Bücher der Reihe Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Comparing non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the United Nations and the European Union across a range of different issue areas, this volume examines how the choice of venue and institution affects the strategies of NGOs. It is suitable for students and scholars of International Relations, European Studies, and Global Politics.

Focuses on how the US could adapt its foreign policy initiatives to fit in with the aspirations of a multipolar world for a more balanced international order. This book examines if the absence of a superpower status would lead to anarchy. It addresses the possibility of re-examining and redefining the nineteenth century classical balance of power.

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.

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.