International relations

What does China's rise mean for transnational civil society?

This book is an edition of the General Report on Tunny with commentary that clarifies the often difficult language of the GRT and fitting it into a variety of contexts arising out of several separate but intersecting story lines, some only implicit in the GRT.

Justice and Security Reform: Development Agencies and Informal Institutions in Sierra Leone undertakes a deep contextual analysis of the reform of the country's security and justice sectors since the end of the civil war in 2002.

Migration is an old, perhaps perpetual, phenomenon.

Gun-related violence remains an intractable problem despite a decline in the past decade.

This book develops an approach to both method and the socio-political implications of knowledge production that embraces our embeddedness in the world that we study.

This book examines the evolution of Spanish foreign policy since 1975, through five different presidencies, spanning its transformation from a dictatorial political system and backward economy to a modern European state, fully democratic and with a well-functioning market economy, under strain from the Eurozone Sovereign Debt crisis.

This volume includes a representative selection of Sidney Drell's recent writings and speeches (circa 1993 to the present) on public policy issues with substantial scientific components.

From bank bailouts to austerity, Europe's and Ireland's response to the economic crisis has been engineered specifically to shift the burden of paying for the crisis onto ordinary citizens while investors, financiers, bankers and the privileged are protected.

This single-volume comprehensive compilation of documents integrates institutional labour history (movements and trade unions) with aspects of social and cultural history, as well as charting changes in trade union and managerial practices, and integrating the economics and politics of labour history.

The conflict in eastern Ukraine continues with little sign of a negotiated resolution.

This book provides a concise introduction into twenty-one trends that are transforming the role of religion and spirituality in "e;re-globalizing"e; societies.

For over forty years the European Community has been taking shape and developing its foundations to become the European Union.

With 29 contributors from across Europe and beyond, this work represents a unique and important resource that examines the many relationships between tourism and geopolitics, with a focus on experiences drawn from Central and Eastern Europe.

Originally published in 1971, The Royal Demesne in English History shows how Norman and Angevin kings were able to regard the whole of their English kingdom as their royal demesne in the continental medieval sense.

Analyses the effectiveness of international organisations as problem solvers of key issues in global politics.

Frankreich hält Platz 43 auf der weltweiten Rangliste der Pressefreiheit von "Reporter ohne Grenzen" - hinter Surinam aber noch vor den Kapverden.

'This book should be of interest to all students of international politics, and, of course, especially to those interested in theory.

The interwar period has left a deep impression on later generations.

For thirteen years, since his resignation from the chairmanship of the Atomic Energy Commission, Mr.

Dilemmas from climate change to financial meltdowns make it clear that global interconnectedness is the norm in the twenty-first century.

Policy insider''s compelling argument to reorganise our efforts in science, diplomacy, and economics to tackle climate change five times faster.

This book investigates the struggles for hegemony, and a possible 'crisis of crisis management' at the core of Italy's political economy.

From acclaimed political scientist Diana Mutz, a revealing look at why people's attitudes on trade differ from their own self-interestWinners and Losers challenges conventional wisdom about how American citizens form opinions on international trade.

Das Schicksal des Deutschen Reiches, so Sebastian Haffner, war die Außenpolitik.

Both Britain and the United States have had a long history of harbouring foreign political exiles, who often set up periodicals which significantly contributed to community-building and political debates.

This book examines the evolution, function, problems and prospects of private security companies in the maritime sector.

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Wages of Appeasement explores the reasons why a powerful state gives in to aggressors.

This book explores the phenomenon of soft power in international relations.

This book examines the changing dynamics of stabilisation efforts in the Middle East and North Africa.

The Caribbean is made up of a complex, enigmatic region, characterised by great disparities in size, population, geography, history, language, religion, race and politics.

This book examines the interplay between the national and the European levels in EU foreign policymaking, focusing on the Middle East.

Non-recognized States are a widespread and politically sensitive de facto phenomenon in international politics, raising numerous questions from both a public international law and private law perspective.

This volume is the first detailed study of the emergence of regular and frequent heads of government meetings (summits), covering the period from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s.

Lord Hankey (1877-1963) was a British civil servant and the first Cabinet Secretary, a top aide to Prime Minister David Lloyd George and the War Cabinet that directed Britain in World War One.

This volume analyses several recent evolutions in global defence activities.

Adopting a political-economy perspective, this book is an original collection of research chapters that focus on Turkey's economic-development experience from the nineteenth century to the present.

This book studies the political integration of Indian diaspora communities into their host societies.

La question peule au Sahel central constitue un champ particulièrement stimulant pour tenter d’analyser en profondeur l’insécurité dans cet espace géopolitique complexe où les conflits communautaires, fonciers, identitaires et le djihadisme s’entremêlent, se confondent et parfois s’auto-alimentent.

In this 2005 book, Alan Khee-Jin Tan investigates the political, economic and social forces influencing the IMO treaties and laws.

In this concise historical and conceptual analysis of China's evolving position in a world defined predominantly by global capitalist development, Lin offers a critical review of relevant debates and discusses the imperative and feasibility of a socialist Chinese model, reconstructed, as an alternative to standardized modernity at an impasse.

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From the nineteenth century through the 1991 war with Iraq, this study of America's expanding role in the Persian Gulf traces the development of American commercial interests in the region and the resulting growth of military and political involvement.

From our earliest schooldays, we are shown the world as a colorful collage of countries, each defined by their own immutable borders.

This book presents three later works by the German social-democratic thinker and politician Eduard Bernstein, translated into English in full for the first time: Social Democracy and International Politics: Social Democracy and the European Question; League of Nations or League of States; and International Law and International Politics: The Nature, Questions, and Future of International Law.

This revised and updated second edition features over twenty new chapters and offers a wide-ranging collection of cutting-edge essays from leading scholars in the field of Security Studies.

This book examines the emergence of modern company towns in Iran by delineating the architectural, political, and industrial histories of three distinct resource-based 'company town' projects built in association with the 'Big Three' powers of World War II.