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Routledge Handbook of International Law
The Routledge Handbook of International Law provides a definitive global survey of the interaction of international politics and international law. Each chapter is written by a leading expert and provides a state of the art overview of the most significant areas within the field. This highly...
Published January 17th 2011 by Routledge
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Madness in International Relations
Psychology, Security, and the Global Governance of Mental Health
Series: Interventions
Madness in International Relations provides an important and innovative account of the role of psychology and psychiatry in global politics, showing how mental health governance has become a means of securing various populations, often with questionable effects. Through the analysis of three key...
Published May 31st 2011 by Routledge
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Interpreting International Politics
Series: Routledge Series on Interpretive Methods
Interpretive approaches to the study of international relations span not only the traditional areas of security, international political economy, and international law and organizations, but also emerging and newer areas such as gender, race, religion, secularism, and continuing issues of...
To Be Published August 31st 2013 by Routledge
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The International Trade Centre
Export Impact for Good
Series: Global Institutions
In the era of rapid globalization, the ITC plays a significant and wide ranging role working with both governments and trade support institutions to nurture an export culture, this work will provide a much needed overview of this dynamic organization. This book: Details the history of the...
Published April 3rd 2011 by Routledge
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United Nations Industrial Development Organization
Industrial Solutions for a Sustainable Future
Series: Global Institutions
The mandate of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) is close to many of the core issues now confronting developing and transition economy countries, and this book offers the first concise and accessible guide to this important organization. As the only UN organization to...
Published June 6th 2012 by Routledge
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New Visions for Market Governance
Crisis and Renewal
Series: Challenges of Globalisation
The financial crisis of 2008-2009 and the "Great Recession" that it precipitated highlight a number of important questions about the governance of contemporary capitalism. How do shortcomings in existing market governance institutions help to account for trends of rising economic inequality and...
Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
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The Unilateralist Temptation in American Foreign Policy
Series: Foreign Policy Analysis
The pattern of multilateral engagement and unilateral retrenchment in American foreign policy from the Cold War through the Clinton, Bush, and Obama years presents a puzzle. What accounts for the unilateralist turn? Is it a passing aberration attributable to the neoconservative ideology of the Bush...
Published December 7th 2010 by Routledge
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People Power and Political Change
Key Issues and Concepts
This book examines the upsurge in mass popular protest against undemocratic regimes. Relating early revolutions to recent global trends and protests, it examines the significance of ‘people power’ to democracy. Taking a comparative approach, this text analyses unarmed uprisings in Iran 1977-79,...
Published December 4th 2011 by Routledge
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Framing Sarah Palin
Pit Bulls, Puritans, and Politics
Sarah Palin’s 2008 vice presidential candidacy garnered tremendous levels of interest, polarizing the American public—both Democrats and Republicans alike. While many have wondered who she "really" is, trying to cut through the persona she projects and the one projected by the media, Beail and...
Published November 1st 2012 by Routledge
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US Foreign Policy and Democracy Promotion
From Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama
Series: Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy
The promotion of democracy by the United States became highly controversial during the presidency of George W. Bush. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were widely perceived as failed attempts at enforced democratization, sufficient that Barack Obama has felt compelled to downplay the rhetoric of...
To Be Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
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Interrogating International Relations
India's Strategic Practice and the Return of History
Series: War and International Politics in South Asia
The book interrogates the disciplinary biases and firewalls that inform mainstream international relations today, and problematises the several tropes that have come to typify the strategic histories of post-colonial societies such as India. Questioning a range of long-held cultural representations...
Published April 25th 2011 by Routledge India
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State Structure, Policy Formation, and Economic Development in Southeast Asia
The Political Economy of Thailand and the Philippines
Series: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia
Why do some small, developing countries industrialize and others don’t? What factors account for different economic performance among states that are vulnerable to external shocks, crony capitalism, and political instability? This book argues that the answer lies in the structuring of state power,...
Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
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The Union for the Mediterranean
This is the first comprehensive analysis of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM), launched in 2008 amid great controversy within the European Union. Affected from the start by negative fallout from the failure of Middle East peace initiatives, its inadequacies have been underlined by the popular...
Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
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The Russian Armed Forces in Transition
Economic, geopolitical and institutional uncertainties
Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
Although the role of the military in Russia has changed significantly since Soviet times, it continues to exert great influence on Russian politics, economy and society. This book presents a comprehensive overview of current developments related to Russia’s military sector. It considers recent...
Published December 1st 2011 by Routledge
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Islamic Radicalism and Multicultural Politics
The British Experience
The expression of an Islamic political radicalism in Britain has been one of the most dramatic developments in recent decades. Islamic Radicalism and Multicultural Politics explores the nature of this phenomenon by analysing the origins of Islam and its historical contact with Western Europe and...
Published February 23rd 2011 by Routledge
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The Muslim Brotherhood in Contemporary Egypt
Democracy Redefined or Confined?
Series: Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series
The Muslim Brotherhood is one of the oldest and most influential Islamist movements. As the party ascends to power in Egypt, it is poised to adopt a new system of governance and state–society relations, the effects of which are likely to extend well beyond Egypt’s national borders. This book...
Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge
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The Political Economy of Space in the Americas
The New Pax Americana
Series: Routledge Advances in International Political Economy
This book presents a novel and cutting-edge interpretation of the evolving political economy of the Americas. Through a combination of qualitiatve research and theory, Alejandra Roncallo presents an examination of the new Pax Americana, emerging since the 1982 crisis. Looking particularly at...
