Bücher der Reihe Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

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.

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.

Investigates the crisis management mechanism - mediation by third parties to determine the effectiveness of mediation efforts in crisis negotiations. This work examines three approaches to mediation: facilitation communication between parties; formulating possible agreements; and manipulating the parties through sanctions or rewards.

Human security is an important subject for the whole world. This book traces the key evolutions in the development of the concept of human security, the various definitions and critiques, how it relates to other concepts, and what it implies for polities, politics, and policy. It also focuses on its implications for analysis and action.

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.

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.

Explores the governance of the global, the international, the regional and other extra-domestic spaces. This book offers interdisciplinary explorations of such issues as international peacekeeping, refugees, political rationalities of security and neoliberalism, the spatiality of globalization, and the ethical governance of corporate activity.

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.

Developing the concept of Urbicide - the deliberate destruction of cities - this title outlines a theoretical understanding of the urban condition at stake in such violence. It argues that it is necessary to address the widespread and deliberate destruction of buildings as a distinct form of political violence.

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.

Locating Africa on the global stage, this book examines and compares external involvement in the continent, exploring the foreign policies of major states and international organizations towards Africa.

The globalization of law has the potential to move the international human rights regime from the generation of norms to the fulfillment of rights, through direct enforcement, reshaping state policy, granting access to civil society, and global governance of transnational forces. In this volume, edited by Alison Brysk, an international and interdisciplinary team of scholars explores the development of new norms, mechanisms, and practices of international legal accountability for human rights abuse, and tests their power in a series of "hard cases."

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

Offers a reinterpretation of gender and mass violence. This work explores issues surrounding 'gendercide' including: how gender shapes men and women as victims and perpetrators of mass violence, including genocide. It discusses genocidal violence throughout modern history, with a particular focus on the Balkans and Rwanda.

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.

Examines the problem of global climate change and presents a series of case studies on Australia, China, Turkey, Hungary, Denmark, France, the European Union and the US to assess how they are attempting to deal with it.

This book uses postcolonial theory to examine the implications of race, class and gender relations for the structuring of world politics. The implications of these themes are discussed using a wide range of postcolonial readings and critiques.

Discusses contribution of various philosophers and thinkers whose ideas have permeated international relations theory. This book presents an introduction to the contemporary debates regarding theories and methodologies that are used to study international relations, particularly the relationships between interpretive accounts of social action.

Drawing on Iran's history and its relations with great powers and regional neighbours, this book addresses the question of how much continuity and/or change there is in Iranian international relations since the Iranian revolution.

Kai He and his contributors debate the reasons for this contested multilateralism and the impacts it will have on the region's security and political challenges.