While the EU has championed "effective multilateralism" and experienced a dramatic internal reform process to improve its performance in external relations, broader multilateral processes have also un...
This Handbook provides a comprehensive global survey of the policy process.
This Handbook brings together scholars whose essays discuss significant issues with regard to international organization as a process and international organizations as institutions.
Transnational organized crime crosses borders, challenges States, exploits individuals, pursues profit, wrecks economies, destroys civil society, and ultimately weakens global democracy.
This handbook provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of Global Environmental Politics.
With the Obama campaign universally acknowledged as the most successfully marketed presidential campaign of all time, the future of political marketing is fiercely contested, provoking a wealth of hig...
Almost all states are either federal or regionalized in some sense.
A definitive global survey of the interaction of race, ethnicity, nationalism and politics, this handbook blends theoretically grounded, rigorous analysis with empirical illustrations, to provide a st...
The Routledge Handbook of International Law provides a definitive global survey of the interaction of international politics and international law.
No nation has maintained such an immense stature in world politics as the United States has since the Cold War’s end.
There is an ever-burgeoning number of books analyzing the Russian experience, or aspects of it.
Latin America has been one of the critical areas in the study of comparative politics.
This exciting new handbook provides a global overview of the process of democratization, offering chapter by chapter discussion at both the country and regional levels and examining the interaction be...
Providing a comprehensive and cutting edge examination of this important continent, Routledge Handbook of African Politics surveys the key debates and controversies, dealing with each of the major iss...
Despite post-Cold War arguments about their demise, ‘Great Powers’ not only continue to thrive, with lesser Powers they form the basis of the constellation of global politics.
The Routledge Handbook of German Politics and Culture offers a wide-ranging and authoritative account of Germany in the 21st century.
The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Political Institutions (HCPI) is designed to serve as a comprehensive reference guide to our accumulated knowledge and the cutting edge of scholarship about polit...
The Handbook of Latin America in the World explains how the Latin American countries have both reacted and contributed to changing international dynamics over the last 30 years.
Since the Treaty of the European Union was ratified in 1993, the European Union has become an important factor in an ever-increasing number of regimes of pooled sovereignty.
The study of the International Political Economy (IPE), like the IPE itself, is plural and unbounded.
The Handbook of Election Coverage Around the World focuses on the news coverage of national elections in democracies around the globe.
The politics of the internet has entered the social science mainstream.
This rigorous but very accessible guide to the main concepts and techniques of policy analysis is intended for students and in-service professionals who want to become more efficient and effective in ...
The Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy provides a comprehensive overview of public diplomacy and national image and perception management, from the efforts to foster pro-West sentiment during the ...
The Routledge Handbook of Political Management is a comprehensive overview of the field of applied politics, encompassing political consulting, campaigns and elections, lobbying and advocacy, grass ro...
The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Italy provides a comprehensive account of Italy and Italian politics in the 21st Century.
The Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology presents a comprehensive and authoritative examination of the rapidly growing field of political ecology.
Interpretive political science focuses on the meanings that shape actions and institutions, and the ways in which they do so.
Since the early 1990s, a series of major scandals in both the financial and most especially the political world has resulted in close attention being paid to the issue of corruption and its links to p...
The Routledge Handbook of European Elections explores the multifaceted dimension of the European Parliament’s (EP) electoral contests across the European Community and European Union since 1979.
This handbook provides a comprehensive global survey of the politics of technology.
The World Social Forum (WSF) has become the focus for a diverse array of movements advancing alternative visions of globalisation.
Social media are now widely used for political protests, campaigns, and communication in developed and developing nations, but available research has not yet paid sufficient attention to experiences b...
The Ashgate Research Companion to Chinese Foreign Policy draws out the full range of topics and issues that characterise China's external affairs.
A definitive global survey of the interaction of ethnicity, nationalism and politics, this handbook blends rigorous theoretically grounded analysis with empirically rich illustrations to provide a sta...
This collection provides a comprehensive, state-of-the art review of current research in the field of New Public Management (NPM) reform.
