Geopolitics

Though the scientific community largely agrees that climate change is underway, debates about this issue remain fiercely polarized.

A foreign policy expert "e;presents a thoughtful, comprehensive case"e; for the War on Terror-a "e;historically powerful support of Mr.

The paradox of U.

Brazils soft power path to major power status.

Un brillante ensayo que analiza las estrategias de Estados Unidos, la UE y China por el control de la tecnología, el recurso que marcará la agenda geopolítica del futuro.

Work Across the Lifespan coalesces theoretical and empirical perspectives on aging and work.

Cuando pase la pandemia y sobrevenga la pospandemia, habrá que enfrentar los profundos cambios en el sistema internacional que conducirán hacia un nuevo orden mundial.

Dictionary of Sport Psychology: Sport, Exercise, and Performing Arts is a comprehensive reference with hundreds of concise entries across sports, martial arts, exercise and fitness, performing arts and cultural sport psychology.

An essential guide to renewing American leadership in a turbulent, polarized, and postdominant worldIs America fated to decline as a great power?

A discerning account of simmering conflict in the South China Sea and why the world can’t afford to be indifferent China’s rise has upset the global balance of power, and the first place to feel the strain is Beijing’s back yard: the South China Sea.

A new focus on international diplomacy and cooperation as the race for polar resources escalates As the race for resources in distant parts of the planet gathers momentum, the Arctic and Antarctic have taken on a more prominent role in international relations.

Why is the World Bank so successful?

The 1936 Olympic Games played a key role in the development of both Hitler's Third Reich and international sporting competition.

This first biography of a Palestinian writer also provides a moving account of the ways "e;ordinary"e; individuals are swept up by the floodtides of both war and peaceThe idea that the United States is destined to spread its unique gifts of democracy and capitalism to other countries is dangerous for Americans and for the rest of the world, warns Godfrey Hodgson in this provocative book.

China and India have always been seperated not only by the Himalayas, but also by the impenetrable jungle and remote areas that once stretched across Burma.

Secret Wars is the first book to systematically analyze the ways powerful states covertly participate in foreign wars, showing a recurring pattern of such behavior stretching from World War I to U.

An argument for the classical realist approach to world politics An Unwritten Future offers a fresh reassessment of classical realism, an enduring approach to understanding crucial events in the international political arena.

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.

"e;A sharp portrait of the US shale revolution.

Democracy in the twenty-first century faces a number of major challenges, populism, neoliberalism and globalisation being three of the most prominent.

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.

Son muy variados los cambios que la covid-19 traerá en la pospandemia, la cual será una dura etapa de recuperación de los profundos estragos que deja el coronavirus y se dependerá de las decisiones que tome la humanidad, si serán mayoritariamente favorables con la construcción de un entorno más cooperativo y solidario o si se agrandarán aún más las diferencias entre países desarrollados y en desarrollo y entre estratos sociales.

Desert Borderland investigates the historical processes that transformed political identity in the easternmost reaches of the Sahara Desert in the half century before World War I.

The fall of the Berlin Wall, symbol of the bipolar order that emerged after World War II, seemed to inaugurate an age of ever fewer borders.

Palestinians living on different sides of the Green Line make up approximately one-fifth of Israeli citizens and about four-fifths of the population of the West Bank.

This is the first book-length study of the role that friendship plays in diplomacy and international politics.

This book offers a nuanced and multifaceted collection of essays covering a wide range of concerns, concepts, presidential doctrines, and rationalities of government thought to have marked America's engagement with the world during this period.

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.

In the mid-nineteenth century, as European navies learned to neutralize piracy, new patterns of circulation and settlement became possible in the western Mediterranean.

Now in a completely updated, full-color edition, this leading textbook has been thoroughly revised to reflect the sweeping economic, social, and political changes the past decade has brought to Europe and to incorporate new research and teaching approaches in regional geography.

"e;Judicious and impartial, this important work adds nuance to the portrait of one of the Middle East's most divisive players"e; (Publishers Weekly).

Individual foreign investment in Western nation states is a long-standing geopolitical issue.

A one-volume history of the most consequential political movements of our timepopulism, nationalism, socialismand how they are influencing the twenty-first centuryThe distinguished political analyst John Judis has brought out a book with Columbia Global Reports during each of the last three national political seasons: The Populist Explosion in 2016, The Nationalist Revival in 2018, and The Socialist Awakening in 2020.

At the root of our understanding of territory is the concept of terra-land-a surface of fixed points with stable features that can be calculated, categorised, and controlled.

In 2050 there will be 9.

This book is a compilation of essays on several themes intended to provoke thought on and promote understanding about everyday political and social life on an island facing constant geopolitical and domestic political challenges.

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.

This book conducts a comprehensive study on China's maritime strategy.

Having celebrated its 70th year of independence in 2018, Sri Lanka, a strategically-positioned island nation, now finds itself with the potential to be a super connector in fast-developing Asia.

This book views the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a bold and all-encompassing 21st century global effort by China, with unprecedented perspectives.

Since the opening up of China in 1979, the country had experienced phenomenal economic growth over the decades and overtook Japan as the second-largest economy in 2010.

This book studies China's Belt and Road Initiatives and the country's neighboring diplomacy.

This book provides a broad and in-depth introduction to the geopolitical, economic and trade changes wrought with the increasing influence of the countries of the Global South in international affairs.

For many observers, today's world seems indecipherable.

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.

If race is increasingly understood to be socially constructed, why does it continue to seem like a physiological reality?

'Admirably brief and necessarily brutal.

A comprehensive study of the fundamental principles of international law by some of the world''s most prominent international law scholars.

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

Großmächte auf Konfrontationskurs: Wem gehört was im Weltraum?