International relations

This textbook examines corruption through a macroeconomic lens, exploring the relationship between corruption, fiscal policy, and political economy.

The book explores the organization, conduct and supervision of elections in emerging democracies.

A personal journey through some of the darkest moments of the cold war and the early days of television newsMarvin Kalb, the award-winning journalist who has written extensively about the world he reported on during his long career, now turns his eye on the young man who became that journalist.

This volume examines the role of Chinese businesses and industries in Asian production networks.

The concept of human security has emerged in international relations and policy as an idea which not only seeks to relocate the focus of international society on the individual, but also challenges the current priorities of the international community.

In Europeanism the author attempts to identify and outline the political, economic, and social norms and values associated with Europe and Europeans.

Focuses on the problem through the identification of specific trends in foreign policy: isolationism, intervention, containment, detente, and disengagement.

These carefully selected contributions offer a timely analysis of the most significant contemporary issues in investment treaty law and arbitration.

In recent years, a great deal of scholarly and popular ink has been spilled on the subject of globalization.

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During the Cold War era, relations between Greece and Turkey attracted the interest of the two superpowers, affected the objectives of the European Community and NATO and were regularly discussed within United Nations channels.

This book examines the political economy that governs the management of international transboundary river basins in the developing world.

This book analyses how technologies have been used by both the military junta and resistance movement in Myanmar's digital coup to control information and the transfer of funds and to pursue accountability.

This book offers a critical analysis of radicalization in Pakistan by deconstructing the global and the official state narratives designed to restrain Pakistani radicalization.

In the early 21st century, five rising powers (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) formed an exclusive international club, the BRICS.

An entrepreneur and educator highlights the surprising influence of humanities scholarship on biomedical research and civil liberties.

We live in a visual age.

The Obama administration inherits a daunting set of domestic and international policy challenges.

Until recently, central bank independence was confined to just two major capitalist countries: the USA and Germany.

"e;In a century of horrors, Guatemala from 1954 to the present has been a bloody scene of some of the worst horrors-and the United States has been deeply involved.

Across the world the Western dominated international aid system is being challenged.

The study of international relations has changed rapidly in recent years.

When it was founded back in 1944 no one could possibly have foreseen how the World Bank - known more formally as the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) - would flourish.

The Balkan countries have responded differently to the EU's conditional offer of membership.

This book analyzes recent local government finance reforms in Tanzania, including the introduction of a formula-based system of intergovernmental grants.

This region - which marks the meeting of China and post-Soviet Central Asia - is increasingly important militarily, economically and geographically.

This autobiographical novella was written in 1980 by one of China's leading dissidents, who was released from jail in late October 1990 again after being imprisoned as a pro-democracy activist in the wake of the Tiananmen incident of spring 1989.

Maps the UN legal instruments relevant for the protection and promotion of the rights to freedom of expression and information.

Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister and Minister of External Affairs from 1947 to 1964, set the framework of foreign policy which has remained India's reference point until the present.

On 28 June 1914 the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in the Balkans.

Dieses Lehrbuch setzt sich mit den zentralen Institutionen, Akteuren und politischen Prozessen um die globale Verteilung und Nutzung kritischer natürlicher Ressourcen auseinander.

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EU membership provides member states with a new perception of their place in the world; their foreign policies very much influenced by their involvement in the politics of Brussels.

Populist nationalism fuses beliefs that citizens are being exploited by a privileged elite with claims that the national culture and interests are under threat from enemies within or without.

This book investigates the relationship between sex and gender under international human rights law, and how this influences the formation of individual subjects.

This comprehensive collection offers a concise introduction to the institutional framework of the Holy See, conceptualizing papal agency and positions from a range of international theory perspectives.

This book explores South Korea's experience as an aid recipient, as an aid donor, and as an inter Korea aid provider.

This interdisciplinary book brings together innovative chapters that address the entire spectrum of the African peacebuilding landscape and showcases findings from original studies on peacebuilding.

The right to self-determination has played a crucial role in the process of assisting oppressed people to put an end to colonial domination.

In den letzten Jahren hat die Rivalitat zwischen den USA und China zugenommen und ein Konflikt um die globale politische Vorherrschaft zeichnet sich ab.

Long considered a subfield of international relations and political science, Peace Studies has solidified its place as an interdisciplinary field in its own right with a canon, degree programs, journals, conferences, and courses taught on the subject.

On a cold February morning in 1987, amidst freezing rain and driving winds, a group of protesters stood outside of the Unitarian Universalist Church in Amherst, Massachusetts.

The resurgence of Russian power in the Arctic and High North will be a key consideration for NATO planners.

What is time and how does it influence our knowledge of international politics?

This book intends to harvest insights from the discipline of Psychology, in its broad understanding, for application to International Relations.

Throughout the world many sovereign states grant one or more of their territories greater autonomy than other areas.

The Cold War spanned some five decades from the devastation that remained after World War Two until the fall of the Berlin wall, and for much of that time the perception was that only on the Eastern side were politics and sport inextricably linked.

Examining the Israeli-Arab conflict as an "e;intractable conflict,"e; Israeli Peacemaking since 1967 seeks to determine just which factors, or combination of factors, impacted on Israel's position in past peace-making efforts, possibly accounting for breakthroughs or failures to reach agreement.

This book, first published in 1982, is a systematic and detached analysis of the 60,000 British conscientious objectors in the Second World War, forming an examination of the relationship between the individual and the State in time of war.