Social science / Political science / International Relations

Routledge Handbook of Public Policy

by Eduardo Araral, Scott Fritzen & Michael Howlett

This Handbook provides a comprehensive global survey of the policy process. Written by an outstanding line up of distinguished scholars and practitioners, the Handbook covers all aspects of the policy process...

Japan's Security Identity: From a Peace-State to an International-State

by Bhubhindar Singh

Since the end of the Cold War, there has been a significant change in Japanese security policy, as Japan's security identity has shifted from a peace state, to an international state. In this book, Bhubhindar...

Israel in the World: Legitimacy and Exceptionalism

by Emanuel Adler

Since independence, Israel has lived with a paradox, needing and seeking legitimacy, understanding, and empathy from the world community while simultaneously also discounting the world. This volume reflects...

Understanding the Bush Doctrine: Psychology and Strategy in an Age of Terrorism

by Stanley A. Renshon & Peter Suedfeld

In this volume, leading scholars of U.S. foreign policy, international relations, and political psychology examine one of the most consequential and controversial statements of national security policy in contemporary...

Transforming Pakistan: Ways Out of Instability

by Hilary Synnott

This book argues that any strategy for dealing with Pakistan requires an understanding of the country's complex and turbulent history and of the weaknesses of its political and other institutions. It describes...

IMPLEMENTING INTNL HUMANITARIA

by Yusuf Aksar

Implementing International Humanitarian Law examines the international humanitarian law rules and their application by the ad hoc tribunals with regard to the substantive laws of the International Criminal Tribunal...

Reforming the UN Security Council Membership: The illusion of representativeness

by Sabine Hassler

This book comprehensively examines the different proposals put forward for reforming the UN Security Council by analysing their objectives and exploring whether the implementation of these proposals would actually...

Threats of Force: International Law and Strategy

by Francis Grimal

Despite recent attempts by scholars to examine the absolute prohibition of threats of force under Article 2(4) of the UN Charter, threats remain a largely un-chartered area in international law when compared...

Governing Europe: Discourse, Governmentality and European Integration

by Jens Henrik Haahr & William Walters

Governing Europe is the first book to systematically link Michel Foucault's hypotheses on power and 'governmentality' with the study of European integration. Through a series of empirical encounters that spans...

International Trade and Neoliberal Globalism: Towards Re-peripheralisation in Australia, Canada and Mexico?

by Paul Bowles, Ray Broomhill & Teresa Gutiérrez-Haces

International trade must be analysed within the historical context within which it occurs. Behind the statistics on trade flows lie power structures, class interests and international hierarchies. These change...

In the Name of Democracy

by Jeremy Brecher, Jill Cutler & Brendan Smith

A riveting documentary anthology that examines a deeply disturbing question: Is the United States guilty of war crimes in Iraq?

Until recently, the possibility that the United States was responsible for war crimes...

Indo-US Nuclear Deal: A Case Study in Indo-US Relations

by P R Chari

This book interrogates the Indo-US civil nuclear agreement from its inception in July 2005 to its conclusion in the latter part of 2008 through 12 articles, each of which focuses on different aspects of the...

Can Russia Change? (Routledge Revivals): The USSR confronts Global Interdependence

by Walter Clemens

First published in 1990, this ground-breaking book sought to determine whether contemporary Russia had the capacity to change and if, in so doing, it could alter the complex web of East-West relations from a...

The Enlarged European Union: Unity and Diversity

by Peter Mair & Jan Zielonka

Focusing upon the emerging patterns of unity and diversity in the enlarged European Union, this study explores enlargement from the East and the impact this will have on the future identity of Europe.

Power of International Theory

by Fred Chernoff

This new study challenges how we think about international relations, presenting an analysis of current trends and insights into new directions.

It shows how the discipline of international relations was...

Negotiating the Arctic: The Construction of an International Region

by E.C.H Keskitalo

This work draws upon the history of Arctic development and the view of the Arctic in different states to explain how such a discourse has manifested itself in current broader cooperation across eight statistics...

Power, Terror, Peace, and War: America's Grand Strategy in a World at Risk

by Walter Russell Mead

International affairs expert and award-winning author of Special Providence Walter Russell Mead here offers a remarkably clear-eyed account of American foreign policy and the challenges it faces post—September...

International Politics of the Asia Pacific

by Michael Yahuda

This second edition of Michael Yahuda's extremely successful textbook introduces students to the international politics of the Asia Pacific region since 1945. The new edition is completely updated with contemporary...

Nationalism and Internationalism in the Post-Cold War Era

by Kjell Goldmann, Ulf Hannerz & Charles Westin

The tension between nationalism and internationalism has been a major feature of world politics since the end of the Cold War. Based on a Nobel symposium, this collection brings together an international selection...

Liberal Democracy and Environmentalism: The End of Environmentalism?

by Yoram Levy & Marcel Wissenburg

In recent decades, environmental issues have increasingly been incorporated into liberal democratic thought and political practice. Environmentalism and ecologism have become fashionable, even respectable schools...