Geopolitics

We are the only species that uses fire.

The definitive guide to the world's most contested region.

It is already clear that climate engineering raises numerous troubling ethical issues.

STREIFEN SIE DIE FESSELN DER TÄUSCHUNG UND BLENDUNG AB!

Looking beyond the headlines to address the enduring grand strategic questions facing the United States today.

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.

The term 'Asian century' was first coined by the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1985 when discussing the Asian economic leap forward.

Co-authored by four high-profile International Relations scholars, this book investigates the implications of the global ascent of China on cross-Strait relations and the identity of Taiwan as a democratic state.

Greenland is becoming a critically important territory in terms of tourism, climate change and competition for resource access, yet it has been poorly represented in academic literature.

The Politics of Self-Determination examines the territorial restructuring of Europe between 1917 and 1923, when a radically new and highly fragile peace order was established.

An understanding of International Relations exclusively as a sphere plagued by countless known and unknown risks, looming disasters and imminent threats leaves an important aspect of the study of politics unengaged - that of the human herself.

In the second half of the twentieth century France played the greatest role - even greater than Germany s - in shaping what eventually became the European Union.

Environmental politics has traditionally been a peripheral concern for international relations theory, but increasing alarm over global environmental challenges has elevated international society's relationship with the natural world into the theoretical limelight.

A New York Times BestsellerThe international best-selling author explores the revolutions, past and present, that define the chaotic, polarized and unstable age in which we live.

Martin Barber was a senior UN official and has extensive experience in humanitarian affairs and peace operations - both at UN Headquarters and in the field.

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.

Civil wars are the biggest danger to world peace today - this book shows us why they happen, and how to avoid them.

Making a country great again is a theme for nationalist authoritarians.

George Soros is among the world's most prominent public figures.

Eine kontroverse Debatte kreist um die Frage, weshalb rohstoff- und insbesondere erdölexportierende Länder wie Iran in ihrer wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung oft weniger fortgeschritten sind als ressourcenimportierende Länder.

Over the past decades, waves of political contention involving the use of information and communication technologies have swept across the globe.

South Africa is the most industrialized power in Africa.

The New Old World looks at the history of the European Union, the core continental countries within it, and the issue of its further expansion into Asia.

Originally published by Manchester University Press in 1963, this book is now regarded as a classic of international law literature.

The South China Sea Disputes: Historical, Geopolitical and Legal Studies covers various issues regarding the currently controversial theme of the South China Sea (SCS) disputes.

Contested Waters provides an in-depth analysis of trans-boundary water conflict involving the Indus Basin in Pakistan.

The aim of this collective volume is to study the crucial aspects related to the interconnection between the political economy of energy security and national security, which is of great importance globally, due to great volatility and complexity.

Net zero emissions is only the beginning.

The South Caucasus is the key strategic region between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea and the regional powers of Iran, Turkey and Russia and is the land bridge between Asia and Europe with vital hydrocarbon routes to international markets.

This Element discusses institutional cooperation in populist foreign policy and its implications for the Liberal International Order.

This book examines the evolution of global terrorism, including the people and groups who have perpetuated the worst attacks and the people and agencies working to stop them.

Why do some leaders and segments of the public display remarkable persistence in confrontations in international politics, while others cut and run?

The Palestine-Israel conflict is the most notorious and ingrained conflict in living memory.

China is transforming Africa's information space.

Former Pentagon insider Van Jackson explores how Trump and Kim reached - and avoided - the precipice of nuclear war.

Since 2008, energy and food markets those most fundamental to human existence have remained in turmoil.

President Vladimir Putin is a figure of both fear and fascination in the Western imagination.

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.

The book also details Russia's attempt to abort the Ukrainian revolution through threats, economic pressure, lies, and intimidation.

Since the start of the Trump era, the United States and the Western world has finally begun to wake up to the threat of online warfare and the attacks from Russia, who flood social media with disinformation, and circulate false and misleading information to fuel fake narratives and make the case for illegal warfare.

This book is a collection of speeches presented at Singapore Perspectives 2019 by current players in international relations and leading academics and opinion shapers on how the post-Cold War world order, with emphasis on the relations between the United States and China, will affect small states like Singapore and countries in Southeast Asia - at local, national, and regional levels.

Understanding the Syrian revolution is unthinkable without an in-depth analysis from below.

An accessible overview of political, economic, and strategic dimensions of global supply chains in a changing global political economy.

Wem gehört der Nordpol?

Indigenous peoples and governments, industrialists and ecologists all use - or have at some stage to confront - the language of land rights.

*** Winner of the 2013 Julian Minghi Outstanding Research Award presented at the American Association of Geographers annual meeting ***Two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, why are leading democracies like the United States, India, and Israel building massive walls and fences on their borders?