Geopolitics

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

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.

In The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama took us from the dawn of mankind to the French and American Revolutions.

This book analyzes the Central Asian economies of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, from their buffeting by the commodity boom of the early 2000s to its collapse in 2014.

As we approach catastrophe, everything changes.

Timeless Turmoil offers a comprehensive historical and comparative analysis of recent conflicts in Kosovo, Abkhazia, and the Tskhinvali region, examining their geopolitical dynamics from ancient times to the present.

How are authority and influence accumulated and wielded across the six Gulf states?

This book analyzes the Central Asian economies of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, from their buffeting by the commodity boom of the early 2000s to its collapse in 2014.

*Winner of the International Political Sociology book award for 2023*What does it mean when humanitarianism is the response to death, injury and suffering at the border?

Die Überheblichkeit des Westens.

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.

This volume examines how urban potentiality emerges in performances that reclaim the city, acting as an emancipatory force when dominant patterns of urban behaviour are thrown into crisis.

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.

Yemen, tucked into the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula, has often escaped regional and international attention.

Taking a long view of the three-party relationship, and its future prospectsIn this Asian century, scholars, officials and journalists are increasingly focused on the fate of the rivalry between China and India.

'For anyone who wants to understand the history of America and the world, this is a useful and important book' ANNE APPLEBAUM'A biographer of genius .

A Financial Times Economics Book of the YearA Times Business Book of the YearA Sunday Independent (Ireland) Book of the Year'People who like horror films will love this book' Financial Times'Forewarned is forearmed.

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

The Mediterranean basin holds immense geostrategic importance, linking Asia, Europe, and Africa.

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.

Environmental politics has traditionally been a peripheral concern for international relations theory, but increasing alarm over global environmental challenges has elevated international society's relationship with the natural world into the theoretical limelight.

A FINANCIAL TIMES ECONOMICS BOOK OF THE YEAR'Compulsively readable.

Chinese politics are at a crossroads as President Xi Jinping amasses personal power and tests the constraints of collective leadership.

The United States is at a crossroads.

Provides a new framework for reconceptualizing the historical and contemporary relationship between cultural diversity, political authority, and international order.

In 1960, President Kennedy warned of a dangerous future, rife with nuclear-armed states and a widespread penchant for conflict by the end of the century.

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

Taking a long view of the three-party relationship, and its future prospectsIn this Asian century, scholars, officials and journalists are increasingly focused on the fate of the rivalry between China and India.

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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.

'For anyone who wants to understand the history of America and the world, this is a useful and important book' ANNE APPLEBAUM'A biographer of genius .

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

Syria's dictator Bashar al-Assad and his junta regime have slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Syrians in the name of fighting terrorism.

Ongoing struggles over core principles of democratic governanceThe regime questionoften boiled down to ';democracy or autocracy?

It's in our food, our cosmetics, our fuel and our bodies.

The central country in the Western Balkans, Serbia puzzles observers by balancing its foreign policy between two competing great powers - Russia and the West.

The United States is at a crossroads.

'one of the year's most exciting releases' - The HeraldChina is building the world's first digital totalitarian state, a system of hitherto unimaginable social and political control.

Five billion people, two-thirds of the world's mega-cities, one-third of the global economy, two-thirds of global economic growth, thirty of the Fortune 100, six of the ten largest banks, eight of the ten largest armies, five nuclear powers, massive technological innovation, the newest crop of top-ranked universities.

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

The region of Alsace, located between the hereditary enemies of France and Germany, served as a trophy of war four times between 1870 1945.

Muhammad bin Salman Al-Saud and Muhammad bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the respective princely strongmen of Saudi Arabia and the UAE, have torn up the old rules.

**A Sunday Times Bestseller****An Economist Best Book of the Year**The celebrated historian and journalist uncovers the networks trying to destroy the democratic worldAll of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man at the top.

Between 1968 and 1975, there was a subtle thawing of relations between East and West, for which Brezhnev coined the name D tente, and perhaps a chance to end the Cold War.

Many seek to "e;fix"e; Africa - economists, experts, politicians, gurus, cognoscenti and glitterati.

Geopolitics and Expertise is an in-depth exploration of how expert knowledge is created and exercised in the external relations machinery of the European Union.