This edited volume offers innovative perspectives on the study of music as cultural diplomacy in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), a region often overlooked in such discussions.
This book offers a systematic historical analysis of the relationships between migration and the development of cities, including their physical, economic, and cultural evolution.
Shining a spotlight on everyday readers of the 21st century, Beth Driscoll explores how contemporary readers of Anglophone fiction interact with the book industry, digital environments, and each other.
First published in 1965, Britain and the Commonwealth provides a comprehensive account of Britain's role in the Commonwealth and of the Commonwealth's place in the modern world.
Southeast Asian countries represent a wide range of approaches to military modernisation due to their great diversity in politics, economies, geography and other factors.
This book explores non-Western approaches to foreign policy in the context of Iran in order to encourage wider consideration of non-Western scholarship in international relations.
This book is about the geographic space as an inseparable component of a nation's historical memory, territorial awareness, geopolitical visions, and obsessions.
Transnational Broadcasting in the Indo-Pacific brings together research spanning journalism, broadcast and political science to interrogate the issues arising from a rapidly changing global political and broadcast environment.
Hegel: Lectures on Philosophy gathers the mature reflections through which Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel elaborates philosophy as a systematic account of reality, history, spirit, and reason.
The world has witnessed the proliferation of Mega-Regional Trade Agreements (MRTAs), and this book critically examines a range of issues with MRTAs starting from their genesis to their economic clout over the world, the likely implications for member countries' integration, and the challenges they pose for non-member countries.
While proxy relationships can be an effective means international actors use to transfer risk and lower their costs to compete, they also enable actors to circumvent international norms as well as create moral hazards that can make the practice self-defeating if not simply unethical.
This book addresses two of the most relevant yet understudied questions in field of International Political Economy (IPE): 1) what explains the trade policy preferences of the organizations that represent economic producers in the political sphere?
This book examines public perceptions of the legitimacy of drones, and how this affects countries' policies on and the global governance of drone warfare.
This book examines Canada's foreign policy in terms of China, pointing to the flaws and attitudes relating to the impracticality and lack of its pragmatic design.
The book examines how US media, public opinion, interest groups and think tanks respond to US Presidents' attempts to market their foreign policies in the MENA Region.
An introduction to Putins formidable intelligence and security organization
Since its founding in 1995, the FSB, Russias Federal Security Service, has regained the majority of the domestic security functions of the Soviet-era KGB.
Ask an American intelligence officer to tell you when the country started doing modern intelligence and you will probably hear something about the Office of Strategic Services in World War II or the National Security Act of 1947 and the formation of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Political Economy as Theodicy: Progress, Suffering and Denial proposes that political economics operates within a theological symbolic order that dictates modern sociopolitical and economic life as a whole.
This book demonstrates how populist security narratives served as the driving force behind the mobilization of Republican voters and the legitimation of an 'America First' policy agenda under the Trump presidency.
Los estudios del tema coinciden en que el conflicto desencadenado en Cuba por la presencia de misiles enviados por el líder de la Unión Soviética, Nikita Kruschov, constituyó el episodio de la Guerra Fría que más se acercó a un enfrentamiento directo entre las dos grandes potencias.
The book examines how US media, public opinion, interest groups and think tanks respond to US Presidents' attempts to market their foreign policies in the MENA Region.
Domestic Surveillance and Social Control in Britain and France during World War I examines the rapid development and expansion of agencies and governmental power to monitor and control the homefront in Britain and France during World War I.
This book focusses on the intersubjective character of status in order to understand the degree to which Brazil has been able to achieve an increase in its global status.
Using extensive documentation, this book examines how President Jimmy Carter's troop withdrawal and human rights policies conceived in abstraction from East Asian realities contributed to the demise of Korean President Park Chung Hee.
