Geopolitics

At the turn of the millennium the state of Europe is fluid and contested, yet how this affects the everyday lives of European peoples and the ways they experience the social world they live in remains largely unexplored.

As the world evolves in increasingly unpredictable directions, one of the key determinants of the future global order will surely be the impact of China.

There have been five central crises in America's post World War II encounter with the Middle East, and the Obama administration now faces a sixth.

Das 19.

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

For centuries it was suspected that there must be an undiscovered continent in the southern hemisphere.

In a tempestuous narrative that sweeps across five continents and seven centuries, this book explains how a succession of catastrophesfrom the devastating Black Death of 1350 through the coming climate crisis of 2050has produced a relentless succession of rising empires and fading world orders.

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

Jeden Tag dieselben Bilder und Berichte von brennenden Gebäuden, zerstörten Wohnblocks, verzweifelten Müttern und Kindern.

This collection contains a selection of papers presented a the very First All-European Canandian Studies Conference that took place in The Hague, October 24-27, 1990.

The Russian invasion of Crimea in 2014, subsequent war in Eastern Ukraine and economic sanctions imposed by the West, transformed European politics.

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

In The Evolution of Gerald Durrell: A Naturalist's Critical Biography, Mary Sanders Pollock revisits the life and work of Gerald Durrell, one of the most significant environmentalist figures of the 20th century.

In the 21st century, the Indo-Pacific region has become the new centre of the world.

After Obama examines how and why US influence has contributed to the erosion of the world America made, endangering international order and liberal values.

Welcome to the Drone Age.

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

The Habsburg Empire's grand strategy for outmaneuvering and outlasting stronger rivals in a complicated geopolitical worldThe Empire of Habsburg Austria faced more enemies than any other European great power.

The definitive applied theory textbook that helps you make sense of global issues through theoretical concepts.

Rethinking the Triangle: Washington-Beijing-Taipei is a book on foreign policy with a difference.

The Syrian regime and, in particular, the Asad clan has managed to survive the Arab uprisings, recover lost territory, and retain its authority over state institutions and diplomatic missions outside of the country.

Die Neuerfindung der Weltpolitik.

For years economists have spoken of 'Africa rising', and despite the global financial crisis, Africa continues to host some of the fastest growing economies in the world.

Global Punk examines the global phenomenon of DIY (do-it-yourself) punk, arguing that it provides a powerful tool for political resistance and personal self-empowerment.

The accidental shooting of Kathryn Steinle in July of 2015 by an undocumented immigrant ignited a firestorm of controversy around sanctuary cities, which are municipalities where officials are prohibited from inquiring into the immigration status of residents.

This book explores the consequences of retreat and retrenchment in foreign policy which threaten America''s own security.

After a brief interlude following the Cold War, nuclear weapons have regained their prominent place in world affairs.

How decolonization and the cold war influenced literature from Africa, Asia, and the CaribbeanHow did superpower competition and the cold war affect writers in the decolonizing world?

SOMEONE ELSE'S EMPIRE dispels the myth of a 'Global Britain' that punches above its weight in the world.

On February 28, 2013, after pleading guilty to violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, John Kiriakou began serving a thirty month prison sentence.

A comprehensive history of the Sino-Russian border, one of the longest and most important land borders in the worldThe Sino-Russian border, once the world's longest land border, has received scant attention in histories about the margins of empires.

La inserción económica y política de los países del Este de Asia ha ido tomando un lugar fundamental en el sistema internacional.

Trump and Mussolini: Images, Fake News, and Mass Media as Weapons in the Hands of Two Populists compares two historic men of power and influence, Donald Trump and Benito Mussolini, to analyze the commonality of practices and mannerisms between the two.

The Chinese government has more control over more wealth than any other government in world history.

From the author of international bestseller On Tyranny, this prescient analysis of Russia's ongoing interference in the West is now more relevant than ever.

How to stabilize the security relationship between Washington and Beijing.

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

The world is in turmoil.

The postwar period saw increased interest in the idea of relatively easy-to-manufacture but devastatingly lethal radiological munitions whose use would not discriminate between civilian and military targets.

Why has the United States repeatedly engaged in the overthrow of foreign leaders and regimes?

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

Reveals how British imperial border-making in the Himalayas transformed a crossroads into a borderland and geography into politics.

From the award-winning writer and thinker, an essential reckoning with the war in Gaza, its historical conditions, and moral and geopolitical ramifications'Courageous and bracing, learned and ethical, rigorous and mind-expanding' NAOMI KLEIN'Mishra has made a powerful contribution to the moral history of the world' ANDREW O'HAGAN'Urgent' HISHAM MATAR'Brilliant' WILLIAM DALRYMPLEMemory of the Holocaust, the ultimate atrocity of Europe s civil wars and the paradigmatic genocide, has shaped the Western political and moral imagination in the postwar era.