Geopolitics

Winner of the Penang Book Prize 2019Nusantaria often referred to as 'Maritime Southeast Asia' is the world's largest archipelago and has, for centuries, been a vital cultural and trading hub.

The Sykes-Picot Agreement was one of the defining moments in the history of the modern Middle East.

The foreign policies of Turkey and Iran seem increasingly to dictate the course of events in the Middle East.

The cultural history of the Cold War has been characterized as an explosion of fear and paranoia, based on very little actual intelligence.

Gradually since 2003, Turkey's autocratic leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sought to make Turkey a great power -- in the tradition of past Turkish leaders from the late Ottoman sultans to Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey.

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.

The most significant development in global politics following the end of the bi-polar Cold War era has been the rise of a multi-polar state system.

William Gueraiche's work is the first scholarly study of the UAE's campaign to establish itself on the international stage and to explore the impact that its economic transformation has had on the country.

Where the implications of war and peace are open to question, the possibility of change depends more on politics than economics.

This region - which marks the meeting of China and post-Soviet Central Asia - is increasingly important militarily, economically and geographically.

In the last three decades, Turkey has attempted to build close relationships with Russia, Iran and the Turkic World.

How have Malta and Cyprus - both EU members – transitioned from colonial island states to independent democracies?

Winner of the Penang Book Prize 2019Nusantaria often referred to as 'Maritime Southeast Asia' is the world's largest archipelago and has, for centuries, been a vital cultural and trading hub.

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

The foreign policies of Turkey and Iran seem increasingly to dictate the course of events in the Middle East.

The cultural history of the Cold War has been characterized as an explosion of fear and paranoia, based on very little actual intelligence.

South Africa is the most industrialized power in Africa.

The most significant development in global politics following the end of the bi-polar Cold War era has been the rise of a multi-polar state system.

The slow collapse of the European colonial empires after 1945 provides one of the great turning points of twentieth century history.

The seven emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates were little known until the spectacular success of Dubai.

The indistinct status of the Zainichi has meant that, since the late 1940s, two ethnic Korean associations, the Chongryun (pro-North) and the Mindan (pro-South) have been vying for political loyalty from the Zainichi, with both groups initially opposing their assimilation in Japan.

What role do ideas play in state-building and state activity?

Where the implications of war and peace are open to question, the possibility of change depends more on politics than economics.

This region - which marks the meeting of China and post-Soviet Central Asia - is increasingly important militarily, economically and geographically.

In the last three decades, Turkey has attempted to build close relationships with Russia, Iran and the Turkic World.

In 1888, there were just four British consulates in the country; by 1921 there were twenty-three.

ince the 1993 Oslo Accords, the Occupied Palestinian Territory has been the subject of extensive international peacebuilding and statebuilding efforts coordinated by Western donor states and international finance institutions.

How do you govern 130,000 people from exile?

On the map of global trade, China is now the factory of the world.

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

For centuries, Russian imperialism has shaped the fate of its neighbours, from the tsarist conquests to Soviet domination and today's relentless aggression.

This is the first book to define and explore the geopolitical economy of sport - the intersection of power, politics, money, and state interests that both exploit and shape elite sport around the world.

War Hotels is a gripping exploration of hotels in wartime and in other times of crisis, told through the prism of now iconic hotels that were frequented by foreign correspondents, diplomats, aid workers, politicians, paramilitaries and spies in conflicts in Northern Ireland, Vietnam, Cambodia, Lebanon, Iraq, and Bosnia & Herzegovina.

Ever since its invention, aviation has embodied the dream of perpetual peace between nations, yet the other side of this is the nightmare of an unprecedented deadly power.

On the 25th January 2015 the Greek people voted in an election of historic importance-not just for Greece but potentially all of Europe.

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR**Alev Scott's odyssey began when she looked beyond Turkey's borders for contemporary traces of the Ottoman Empire.

El Gobierno de la incertidumbre explora factores claves de la economía política de Buenos Aires entre mediados del siglo XVIII y mediados del XIX.

The tumultuous events that began in Egypt in 2011 have embraced revolution and counter-revolution.

From East Timor to the Middle East, from the nature of democracy to our place in the natural world, from intellectual politics to the politics of language, Powers and Prospects is a vital compilation of Chomsky's writings on a broad array of subject material.

First published in 2001, Propaganda and the Public Mind constitutes a series of discussions with the journalist David Barsamian and is the perfect complement to Chomsky's major works of media study such as Manufacturing Consent and Necessary llusions.

Written by an Egyptian human rights lawyer, it is the first English-language account of the development of tensions between violent and non-violent factions in radical Islamist movements, from the perspective of an insider.

*Winner of International Studies Association (ISA)'s International Political Sociology Best Book Prize for 2017**Winner of British International Studies Association (BISA)'s International Political Economy Working Group Book Prize of 2016**Shortlisted for the ISA Book Prize* Mainstream historical accounts of the development of capitalism describe a process which is fundamentally European - a system that was born in the mills and factories of England or under the guillotines of the French Revolution.

In the late 1980s, in the midst of Reagan's interventions in Central America, Chomsky travelled to Nicaragua and gave the lectures that became On Power and Ideology.

The second volume of The Political Economy of Human Rights remains one of the most controversial works produced by Chomsky to date.

The Political Economy of Human Rights is an important two volume work, co-authored with Edward Herman - also co-author of the classic Manufacturing Consent - which provides a complete dissection of American foreign policy during the 1960s and '70s, looking at the entire sweep of the Cold War during that period, including events in Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia and Latin America.

Ancient, medieval and modern, this book is a critical account of the historical, political and cultural roots of Zionism.

An original and radically revised view of British and US foreign policy, exposing the extent to which Anglo-American interests have shaped and damaged the current world order.

Since his accession to power in 2012, Kim Jong-un has come to personify North Korea in the eyes of the outside world.

Celebrated for its natural beauty and its abundance of wildlife, the Mekong river runs thousands of miles through China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam.

Celebrated for its natural beauty and its abundance of wildlife, the Mekong river runs thousands of miles through China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam.