International Relations Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. Armed Conflicts in South Asia 2012

   Uneasy Stasis and Fragile Peace

   Edited by D. Suba Chandran, P. R. Chari

   Sixth in the annual series, this volume examines the major trends in armed conflicts in South Asia during 2011, efforts towards conflict management undertaken by the State and their effectiveness, as also the road ahead. While focusing on the burning issues within the region, the volume looks into...

   Published April 1st 2013 by Routledge India
5. Human Trafficking

   Interdisciplinary Perspectives

   By Mary C. Burke

   Series: Criminology and Justice Studies

   The practice of one human being exploiting another in slavery-like conditions is not new. Today, it is called human trafficking. Social, political, and economic forces over the past 60 years have changed how and why this human rights abuse occurs. In order to solve this or any social problem, it is...

   Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
6. EU-Japan Relations, 1970-2012

   From Confrontation to Global Partnership

   Edited by Jörn Keck, Dimitri Vanoverbeke, Franz Waldenberger

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

   This book presents a comprehensive overview of EU-Japan relations from 1970 to the present. It charts developments over the period, analyses key specific areas of importance to the relationship, and concludes by assessing how the relationship is likely to develop going forward. Throughout, the book...

   Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
7. 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
8. 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
9. Politics and the Art of Commemoration

   Memorials to struggle in Latin America and Spain

   By Katherine Hite

   Series: Interventions

   Memorials are proliferating throughout the globe. States recognize the political value of memorials: memorials can convey national unity, a sense of overcoming violent legacies, a commitment to political stability or the strengthening of democracy. Memorials represent fitful negotiations between...

   Published March 29th 2013 by Routledge
10. 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