The Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment examines key regional security issues relevant to the policy-focused discussions of the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia's premier defence summit convened by the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Nigeria and South Africa account for about a third of Africa's economic might, and have led much of its conflict management initiatives over the last three decades.
This book examines key issue areas of Indo-Pacific strategies such as cyber security, space security, maritime security, emerging technologies, and institutional frameworks in the context of deepening US-China rivalry.
Nigeria and South Africa account for about a third of Africa's economic might, and have led much of its conflict management initiatives over the last three decades.
This book examines key issue areas of Indo-Pacific strategies such as cyber security, space security, maritime security, emerging technologies, and institutional frameworks in the context of deepening US-China rivalry.
Wir stecken momentan in der größten Krise seit dem zweiten Weltkrieg: Corona, Impfdesaster, Ukrainekrieg, Nahostkrieg, Inflation, Rezession – all das hängt miteinander zusammen.
During four decades of fast-paced economic growth, China's ascent has reverberated across the full social spectrum, from international relations to technology, from trade to global health, from academia to climate change.
The widespread adoption of the IHRA definition of anti-semitism and the internalisation of its norms has set in motion a simplistic definitional logic for dealing with social problems that has impoverished discussions of racism and prejudice more generally, across Britain and beyond.
El presente Cuaderno de Estudios Regionales tiene el objetivo de aportar algunos elementos de análisis sobre el tema de la Seguridad Humana desde una doble perspectiva.
La historia del surgimiento y vida del Estado de Israel, ha estado constantemente ligada a fuertes dinámicas de conflicto, en las cuales el factor militar ha tenido un peso decisivo.
Durante las últimas décadas han proliferado en el mundo una gran red de mecanismos para la promoción y fomento del comercio e inversión con base en los principios de la liberalización económica, los signatarios de los mismos, sea de tipo bilateral o regional, acuerdan una serie de acciones para permitir el flujo de mercancías y capital.
Los ataques piratas y secuestros perpetrados contra buques tanque y cargueros frente a las costas de Somalia desde mediados de noviembre de 2008, hicieron posible que el tema de la inestabilidad en la zona recuperara los primeros planos de atención para la comunidad internacional.
El presente trabajo aborda la relación triangular entre Líbano, Siria e Israel en la geopolítica regional del Medio Oriente, en particular desde el surgimiento de Líbano y Siria como Estados independientes (1943y 1946 respectivamente), y la creación del Estado de Israel en 1948.
This book examines the new geopolitical economy of football, exploring the intersection of money, politics, and power in the world's most popular sport.
Las Compañías Generales de Comercio o Sogo Sosha (en japonés) han representado una pieza clave en el desarrollo económico y en las estrategias comerciales de Japón desde su proceso de modernización a finales del siglo XIX.
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.
Un brillante ensayo que analiza las estrategias de Estados Unidos, la UE y China por el control de la tecnología, el recurso que marcará la agenda geopolítica del futuro.
Dictionary of Sport Psychology: Sport, Exercise, and Performing Arts is a comprehensive reference with hundreds of concise entries across sports, martial arts, exercise and fitness, performing arts and cultural sport psychology.
A new focus on international diplomacy and cooperation as the race for polar resources escalates As the race for resources in distant parts of the planet gathers momentum, the Arctic and Antarctic have taken on a more prominent role in international relations.
China and India have always been seperated not only by the Himalayas, but also by the impenetrable jungle and remote areas that once stretched across Burma.
Secret Wars is the first book to systematically analyze the ways powerful states covertly participate in foreign wars, showing a recurring pattern of such behavior stretching from World War I to U.
An argument for the classical realist approach to world politics An Unwritten Future offers a fresh reassessment of classical realism, an enduring approach to understanding crucial events in the international political arena.
Russian foreign policy has become an increasing concern in 21st century, together with Russia's relations with its former Soviet neighbours - but its relations with the Baltic States are particularly sensitive, given the Baltic membership of NATO and the EU and Russia's increasingly fractious relations with those institutions.
This edited volume sets out to explore the paradox that the European Union (EU) produces policies with strategic qualities, but lacks the institutions and concepts to engage in strategic reasoning and action proper.
This book traces the triangular strategic relationship of India, Pakistan and China over the second half of the twentieth century, and shows how two enmities - Sino-Indian and Indo-Pakistani - and one friendship - Sino-Pakistani - defined the distribution of power and the patterns of relationships in a major centre of gravity of international conflict and international change.
The leaders and bureaucrats of China have actively attended, initiated, promoted or made skilful use of regional multilateral political, economic, and security institutions to accelerate regional cooperation and integration with neighboring states, convince Asian states that China's rise will not threaten the regional order and their national interests, and exploit its role and diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific as a launch pad for greater influence in world affairs.
The publication of this book marks the fiftieth year of Turkey's application to the European Economic Community for associate membership, and evaluates EU-Turkey relations in a historical perspective.
This book charts British and American approaches to Burma between the country's independence from the United Kingdom in 1948 and the military coup that ended civilian government in 1962.
The increase in China's economic and political involvement in Africa is arguably the most momentous development on the continent since the end of the Cold War.
This book examines NATO's transition from a Cold War mutual defence organization into a global alliance, and puts the recent crisis over the Afghanistan mission in the context of long-standing debates over out-of-area interventions.
This book examines the justifications for, and practice of, war by the US since 1990, and examines four case studies: the Gulf War, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq.
Variously described by historians and thinkers as the 'most terrible century in Western history', 'a century of massacres and wars' and the 'most violent century in human history', the 20th century - and in particular the period between the First World War and the collapse of the USSR - forms a coherent historical period which changed the entire face of human history within a few decades.
