International relations

The previously untold true story of the CIA’s clandestine use of American students as undercover operatives during the Cold War In 1967, CIA director Richard Helms had, as he would later recall, “one of my darkest days” when President Lyndon Johnson told him that the muckraking magazine Ramparts was about to expose one of the Agency’s best-kept secrets: a covert project to enroll American students in the crusade against communism.

The analysis of gender and political inequality, and the women's movements that have contested it, has concentrated on the West.

Part of Routledge's leading Global Institutions Series, this book is a highly accessible, up-to-date introduction to the history, present and future of the G7/8 summits, exploring the role that the G8 plays and will play in global governance.

The book represents a major examination regarding the current practice of international relations and world politics.

This volume examines to what extent the positive atmosphere created by the Helsinki Accords contributed to the change in political circumstances seen in the countries of Central Europe, under Soviet domination.

The Common Market between France, Western Germany, Italy and the 'Benelux' counties was not merely a reshuffle of tariff rates and trade agreements, but a political mile-stone in post-war history.

This collection of essays from eminent scholars discusses different phases and measures of economic development, evaluating the success of national economic transitions and providing valuable policy lessons for developing economies.

In recent years geographic mental maps have made a comeback into the spotlight of scholarly inquiry in the area of International Relations (IR), particularly Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA).

This eagerly awaited new edition has been significantly revised after extensive user feedback to meet current teaching requirements.

This book critically examines the institutional curation of traumatic memory at the 9/11 Memorial Museum and its evocative power as a cultural storyteller.

In Cold War historiography, the 1960s are often described as a decade of mounting diplomatic tensions and international social unrest.

The tools of American statecraft-defense, diplomacy, foreign and security assistance, homeland security and intelligence-are rarely examined together.

This book examines the social construction and representation of 'youth on the move' in the context of the migration process, using El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras as a case study to reinterpret the immigration process under the frameworks of coloniality and epistemologies of the South.

This book offers an original and insightful analysis of the human rights inadequacies that arise in the practice of UN territorial administration by analysing and assessing the practice of UNMIK.

Rana Siu Inboden analyses China''s role in the international human rights regime from the early 1980s until 2017.

This book offers a unique and timely political analysis of war, international law and human rights, and the important interconnections among them.

The invocation of 'the market' has been omnipresent in media discussions of 'crisis Europe'.

This book contributes to an ongoing debate about the EU as a global actor, the organization's ability to speak with one voice in energy affairs, and the external dimension of the regulatory state.

This book presents a comprehensive reassessment of Europe in the Cold War period, 1945-91.

In recent years human rights have assumed a central position in the discourse surrounding international development, while human rights agencies have begun to more systematically address economic and social rights.

The post-Cold War has witnessed enormous levels of western peacekeeping, peacemaking and reconstruction intervention in societies emerging from war.

The paradox of 'globalization' is that it both weakens and activates social forces of resistance.

This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the questions pertaining to the powers of the Security Council under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.

The EU antitrust enforcement system for several decades has been one of the most mature antitrust enforcement systems in the world.

Linda Matar examines Syria's failure to promote employment-generating investment prior to the uprising.

In ancient Greece, the spoken word connoted power, whether in the free speech accorded to citizens or in the voice of the poet, whose song was thought to know no earthly bounds.

This book examines the evolution of international political economy (IPE) as a field of study in China, detailing the evolving boundaries and the content of the field.

This book demonstrates how the Thalidomide catastrophe of the 1960s and the BSE crisis of the 1990s led to regulatory regimes for pharmaceuticals and foodstuffs in Europe.

The first multi-archive-based study of Soviet relations with Latin America from the 1950s through the 1980s.

This book follows the journeys of those fleeing war, poverty or political crises, risking their lives as they attempt to find sanctuary in Europe.

Both Truman and Eisenhower combined bully pulpit activity with presidentially directed messages voiced by surrogates whose words were as orchestrated by the administration as those delivered by the presidents themselves.

This book explores the dilemmas of Georgian foreign policy since independence in 1991.

Race, Power and Social Segmentation in Colonial Society (1987) studies Guyanese society after slavery and specifically examines the area of social classes and ethnic groups.

The ancient Indian text of Kautilya's Arthasastra comes forth as a valuable non-Western resource for understanding contemporary International Relations (IR).

En 2014, l'enlèvement de plusieurs centaines de lycéennes dans le nord-est du Nigéria jette l'effroi sur la communauté internationale et révèle au grand jour la crise sécuritaire qui sévit dans le bassin du lac Tchad depuis l'insurrection de la secte Boko Haram.

Explores how China has reached a threshold where continued success requires re-invention of its economy and politics.

State failure, ethnopolitical war, genocide, famine, and refugee flows are variants of a type of complex political and humanitarian crisis, exemplified during the 1990s in places like Somalia, Bosnia, Liberia, and Afghanistan.

Why are Maoist, Naxalite and Left extremist movements taking root in the most backward and underdeveloped regions of South Asia?

Since 2010, a significant quantity of international climate change finance has begun to reach developing countries.

Tamim Ansary's passionate personal journey through two cultures in conflict, West of Kabul, East of New York.

The geopolitics of American law enforcement and how it changed corporate criminal accountability in other countriesOver the past decade, many of the world's biggest companies have found themselves embroiled in legal disputes over corruption, fraud, environmental damage, tax evasion, or sanction violations.

This book is the first to empirically study the role of non-competition interests in Article 101 TFEU enforcement.

The War on Terror has remained an enduring feature of American foreign policy for over two decades.

Just War theory - as it was developed by the Catholic theologians of medieval Europe and the jurists of the Renaissance - is a framework for the moral and legal evaluation of armed conflicts.

A riveting combination of war memoir and analysis providing “valuable insights” into the role of military intelligence in Vietnam (International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence).

The only comprehensive analysis of international refugee rights, anchored in the hard facts of refugee life around the world.