International relations

This book offers a timely exploration of the still burgeoning field of International Political Theory (IPT).

This book critically engages with how formal and informal mechanisms of governance are used across the world.

This book deals with two areas: Global Commons and Security: inextricably melted together and more relevant than ever in a world which is ever globalized and.

This book addresses the question of what socialism is according to fundamental values rather than institutions.

This book presents a detailed and critical discussion about how human wellbeing can be maintained and improved in a postgrowth era.

This book explores post-Soviet Eurasian regional security governance, as embedded in the military alliance of Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).

This book presents novel theoretical and empirical findings on the issue of unrecognized states and secession.

This book examines how and why local communities have been neglected in development initiatives in South Asia, focusing on Sri Lanka, and assesses the significant support from NGOs in increasing the capacity of local government and in promoting local development.

The book aims to trace and explain the historical evolution of Moscow, the capital of the Tsardom of Russia, Soviet Union and Russian Federation, as a political entity and political community, and to understand what place Moscow occupied within the Russian political space and what role it played in Russian political life for centuries until 2018.

This book examines the League of Nations, state-supported terrorism, and British foreign policy after the rise of Hitler in the 1930s.

This book examines the interactions between trade policy and foreign and security policy in EU external action as a nexus of practices.

This book aims to understand public diplomacy by examining its practice.

This volume honors the lifetime achievements of the distinguished activist and scholar Elise Boulding (1920-2010) on the occasion of her 95th birthday.

This book discusses the interaction between and the impact of overlapping actions by regional organizations while dealing with critical events.

This book identifies and explains the functional and ideational boundaries regarding what states and Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) both do and possess regarding land power, sea power, and air power.

In the last two decades, Turkey has witnessed a variety of bordering interventions rooted in its problematisation as variously "e;transit,"e; "e;destination,"e; "e;European,"e; "e;Muslim"e; and "e;safe.

This volume argues that international security in the Asia-Pacific lends itself to contradictory analyses of centrifugal and centripetal trends.

This book addresses the role of social capital in promoting rural and local development.

This edited volume provides a fresh analysis for researcher and practitioners regarding United Nations Security Council resolution 1540, the status of its implementation, and its future by providing an original evaluation of progress in implementation and challenges faced during the resolution's first decade.

This book focuses on marginal actors in the global order.

This wide-ranging book analyses EU-Asia security relations in a systematic, substantive and comparative manner.

This is a book with many benefits.

Explaining the determinants of China and India's development cooperation in Africa cannot be achieved in simple terms.

This book highlights the emerging bidirectional interactions between Europe-primarily the EU-and Asia in the fields of political economy, development, environmental policy, security, diplomacy, and inter-institutional relations within the context of two recent global trends: the rise of China and the growing withdrawal of the U.

This book explores theories of conflict and peacebuilding and applies them to case studies from the Asia Pacific region, seeking to shift attention to the inherency of conflict, the constant danger of re-emergence, and the need to establish mechanisms to resolve it.

This book analyzes the combined consequences of Brexit and of the new US foreign policy under President Trump on the geopolitical situation of Eastern Europe.

This book contributes to the debate about a new German power in Europe with an analysis of Germany's role in European Russia policy.

This book is a researched study of land issues in American Samoa that analyzes the impact of U.

This innovative book responds to an existing demand for taking Africa out of a place of exception and marginality, and placing it at the center of international relations and world politics.

This book explores how Nostra Aetate, the Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions of the Second Vatican Council, can influence inter-religious dialogue and understanding in the modern world.

This book comparatively examines the China-South Africa trade relationship over three decades through the prism of four other relationships South Africa has with states that have been China's most contentious neighbours in the Indo-Pacific (India, Japan, Taiwan and the USA).

This book is a unique exploration into the gendered politics of the economic crisis in Europe.

Contemporary trade policy is increasingly framed in geo-strategic terms.

This book presents a theory of economic integration in developing regions, where the level of intraregional economic interdependence is low and the dependence on extra-regional economic relations is high.

Against the backdrop of rapid advances in the energy sector, this book provides a concise overview of the complex challenges in the energy paradigm today, which revolve around the seemingly unsolvable energy equation.

This book focuses on the European Union as an actor involved in the transnational Kurdish issue covering Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria.

This book examines the ways in which colonialism continues to define the political economy of Nigeria sixty years after gaining political independence from the British.

This book studies the rollercoaster first year in office of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), which for many Europeans constituted the hope for a different Europe, beyond austerity and national egocentrism.

This book analyzes U.

Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book evaluates the complex nexus between climate change and regional food security in Asia Pacific.

Secessionism perseveres as a complex political phenomenon in Africa, yet often a more in-depth analysis is overshadowed by the aspirational simplicity of pursuing a new state.

This volume expands the concept and role of the schema, with three goals in mind:  1) to outline the continuing issues in the schema concept as the legacy of Kant's concept and analysis, 2) to show that Kant's challenges resulted in successful but truncated views of the schema and its functions, 3) to reconstruct Otto Selz's schema concept by proposing an alternative.

This book sheds light on how Member States and EU neighbours relate to Russia.

This book analyses the discourses of economic liberalization reform in six Western European countries - Germany, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Austria.

This book examines the decade from 2004 to 2013 during which people in China witnessed both a skyrocketing number of food safety crises, and aggregating regulatory initiatives attempting to control these crises.

This volume summarizes, synthesizes, updates, and contextualizes Turkey's multiple roles in global governance.

This volume examines contemporary political relations between Turkey and the Middle East.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of border and boundary enactments in post-war and "e;deeply divided"e; societies.

This book presents a new intellectual history of neoliberalism through the exploration of the sovereign consumer.

This fully updated third-edition of Contemporary Peacemaking is a state of the art overview of peacemaking in relation to contemporary civil wars.