Politics & International Relations Books

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. 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
4. Memory, Conflict and New Media

   Web Wars in Post-Socialist States

   Edited by Ellen Rutten, Julie Fedor, Vera Zvereva

   Series: Media, War and Security

   This book examines the online memory wars in post-Soviet states – where political conflicts take the shape of heated debates about the recent past, and especially World War II and Soviet socialism. To this day, former socialist states face the challenge of constructing national identities,...

   Published April 3rd 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. 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
7. Landscape and Memory in Post-Fascist Italian Film

   Cinema Year Zero

   By Giuliana Minghelli

   Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

   This study argues that neorealism’s visual genius is inseparable from its almost invisible relation to the Fascist past: a connection inscribed in cinematic landscapes. While largely a silent narrative, neorealism’s complex visual processing of two decades of Fascism remains the greatest cultural...

   Published April 2nd 2013 by Routledge
8. Rethinking the French New Right

   Alternatives to Modernity

   By Tamir Bar-On

   Series: Extremism and Democracy

   This book focuses on the philosophy, politics and impact of the 'New Right' which originated in France and has since influenced activism, ideology and policy in a number of European countries. This book explores the idea that revolutionaries do not necessarily need to come from the left, nor...

   Published April 2nd 2013 by Routledge
9. Justice, Order and Anarchy

   The International Political Theory of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

   By Alex Prichard

   Series: New International Relations

   This book provides a contextual account of the first anarchist theory of war and peace, and sheds new light on our contemporary understandings of anarchy in International Relations. Although anarchy is arguably the core concept of the discipline of international relations, scholarship has largely...

   Published April 1st 2013 by Routledge
10. Transformational Diplomacy after the Cold War

    Britain’s Know How Fund in Post-Communist Europe, 1989-2003

    By Keith Hamilton

    Series: Whitehall Histories

    This book examines the 'Know How Fund', Britain’s bilateral technical assistance programme in post-communist central and eastern Europe, devised in response to the end of the Cold War. The Know How Fund (KHF) was the technical assistance programme which Margaret Thatcher’s government launched in...

    Published April 1st 2013 by Routledge