Lynne Rienner Publishers

New paperbacks for the fall!

The Transformation of the Republican Party

Measuring Soft Power in International Relations

Political Identity and African Foreign Policies

International Law in World Politics: An Introduction, 4th edition

NEW edition available in October!

“This is the premier textbook on the politics of
international law … an indispensable teaching tool.”
—Ian Hurd, Northwestern University

“This is a superb treatment of the subject matter.” —Choice

► Introduces the actors, structures, processes, and issues of international law in the arena of world politics today.

Eye on Development Studies . . .

Making Aid Work: Dueling with Dictators and Warlords in the Middle East and North Africa

How the Aid Industry Works: The Politics and Practice of International Development, 2nd edition

The World Food Problem: Toward Understanding and Ending Undernutrition in the Developing World, 6th edition

Redefining Development: The Extraordinary Genesis of the Sustainable Development Goals

News & Notes

We’re attending the 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair this week and hope to see you there! You can help us celebrate our exciting new partnership with Script Publisher Services. Script will be marketing and selling our books throughout Europe and Australia/New Zealand. Script was born from one of the world’s leading publisher service companies and features a state-of-the-art distribution center and a publishing heritage dating back to 1851.
🤝 LRP will be at Hall 6.0 D36.
📚 Script will be at Hall 5.1 C76.

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From Hope to Critique: The Facebook Posts of the April 6th Movement in Egypt: Reflecting on some of the work she did with the support of LRP’s Deborah Gerner Grant for Professional Development, Mariam Alkazemi, associate professor of public relations at Virginia Commonwealth University, shared a short summary of the work she did for her study of social media in the April 6th Youth Movement.

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