International relations

This book discusses the rise of polarity as a key concept in International Relations Theory.

This book provides an analysis of the institutional and constitutional effects of EU international agreements, with a particular focus on their potential effects on private parties.

This book challenges the rhetoric linking 'war on terror' with 'war on human trafficking' by juxtaposing lived experiences of survivors of trafficking, refugees, and labor migrants with macro-level security concerns.

War crimes have devastating effects on victims and perpetrators and endanger broader political and military goals.

This book combines Hartmut Elsenhans' ideas on the laws of motion of capitalism and his approach to world system analysis and rent theory, his thoughts on development theory and finally, international relations and the past, present, and future dynamics of the international system.

This book investigates studies on colonialism and anti-colonialism from Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America.

From the erosion of state legitimacy in Lebanon to the use of smartphones in Kyrgyzstan, from a Polish suburb to the music scene in Azerbaijan, this volume attempts to explain why, in a variety of world regions, a substantial number of people tend to ignore or act against state rules.

In this book Fulya Apaydin argues that labor responses to dramatic technological change are influenced by the political institutions of the Global South more than any other factor.

This book addresses the under-researched discourse of the evolution of Chinese nuclear posture, and in particular, explains the absence from this evolution of a coherent and well-defined operational doctrine.

This volume examines the history and current state of Canadian studies in a number of countries and regions across the world, including Canada's major trading partners.

This book provides a novel account of the role of human rights discourse in the US foreign policy.

This book, a third edition, has been significantly expanded and updated.

The common roots of success and failure in economic growth and development lie in the systemic governance and fragmentation of institutional complementarities, respectively, but not in the unilateral adaptation of market-led or state-led models.

This book clarifies the quantitative relationship between time, money, and labor productivity from the perspective of Marxian labor theory of value.

This book analyses whether European leaders are able to deal with the 'hard power' problems of military provocation, mass migration, and terrorism.

This book presents a set of original and innovative contributions on state, institutions and democracy in the field of political economy.

If you ever wondered who becomes an American ambassador and why, this is the book for you.

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This book debunks the foundations of contemporary government-led development policy.

This book considers the environmental policies that the EU employs outside its borders.

This book provides a comprehensive study into the promotion of regional integration as a central pillar of European Union (EU) relations with the rest of the world.

In the 1950s, most of the American public opposed diplomatic and trade relations with Communist China; traditional historiography blames this widespread hostility for the tensions between China and the United States during Dwight D.

This book brings together contributions from leading scholars around the world on the most relevant and pressing economic themes surrounding the UK-EU relationship.

This book traces the development of the international society tradition from its origins in Grotius' On the Law of War and Peace to its crystallization in Bull's The Anarchical Society.

This book analyzes the transformation of Korean political economy since the 1990s.

This book explores the possible (actual, potential and imagined) future security threats migration from Nigeria could pose to Europe, the United States of America, Canada and to some extent Australia.

This book presents the evolution of the field of foreign policy analysis and explains the theories that have structured research in this area over the last 50 years.

This book explores the Falklands War from an Argentinian perspective, taking into consideration three aspects.

This book investigates recent policy initiatives dealing with the online enforcement of copyright in the European Union, providing unique insights into the current stalemate in the field.

The book examines the various ways that fragile states (or states with limited statehood) in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas have adopted, and adapted to, the processes of liberal political governance in their quests to address the problem of political fragility.

This edited collection draws upon interdisciplinary research to explore new dimensions in the politics of image and aid.

This volume presents selected papers on recent management research from the 20th Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference, which was held in Vienna in 2016.

This book argues that a set of persuasive narratives about the links between natural resource, armed conflict and peacebuilding have strongly influenced the natural resource interventions pursued by international peacebuilders.

This book investigates how development institutions created and promoted marketized development financial instruments to increase the speed and scope of assistance by leveraging private financial markets for development objectives.

This volume explores how the process of European integration has influenced collective memory in the countries of the Western Balkans.

This book explores how human factors, in particular the contested notion of trust, influence the conduct and practice of arms control verification.

This book explores how the recent development of Muslim countries as a group has fallen far short of non-Muslim countries, which, some have concluded, may be a result of Islamic teachings.

This book focuses on the economic and political relationships between Russia and Europe, which are currently characterized by the existence and escalation of contradictions.

This book examines the U.

This book offers a multifaceted overview of the evolution of spatial development, governance and planning in the Western Balkans from an institutionalist perspective.

In the past three decades, the world has witnessed many rapid and invasive changes, and seems to be changing countries have adapted their foreign policies to these changes.

This book contributes to the literature on the EU's role in the international system by engaging with the debates on global actorness and mapping new conceptual and theoretical avenues to better understand how agency and power are exerted at the global and regional levels, in a context of increased contestation of the international liberal order.

This book provides a detailed application of identity theory to contemporary questions of extremism, radicalization and security.

This Palgrave Pivot argues that if we are to understand civil conflict we need to grasp how everyday life is shaped by local conflict imaginaries.

This book introduces Cyber Justice as a viable approach for promoting good governance based on human rights norms in the internet.

This book presents a comprehensive framework, six pathways of connection, which explains the impact of public diplomacy on achieving foreign policy goals.

This book examines the ongoing power transition and its ramifications for world order from an international society perspective.

This book maintains that the theory of imperialism should incorporate the concept of an "e;operational code"e; of political elites to account for agencies' actions.

This book explains the increasing demand for evaluation as a result of the increasing frequency of reforms to local services, influenced by the New Public Management doctrine, the severe austerity policy in many European countries, and the wish to increase quality and reduce costs of public services, especially at the local (sub-national) level.