Global Governance Books

New and Published Books

1. Political Economy of Statebuilding

   Power after peace

   Edited by Mats Berdal, Dominik Zaum

   Series: Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding

   This volume examines and evaluates the impact of international statebuilding interventions on the political economy of post-conflict countries over the past 20 years. While statebuilding today is typically discussed in the context of ‘peacebuilding’ and ‘stabilisation’ operations, the current...

   Published June 16th 2013 by Routledge
2. Shifting Global Powers and International Law

   Challenges and Opportunities

   Edited by Rowena Maguire, Bridget Lewis, Charles Sampford

   Series: Challenges of Globalisation

   This book explores the impacts of global economic, political and cultural shifts on various international legal frameworks and legal norms. The economic growth of states throughout Asia, South and Central America and Africa is having a profound effect on the dynamics of international relations,...

   Published June 12th 2013 by Routledge
3. Digital World

   Connectivity, Creativity and Rights

   Edited by Gillian Youngs

   Series: Routledge Research in Political Communication

   The Internet and digital technologies have changed the world we live in and the ways we engage with one another and work and play. This is the starting point for this collection which takes analysis of the digital world to the next level exploring the frontiers of digital and creative...

   Published June 6th 2013 by Routledge
4. The Securitization of Humanitarian Migration

   Digging moats and sinking boats

   By Scott D. Watson

   Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

   This book examines how western liberal states are progressively restricting access to refugees and asylum seekers, even though these states have signed international agreements obliging them to offer protection to those fleeing persecution and to advocate the spread of human rights and humanitarian...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
5. The United States and NATO since 9/11

   The Transatlantic Alliance Renewed

   By Ellen Hallams

   Series: Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy

   The US decision not to work through NATO after 9/11 left many European members of the alliance feeling deflated. This decision reflected not only the unilateralism of the Bush Administration, but also the belief that US operational freedom and flexibility had been hampered during NATO’s two Balkans...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
6. Securitizations of Citizenship

   Edited by Peter Nyers

   Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

   Securitizations of Citizenship investigates how the fate of citizenship is now caught up in a dramatic and dangerous process of securitizing political communities. In the nervous state of affairs of the post-9/11 period, technologies of surveillance and control are rapidly proliferating, creating...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
7. Governance of HIV/AIDS

   Making Participation and Accountability Count

   Edited by Sophie Harman, Franklyn Lisk

   Series: Routledge/Warwick Studies in Globalisation

   Nearly thirty years since HIV/AIDS was first identified, confusion over effective mechanisms of controlling and eradicating the illness remain prevalent. This book highlights the need for comprehensive approaches to governance, as responses to HIV/AIDS become increasingly focused upon the health...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
8. International Organizations in Global Environmental Governance

   Edited by Frank Biermann, Bernd Siebenhüner, Anna Schreyögg

   Series: Routledge Research in Environmental Politics

   This book provides a comparative study of the role of international organizations in environmental governance. Whilst a growing body of literature considers global governance in a number of policy areas, this volume delivers one of the first comprehensive accounts of international organizations in...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
9. United Nations Reform

   Heading North or South?

   By Spencer Zifcak

   Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

   This book examines recent attempts at reform within the United Nations in the wake of the institutional crisis provoked by the invasion of Iraq. It contends that efforts at reform have foundered owing to fundamental and bitter political disagreements between the nations of the global North and...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
10. The Transformation of UN Conflict Management

    Producing images of genocide from Rwanda to Darfur and beyond

    By Touko Piiparinen

    Series: Routledge Research on International Organisations

    The world has vowed "Never again" in memory of the 800,000 Rwandans and other groups slaughtered by génocidaires. Yet, ever since the Holocaust, the international community has repeatedly betrayed its pledge, most notably in 1994 with regard to the Rwandan Tutsi, and again ten years later in Darfur...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge