International relations

The context in which environmental policy decision-making occurs has changed, resulting from widening environmental problems, increased demands from groups and citizens, continuing pressure on the continent's resources and normative shifts.

Drawing on a mixed research methodology with a strong qualitative character, this book traces the political impact of the British National Party in the UK, the Front National in France and the Lega Nord in Italy by exploring their contagion effects on immigration politics and policy in particular over the patterns of inter-party competition, public behaviour and policy developments.

The increasing emergence, re-emergence, and spread of deadly infectious diseases which pose health, economic, security and ethical challenges for states and people around the world, has given rise to an important global debate.

Few nations rely upon the ocean as much as Japan for livelihood, culture and transport.

Comparative regional integration has met with increasing interest over the last twenty years with the emergence or reinforcing of new regional dynamics in the EU, NAFTA, MERCOSUR and ASEAN.

Nation states have long and successfully claimed to be the proper and sovereign forum for determining a country's international economic policies.

A 2003 collection of lectures examining the evolution of international criminal justice from World War II to date.

This book looks at the evolution of the Organization of American States (OAS) multilateralism for democracy and the lessons its experience holds for other multilateral contexts.

The story of an innovative program of treatment for AIDS in Africa that succeeded in the face of international development agencies' "e;afro pessimism"e;Until this century, Western governments and foundations framing policies for AIDS relief in Africa maintained that prevention alone was a preferable alternative to prevention-plus-treatment, which would be costly and impractical in Africa, or would benefit only the prosperous and well-connected.

This title was first published in 2000: Both NATO and the European Union are in the early stages of enlargement processes that will see both organizations expand to include a number of former Communist countries from Central Europe.

Success in war ultimately depends on the consolidation of political order.

This book explores the role of Chineseness or lo chino in the production of Chilean national identity.

While liberal-democratic states like America, Britain and Australia claim to value freedom of expression and the right to dissent, they have always actually criminalized dissent.

As a GI reporter for the 1st Air Cavalry Division in Vietnam, the author--"e;an enlisted man writing primarily for enlisted men"e;--chronicled the experiences of combat soldiers in newspaper and magazine articles.

The UN's record in peace operations is long, various, distinguished by both accomplishments and failures, and most importantly, innovative.

Identities and Conflicts is about the role of cultural and political identities in generating (or settling) conflicts.

Demokratieforderung ist zentraler Bestandteil der Politik der EU gegenuber dem Sudkaukasus und Zentralasien.

Blending African social history with US foreign relations, John V.

The second half of the twentieth century saw the emergence of international economic law as a major force in the international legal system.

This book contributes to contemporary debates on the effectiveness of international humanitarian law (IHL) in regulating or prohibiting inhumane weapons, such as landmines.

In this authoritative text, Arno J.

Comprising both extremely rich and very poor countries the Arab region is of unique variety.

The book begins with an agenda-setting introduction which will provide an overview of the central question being addressed, such as the circumstances associated with the move towards a political settlement, the parameters of this settlement and the factors that have assisted in bringing it about.

This volume includes contributions of scholars from various fields - the social sciences, journalism, the humanities and the arts - whose work offers insightful and innovative ways to understand the devastating and unprecedented forms of violence currently experienced in Latin America.

This book provides a theory and evidence explaining the initial decision of governments to adopt a conditional cash transfer program.

This book focuses on the recent rise of new regional economic institutions such as the Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralisation, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, which were established, in part, as a result of dissatisfaction of dynamic emerging markets with global economic institutions such as the IMF, the World Bank, and the GATT/WTO.

In addressing the politics of the international regulation of public procurement, this book fills a major gap in the literature.

This book provides a holistic examination of India''s relationship with the non-proliferation regime and its dominant structures.

Considering the African presence in China from an ethnographic and cultural studies perspective, this book offers a new way to theorise contemporary and future forms of transnational mobilities while expanding our understandings around the transformations happening in both China and Africa.

This volume comprises the texts of the main international treaties which formed the legal skeleton of international relations during the 1980s, with details of signatories and amendments and a commentary on the general and particular situations to which they apply.

This book is a comprehensive guide to theories of International Relations (IR).

The EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) was established to provide evidence-based policy advice to EU institutions and Member States.

A study of the political utility of navies not only in past wars and possible future wars but also in the "e;violent peace"e; of the modern era.

The Power to Persuade provides an innovative and eye-opening analysis of strategic arguing as a means of power in global politics.

A discussion of the EC Regulation and Directive in all Member States with respect to cross-border mergers (28 countries).

What kind of role can the middle class play in potential democratization in such an undemocratic, late developing country as China?

China has become an undisputed global phenomenon, yet twenty-five years ago, its remarkable accomplishments were largely unforeseen.

In the wake of the 1979 Iranian revolution, relations between states in the Middle East were reconfigured and reassessed overnight.

This book deals with a variety of issues of history, of national security, and of political economy, and focuses on the need for a dynamic perspective.

The Classic Edition of 'Immigrant Youth in Cultural Transition', first published in 2006, includes a new introduction by the editors, describing the ongoing relevance of this volume in the context of future challenges for this vital field of study.

This book examines how many women active in revolutionary movements develop feminist identities and how this identity simultaneously contributes to and conflicts with the struggle for women's emancipation.

This book focuses on EU-MERCOSUR relations from a diplomatic and trade perspective against the background of the political agreement between the two in 2019.

Rule and resistance can no longer be understood in national contexts only.

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

The last four years have seen significant damage in US-China relations that will take years to rebuild.

People's Tribunals are independent, peaceful, grassroots movements, created by members of civil society, to address impunity that is associated with ongoing or past atrocities.

An in-depth analysis of one of the most important and complex issues of the post-Soviet era, namely the (re-)integration of this highly interconnected region.

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We live in a visual age.

This book asks whether the well-established privilege against self-incrimination applies to corporations, whether it should, and if so, to what extent.