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Peacebuilding
Women in International Perspective
This book clarifies some key ideas and practices underlying peacebuilding; understood broadly as formal and informal peace processes that occur during pre-conflict, conflict and post-conflict...
July 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47973-8 (Routledge)
Regional Integration in East Asia and Europe
Convergence or Divergence?
A fascinating insight into how regional organizations in Europe and East Asia are currently grappling with a striking number of essentially similar challenges.
This issue-based...
June 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47974-5 (Routledge)
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Sustainable Consumption, Ecology and Fair Trade
This timely volume discusses the debates concerning sustainable consumption and the environment.
Sustainable consumption stands as a wide objective that attracts a growing attention within sustainable...
June 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47975-2 (Routledge)
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The EU and Conflict Resolution
Promoting Peace in the Backyard
Through the study of five ethno-political conflicts lying on or just beyond Europe's borders, this book analyzes the impact and effectiveness of EU foreign policy...
June 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47976-9 (Routledge)
The EU and the European Security Strategy
Forging a Global Europe
The European Security Strategy (ESS) has become an important reference framework for the EU since its inception in 2003. Without strategy an actor can only...
June 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47977-6 (Routledge)
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The Europeanization of National Political Parties
Power and Organizational Adaptation
This is a detailed exploration of how national political parties have responded to the increasing relevance of European governance.
The Europeanization of National Political Parties is...
June 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47978-3 (Routledge)
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The Political Economy of Global Security
War, Future Crises and Changes in Global Governance
What are the possibilities for and conditions of global security in the 21st century?
This book provides an innovative study of future wars, crises and transformations...
June 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47979-0 (Routledge)
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The Politics of Cyberconflict
The Politics of Cyberconflict
The Politics of Cyberconflict focuses on the implications that the phenomenon of cyberconflict (conflict in computer mediated enivironments and the internet) has on politics, society...
June 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-47980-6 (Routledge)
The Social and Political Thought of George Orwell
A Reassessment
Stephen Ingle is Professor at the Politics Department, University of Stirling. His main academic interests are in the relationship between politics and literature and in...June 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47981-3 (Routledge)
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Welfare State Reform in Southern Europe
Fighting Poverty and Social Exclusion in Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal
This new study delivers a detailed analysis of the efforts being made to reduce poverty and social exclusion in Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece. After an...June 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47982-0 (Routledge)
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The Politics of Foundations
A Comparative Analysis
This book explores the roles and visions foundations have of, and for, themselves in the new Europe.
The leading contributors go beyond a quantitative profile...
June 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47984-4 (Routledge)
Representing Women in Parliament
A Comparative Study
The first book-length treatment of the political representation of women in countries with parliamentary systems based on the Westminster model. Written by a major international...
June 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47952-3 (Routledge)
A Human Security Doctrine for Europe
Project, Principles, Practicalities
A Human Security Doctrine for Europe explores the actual needs of individual people in conflict areas, rather than using a conventional institutional or geo-political perspectives.
This new volume proposes...
June 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47954-7 (Routledge)
Autonomy, Self Governance and Conflict Resolution
Innovative approaches to Institutional Design in Divided Societies
Conflicts over the rights of self-defined population groups to determine their own destiny within the boundaries of existing states are among the most violent forms...June 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47959-2 (Routledge)
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Citizenship and Involvement in European Democracies
A Comparative Analysis
This unique study presents the results of a cross-national analysis of citizenship and participation among citizens in twelve European democracies.
Research on the future and quality...
June 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47960-8 (Routledge)
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Citizenship in Nordic Welfare States
Dynamics of Choice, Duties and Participation In a Changing Europe
This book offers an innovative analysis of the ways in which the relationship between citizens and welfare states - social citizenship - becomes more dynamic...
June 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47961-5 (Routledge)
Democracy and Political Culture in Eastern Europe
What is the relationship between democracy and political culture in countries undergoing major systemic change? Have subjective political orientations of citizens been important in shaping...
June 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47962-2 (Routledge)
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European Union Peacebuilding and Policing
Governance and the European Security and Defence Policy
This new book provides an in-depth analysis of the projects of improvement carried out by the civilian peacebuilding missions in Bosnia and Macedonia, drawing on...
June 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47964-6 (Routledge)
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The European Union and the Public Sphere
A Communicative Space in the Making?
The European Union is often attacked for its ‘democratic deficit’, namely its deficiencies in representation, transparency and accountability, as well as its lack of popular...
