Welcome to the 2012 Politics & International Relations Textbooks Catalog.
This catalog contains key textbooks and supplemental reading, from new and established authors. From edited collections such as our Routledge Handbooks providing comprehensive coverage of entire topics, to textbooks 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, available to request as examination copies, include:
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American Government
Political Development and Institutional Change, 6th Edition
To gain a fuller understanding of American politics today, students need to learn how it has evolved, from its founding principles to its contemporary practices. Such a perspective is crucial for making sense of the strategic and ideological battles in twenty-first century American politics. Cal...
Published February 7th 2011 by Routledge
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Texas Politics
Governing the Lone Star State, 3rd Edition
Approaching the politics of the Lone Star State from historical, developmental, and analytical perspectives, Cal Jillson's text avoids partisanship, ideology, and gimmicks to provide the most comprehensive, readable, and accurate brief description of Texas politics available today. Throughout the...
Published February 21st 2011 by Routledge
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Contemporary European Politics
A Comparative Introduction
In this important new introductory textbook, José Magone provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to contemporary European politics. The unification of the European continent since the Fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 and the collapse of communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe...
Published August 24th 2010 by Routledge
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The International Politics of the Asia Pacific
Third and Revised Edition
Series: Politics in Asia
This fully revised third edition of Michael Yahuda's extremely successful textbook brings the region fully up-to-date, introducing students to the international politics of the Asia-Pacific region since 1945. As well as assessing the post-Cold War uncertainties that challenged the balance and power...
Published January 30th 2011 by Routledge
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Libya
Continuity and Change
Series: The Contemporary Middle East
This book examines the socioeconomic and political development of Libya from earliest times to the present, concentrating in particular on the four decades of revolutionary rule which began in 1969. Focusing on the twin themes of continuity and change, Ronald Bruce St John emphasises the full...
Published February 24th 2011 by Routledge
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Global Politics
A New Introduction, 2nd Edition
The 2nd edition of Global Politics: A New Introduction continues to provide a completely original way of teaching and learning about world politics. The book engages directly with the issues in global politics that students are most interested in, helping them to understand the key questions and...
To Be Published July 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Introduction to Global Politics
2nd Edition
Fully revised and updated, the second edition of Introduction to Global Politics places an increased emphasis on the themes of continuity and change. It continues to explain global politics using an historical approach, firmly linking history with the events of today. By integrating theory&...
Published December 4th 2011 by Routledge
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War, Peace and International Relations
An introduction to strategic history, 2nd Edition
War, Peace and International Relations provides an introduction to the strategic history of the past two centuries, showing how those 200 years were shaped and reshaped extensively by war. The book takes a broad view of what was relevant to the causes, courses, and consequences of wars. Written by...
Published October 20th 2011 by Routledge
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International Relations Theory
A Critical Introduction, 3rd Edition
The third edition of this innovative textbook introduces students to the main theories in international relations. It explains and analyzes each theory, allowing students to understand and critically engage with the myths and assumptions behind them. Each theory is illustrated using the example of...
Published September 3rd 2009 by Routledge
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The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations
Philosophy of Science and Its Implications for the Study of World Politics
Series: New International Relations
There are many different scientifically valid ways to produce knowledge. The field of International Relations should pay closer attention to these methodological differences, and to their implications for concrete research on world politics. The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations...
Published July 13th 2010 by Routledge
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Security Studies
An Introduction, 2nd Edition
Security Studies is the most comprehensive textbook available on security studies. Comprehensively revised for the new edition including new chapters on Polarity, Culture, Intelligence, and the Academic and Policy Worlds, it continues to give students a detailed overview of the major...
Published April 10th 2012 by Routledge
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Security Studies
A Reader
This reader brings together key contributions from many of the leading scholars in the field, offering students an informed overview of the most significant work in security studies. The editors chart the development of the key theoretical and empirical debates in security studies in the Cold War...
Published February 17th 2011 by Routledge
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Peace and Conflict Studies
A Reader
Peace and Conflict Studies: A Reader is a comprehensive and intensive introduction to the key works in this growing field. Presenting a range of theories, methodologies, and approaches to understanding peace and to transforming conflict, this edited volume contains both classic and cutting-edge...
Published December 13th 2011 by Routledge
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Terrorism Versus Democracy
The Liberal State Response, 3rd Edition
Series: Political Violence
This book examines the terrorist networks that operate globally and analyses the long-term future of terrorism and terrorist-backed insurgencies. Terrorism remains a serious problem for the international community. The global picture does not indicate that the ‘war on terror’, which President...
Published January 26th 2011 by Routledge
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Genocide
A Comprehensive Introduction, 2nd Edition
Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction is the most wide-ranging textbook on genocide yet published. The book is designed as a text for upper-undergraduate and graduate students, as well as a primer for non-specialists and general readers interested in learning about one of humanity’s enduring...
Published August 30th 2010 by Routledge
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Centuries of Genocide
Essays and Eyewitness Accounts, 4th Edition
The fourth edition of Centuries of Genocide: Essays and Eyewitness Accounts addresses examples of genocides perpetrated in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Each chapter of the book is written by a recognized expert in the field, collectively demonstrating a wide range of...
Published August 13th 2012 by Routledge
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New Directions in Public Opinion
Series: New Directions in American Politics
The field of public opinion is one of the most diverse in political science. Over the last 60 years, scholars have drawn upon the disciplines of psychology, economics, sociology, and even biology to learn how ordinary people come to understand the complicated business of politics. But much of the...
Published August 22nd 2011 by Routledge
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Analyzing Public Policy
2nd Edition
Series: Routledge Textbooks in Policy Studies
The fully revised and updated new edition of this textbook continues to provide the most accessible overview of the main approaches in the study of public policy. It seeks to review the most common and widely used frameworks in the study of policy analysis: institutions groups and networks...
Published February 1st 2012 by Routledge
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Modern Military Strategy
An Introduction
This textbook provides a coherent introduction to post-Cold War and post-9/11 military theory for upper-level students seeking an initial understanding of strategic studies. In the contemporary period there has been significant and growing interest among students about international security issues...
Published March 14th 2012 by Routledge
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Intelligence and Politics
An Introduction
The 9/11 attacks, the public furores over intelligence following the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and a succession of highly publicized inquiries on both of sides of the Atlantic, have served to amplify a rapidly growing interest in Intelligence Studies. Subsequent terrorist attacks in Britain, Spain...
To Be Published October 30th 2013 by Routledge