Geopolitics

**WINNER of the PULITZER PRIZE for NON-FICTION 2016**In a thrilling dramatic narrative, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread to become the world's greatest threat.

Bosnia Remade is an authoritative account of ethnic cleansing and its partial undoing from the onset of the 1990s Bosnian wars up through the present.

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

Since the debut of the iPhone in 2007, the mobile phone has become a quick, convenient, and immensely popular gateway for accessing and consuming news.

Vladimir Putin has a master plan to destroy Europe, divide NATO, reclaim Russian influence in the world, and most of all to marginalize the United States and the West in order to achieve regional hegemony and global power.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

This book provides an eyewitness account of a key political crisis triggered by the international community in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2007.

Thailand was a key ally of the United States after WWII, serving as a bulwark against communism in Southeast Asia and as a base for US troops during the Vietnam War.

Is the idea of the "e;Middle East"e; simply a geopolitical construct conceived by the West to serve particular strategic and economic interests-or can we identify geographical, historical, cultural, and political patterns to indicate some sort of internal coherence to this label?

An accessible overview of political, economic, and strategic dimensions of global supply chains in a changing global political economy.

Yemen, tucked into the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula, has often escaped regional and international attention.

In a world that has returned to great power rivalry, understanding the grand strategy of these powers is crucial.

What explains Putin's enduring popularity in Russia?

**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.

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic – at the interlocking levels of politics, economy, and society – have been different across regions, states, and societies.

The continuity in Russian state foreign policy revolves around two fundamental elements:
the pursuit or maintenance of great power status and underlying political ideologies.

Why did the world''s nations fight the Covid-19 pandemic in such different ways and with such varying results?

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

You may not be interested in Russia.

Long regarded as an empty and inhospitable environment, the deep ocean is rapidly emerging as an ecological hot spot with a remarkable diversity of biological life.

'Should be required reading for everyone - including unionists - who are interested in and concerned about the fate of this island' Dublin Review of Books'Compelling' Financial TimesWill Ireland really reunite?

Making a country great again is a theme for nationalist authoritarians.

Which lines on the map matter most?

This interdisciplinary volume maintains the importance of a spatial understanding of society and history.

This book provides a contextual analysis of ASEAN law and its impact on the business and commercial aspect of laws.

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.

In the context of COVID-19, the production and governance of urban space has experienced a rapid digitalization and datafication, creating new challenges for citizenship.

At a time of growing concern over the fate of contemporary democracy this book shows how vast differences between countries in forms of political conduct, and taken for granted assumptions, determine what democracies actually accomplish.

Expert analysis of the political challenges which may accompany a shift to a gas-fed world.

The twin categories of the state and nature collectively embody some of the most fundamental reference points around which our lives and thinking are organized.

For centuries, China was confident in its role as the 'Middle Kingdom', the undisputed cultural, economic and political powerhouse of Asia.

Why and how will the fourth industrial revolution impact great power politics?

This concise introduction to the growth and evolution of geopolitics as a discipline includes biographical information on its leading historical and contemporary practitioners and detailed analysis of its literature.

This important new book offers an engaging and challenging introduction to the thorny paths of the globalization debate.

Between 1968 and 1975, there was a subtle thawing of relations between East and West, for which Brezhnev coined the name D tente, and perhaps a chance to end the Cold War.

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.

This is the controversial history of the British government's involvement in the Zionist project, from the Balfour Declaration in 1917 to the present day.

With a critical focus on US-Latin American encounters, the book analyses geopolitical issues from a post-colonial perspective.

This accessible collection examines twelve historic events in the international relations of East Asia.

Central Asia has become the battleground for the major struggles of the 21st century: radical Islam versus secularism, authoritarianism versus identity politics, Eastern versus Western control of resources, and the American 'War on Terror'.

From the Soviet perspective, Eastern Europe was the near abroad - more accessible than the capitalist West, yet also unambiguously foreign.

Making a country great again is a theme for nationalist authoritarians.

The world is in turmoil.

Where will you live in 2030?

An FT SUMMER READ 2020


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.