June 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47965-3 (Routledge)
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Geopolitics of European Union Enlargement
The Fortress Empire
Under the impact of accelerated globalization, transnational integration and international security concerns, the geopolitics of Europe's borders and border regions has become an area of...
June 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47966-0 (Routledge)
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Globalisation and Poverty
Channels and Policy Responses
The consequences of globalization for the world's poor are uncertain and fierce rhetoric is dividing its supporters and detractors.
The channels of effect of essentially macroeconomic...
June 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47967-7 (Routledge)
Governing Financial Globalization
International Political Economy and Multi-Level Governance
Money, finance and credit are literally the lifeblood of the modern economy. The distribution of money and credit are essential to productive investment in trade...June 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47968-4 (Routledge)
In Defense of Human Rights
A Non-Religious Grounding in a Pluralistic World
The argument that religion provides the only compelling foundation for human rights is both challenging and thought-provoking and answering it is of fundamental importance to...
June 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47969-1 (Routledge)
International Relations in Europe
Traditions, Perspectives and Destinations
A new and illuminating critical examination of international relations in Europe.
This new volume presents all of the state of the art thinking, focusing particularly on international...
June 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47970-7 (Routledge)
National Governments and Control of the Internet
A Digital Challenge
In recent years, Internet control has become one of the major indicators to assess the balance between freedom and security in democracies. This book explores...June 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47971-4 (Routledge)
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Interregionalism and International Relations
A Stepping Stone to Global Governance?
Interregionalism, the institutionalized relations between world regions, is a new phenomenon in international relations. It also a new layer of development in an increasingly differentiated...
June 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47972-1 (Routledge)
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The International Political Thought of Carl Schmitt
Terror, Liberal War and the Crisis of Global Order
Presenting the first critical analysis of Carl Schmitt's The Nomos of the Earth and how it relates to the epochal changes in the international system...
March 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47477-1 (Routledge)
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Organised Crime and the Challenge to Democracy
This innovative book investigates the paradoxical situation whereby organized crime groups, authoritarian in nature and anti-democratic in practice, perform at their best in democratic countries....January 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46727-8 (Routledge)
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Intelligence, Crises and Security
Prospects and Retrospects
This collection of essays by leading experts seeks to explore what lessons for the exploitation and management of secret intelligence might be drawn from a...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46430-7 (Routledge)
Religion in World Conflict
This new book tackles two crucial questions: First, how does religion in its various forms and manifestations influence world politics? Second, how will adding religion...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46434-5 (Routledge)
The EU as a Global Player
The Politics of Interregionalism
A new look at the European Union's role as a global actor, with special focus on the theme of interregionalism in its relations with key regions around...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46390-4 (Routledge)
Sport, Civil Liberties and Human Rights
What is the relationship between sport and human rights? Can sport protect and enhance the human rights of competitors and sport workers? Can it also...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46419-2 (Routledge)
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Black Leaders and Ideologies in the South
Resistance and Non-Violence
A new collection of philosophical biographies of key figures in Black Southern American social and political thought
Frederick Douglass, Booker Washington and Ida Wells. Thurgood Marshall and...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46364-5 (Routledge)
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Images of Gramsci
Connections and Contentions in Political Theory and International Relations
A comprehensive reassessment of the relevance of Gramsci’s theory and practice at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Whilst commentaries on Antonio Gramsci and arguments surrounding his...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46365-2 (Routledge)
Citizenship, Environment, Economy
As governments around the world grapple with the challenge of delivering environmental sustainability, attention has recently focused on the role that citizens should play in...2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46372-0 (Routledge)
Environmental Governance in China
This is the first examination of how China is currently dealing with environmental problems and challenges, and of its successes, failures and dilemmas.
This new...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46373-7 (Routledge)
Gambling on Humanitarian Intervention
Does humanitarian military intervention save lives as intended? Or does it perversely embolden rebels and ignite the spiral of violence that it seeks to prevent?...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46374-4 (Routledge)
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Cinema and Popular Geo-politics
With a detailed range of approaches, this new collection investigates how cinematic narratives can and have been used to portray different political 'threats' and 'dangers'....
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46377-5 (Routledge)
The Geopolitics of Resource Wars
This new book provides fresh and in-depth perspectives on so-called 'resource wars'.
