Bücher der Reihe Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

Since the declaration of human rights, the language of international relations has come to incorporate the language of justice and injustice. This book argues that if justice is to become the governing principle of international politics, then liberals must recognise that their political preferences cannot be the preconditions of global ethics.

Since the Roman Empire, leaders have used ideology to organize the masses and instil amongst them a common consciousness, and equally to conquer, assimilate, or repel alternative ideologies. This book explores the multiple effects that competing ideologies have had on the world system for the past 1,700 years.

In this text the author presents discourse analysis as a new approach to foreign policy analysis. Through an extensive empirical study of British and French policies towards Europe in the 1980s he demonstrates the importance of political discourse.

This book focuses attention on the foreign policy institutions of developing nation states, a relatively neglected area in the comparative study of adaptation to international change.

Addresses the emergence of multiple legal and law-like arrangements that alter the interaction between states, their delegated agencies, international organizations and non-state actors in international and transnational politics. This book is intended for students and researchers of international politics, international relations and law.

Globalization has been traditionally interpreted as a phenomenon that takes place at the macro level and is determined by states and markets. This volume takes a different approach to understanding globalization, showing how through the global sex trade, globalization is embodied and enacted by individuals.

Examines the discipline of international relations in Europe. This book focuses particularly on IR theory, and theoretical debates in Western and Central European countries. The main issues addressed include the historical development of the discipline; factors driving IR theorizing; the institutional and cultural context of theorizing; and more.

The central aim of this book is to analyse whether [or not] the global constitutes a fundamental challenge to the social-scientific study of politics, including the structure of disciplines and the division of labour between them.

Assesses the fate of citizenship in relation to securitized practices of surveillance and control that have emerged in the post-9/11 period. This book discusses a variety of citizenship practices in relation to the emergence of forms of governance that are responsive to - and constitutive of - fears, anxieties, and insecurities in the population.

Explores the complex issue of international ethics in the two dominant schools of thought in international relations, Liberalism and Realism. This book is of interest to students and researchers of politics, philosophy, ethics and international relations.

Demonstrates the diverse responses to globalization, within, and between, Western Europe and East and Southeast Asia. This book presents empirical findings that help decide between arguments about the public impact of globalization cross-nationally.

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 transformation. Applicable to peacebuilders, this book highlights positive examples of women's peacebuilding in comparative international contexts.

Examines the impact of the information revolution on international and domestic security, attempting to remedy both the lack of theoretically informed analysis of information security and the US-centric tendency in the existing literature. This book aims to analyze the impact of the information revolution on international and domestic security.

Shows how foreign policy is about values rather than interests and why ethics play a central role. This book develops a critical understanding of the rise of ethical foreign policy and analyzes the limits of ethical policy-making on its own terms. It is of interest to students and researchers of foreign policy formation and politics.

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 as the exclusive basis for political community and identity. This challenge 'from below' to the nation-state system is increasingly seen as promising nothing less than a reconstruction, or a re-imagination, of world politics itself. Whether in terms of the democratisation of the institutions of global governance, the spread of human rights across the world, or the emergence of a global citizenry in a worldwide public sphere, global civil society is understood by many to provide the agency necessary for these hoped-for transformations. Global Civil Society asks whether this idea is such a qualitatively new phenomenon after all; whether the transformation of the nation-state system is actually within its reach; and what some of the drawbacks might be.

Presents a study that brings together renowned academics to provide an insight into the theory and practice of state-building. This text addresses both the theoretical logic behind state-building and key practical manifestations of this phenomenon. It is aimed at scholars of international relations, comparative politics and political theory.

This book offers a systematic overview of all crises and conflicts in and among states since 1945 and traces the global trends of conflict development.

In the ROUTLEDGE ADVANCES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND POLITICS series, this work examines the ontology of agency and the structure in the international system and derives a theoretical framework for the empirical analysis of international relations from these ontological considerations.

Examines the fight of large European states, against terrorism and drugs.

The author argues for a revised conception of international relations that acknowledges the irreconcilability of realist and idealist theories and concerns itself instead with important substantive issues.

Globalization studies are not really global; they mainly originate from Western countries, not the developing world. This book helps to redress the balance and reveals the nexus between globalization and development.

Security is an essentially contested concept. This volume interprets the meaning of security as it is intelligible in relation to, and in the context of, other ideas that are central to contemporary international life such as: sovereignty; diplomacy; war; great powers and self-determination.

This book focuses on the resolution of self-determined conflicts, in which self-defined population groups fight to determine their own destiny within the boundaries of existing states.

Global civil society and the society of democratic states are the two most inclusive and powerful global practices. This book claims that without an understanding of the role that individual human rights play in these practices, no adequate understanding of any major feature of contemporary world politics, from globalisation to wars, is possible.

This book provides a systematic study of Russian foreign policy and the separatist and civil military conflicts in the former Soviet republics following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

"This book offers a re-examination of foreign policy, in its relation with domestic politics and international relations"--

This book presents insightful perspectives on the invocation, implementation and application of UN-approved financial sanctions and related issues.

By analysing cases from Japan, Greenland, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, and Singapore, this book sheds light on the mechanisms of base politics that surround US overseas military bases. Beyond bringing America strategic and security benefits, they influence power relations in the entire world.