Since the late 1980s, critical geopolitics has gone from being a radical critical perspective on the disciplines of political geography and international relations theory to becoming a recognised area...
This volume provides a state of the art review of current thinking on the full range of trade policy issues, addressing the economic and political dimensions of international trade policy.
While skepticism about the role of moral considerations in international politics has been influential within the discipline of international relations (IR), those writing on topics such as war, peace...
This comprehensive research companion examines the theory, practice and historical development of the principle of federalism from the ancient period to the contemporary world.
How do non-state actors matter in international relations? This volume recognizes three types of non-state actor: non-governmental organizations (NGOs), intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) and tran...
Discussing the major theories of political leadership with a focus on contemporary challenges that political leaders face worldwide, this research companion provides a comprehensive and up-to-date res...
'Democratization' is a concept often used in academic book titles, yet not many of them deal with the initial breakthrough of democratization.
EU studies increasingly recognize the salience of new regional insights.
Global health has emerged as a distinct field of academic research and professional activity.
Examining the past, present and future formulation and implementation of US foreign policy, this research companion provides a range of interpretations of the topic so that the reader comes away with ...
The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Politics brings together forty essays by leading film scholars and filmmakers in order to discuss the complex relationship between cinema and politics.
Sport is frequently considered to be an aspect of popular culture that is, or should be, untainted by the political.
The Routledge Handbook of Soft Power is the first volume to offer a comprehensive and detailed picture of soft power and associated forms of public diplomacy.
There is growing concern that welfare states are inefficient, unsustainable and lack popular support.
Secession is a detachment of a territory from an existing state with the aim of creating a new state on the detached territory.
The Routledge Handbook of Global Public Policy and Administration is a comprehensive leading-edge guide for students, scholars and practitioners of public policy and administration.
Resilience is increasingly discussed as a key concept across many fields of international policymaking from sustainable development and climate change, insecurity, conflict and terrorism to urban and ...
This handbook presents in a comprehensive, concise and accessible overview, the emerging field of international political sociology.
The problematic of biopolitics has become increasingly important in the social sciences.
The explosive growth in information technology has ushered in unparalleled new opportunities for advancing public service.
This Handbook provides the most comprehensive overview of the role of electoral advertising on television and new forms of advertising in countries from all parts of the world currently available.
This Handbook presents the first comprehensive study of policy analytical practices in comparative perspective.
The political economy of research and innovation (R&I) is one of the central issues of the early twenty-first century.
The Routledge Handbook of Scandinavian Politics is a comprehensive overview of Scandinavian politics provided by leading experts in the field and covering the polity, the politics and the policy of Sc...
Since the advent of the 1992 Maastricht Treaty, a key turning point in terms of the crystallisation of opposition towards the European Union (EU), Euroscepticism has become a transnational phenomenon.
The Mediterranean space, defined by a major sea, a large number of littoral countries and to some extent their hinterlands, is at the same time an interface between Europe, Africa and Asia.
The Routledge Handbook of East European Politics is an authoritative overview that will help a wide readership develop an understanding of the region in all its political, economic, and social complex...
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Politics provides a comprehensive overview of this important and dynamic area of study and research.
The study of elections, voting behavior and public opinion are arguably among the most prominent and intensively researched sub-fields within Political Science.
This handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of the dynamics and prospects of democratization in East Asia.
Asia is a complex and diverse continent, which has seen the scope and pace of transformation increase rapidly over the past 30 years.
Interest in social science and empirical analyses of law, courts and specifically the politics of judges has never been higher or more salient.
Justice and Home Affairs is one of the fastest expanding areas of research in European Studies.
The Routledge Handbook of European Public Policy provides an in-depth and systematic understanding of EU policies.
The Routledge Handbook on the European Neighbourhood Policy provides a comprehensive overview of the EU?s most important foreign policy instrument, provided by leading experts in the field.
Over the last 30 years referendums have played an increasingly important role in determining government policy.
From the United States to the Middle East, Asia and Africa, religion continues to be an important factor in political activity and organisation.
Over the last decade, the world has increasingly grappled with the complex linkages emerging between efforts to combat climate change and to protect human rights around the world.