Highlighting the multiple forms of violence accompanying the history of resources exploitation, business practices...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46378-2 (Routledge)
Peace Operations and Global Order
Peacekeeping in Global Politics investigates the changing role of peacekeeping and competing perspectives about what that role should be. It begins by addressing broad issues...2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46383-6 (Routledge)
Reconstructing Post-Saddam Iraq
Previously published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly, this volume seeks to analyze to what extent the controversial US policy of democratizing the...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46424-6 (Routledge)
China as a Rising World Power and its Response to 'Globalization'
The People's Republic of China (PRC) is a newly emerging world power, and yet is still a developing state that must deal with the liabilities...2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46417-8 (Routledge)
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Towards a Federal Europe
An excellent new analysis of federalism and the EU that investigates their mutual impact.
It shows how scholars of comparative politics increasingly include the EU...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46388-1 (Routledge)
Where is Nato Going?
Since the end of the Cold War, and especially since September 11 2001, the future of NATO has been the subject of intense debate.
This...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46363-8 (Routledge)
Peace without Politics? Ten Years of State-Building in Bosnia
Ten years on from the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement in November 1995, the legacy of the Bosnian war still shapes every aspect of...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46382-9 (Routledge)
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The Political Theory of John Gray
John Gray is one of today’s most brilliant, bestselling and controversial political thinkers. This new collection examines him from a variety of stimulating angles.
This...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46366-9 (Routledge)
Democratization in the Muslim World
Changing Patterns of Authority and Power
This book examines the role that political Islam plays in processes of democratization in the Muslim world, detailing the political processes that facilitate the collective...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46367-6 (Routledge)
Religion, Democracy and Democratization
A new exploration of the troubled relationship between religion and democracy, focusing in on two key questions:
* how has religion engaged with the democratization processes that...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46370-6 (Routledge)
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Governance in Post-Conflict Societies
Rebuilding Fragile States
Foreword Frederick D. Barton Preface Derick W. Brinkerhoff 1. Governance Challenges in Fragile States: Re-Establishing Security, Rebuilding Effectiveness, and Reconstituting Legitimacy Derick W. Brinkerhoff Part...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46324-9 (Routledge)
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Post-Soviet Civil Society
Democratization in Russia and the Baltic States
The development of civil society has varied greatly across the former Soviet Union. The Baltic states have achieved a high level of integration with the...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44405-7 (Routledge)
Political Journalism
New Challenges, New Practices
Political Journalism explores practices of political journalism, ranging from American 'civic journalism' to the press corps covering the European Union in Brussels, from Bangkok newsrooms...2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45972-3 (Routledge)
Economic Voting
Economic voting is a phenomenon that political scientists and economists can hardly overlook. There is ample evidence for a strong link between economic conditions and...2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45974-7 (Routledge)
The Politics of Post-Industrial Welfare States
Adapting Post-War Social Policies to New Social Risks
This new study assesses the welfare state to ask key questions and draw new conclusions about its place in modern society.
It shows how the welfare...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45975-4 (Routledge)
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Governance Stories
An incisive examination of Britain today, which breaks from traditional studies, and takes a new approach to account for massive changes in the make-up of...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45977-8 (Routledge)
Questioning EU Enlargement
Europe in Search of Identity
This new book takes a unique approach to the study of European enlargement, tackling key questions.
What kind of understanding of the EU do the enlargement...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45978-5 (Routledge)
Urban Governance and Democracy
Leadership and Community Involvement
The issue of local governance is high on the institutional agenda of many local and regional authorities throughout the OECD countries. This book explores the...2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45979-2 (Routledge)
The Political Economy of European Employment
European Integration and the Transnationalization of the (Un)Employment Question
This edited collection examines unemployment in Europe in the context of globalisation, the implementation of European Monetary Union and the Eastern enlargement of the EU....2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45980-8 (Routledge)
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The World Bank and Africa
The Construction of Governance States
Shortlisted for the Inaugural International Political Economy Group annual book prize, 2006.
