Geopolitics

Sanctions are back with a vengeance with new objectives, measures, challenges, and opportunities.

A mere two years after achieving independence, South Sudan in 2013 descended into violent civil war, refuting US government claims that the country's succession was a major foreign policy success and would end endemic conflict.

Written by an Egyptian human rights lawyer, it is the first English-language account of the development of tensions between violent and non-violent factions in radical Islamist movements, from the perspective of an insider.

Globalisation has created an interconnected world, but has not diminished violence, militarism and inequality.

A wide-ranging new history of NATO, from its origins to the present day-published for the alliance's seventy-fifth anniversary For seven decades, NATO's stated aim has been the achievement of world peace-but playing great power politics always involves conflict.

Fremd unter FreundenStabil, selbstsicher, wohlhabend.

What explains Putin's enduring popularity in Russia?

A bold new perspective on the strategic logic of international human rights enforcementWhen a government violates the rights of its citizens, the international community can respond by exerting moral pressure and urging reform.

This edited collection surveys how non-Western states have responded to the threats of domestic and international terrorism in ways consistent with and reflective of their broad historical, political, cultural and religious traditions.

Thailand was a key ally of the United States after WWII, serving as a bulwark against communism in Southeast Asia and as a base for US troops during the Vietnam War.

** The Sunday Times #1 Bestseller**'One of the greatest political memoirs of all time' GuardianWhat happens when you take on the European establishment?

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The European Union is a political order of peculiar stamp and continental scope, its polity of 446 million the third largest on the planet, though with famously little purchase on the conduct of its representatives.

If democracy liberates individuals from their inherited bonds, what can reunite them into a sovereign people?

Violence against women has been a focus of transnational advocacy networks since the early 1980s, and the United Nations has, in intervening years, passed a series of resolutions to condemn, prevent, investigate, and punish this violence.

Highlighting the relationship among science, politics, and culture in Latin American historyChallenging the common view that Latin America has lagged behind Europe and North America in the global history of science, this volume reveals that the region has long been a center for scientific innovation and imagination.

Why cities often cope better than nations with today's lightning-fast changesThe British Empire declined decades ago, but London remains one of the world's preeminent centers of finance, commerce, and political discourse.

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Shared water resources in Israel and Palestine are often the site of political, economic, historical, legal and ethical contestation.

The United States may be headed toward a disastrous conflict with China unless Washington updates its understanding of contemporary Chinese societyAfter four decades of engagement, the United States and China now appear to be locked on a collision course that has already fomented a trade war, seems likely to produce a new cold war, and could even result in dangerous military conflict.

This book sheds light on how global warming has caused the ongoing environmental disaster in the Arctic, namely its melting.

The South China Sea Disputes: Flashpoints, Turning Points and Trajectories focuses on the currently much-debated theme of the South China Sea disputes - one of the hottest international disputes of the 21st century which can easily turn from a brewing flashpoint into a regional conflict with global repercussions.

As the voting public continues to diversify across the United States, political candidates, and particularly white candidates, increasingly recognize the importance of making appeals to voters who do not look like themselves.

Detecting Concealed Information and Deception: Recent Developments assembles contributions from the world's leading experts on all aspects of concealed information detection.

The definitive guide to the world's most contested regionUpdated edition covering the strategic impacts of Covid-19, China's economic coercion against Australia, the Afghanistan withdrawal, Joe Biden, the Quad and US-China rivalry.

Mexican Americans are unique in the panoply of American ethno-racial groups in that they are the descendants of the largest and longest lasting immigration stream in US history.

Over the last few years Asian governments have taken a stronger approach to the Arctic, culminating with permanent-observer status to the Arctic Council for China, India, Japan, Singapore and South-Korea in May 2013.

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic – at the interlocking levels of politics, economy, and society – have been different across regions, states, and societies.

merican seapower requires a robust constellation of bases to support global power projection.

Between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, Qing rulers, officials, and scholars fused diverse, fragmented perceptions of foreign territory into one integrated worldview.

Die Europäische Union hat sich nach der Osterweiterung im Innern verändert und hat nicht nur neue Mitglieder, sondern auch neue Nachbarn bekommen.

An all-inclusive, exhaustive evaluation of the foreign policy of the European UnionFourteen years ago the 2009 Lisbon Treaty put into place the legal and structural foundations for the European Union to play a role as a global actor.

Of all of the lies, fragile alliances, and predatory financial dealings that have been revealed in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, we have yet to come to terms with the ways in which structural inequalities around gender and race factor into (and indeed make possible) the current economic order.

'A riveting and illuminating tour of how nations deal with crises - which might hopefully help humanity as a whole deal with our present global crisis' YUVAL NOAH HARARI, author of SAPIENS ** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** Author of thelandmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond has transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall.

Partition-the physical division of territory along ethno-religious lines into separate nation-states-is often presented as a successful political "e;solution"e; to ethnic conflict.

Les discussions et conférences rassemblées dans ce livre offrent une perspective profonde et généreuse pour comprendre l’état du monde, et notamment les enjeux liés au pouvoir.

Spruyt takes an inter-disciplinary approach to explain how collective belief systems organized three non-European societies c.

Facing threats ranging from Islamist insurgencies to the Ebola pandemic, African regional actors are playing an increasingly vital role in safeguarding peace and stability across the continent.

This book explores the relationship between the development of UN peacekeeping and the protection of civilians under international law.

Far-right movements, parties, and governments are changing the language and logic of international order.

2023 Naval Institute Press Author of the YearFinalist - National Security Book Award This nation';s Cold War and Global War on Terror defense structures need an update.

'The most dangerous place in the world' - Barack ObamaThe borderlands of Afghanistan and Pakistan have become the arena for a global conflict with consequences that defy prediction.

THE REST IS HISTORY CLUB BOOK OF THE MONTH 'One of the most engaging and fascinating histories of Europe I've read for years.

The story of western correspondents in Russia is the story of Russia's attitude to the west.