Politics & International Relations Handbooks

New and Published Handbooks

1. Routledge Handbook of International Statebuilding

   Edited by David Chandler, Timothy D. Sisk

   This new Handbook offers a combination of theoretical, thematic and empirical analyses of the statebuilding regime, written by leading international scholars. Over the past decade, international statebuilding has become one of the most important and least understood areas of international...

   Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
2. Routledge Handbook of African Politics

   Edited by Nic Cheeseman, David Anderson, Andrea Scheibler

   Providing a comprehensive and cutting edge examination of this important continent, Routledge Handbook of African Politics surveys the key debates and controversies, dealing with each of the major issues to be found in Africa’s politics today. Structured into 6 broad areas, the handbook features...

   Published March 7th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Routledge Companion to Public-Private Partnerships

   Edited by Piet de Vries, Etienne B. Yehoue

   Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

   A public-private partnership (PPP) is a contractual arrangement with appropriate risk sharing between public and private partners for the delivery of public infrastructure or services, which is intended to create value-for-money to the taxpayer. The Routledge Companion to Public-Private...

   Published February 25th 2013 by Routledge
4. The Routledge Handbook of Terrorism Research

   Edited by Alex Schmid

   This major new Handbook synthesises more than two decades of scholarly research, and provides a comprehensive overview of the field of terrorism studies. The content of the Handbook is based on the responses to a questionnaire by nearly 100 experts from more than 20 countries as well as the...

   Published February 25th 2013 by Routledge
5. Routledge Handbook of Modern Israel

   Edited by Alain Dieckhoff

   Israel is a country made up of contradictions. A lively democracy in a multicultural society but within a state promoting a strong national identity; a thriving economy in an unequal society; a culture open to modern trends but drawing on the Hebrew past and preoccupied with the Holocaust and the...

   Published February 17th 2013 by Routledge
6. Routledge Handbook of American Foreign Policy

   Edited by Steven W. Hook, Christopher M. Jones

   No nation has maintained such an immense stature in world politics as the United States has since the Cold War’s end. In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, prompting the global war on terrorism and the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, along with American economic and "soft power" primacy, there...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
7. Routledge Handbook of Major Events in Economic History

   Edited by Randall Parker, Robert Whaples

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   The Handbook of Major Events in Economic History aims to introduce readers to the important macroeconomic events of the past two hundred years. The chapters endeavour to explain what went on and why during the most significant economic epochs of the nineteenth, twentieth and early...

   Published January 27th 2013 by Routledge
8. Routledge Handbook of Peacebuilding

   Edited by Roger Mac Ginty

   This new Routledge Handbook offers a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the meanings and uses of the term ‘peacebuilding’, and presents cutting-edge debates on the practices conducted in the name of peacebuilding. The term ‘peacebuilding’ has had remarkable staying power. Other terms,...

   Published January 21st 2013 by Routledge
9. Routledge Handbook of Indian Politics

   Edited by Atul Kohli, Prerna Singh

   India’s growing economic and socio-political importance on the global stage has triggered an increased interest in the country. This Handbook is a reference guide, which surveys the current state of Indian politics and provides a basic understanding of the ways in which the world’s largest...

   Published December 26th 2012 by Routledge
10. Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology

    Edited by Nigel South, Avi Brisman

    Series: Routledge International Handbooks

    Academic and general interest in environmental crimes, harms, and threats, as well as in environmental legislation and regulation, has grown sharply in recent years. The Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology is the most in-depth and comprehensive volume on these issues to date....

    Published December 19th 2012 by Routledge