International relations

This book introduces researchers, students and the general public to an intriguing phenomenon at the intersection of diverse fields: national branding.

This book analyzes China's attitude to international law based on historical experiences and documents, and provides an explanation of China's approaches to international legal issues.

This is the sequel to the bestselling book, The Little Red Dot, published in 2005.

This pivot sheds light on U.

This volume includes fourteen essays by eminent sociologists in memory of Ramkrishna Mukherjee (1919-2017), the last of the founding architects of sociology in India.

This book explains why conflict exists among Chinese foreign-policy actors in Africa and argues against the concept that China has a grand strategy in relation to Africa.

The United States of Europe (1994) is a sequel to Wistrich's acclaimed After 1992 (also reissued as a Routledge Revival), a book that made a significant contribution to the debate on European integration.

This book provides a comparison and practical guide of the data protection laws of Canada, China (Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan), Laos, Philippines, South Korea, United States and Vietnam.

This book examines Africa-Europe relationships and intra-Africa relationships vis-a-vis migration.

Professor Tommy Koh is Singapore's Ambassador-at-Large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rector of Tembusu College, Special Adviser of the Institute of Policy Studies, and Chairman of the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore.

This book first presents an overview of the history of a national character survey by the Institute of Statistical Mathematics that has been conducted for more than 65 years.

This book explores how children have been affected by armed conflict in the borderlands of Thailand, particularly in the region abutting the Thailand-Myanmar border, and in the most southern part of Thailand.

This book not only discusses how to further deepen the oil cooperation relations between China and the Gulf Council Countries in the context of "e;the Belt and Road Initiative"e;, but also investigates how to ensure the security of the entire oil supply chain including oil supply, oil transportation channels, oil demand, and petroleum reserves in China.

This book is about the encounters of Colombian drug smugglers and the Colombian Navy, both in the open seas and along coastlines.

The Persian Gulf 2020 is the eighth in the annual Persian Gulf series published by MEI@ND.

"e;For the life of a diplomat is often a variation of routine boredom and exhilarating crises.

On the historic occasion of the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 2007, the leaders of the ten-member countries signed the ASEAN Charter.

The book discusses the issue of autonomy in India's federal system and its precision and focused nature.

This book presents an in-depth analysis of the environmental issues raised in the South China Sea Arbitration Awards, which have not attracted as much attention in the Philippines as the "e;nine-dash line"e;.

This book describes the past, present and future of East Asian order, and analyzes how China, Japan, the U.

This book analyses the fifteen-year-long strategic partnership between NATO and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).

In 2016, economic globalization suffered a severe crisis after over half a century of smooth development, and deglobalization was running mountains high.

This book, with its focus on the study of diplomatic protocol and etiquette, collects high-quality papers written by scholars in diplomatic protocol from nine countries, including US, UK, Russia, Japan, Canada, Netherlands, India and China.

Anime, Manga, Sushi, Teriyaki, J-pop, Harajuku fashion .

This book focuses on the Visa Information System (VIS): a large-scale data infrastructure interconnecting a multiplicity of state authorities that enact border security and migration management in the European Union.

This book argues for computer-aided collaborative country research based on the science of complex and dynamic systems.

The book analyzes some of the key issues confronted by European policy makers.

The book shows one individual's (the author) experience of the world, through contacts with government officials and scholars in the Middle East and Asia, Europe and Latin America during the post-Second World War years up to the later 1960s; and then that individual's reflections and study during the succeeding decades, up to and including the first decade of the 21st century, concerning the future of the world and the critical choices that confront the world both in inter-state relations and in maintaining the security of the biosphere.

This book seeks to illuminate what China's Belt and Road initiative truly means for the global south, offering historical context and explaining the vision that the Chinese State has in coordinating actions in the territorial, political and economic spheres in a multilateral pretension.

This book studies China's Belt and Road Initiatives and the country's neighboring diplomacy.

This book analyzes two main trends of prevailing populism and nationalism in China and Southeast Asian nations and rising tensions in the South China Sea (SCS) by experts from China and Southeast Asia.

This book is an analysis of the developments associated with the Belt and Road Initiative (B&RI) five years after Xi Jinping announced both the Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB) and the 21st Maritime Silk Road (21MSR).

Political, social and economic transformations have marked the 20 years since Hong Kong became a Special Administrative Region of China.

The rationale for this volume on China's Rise in Mainland ASEAN: New Dynamics and Changing Landscapes stems from the rise in recent years of China, ASEAN's giant neighbor, and in its wake the significant economic, political, and socio-cultural developments in the ASEAN region.

This book conducts detailed research and analysis on the relevant literature and historical evidence regarding the 640-year history of ancient and modern China and other countries since the Ming Dynasty, and clarifies the chain of evidence concerning the Diaoyu Islands in terms of the facts and jurisprudence.

The book reflects upon the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the ensuing developments in Russia, the rest of the former Soviet Union, Central and Eastern Europe and elsewhere in the world.

The book examines diplomatic immunity and provides a historical analysis of the granting of diplomatic immunity to non-diplomats, based on the perspectives of several states.

This book identifies major elements that influenced Sino-US relations before the reform and opening up of said relations.

This edited volume examines global power-rivalry in and around South Asia through Bangladeshi lenses using imperfect and overlapping interest concentric-circles as a template.

On the 8th of August 2017, ASEAN will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its founding.

This book adopts the rationalist research path to bring forward an innovative theory of foreign policy, and the central question is: How can we define the overall national interests of great powers appropriately and thus help states make consistent and rational grand strategies?

This book explores Russia's efforts towards both adapting to and shaping a world in transformation.

This book brings contemporary Chinese scholarship into Africa, the relations between African states, and the relations between China and Africa into focus.

This book tries to understand the lessons we ought to learn from the Covid-19 crisis as well as the profound transformations this pandemic will bring to the world order.

This book explores the establishment process, mechanism design, and role orientation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) under the new background of global economic governance.

This book focuses on the lives and peace philosophy of Japanese prime ministers from 1945 to the present, attempting to extract one consistent political philosophy, namely, the 'peace philosophy' that has consistently influenced Japan's foreign and defense policy.

The book discusses the Pakistan factor in Indian foreign policy, covering the evolution of both Indian nationalism and Hindu nationalism and their impact on India's foreign policy framework.

This book aims to explore China's miracle under the context of complex world full of uncertainties.

Globalization is an irresistible force.

This book studies the three most important Chinese foreign policy concepts under Xi Jinping's leadership - "e;New Type of Great Power Relations"e;, "e;Belt and Road Initiative"e; and "e;Community of Shared Future for Mankind"e;.