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Edited by William G. Christ, Belinha S. De Abreu

This book, part of the BEA Electronic Media Research Series, brings together top scholars researching media literacy and lays out the current state of the field in areas such as propaganda, news, participatory culture, representation, education, social/environmental justice, and civic engagement.…

Hardback – 2020-03-23 
Routledge
Electronic Media Research Series

By Nehginpao Kipgen

This book is a comprehensive political study of the South China Sea (SCS) disputes. With over US $5 trillion worth of trade passing through it every year and a history of military flashpoints, the SCS is invariably a hotbed of great power rivalry. This book: Traces the history of the disputes…

Hardback – 2020-03-19 
Routledge India

Edited by Elżbieta M. Goździak, Izabella Main, Brigitte Suter

This book explores how the rising numbers of refugees entering Europe from 2015 onwards played into fears of cultural, religious, and ethnic differences across the continent. The migrant, or refugee crisis, prompted fierce debate about European norms and values, with some commentators questioning…

Hardback – 2020-03-19 
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Development, Mobilities and Migration

Edited by Johanna Niemi, Lourdes Peroni, Vladislava Stoyanova

This book offers an in-depth and critical analysis of the Istanbul Convention, along with discussions on its impact and implications. The work highlights the place of the Convention in the landscape of international law and policies on violence against women and equality. The authors argue that…

Hardback – 2020-03-18 
Routledge
Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

By David Kosař, Hubert Smekal, Katarína Šipulová, Ladislav Vyhnánek, Jozef Janovský, Jan Petrov

The European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”) suffers from the burgeoning caseload and challenges to its authority. This two-pronged crisis undermines the ECtHR’s legitimacy and consequently the functioning of the whole European human rights regime. Domestic courts can serve as…

Hardback – 2020-03-18 
Routledge
Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

By Ray Christensen

This book presents a collection of lessons on how best to run elections and politics, using examples from the Japanese experience and showing how elections operate in a non-Western democracy. Featuring extensive data and evidence from both Japan and the United States, the themes covered include…

Hardback – 2020-03-18 
Routledge
Politics in Asia

Edited by Stephen McCarthy, Mark R. Thompson

This book explores the theoretical and empirical relationship between democracy and governance in the Asia-Pacific region. Examining a variety of country cases and themes addressing the theoretical tension between governance and democracy, it illuminates how this impacts political and civil…

Hardback – 2020-03-17 
Routledge
Politics in Asia

By Adam Chmielewski

This book outlines a new conception of political aesthetics based on the notion of order as an aesthetic category pertaining to human perception. Engaging with the thought of a range of figures, including Veblen, Honneth, Foucault, Popper and MacIntyre, it explores the nature of political…

Hardback – 2020-03-17 
Routledge
Classical and Contemporary Social Theory

Edited by James Gledhill, Sebastian Stein

While Kantian constructivism has become one of the most influential and systematic schools of thought in analytic moral and political philosophy, Hegelian approaches to practical normativity hold out the promise of building upon Kantian insights into individual self-determination while avoiding…

Hardback – 2020-03-15 
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

By Domitilla Sagramoso

This book examines the nature of Russia’s relations with the former Soviet states (FSS), in particular with countries which formed the Commonwealth of Independent States, and seeks to assess whether there has been a resurgence of imperialism since the collapse of the USSR. The book sets out to…

Hardback – 2020-03-13 
Routledge
Contemporary Security Studies

Edited by Dong Wang, Travis Tanner

As the relationship between China and the United States becomes increasingly complex and interdependent, leaders in Beijing and Washington are struggling to establish a solid common foundation on which to expand and deepen bilateral relations. In order to examine the challenges facing US-China…

Hardback – 2020-03-13 
Routledge
China Perspectives

Edited by Jagannath P. Panda

This book assesses the strategic linkages that the Korean Peninsula shares with the Indo-Pacific and provides a succinct picture of issues which will shape the trajectory of the Korean Peninsula in the future. This book analyses how critical actors such as the United States, China, Russia and Japan…

Hardback – 2020-03-13 
Routledge
Routledge Studies on Think Asia