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1. Democratization and Social Movements in Korea: Defiant Institutionalization

   By Sun-Chul Kim

   This book examines how social movements in previously authoritarian contexts evolve after a democratic transition. It looks into how democratic change shapes the trajectory of social movements, and how social movements affect the pace and direction of democracy in turn, using South Korea as a...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-58258-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Justice, Legitimacy, and Diversity: Political Authority Between Realism and Moralism

   Edited by Emanuela Ceva, Enzo Rossi

   Most contemporary political philosophers take justice—rather than legitimacy—to be the fundamental virtue of political institutions vis-à-vis the challenges of ethical diversity. Justice-driven theorists are primarily concerned with finding mutually acceptable terms to arbitrate the claims of...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-59729-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Environmental Destruction and Psychosocial Breakdown: Health and human development

   By Roberto De Vogli

   Global warming and the depletion of natural resources are widely recognized as the major threats to the future of industrial society and the survival of human species. However, this environmental destruction is paired with an often-overlooked deterioration of psychosocial wellbeing. In spite of...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-49069-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Politics and the Internet

   Edited by William H. Dutton

   It is commonplace to observe that the Internet—and the dizzying technologies and applications which it continues to spawn—has revolutionized human communications. But, while the medium’s impact has apparently been immense, the nature of its political implications remains highly contested. To give...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-56150-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. Economy and Society: The Final Version by Max Weber

   Edited by Sam Whimster

   Economy and Society: The Final Version represents the codification of Weber’s thinking on the fundamental topics of social science: sociology as an interpretative science of society the economy treated in an interpretative manner the legitimacy of rulership and power the formation of class,...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-42548-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. Counter-Terrorism and State Political Violence: The 'War on Terror' as Terror

   Edited by Scott Poynting, David Whyte

   This edited volume aims to deepen our understanding of state power through a series of case studies of political violence arising from state ‘counter-terrorism’ strategies. The book examines how state counter-terrorism strategies are invariably underpinned by terror, in the form of state...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-60720-9 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   People Power and Political Change: Key Issues and Concepts

   By April Carter

   From an international politics perspective, this book assesses the role of people power in global politics in the twenty first century and its relevance to opposing theories about the nature of international relations. Focusing on protests that have sought to overthrow oppressive regimes or to...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-58049-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. Human Rights and Constituent Power: Without Model or Warranty

   By Illan Wall

   Human Rights and Constituent Power: Without Model or Warranty reworks the ordinary conception of human rights, by replacing their possessive individualism with the radically different ontology of ‘being-together’ in constituent struggle. Engaging the current political and jurisprudential...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-58497-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. Liberal Terror: Global Security, Divine Power and Emergency Rule

   By Brad Evans

   This book offers a genealogical investigation into the phenomenon of terror in the 21st century. Terror has become the defining political emblem of our globally inter-connected age, resulting in an unprecedented global security effort which has given renewed purpose to the Liberal...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-58882-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. Routledge Handbook of International Migration

    Edited by Steven J. Gold, Stephanie J. Nawyn

    The current era is marked by an unparalleled level of human migration that has wide-ranging impacts upon social, economic, political, and cultural life in countries of origin and settlement. Such transformations impact not only those who are migrating, but those who are left behind as well as those...

    July 2011 | 978-0-415-77972-2 | Hardback (Routledge)