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1. The Politics of the Globalization of Law

   Getting from Rights to Justice

   Edited by Alison Brysk

   Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

   How does the globalization of law, the emergence of multiple and shifting venues of legal accountability, enhance or evade the fulfillment of international human rights? Alison Brysk’s edited volume aims to assess the institutional and political factors that determine the influence of the...

   Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
2. The Political Economy of the Conflict Trade

   Contextualising Illicit Miners and Informal Traders

   By Morten Boas

   Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

   The economies of conflict play a crucial part in motivating and sustaining the illicit extraction and trade of diamonds, coltan, gold and other natural resources from conflict zones in Sub-Saharan Africa. This book focuses on the political economy of life and death for ordinary people in extreme...

   Published March 27th 2013 by Routledge
3. India in South Asia

   Domestic Identity Politics and Foreign Policy from Nehru to the BJP

   By Sinderpal Singh

   Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

   South Asia is one of the most volatile regions of the world, and India’s complex democratic political system impinges on its relations with its South Asian neighbours. Focusing on this relationship, this book explores the extent to which domestic politics affect a country’s foreign policy. The book...

   Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
4. Peacebuilding and International Administration

   The Cases of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo

   By Niels van Willigen

   Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

   This book provides a detailed historical and political analysis of the role and effectiveness of international administration in statebuilding. It analyses how the international administrations in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo have attempted to create sustainable political institutions and to...

   Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
5. The Promise and Perils of Transnationalization

   NGO Activism and the Socialization of Women’s Human Rights in Egypt and Iran

   By Benjamin Stachursky

   Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

   To date, most constructivist international relations studies have characterized the influence of transnationalism on domestic forms of activism as uniformly positive. In particular, transnational interactions are viewed as positive factors for the development and daily impact of gender activism....

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
6. World-Regional Social Policy and Global Governance

   New research and policy agendas in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America

   Edited by Bob Deacon, Maria Cristina Macovei, Luk Van Langenhove, Nicola Yeates

   Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

   This volume explores the case for and the prospects of the development of world-regional social policies as integral elements of a pluralistic, equitable and effective system of global governance. Focusing on transnational regionalism, this book examines the trajectory and crossing over of the...

   Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
7. Caribbean Sovereignty, Development and Democracy in an Age of Globalization

   Edited by Linden Lewis

   Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

   Many of the nations of the Caribbean that have become independent states have maintained as a central, organizing, nationalist principle the importance in the beliefs of the ideals of sovereignty, democracy, and development. Yet in recent years, political instability, the relative size of...

   Published December 12th 2012 by Routledge
8. Genocide, Ethnonationalism, and the United Nations

   Exploring the Causes of Mass Killing Since 1945

   By Hannibal Travis

   Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

   Genocide, Ethnonationalism, and the United Nations examines a series of related crises in human civilization growing out of conflicts between powerful states or empires and indigenous or stateless peoples. This is the first book to attempt to explore the causes of genocide and other mass killing by...

   Published December 11th 2012 by Routledge
9. Role Theory in International Relations

   Edited by Sebastian Harnisch, Cornelia Frank, Hanns W. Maull

   Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

   Role Theory in International Relations provides a comprehensive, up-to-date survey of recent theoretical scholarship on foreign policy roles and extensive empirical analysis of role behaviour of a variety of states in the current era of eroding American hegemony. Taking stock of the evolution of...

   Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge
10. Anglo-American Relations

    Contemporary Perspectives

    Edited by Steve Marsh, Alan Dobson

    Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

    This book provides an examination of contemporary Anglo-American relations. Anglo-American relations, sometimes controversially referred to as the Special Relationship, constitute arguably the most important bilateral relationship of modern times. Yet in recent years, there have been frequent...

    Published November 28th 2012 by Routledge