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Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

New & Published Titles:

Politics and Globalisation

Knowledge, Ethics and Agency

By Martin Shaw

Globalisation is widely understood as a set of processes driven by technological, economic and cultural change. Few have successfully defined the changing character and…

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1999 | Hardback: 978-0-415-20698-3 (Routledge)

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History and International Relations

By Thomas W. Smith

This book is a major contribution to the debate about philosophy and method in history and international relations. The author analyses IR scholarship from classical…

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1999 | Hardback: 978-0-415-17865-5 (Routledge)

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Peace Maintenance

The Evolution of International Political Economy

By Jarat Chopra

Peace-Maintenance explores the controversial concept that has evolved from diplomatic peacekeeping and military peace-enforcement. Jarat Chopra, the architect of peace-maintenance, outlines the limitations of traditional…

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1998 | Hardback: 978-0-415-19483-9 (Routledge)

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Equivalence in Comparative Politics

Edited by Jan van Deth

This book tackles the issues involved and explores strategies to deal with many of the problems of establishing equivalence. Each contribution focuses on a theoretically…

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1998 | Hardback: 978-0-415-19245-3 (Routledge)

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The Political Economy of Regional Cooperation in the Middle East

By Ali Carkoglu, Mine Eder, Kemal Kirisci

This book explores the current anatomy of regional cooperation and why it has often failed to take hold. It offers an alternative view of politics…

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1998 | Hardback: 978-0-415-19445-7 (Routledge)

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International Relations and Historical Sociology

Breaking Down Boundaries

By Stephen Hobden

This book provides an original analysis of recent work by key historical sociologists through the prism of International Relations. Stephen Hobden investigates the number of…

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1998 | Hardback: 978-0-415-18539-4 (Routledge)

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The Politics of Central Banks

By Robert Elgie, Helen Thompson

This book is a study of power. In particular, it is a study of governmental power in Britain and France. Its focus is the changing…

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1998 | Hardback: 978-0-415-14422-3 (Routledge)

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Agency, Structure and International Politics

From Ontology to Empirical Inquiry

By Gil Friedman, Harvey Starr

The concepts of agency and structure are of increasing and defining importance to international relations and politics as fields of enquiry and knowledge. This is…

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1997 | Hardback: 978-0-415-15259-4 (Routledge)

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Foreign Policy and Discourse Analysis

France, Britain and Europe

By Henrik Larsen

Henrik Larsen presents discourse analysis as an alternative approach to foreign policy analysis. Through an extensive empirical study of British and French policies towards Europe…

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1997 | Hardback: 978-0-415-15976-0 (Routledge)

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Forthcoming Titles:

Superpower Rivalry and Conflict: The Long Shadow of the Cold War on the 21st Century
Edited by Chandra Chari
To be published December 3rd 2009

Coping and Conformity in World Politics
By Hugh C. Dyer
To be published December 15th 2009

The World Bank, Civil Society and HIV/AIDS: Setting a Global Agenda
By Sophie Harman
To be published December 16th 2009

International Relations Theory and Philosophy: Interpretive dialogues
Edited by Cerwyn Moore, Chris Farrands
To be published January 4th 2010

Defining and Defying Organised Crime: Discourse, Perceptions and Reality
Edited by Felia Allum, Francesca Longo, Daniela Irrera, Panos Kostakos
To be published February 17th 2010

The EU-Russia Strategic Partnership: The Limits of Post-Sovereignty in International Relations
By Hiski Haukkala
To be published February 18th 2010

Federalism in Asia: India, Pakistan and Malaysia
By Harihar Bhattacharyya
To be published February 18th 2010

The "War on Terror" and the Growth of Executive Power?: A Comparative Analysis
Edited by John E. Owens, Riccardo Pelizzo
To be published April 12th 2010

The Political Economy of the Conflict Trade: Contextualising Illicit Miners and Informal Traders
By Morten Boas
To be published June 30th 2010

Corporate Security, Terrorism and Risk
By Karen Lund Petersen
To be published June 30th 2010

The Virtues of War
By Anthony Coates
To be published June 30th 2010