Primary elections have been used for the past century for most U.
From a nuclear North Korea and territorial disputes in the East China Sea, to global climate change and Asia-Pacific free trade agreements, Japan is at the center of some of the most challenging issue...
Engagements with the postcolonial world by International Relations scholars have grown significantly in recent years.
Providing a comprehensive overview of Russia?s foreign policy directions, this handbook brings together an international team of scholars to develop a complex treatment of Russia?s foreign policy.
The Routledge Handbook of Politics in Asia is designed to serve as a comprehensive reference guide to politics in Asia.
The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Politics presents the first comprehensive, state of the art overview of the multiple ways in which ?politics? and ?translation? interact.
The Routledge Handbook on Spaces of Urban Politics provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for urban politics.
The surprise decision expressed by the British people in the referendum held in June 2016 to leave the European Union was remarkable.
The Routledge Handbook of the Politics of Migration in Europe provides a rigorous and critical examination of what is exceptional about the European politics of migration and the study of it.
Ethics and international Relations (IR), once considered along the margins of the IR field, has emerged as one of the most eclectic and interdisciplinary research areas today.
Uniting theoretical bases and advancements in practice, the Routledge Handbook of Policy Design brings together leading experts in the academic field of policy design in a pioneering effort of scholar...
This handbook covers a wide spectrum of issues relating to small states.
The Routledge Handbook of International Local Government conducts a rigorous, innovative and distinctive analysis of local government within a comparative, international context.
How have immigration and diversity shaped urban life and local governance? The Routledge Handbook to the Governance of Migration and Diversity in Cities focuses on the ways migration and diversity hav...
With contributions from leading international scholars, this Handbook offers the most rigorous and up-to-date analyses of virtually every aspect of Brazilian politics, including inequality, environme...
International trade has, for decades, been central to economic growth and improved standards of living for nations and regions worldwide.
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual, and Allies community (abbreviated LGBTQIA or "LGBT") is responding to a radically changed social and political environment.
The Routledge Handbook of Transregional Studies brings together the various fields within which transregional phenomena are scientifically observed and analysed.
What does it mean to do public policy ethics today? How should philosophers engage with ethical issues in policy-making when policy decisions are circumscribed by political and pragmatic concerns? How...
<P><I> <P>The Routledge Companion to Migration, Communication and Politics</I> brings together academics from numerous disciplines to show the legal, political, communicative, ...
<P></P> <P>In the early twenty-first century, key public health issues and challenges have taken centre stage on the global scene, and health has been placed at the heart of our coll...
Governance in South America is signified by strategies pursued by state and non-state actors directed to enhancing (some aspect of) their capabilities and powers of agency.
Central America constitutes a fascinating case study of the challenges, opportunities and characteristics of the process of transformation in today?s global economy.
These days, one would have a difficult time picking up a newspaper, or watching a newscast that did not have a lead story dealing with some aspect of oil.
This handbook is a comprehensive interdisciplinary overview of indigenous peoples? rights.
In a relatively short period of time, the study of China?s international relations has gone from being a topic that interested a fairly small group of scholars and analysts to one that is close to ? i...
This volume examines the role of Arab women in the Arab Spring and their contribution to the ongoing process of change sweeping the region.
This Handbook looks at how China is governed, how its domestic political system functions and the critical issues that it currently faces.
This International Handbook gives an overview of India?s international relations, given the development of India as a major economic power in the world, and the growing interest in the impact of Asia ...
Africa?s international relations have often been defined and oriented by the dominant international and geopolitical agendas of the day.
One of the main tasks facing the Barack Obama Administration in the USA is that of improving the image of the country in the Middle East region.
The role of the European Union in global politics has been of growing interest over the past decade.
There was an expectation that the end of the Cold War would herald a new era of peace and stability in which the importance of nuclear weapons was marginalized.
Since mid-2007, the world scenario has been dominated by the US sub-prime mortgage crisis and its repercussions on global financial markets and economic growth.
Governance in the Middle East and North African will be essential reading for scholars, activists and policy makers.
Issues of defence politics and policy have long been at the forefront of political agendas and defining of international affairs.
