Geopolitics

Security assistance has become the largest component of international peacebuilding and stabilization efforts, and a primary tool for responding to civil war and insurgency.

From a celebrated military historian, a ';searingpersuasive' (Kirkus Reviews) exploration of why the mighty United States military has repeatedly failed in irregular wars and military campaigns from Vietnam to Afghanistan.

How foreign lending weakens emerging nationsIn the nineteenth century, many developing countries turned to the credit houses of Europe for sovereign loans to balance their books and weather major fiscal shocks such as war.

Sunni Islam has played an ambivalent role in Turkey's Kurdish conflict--both as a conflict resolution tool and as a tool of resistance.

When the policies and activities of one country or generation harm both other nations and later generations, they constitute serious injustices.

Lebanon, together with the province of Hatay in Turkey (containing Antakya) and the Golan Heights were all part of French mandate Syria, but are now all outside the boundaries of the modern Syrian state.

What caused the Covid-19 pandemic, a natural spillover event or an accident in a Wuhan laboratory?

Considers the history of citizenship in Yemen and Tunisia to explain why democratic participation was undermined after the 2011 revolutionary wave.

Develops a fresh non-Eurocentric analysis of the rise and development of the global economy in the last half-millennium.

Our world of increasing and varied conflicts is confusing and threatening to citizens of all countries, as they try to understand its causes and consequences.

Why would an authoritarian regime expand social welfare provision in the absence of democratization?

This Element studies six areas of research in neuroscience and moral psychology asking questions surrounding international norms in IR.

From fear and anxiety, to celebration, China's rise has provoked a variety of responses across the world.

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

A provocative account of the state of Asian geopolitics and US foreign policy in Asia.

Would the Islamic State ever renounce violence?

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Seit dem ersten Golfkrieg der Jahre 1990–1991 führen die Vereinigten Staaten ununterbrochen Krieg.

When it comes to government's role in personal matters such as family planning, most bristle at any interference from the State on how to exercise their reproductive rights.

This is a book that tackles the most important issue of our age in a highly informative, accessible and engaging way.

The role of the Far East is becoming increasingly important in global geopolitics.

This book explains how and why the nuclear nonproliferation regime has been successful, even without the characteristics usually seen in effective institutions.

The widespread adoption of the IHRA definition of anti-semitism and the internalisation of its norms has set in motion a simplistic definitional logic for dealing with social problems that has impoverished discussions of racism and prejudice more generally, across Britain and beyond.

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

In 2004 the Baltic states - Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania - finalized their return to the West by joining NATO and the EU after definitively throwing off their 'captive nations' status by regaining independence in 1991.

What does liberal order actually amount to outside the West, where it has been most institutionalised?

DAS WIRKEN DER ERDALLIANZ & DIE BEFREIUNG UNSERES PLANETENDies ist die Geschichte von Megan Rose, die zweimal von böswilligen Außerirdischen entführt und von friedliebenden nordischen Außerirdischen gerettet wurde.

How does our colonial past echo through today's global politics?

The invention of the nation-state was the crowning achievement of the Sykes Picot Agreement between the United Kingdom and France in 1916.

Beginning in Inner Asia two thousand years ago, the Turks have migrated and expanded to form today's Turkish Republic, five post-Soviet republics, other societies across Eurasia, and a global diaspora.

Turkey's position in transatlantic alliances goes back in the 1950s.

The fraught relationship between Saudi Arabia and Iran is usually attributed to sectarian differences, even by the states' own elites.

Palestine has often been defined and constructed in the global imaginary through conflict, resistance, oppression and violence.

We all now know that the arctic is the canary in the coal mine of climate change, but that is only part of the story.

How might an objective observer conceive of what humans have accomplished as a species over its brief history?

A radical rethinking of what ISIS is and what it really wantsFrom Graeme Wood, author of the explosive Atlantic cover story "e;What ISIS Really Wants,"e; comes the definitive book on the history, psychology, character, and aims of the Islamic State.

Examines international grievance mechanisms for those suffering environmental/social harm resulting from multilateral development financing.

'Amazing.

'A fireball of terse information.

This book sheds light on Russias motives in the Middle East, examining its growing role in the region and its efforts to defend its national interests.

In a time of darkening environmental prospects, frightening religious fundamentalism, and moribund liberalism, the remarkable and historically unprecedented rise of religious environmentalism is a profound source of hope.

In light of the Eurozone crisis and the growth of Asian economies, have new challenges emerged for the relations between nations in these regions?

Uncertainty surrounds every major decision in international politics.

A clear-eyed and urgent vision for a new system of political governance to manage planetary issues and their local consequences.