International relations

This compelling and convincing study represents the culmination of the authors' several decades of research on the pivotal role played by elites in the success or failure of political regimes.

Since 1945, the world has moved, haltingly but relentlessly, toward internationalism.

National majorities and their governments often demand that immigrants and other minorities must be "e;good"e;: they should work hard, contribute to society, and adapt to dominant cultural norms.

Authored by an individual with 30 years of experience studying terrorism as well as access to the most senior counter-terrorist army and police officers combating the IRA, this book provides the first complete analysis of the world's premier terrorist group to explain them in ideological as well as operational terms.

Recent years have seen the rise of EU State aid law as a crucial component of the European economic constitution.

Under what conditions does the internal cohesiveness of the European Union determine its external effectiveness on the world stage?

The Oxford Handbook of Italian Politics provides a comprehensive look at the political life of one of Europe's most exciting and turbulent democracies.

The authorized, paginated WTO Dispute Settlement Reports in English: cases for 2015.

Young learners are full of questions and wonderings, so much so that sometimes they need a guide for their curiosity.

As Eurasia and the adjacent territories become more important to the world, there is increasing interest from international powers, accompanied by attempts to give institutional form to traditional economic and security links within the region.

This book analyzes shifting international taxation strategies in pursuit of tax nomads, individuals and companies who minimize their tax obligations among multiple countries.

Global criminology is an emerging field covering international and transnational crimes that have not traditionally been the focus of mainstream criminology or criminal justice.

​Dieses Lehrbuch macht mit einigen grundlegenden Inhalten und konzeptionellen Überlegungen zum Themengebiet Internationale Sicherheit vertraut.

Although domestic law plays an important role in investment treaty arbitration, this issue is little discussed or analysed.

Both the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) practice periodic surveillance of members to ensure that countries are adopting appropriate economic policies.

The amount of publicly and often freely available information is staggering.

This publication titled "e;Modern International Encyclopaedia pf Social Work"e; deals with the said subject of social work in its totality.

This book describes the contrast between the strong economic growth and democratization that have occurred in Africa and its stalling political progress.

This book investigates challenges to the U.

According to a widely shared notion, foreign affairs are exempted from democratic politics, i.

Michael Oppenheimer's Pivotal Countries, Alternate Futures is both a synthesis of our knowledge on scenario planning and a practical guide for policymakers.

This book, first published in 1946, collects documents illustrating the foreign policy of the Soviet Union during the Second World War.

Political, social and climatic changes in the world are accelerating, resulting in man-made industrial disasters, wars, natural disasters, epidemic emergencies and population migrations.

This book analyses Ukraine's relations with each of its neighbours in its first decade of independence.

David Ricardo's law of comparative advantage and his finding that free trade increases the wealth of all participating nations is one of the very few economic laws which is accepted by almost all economists.

A new perspective on how the nation-state emerged and subsequently proliferated across the globe, accompanied by a wave of wars.

This book examines how social media has transformed extremist discourse.

A framework for assessing the security risks of emerging dual-use technologies and devising tailored governance strategies is proposed and applied to contemporary case studies.

This book carries out a comparative analysis of the power struggles over the post-neoliberal social security reforms in Venezuela and Ecuador.

South Asians comprise over 15 per cent of all international migrating population, among the highest in the world.

First Published in 1959, The Soviet Union and the Middle East attempts to shed light on the evolution of Soviet attitudes toward the Middle East, its problems, challenges, and opportunities since 1917.

Waging Peace offers the first fully comprehensive study of Eisenhower's "e;New Look"e; program of national security, which provided the groundwork for the next three decades of America's Cold War strategy.

Writing Politics is a methods book designed to instruct on politically focused literary inquiry.

Many international norms that have emerged in recent years are not set out in formal treaties.

Touted as one of the main engineers of Singapore's economic growth, Dr Goh's collection of writings and speeches seek to shed light on the various challenges that China faced in the early 90s.

Drawing on recently declassified documents, and now available in paperback, this is the utterly compelling history of the successes and failures of the German Intelligence Services throughout World War II.

Egypt figured prominently in United States policy in the Middle East after World War II because of its strategic, political, and economic importance.

We no longer inhabit a world governed by international coordination, a unified NATO bloc, or an American hegemon.

This book is based on Stephen Hill's direct experience working in the United Nations for many years as consultant and over a decade as full time Member of Staff-based in Indonesia and part-time in Paris, serving as United Nations Regional Director for Science for Asia and the Pacific as well as Principal Director and Ambassador of the United Nations Agency UNESCO (the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) across South East Asia.

Very little research has been conducted on how parliamentary oversight is undertaken in small countries and jurisdictions or across the southern African region (excluding South Africa).

In Peace Out of Reach, Stephen Eric Bronner offers an intriguing analysis and eyewitness account of the political and ideological conflicts plaguing the Middle East.

This book takes a unique interdisciplinary approach to the planned return of humans to the Moon.

This book demonstrates theoretically and empirically how international law''s detailed design provisions help states cooperate despite harsh international political realities.

The author develops a new perspective for the study of problems of international order by drawing on and integrating insights from game theory, social psychology, hermeneutics, and language philosophy.

This book takes on the challenge of conceptually thinking Paraguayan cultural history within the broader field of Latin American studies.

Water is a basic human need and a scarce commodity with increasing value to farmers, industries, and cities in an urbanizing world.

Globalisation and rapid social and environmental change in recent decades have brought into sharper focus not only the benefits but also the costs of economic development.

With a focus on China, the United States, and India, this book examines the economic ambitions of the second space race.