Security Studies - Pol & Intl Relns 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. Democracy and Terrorism

   Friend or Foe?

   By Leonard Weinberg

   Series: Political Violence

   This book examines the relationships between democratic government and political terrorism. Since the 9/11 attacks, the United States and many of its allies have declared a ‘war on terrorism’. This struggle has been inspired in part by the belief is that by promoting democracy they will also bring...

   Published January 30th 2013 by Routledge
3. India’s National Security

   Annual Review 2012

   Edited by Satish Kumar

   Published January 30th 2013 by Routledge India
4. Abandoned Japanese in Postwar Manchuria

   The Lives of War Orphans and Wives in Two Countries

   By Yeeshan Chan

   Series: Japan Anthropology Workshop Series

   This book relates the experiences of the zanryu-hojin - the Japanese civilians, mostly women and children, who were abandoned in Manchuria after the end of the Second World War when Japan’s puppet state in Manchuria ended, and when most Japanese who has been based there returned to Japan. Many...

   Published January 28th 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. History Education and Post-Conflict Reconciliation

   Reconsidering Joint Textbook Projects

   Edited by Karina Korostelina, Simone Lässig

   Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

   This book analyses the role of history education in conflict and post-conflict societies, describing common history textbook projects in Europe, the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Far East and the Middle East. Ever since the emergence of the modern school system and the implementation of compulsory...

   Published January 17th 2013 by Routledge
7. An International History of Terrorism

   Western and Non-Western Experiences

   Edited by Jussi M. Hanhimäki, Bernhard Blumenau

   Series: Political Violence

   The aim of this book is to provide readers with the tools to understand the historical evolution of terrorism and counterterrorism over the past 150 years. In order to appreciate the contemporary challenges posed by terrorism it is necessary to look at its evolution, at the different phases it has...

   Published January 16th 2013 by Routledge
8. 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
9. Utopia and Terror in Contemporary American Fiction

   By Judie Newman

   Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

   This book examines the quest for/failure of Utopia across a range of contemporary American/transnational fictions in relation to terror and globalization through authors such as Susan Choi, André Dubus, Dalia Sofer, and John Updike. While recent critical thinkers have reengaged with Utopia, the...

   Published January 15th 2013 by Routledge
10. Identity, Reconciliation and Transitional Justice

    Overcoming Intractability in Divided Societies

    By Nevin Aiken

    Series: Transitional Justice

    Building upon an interdisciplinary synthesis of recent literature from the fields of transitional justice and conflict transformation, this book introduces a groundbreaking theoretical framework that highlights the critical importance of identity in the relationship between transitional justice and...

    Published January 15th 2013 by Routledge