International relations

Kriege und Konflikte erschüttern die Welt.

Area Studies became increasingly common after World War II as a means of responding to perceived 'external threats' from the Soviet Union and China.

This book situates the war in Syria within the actual and imagined system of international criminal justice.

Competition policy-encompassing cartels, monopolies, mergers and state aid-is a hallmark of the European Union (EU).

The last four decades have been shaped by the rise of Islamist politics across significant swathes of the globe.

This book investigates how technology and innovation policies in contemporary China are impacted by collaboration and conflicts between different classes and interests in a world economy, in which competitiveness is defined by the successful leverage of emerging technologies.

Today's protracted asymmetrical conflicts confuse efforts to measure progress, often inviting politics and wishful thinking to replace objective evaluation.

In this work, Chomsky explores the West's uses and abuses of the principle of "e;human intervention.

This book introduces, synthesizes, and evaluates spatial planning for growth management in the contemporary USA.

The internet has become a battleground for global power struggles, with nations and even terrorist organizations wielding cyber-attacks to exert control.

After the end of the Cold War, it seemed as if Southeast Asia would remain a geopolitically stable region within the American-led order for the foreseeable future.

The Mediterranean was one of Napoleon's greatest spheres of influence.

A unique account of how Chinese and American athletes, scientists, and artists rebuilt US-China relations in the 1970s.

This book presents a study of perceptions of food insecurity in East Asia, and explores how individual countries are developing strategies to deal with the situation.

Recent scholarship in International Relations (IR) has started to study the meaning and implications of a non-Western world.

Interrogates the idea of capacity building theoretically and explores the variety of meanings, constructions and practices of capacity building.

This edited volume explores the question of the lawfulness under international law of economic activities in occupied territories from the perspectives of international law, EU law, and business and human rights.

This serves as a handbook to guide us through the thickets of the sacred, the secular, religion and politics, by charting the supernatural as a natural defining feature of religion.

This book contributes to and broadens the field of Border Criminology, by bringing together a collection of chapters from leading scholars engaged in cross-national and comparative conversations on bordered penality and crimmigration practices, with a specific focus on research conducted in places that may be considered peripheral and semi-peripheral jurisdictions.

This book offers a socio-historical analysis of migration and the possibilities of regional integration in Southern Africa.

The regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from international aviation and maritime transport has proved to be a difficult task for international climate negotiations such as the Paris Agreement in 2015.

An Introduction to International Relations remains a fundamental guide for students of international relations.

Ageing populations are a major consideration for socio-economic development in the early twenty-first century.

Feminist International Relations scholarship in the United States recently celebrated its 20th anniversary.

Contemporary world history has highlighted militarization in many ways, from the global Cold War and numerous regional conflicts to the general assumption that nationhood implies a significant and growing military.

This book is about the right to basic education and its impact on development in Africa.

The essential guide to geopolitics in the modern Middle East The Middle East is in crisis.

The book traces India's Saudi Policy and locates the current state of bilateral relations and the challenges it faces.

Until now, the resolution of international commercial and investment disputes has been dominated almost exclusively by international arbitration.

The return of great power politics at a time of surging nationalism invites a fresh look at why the world order centers on the nation-state.

This book shows how environmentalists have shaped the world's largest multilateral development lender, investment financier and political risk insurer to take up sustainable development.

A third edition textbook providing a comprehensive account of the law of treaties from the viewpoint of an experienced practitioner.

Budgeting is a key aspect of governmental behaviour.

Since the outbreak of the Arab Spring the Middle East is going through a turbulent phase as violence, internal conflicts and civil wars are ravaging a number of countries.

America''s longest wars have been ''small wars''.

A Tributary Model of State Formation: Ethiopia, 1600-2015 addresses the perplexing question of why a pedigreed Ethiopian state failed to transform itself into a nation-state.

This book traces the rise and fall of Anglo-American relations with India and Pakistan from independence in the 1940s, to the 1960s.

The war in Ethiopias northern region of Tigray began in November 2020.

The book discusses the dangers of the ''unipolar view'' of world politics, one in which the United States is overwhelmingly predominant and should act accordingly.

Using extensive archival research, Gendron rebuts the argument of Quebec nationalists and scholars that the Canadian government's neglect of French Africa forced Quebec to develop its own international identity.

This comprehensive and thought-provoking volume examines the role and function of religion in Hezbollah's political strategy in the context of contemporary Lebanese politics and global security.

India's growing strategic importance, coupled with the gaps in its homeland security enterprise, provides an opportunity to extend its partnership with the United States and become a key partner in ensuring stability and security in Asia.

Historically, it has been assumed that war is violence and declarations of war are simply public announcements that serve to initiate combat.

This book studies Indonesian and Philippine English-language printed media outlets to examine how regional public opinions of China and China-made vaccines progressed amid the coronavirus pandemic.

This book assesses the role aesthetic factors play in shaping what forms of mass violence are viewed as international crimes.

This book analyses the evolving engagement of the United States and Cuba, along with the impact of this relationship on Cuba-CARICOM relations and the Caribbean.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the relations between the two Koreas and the different ASEAN states, including their relations with ASEAN as an organization.

Multinationals in the Global Political Economy looks at the new diplomacy between the multinational firm and the nation-state, focusing on the interdependencies, conflictual and co-operative, between the two primary actors in the global economy.