authority of intermediate or regional government in 42...

   Published March 23rd 2010 by Routledge
2. Conflict, Diplomacy and Society in Israeli-Lebanese Relations

   Edited by Efraim Karsh, Michael Kerr, Rory Miller

   This book is a wide-ranging and innovative study of Israeli-Lebanese relations from the birth of the Jewish state in 1948 to the Israel-Lebanon War of 2006. Israel’s relationship with its Arab neighbours is a subject of perennial interest in the Middle East. The relationship between Israel and...

   Published April 13th 2010 by Routledge
3. Law and Government in Israel

   Edited by Gideon Doron, Arye Naor, Assaf Meydani

   While most current studies on law and politics in Israel focus on the legal aspects of public policymaking within the courts, this book explores the relationship between law and government from a positive perspective. That is to say that the question asked is: how the political relationships...

   Published April 29th 2010 by Routledge
4. Dominant Political Parties and Democracy

   Concepts, Measures, Cases and Comparisons

   Edited by Matthijs Bogaards, Françoise Boucek

   Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

   This book examines dominant parties in both established democracies and new democracies and explores the relationship between dominant parties and the democratic process. Bridging existing literatures, the authors analyse dominant parties at national and sub-national, district and intra-party...

   Published May 4th 2010 by Routledge
5. Political Discussion in Modern Democracies

   A Comparative Perspective

   Edited by Michael R. Wolf, Laura Morales, Ken'ichi Ikeda

   Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

   The study of political discussion has been broken into sub-categories including deliberative democracy, discursive studies, dynamics of interpersonal communication, and discussion network analyses, with substantial numbers of books and articles covering each. However, these areas are often treated...

   Published May 11th 2010 by Routledge
6. Rethinking the 'Coloured Revolutions'

   Edited by David Lane, Stephen White

   The communist world was supposed to have had its ‘revolution’ in 1989. But the demise of the Soviet Union came two years later, at the end of 1991; and then, perplexingly, a series of irregular executive changes began to take place the following decade in countries that were already postcommunist....

   Published May 26th 2010 by Routledge
7. Politics and the Religious Imagination

   Edited by John H.A. Dyck, Paul S. Rowe, Jens Zimmermann

   Series: Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics

   Politics and the Religious Imagination is the product of a group of interdisciplinary scholars each analyzing the connections between religious narratives and the construction of regional and global politics, combining a set of theoretical and philosophic insights with several case studies that...

   Published June 2nd 2010 by Routledge
8. The War on Terror and the Growth of Executive Power?

   A Comparative Analysis

   Edited by John E Owens, Riccardo Pelizzo

   Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

   The 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington prompted a "global war on terror" that led to a significant shift in the balance of executive-legislative power in the United States towards the executive at the expense of the Congress. In this volume, seasoned scholars examine the extent to which...

   Published June 14th 2010 by Routledge
9. New Challenges for Stateless Nationalist and Regionalist Parties

   Edited by Eve Hepburn

   Throughout Europe, stateless nationalist and regionalist parties have moved from ‘niche’ actors in party systems to mainstream political players. No longer the ‘outsider’ in party politics, these parties have successfully entered government at the regional and state levels and many have been...

   Published June 29th 2010 by Routledge
10. Religion and Democratizations

    Edited by Jeffrey Haynes

    This book examines key debates on religion and democratization from three main perspectives: Religious traditions have core elements which are more or less conducive to democratization and democracy; Religious traditions may be multi-vocal – but at any moment there may be dominant voices more or...

    Published July 4th 2010 by Routledge
11. Israel at the Polls 2009

    Edited by Shmuel Sandler, Manfred Gerstenfeld, Hillel Frisch

    This book describes political and sociological developments in Israel before and after the February 2009 elections, alongside an analysis of electoral trends. It provides an effective analysis of contemporary political and sociological Israeli history. Rather than focusing narrowly on electoral...

    Published June 29th 2010 by Routledge
12. Defending Democracy and Securing Diversity

    Edited by Christian Leuprecht

    Old sergeants say, "we're here to defend democracy, not to practice it!" But are they right? The special mandate with which defence and security organizations are tasked imposes unique constraints with respect to the accommodation of diversity which differs from those faced by any other public or...

    Published July 15th 2010 by Routledge
13. Nationalism and Global Justice

    David Miller and His Critics

    Edited by Helder De Schutter, Ronald Tinnevelt

    Previously published as a special issue of the Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy, this collection brings together some of the most influential political contemporary philosophers to present a critical review of David Miller’s co-national priority thesis and give a state-of-the-art...

    Published July 15th 2010 by Routledge
14. Pathways from Ethnic Conflict

    Institutional Redesign in Divided Societies

    Edited by John Coakley

    Series: Routledge Studies in Nationalism and Ethnicity

    The book begins with an agenda-setting introduction which will provide an overview of the central question being addressed, such as the circumstances associated with the move towards a political settlement, the parameters of this settlement and the factors that have assisted in bringing it about....

    Published July 21st 2010 by Routledge