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Governing in a Global World
Women in Public Service, 1st Edition
Governing in a Global World captures the panorama of women governing around the world. Even though the modern era marks history’s greatest advancements for women, worldwide they hold fewer than 30 percent of decision-making positions and are often missing from negotiating tables where policies are…
Paperback – 2017-12-05
RoutledgeTerrorism in the Twenty-First Century
8th Edition
Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century helps readers understand terrorism, responses to it, and current trends that affect the future of this phenomenon.Putting terrorism into historical perspective and analyzing it as a form of political violence, this text presents the most essential concepts,…
Paperback – 2017-12-01
RoutledgeIntroduction to Global Politics
3rd Edition
The fully updated third edition of Introduction to Global Politics continues to provide a vital resource for students looking to explain global politics using an historical approach, firmly linking history with the events of today. By integrating theory and political practice at individual, state,…
Paperback – 2017-11-09
RoutledgeEuro-Mediterranean Relations after the Arab Spring
Persistence in Times of Change, 1st Edition
The ’Arab Spring’ triggered paradigmatic shifts but, despite these changes, much in the Euro-Mediterranean region remains the same. Utilising ’Logics of Action’, an innovative theoretical framework designed to capture the complexity of political interaction in one of the fastest changing regions in…
Paperback – 2017-10-27
RoutledgePresidents and Democracy in Latin America
1st Edition
This new textbook provides students with a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the presidents and presidential leadership in Latin America. Unlike other texts, Presidents and Democracy in Latin America integrates both political analysis and major theoretical perspectives with extensive…
Paperback – 2017-09-19
RoutledgeNew Approaches to Latin American Studies
Culture and Power, 1st Edition
Academic and research fields are moved by fads, waves, revolutionaries, paradigm shifts, and turns. They all imply a certain degree of change that alters the conditions of a stable system, producing an imbalance that needs to be addressed by the field itself.New Approaches to Latin American…
Paperback – 2017-09-18
RoutledgeGlobal Governance and China
The Dragon’s Learning Curve, 1st Edition
This volume offers systematic analysis of China’s growing engagement in global governance institutions over the past three decades. During this period, China has gone from outsider to observer to insider. The volume is based on studies of Chinese involvement in a wide cross section of regimes,…
Paperback – 2017-09-13
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Global InstitutionsDemocratic Latin America
2nd Edition
This much-expanded and updated second edition of Democratic Latin America takes an institutional approach to Latin American politics to discuss contemporary politics and to highlight how past politics have shaped current institutional designs. It draws explicit connections between certain political…
Paperback – 2017-08-31
RoutledgeContemporary Just War
Theory and Practice, 1st Edition
This book offers a renewed defense of traditional just war theory and considers its application to certain contemporary cases, particularly in the Middle East. The first part of the book addresses and responds to the central theoretical criticisms levelled at traditional just war theory. It offers…
Paperback – 2017-08-31
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War, Conflict and EthicsPolitics Latin America
3rd Edition
Politics Latin America examines the role of Latin America in the world and its importance to the study of politics with particular emphasis on the institutions and processes that exist to guarantee democracy and the forces that threaten to compromise it.Now in its third edition and fully revised…
Paperback – 2017-08-22
RoutledgeContemporary Left Antisemitism
1st Edition
Today’s antisemitism is difficult to recognize because it does not come dressed in a Nazi uniform and it does not openly proclaim its hatred or fear of Jews. This book looks at the kind of antisemitism which is tolerated or which goes unacknowledged in apparently democratic spaces: trade unions,…
Paperback – 2017-08-07
RoutledgeThe Other World
Issues and Politics in the Developing World, 10th Edition
The Other World combines a thematic and area studies approach to explore contemporary global issues in the developing world. Accessible and interdisciplinary, this text offers political, economic, social, and historical analysis plus case studies on Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and…
Paperback – 2017-08-02
RoutledgeMillennium Development Goals
Ideas, Interests and Influence, 1st Edition
Heralded as a success that mobilized support for development, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) ushered in an era of setting development agendas by setting global goals. This book critically evaluates the MDG experience from the capabilities and human rights perspectives, and questions the…
Paperback – 2017-06-12
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Global InstitutionsThe Art of World-Making
Nicholas Greenwood Onuf and his Critics, 1st Edition
On its face, The Art of World-Making focuses on honouring the career of Nicholas Greenwood Onuf and his contributions to the study of international relations; of equal importance, however, while using Onuf’s work as their touchstone, the contributions to this volume range widely across IR theory,…
Paperback – 2017-05-23
RoutledgeSustainable Development Goals and UN Goal-Setting
1st Edition
This book explores the record of the UN development system (UNDS) over more than 70 years as a fount of ideas and concepts in development; as a contributor to development thinking and strategy; and as the principal source of global development goals from the first UN Development Decade to the SDGs.…
