International relations

This study entails a theoretical reading of the Iranian modern history and follows an interdisciplinary agenda at the intersection of philosophy, psychoanalysis, economics, and politics and intends to offer a novel framework for the analysis of socio-economic development in Iran in the modern era.

This book examines political, social, and economic interactions in highly interconnected areas, stretching from Europe to Eastern Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and East Asia, labelled as Trans-Europe.

Regional Intelligence is an emerging field that leverages the lessons learned through decades of regional science.

This book conceptualizes the economic relations between China and Latin America in different national cases from the perspectives of international political economy-based structuralism theory, the core-periphery model and the world system theory.

East Asia is now experiencing significant economic growth and social change.

This volume examines the Africa-Asia relationship from a transregional perspective, namely as a set of emergent social, political and economic practices spanning a number of analytical and spatial scales.

This book offers a unique analysis of the participatory spaces available for civil society organisations (CSOs) in Caribbean governance.

This book presents new research related to climate change policies and effects.

This book explores hybrid peacebuilding in Asia, focusing on local intermediaries bridging the gaps between incumbent governments and insurgents, national leadership and the grassroots constituency, and local stakeholders and international intervenors.

This book shows how religions and their internal struggles shape key actors and processes in the international political economy.

This book studies how the pursuit of becoming an established 'insider' in an international community shapes a state's foreign policy.

This book analyses the debates on colonial genocide in the 21st century and introduces cases where states are reluctant to acknowledge genocides.

This book studies the cultural, societal, and ideological factors absent from popular discourse on Vladimir Putin's Russia, contesting the misleading mainstream assumption that Putin is the all-powerful sovereign of Russia.

This book analyzes the innovative international intervention instruments against corruption in Central America called Hybrid Anticorruption Agencies or HACAS.

This study thinks with photography about peace.

This book examines how deterrence, coercion and modernization theory has informed U.

This book analyzes the impact of Solvency II.

This book analyzes the connections between social policies and politics of sensibilities.

This volume of Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics includes selected papers from the 22nd Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference in Rome.

The ancient Indian text of Kautilya's Arthasastra comes forth as a valuable non-Western resource for understanding contemporary International Relations (IR).

In foreign policy, the Trump administration has appeared to depart from long-standing norms of international behavior that have underwritten American primacy for decades in a more interdependent and prosperous world.

This book analyses determinants and the evolution of Poland's foreign and security policy in the changing international order.

This edited volume focuses on the attempts of various Caribbean countries to diversify their economies and societies.

Is liberalism really compatible with nationalism?

Recently, there have been public concerns about the impact of emerging market multinationals.

This book is one of the main outcomes of the projects "e;Development Programmes and Rural Change in the European Union: governance, results and lessons to share"e;and "e;Successes and failures in the practice of neoendogenous rural development in the European Union (1991-2013)"e;, funded both of them by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness.

This book analyses the UN's Agenda 2030 and reveals that progress is lagging on all five interlocking and interdependent themes that are discussed: conflict prevention, development, peace, justice and human rights.

This book provides a critical examination of the foreign policy choices of one typical small state, New Zealand, as it faces the changing global balance of power.

This book examines the strategies pursued by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Union (EU) to foster resilience in the Middle East, Maghreb and Sahel regions, ranging from military operations to humanitarian assistance.

This volume seeks to explore Russia's perceptions of the changing international system in the twenty-first century and evaluate the determinants of Russian motives, roles and strategies towards a number of contemporary regional and global issues.

The 1930s, characterised by repercussions from World War I and the Great Depression, was an era of populism, nationalism, protectionism, government intervention and attempts to create planned economies.

This book addresses key challenges and conflicts arising in extractive industries (mining, oil drilling) concerning the human rights of workers, their families, local communities and other stakeholders.

This volume explores the Western-led liberal order that is claimed to be in crisis.

Since the latest crisis of capitalism broke out in 2008, Marx has been back in fashion, and sometimes it seems that his ideas have never been as topical, or as commanding of respect and interest, as they are today.

This book explores the potential of international human rights law to resolve one of the gravest human rights violations to have surfaced post 9/11: extraordinary rendition.

Russian public diplomacy attracts growing attention in the current global climate of tension and competition.

This edited book analyses the changing links between governance, security and development in Africa as they relate to the narrative that contemporary Africa has made remarkable progress in recent years, a phenomenon popularly known as "e;Africa rising.

"e;Ending violent conflict requires societies to take leaps of political imagination.

This book examines the history of nation-building in Kosova as a model of how the theories behind nation-building, state-building and peace-building can succeed or fail.

This book suggests a new bargain between the NPT nuclear weapon states and the non-NPT nuclear weapons possessor states, mainly India and Pakistan, through a regional arrangement to help move towards universalization of the nuclear nonproliferation regime.

This book explores the EU's effectiveness as an international mediator and provides a comparative analysis of EU mediation through three case studies: the conflict over Montenegro's independence, the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia, and the Geneva International Discussions on South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

The book provides a holistic examination of the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

This book presents international experiences in urban network learning.

This book analyzes privatization reforms, property rights, and raiders in post-Soviet Russia.

This book provides a comprehensive search for the basic political drivers of international development cooperation, based on the policy and performance of the OECD countries from the early 1960s to the present.

This book examines the interplay between key rulers and intellectuals in creating and sustaining popular discourses that often help keep rulers in power.

This edited volume addresses a critical aspect of development in Africa: the intersection between education and governance.

This book analyses African foundations of gender, education, politics, democracy and institutional development by stimulating theoretical discourses.

The Arctic has, for some forty years, been among the most innovative policy environments in the world.

This book explores how the rule of power relates to the case of occupied Palestine, examining features of local dissent and international governance.