Politics & International Relations

This is the first major European political science book to discuss the growing interdisciplinary field of 'cultural studies', proposing a coherent and viable alternative to mainstream political science...

This book contextually re-examines the history of international relations in order to explore how the discipline has imported and employed the concept of culture...

In this important book, Volker Bornschier analyzes growth and development in the Old and New Worlds - the so-called 'developed' countries. He shows how sociological and political factors have a massive impact on economic change in those countries...

This book will be invaluable reading for students in areas including Politics, Communications and IT, Sociology and Cultural Studies...

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

In Cyberdemocracy the arguments for and against "electronic democracy" and the potential for information and communication technology are closely examined. Theoretical analysis is supported by a series of empirical case studies...

In Cyberdemocracy the arguments for and against "electronic democracy" and the potential for information and communication technology are closely examined. Theoretical analysis is supported by a series of empirical case studies...

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

With the collapse of the USSR, fifteen fledgling sates inherited a massive Soviet arsenal, unstable political systems, and desperate economies. A "sell everything" mentality threatens to result in the largest arms bazaar in human history, and this potential "fire sale" includes weapons of mass destr..

This volume for the first time provides a comprehensive theoretical and empirical examination of a new and very significant development in the international politics of fragmentation...

The contributors to this volume represent the most recent cutting edge approaches to state failure—looking at both conditions of conflict and economic development, dealing with the conceptualization, causes, and consequences of state failure, as well as policy-oriented analyses as to how state failu..

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...