Geopolitics

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Spruyt takes an inter-disciplinary approach to explain how collective belief systems organized three non-European societies c.

Jairus Victor Grove contends that we live in a world made by war.

From the Soviet perspective, Eastern Europe was the near abroad - more accessible than the capitalist West, yet also unambiguously foreign.

'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 .

The most significant challenge to the post-Cold War international order is the growing power of ambitious states opposed to the West.

Le Monde diplomatique is one of the most highly respected independent periodicals.

Set in the South and Southeast Region, this book attempts to analyze the implications of both genocides perpetrated on the unarmed Rohingya minority community in Myanmar, and the geopolitics of the powers of the region that deter the resolution of this festering problem.

Contested Waters provides an in-depth analysis of trans-boundary water conflict involving the Indus Basin in Pakistan.

2017 marked three important anniversaries for the Palestinian people: 100 years since the Balfour Declaration; 50 years since the Six-day War; and ten years since the Blockade of Gaza.

This book explores contemporary migration by boat through the intertwined, and under-explored, elements of empirical data, governance and geopolitics, and discourses.

Challenges the assumption of the rationality of foreign policy makers in international relations, showing how leaders systematically vary in the rationality of their thinking.

Some of the most provocative questions confronting philosophers in Africa are grounded in the historical memory of conquest and the peripheralisation the continent.

Climate change, nuclear proliferation, and the threat of a global pandemic have the potential to impact each of our lives.

Amid a global health crisis, the process for declaring a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) is at a crossroads.

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

In today's ever-expanding global movement of people border security becomes increasingly important.

Shows how a broad group of civil society organizations came together to contest free trade negotiations in the Americas.

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

How can we know a country, such as the United States or China, is revisionist, that is, whether it intends to upset the international order?

Americans in China tells the dramatic stories of individual women and men who encountered the People's Republic of China as adversaries and emissaries, mediators and advocates, interpreters and reporters, soldiers, scientists, entrepreneurs, and scholars.

Even though it failed to prevent World War II, the League of Nations left a lasting legacy.

The quest for oil can be seen as a defining principle of global US foreign policy, an imperative which has shaped and redefined the practice of American diplomacy, especially in the wake of 9/11, which raised questions about the stability of global oil resources.

The United States is at a crossroads.

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.

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

Germany looms large in international politics, far larger than its size and population would suggest.

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

The second background report in the New Energy, New Geopolitics series, this report evaluates the geopolitical and national security impacts of the dramatic increase in the production of shale gas and light tight oil in the United States.

In Between the Seas, Deborah Paci takes a comparative view of islandness in island identities through case studies of islands in the Baltic and Mediterranean Seas.

According to security elites, revolutions in information, transport, and weapons technologies have shrunk the world, leaving the United States and its allies more vulnerable than ever to violent threats like terrorism or cyberwar.

Once the landlocked backwater between Iran and the Soviet Union, the Caspian has in the last ten years emerged as the epicentre of vast conflicting interests in a region where massive geopolitical issues converge with enormous energy resources and dramatic latent instability.

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Nearly three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, early hopes for the integration of the post-Soviet states into a "e;Europe whole and free"e; seem to have been decisively dashed.

As climate change makes the Arctic a region of key political interest, so questions of sovereignty are once more drawing international attention.

When we think of climate change, we often picture man-made global warming, caused by greenhouse gas emissions.

'Mak is the history teacher everyone should have had' Financial TimesFrom the author of the internationally acclaimed In Europe, a stunning history of our present, examining the first two decades of this most fragile and fraught new millennium.

How societies can preserve democracy with a human-directed social contractThe recent rise of populist movements, especially in Western democracies, has prompted considerable thoughtful analysis.

When is war just?

The new edition of Crew Resource Management reflects advancements made in the conceptual foundation as well as the methods and approaches of applying CRM in the aviation industry.

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.

Since the turn of the century bilateral trade between China and Latin America has increased by more than a factor of ten.

The invention of the nation-state was the crowning achievement of the Sykes Picot Agreement between the United Kingdom and France in 1916.

At the dawn of European colonialism, the Southeast Asian region encompassed some of the most diverse and influential cultures in early modern history.