Forthcoming Politics & International Relations Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Governing Sustainable Urban Renewal

   Partnerships in Action

   By Rory Shand

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies

   Environmental and sustainability issues are currently stretched by economic concerns and policy areas such as housing and education are therefore needed more than ever to help regenerate the social and urban environment. Governing Sustainable Urban Renewal: Partnerships in Action uses detailed case...

   To Be Published April 7th 2013 by Routledge
2. Reconfiguring Ethiopia: The Politics of Authoritarian Reform

   Edited by Jon Abbink, Tobias Hagmann

   This book takes stock of political reform in Ethiopia and the transformation of Ethiopian society since the adoption of multi-party politics and ethnic federalism in 1991. Decentralization, attempted democratization via ethno-national representation, and partial economic liberalization have...

   To Be Published April 7th 2013 by Routledge
3. Interpretive Approaches to Global Climate Governance

   (De)constructing the Greenhouse

   Edited by Chris Methmann, Delf Rothe, Benjamin Stephan

   Series: Interventions

   Global climate change is perceived to be one of the biggest challenges for international politics in the 21st century. This work seeks to fuse a global governance perspective together with different interpretive approaches, offering a novel way of looking at international climate politics. Equipped...

   To Be Published April 8th 2013 by Routledge
4. War in International Society

   By Lacy Pejcinovic

   Series: New International Relations

   Is war an institution of international society and how is it constituted as such across the evolution of international society? This book is an inquiry into the purpose of war as a social institution, as originally put forward by Hedley Bull. It offers a comprehensive examination of what is...

   To Be Published April 8th 2013 by Routledge
5. Globalization and Development

   Rethinking Interventions and Governance

   Edited by Arne Bigsten

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

   The key challenge for achieving sustained development in developing countries relates to quality of domestic governance, which in turn is strongly affected by external interventions. Domestic governance includes politics, policy formulation, institution building and policy implementation. It is...

   To Be Published April 8th 2013 by Routledge
6. Re-Envisioning Global Development

   A Horizontal Perspective

   By Sandra Halperin

   Series: Critical Issues in Global Politics

   Re-Envisioning Global Development offers an original conceptualisation of capitalist development from its origins to the present day. Most approaches to understanding contemporary development assume that industrial capitalism was achieved through a process of nationally organised economic growth,...

   To Be Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge
7. Methodologies on the Move

   The Transnational Turn in Empirical Migration Research

   Edited by Anna Amelina, Thomas Faist, Devrimsel D. Nergiz

   Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

   This volume establishes a new agenda for approaches to migration research and the corresponding methodologies. A wide range of international contributors focus on the question of how to overcome the so-called 'methodological nationalism' within empirical studies on migration. They address two main...

   To Be Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge
8. Migrants, Borders and Global Capitalism

   West African Labour Mobility and EU Borders

   By Hannah Cross

   Series: Routledge Research on the Global Politics of Migration

   People from West Africa are risking their lives and surrendering their citizenship rights to enter exploitative labour markets in Europe. This book offers an explanation for this phenomenon that is based on close analysis of the contradictory economic and political agendas that create and constrain...

   To Be Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
9. Energy and Electricity in Industrial Nations

   The Sociology and Technology of Energy

   By Allan Mazur

   Energy is at the top of the list of environmental problems facing industrial society, and is arguably the one that has been handled least successfully, in part because politicians and the public do not understand the physical technologies, while the engineers and industrialists do not understand...

   To Be Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
10. Relational, Networked and Collaborative Approaches to Public Diplomacy

    The Connective Mindshift

    Edited by R.S. Zaharna, Amelia Arsenault, Ali Fisher

    Series: Routledge Studies in Global Information, Politics and Society

    Over the past decade, scholars, practitioners, and leading diplomats have forcefully argued for the need to move beyond one-way, mass-media-driven campaigns and develop more relational strategies. In the coming years, as the range of public diplomacy actors grows, the issues become more complexly...

    To Be Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge