Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

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1. Superpower Rivalry and Conflict

   The Long Shadow of the Cold War on the 21st Century

   Edited by Chandra Chari

   Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

   Variously described by historians and thinkers as the ‘most terrible century in Western history’, ‘a century of massacres and wars’ and the ‘most violent century in human history’, the 20th century – and in particular the period between the First World War and the collapse of the USSR – forms a...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
2. Environmental Change and Foreign Policy

   Theory and Practice

   Edited by Paul G. Harris

   Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

   Environmental Change and Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice and its companion volume, Climate Change and Foreign Policy: Case Studies from East to West, examine and explain the role of foreign policy politics, processes and institutions in efforts to protect the environment and natural resources....

   Published March 30th 2012 by Routledge
3. Globalizing Resistance against War

   Theories of Resistance and the New Anti-War Movement

   By Tiina Seppälä

   Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

   The political revival of the anti-war movement after 9/11 launched a controversial debate on global resistance. Through detailed study of the anti-war movement in Britain, this book critically evaluates the theoretical debate from the perspective of ‘critical theory in political practice’. This...

   Published March 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. The World Bank and HIV/AIDS

   Setting a global agenda

   By Sophie Harman

   Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

   The governance of the HIV/AIDS pandemic has come to represent a multi-faceted and complex operation in which the World Bank has set and sustained the global agenda for by the World Bank. The governance of HIV/ AIDS. Through economic incentive they have restructured the is a political foundations of...

   Published February 27th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Power of Ideology

   From the Roman Empire to Al-Qaeda

   By Alex Roberto Hybel

   Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

   Since the Roman Empire, leaders have used ideology to organize the masses and instil amongst them a common consciousness, and equally to conquer, assimilate, or repel alternative ideologies. Ideology has been used to help create, safeguard, expand, or tear down political communities, states,...

   Published February 27th 2012 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 February 27th 2012 by Routledge
7. The Contested Politics of Mobility

   Borderzones and Irregularity

   Edited by Vicki Squire

   Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

   Irregular migration has emerged as an issue of intensive political debate and governmental practice over recent years. Critically intervening in debates around the governing of irregular migration, The Contested Politics of Mobility explores the politics of mobility through what is defined as an...

   Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
8. Peacebuilding and International Administration

   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 state-building. It features detailed case studies on Bosnia and Kosovo in a comparative context....

   Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
9. Coping and Conformity in World Politics

   By Hugh C. Dyer

   Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

   Conformity is a common coping strategy for dealing with stresses in political situations, as well a strategy for dealing with the lack of agreed foundations. This work introduces the conceptual frameworks of coping and conformity to provide a new analysis of the ethical and political demands of...

   Published December 29th 2011 by Routledge
10. Party Systems and Voter Alignments Revisited

    Edited by Lauri Karvonen, Stein Kuhnle

    Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

    This timely book updates, and takes stock of, Lipset and Rokkan's classic work Party Systems and Voter Alignments: Cross-National Perspectives, an influential work since its publication in 1967. It examines the significance of the original volume for the history of political sociology, and assesses...

    Published November 28th 2011 by Routledge