International relations

This book discusses the importance of innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems in supporting regional competitiveness.

This book studies the economic recovery of individual European Union member states more than ten years after the beginning of the global economic crisis.

This edited volume provides an inclusive explanation of what, why, and how cities interact with global counterparts as well as with nation states, non-governmental organizations, and foreign publics.

This volume explores the past, present and future of pessimism in International Relations.

This edited volume provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary debates and issues in Canadian defence policy studies.

This book examines the decisions by Tony Blair and John Howard to take their nations into the 2003 Iraq War, and the questions these decisions raise about democratic governance.

This book shows how international discourse citing 'self-determination' over the last hundred years has functioned as a battleground between two ideas of freedom: a 'radical' idea of freedom, and a 'liberal-conservative' idea of freedom.

In response to pirate attacks in the Western Indian Ocean, countries worldwide have increasingly authorized the deployment of armed guards from private military and security companies (PMSCs) on merchant ships.

This book explores Turkey-EU relations in the context of natural gas.

This book assesses the Sino-Japanese strategic competition in the context of the South China Sea (SCS) territorial disputes.

This book is the first comprehensive and authoritative translation into English of national and international laws of Russia that relate to the Arctic from the early 19th century to the present, revealing the historical and current context of sovereignty, sovereign rights and jurisdiction across nearly half of the north polar region.

This book presents a systematic study of the history, theory and policy of investor citizenship and residence programmes.

This book explores how the European Union responds to the ongoing challenges to the liberal international order.

This book offers a useful and extensive account of Japan's past discoveries and present interactions with Muslim states and societies across Asia.

This book offers a concise but thorough analysis of the International Monetary Fund reform debate.

This textbook, the first comprehensive comparative study ever undertaken, surveys and compares the world's ten largest diplomatic services: those of Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Russia, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

This book evaluates the utility of the Eurasian Economic Union in economic, political, cultural and geostrategic dimensions.

This book shows how the first institution of global governance was conceived and operated.

Throughout the twentieth century, the Chilean business elite has played a central role in the country, not just as entrepreneurs but also as political and social actors.

This book analyses the role of emerging powers as a development assistance providers and the nature of their development cooperation, their behaviour, motives and markedly their changing identities in international relations.

This book explores the political economy of Hungary from the mid-1970s to the present.

This volume offers a comprehensive evaluation of the concept of global order, with a particular emphasis on the role of regional organisations within global governance institutions such as the United Nations.

This book explores the evolution of Brazilian foreign relations in the last fifteen years, with a focus on continuities and change.

Movie magazines are crucial but widely underused sources for writing the history of films and cinema.

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

This book examines the implementation of, the spread of, and compliance with emerging global norms.

This Brief provides a comprehensive introduction to current research on armed groups and proposes a unitary political theory for their future analysis.

This book examines the history of Herbert Hoover's Commission for Relief in Belgium, which supplied humanitarian aid to the millions of civilians trapped behind German lines in Belgium and Northern France during World War I.

This book provides a study on the impact of Brexit on international competitiveness and in doing so, presents a theoretical account of regional disintegration.

This book discusses Brexit's implications for the two most important security institutions in Europe, the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

This book offers a new look at international security management combining practical applications and theoretical foundations for new solutions to today's complex security and safety challenges.

This book conceptualizes Responsibility to Protect doctrine (R2P) as part of a global cosmopolitan agenda, drawing on the work of Jurgen Habermas, and argues that R2P is reflective of a shift towards a more cosmopolitan approach to human protection.

This book explores the origins of nationalism and the ideal of nation/state congruency since early-modern European thought, their transformation over time and endurance in contemporary political thought and IR theory.

This book sets out to explain the variation in nations' reactions to their defeats in war.

This book examines Turkey's success within international development cooperation and how this could create a framework for a new international aid architecture.

This monograph provides a comprehensive analysis of the political economy of the Turkish Cypriot governance in the northern part of Cyprus after 1974.

This book will show that when some countries begin using oil and gas as an instrument of exerting pressure and to realize political goals, energy security becomes synonymous with national security as well as economic security.

This book explores the potential for imagining a politics without violence and evidence that this need not be a utopian project.

This book explores China's significant economic and security interests in the Middle East and South Asia.

"e;It is my expectation that respect for the critical importance of seed sovereignty will in due course be recognised by member states of the United Nations to be as critical to global peace and security as the UN Charter demands in respect of State sovereign equality, justice, human rights and economic and social wellbeing for all peoples.

This volume provides up-to-date information on what has happened in the African 'land rush', providing national case studies for countries that were heavily impacted.

This book demonstrates the importance of democracy for understanding modern international relations and recovers the pluralist tradition of L.

Rich in its spatial scope, this edited collection provides an extensive and detailed overview of contemporary Turkish foreign policy.

This textbook examines the economic problems of military organizations from an institutional perspective.

The book explores the ways in which Latin American states are capitalizing or failing to capitalize on the initiatives of China in world affairs.

This book provides a detailed examination of the threats and dangers facing the West at the far end of the cybersecurity spectrum.

This edited volume addresses the role of non-state actors (NSAs) in international relations.

This book states that burden-sharing is one of the most persisting sources for tension and disagreement within NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation).

In late 2015, against a background of growing populist opposition to international trade agreements, the European Commission announced its willingness to negotiate a comprehensive bilateral investment agreement with Taiwan.

This book explores the application of field theory (patterns of interaction) to Russian economic history, and how social and political fields mediate the influences of institutions, structures, discourses and ideologies in the creation and dissemination of economic thinking, theory and practice.