The Global Arms Trade is written by a team of security experts drawn from around the world, analysing a phenomenon which has continued to flourish despite the end of the Cold War and the preoccupation...
<P>According to estimates by the International Land Coalition based at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), 57 million hectares of land have been leased to foreign investo...
The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics is a volume of critical essays, provocations, and interventions on the most important questions faced by today?s writers, critics, audiences, and theatr...
Critical international relations is both firmly established and rapidly expanding, and this Handbook offers a wide-ranging survey of contemporary research.
<P>Offering insights from pioneering new perspectives in addition to well-established traditions of research, this Handbook considers the activities not only of advocacy groups in the environmen...
The Routledge Handbook of Turkish Politics pulls together contributions from many of the world?s leading scholars on different aspects of Turkey.
An understanding of law and its efficacy in Latin America demands concepts distinct from the hegemonic notions of "rule of law" which have dominated debates on law, politics and society, and that reco...
This handbook examines Pakistan?s 70-year history from a number of different perspectives.
Successive waves of global protest since 1999 have encouraged leading contemporary political theorists to argue that politics has fundamentally changed in the last twenty years, with a new type of pol...
The colonial heritage and its renewed aftermaths ? expressed in the inter-American experiences of slavery, indigeneity, dependence, and freedom movements, to mention only a few aspects ? form a common...
This volume explores the issues and debates surrounding the ongoing processes of democratization in sub-Saharan Africa, illuminating the central dynamics characterizing Africa?s democratic experiments...
The emerging field of psychoanalytic political theory has now reached a stage in its development and rapid evolution that deserves to be registered, systematically defined, and critically evaluated.
This new handbook provides a comprehensive and multidisciplinary overview of the theoretical and empirical aspects of state recognition in international politics.
The Routledge History of Human Rights is an interdisciplinary collection that provides historical and global perspectives on a range of human rights themes of the past 150 years.
The Routledge Handbook of Global Sustainability Governance provides a state-of-the-art review of core debates and contributions that offer a more normative, critical, and transformatively aspirational...
Conflict and instability are built into the very fabric of the Middle East and North African (MENA) state and states system; yet both states and states system have displayed remarkable resilience.
The Routledge Handbook of French Politics and Culture provides a detailed survey of the highly differentiated field of research on French politics, society and culture across the social sciences and h...
As religion and politics become ever more intertwined, relationships between religion and political parties are of increasing global political significance.
In modern politics as well as in historical times, character attacks abound.
This handbook explores the political economy and governance of the Americas, placing particular emphasis on collective and intertwined experiences.
Taking a global and interdisciplinary approach, the Routledge Handbook of Conspiracy Theories provides a comprehensive overview of conspiracy theories as an important social, cultural and political ph...
Exploring the culture and media of the Americas, this handbook places particular emphasis on collective and intertwined experiences and focuses on the transnational or hemispheric dimensions of cultur...
The Routledge Handbook to Global Political Economy provides a comprehensive guide to how Global Political Economy (GPE) is conceptualized and researched around the world.
The second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy, co-edited by two leading scholars in the international relations subfield of public diplomacy, includes 16 more chapters from the firs...
International commissions, academics, practitioners, and the media have long been critical of the UN?s development efforts as disjointed and not fit for purpose; yet the organization has been an essen...
This Handbook is the first major work to comprehensively map state-of-the-art scholarship on electoral debates in comparative perspective.
The Routledge Handbook of British Politics and Society conducts a rigorous, innovative and distinctive analysis of the relationship between British politics and society, emphasizing that the UK is now...
This handbook provides comprehensive and expert analysis of the impact of the Brexit process and the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union on existing and future EU?UK relations wit...
Since the MeToo hashtag went viral in 2017, the movement has burgeoned across social media, moving beyond Twitter and into living rooms and courtrooms.
This handbook comprehensively defines and shapes the field of Critical European Union Studies, sets the research agenda and highlights emerging areas of study.
In the past two decades, Marxism has enjoyed a revitalization as a research program and a growth in its audience.
