Geopolitics

Develops a fresh non-Eurocentric analysis of the rise and development of the global economy in the last half-millennium.

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This volume, titled ,Africa,s Growing Role in World Politics,, includes a selection of papers dedicated to the problems of the contemporary international relations and foreign policies of the African states.

In The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama took us from the dawn of mankind to the French and American Revolutions.

Worldviews of Aspiring Powers provides a serious study of the domestic foreign policy debates in five world powers who have gained more influence as the US's has waned: China, Japan, India, Russia and Iran.

An examination of how peacekeeping is woven into national, regional and international politics in Africa, and its consequences.

Poverty narratives have become an unprecedented source of empowerment.

The purpose and location of frontiers affect all human societies in the contemporary world - this book offers an introduction to them and the issues they raise.

Armenia receives one of the highest levels of international aid per capita in the Western world, and among the highest of the post-Soviet states.

Provides a new framework for reconceptualizing the historical and contemporary relationship between cultural diversity, political authority, and international order.

After isolated terrorist incidents in 2015, the Chinese leadership has cracked down hard on Xinjiang and its Uyghurs.

It has been said many times that the human future is clouded by multiple and mutually interacting problems.

The Sahara: a dream-like, far away landscape of Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, The English Patient and Star Wars, and home to nomadic communities whose ways of life stretch back millennia.

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

Water is our planet s most precious resource.

In 1999 the Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim and the Palestinian writer Edward Said organised a concert in Weimar in which half the performers were Palestinians and the other half Israelis.

The New Old World looks at the history of the European Union, the core continental countries within it, and the issue of its further expansion into Asia.

'Gripping' Economist 'Jaw-dropping' Sunday Times 'Riveting' Financial Times 'Fascinating' ReutersWe are entering an age of energy crises and food shortages.

Beginning in Inner Asia two thousand years ago, the Turks have migrated and expanded to form today's Turkish Republic, five post-Soviet republics, other societies across Eurasia, and a global diaspora.

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.

In Pursuit of English traces how the English language became an object of heated pursuit amid South Korea's rapid neoliberalization, creating the so-called "e;English fever"e; of the 1990s and 2000s.

CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY SUNDAY TIMES AND HISTORY TODAY'Absolutely stunning.

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The forces of globalization have transformed the world economically, but in the West politics is becoming increasingly fractured as living standards stagnate for all but the very wealthy.

Egypt's January 25 Revolution of 2011 was a dramatic demonstration of the role social media has come to play in radical activism.

Examines how the idea of Kurdistan, as a homeland and a source of national identity, was created within international political history.

Rebuts the pervasive ''folk'' notion that quagmire is intrinsic to a country or civil war.

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

Timeless Turmoil offers a comprehensive historical and comparative analysis of recent conflicts in Kosovo, Abkhazia, and the Tskhinvali region, examining their geopolitical dynamics from ancient times to the present.

The Habsburg Empire's grand strategy for outmaneuvering and outlasting stronger rivals in a complicated geopolitical worldThe Empire of Habsburg Austria faced more enemies than any other European great power.

The Vietnam War is one of the defining conflicts of the twentieth century: not only did it divide American society at every level; the conflict also represented a key shift in Asian anti-colonialism and shaped the course of the Cold War.

An innovative and provocative study tackling the main assumptions surrounding Israel''s claim to Jewish identity.

The Red Sea is rapidly becoming a highly contested zone, where traditional and emerging global powers are vying for influence and control.

The central country in the Western Balkans, Serbia puzzles observers by balancing its foreign policy between two competing great powers - Russia and the West.

What configuration of institutions and policies is most conducive to human flourishing?

NOW UPDATED WITH FOUR NEW CHAPTERS'Killer in the Kremlin traces Putin's bloody career.

The need for collective action has never been greater, but geopolitics, structural changes and diverging preferences mean that existing global governance arrangements, devised at Bretton Woods in the 1940s, are either unravelling or outmoded.

The impact of the new ''Great Game'' on Central Asia''s energy reforms illustrates the interconnection between law, geopolitics and institutions.

After Obama examines how and why US influence has contributed to the erosion of the world America made, endangering international order and liberal values.

Violence against women has been a focus of transnational advocacy networks since the early 1980s, and the United Nations has, in intervening years, passed a series of resolutions to condemn, prevent, investigate, and punish this violence.

Explains how war spreads through an original analysis of the contagion that brought countries into the First World War.

Following the acclaim for The End of the Free Market, Ian Bremmer is back with Every Nation for Itself, where he addresses the next big issue for the shifting world economy.

The Third UN is the ecology of supportive non-state actors-intellectuals, scholars, consultants, think tanks, NGOs, the for-profit private sector, and the media-that interacts with the intergovernmental machinery of the First UN (member states) and the Second UN (staff members of international secretariats) to formulate and refine ideas and decision-making at key junctures in policy processes.

On an average, India has two to five elections in any given year.

As flooding, drought and water scarcity become more pronounced due to climate change, so the way in which these events are presented in the media assumes greater significance.

Presents a challenge to international relations scholars to think globally, understanding the field''s development in the Global South alongside the traditionally dominant Western approach.

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