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New and Published Books

  1. Governing the World?

    Cases in Global Governance

    Edited by Sophie Harman, David Williams

    ‘Global governance’ has become a key concept in the contemporary study of international politics, yet what the term means and how it works remains in question. Governing the World: Cases in Global Governance takes an alternative approach to understanding the concept by exploring how global...

    Published May 23rd 2013 by Routledge

  2. Water Governance, Policy and Knowledge Transfer

    International Studies on Contextual Water Management

    Edited by Cheryl De Boer, Joanne Vinke-de Kruijf, Gül Özerol, Hans Th. A. Bressers

    Series: Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management

    In an increasingly global community of researchers and practitioners, new technologies and communication means have made the transfer of policies from one country or region to another progressively more prevalent. There has been a lot of attention in the field of public administration paid to...

    Published May 23rd 2013 by Routledge

  3. Feminist Geopolitics

    At the Sharp End

    Edited by Deborah P. Dixon, Sallie A. Marston

    Building on a trans-disciplinary, feminist project that foregrounds the bodies of those at the ‘sharp end’ of various forms of international activity, such as immigration, development and warfare, the chapters included in this book cover a variety of sites, concerns, and hopes. These range from the...

    Published May 21st 2013 by Routledge

  4. Transatlantic Regulation

    Edited by Susanne Lütz

    The European and American economies are closely interlinked as mutually important investment and trading partners. The growing intensity of economic interdependence has spurred the transatlantic coordination of rules and standards that can lead to the formation of non-tariff barriers to...

    Published May 21st 2013 by Routledge

  5. Global Civil Society and Transversal Hegemony

    The Globalization-Contestation Nexus

    By Karen Buckley

    Series: Rethinking Globalizations

    There has been clear recognition of tendencies towards uncritically celebrating resistance and the need for critical appraisal within the literature on globalization and contestation. This book provides a conceptual history of global civil society and a critical examination of the politics of...

    Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge

  6. International Relations in France

    Writing between Discipline and State

    By Henrik Breitenbauch

    Series: Worlding Beyond the West

    Why is the French International Relations (IR) discipline different from the transnational-American discipline? By analysing argument structures in research articles across time, this book shows how the discipline in France is caught between the American character of the discipline and the French...

    Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge

  7. Genocide and Mass Atrocities in Asia

    Legacies and Prevention

    Edited by Deborah Mayersen, Annie Pohlman

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

    The twentieth century has been labelled the ‘century of genocide’, and according to estimates, more than 250 million civilians were victims of genocide and mass atrocities during this period. This book provides one of the first regional perspectives on mass atrocities in Asia, by exploring the...

    Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge

  8. Religion in International Relations Theory

    Interactions and Possibilities

    By Nukhet Sandal, Jonathan Fox

    Series: Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics

    There is a growing realization among international relations scholars and practitioners that religion is a critical factor in global politics. The Iranian Revolution, the September 11 attacks, the ethno-religious conflicts such as the ones in the former Yugoslavia and Sri Lanka are among the many...

    Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge

  9. Deleuze & Fascism

    Security: War: Aesthetics

    Edited by Brad Evans, Julian Reid

    Series: Interventions

    This edited volume deploys Deleuzian thinking to re-theorize fascism as a mutable problem in changing orders of power relations dependent on hitherto misunderstood social and political conditions of formation. The book provides a theoretically distinct approach to the problem of fascism and its...

    Published May 16th 2013 by Routledge

  10. Contemporary Political Agency

    Theory and Practice

    Edited by Bice Maiguashca, Raffaele Marchetti

    Series: Global Order Studies

    This book explores and critically reflects on the theory and practice of political agency in contemporary global politics. In light of the changing relationship between the state, the market and the society, it seeks to map both theoretically and empirically contemporary forms of global political...

    Published May 15th 2013 by Routledge