International relations

Leading scholars and policymakers explore how history influences foreign policy and offer insights on how the study of the past can more usefully serve the present.

The postWorld War II paradigm that ensured security and prosperity for the Japanese people has lost much of its effectiveness.

"e;"e;Iraq is rapidly descending into all-out civil war.

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A Brookings Institution Press and Scuola Superiore della Pubblica Amministrazione (SSPA) publicationFederiga Bindi provides, for the first time, an in-depth analysis of Italy's role within the European Union (EU) in this inaugural volume of a book series published jointly by the Brookings Institution Press and the Scuola Superiore della Pubblica Amministrazione (Italian National School of Public Administration, or SSPA).

A Brookings Institution Press and Scuola Superiore della Pubblica Amministrazione (SSPA) publicationAs the European Union tries to increase both its visibility and its impact on the world stage, it cannot overlook the fact that until now enlargement has formed its most successful foreign policy.

Adopted in April 2004, UN Security Council Resolution 1540 obliges all states to take steps to prevent non-state actors, especially terrorist organizations and arms traffickers, from acquiring weapons of mass destruction and related materials.

With President Hu Jintao's November 2004 visit to Latin America, China signaled to the rest of the world its growing interest in the region.

When Edward Snowden hit the send button on a laptop in Hong Kong in June 2013, just shy of his 30th birthday, he became the poster boy for an acutely American conundrum: the tension between the governments constitutional commitment to the privacy of individuals and its responsibility for the safety of the nation.

What role should religion play in shaping and implementing U.

In August 1999 a forty-six-year-old sheep farmer name Jose Bove was arrested for dismantling the construction site of a new McDonald's restaurant in the south of France.

A Brookings Institution Press and the Nixon Center publicationIn this candid and sobering account, former Russian premier Yevgeny M.

Germany and the United States entered the post-9/11 era as allies, but they will leave it as partners of convenienceor even possibly as rivals.

Turkey: A necessary ally in a troubled regionWith the new administration in office, it is not clear whether the U.

From an impoverished childhood in the Scottish highlands to Victorian London, this is the inspiring story of two brothers - Daniel and Alexander Macmillan - who built a publishing empire - and brought Alice in Wonderland to the world.

Why do weak states resist threats of force from the United States, especially when history shows that this superpower carries out its ultimatums?

This book rethinks and transforms the current discourse on globalization and global justice.

This handbook builds a shared understanding of the troubling politics of philanthropy and the disturbing history and practices of humanitarianism.

This handbook builds a shared understanding of the troubling politics of philanthropy and the disturbing history and practices of humanitarianism.

Set against the backdrop of dramatic world order transformations across the 1970s and 1980s, this book examines the competing planetary perspectives of the Brandt Commission and the multinationals, arguing that the missed opportunities of these decades created a path for contemporary political and economic crises.

This book rethinks and transforms the current discourse on globalization and global justice.

Set against the backdrop of dramatic world order transformations across the 1970s and 1980s, this book examines the competing planetary perspectives of the Brandt Commission and the multinationals, arguing that the missed opportunities of these decades created a path for contemporary political and economic crises.

Heightened tensions in the South China Sea have raised serious concerns about the dangers of conflict in this region as a result of unresolved, complex territorial disputes.

This book looks at East Asian actors in the League of Nations to explore a pivotal moment in the early stage of the development of global international relations.

A new history of Asian peace since 1979 that considers America's paradoxical role After more than a century of recurring conflict, the countries of the Asia-Pacific region have managed something remarkable: avoiding war among nations.

A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedy"e;Spare, elegant and poignant .

Immigration integral to globalization, creating connections and mobilizing investments in human and financial capital across countries.

Security Studies: An Introduction, 4th edition, is the most comprehensive textbook available on the subject, providing students with in-depth coverage of traditional and critical approaches and an essential grounding in the debates, frameworks, and issues of the contemporary security agenda.

This book argues for the need to rethink governance through the lens of 'resilience as self-governance'.

Between Systems and Violence offers a compilation and analysis of state-level statutes targeting intimate partner violence (IPV) in immigrant and/or refugee (IMR) lives.

Between Systems and Violence offers a compilation and analysis of state-level statutes targeting intimate partner violence (IPV) in immigrant and/or refugee (IMR) lives.

Concepts of migration and displacement are all too often separated from ideas of international humanitarianism and occupations; and yet, between 1945 and 1951, victims of war became the joint responsibility of humanitarian workers and military officials in occupied Germany.

**Winner of the Lionel Gelber Prize 2024****A Financial Times Best Book of 2023**'A moving love letter to Europe' Lea Ypi, author of FreeDrawing from the people who lived it, Homelands explores how Europe slowly recovered and rebuilt from World War Two.

Identifies paths for legal resilience against restrictions of migrants'' rights introduced by the forces of authoritarian populism.

"Wie lebt es sich als Frau in der Position einer Botschafterin in Iran?

PEGASUS: der Investigativ-Bericht über den größten Spionage-Skandal seit der NSA-Affäre Die Spionage-Software Pegasus, die von der israelischen Firma NSO entwickelt wurde, kann jedes Mobiltelefon vollständig überwachen - und zwar ohne Spuren zu hinterlassen.

Die Grundpfeiler unserer bisherigen Weltordnung sind ins Wanken geraten: Wir erleben Postdemokratie, das Wiedererstarken autoritärer Kräfte, die Ablösung des Liberalismus als bestimmende Leitidee der westlichen Welt.

This book explores what military strategy is and how it is interconnected with policy on one hand and military operations on the other.

Field researchthe collection of information outside a lab or workplace settingrequires skills and knowledge not typically taught in the classroom.

A groundbreaking new history of how the Vietnam War thwarted U.

This handbook examines the study of international relations (IR) in Russia, giving a comprehensive analysis of historical, theoretic-conceptual, geographical, and institutional aspects.

This handbook examines the study of international relations (IR) in Russia, giving a comprehensive analysis of historical, theoretic-conceptual, geographical, and institutional aspects.

Collection with new contributions to the debate from New Politics concerning the legacy of Rosa Luxemburg.

This collection argues that although constitutionalism has traditionally been the primary mechanism for facilitating the mutual accommodation of sub-state and state national societies in plurinational states.

The first study to examine psychological warfare in the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict, this book presents a rational analysis of the Arab and Israeli struggles to gain the world's sympathy and support, tracing these struggles from the British Mandate to the more recent HAMAS abduction of IDF soldier Gilad Shalit.

Here is a witty and learned literary excursion into the world of humour and comic literature as revealed inter alia by the works of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Oliver Goldsmith and Henry Fielding - leading in the second half to some glorious insights and observations provided by author's life experience in the world of diplomacy.

This book critically engages with the concepts of small states and soft power and advances a new approach to defining small states, a new conceptualisation of soft power, and a method for empirically analysing the exercise of soft power.

John Pilcher's appointment as HM Ambassador to Japan in 1967, three years after the widely acclaimed Tokyo Olympics, was both judicious and enlightened.

Russia's leadership in establishing the BRICS group (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) is emblematic of its desire to end US hegemony and rewrite the rules of the international system.