Geopolitics

A LANDMARK WORK OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY.

In The Future, former US Vice President Al Gore, explores the political, social and economic forces that are shaping what America and the world will become in ensuing decades.

Different international relations theorists have studied political change, but all fall short of sufficiently integrating human reactions, feelings, and responses to change in their theories.

This book facilitates a critical investigation of gaps in theorizing and framing dark tourism by navigating through some onto-epistemological issues, theoretical entanglements, future possibilities, and the application of critical theoretical perspectives related to affect and emotions, human-animal studies, postcolonialism, feminism, trauma studies, posthumanism, power and identity.

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'This is a marvellous football book, although it is much more than that.

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

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.

Despite -- and perhaps because of -- increasing global mobility, there are more types of borders today than ever before in history.

Western academics, politicians, and military leaders alike have labelled Russia's actions in Crimea and its follow-on operations in Eastern Ukraine as a new form of “Hybrid Warfare.

Eurasian Maritime Geopolitics by Kent E.

Deniers of climate change sometimes quip that claims about global warming are more about political science than climate science.

When Hiss ne Habr , the deposed dictator of Chad, was found guilty of crimes against humanity in 2016, it was described as 'a watershed for human rights justice in Africa and beyond'.

The West's actions in the Middle East are based on a fundamental misunderstanding: political Islam is repeatedly assumed to be the main cause of conflict and unrest in the region.

A gripping behind-the-scenes account of the dramatic legal fight to hold leaders personally responsible for aggressive warOn July 17, 2018, starting an unjust war became a prosecutable international crime alongside genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes.

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

This book examines the strategic implications of fragmented global governance by institutions for African states and their coalitions.

Political risk - the probability that a political action could significantly affect an organisation - is changing fast, and it's more widespread than ever before.

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.

This book depicts the challenges associated with the emergence of a new global order in which patterns of conflict and the role of traditional military power are in the process of radical flux.

In this expansive book, David Narrett shows how the United States emerged as a successor empire to Great Britain through rivalry with Spain in the Mississippi Valley and Gulf Coast.

When we think of climate change, we often picture man-made global warming, caused by greenhouse gas emissions.

Working from an interdisciplinary perspective that draws on the social sciences, legal studies, and the humanities, this book investigates the causes and effects of the extremities experienced by migrants.

Foreign policy analysis is a major part of international relations scholarship, yet many models are ill-equipped to examine the effects of individual leadership on policy.

Germany looms large in international politics, far larger than its size and population would suggest.

Is there a new scramble for Africa involving China, Japan, and India in competition with each other and with the Western world?

In the "e;Great Game"e; of the 21st century-gaining leadership and influence in Asia-the United States is rapidly being outflanked by China, which is investing in infrastructure, connectivity, and supply chains on an unprecedented global scale.

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This book describes the emergence of the territorial state and examines the role that cartography has played in shaping its linear boundaries.

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

Why are Southeast Asia's richest countries such as Malaysia riddled with corruption?

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

The Making of Eurasia investigates the multi-layered spectrum of China and Russia's Eurasian policies towards each other, ranging from competition to cooperation, as well as the role of regional actors in between.

In developing democracies, political parties built around charismatic personalities, coupled with populist campaigns, often ascend to power.

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

Explains how war spreads through an original analysis of the contagion that brought countries into the First World War.

For over a decade now, thinking on regional relations in the Gulf has focused on the competition for regional hegemony between Iran and Saudi Arabia.

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

Although there is often opposition to individual wars, most people continue to believe that the arms industry is necessary in some form: to safeguard our security, provide jobs and stimulate the economy.

China is transforming Africa's information space.

This study addresses the many initiatives to decrease industrial pollution emitting from the Pechenganikel plant in the northwestern corner of Russia during the final years of the Soviet Union, and examines the wider implications for the state of pollution control in the Arctic today.

'Thrilling, meticulous and wondrously original' PHILIPPE SANDSA jaw-dropping microhistory of the global economy over the last fifty years told through the many lives of a single ship.

Choreographies of Resistance examines bodies and their capacity for obstructive and resistant action in places and spaces where we do not expect to see it.

*** 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?

The Ottoman Empire went through rapid economic and social development in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as it approached its end.