International relations

The Turning Point in Africa (1982) is a significant study of British colonial policy towards tropical Africa during a critical decade, from the complacent trusteeship of the inter-war years to the strategy of decolonization inaugurated after the Second World War.

An accessible introduction for all social science studentsA balanced, comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of the issues and trendsA guide to the past, present and future of foreign aidForeign aid has undergone considerable changes over the past fifty years.

China's recent stepping up of relations with Africa is one of the most significant developments on the African continent for decades.

China Syndrome is a fast-moving, truth-is-stranger-than-fiction thriller that doubles as an excellent primer of emerging infections for scientists and laypeople alike.

This book provides a holistic view on the topics of peace and conflict, peace education, international relations and regional studies during the end of the second decade of the twenty-first century.

Since the Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks, no state has unleashed nuclear weapons.

This book examines the evolution of the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) from its inception in 1998 to the present day.

The Compendium of World Sovereigns series contains three volumes: Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern.

We are currently in a period of rapid global change that is of profound importance, but the nature of which is difficult to comprehend.

Russian-European political relations have always been problematic and one of the main reasons for this is the different perspectives on even the very basic notions and concepts of political life.

The EU has long been seen as confederation that has failed to assert itself effectively on the international stage.

Der Krieg in der Ukraine setzt neue Maßstäbe in der militärischen Auseinandersetzung.

The book presents here a comprehensive overview of the changes that have taken place in the past few years and explains the opportunities they have opened up for future progress, while also flagging the pitfalls which both countries, the state, and interested third parties must avoid if South Asia is to be freed of the one of the heaviest burdens that lie upon it.

The Law and Practice of Extradition provides an in-depth overview of extradition law and practice, providing students with an understanding of how key elements have been shaped by the state, the fugitive and the international community.

In Kissinger and Latin America, Stephen G.

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This book focuses on oil politics and the development of nuclear technology in Iran, providing a broader historical context to understand Iran's foreign relations and nuclear policy.

This new volume explores what the acquisition of nuclear weapons means for the life of a protracted conflict.

Since decolonization began in the late 1940s, a series of often lengthy and destructive separatist insurgencies have imposed severe financial, economic and human costs upon the states of South Asia.

Central Asia, the central region of the continent of Asia, is, and has always been, its crucial part.

The volume delves into the intricate web of contemporary permacrisis rooted in the strategic imperatives of nation-states.

Strategies for transboundary natural resource management; winner of Harvard Law School''s Raiffa Award for best research of the year in negotiation and conflict resolution.

Geopolitics and Development examines the historical emergence of development as a form of governmentality, from the end of empire to the Cold War and the War on Terror.

An eminent international line up of experts in law, political science, economics and history examine the dynamics of the European Union's (EU) development as a collective member of the G8 and G20.

Elements of Genocide provides an authoritative evaluation of the current perception of the crime, as it appears in the decisions of judicial authorities, the writings of the foremost academic experts in the field, and in the texts of Commission Reports.

Americanizing Japanese Firms examines the concept of corporate social responsibility in Japanese manufacturing companies within the United States.

There can be no doubt that China's economic and political rise is having a stronger effect on Taiwan than on any other country, given the Chinese government's claim to sovereignty over Taiwan, and Taiwan's quest to maintain its democratic achievements and political identity as a sovereign state.

Relocation narratives form a distinct subgenre of contemporary travel memoirs concerned with the experiences of travellers who become settlers in foreign locales and narrate their experience of cultural accommodation in serial autobiographical accounts.

Does growing economic interdependence among great powers increase or decrease the chance of conflict and war?

This book evaluates the performance of consociational power-sharing arrangements in Europe.

Exploring NATO's post-Cold War determination to support democracy abroad, this book addresses the alliance's adaptation to the new illiberal backlashes in Eastern Europe, the Western Balkans and Afghanistan after the alleged 'return of history'.

For much of the contemporary history of the Middle East, the Persian Gulf has stood at the center of the region's strategic significance.

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Why does hunger persist in a world of plenty?

For Georgia, the signing of the Association Agreement and the DCFTA with the European Union in 2014 was an act of strategic geopolitical significance.

In 1912 the United States sent troops into a Nicaraguan civil war, solidifying a decades-long era of military occupations in Latin America driven by the desire to rewrite the political rules of the hemisphere.

This book offers a series of original arguments on the relationships that Western interest groups have with the Chinese state.

This book investigates the hostile environment and politics of visceral and racial denigration which have characterised responses to refugees and migrants within the UK and Europe in recent years.

What does it mean to win a moral victory?

This book provides an account of actual African experience and African criticisms.

This book analyzes China's foreign technology acquisition activity and how this has helped its rapid rise to superpower status.

Informed by the interdisciplinary approach of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and theories of identity, nation, and media, the study investigates the ways Kurds, the world's largest stateless nation, use satellite television and Internet to construct their identities.

This book explores how the critical discursive breakthrough of social movements in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Croatia disrupted the post-socialist transitional status quo.

The new edition of this accessible introduction to the important role of the United Nations Secretary-General continues to offer a keen insight into the United Nations - the Secretariat and its head, the Secretary-General, summing up the history, structure, strengths and weaknesses, and continuing operations of an ever-present global institution.

This book examines the processes through which the resolutions adopted by the UN General Assembly acquire legal significance through state practice.