Geopolitics

For much of the contemporary history of the Middle East, the Persian Gulf has stood at the center of the region's strategic significance.

We no longer inhabit a world governed by international coordination, a unified NATO bloc, or an American hegemon.

Featuring a new foreword that brings the book up to dateRare earths are elements that are found in the Earth's crust, and are vital ingredients for the production of a wide variety of high tech, defense, and green technologies-everything from iPhones and medical technologies to wind turbines, efficiency lighting, smart bombs, and submarines.

Explores the primary modes by which rulers have exercised power and shaped political relations in Timor-Leste.

The last decade has seen a far-reaching revolution in the oil industry, both in the US and globally.

The indistinct status of the Zainichi has meant that, since the late 1940s, two ethnic Korean associations, the Chongryun (pro-North) and the Mindan (pro-South) have been vying for political loyalty from the Zainichi, with both groups initially opposing their assimilation in Japan.

Covering a century of Middle Eastern international relations, this book develops an original approach to understanding regional conflict and cooperation.

How to sustain an international system of cooperation in the midst of geopolitical struggleCan the international economic and legal system survive today's fractured geopolitics?

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.

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.

A comparison of the political development of census questions about race, demonstrating how ideas and politics shape racial boundaries.

The need for collective action has never been greater, but geopolitics, structural changes and diverging preferences mean that existing global governance arrangements, devised at Bretton Woods in the 1940s, are either unravelling or outmoded.

Dark Shadows is a compelling portrait of Kazakhstan, a country that is little known in the West.

This expansive history traces the hidden connections between oil and capitalism from the late 1800s to the current climate crisis.

New conventional wisdom posits that the public in democracies is inattentive but not really ignorant nor easily swayed, and indeed quite consistent and thoughtful when it comes to national security and foreign policy issues.

This region - which marks the meeting of China and post-Soviet Central Asia - is increasingly important militarily, economically and geographically.

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.

Providing a detailed account of Israel's foreign policy towards the Cyprus question between 1946 and the declaration of Cypriot independence in August 1960, Gabriel Haritos examines the international and regional factors which shaped Israel's approach to diplomatic relations with the independent Republic of Cyprus.

The history of modern Israel is a fiercely contested subject.

Loch Johnson's new book explores the subject of covert action, often referred to as a "e;Third Option"e; between America's use of diplomacy and warfare---a shadowy approach to international affairs based on the controversial use of secret propaganda, political activities, economic sabotage, and paramilitary operations (whether clandestine warfare or assassinations).

In the Fall of 1949, a series of international events shattered the notion that the United States would return to its traditional small peacetime military posture following World War II.

The Spratly Islands have represented a potential political and military flashpoint in the South China Sea for years, involving as they do various claims by China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Taiwan.

In this authoritative text, Arno J.

A revealing memoir by the Israeli leader who almost made peace with the PalestiniansWritten almost entirely from inside a prison cell, Searching for Peace is the compelling memoir of former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert.

Central Asia has become the battleground for the major struggles of the 21st century: radical Islam versus secularism, authoritarianism versus identity politics, Eastern versus Western control of resources, and the American 'War on Terror'.

An examination of how peacekeeping is woven into national, regional and international politics in Africa, and its consequences.

This book examines the making of the present day Iranian, Iraqi and Turkish boundary, shedding new light on some of the most contentious issues of today.

Winner of the 2023 Marc Raeff Book Prize; A 2023 REFORC Book Award Longlist TitleThis book highlights the main features and trends of Russian political thought in an era when sovereignty, state, and politics, as understood in Western Christendom, were non-existent in Russia, or were only beginning to be articulated.

As the voting public continues to diversify across the United States, political candidates, and particularly white candidates, increasingly recognize the importance of making appeals to voters who do not look like themselves.

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

Poverty narratives have become an unprecedented source of empowerment.

An assessment of Russia that suggests that we should look beyond traditional means of power to understand its strength and capacity to disrupt international politics.

In our globalized world, borders are back with a vengeance.

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

A new theoretical framework for understanding how social, economic, and political conflicts influence international institutions and their place in the global order Today's liberal international institutional order is being challenged by the rising power of illiberal states and by domestic political changes inside liberal states.

This Element presents an overarching analysis of Chinese visions and practices of soft power.

The rise of a populist conservative nationalism in the United States has triggered unease at home and abroad.

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.

The potential conflict among economic and ecological goals has formed the central fault line of environmental politics in the United States and most other countries since the 1970s.

The German-American relationship is the decisive transatlantic dynamic of our time.

By delvinginto the complex, cross-generational exchanges that characterize anypolitical project as rampant as empire, thisthought-provoking study focusesonchildrenand their ambivalent, intimate relationships with mapsandpracticesof mappingat the dawn of the "e;American Century.

This book develops a new approach in explaining how a nation's Grand Strategy is constituted, how to assess its merits, and how grand strategies may be comparatively evaluated within a broader framework.

When taxes are introduced on carbon and energy, and the revenue is used to reduce other taxes, will a positive effect be achieved both for the environment and for the economy?

The North Caucasus, specifically Chechnya and Ingushetia, is a region that has experienced some of the deadliest and most protracted conflicts in Europe.

The world is in turmoil.