Geopolitics

When Nikita Khrushchev toured America in 1959the first Russian leader ever to set foot in the Western Hemisphere, let alone the United Statesthe country was enjoying a period of unprecedented prosperity, just as the Cold War and the possibility of thermonuclear annihilation were causing widespread, bone-deep dread throughout the land.

Since the debut of the iPhone in 2007, the mobile phone has become a quick, convenient, and immensely popular gateway for accessing and consuming news.

Der Aufstieg Chinas hat eine fundamentale Verschiebung der Geopolitik zur Folge.

In Mexico City, as in many other large cities worldwide, contemporary modes of urban governance have overwhelmingly benefited affluent populations and widened social inequalities.

Interweaving feminist theological ideas, Asian spirituality, and the witnesses of World War II sex slaves, this book offers a new theology of body.

Meinte man lange, um Frieden zu schließen, müssten erst die "Feinde" besiegt werden, so erkannte die Staatengemeinschaft im Jahr 1945, dass nicht der Feind, sondern der Krieg besiegt werden muss.

From cooperation to a new cold war: is this the future for today's two great powers?

Turkey is among a league of revisionist powers who are challenging the world order.

The Arctic is a global bellwether for climate change and indigenous peoples' rights and traditions, as well as a "e;health check"e; on the durability of international laws and norms.

Throughout the post-Mao reform era, China has championed the principle of sovereign state control, which holds that states should not intervene in the affairs of other states.

When and why did Pakistani prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto decide to build a nuclear weapon?

This book examines the evolution of global terrorism, including the people and groups who have perpetuated the worst attacks and the people and agencies working to stop them.

Wir alle spüren, dass Deutschland eine Macht im Umbruch ist, ein Land, das tiefgreifende Veränderungen erfährt.

For the last seventy years, experts have tried to define the nature of Turkey's partnership with the US.

Drawing on a wide range of sources and historiographical material, Between East and West provides a comprehensive analysis of the efforts of the Moscow princes to form a centralized Russian state.

Globalisation has created an interconnected world, but has not diminished violence, militarism and inequality.

The Arctic is a global bellwether for climate change and indigenous peoples' rights and traditions, as well as a "e;health check"e; on the durability of international laws and norms.

Is the idea of the "e;Middle East"e; simply a geopolitical construct conceived by the West to serve particular strategic and economic interests-or can we identify geographical, historical, cultural, and political patterns to indicate some sort of internal coherence to this label?

A global history of human rights in a world of nation-states that grant rights to some while denying them to othersOnce dominated by vast empires, the world is now divided into close to 200 independent countries with laws and constitutions proclaiming human rights-a transformation that suggests that nations and human rights inevitably developed together.

Eight years after annexing Crimea, Russia embarked on a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

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.

This book is an introduction to the events in Russia after the fall of the Berlin Wall up to the large-scale invasion of Ukraine, which began on February 24, 2022.

In these ground-breaking essays, James A.

India faces a defining period.

The Great Barrier Reef is dying.

Insurgencies, especially in the form of guerrilla warfare, continue to erupt across many parts of the globe.

ince the 1993 Oslo Accords, the Occupied Palestinian Territory has been the subject of extensive international peacebuilding and statebuilding efforts coordinated by Western donor states and international finance institutions.

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.

This major new study examines the nature of Chinese power and its impact on the international order.

The relationship between Germany and Russia is Europe's most important link with the largest country on the continent.

This publication offers the most wide-ranging examination to date of an intriguing country, one that is often misunderstood.

The continuity in Russian state foreign policy revolves around two fundamental elements:
the pursuit or maintenance of great power status and underlying political ideologies.

What configuration of institutions and policies is most conducive to human flourishing?

The on-going crisis in Syria has not only affected those caught within the country's borders, but with the deluge of refugees fleeing the violence, it has also had an impact on the surrounding countries.

Among the tremendous changes affecting Europe in recent decades, those concerning political frontiers have been some of the most significant.

The South China Sea Disputes: Historical, Geopolitical and Legal Studies covers various issues regarding the currently controversial theme of the South China Sea (SCS) disputes.

Born into a Christian minority in Lebanon and since settled in France, acclaimed writer Amin Maalouf claims a unique position in global conversation.

This concise introduction to the growth and evolution of geopolitics as a discipline includes biographical information on its leading historical and contemporary practitioners and detailed analysis of its literature.

Since the 1990s, private military and security companies (PMSCs) have intervened in civil wars around the globe.

This volume brings together international experts to provide fresh perspectives on geopolitical concerns in the South China Sea.

This book offers an empirically rich study of Chinese nuclear weapons behaviour and the impact of this behaviour on global nuclear politics since 1949.

War Hotels is a gripping exploration of hotels in wartime and in other times of crisis, told through the prism of now iconic hotels that were frequented by foreign correspondents, diplomats, aid workers, politicians, paramilitaries and spies in conflicts in Northern Ireland, Vietnam, Cambodia, Lebanon, Iraq, and Bosnia & Herzegovina.

Manchuria is a historical region, which roughly corresponds to Northeast China.

The Political Economy of Human Rights is an important two volume work, co-authored with Edward Herman - also co-author of the classic Manufacturing Consent - which provides a complete dissection of American foreign policy during the 1960s and '70s, looking at the entire sweep of the Cold War during that period, including events in Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia and Latin America.