International Politics Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. Mythology, Globalization and World Order

   Power, and Deception in the Global Political Economy

   By Mark Bailey

   Series: Rethinking Globalizations

   This book investigates the role that myth plays in constructing and legitimating forms of world order. Using a combination of political philosophy, anthropology, Jungian depth psychology, and IPE approaches, the book demonstrates why theorisation of the role of myth within the discourses of...

   Published March 30th 2013 by Routledge
3. Democratic Transitions

   Modes and Outcomes

   By Gary A Stradiotto, Sujian Guo

   Series: Democratization Studies

   The core research questions were driven by a common theme—what makes democracies succeed and/or fail and does the mode of transition influence the quality of democracy and the longevity or durability of democracy? The transition literature falls short in creating generalizable conclusions about the...

   Published March 30th 2013 by Routledge
4. Deprovincializing Habermas

   Global Perspectives

   Edited by Tom Bailey

   Series: Ethics, Human Rights and Global Political Thought

   This volume engages with Jürgen Habermas’s political theory from critical perspectives, beyond its Western European origins. In particular, it explores the neglected challenges of democratizing, decolonizing and desecularizing his theory for global contexts, and proposes its ‘deprovincializing’...

   Published March 30th 2013 by Routledge India
5. Asia’s Power Dynamics

   Military Change and its Geopolitical Effects

   By Desmond Ball, Raja Mohan, Tim Huxley, Adam Ward

   Series: Adelphi series

   This Adelphi examines defence procurement in Asia against a backdrop of the region’s fragmented security infrastructure. The overlapping alliances, multilateral bodies and regional dialogues are ill-equipped to respond to the changing balance of power, since there is no unified forum through which...

   Published March 29th 2013 by Routledge
6. The Arab Spring

   Critical Analyses

   Edited by Khair Haseeb

   This volume provides a wealth of in-depth, country-specific analyses of the Arab Spring, in addition to works that examine the larger theoretical framework and socio-political implications of events. Unlike other analyses, often from the perspective of Western scholarship from the outside looking...

   Published March 28th 2013 by Routledge
7. The Political Economy of the Conflict Trade

   Contextualising Illicit Miners and Informal Traders

   By Morten Boas

   Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

   The economies of conflict play a crucial part in motivating and sustaining the illicit extraction and trade of diamonds, coltan, gold and other natural resources from conflict zones in Sub-Saharan Africa. This book focuses on the political economy of life and death for ordinary people in extreme...

   Published March 27th 2013 by Routledge
8. Climate Change Negotiations

   A Guide to Resolving Disputes and Facilitating Multilateral Cooperation

   Edited by Gunnar Sjöstedt, Ariel Macaspac Penetrante

   As the Kyoto Protocol limps along without the participation of the US and Australia, on-going climate negotiations are plagued by competing national and business interests that are creating stumbling blocks to success. Climate Change Negotiations: A Guide to Resolving Disputes and Facilitating...

   Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
9. Ballistic Missile Defence and US National Security Policy

   Normalisation and acceptance after the Cold War

   By Andrew Futter

   Series: Routledge Global Security Studies

   This book examines the transformation in US thinking about the role of Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) in national security policy since the end of the Cold War. The evolution of the BMD debate after the Cold War has been complex, complicated and punctuated. As this book shows, the debate and...

   Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
10. Ideas to Die For

    The Cosmopolitan Challenge

    By Giles Gunn

    Series: Global Horizons

    Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents seeks to address the kinds of challenges that cosmopolitan perspectives and practices face in a world organized increasingly in relation to a proliferating series of global absolutisms – religious, political, social, and economic. While these challenges are often...

    Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge