Politics & International Relations: International Political Economy

By Serena Natile

Focusing on Kenya’s path-breaking mobile money project M-Pesa, this book examines and critiques the narratives and institutions of digital financial inclusion as a development strategy for gender equality, arguing for a politics of redistribution to guide future digital financial inclusion projects…

Hardback – 2020-02-19 
Routledge
RIPE Series in Global Political Economy

Edited by Charles S. Johnston, Xin Chen

The Mekong River is a vital and valuable resource, with huge development potential for the six states through which it flows. Given the significant asymmetry of power between those states, however, there is a real risk that some might utilise it to the detriment of others. Without a sense of…

Hardback – 2020-02-19 
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Routledge Studies on the Asia-Pacific Region

Edited by Lucia Coppolaro, Lorenzo Mechi

This book deals with the historical relationship between international trade liberalisation – one of the backbones of globalisation – and the development of social welfare. In Europe the issue has regularly been at the centre of the political debate for at least two centuries, and still nowadays it…

Hardback – 2020-02-13 
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Routledge Studies in Modern European History

Edited by Johanne Charbonneau, André Smith

Giving Blood represents a new agenda for blood donation research. It explores the diverse historical and contemporary undercurrents that influence how blood donation takes place, and the social meanings that people attribute to the act of giving blood. Drawing from empirical studies conducted in…

Paperback – 2020-01-31 
Routledge
Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness

By Ilias Alami

This book provides a comprehensive investigation of the messy and crisis-ridden relationship between the operations of capitalist finance, global capital flows, and state power in emerging markets. The politics, drivers of emergence, and diversity of these myriad forms of state power are explored…

Hardback – 2019-12-20 
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RIPE Series in Global Political Economy

Edited by Liesbeth Enneking, Ivo Giesen, Anne-Jetske Schaap, Cedric Ryngaert, Francois Kristen, Lucas Roorda

A consensus has emerged that corporations have societal and environmental responsibilities when operating transnationally. However, how exactly corporations can be held legally accountable for their transgressions, if at all, is less clear. This volume inquires how regulatory tools stemming from…

Hardback – 2019-12-18 
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Globalization: Law and Policy

By Clara Weinhardt

This book shows how a constructivist account of bargaining sheds new light on the emergence of impasse situations in international trade negotiations. It uncovers the subtle ways in which misperceptions – and the problems of overcoming them – complicate negotiations. It brings to the forefront…

Hardback – 2019-12-12 
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Global Institutions

Edited by Dimitris Katsikas

This book presents the findings of new empirical research regarding shifts in public discourses and attitudes in Greek society as a result of the crisis. These findings have shown different shades of Euroscepticism and anti-German sentiments, but they have also revealed a normative conflict within…

Hardback – 2019-12-04
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Routledge Advances in European Politics

By Jeremy Garlick

This book merges macro- and micro-level analysis of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to dissect China’s aim in creating an integrated Eurasian continent through this single mega-project. BRI has been the source of much interest and confusion, as established frameworks of analysis seek to…

Hardback – 2019-12-04
Routledge
Rethinking Asia and International Relations

Edited by Chien-Huei Wu, Frank Gaenssmantel

This volume fills a gap in the literature regarding questions around the interactive dynamics between law and diplomacy on international trade and investment. It brings together lawyers and political scientists from Europe and Asia in an interdisciplinary effort at tracing the respective roles of…

Hardback – 2019-12-03
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Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies

By Steven Slaughter

Can the power of the G20 be legitimate? This book examines the politics surrounding the G20’s efforts to act effectively and legitimately and the problems and challenges involved in this activity. Developing a critical constructivist conceptualisation of the G20, the book considers holistically and…

Hardback – 2019-12-02
Routledge
Global Governance

By Paul Copeland

Providing a comprehensive and authoritative analyses of the impact of the Eurozone crisis on the European social dimension since 2010 ・ understood as the European Union’s (EU) competence in employment and social policy ・ this book focusses on developments in five policy areas (employment, poverty…

Hardback – 2019-11-29
Routledge
Routledge Studies on Government and the European Union