An incisive exploration of the interventions of the World Bank in severely indebted African states....2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45983-9 (Routledge)
Culture and International Relations
Narratives, Natives and Tourists
Culture and International Relations contextually re-examines the history of international relations in order to explore how the discipline has imported and employed the concept of...2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45984-6 (Routledge)
Global Standards of Market Civilization
Global Standards of Market Civilization brings together leading scholars, representing a range of political views, to investigate how global 'standards of market civilization' have emerged, their justification,...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45985-3 (Routledge)
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Environmental Values in a Globalizing World
Nature, Justice and Governance
This multidisciplinary volume presents a refreshing new approach to environmental values in the global age. it investigates the challenges that globalization poses to traditional environmental...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45987-7 (Routledge)
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European Approaches to International Relations Theory
A House with Many Mansions
A well-established community of American scholars has long dominated the discipline of international relations. Recently, however, certain strands of continental theorizing are being introduced into...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45988-4 (Routledge)
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Postcolonial Politics, The Internet and Everyday Life
Pacific Traversals Online
The dotcom boom may well have come and gone but information and communication technologies (ICTs) are now an inescapable part of both everyday life and...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45990-7 (Routledge)
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The History and Politics of UN Security Council Reform
This is a penetrating analysis of UN Security Council reform. It presents an overview of the current debates - emphasising the potential for, and modalities of,...2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45991-4 (Routledge)
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The Politics of GM Food
A Comparative Study of the UK, USA and EU
'Why have GM Foods become so controversial? Comparing GM food politics in the US, Britain, and the European Union, Toke draws on insights from discourse...2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45992-1 (Routledge)
The International Criminal Court
A Global Civil Society Achievement
A new examination of the International Criminal Court (ICC) from a political science and international relations perspective.
It describes the main features of the court and...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45995-2 (Routledge)
Citizenship and Identity
Towards a New Republic
Citizenship and Identity offers an analysis of contemporary politics and of the scepticism and apathy which characterise the political life of modern democracies. Starting from...2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45996-9 (Routledge)
Governance and Democracy
Comparing National, European and International Experiences
For the first time, this new collection brings together country specialists, researchers on the European Union, and leading international relations scholars to tackle a crucial...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45997-6 (Routledge)
The Politics of Regional Identity
Meddling with the Mediterranean
A keen analysis of the impact of European regionalism in the Mediterranean, focusing on the politics of representation and constructions of identity.
The Mediterranean - as...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45998-3 (Routledge)
The European Union's Roles in International Politics
Concepts and Analysis
This new volume develops a conceptual framework for considering and evaluating the roles played by the EU in international politics, drawing upon the literatures of...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45999-0 (Routledge)
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Beyond Globalization
Capitalism, Territoriality and the International Relations of Modernity
Hannes Lacher presents a new critical social theory of international relations that integrates sociology, history and political geography to understand the formation and development of...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46000-2 (Routledge)
The Balkans in the New Millennium
In the Shadow of War and Peace
Can the Balkans ever become a peaceful peninsula like that of Scandinavia? With enlightened backing, can it ever make common cause with the rest of...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46001-9 (Routledge)
Values and Principles in European Union Foreign Policy
This book presents a fresh examination of the values and principles that inform EU foreign policy, exploring the implications of these values and principles on the...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46002-6 (Routledge)
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Neoliberal Hegemony
A Global Critique
Neoliberalism is fast becoming the dominant ideology of our age, yet politicians, businessmen and academics rarely identify themselves with it and even political forces critical...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46003-3 (Routledge)
Security and Climate Change
International Relations and the Limits of Realism
This new book explains why the international community has responded with a sense of fatalistic passivity to climate change.
It presents a distinct critique of...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46004-0 (Routledge)
Mass Media and Political Communication in New Democracies
This book examines how political communication and the mass media have played a central role in the consolidation of emerging democracies around the world.
Covering a...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45971-6 (Routledge)
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Political Islam and Violence in Indonesia
Political Islam and Violence in Indonesia presents a penetrating new investigation of religious radicalism in the largest Muslim country in the world.
