Politics: Key Research in Paperback

Innovations in Urban Politics

Edited by Jonathan Davies

Previously published as a special issue of Policy Studies, this volume demonstrates the vitality of the field of urban politics and presents future challenges for urban political research in the years ahead. If it does not already, the population of cities will very soon make up more than half the...

Published February 23rd 2009 by Routledge

Recognition and Redistribution

Beyond International Development

Edited by Heloise Weber, Mark T. Berger

Series: Rethinking Globalizations

This is an innovative and insightful approach to the global politics of development. The authors challenge conventional perspectives of, and approaches to, development and offer alternative accounts of the politics of development from the perspective of non-state centred and non-state centric...

Published December 11th 2013 by Routledge

The Politics of Speed

Capitalism, the State and War in an Accelerating World

By Simon Glezos

Series: Interventions

Everyone agrees that the world is accelerating. With advances in communication, transportation and information processing technologies, it is clear that the pace of events in global politics is speeding up at an alarming rate. The implications of this new speed however, continue to be a significant...

Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge

Constructivism and International Relations

Alexander Wendt and his critics

Edited by Stefano Guzzini, Anna Leander

Series: New International Relations

This new book unites in one volume some of the most prominent critiques of Alexander Wendt's constructivist theory of international relations and includes the first comprehensive reply by Wendt. Partly reprints of benchmark articles, partly new original critiques, the critical chapters are...

Published July 13th 2006 by Routledge

Extreme Right Activists in Europe

Through the magnifying glass

By Bert Klandermans, Nonna Mayer

Series: Extremism and Democracy

Since the 1980s, one of the main political changes in Western Europe has been the electoral upsurge of extreme right-wing parties. However, while the electoral support of these movements has been studied extensively, their membership has largely been ignored. This book examines who joins the...

Published January 31st 2009 by Routledge

The Political Economy of State-Business Relations in Europe

Interest Mediation, Capitalism and EU Policy Making

By Rainer Eising

Series: Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies

The delegation of policy-competencies to the European Union has changed the context in which national actors form their interests and represent them. Shaping European markets and societies, EU regulation has important effects in the member states. This book analyses how business interest...

Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge

The Power of International Theory

Reforging the Link to Foreign Policy-Making through Scientific Enquiry

By Fred Chernoff

Series: New International Relations

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 created with a purpose of helping policy makers to build a more peaceful and just world....

Published December 4th 2006 by Routledge

Foucault and International Relations

New Critical Engagements

Edited by Nicholas J. Kiersey, Doug Stokes

Series: Interventions

The recent debate about biopolitics in International Relations (IR) theory may well prove to be one of the most provocative and rewarding engagements with the concept of power in the history of the discipline. Building on Foucault's arguments concerning the role played by the concept of security in...

Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge