A Book of the Year in the Daily Telegraph and Economist 'This book reads like a spy novel' FINANICAL TIMES'Entertaining and vivid' OBSERVER'Reads like a thriller' THE SUN------------------------------------The astonishing story of the ten million books that were smuggled across the Iron Curtain during the Cold War.
This book examines the legitimization of the European Union through the development and rapid rotation of narratives aiming to convey its identity and purpose.
Dieses essential analysiert die geplante dauerhafte Stationierung einer Brigade der Bundeswehr in Litauen, die vom Verteidigungsministerium als "Leuchtturmprojekt der von Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz ausgerufenen sicherheitspolitischen Zeitenwende" beschrieben wird.
In this book, a former US Department of State senior arms control official critically analyses two pivotal nuclear arms control treaties: the established Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and the rising Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).
First published in 1988, Science, Politics and the Cold War is a history of the cold-war era that demonstrates the extent to which science and scientists have been implicated in every aspect of the political process.
Written by Indian experts and strategic thinkers, this book comprehensively analyses the many themes which have come to characterise the Chinese Dream in the "e;third era"e; and also examines the narrative of success as well as risks and challenges facing China in various fields.
Dieses essential analysiert die geplante dauerhafte Stationierung einer Brigade der Bundeswehr in Litauen, die vom Verteidigungsministerium als "Leuchtturmprojekt der von Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz ausgerufenen sicherheitspolitischen Zeitenwende" beschrieben wird.
This book connects the scholarly discussions on 'security' and 'resilience', by examining the various definitions and meanings of the terms in the EU's Eastern Partnership (EaP) policy, and in what ways the EU has attempted to define the relationship between security and resilience in its official rhetoric and in policy practice.
Inspired by the "e;spatial turn,"e; this volume links for the first time the study of diplomacy and spatiality in the premodern Islamicate world to understand practices and meanings ascribed to territory and realms.
Although Brazil and the United States have long regarded each other sympathetically, relations between the two countries have been adversely affected by geographical distance, language barriers, and cultural indifference.
Since the Russian Federation's illegal annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in March 2014 160 years after the Crimean War the peninsula has returned to the fore on the global geopolitical stage.
With the US-China geostrategic competition heating up, it is an opportune time for South Korea, ASEAN and India to draw on their middle power status to bolster regional security and economic cooperation to protect their interests from any potential superpower fallout.
The proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Humanities and Social Sciences (ISHSS 2024), provide a rich repository of scholarly articles that explore the intricate links between ideas, cultures, and communities.
Originally published in 1972, this book is an account of the events which led Humphry Berkeley to join the Labour Party after seven years a Conservative Member of Parliament and twenty years as a member of the Conservative Party.
The COVID-19 pandemic caused widespread disruption and rapid change, impacting public policy with unprecedented impact globally, nationally, regionally, and locally.
While there has been a huge expansion of the literature on Turkish political economy and foreign policy in the last decade or so, fewer studies have explored Turkey's engagement with the changing global political economy since 2008 in a holistic manner.
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.
What can we say about the shape of things to come in world politics, the probability of different possibilities, and the reflexivity of our anticipations?
This book explores continental perspectives on football's new geopolitical economy, examining how sport, politics, and the global economy have emerged in different parts of the world.
This book focuses on the political economy behind innovation in China's new industrial sectors, particularly the effects of policies and government regulation in the absence of the rule of law.
This book, the first of a multi-volume set on the Silk Road during the Ming Dynasty, takes a holistic and global view of the origin and development of the Silk Road.
This book, the first of a multi-volume set on the Silk Road during the Ming Dynasty, takes a holistic and global view of the origin and development of the Silk Road.
The Palgrave Handbook on the Pedagogy of International Relations Theory is a collection that explores how best to teach the systems of thought that organize the study of international relations and global politics.
This book offers the first comprehensive history and analysis of Turkey's relations with Israel since 1948, when the state of Israel was established, up until 2010 and places them within the wider framework of Turkey's foreign policy.
Are phenomena labeled as corrupt subject to systematic social science investigation, or does corruption lie so much in the eye of the beholder as to frustrate serious analysis?
The contributors to this book examine the conceptual issues relating to the link between conflict and poverty as well as presenting case studies of countries often regarded as 'hot spots' for conflict in Africa.
