International relations

This book analyses Nicaragua's role in the development of international law, through its participation in cases that have come before the International Court of Justice.

This book draws on case studies of social, economic and political governance policies from Latin America, Africa and Asia to examine the circumstances in which governments and societies produce policies that overcome initial opposition to meet their aims.

Over the last three decades the world economy has grown strongly on the back of 'globalization' supported by the policies of free-trade, open markets and privatisation.

Looking at a television franchise like Battlestar Galactica (BSG) is no longer news within the discipline of International Relations.

Increasingly, European and other Western states have sought to control the movement of refugees outside their borders.

This book explores contemporary civil-military relations in the United States.

This book argues that cybersecurity's informational ontology offers empirical challenges, and introduces a new interdisciplinary theoretical and conceptual framework of 'entropic security'.

Three experts address the law governing armed interventions based on real or alleged consent of states embroiled in military strife.

This book provides an indispensable guide to the economic, political and diplomatic process that led to the creation of the European single market and the signing of the Maastricht Treaty.

For more than half a century, Saudi Arabia--through both official and non-governmental channels--has poured billions of dollars into funding and sponsoring religious activities and Islamic causes around the world.

Treating the everyday as central to the study of regional and international politics, this book reconstructs the last two decades of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, leading up to the 2011 events that sanctioned its fall.

Wrecking Activities at Power Stations in the Soviet Union (1933) is a valuable historical document that presents a verbatim report of the trials of various Soviet and British engineers and workers accused of acts of sabotage against the Soviet energy infrastructure.

From Discrimination to Death studies the process of genocide through the human rights violations that occur during genocide.

The ring of countries bordering the Black Sea make up one of the unstable subregions of former Soviet republics, satellites and neighbours.

Now that the process of full implementation of European Monetary Union has begun, it is time to shift attention away from the process of introduction to the implications that the common currency will have for a wide range of institutions and policy areas.

It is important to see China s activities in the Pacific Islands, not just in terms of a specific set of interests, but in the context of Beijing s recent efforts to develop a comprehensive and global foreign policy.

Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union?

This book brings together Marxian philosophy and Lacanian psychoanalysis to argue that the hegemonic form of global capital is founded on the foreclosure of class and world of the third.

This book analyses the foreign policy of Silvio Berlusconi, Italian media tycoon and politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy in four governments.

This book provides readers with the first survey of social conditions since the opening of the borders between China and mainland Southeast Asia in the early 1990s, which saw radical changes in the economic policies of the various states involved, in particular, China, Vietnam, and Laos.

This book argues that Australia is vital to the US imperial project for global hegemony in the struggle among great powers, and why Australia's deep dependency on the US is incompatible with democracy and the security of the country.

This important reader brings together published articles from Palgrave's journal The European Journal of Development Research on the development between China and Africa as well as emerging national economies in the BRICs group.

This title examines Sub-Saharan Africa's relations with states such as the US, India, China, the EU, and Britain as well as with non-state actors.

Civil wars with multiple combatants last longer and are harder to resolve.

This book discusses the legal responsibility of UN peacekeepers for the protection of civilians under international legal regimes, particularly international human rights law, international humanitarian law, international refugee law, and occupation law.

This book shows how regional cooperation and integration have increased massively in scale and scope in recent years, as developing countries seek new ways to shield themselves from economic turbulence and to kick-start their economies in the face of stagnant global demand.

This book addresses timely concerns of rising African nationalism and the 2nd decolonisation in Africa.

The book is seventh in the annual Persian Gulf series published by MEI@ND.

This book examines the changing relations between the Asian part of the Middle East and the rest of the continent during the 21st century.

Drawing on original research from social scientists working on twelve countries this book explores the key issues faced by nations and citizens as they struggle to rediscover, reaffirm or reconstruct their sense of national identities in the face of globalizing forces.

This book takes stock of political developments in Iran and its policy towards Gulf countries.

Deniers of climate change sometimes quip that claims about global warming are more about political science than climate science.

This book examines the complex and under-researched relationship between recruitment experiences and reintegration outcomes for child soldiers.

White reassesses Anglo-American trade with Soviet Russia immediately following the Bolshevik Revolution to show that, unlike diplomatic relations, commercial ties were not severed by ideological differences.

This edited volume examines the political, social, and cultural insecurities that the United States is faced with in the aftermath of its post-9/11 foreign policy and military ventures.

As regionalisation becomes an increasingly hot topic, the authors explain why regionalism has been most successful in Latin America and analyse current processes and opinions of possible future developments in the region, including the Caribbean, Central America, Brazil, and Mexico.

This edited volume focuses on charting the rise of neo-abolitionism and offering a critique of the idea, its logics and consequences.

Today over 40 million adults and children worldwide are infected with HIV, however knowledge of the disease has increased greatly and the prognosis is now good for those with access to anti-retroviral treatment.

The personal correspondence between President Dwight D.

A collection of essays that surveys the development and structure of the European Union''s constitutional regime for foreign affairs.

The prohibition of the use of force in international law is one of the major achievements of international law in the past century.

This book provides a history of the ethnic persecution of the Rohingyas in Myanmar and their disputed ethnic and national identity.

This book traces the trajectory and different meanings of the concept of peacebuilding in the United Nations since the early 1990s.

This book discusses the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on international relations theories.

The first comprehensive analysis of the philosophical issues raised by the hijab controversy in France, this book also conducts a dialogue between contemporary Anglo-American and French political theory and defends a progressive republican solution to so-called multicultural conflicts in contemporary societies.

Utilizing the principle of reciprocity, Reciprocity and China's Transboundary Waters: The Law of International Watercourses analyses the past, present and future of the law of international watercourses with a particular focus on China.

This book discusses the role of gender and participation within the context of budgeting and planning.

This book examines the issue of foreign investor misconduct in modern international investment law, focusing on the approach that international investment law as it currently operates has developed towards foreign investor misconduct.

Over the 20th century, Morocco has become one of the world's major emigration countries.