International Relations

Conveniently structured into five sections, The Routledge Research Companion to Outsourcing Security offers an overview of the different ways in wh...

This book investigates the extent to which the EU has defined and operationalised the notion of effective multilateralism.Reform has dominated the ...

Peace and Conflict is a biennial publication that provides cutting-edge data and analysis concerning domestic and international conflicts and corre...

For the first time since its founding in 1921, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has adopted a new paradigm for its role in China. Abandoning its f...

The importance of the institutional dimensions to international trade law over the last decades is brought to light in this volume of previously pu...

Artists, Cosmopolitanism, and the Civic Imagination unpacks the political agency of artists by looking at artists as moral, reflexive, and politica...

In this important new book, Douglas Little explores the political and cultural turmoil that led U.S. policy makers to shift their attention from co...

In the context of the end of the Cold War and the spread of globalism, sub-regions are attracting attention as new social units of international so...

In Pursuit of Prosperity provides a much needed exploration of the evolution of environmental sustainability in U.S. foreign policy.Through expert ...

Kalpakian tests the dominant assumption that water disputes cause violent conflict between states and other actors in world politics. Using case st...

The Indian Ocean is of tremendous geo-political and strategic relevance. More than eighty per cent of global seaborne trade in oil passes through t...

By focusing on the wider process of negotiations, this novel volume presents the first systematic analysis of the Transatlantic Trade and Investmen...

Despite calls for the decolonisation of knowledge, scholars who come from conflict-affected societies remained marginalised, excluded from the exam...

This book interrogates the common perception that liberal peace is in crisis and explores the question: can the local turn save liberal peacebuildi...

Japans U.S.imposed postwar constitution renounced the use of offensive military force, but, as Sheila Smith shows, a nuclear North Korea and an inc...

This book discusses the growing media engagement between China and Africa from the point of view of both these regions. The rapid increase in Sino-...

This volume explores the shared expectations that education is a panacea for the difficulties that refugees and their receiving countries face. Thi...

This book takes the concept of piracy as a starting point to discuss the instability of property as a social construction and how this is spatially...

This book examines the development of Chinas national ambitions under its current leader Xi Jinping and the dilemma they present for the United Sta...

Transatlantic relations have been among the most crucially important areas for US foreign policy since 1945. For reasons of self-interest and with ...

Almost nowhere are politics and history so intimately bound up as in Ireland. Over the course of several hundred years rival political and religiou...

This unique book investigates the complex transformation of Turkey's foreign policy, focusing on changing threat perceptions and the reformulation ...

With renewed American involvement in Afghanistan, Pakistan's growing fragility, and China's rise in power in the post-Soviet space, Central Asia-So...

The European Union (EU) is a key partner for African regional organizations and a major promoter of economic and political integration in the regio...