To Be Published August 29th 2013 by Routledge
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Hard Questions for Democracy
The recent financial and economic crisis has forced governments and people from around the globe to ask some hard questions about how democracy has evolved. Some of these are old questions; others are new. Is democracy really the most desirable form of government? How democratic is policy-making...
Published July 8th 2012 by Routledge
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Volunteer Tourism in the Global South
Giving Back in Neoliberal Times
Series: Interventions
This work explores the increasingly popular phenomenon of volunteer tourism in the Global South, paying particular attention to the governmental rationalities and socio-economic conditions that valorise it as a noble and necessary cultural practice. Combining theoretical research with primary data...
Published August 5th 2012 by Routledge
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Women and Representation in Local Government
International Case Studies
Series: Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
Women and Representation in Local Government opens up an opportunity to critique and move beyond suppositions and labels in relation to women in local government. Presenting a wealth of new empirical material, this book brings together international experts to examine and compare the presence of...
Published March 3rd 2011 by Routledge
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The Roles and Function of Parliamentary Questions
Series: Library of Legislative Studies
Parliamentary questions are a feature of almost all national legislatures. Despite this, we know very little about how questions are used by MPs and what impact questions have on controlling the government. This volume advances our theoretical and empirical knowledge of the use of questioning in a...
Published April 4th 2012 by Routledge
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Public Broadcasting and Political Interference
Series: Routledge Research in Political Communication
Public broadcasters, like the BBC and the Italian broadcaster RAI, are some of the most important media organisations in the world. Politicians are often tempted to interfere in the workings of these broadcasters and when this happens, the results are highly controversial, as both the Blair and...
Published April 27th 2011 by Routledge
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China and Orientalism
Western Knowledge Production and the PRC
Series: Postcolonial Politics
This book argues that there is a new, Sinological form of orientalism at work in the world. It has shifted from a logic of ‘essential difference’ to one of ‘sameness’ or general equivalence. "China" is now in a halting but inevitable process of becoming-the-same as the USA and the West. Orientalism...
Published November 16th 2011 by Routledge
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A Complexity Theory for Public Policy
Series: Routledge Research in Public Administration and Public Policy
Complexity theory has become popular in the natural and social sciences over the last few decades as a result of the advancements in our understanding of the complexities in natural and social phenomena. Concepts and methods of complexity theory have been applied by scholars of public affairs in...
Published May 28th 2012 by Routledge
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Christian Communities in the Middle East
Faith, Identity and Integration
Series: Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics
The Christian communities in the Middle East exist in an environment where religion has retained strong social significance but society is dominated by a different faith. This work explores the different historical processes of state building to examine regime policies towards the Christian...
To Be Published September 30th 2013 by Routledge
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The End of Terrorism?
Series: Extremism and Democracy
This book considers not the beginning or origins of terrorism but how groups that use terrorism end. Terrorism as a tactic is unlikely to disappear, however virtually all the groups that employed terrorist violence during the 1960s and 1970s have passed from the scene in one way or another....
Published August 17th 2011 by Routledge
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On Nuclear Deterrence
The Correspondence of Sir Michael Quinlan
Series: Adelphi series
This timely book, published in the lead up to the 2012-14 decision on Trident renewal, makes available for the first time the late Sir Michael Quinlan’s private correspondence on nuclear deterrence. It shows why Sir Michael, as Policy Director and then Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Defence...
Published April 26th 2012 by Routledge
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Security, the Environment and Emancipation
Contestation over Environmental Change
Series: PRIO New Security Studies
This book offers an examination of the role of emancipation in the study and practice of security, focusing on the issue of environmental change. The end of the Cold War created a context in which traditional approaches to security could be systematically questioned. This period also saw a...
Published August 21st 2011 by Routledge
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UN Peace Operations and Post-Conflict Reconstruction
Learning Lessons From Haiti
Series: Cass Series on Peacekeeping
This book looks at UN Peace Operations in Haiti and why they went so dramatically wrong first time around, resulting in much deep-seated conflict, in order that these lessons can be taken into account in future operations elsewhere....
To Be Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Putting Terrorism in Context
Lessons Learned from Global Data
Series: Contemporary Terrorism Studies
This is the first book that provides a comprehensive empirical overview of the nature and evolution of both modern transnational and domestic terrorism, based on statistical data....
To Be Published August 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Militarism and International Relations
Political Economy, Security, Theory
Series: Cass Military Studies
This book examines contemporary militarism in international politics, employing a variety of different theoretical viewpoints and international case studies. Militarism – understood as the social and international relations of the preparation for, and conduct of, organized political violence – is...
Published August 5th 2012 by Routledge
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Intelligence and Strategic Culture
Reliable information on potential security threats is not just the result of diligent intelligence work but also a product of context and culture. The volume explores the nexus between the intelligence process and strategic culture. How can and does the strategic outlook of the United States and...
Published October 25th 2012 by Routledge
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Theory of Space Power
The Perils of Strategic Analogy
Series: Space Power and Politics
The book will provide a coherent strategic theory for space power, and explain why previous attempts at theorizing about space power have failed. The book argues that the main reason for this failure is the tendency of theorists to rely on strategic analogies when framing a theory of...
To Be Published October 30th 2013 by Routledge