International relations

This book focuses on India's foreign policy towards Sri Lanka before the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord (ISLA) in July 1987 and India's military intervention after the ISLA.

President Nixon's historic trip to China in February 1972 marked the beginning of a new era in Sino-American relations.

The Soviet boycott of the 1984 Olympic Games is explained as the result of a complex series of events and policies that culminated in a strategic decision to not participate in Los Angeles.

This volume collects and combines research on regional integration projects beyond Europe and in the Global South across a wide range of policy issues.

This book provides a fresh perspective on the origins of the confrontation between the US and Iran.

Development Strategies, Identities, and Conflict in Asia explores the links between Asian governments' development strategies and the nature and dynamics of inter-group violence, analyzing variations in strategies and their impacts through broad comparative analyses, as well as case studies focused on eight countries.

This volume is the product of scholars of various backgrounds, specialties and agendas bringing forth their most treasured findings regarding the Chinese Catholic Church.

Plus que jamais l'Iran s'impose comme un sujet majeur de la vie politique internationale contemporaine.

Policy-Driven Democratization  offers a comprehensive conceptual analysis of each one of these fuzzy terms separately to then sew them together in one complete and coherent package of democratization.

Development researchers face many challenges in producing robust and persuasive analyses, often within a short time-frame.

Is Brazil ready to take its place among the world's leading powers?

Deux disciplines sont apparues de façon concomitante à la fin du dix-neuvième siècle : la psychanalyse et la criminologie, qui toutes deux s'efforcent d'expliquer le comportement criminel afin de le prévenir.

Ces contributions évaluent ce que l'Union africaine a pu faire depuis le lancement effectif de ses activités en 2002.

Ce livre invite à prendre la mesure d'un phénomène de grande ampleur qui change le monde : la centralité du Bassin Pacifique, où se font face les deux Etats qui dominent ce XXIe siècle : les Etats-Unis et la Chine.

Examining how leading developing countries are increasingly shaping international economic negotiations, this book uses the case studies of India and South Africa to demonstrate the ability of states to exert diplomatic influence through different bargaining strategies and represent the interests of the developing world in global governance.

Explores current debates around religious extremism as a means to understand and re-think the connections between terrorism, insurgency and state failure.

This book re-conceptualizes civil society engagement with global governance institutions in the field of development in terms of opposition.

The end of the Cold War has seen an international proliferation of parliamentary bodies of all types and at all levels.

This edited book by Mills and Karp brings together political, legal and moral perspectives on the responsibilities of human rights protection in world politics today.

The US military strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan made use of private military and private security companies on an unprecedented scale.

This unique comparative study examines minority representation and powersharing in Canada, Kenya, South Africa, Fiji, India, Malaysia, and Yugoslavia.

Unlike most writing on Arab-Iran relations, which looks at specific episodes and specific countries, this book, taking a long term view, assesses the overall dynamics of the relationship, discussing in particular how far religion or politics drives the relationship.

This analysis of South Korea's development experience can present lessons for development in the 21st century.

This unique collection explores the different organizational forms, strategies and tactics that activists adopt.

This volume explores South Korea's successful transition from an underdeveloped, authoritarian country to a modern industrialized democracy.

Security in Translation proposes an innovative way to capture the evolution, spread and local transformation of threat images in world affairs.

This book moves beyond technical studies of pension systems by addressing the political economy of pension reform in different contexts.

Depuis les attentats du 11 septembre 2001, le monde vit une mutation des menaces qui pèsent sur la sécurité internationale.

The contributors highlight alternative imaginaries and social forces harnessing new organizational and political forms to counter and displace dominant strategies of rule.

The 2011 secession of South Sudan spurred hopes for a more just, democratic Sudan, but was followed by new wars and growing unrest.

Exploring bilateral narratives of identity at a socio-discursive level from 1990 onwards, this book provides a new approach to understanding how Chile and Australia imagine and discursively construct each other in light of the bilateral Free Trade Agreement signed in 2008.

As national leaders struggle to revive their economies, the people of Europe face a stark reality, which has created an opportunity for local leaders and citizen movers and shakers to rise to the occasion to spur revitalization from the bottom up.

Provides clear, systematic and comprehensive coverage of fundamental and contemporary issues of the law of the sea.

The history of humanitarian intervention has often overlooked Africa.

Reveals the previous underexplored influence of religious thought in building the foundations of the CIA.

By highlighting the scope and limitations of local NGO agencies, this book presents a unique perspective of the relationship between peacebuilding theory and its application in practice, outlining how well-educated, well-connected local decision makers and thinkers navigate the uneven power dynamics of the international aid system.

Detailed and comprehensive analysis of how the Treaty of Lisbon emerged in 2007 this book explores the role played by the German Council Presidency and the EU's institutional actors in securing agreement among the leaders of member states on an intergovernmental conference as well as a new treaty text to replace the rejected Constitutional Treaty.

This edited book provides an insight into the new approaches, challenges and opportunities that characterise open source intelligence (OSINT) at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

This book argues that the war on terror is a paradigmatic foreign policy that has had profound effects on domestic social order.

This book explores the means through which the garment industry contributes to industrialization, poverty reduction, empowerment of undereducated workers, in particular female laborers, and shared growth in contemporary low-income countries.

Offering an confrontation of the uncritical choice of the 'nation-state' as a unit of analysis in postwar social science, this book utilises specially collected data from 14 regions across five European states to explores how citizens define and pursue collective goals at regional scale as well as at the scale of the 'nation-state'.