International relations

This book explores the motivations behind American military interventions in the Post-World War II era that purported to replace autocratic regimes with democratic ones.

This book develops a theoretical understanding of how truth commissions achieve legitimacy and contribute to peace and stability.

This book addresses the problem of religiously based conflict and violence via six case studies.

This book explores the stagnation of democracy in the Western Balkans over the last decade.

International peacebuilding has reached an impasse.

This book discusses the following questions: Why are some conflicts so enduring and why is conflict resolution so hard?

The global history of liberalism has paid too much attention to the West, neglecting the contributions of liberals from colonial nations.

In recent decades, gold mining has moved into increasingly remote corners of the globe.

This edited volume analyzes African knowledge production and alternative development paths of the region.

This book is an original study of the contemporary debate over U.

This book promotes an in-depth understanding of the key mechanisms that govern the functioning of capitalist economies, pursuing a Classical Political Economics approach to do so.

This volume brings together senior practitioners and academic specialists to consider how the EU's new foreign policy has been evolving and how the various actors are maintaining the holistic approach intended by the draftsmen of the 2009 Lisbon Treaty.

This international relations study investigates the underlying causes of the Yemen crisis by analyzing the interactions of global, regional, and local actors.

This book provides an overview of governance and development in the Mesoamerican Region (MAR), the design and scope of the Plan Puebla Panama (PPP), its relationship to pre-existing regional organisms and its transformation into Proyecto Mesoamerica.

This book explores how traditional Sunni Muslim conceptions have informed or shaped Islamization strategies in contemporary Turkey.

The current policing landscape has seen the rise in serious and organized crime across the globe.

This book presents a unique, comprehensive yet accessible look at security in Africa.

The book provides a comprehensive overview of the European Sustainability Model which cannot be properly understood without taking into account the global governance trends surrounding the topic.

Through an anthropological analysis, this book uncovers life stories and testimonies that relate the processes of separation as a result of the constructed political borders of nation states newly founded on the inherited territories of the Ottoman Empire.

Grounded in nine years of ethnographic research on the al Muhajiroun/Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jamaah movement (ALM/ASWJ), Douglas Weeks mixes ethnography and traditional research methods to tell the complete story of al Muhajiroun.

This book analyzes key aspects of Marx's Capital with an eye towards its relevance for an understanding of issues confronting us in the 21st Century.

This book makes an original contribution to the discussion about agro-food exporting countries' governmental policy.

This book examines the contention that current US-Russia relations have descended into a 'New Cold War'.

This book explores the changing nature of secessionist attempts in connection with rapidly evolving geopolitical and technological landscapes.

This book critically examines the civil, political, socioeconomic, and group rights protected under the African Charter and its Protocol on women's rights.

This book analyzes state terror documentation as a form of peaceful resistance to oppressive regimes through substantial research in human rights archives that registered violations perpetrated by Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile.

This book highlights various challenges and opportunities for water management and cooperation in South Asia.

This book offers a new look at the oil industry in West Africa, proposing to examine the entire region that has been viewed through the lens of Nigeria, Ghana and Gabon.

This book explores the timely topic of energy security and international relations between the European Union and the Russian Federation.

This book chronicles the story of the United Nations under Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in the decade 2007-2016.

The book identifies the main international concepts and rules that are of special relevance in disaster settings and critically analyses how they are implemented in such contexts.

Going to War with Iraq: A Comparative History of the Bush Presidencies is the account of two United States presidents and their decision to intervene militarily in Iraq, examining the comparative domestic and international contexts in which the decisions to go to war were made by George H.

This book analyses the contribution of the new forms of reporting adopted by Public Sector Organisations in the provision of information on value creation processes to their various stakeholders.

This book is based on the view that human existence results from the interplay of four dimensions: mind, heart, body and soul, which find their expression in thoughts, emotions, sensations and aspirations.

This unique companion is a much-needed guide for those who are embarking on field research in conflict-affected countries.

No analysis of migration in Europe today can avoid consideration of the role of the EU institutions, as well as the member states, in policy-making.

This book analyses nearly 100 original interviews with Members of the European Parliament from across the European Union who were active between 1979 and 2019.

Firmly rooted in the International Political Economy (IPE) tradition, this book addresses the negative consequences of globalisation, what is termed here the 'dark side of globalisation'.

This book brings a radically new voice to the debate in the field of Chinese politics and labor movement.

This book explores the connection between politics and mega-events in post-handover Hong Kong and Macao.

Precarity is a key theme in political discourse, in media and academic discussions of employment, and within the labour movement.

This book examines China's political, economic, and diplomatic engagement in Africa.

This book examines the experiences of seasonal, migrant sugarcane workers in Brazil, analyzing the deep-seated inequalities pervasive in contemporary Brazil.

This volume explores the continuous line from informal and unrecorded practices all the way up to illegal and criminal practices, performed and reproduced by both individuals and organisations.

This book examines social capital and transition to democracy in Kurdistan.

This book develops a new concept of post-refugee transnationalism to describe experiences of Bosnian refugees who settled in Ireland after fleeing the conflict in 1990s Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This book examines the linkage between deviance and norm change in international politics.

This edited volume explores the different ways in which members of the European Union have interacted with Kosovo since it declared independence in 2008.

This book offers an in-depth case study on the leading international refugee agency, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and its approach to environmentally displaced persons.

From pirates to smugglers, migrants to hackers, from stolen fish to smuggled drugs, the sea is becoming a place of increasing importance on the global agenda as criminals use it as a theatre to conduct their crimes unfettered.