International relations

Virtuous War is the first book to map the emergence and judge the consequences of a new military-industrial-media-entertainment network.

What kind of ethics in world politics is possible if there is no foundation for moral knowledge or global reality is at least complex and contingent?

This comparative book analyses the development of regional integration parliaments in three different continents of the world.

China's exponential rise and America's relative decline have led to a transition of power in contemporary Asia.

This edited volume critically examines the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) as a guiding norm in international politics.

In the political landscape emerging from the end of the Cold War, making U.

However unthinkable child-soldiers may be within a generalized conception of childhood, they are not imaginary figures; rather, they are a constant in almost every armed conflict around the world.

This book evaluates the impact of the 2001 central government reforms on effective foreign policy making in Japan.

In its first seven years, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) tripled trade and quintupled foreign investment among the U.

This book is the first historical work to study the creation of ethnic autonomies in the Caucasus in the 1920s - the transitional period from Russian Empire to Soviet Union.

Including contributions by both British and American researchers, this book explores equal value developments in the two countries.

Sheds new light on the relationship between tolerance and religion, concluding that local religious minorities are most likely to protect pluralism.

A penetrating new examination of the triangular political and cultural relationship between America, Britain, and continental Europe.

A former nuclear weapons designer, Stephen M.

How civility has shaped and been shaped by historical and social forces, and why it is in danger todayCivility is desirable and possible, but can this fragile ideal be guaranteed?

A study of post-war US policy towards countries which are politically unstable or in a pre-revolutionary situation.

The Postcolonial African State in Transition offers a new perspective on a set of fundamental, albeit old questions with salient contemporary resonance: what is the nature of the postcolonial state?

This book provides a thematic case-study analysis of the wide-ranging public sector reforms introduced in one of the states most deeply affected by the global financial crisis: the Republic of Ireland.

Critically deploying the idea of uneven and combined development this book provides a novel non-Eurocentric account of Iran's experience of modernity and revolution.

Why is the United Nations not more effective on global environmental challenges?

Political, security, economic and ecological issues in the South Pacific have acquired increasing regional and international prominence.

New Perspectives on Russian-American Relations includes eighteen articles on Russian-American relations from an international roster of leading historians.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of infrastructure insecurity issues in the historic Niger Delta, drawing on empirical fieldwork involving host communities, regulators, and multinational oil and gas operators.

This book argues that the right-wing revolution in the United States has created deepening inequality and will lead to economic catastrophe.

The Western powers established the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank after World War II as "e;permanent machinery"e; to anchor the Bretton Woods system.

What does it take to disrupt security?

This book makes an original contribution to our knowledge of the world's major defence industries.

This book purports to investigate and compare the economic development experiences in both Taiwan and South Korea in last two decades.

In the life sciences and beyond, new developments in science and technology and the creation of new social orders go hand in hand.

This book examines the economic reforms and material progress made since the Central Asian republics became independent from the Soviet Union in 1991.

The post-Yugoslav states have developed very differently since Yugoslavia dissolved in the early 1990s.

This volume addresses the interface of two major national problems: the epidemic of HIV-AIDS and the widespread use of illegal injection drugs.

Throughout history, innovations in military technology have transformed warfare, which, in turn, affected state formation.

When States Take Rights Back draws on contributions by international experts in history, law, political science, and sociology, offering a rare interdisciplinary and comparative examination of citizenship revocation in five countries, revealing hidden government rationales and unintended consequences.

Combining innovative theory with detailed case studies, this book offers a novel account of the border-crossing processes of civil war.

This book offers a novel theory of war and peace developed through an analysis of regional conflict.

The first book to examine the social and economic arguments for, and the legal feasibility of, a European Social Union.

This edited volume discusses security policy and strategic policymaking in the Middle East region.

A new and incisive analysis of the political viability of human rights, with an in-depth investigation of its largest violation: world hunger.

Providing a detailed account of Israel's foreign policy towards the Cyprus question between 1946 and the declaration of Cypriot independence in August 1960, Gabriel Haritos examines the international and regional factors which shaped Israel's approach to diplomatic relations with the independent Republic of Cyprus.

Acts of contrition and transitional justice-admission of wrong, apology, and reparations-have become fashionable in the discourse of international affairs.

This book's principal aim is to critically address the institutional and substantive legal issues resulting from European enlargement, chiefly those relating to the legal foundations on which the enlarged Union is being built.

State and Society in Post-Socialist Economies focuses on the reform economies of post-socialist Europe.