Paperback – 2017-04-13
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Global InstitutionsConflict After the Cold War
Arguments on Causes of War and Peace, 5th Edition
Edited by one of the most renowned scholars in the field, Richard Betts' Conflict After the Cold War assembles classic and contemporary readings on enduring problems of international security. Offering broad historical and philosophical breadth, the carefully chosen and excerpted selections in this…
Paperback – 2017-04-11
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International Institutions of the Middle East
The GCC, Arab League, and Arab Maghreb Union, 1st Edition
This volume is a key text for understanding the major regional international organizations of the Middle East. Analysing the Arab League, the Gulf Cooperation Council, and the Arab-Maghreb Union in a concise and accessible format, it explores their successes and failures across their full range of…
Paperback – 2017-03-16
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Global InstitutionsThe New United Nations
International Organization in the Twenty-First Century, 2nd Edition
With a fresh look at challenges to the UN in Syria, Iran, Russia, and elsewhere, the second edition of this successful text highlights new international trends toward global governance, holistic democracy and human development, and progress on peacebuilding and counterterrorism. A comprehensive…
Paperback – 2017-03-07
RoutledgeObstacles to Peacebuilding
1st Edition
Combining the insights of a seasoned practitioner with the academic rigor of a meticulous policy and risk analyst, del Castillo discusses the major obstacles to peacebuilding that need to be removed before war-torn countries can move towards peace, stability, and prosperity. As Secretary-General…
Paperback – 2017-02-20
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Global InstitutionsWhat's the Point of International Relations?
1st Edition
What’s the Point of International Relations casts a critical eye on what it is that we think we are doing when we study and teach international relations (IR). It brings together many of IR’s leading thinkers to challenge conventional understandings of the discipline’s origins, history, and…
Paperback – 2017-02-10
RoutledgeDebating U.S.-Cuban Relations
How Should We Now Play Ball?, 2nd Edition
The boundary between Cuba and the United States has become more and more porous, as have those with Latin America and the Caribbean. Never in the past half-century has Cuba’s leadership or its social and political fabric been so exposed to the influence of the outside world. In this book, an…
Paperback – 2017-01-30
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Contemporary Inter-American RelationsLaw Among Nations
An Introduction to Public International Law, 11th Edition
Offering a more accessible alternative to casebooks and historical commentaries, Law Among Nations explains issues of international law by tracing the field's development and stressing key principles, processes, and landmark cases.This comprehensive text eliminates the need for multiple books by…
Paperback – 2017-01-27
RoutledgeUS Defense Politics
The Origins of Security Policy, 3rd Edition
This book provides an accessible overview of US defense politics for upper-level students. This new edition has been fully updated and revised, with a new chapter on veterans and new material on topics such as cyberwarfare and lobbying. Analyzing the ways in which the United States prepares for…
Paperback – 2017-01-24
RoutledgeHuman Rights and the Dark Side of Globalisation
Transnational law enforcement and migration control, 1st Edition
This edited volume examines the continued viability of international human rights law in the context of growing transnational law enforcement. With states increasingly making use of global governance modes, core exercises of public authority such as migration control, surveillance, detention and…
Paperback – 2016-12-12
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Routledge Studies in Human RightsInternational and Regional Security
The Causes of War and Peace, 1st Edition
This volume is a collection of the best essays of Professor Benjamin Miller on the subjects of international and regional security.The book analyses the interrelationships between international politics and regional and national security, with a special focus on the sources of international…
Paperback – 2016-11-09
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Routledge Global Security StudiesRole Theory and Role Conflict in U.S.-Iran Relations
Enemies of Our Own Making, 1st Edition
U.S.-Iran relations continue to be an international security problem in the Middle East. These two countries could have been friends, but instead they have become enemies. Stating this thesis raises the following questions: Why are the United States and Iran enemies? How and when did this…
Paperback – 2016-10-21
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Role Theory and International RelationsForeign Policy Analysis
New approaches, 2nd Edition
Building on the success of the first edition, this revised volume re-invigorates the conversation between foreign policy analysis and international relations. It opens up the discussion, situating existing debates in foreign policy in relation to contemporary concerns in international relations,…
Paperback – 2016-09-28
RoutledgeInternational Political Sociology
Transversal Lines, 1st Edition
This book presents an overview and evaluation of contemporary research in international political sociology (IPS). Bringing together leading scholars from many disciplines and diverse geographical backgrounds, it provides unprecedented coverage of the key concepts and research through which IPS has…
Paperback – 2016-07-22