Indonesia is a country...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46106-1 (Routledge)
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Logics of Critical Explanation in Social and Political Theory
The Social Science Wars have precipitated a renewed interest in the character, purpose and methods of social science. Positivists and naturalists are criticized by interpretivists...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46212-9 (Routledge)
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The Political Road to War with Iraq
Bush, 9/11 and the Drive to Overthrow Saddam
This volume explores in close detail the events and factors leading up to the second Gulf War in 2003 and considers whether war with Iraq...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45950-1 (Routledge)
China and International Institutions
Alternate Paths to Global Power
China has shifted its foreign policy from one that avoided engagement in international organizations to one that is now embracing them. These moves present a...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45956-3 (Routledge)
The European Community and the Crises of the 1960s
Negotiating the Gaullist Challenge
A new and detailed study of the European Community's development between 1963 and 1969, with a special focus on the struggle between France and its...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45957-0 (Routledge)
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Kosovo between War and Peace
Nationalism, Peacebuilding and International Trusteeship
A major contribution to the debate about the reconstruction of Kosovo, and to the general discussion surrounding the revived 'trusteeship institution' model in the context...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45958-7 (Routledge)
The IMF, World Bank and Policy Reform
The debate on whether or not the International Monetary Fund and World Bank and their intervention strategies are a positive force for change in the...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45924-2 (Routledge)
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Civil Life, Globalization and Political Change in Asia
Organizing between Family and State
Academics and policy makers have grown increasingly interested in the ways that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) may encourage better governance, democratic politics, and perhaps ultimately a...2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45706-4 (Routledge)
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State Terrorism and Political Identity in Indonesia
Fatally Belonging
Approximately one million innocent Indonesians were killed by their fellow nationals, neighbours and kin at the height of an anti-communist campaign in the mid-1960s. This...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45707-1 (Routledge)
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Corporate Soldiers and International Security
The Rise of Private Military Companies
This book traces the history of private military companies, with a special focus on UK private forces.
Christopher Kinsey examines the mercenary companies that filled the...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45776-7 (Routledge)
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Mapping Terrorism Research
State of the Art, Gaps and Future Direction
Containing essays by an array of top international scholars, this new book provides a comprehensive analytical critique of the current state of research in the...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45778-1 (Routledge)
Global Activism
This comprehensive study traces the transnationalization of activist networks, analyzing their changing compositions and characters and examining the roles played by the World Social Forum...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45551-0 (Routledge)
The Transformation of Governance in the European Union
The book presents a theoretically informed typology of modes of governance which is tested in a careful selection of comparative country and policy studies....2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43037-1 (Routledge)
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Hegel
First published in 1973 this volume demonstrates the interconnection between Hegel's political and metaphysical writings. This book provides a point of entry into Hegel's system...2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43680-9 (Routledge)
The West and Islam
Western Liberal Democracy versus the System of Shura
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44438-5 (Routledge)
The New Politics of Islam
Pan-Islamic Foreign Policy in a World of States
This is a timely study of the international relations of Islamic states, dealing both with the evolving theory of pan-Islamism from classical to post-caliphal times...2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44453-8 (Routledge)
Peace and Security in the Postmodern World
The OSCE and Conflict Resolution
Preface Acknowledgements Glossary Foreword Alice Ackermann, OSCE Conflict Prevention Centre 1. Violent Postmodern Conflict: A Need to Go Beyond Symptoms 2. A Framework for Analyzing...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44883-3 (Routledge)
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India - From Regional to World Power
This book examines the rise of India to the status of a world power capable of dealing with the full spectrum of international and regional...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44802-4 (Routledge)
The Internet and National Elections
A Comparative Study of Web Campaigning
The Internet and National Elections provides a comparative analysis of the use of the World Wide Web in countries around the world for campaign purposes....
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44618-1 (Routledge)
Islam and Political Legitimacy
Akbarzadeh and Saeed explore one of the most challenging issues facing the Muslim world: the Islamisation of political power. They present a comparative analysis of...2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44437-8 (Routledge)
John Stuart Mill
First published in 1976, this volume offers a significant new interpretation of Mill's political thought, Mill's ambivalent attitude to democracy is carefully examined. The implications...2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43681-6 (Routledge)
Volume Two. Labour Party General Election Manifestos 1900-1997
This volume brings together for the first time the British Labour Political Party General Election Manifestos, dating back to 1900, and including the most recent...2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43672-4 (Routledge)
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Karl Marx
First published in 1975, this book provides an interpretative introduction to the political thought of Karl Marx. The approach is both historical and analytical, with...2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43677-9 (Routledge)
Globalization and the Nation State
The Impact of the IMF and the World Bank
This book brings together an international team of contributors to assess the political economy of the IMF and World Bank programmes.
The cutting-edge techniques of...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42629-9 (Routledge)
The Internet and Politics
Citizens, voters and activists
This volume explores the nature of the Internet's impact on civil society, addressing the following central questions:
- is the Internet qualitatively different from the more traditional...
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43587-1 (Routledge)
Normative Foundations of the Welfare State
The Nordic Experience
This is a sharp analysis of the unique Nordic welfare system with urgent lessons for governments and societies across the globe.Welfare programs and institutions...
