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New and Published Books

  1. Law, Rights and Ideology in Russia

    Landmarks in the Destiny of a Great Power

    By Bill Bowring

    Law, Rights and Ideology in Russia: Landmarks in the destiny of a great power brings into sharp focus several key episodes in Russia’s vividly ideological engagement with law and rights. Drawing on 30 years of experience of consultancy and teaching in many regions of Russia and on library research...

    Published April 4th 2013 by Routledge

  2. Land and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

    Edited by Jon Unruh, Rhodri Williams

    Series: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and Natural Resource Management

    Claims to land and territory are often a cause of conflict, and land issues present some of the most contentious problems for post-conflict peacebuilding. Among the land-related problems that emerge during and after conflict are the exploitation of land-based resources in the absence of authority,...

    Published April 4th 2013 by Routledge

  3. The Fugitive Identity of Mediation

    Negotiations, Shift Changes and Allusionary Action

    By Debbie De Girolamo

    Despite much having been written about what mediation is, direct observations of commercial mediations are limited. This book grants an opportunity to observe mediation in action and also provides external commentary about the actions observed. The book approaches Mediation ethnographically as a...

    Published April 4th 2013 by Routledge

  4. Ethnic Cleansing

    A Legal Qualification

    By Clotilde Pegorier

    This book confronts the problem of the legal uncertainty surrounding the definition and classification of ethnic cleansing, exploring whether the use of the term ethnic cleansing constitutes a valuable contribution to legal understanding and praxis. The premise underlying this book is that acts of...

    Published April 4th 2013 by Routledge

  5. Social Protection in Developing Countries

    Reforming Systems

    Edited by Katja Bender, Markus Kaltenborn, Christian Pfleiderer

    Series: Routledge Explorations in Development Studies

    Providing universal access to social protection and health systems for all members of society, including the poor and vulnerable, is increasingly considered crucial to international development debates. This is the first book to explore from an interdisciplinary and global perspective the reforms...

    Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge

  6. Thinking through Landscape

    By Augustin Berque

    Our attitude to nature has changed over time. This book explores the historical, literary and philosophical origins of the changes in our attitude to nature that allowed environmental catastrophes to happen. It presents a philosophical reflection on human societies’ attitude to the environment,...

    Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge

  7. The Europeanisation of Contract Law

    Current Controversies in Law, 2nd Edition

    By Christian Twigg-Flesner

    A process of Europeanising contract law has been driven by the legislative activity of the European Union (EU), which has adopted a string of Directives touching on various aspects of contract law, mainly consumer law. Many of these Directives have dealt with a fairly isolated aspect of...

    Published April 2nd 2013 by Routledge

  8. European Union Law

    3rd Edition

    By Alina Kaczorowska

    Fully revised and updated, the third edition of EU Law provides an exhaustive, yet easily readable, account of the complex and ever changing subject of EU law. The author gives thorough, authoritative, and up-to-the-minute treatment to the institutional, constitutional and substantive elements of...

    Published April 2nd 2013 by Routledge

  9. Intellectual Property Rights in Contemporary Capitalism

    Edited by Birgitte Andersen

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

    This book is a timely contribution to an important debate on the increased, changed or new scope of Intellectual Property Rights in the light of Contemporary Capitalism. How the expanded or pushed Intellectual Property Rights domain encourages an individual and corporate self-interest over...

    Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge

  10. The Criminology of Pleasure

    By Mike McGuire, Simon Hallsworth

    The Criminology of Pleasure offers a new way of thinking about crime and crime control, as it maintains that the very rationale of the criminal justice system lies in the channelling of desire and regulating of pleasure. Criminology has only confronted the importance of the desire/pleasure...

    Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge-Cavendish

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Forthcoming Books

  1. Governing Sustainable Urban Renewal: Partnerships in Action
    By Rory Shand
    To Be Published April 7th 2013
  2. Deleuze & Guattari: Emergent Law
    By Jamie Murray
    To Be Published April 9th 2013
  3. Texts and Materials on International Human Rights, 3rd Edition
    By Rhona K.M. Smith
    To Be Published April 9th 2013
  4. Energy and Electricity in Industrial Nations: The Sociology and Technology of Energy
    By Allan Mazur
    To Be Published April 10th 2013
  5. Colonialism, Slavery, Reparations and Trade: Remedying the 'Past'?
    Edited by Fernne Brennan, John Packer
    To Be Published April 11th 2013

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