Geopolitics

The United States of America has been the most powerful country in the world for over seventy years, but recently the U.

For over a decade now, thinking on regional relations in the Gulf has focused on the competition for regional hegemony between Iran and Saudi Arabia.

In the last decade, rulers in Gulf regimes have aspired to greater strategic autonomy and distance from the West.

This book examines how the increasing interdependence between trade and foreign policy can be managed within the legal framework of the European Union.

'Insightful and immersive' Sunday Times'An intellectual non-fiction thriller' Financial TimesA riveting expos of the hidden philosophical movement that drives the populist right around the worldSteve Bannon in the United States.

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

Robert Fisk's bestselling eyewitness account of the events that have shaped the Middle East is alive with vivid reporting and incisive historical analysis.

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.

After the Cold War, the 'Hot War' has made its comeback in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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.

Care facilities often reflect the multifaith and multicultural nature of society, not least in a very diverse population of health and social care staff and care-recipients.

This innovative and thought-provoking text will teach you about the diverse and increasingly expansive sub-discipline of geopolitics.

How might an objective observer conceive of what humans have accomplished as a species over its brief history?

After the end of the Cold War, it seemed as if Southeast Asia would remain a geopolitically stable region within the American-led order for the foreseeable future.

Dark Shadows is a compelling portrait of Kazakhstan, a country that is little known in the West.

Delve into the history of energy resource conflicts, their present status, and the potential effects of today's energy production decisions on the future of humanity.

Although there is often opposition to individual wars, most people continue to believe that the arms industry is necessary in some form: to safeguard our security, provide jobs and stimulate the economy.

The history of oil is a chapter in the story of Europe's geopolitical decline in the twentieth century.

'Captivating The stuff of thrillers' - the Financial Times An explosive new vision of geopolitics from two trail-blazing political scientistsDeep beneath our feet, vast and sprawling, lies one of the most sophisticated empires the world has ever known.

There is widespread agreement that climate change is a serious problem.

Deniers of climate change sometimes quip that claims about global warming are more about political science than climate science.

This report evaluates the energy and geopolitical shifts that have arisen from the production of shale gas and light tight oil in the United States.

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

Big, unexpected changes are here to stay.

Is the West prepared for a world where power is shared with China?

Democracy in the twenty-first century faces a number of major challenges, populism, neoliberalism and globalisation being three of the most prominent.

Based on an international symposium addressing a key issue in global development, this reference includes both the latest methodologies for and practical examples of effective management of transboundary water resources.

As a result of the formation of the modern Turkish state, nationalist narratives of the Ottoman Empire's collapse are commonplace.

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

THE EXPLOSIVE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A bombshell.

In 2050 there will be 9.

Oil and natural gas are now acknowledged to be the driving forces of international politics.

It has been shown time and again that even though all citizens may be accorded equal standing in the constitution of a liberal democracy, such a legal provision hardly guarantees state protections against discrimination and political exclusion.

The longest war the United States has ever fought is the ongoing war in Afghanistan.

At the height of her imperial power Britain clashed with Russia at many points from Turkey to China.

Much work has been done on the causes and characteristics of the Arab Spring, but relatively little research has examined the political and spatial consequences that have developed following the uprisings.

Introduces the idea of modes of governance to compare the causes and consequences of changes in global institutions.

Decades-long field research, investigate Chinese approach in Africa''s development, reinterpret classics on industrial capitalism, and reveal effects of non-linear synergism

'China's first iconic modern intellectual.

For more than a century, no US adversary or coalition of adversaries - not Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, or the Soviet Union - has ever reached sixty percent of US GDP.

This book explores what military strategy is and how it is interconnected with policy on one hand and military operations on the other.

EIN BRUTALER ZEITKRIEG IST IM GANGE, aber die Menschheit ist dazu bestimmt, sich der galaktischen Gemeinschaft anzuschließen.

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Political Geography aims to account for the intellectual and worldly developments that have taken place in and around political geography in the last 10 years.

Palestine has often been defined and constructed in the global imaginary through conflict, resistance, oppression and violence.

Among scholars who focus on the politics of natural resources, conventional wisdom asserts that resource-scarce states have the strongest interest in securing control over resources.