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42976-4 (Routledge)
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The Geopolitics of Euro-Atlantic Integration
No set of international relations is as thoroughly analyzed, commented on, taken apart and critiqued as the ties between Europe and the United States. A...
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42977-1 (Routledge)
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International Migration and Security
Opportunities and Challenges
Every day newspapers in the Western world carry articles about illegal immigrants, asylum seekers and other migrants. The focus of these articles varies greatly from...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42963-4 (Routledge)
Resisting Intellectual Property
Over the past decade, the scope of copyright and patent law has grown significantly, strengthening property rights, even when such rights seem to infringe upon...
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42964-1 (Routledge)
International Migration and Globalization of Domestic Politics
Increasing international migration, the information revolution and democratization have propelled a globalization of the domestic politics of many states and, although diasporic politics is not...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42967-2 (Routledge)
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Women, Quotas and Politics
This is the first world-wide, comparative study of the controversial new trends of gender quotas now emerging in global politics, presenting a comprehensive overview of...
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42968-9 (Routledge)
Globalisation and the Rule of Law
Globalisation and the Rule of Law reassesses the idea of the 'rule of law' within the present complex and increasingly internationalised environment. There have been...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42971-9 (Routledge)
Politics and the European Commission
Actors, Interdependence, Legitimacy
The European Commission is an organization which has come to fascinate or repulse a range of national politicians, journalists and social scientists. In contrast to...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42972-6 (Routledge)
States of Political Discourse
Words, Regimes, Seditions
* How are states made possible, constructed in theory and practice, and what alternative possibilities are given up by conferring legitimacy on states?* How do...
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42959-7 (Routledge)
The Power of International Theory
Reforging the Link to Foreign Policy-Making through Scientific Enquiry
This new study challenges how we think about international relations, presenting an analysis of current trends and insights into new directions.
It shows how the discipline...
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42980-1 (Routledge)
Cross-Border Governance in the European Union
This volume attempts to draw debates on governance, at both of these levels, into spaces of cross-border regionalism in Europe today. Embodying both supra-national and...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42975-7 (Routledge)
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Hegemony & History
This collection of essays records the development of Adam Watson's thinking about international theory from the 1950s to the present, exploring his contribution to, and...
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43232-0 (Routledge)
Gender and Civil Society
Over the last two decades there has been considerable enthusiasm for the concept of civil society amongst researchers, practitioners and activists. Yet despite this enthusiasm...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42969-6 (Routledge)
Human Rights and World Trade
Hunger in International Society
A new and incisive analysis of the political viability of human rights, with an in-depth investigation of its largest violation: world hunger.Gonzalez-Pelaez develops John Vincent's theory of...
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42970-2 (Routledge)
European Union Enlargement
A Comparative History
European Union Enlargement provides a comparative analysis of the post-war European policies of those states that joined the European Union between 1973 and 1995.The volume...
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42965-8 (Routledge)
Governing Europe
Discourse, Governmentality and European Integration
Governing Europe is the first book to systematically link Michel Foucault's hypotheses on power and 'governmentality' with the study of European integration. Through a series...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42966-5 (Routledge)
Making The European Polity
Reflexive integration in the EU
Today’s Europe is marked by an amazing pace of integration. The European Union now consists of twenty five member states, however there is confusion and disagreement about...
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42960-3 (Routledge)
Globalisation and Equality
Is globalisation creating a more unequal world? Is it creating new forms of inequality? Does it make certain pre-existing forms of inequality more morally or...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42973-3 (Routledge)
The Post-Cold War International System
Strategies, Institutions and Reflexivity
The end of the Cold War has opened up a 'real world laboratory' in which to test and refine general theories of international relations. Using...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42974-0 (Routledge)
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Global Civil Society
Contested Futures
For many commentators, global civil society is revolutionising our approach to global politics, as new non-state-based and border-free expressions of political community challenge territorial sovereignty...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42978-8 (Routledge)
The Idea of Global Civil Society
Ethics and Politics in a Globalizing Era
This book evaluates the claim that in order to explore the changing social foundations of global power relations today, we need to include in our...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42979-5 (Routledge)
The World Bank and Governance
A Decade of Reform and Reaction
This timely book offers the first critical examination of World Bank policy reforms and initiatives during the past decade.
The World Bank is viewed as...
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-41650-4 (Routledge)