International Relations Books

New and Published Books

1. Battlestar Galactica and International Relations

   Edited by Nicholas Kiersey, Iver Neumann

   Series: Popular Culture and World Politics

   Looking at a television franchise like Battlestar Galactica (BSG) is no longer news within the discipline of International Relations. A growing number of scholars in and out of IR are studying the importance of cultural artifacts – popular or otherwise – for the phenomena that make up the core of...

   Published January 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. India’s National Security

   Annual Review 2012

   Edited by Satish Kumar

   Published January 30th 2013 by Routledge India
3. History Textbooks and the Wars in Asia

   Divided Memories

   Edited by Gi-Wook Shin, Daniel C. Sneider

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

   Over the past fifteen years Northeast Asia has witnessed growing intraregional exchanges and interactions, especially in the realms of culture and economy. Still, the region cannot escape from the burden of history. This book examines the formation of historical memory in four Northeast Asian...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
4. Turkey between Nationalism and Globalization

   Edited by Riva Kastoryano

   Series: Global Order Studies

   Turkish society has been going through institutional and ideological change that has affected its social, cultural and political practices. This book examines these contemporary tensions, which have led to a re-appraisal of Turkey as a nation and Turkish nationalism as it tries to situate itself as...

   Published January 24th 2013 by Routledge
5. Routledge Handbook of Peacebuilding

   Edited by Roger Mac Ginty

   This new Routledge Handbook offers a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the meanings and uses of the term ‘peacebuilding’, and presents cutting-edge debates on the practices conducted in the name of peacebuilding. The term ‘peacebuilding’ has had remarkable staying power. Other terms,...

   Published January 23rd 2013 by Routledge
6. Towards International Government (Routledge Revivals)

   By J.A. Hobson

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1915, Towards International Government considers the consequences of war for global diplomacy and the alliance system. Hobson argues that, to reduce armaments and the possibility of another world war, an organisational structure of international government must be put into place....

   Published January 23rd 2013 by Routledge
7. Oil and World Power (Routledge Revivals)

   By Peter Odell

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   The oil industry is the world’s largest commercial enterprise. Its extent is global; international issues are consistently influenced by considerations of oil production and consumption, while the international communications networks of the larger oil companies rival those of many nations. In this...

   Published January 23rd 2013 by Routledge
8. The Politics of Exile

   By Elizabeth Dauphinee

   Series: Interventions

   Written in both autoethnographical and narrative form, The Politics of Exile offers unique insight into the complex encounter of researcher with research subject in the context of the Bosnian War and its aftermath. Exploring themes of personal and civilizational guilt, of displaced and fractured...

   Published January 22nd 2013 by Routledge
9. New Agendas in Statebuilding

   Hybridity, Contingency and History

   Edited by Robert Egnell, Peter Haldén

   Series: Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding

   This volume connects the study of statebuilding to broader aspects of social theory and the historical study of the state, bringing forth new questions and starting-points, both academically and practically, for the field. Building states has become a highly prioritized issue in international...

   Published January 16th 2013 by Routledge
10. The NGO Factor in Africa

    The Case of Arrested Development in Kenya

    By Maurice N. Amutabi

    Series: African Studies

    The book breaks new ground in understanding the role of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Africa. The book historicizes NGOs using the Rockefeller Foundation as a case study, looking at its tripartite paradoxical roles as an agent of colonialism, globalization and development/...

    Published January 10th 2013 by Routledge