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the changing dynamics in the relationship between the African continent and the EU, provided by leading experts in the field.
This Handbook maps the expanding field of gender and EU politics, giving an overview of the fundamentals and new directions of the sub- discipline, and serving as a reference book for (gender) scholar...
This Handbook provides a systematic overview of the study of policy styles provided by leading experts in the field.
This handbook presents a comprehensive, concise and accessible overview of the field of Historical International Relations (HIR).
Public administration as a field of study finds itself in the middle of a fluid environment.
A productive society is dependent upon high-performing government.
The Routledge Handbook of EU-Russia Relations offers a comprehensive overview of the changing dynamics in relations between the EU and Russia provided by leading experts in the field.
What does responsibility mean in International Relations (IR)? This handbook brings together cutting-edge research on the critical debates about responsibility that are currently being undertaken in I...
This comprehensive handbook examines relationships between religion, politics and ideology, with a focus on several world religions ? Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and Judaism ? in a variety...
This fully revised new edition provides a definitive and holistic overview of Transnational Organized Crime (TOC) in a world in which right wing populism has gained ground, trade wars are increasing, ...
Two assumptions prevail in the study of Chinese citizenship: one holds that citizenship is unique to the Western political culture, and China has historically lacked the necessary conditions for its d...
The Routledge Handbook of IIliberalism is the first authoritative reference work dedicated to illiberalism as a complex social, political, cultural, legal, and mental phenomenon.
The Routledge Handbook of Europe?Korea Relations provides a comprehensive overview of the changing dynamics in relations between Europe and Korea, provided by leading experts in the field.
This pioneering handbook proposes an approach to pluralism that is relational, principled, and non-relativistic, going beyond banal calls for mere "tolerance.
EU?Middle East relations are multifaceted, varied and complex, shaped by historical, political, economic, migratory, social and cultural dynamics.
The Routledge Handbook on Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations brings international scholarship on transnational human rights obligations into a comprehensive and wide-ranging volume.
This handbook brings together a mix of established and emerging international scholars to provide valuable analytical insights into how China?s growing Middle East presence affects intra-regional deve...
Reflecting the profound changes in international society in the past decade and the challenges that all Powers? diplomacy and statecraft face, whether opposing or encouraging these changes, this fully...
The Routledge Handbook of Local Elections and Voting in Europe represents the standard reference text and practical resource for everybody who analyzes issues such as local electoral systems, voting b...
The Routledge Handbook of European Integrations fills a significant gap in the European studies literature by providing crucial and groundbreaking coverage of several key areas that are usually neglec...
The Routledge International Handbook of Diaspora Diplomacy is a multidisciplinary collection of writings by leading scholars and practitioners from around the world.
The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Territorial Autonomies affords a comprehensive, pioneering and interdisciplinary survey of this emerging field.
This handbook provides a unique, systematic and comprehensive overview from leading experts in the field of the policy-making tools deployed at all the phases of the policy process.
The Routledge Handbook of Differentiation in the European Union offers an essential collection of groundbreaking chapters reflecting on the causes and consequences of this complex phenomenon.
The Routledge Handbook of Ideology and International Relations reviews, consolidates, and advances the study of ideology in international politics.
This Handbook provides a comprehensive roadmap to the burgeoning area of Afro-Latin American Studies.
This second edition of the highly respected Routledge Handbook of Russian Politics and Society both provides a broad overview of the area and highlights cutting-edge research into the country.
The disintegration and questioning of global governance structures and a re-orientation toward national politics combined with the spread of technological innovations such as big data, social media, a...
The Routledge Handbook of Self-Determination and Secession explores the various debates surrounding the issues of self-determination and secession, and the legal, political, and normative implications...
This handbook examines the study of international relations (IR) in Russia, giving a comprehensive analysis of historical, theoretic-conceptual, geographical, and institutional aspects.
The Routledge Handbook of Political Parties provides a systematic and comprehensive overview of the study of political parties provided by leading experts in the field.
The Routledge Handbook of Parliamentary Administrations brings together an international, multidisciplinary group of contributors providing a systematic and comprehensive analysis of parliamentary adm...
