Politics and International Relations Research and Scholarly 2013

New & Forthcoming Titles

Welcome to the 2013 Politics & International Relations Research and Scholarly Catalog

This catalog contains key research texts, from new and established authors. From edited collections such as our Routledge Handbooks providing comprehensive coverage of entire topics, to research texts for undergraduate and postgraduate courses, you will find whatever you need to further your own research, challenge your students, and provide essential reference materials for your institutional library.

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A selection of key titles include:
  1. Routledge Handbook of Ethics and War

    Just War Theory in the 21st Century

    Edited by Fritz Allhoff, Nicholas G. Evans, Adam Henschke

    Series: Routledge International Handbooks

    This new Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of contemporary extensions and alternatives to the just war tradition in the field of the ethics of war. The modern history of just war has typically assumed the primacy of four particular elements: jus ad bellum, jus in bello, the state actor, and...

    To Be Published June 4th 2013 by Routledge

  2. Security

    International Society, Democracy & Insecurity

    By Jef Huysmans

    Series: Critical Issues in Global Politics

    This book introduces students to the central concepts in security studies and one of the most important issues in international relations. Jef Huysmans: explains recent conceptual and theoretical developments in security studies introduces contemporary security questions and changes in dominant...

    To Be Published September 30th 2013 by Routledge

  3. The Dual System of Privacy Rights in the United States

    By Mary McThomas

    Series: Law, Courts and Politics

    Theoretically, the right to privacy is an individual’s right to space away from the public gaze to make life choices that are best for her or him, regardless of the beliefs of the majority. Yet the right to privacy in the United States has proven problematic for both political theorists and...

    Published December 12th 2012 by Routledge

  4. U.S.-Venezuela Relations since the 1990s

    Coping with Midlevel Security Threats

    By Javier Corrales, Carlos A. Romero

    Series: Contemporary Inter-American Relations

    Oil makes up one-third of Venezuela's entire GDP, and the United States is far and away Venezuela's largest trading partner. Relations between Venezuela and the United States, traditionally close for most of the last two centuries, began to fray as the end of the Cold War altered the international...

    Published October 4th 2012 by Routledge

  5. Denmark and the European Union

    Edited by Anders Wivel, Lee Miles

    Series: Europe and the Nation State

    This book offers an accessible, coherent and comprehensive analysis of the recent, contemporary and future challenges and possibilities facing Denmark in the European integration process. The book traces the formal as well as the informal ways of influence and adaptation in Denmark’s relations...

    To Be Published July 17th 2013 by Routledge

  6. European integration and consensus politics in the Low Countries

    Edited by Hans Vollaard, Jan Beyers, Patrick Dumont

    Series: Europe and the Nation State

    Much of the empirical research on Europeanization that has mainly focused on the larger member states, and tends to ignore that most Europeans live in small states and that most of the EU member-states are small states. This book investigates how the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, respond...

    To Be Published June 29th 2013 by Routledge

  7. The Official History of Britain and the European Community, Vol. II

    From Rejection to Referendum, 1963-1975

    By Stephen Wall

    Series: Government Official History Series

    This is the second volume in The Official History of Britain and the European Community, and describes the events from 1963 up until the British referendum on the Common Market in 1975. In 1963, General de Gaulle dashed Prime Minister Macmillan’s hopes of taking Britain into the European...

    Published July 1st 2012 by Routledge

  8. Russian Imperialism Revisited

    Neo-Empire, State Interests and Hegemonic Power

    By Domitilla Sagramoso

    Series: Contemporary Security Studies

    By examining Russia’s military, economic, political, and diplomatic policies towards the former Soviet states since 1991, this book assesses whether Russian leaders have been able to discard the country’s imperial legacy....

    To Be Published October 30th 2013 by Routledge