This book examines the security arrangements of the Persian Gulf, with a particular focus on Iran's security plans since the beginning of the Islamic Revolution and follows it during Hassan Rouhani presidency.
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'A rigorous and thoughtful study of what has happened on battlefields over the past eight decades' THE TIMES'A hugely important book .
Facing threats ranging from Islamist insurgencies to the Ebola pandemic, African regional actors are playing an increasingly vital role in safeguarding peace and stability across the continent.
In this story from the frontlines of the undeclared battlefields of the War on Terror, Jeremy Scahill exposes America's new approach to war: fought far from any declared battlefield, by units that do not officially exist, in thousands of operations a month that are never publicly acknowledged.
Russland: Ein Streifzug durch die Geschichte einer GroßmachtVon russischen Geistlichen, die China durch eine List zur Überlassung Sibiriens an Russland bewegten, bis zur Stellung als Ordnungsmacht im Nahen Osten: Die Geschichte der östlichsten europäischen Nation ist ebenso spannend wie kompliziert.
Un grupo amplio de especialistas del Instituto Mora, de la Universidad de Quintana Roo y de la UNAM se reúnen en esta obra para analizar las continuidades y transformaciones de las sociedades centroamericanas, desde las guerras civiles que tuvieron lugar en la región en la década de 1980 hasta la actualidad.
Naranjas de la China narra el periplo de un joven español que, movido por la curiosidad, se marcha a Pekín a aprender mandarín, donde termina pasando una década.
Discussing Pax Germanica: The Rise and Limits of German Hegemony in European Integration examines and reconsiders Germany's paramount role in shaping European integration from the aftermath of World War II to the present.
This book explores how 'balkanization' as a discourse underpins the policies of the European Union (EU) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) toward the Western Balkans.
Los trabajos reunidos en este libro fueron escritos por un nutrido grupo de especialistas y se organizan en tres ejes: "Viajes y tránsitos", "Poéticas y posicionamientos" y "Redes e instituciones".
Incluye un anáisis de las 52 microrregiones y 29 complejos productivos seleccionados por CEPAL, la infraestructura regional, matrices origen y destino de las cargas y el soporte de los diferentes modos y medios de transporte y logística asociada.
Lo que en algún momento los intelectuales europeos definieron como "Medio Oriente" constituye la región más caliente, inestable e incomprendida del planeta.
This book critically examines the international, geopolitical, policy, institutional, and curricular challenges facing Canadian offshore school programs.
This book examines the role of maritime power in the 'Chinese Dream' of becoming the pre-eminent global power by 2049, a century after the establishment of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
This book examines the foreign and domestic policies of Poland since World War II in light of the country's relations with the Soviet Union and the United States.
The IISS Strategic Dossier China's Belt and Road Initiative provides a geopolitical and geo-economic assessment of President Xi Jinping's flagship foreign-policy initiative.
This book focuses on the nature of the Soviet-East European relationship in the Gorbachev era and on the prospects for the adaptation of that relationship to changing conditions in today's world, examining trends and tendencies in Soviet-East European relations.
Survival, the IISS's bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment.
This book delves beyond the spectacular images of African migrants struggling to scale border fences or cross the Mediterranean in unseaworthy rubber dinghies by unpacking the policies and emerging practices that shape contemporary border governance in the expanding EU-African borderlands.
This book addresses the vital importance of reshoring US manufacturing capability to ensure economic and military security and then discusses the proven methods that the United States used to gain manufacturing supremacy in the first place.
This book delves beyond the spectacular images of African migrants struggling to scale border fences or cross the Mediterranean in unseaworthy rubber dinghies by unpacking the policies and emerging practices that shape contemporary border governance in the expanding EU-African borderlands.
This book focuses on India's foreign policy towards Sri Lanka before the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord (ISLA) in July 1987 and India's military intervention after the ISLA.
Survival, the IISS's bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment.
The Nile River Basin supports the livelihoods of millions of people in Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan and Uganda, principally as water for agriculture and hydropower.
In this book, Emmers addresses the key question: to what extent may the balance of power play a part in such cooperative security arrangements and in the calculations of the participants of ASEAN and the ART?