International relations

This book examines the construction of an innovation system in Brazil's health industries over the past twenty years.

This book is a compendium of the speeches and interviews of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, who reigned as Prime Minister of the State of Jammu and Kashmir from 1948 to 1953, and who was a large presence on the political landscape of India for fifty years.

Small state behavior has been largely ignored by academics in both international relations and strategic/intelligence studies.

This fully revised and expanded sixth edition of Diplomacy, written by an internationally respected researcher and teacher of the subject, is richly illustrated with examples from the worlds of health and commerce as well as high politics.

This edited volume proposes an innovative approach to European Integration by combining economics and political theory in its study of public goods.

In the context of rapid developments in Turkey and its broader geopolitical environment over the past decade, this book examines and conceptualises Turkey's changing foreign policy towards a more assertive and revisionist paradigm.

This book addresses two interrelated discourses of crisis in contemporary Europe: the migrant crisis vs.

This collection critically engages the resource use nexus.

This book has two aims: first, to examines the evolving role of the state, and non-state actors, coupled with trends - including globalization, populism, post-truth, enlightened capitalism, feminist foreign policy, energy disruption, climate change, emerging cyber and other technologies, and the crisis in UN-centered multilateralism, to offer a prescient assessment of global affairs in the near future; and, second, to solidify the transdisciplinary nature of Global Affairs as a field of study that transcends the traditional conceptual silos.

This book conceptualises the ongoing hydropower expansion in Southwest China as a socio-political and transnational project transcending the construction of dams.

This book bridges the gap between academic researchers and policymaking experts working on the Western Balkans and those dealing with the Baltic States.

This book explains the political origins and evolution of capitalist institutions in developing countries by looking at distinct patterns in the electronics industry in three Southeast Asian countries: Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore.

This book investigates cultural influences of competitive sports on U.

This thought-provoking book, edited by Jing Huang and Alexander Korolev, redefines the complex political and economic landscape of the Asia-Pacific region.

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically disrupted instruction across higher education.

This book examines the management of migratory flows in the Mediterranean within an international security perspective.

This book examines the many ways in which the Communist Party in China is still revolutionary by focusing on how, in recent years, it has attempted to mobilize Party members to become ethical subjects.

This edited book examines the role of interpreting in conflict situations, bringing together studies from different international and intercultural contexts, with contributions from military personnel, humanitarian interpreters and activists as well as academics.

This book examines the global campaign to end hunger and malnutrition.

This book is about the entanglement of heritage and resistance in different situations of conflicts, and the opportunities this entanglement may provide for social justice.

This book is more than an autobiographical account of the career of a young graduate from Australia who spent his life working as a United Nations official.

This book offers a unique and powerful critique of the quest for international criminal justice.

This book explores the thirty-year border conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, specifically around the former autonomous republic of Nagorno Karabakh, and shows how Russia is the only winner in this conflict: fighting on both sides, supplying arms to both sides, and acting as the arbiter between the two sides.

This book is on Iran's geopolitical importance representing a continuum of international competition for political gains and economic benefit, due to the country's unique geographical location that has always been a cause of contention.

This book investigates the causes and consequences of crisis in four countries of the Eurozone periphery - Greece, Spain, Portugal and Ireland.

This book focuses on measures pertaining to the three-pillar implementation strategy of R2P and examines how and to what extent the three pillars have been practised.

This volume explores the interrelation of international relations, music, and diplomacy from a multidisciplinary perspective.

At a moment when both think tanks and experts are being questioned, significant policy and technology disruptions have called into question the value and efficacy of policy advice.

Aesthetics and the Revolutionary City engages in alternative ways of reading foreign visual representations of Havana through analysis of advertising images, documentary films, and photographic texts.

This book reassesses performance legitimacy in the context of statebuilding and identifies the paradox between state institution building and state legitimacy by looking at the interplay between state legitimacy and leaders' legitimacy The author reviews the significant weaknesses associated with the current measures of state legitimacy and uses this to demonstrate the incompatibility of these measurements with the reality faced by conflict and post-conflict countries.

This book is about the importance of nuclear disarmament and the work pursued by Alva Myrdal, a pioneering social activist, diplomat, cabinet minister, and disarmament negotiator.

This book recovers the history of realist theorization on nationalism and the nation-state.

This book comparatively assesses the China and India's soft power strategy in Iran.

This book presents a cultural history of European integration.

This book uniquely employs risk and vulnerability approaches to advocate international policy options for enhancing maritime security cooperation in the Indian Ocean region.

This book advocates a broad outlook of China-Africa relations and highlights China's soft power in Africa.

This book examines the slide into a new Cold War in the Caribbean.

This book introduces a new perspective on risk seeking behaviour, developing a framework based on various cognitive theories, and applying it to the specific case-study of Turkey's foreign policy toward Syria.

This book examines non-traditional forms of security and expands the notion of security to include non-state actors and non-human actors.

This book focuses on American political discourse connected to war, dissent, and empathy.

This book offers the first, full academic analysis of the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup.

This book critically analyzes the current historical conjuncture of neoliberal capitalism with an eye to its emergent alternatives.

This volume offers an overview of the critical challenges faced by aspiring African entrepreneurs and their coping strategies to sustain and develop their businesses.

This book addresses one of the most relevant challenges to the sustainability of the European Union (EU) as a political project: the deficit of citizens' support.

This book explains the place of oil in the economic and political predicaments that now confront the West.

This book addresses how the progress of the Russian aluminium industry, which has developed into an important global actor, has been influenced by the interaction of global market forces and the evolution of the Russian political system.

This book investigates how NGOs in authoritarian states, such as China, craft accountability and legitimacy to ensure their survival.

This book challenges the common perception that global politics is making progress on indigenous issues and argues that the current global care for indigeneity is, in effect, violent in nature.

This book aims to present a coherent picture of Germany's European policy during Merkel's chancellorship.

This book addresses and explains the divergent economic and political outcomes of the financial crisis in the eight European Union member states which needed a bailout program: Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Portugal, Romania and Spain.