By Ahed Alhouis

Since the war started in Syria, the Obama administration has been reluctant to intervene militarily but unhesitating in adopting an antagonistic attitude towards the Assad regime. In fact, for decades the U.S. foreign policy towards Syria has been characterised as confrontational, antagonistic and…

Hardback – 2015-06-30
Routledge
Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy

Edited by Jacques Rupnik

This book is not about the events of 1989, but about 1989 as a world event. Starting with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet bloc it examines the historical significance and the world brought about by 1989. When the Cold War ended in Europe it ushered in a world in which…

Paperback – 2015-06-25
Routledge
Global Order Studies

By Andrea Pirro

Often neglected in the study of far right organisations, post-communist Europe recently witnessed the rise and fall of a number of populist radical right parties. The Populist Radical Right in Central and Eastern Europe is the first comparative study to focus on the ideology, impact, and electoral…

Hardback – 2015-06-24
Routledge
Extremism and Democracy

Edited by James Rochlin

The extractive sector is a particular area of expertise for Canada and more than half of Canada’s mining assets abroad are located in Latin America, specifically in Brazil, Peru, Chile, and Colombia. The Canada-Colombia accord was the first free-trade agreement in the world to include annual Human…

Hardback – 2015-06-23
Routledge
Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

By Bertrand G. Ramcharan

Written by a former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (2003–4), this book has been fully updated for a second edition and continues to provide a much needed, short and accessible introduction to the foundational human rights ideas of our times and shows that every government is under…

Paperback – 2015-06-18
Routledge
Global Institutions

Edited by Michael Smith, Stephan Keukeleire, Sophie Vanhoonacker

Over the past five years, the EU has established a new system of diplomacy centred on the European External Action Service (EEAS) and the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. This new system reflects a process of evolution in a changing context, and has been faced by major…

Hardback – 2015-06-17
Routledge
Routledge Advances in European Politics

By David E. McNabb

Discerning the early stages of the rebirth of a new Russian empire from the ashes of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Putin and Russia’s Imperial Revival argues that Russia’s recent overtly aggressive actions and foreign policy doctrines have signaled a renewal of the Cold War. At the least, Russia’s…

Hardback – 2015-10-05
CRC Press

By Debra Johnson, Colin Turner

The third edition of European Business is published at a time of turbulence in Europe. This uncertainty puts Europe's unique business environment at risk. Key features of the new edition include: assessments of how individual member states affect the integration process and bring diversity to…

Paperback – 2015-10-02
Routledge

Edited by Jack L Amoureux, Brent J. Steele

Reflexivity has become a common term in IR scholarship with a variety of uses and meanings. Yet for such an important concept and referent, understandings of reflexivity have been more assumed rather than developed by those who use it, from realists and constructivists to feminists and…

Paperback – 2015-10-02
Routledge
New International Relations