International Relations Theory Books

New and Published Books

1. Postcolonial Encounters in International Relations

   The Politics of Transgression in the Maghreb

   By Alina Sajed

   Series: Interventions

   Postcolonial Encounters in International Relations examines the social and cultural aspects of the political violence that underpinned the French colonial project in the Maghreb, and the multi-layered postcolonial realities that ensued. This book explores the reality of the lives of North...

   Published May 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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 15th 2013 by Routledge
5. 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 15th 2013 by Routledge
6. 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 15th 2013 by Routledge
7. The United States, Israel, and the Search for International Order

   Socializing States

   By Cameron G. Thies

   Series: Role Theory and International Relations

   How do emerging states become full, functioning members of the international system? In this book, Cameron G. Thies argues that new and emerging states are subject to socialization efforts by current member states, which guide them in locating their position in the international system. Thies...

   Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
8. Politics and the Art of Commemoration

   Memorials to struggle in Latin America and Spain

   By Katherine Hite

   Series: Interventions

   Memorials are proliferating throughout the globe. States recognize the political value of memorials: memorials can convey national unity, a sense of overcoming violent legacies, a commitment to political stability or the strengthening of democracy. Memorials represent fitful negotiations between...

   Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
9. Understanding Transatlantic Relations

   Whither the West?

   By Serena Simoni

   Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

   In light of the Arab Spring and after days of public quarreling that highlighted the divisions among NATO’s members on an agreement to give command of the "no-fly" zone in Libya to the Alliance, it is evident that the U.S. is having problems engaging with its European allies and partners. Why is...

   Published May 5th 2013 by Routledge
10. Death of Feminism?

    Is Popular & Commercial Culture Undermining Women's Rights?

    Edited by Penny Griffin

    Series: Popular Culture and World Politics

    This volume seeks to offer a critical, innovative and empirically driven interrogation of the international political economy of cultures of production and consumption in Western market societies, investigating the reproduction of Western popular and commercial culture (including its products and...

    Published April 29th 2013 by Routledge