Geopolitics

You won't see segments about it on the nightly news or read about it on the front page of America's newspapers, but the Pentagon is fighting a new shadow war in Africa, helping to destabilize whole countries and preparing the ground for future blowback.

Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister and Minister of External Affairs from 1947 to 1964, set the framework of foreign policy which has remained India's reference point until the present.

On October 1, 2019, the People's Republic of China (PRC) will celebrate the 70th anniversary of its founding.

Renewing Destruction examines how wind energy projects impact people and their environments.

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.

Reveals how British imperial border-making in the Himalayas transformed a crossroads into a borderland and geography into politics.

The Arctic, long described as the world's last frontier, is quickly becoming our first frontierthe front line in a world of more diffuse power, sharper geopolitical competition, and deepening interdependencies between people and nature.

The Ottoman Empire maintained a complex and powerful bureaucratic system which enforced the Sultan's authority across the Empire's Middle-Eastern territories.

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A lexicon of the legal, administrative, and military terms and concepts central to the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories.

Since the Russian Federation's illegal annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in March 2014 160 years after the Crimean War the peninsula has returned to the fore on the global geopolitical stage.

South Africa is the most industrialized power in Africa.

By addressing the major contemporary challenges to globalization, this study explains why and how the global continues to matter in our unsettled world.

The interwar period has left a deep impression on later generations.

Tourism in European Microstates and Dependencies carefully examines the nuances and realities associated with tourism, social and economic development, geography, and geopolitics of Europe's smallest microstates and dependencies.

What role do ideas play in state-building and state activity?

Building on the recent initiative to truly globalize the field of international relations, this book provides an innovative interrogation of regionalism.

The cultural history of the Cold War has been characterized as an explosion of fear and paranoia, based on very little actual intelligence.

Taking world ordering as international relations theory''s primary challenge, Adler suggests cognitive evolution, a practice-based social theory, to explain it.

The Third UN is the ecology of supportive non-state actors-intellectuals, scholars, consultants, think tanks, NGOs, the for-profit private sector, and the media-that interacts with the intergovernmental machinery of the First UN (member states) and the Second UN (staff members of international secretariats) to formulate and refine ideas and decision-making at key junctures in policy processes.

This timely 2 volume edited collection looks at the extent and nature of global jihad, focusing on the often-exoticised hinterlands of jihad beyond the traditionally viewed Middle Eastern 'centre'.

Terrorism kills far fewer Americans annually than automobile accidents, firearms, or even lightning strikes.

This book examines how European imperial powers imagined imperial space, constructing sovereignty in ways that merged geographic discourse with law.

The relationship between Germany and Russia is Europe's most important link with the largest country on the continent.

A pioneering account of responses to oppression, persecution and mass atrocities from the sixteenth century to the late twentieth century.

Pink Ice tells the compelling story of the political struggles over Antarctica and the South Atlantic.

Exploring what we know-and don't know-about how nuclear weapons shape American grand strategy and international relationsA 2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleThe world first confronted the power of nuclear weapons when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.

An ideal resource for anyone studying current events, social studies, geopolitics, conflict resolution, and political science, this three-volume set provides broad coverage of approximately 80 current international border disputes and conflicts.

Worldviews of Aspiring Powers provides a serious study of the domestic foreign policy debates in five world powers who have gained more influence as the US's has waned: China, Japan, India, Russia and Iran.

Decades-long field research, investigate Chinese approach in Africa''s development, reinterpret classics on industrial capitalism, and reveal effects of non-linear synergism

Considers war initiation, wartime politics, war policies and war termination through the complex roles played by citizen wartime casualties.

From the Palestinian struggle against Israeli Apartheid, to First Nations' mass campaigns against pipeline construction in North America, Indigenous peoples are at the forefront of some of the crucial struggles of our age.

This book analyzes the Central Asian economies of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, from their buffeting by the commodity boom of the early 2000s to its collapse in 2014.

Political risk now affects more markets and countries than ever before and that risk will continue to rise.

Michael Wolff, author of the bombshell bestseller Fire and Fury, once again takes us inside the Trump presidency to reveal a White House under siege.

High gas prices aren't the end of the world- but they may be the beginning of the end.

Throughout the post-Mao reform era, China has championed the principle of sovereign state control, which holds that states should not intervene in the affairs of other states.

For centuries, Russian imperialism has shaped the fate of its neighbours, from the tsarist conquests to Soviet domination and today's relentless aggression.

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Updated edition, covering Brexit, Trump, Xi's ambitions for China, and the geopolitical implications of the COVID-19 pandemicEverything Australia wants to achieve as a country depends on its capacity to understand the world outside and to respond effectively to it.

For fifty years, Australia has schemed to deny East Timor billions of dollars of oil and gas wealth.

A Vanishing West in the Middle East covers the history of Western cooperation in the Middle East and North Africa since the end of the Cold War.

The essential guide to Chomsky and his brilliant ideas on the global state of affairsAn extraordinary collection of Chomsky's speeches and his interviews with David Barsamian, edited by Arthur Naiman.

How to stabilize the security relationship between Washington and Beijing.

The Political Economy of Human Rights is an important two volume work, co-authored with Edward Herman - also co-author of the classic Manufacturing Consent - which provides a complete dissection of American foreign policy during the 1960s and '70s, looking at the entire sweep of the Cold War during that period, including events in Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia and Latin America.