Geopolitics

SUNDAY TIMES AND GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017'Comprehensive and compelling .

In her debut collection, Monica Sok uses poetry to reshape a family's memory about the Khmer Rouge regime-memory that is both real and imagined-according to a child of refugees.

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.

In the past decade the Asia-Pacific region has become a focus of international politics and military strategies.

How do Middle East energy transitions fit into international energy markets?

Upper Silesia, one of Central Europe s most important industrial borderlands, was at the center of heated conflict between Germany and Poland and experienced annexations and border re-drawings in 1922, 1939, and 1945.

I he most authoritative history of piracy, Frank Sherry's rich and colorful account reveals the rise and fall of the real "e;raiders and rebels"e; who terrorized the seas.

This book focuses on a region that, next to the Middle East, has become a dragnet of international conflicts in the world.

In warfare, civil unrest, and political protest, chemicals have served as means of coercion, suppression, and manipulation.

This book analyses the impact of Europeanization on domestic politics and the relationship between states and regions.

At the root of our understanding of territory is the concept of terralanda surface of fixed points with stable features that can be calculated, categorised, and controlled.

With 29 contributors from across Europe and beyond, this work represents a unique and important resource that examines the many relationships between tourism and geopolitics, with a focus on experiences drawn from Central and Eastern Europe.

Unsettled Frontiers provides a fresh view of how resource frontiers evolve over time.

Uses knowledge of complex systems to analyze critical transitions in large political orders.

Increasingly, ethnic and religious variables are taken into account to explain conflict and relations between nations.

On 19 August 2014, a member of the jihadist rebel group known as ISIS uploaded a video to YouTube.

In this second edition of South Sudan: The Crisis of Infancy Peter Adwok Nyaba has incorporated the dynamics of socio-political developments in South Sudan since 2015 including an incisive and informative account of the recent icoup attempti and its aftermath.

The land between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan Valley has been one of the most disputed territories in history.

Having celebrated its 70th year of independence in 2018, Sri Lanka, a strategically-positioned island nation, now finds itself with the potential to be a super connector in fast-developing Asia.

This monograph takes a look at how the increasing multipolarity of our world affects art.

As the largest country in South America by land mass and population, Brazil has been marked since its' independence by a belief that it has a potential to be more than merely a very large country.

**THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER****THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**A sweeping indictment of the West s culture of complacency and a passionate call to wake up to our new reality from the bold thinkers behind tech giant PalantirOur most brilliant engineering minds once collaborated with government to advance world-changing technologies.

You won't see segments about it on the nightly news or read about it on the front page of America's newspapers, but the Pentagon is fighting a new shadow war in Africa, helping to destabilize whole countries and preparing the ground for future blowback.

Where will you live in 2030?

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the Chinese-Russian bilateral relationship, grounded in a historical perspective, and discusses the implications of the burgeoning 'strategic partnership' between these two major powers for world order and global geopolitics.

A timely primer on the conflict between the United States and Iran by scholars of Middle Eastern politics who advocate diplomacy and de-escalation.

When the policies and activities of one country or generation harm both other nations and later generations, they constitute serious injustices.

For fifty years, Australia has schemed to deny East Timor billions of dollars of oil and gas wealth.

This is the first book-length study of the role that friendship plays in diplomacy and international politics.

The 1973 'Oil Shock' is considered a turning point in the history of the twentieth century.

Presents a challenge to international relations scholars to think globally, understanding the field''s development in the Global South alongside the traditionally dominant Western approach.

The book also details Russia's attempt to abort the Ukrainian revolution through threats, economic pressure, lies, and intimidation.

Is the process of state building a unilateral, national venture, or is it something more collaborative, taking place in the interstices between adjoining countries?

The world's fastest growing continent demographically, Africa displays nearly all the features of today's global security challenges: armed conflict, terrorism, irregular migration, organized crime, great power competition, public discontent, and economic turbulence.

A rich and accessible examination of military intervention on the African continent, from both foreign and African military actors.

The Mexico-Guatemala border has emerged as a geopolitical hotspot of illicit flows of both goods and people.

This volume contributes to understanding Bangladesh's growth story, as it celebrates 50 years of independence.

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 third background report in the New Energy, New Geopolitics series, this report examines the dramatic increase in the production of shale gas and light tight oil in the United States and suggests possible energy scenarios and strategies could emerge from the unconventional revolution.

Over the past quarter-century China has seen a dramatic increase in income inequality, prompting a shift in China's development strategy and the adoption of an array of new policies to redistribute income, promote shared growth, and establish a social safety net.

A provocative reassessment of the rule of law in world politicsConventionally understood as a set of limits on state behavior, the "e;rule of law"e; in world politics is widely assumed to serve as a progressive contribution to a just, stable, and predictable world.