Bücher der Reihe Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

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.

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.

Kofi Annan's report "In Larger Freedom" contained wide-ranging proposals to reform the United Nations since it was founded in the wake of the Second World War. This book describes, analyzes and evaluates Kofi Annan's endeavor to reform the United Nations. It is of interest student and scholars of international law, and international politics.

This book is a major contribution to the debate about philosophy and method in history and international relations. The author analyses IR scholarship from classical realism to quantitative and postmodern work.

An exploration of the impacts of Arctic regimes in such vital areas as pollution, biodiversity, indigenous affairs, health and climate change.

Explores why, despite the initial promise and enthusiasm at the beginning of the 1990s, the European Union (EU) and the Russian Federation have encountered severe difficulties in developing their institutionalized relationship.

The governance of the HIV/AIDS pandemic has come to represent a multi-faceted and complex operation in which the World Bank has set and sustained the global agenda for by the World Bank. This book unravels how the Bank's good governance agenda manifests itself in practice, through the Multi-Country AIDS Program (MAP).

Organised crime is a major threat to all industrial and non-industrial countries. Using an inter-disciplinary and comparative approach, this book examines the official institutional discourse on organised crime to examine whether, or not, it has an impact on perceptions of the threat and on the reality of organized crime.

Introduces the conceptual frameworks of coping and conformity to provide a fresh analysis of the ethical and political demands of international life. This book addresses wider issues of freedom and necessity, individualism and communitarianism and cosmopolitanism, agency and structure, and the legitimacy of governance and institutions.

Examines issues of organisation in resistance movements, discussing topics including the integration of the world system, the intersection of networks with discourses of identity, and the possibility of social transformation. This book is suitable for students and scholars looking for a fresh theorization of the forces at work in global politics.

Examines the trajectory of the Cold War and its impact on the rest of the world, to seek lessons for international relations. This title analyses issues such as the unipolar moment, the economic balance of power, the emergence of cooperative security frameworks and nuclear disarmament, outlining where the potential for conflict is ingrained.

Explains the role of foreign policy politics, processes and institutions in efforts to protect the environment and natural resources. This book examines the problem of global climate change and assesses the manner in which governments and other actors have attempted to deal with it. It is suitable for scholars and students of environmental policy.

Helpful for anyone interested in problems associated with ethnicity and nationalism - this title offers a guide to understanding the ethno-national forces that underpin much of recent terrorist activity.

This book tackles the issues involved in and explores the strategies to deal with many of the problems of establishing equivalence when conducting comparative research in politics.

This book examines whether the strong emphasis now placed on terrorism and the "global war on terror" in national politics has led to significant accretions of executive power at the expense of the legislature and features case studies on Australia, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Russia, and the UK.

This book provides an original analysis of recent work in historical sociology and international relations. It investigates a number of issues that overlap between the two disciplines.

Examines how western liberal states are progressively restricting access to refugees and asylum seekers, even though these states have signed international agreements obliging them to offer protection to those fleeing persecution and to advocate the spread of human rights and humanitarian principles.

Examines mediation in connection with peacebuilding in the Asia-Pacific region, providing examples which either highlight the weaknesses within certain mediation approaches or demonstrate best-practice. This book explores the extent to which ideas and practices of mediation in the Asia-Pacific region are dominated by Western understandings.

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.