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Routledge Studies in International Political SociologyThe International in Security, Security in the International
1st Edition
International Relations continues to come under fire for its relative absence of international perspectives. In this exciting new volume, Pinar Bilgin encourages readers to consider both why and how ‘non-core’ geocultural sites allow us to think differently about key aspects of global politics.…
Paperback – 2016-07-22
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Worlding Beyond the WestForeign Policy: Thinking Outside the Box
1st Edition
This collection of essays by renowned scholar Amitai Etzioni aims to provoke reconsiderations of basic assumptions of foreign policy by students, academics and practitioners. With chapters focusing on the Middle East, China and the EU, as well as articles with a more global focus, the book offers…
Paperback – 2016-06-28
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InsightsGlocalization
A Critical Introduction, 1st Edition
This book seeks to provide a critical introduction to the under-theorized concept of Glocalization. While the term has been slowly diffused into social-scientific vocabulary, to date, there is no book in circulation that specifically discusses this concept. Historically theorists have intertwined…
Paperback – 2016-06-23
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Routledge Studies in Global and Transnational PoliticsDomestic Role Contestation, Foreign Policy, and International Relations
1st Edition
Despite the increase in the number of studies in international relations using concepts from a role theory perspective, scholarship continues to assume that a state’s own expectations of what role it should play on the world stage is shared among domestic political actors.Cristian Cantir and…
Paperback – 2016-05-12
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Role Theory and International RelationsAn Introduction to African Politics
4th Edition
The fourth edition of An Introduction to African Politics is an ideal textbook for those new to the study of this fascinating continent. It gets to the heart of the politics of this part of the world. How is modern Africa still influenced by its colonial past? How do strong ethnic and religious…
Paperback – 2016-04-22
RoutledgeThe Right in Latin America
Elite Power, Hegemony and the Struggle for the State, 1st Edition
Most current analysis on Latin American politics has been directed at examining the shift to the left in the region. Very little attention, however, has been paid to the reactions of the right to this phenomenon. What kind of discursive, policy, and strategic responses have emerged among the right…
Paperback – 2016-04-21
RoutledgeUN Peacebuilding Architecture
The First 10 Years, 1st Edition
Since its establishment, the UN's Peacebuilding Architecture (PBA) has been involved in peacebuilding processes in more than 20 countries. This edited volume takes stock of the overall impact of the PBA during its first decade in existence, and generates innovative recommendations for how the…
Paperback – 2016-04-12
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Global InstitutionsDisplacement, Development, and Climate Change
International organizations moving beyond their mandates, 1st Edition
This book focuses on one critical challenge: climate change. Climate change is predicted to lead to an increased intensity and frequency of natural disasters. An increase in extreme weather events, global temperatures and higher sea levels may lead to displacement and migration, and will affect…
Paperback – 2016-04-04
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Global InstitutionsContemporary U.S.-Latin American Relations
Cooperation or Conflict in the 21st Century?, 2nd Edition
Drawing on the research and experience of fifteen internationally recognized Latin America scholars, this insightful text presents an overview of inter-American relations during the first two decades of the twenty-first century. This unique collection identifies broad changes in the international…
Paperback – 2016-03-17
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Contemporary Inter-American RelationsThe New Islamic State
Ideology, Religion and Violent Extremism in the 21st Century, 1st Edition
The rise of the Islamic State has dramatically forced a recalculation of political order and security in the Persian Gulf and broader Greater Middle East by the United States and its allies and adversaries, including, most notably, Iran, Israel and Saudi Arabia. Since the Arab Spring of 2011, the…
Paperback – 2016-02-28
RoutledgeLatin America and the Caribbean in the Global Context
Why care about the Americas?, 1st Edition
Current perspectives on Latin America’s role in the world tend to focus on one question: Why is Latin America always falling behind? Analysts and scholars offer answers grounded in history, economic underdevelopment, or democratic consolidation. Bagley and Horwitz, however, shift the central…
Paperback – 2016-02-10
RoutledgeHuman Development and Global Institutions
Evolution, Impact, Reform, 1st Edition
This book provides a timely and accessible introduction to the foundational ideas associated with the human development school of thought. It examines its conceptual evolution during the post-colonial era, and discusses how various institutions of the UN system have tried to engage with this issue,…
Paperback – 2016-02-09
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Global InstitutionsCritical Imaginations in International Relations
1st Edition
This exciting new text brings together in one volume an overview of the many reflections on how we might address the problems and limitations of a state-centred approach in the discipline of International Relations (IR). The book is structured into chapters on key concepts, with each providing an…
Paperback – 2016-02-04
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