International relations

A revealing memoir by the Israeli leader who almost made peace with the PalestiniansWritten almost entirely from inside a prison cell, Searching for Peace is the compelling memoir of former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert.

Exploring how intelligence professionals view accountability in the context of twenty-first century politicsHow can democratic governments hold intelligence and security agencies accountable when what they do is largely secret?

The world needs a UN 3.

This book is one of the main outcomes of the projects "e;Development Programmes and Rural Change in the European Union: governance, results and lessons to share"e;and "e;Successes and failures in the practice of neoendogenous rural development in the European Union (1991-2013)"e;, funded both of them by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness.

This book examines the relationship between state fragility and corruption.

Moscow in the 1960s was the other side of the Iron Curtain: mysterious, exotic, even dangerous.

Offers the first book-length comparative study of resilience, examining this increasingly influential topic as it is experienced across different countries and policy sectors.

This book explores the disjuncture that emerges at various levels in European diversity management policies and their translation into practice.

In Universal Politics, Ilan Kapoor and Zahi Zalloua argue that, in the face of the relentless advance of global capitalism, a universal politics is needed today more than ever.

Using newly declassified documents from Serbian, British, Indian, Chinese, Myanmar, U.

The Libyan Oil Industry (1980) gives a narrative and analysis of the economic consequences of the discovery and production of oil in Libya, from the searches for oil by the major oil companies to the establishment of Libya as one of the main exporters in the world.

This book reflects on selected issues of European law in dialogue with leading legal scholar Bruno De Witte, whose work has enlightened generations of students, scholars and practitioners of European law.

This book argues that Islam has been securitized in US foreign policy, especially during the W.

Japan was sometimes described as a country of "e;peace"e; during the Cold War period, in contrast to the continental border conflicts taking place at the time, such as the China-Soviet rivalry.

Limited force is different than war: different in scope, strategic purpose, and ethical permissions and restraints.

This book aims to shift the limited and often negative popular understanding of the Middle East's place in the world by chronicling the region's contributions to the international order rather than disorder, and to the development of the international human rights system.

The representation of the Holocaust in literature and film has confronted lecturers and students with some challenging questions.

In 1981 the Organization of African Unity (OAU) mandated and fielded the first regional peacekeeping operation since the Arab League's mission in Kuwait 20 years earlier.

This book discusses the international right to water and the liberalization of water services.

Findings from the field of evolutionary biology are yielding dramatic insights for health scientists, especially those involved in the fight against infectious diseases.

In the Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt famously argued that the stateless were so rightless, that it was better to be a criminal who at least had some rights and protections.

Greece's New Political Economy traces the course of Greece from a postwar developmental state to its current participation in the Euro-zone.

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.

This book identifies and explores the mechanisms linking political institutions and variation in capitalist systems.

Political elites in liberal democracies are showing heightened concern about threats to national security from the overseas political activities of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and its supporters.

Fifty years since the signing of the Paris Peace Accords signaled the final withdrawal of U.

The UN World Commission on Environment and Development, chaired by former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, alerted the world to the urgency of making progress toward economic development that could be sustained without depleting natural resources or harming the environment.

Is the Atlantic World in a state of crisis?

In the fascinating story of Israel-China relations, unique history and culture intertwine with complex diplomacy and global business ventures-some of which have reached impressive success.

Winner of the Political Geography Specialty Group's 2015 Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award!

Central Asia has become the battleground for the major struggles of the 21st century: radical Islam versus secularism, authoritarianism versus identity politics, Eastern versus Western control of resources, and the American 'War on Terror'.

This book examines the way in which globalisation has affected our thinking about sovereignty, human rights, law and legitimacy.

This book highlights how temporary international civil servants play a crucial role in initiating processes of legal and institutional change in the United Nations system.

This comprehensive volume examines developments in diplomatic technique and changes in the diplomatic and political structures which shape, and are shaped, by international relations and the international order.

An examination of how peacekeeping is woven into national, regional and international politics in Africa, and its consequences.

This book analyses the institutional development that the Peruvian state has undergone in recent years within a context of rapid extractive industry expansion.

This edited volume brings together a group of scholars examining the effects of social change on the politics in South Asia.

Conflicts involving religion have returned to the forefront of international relations.

This book studies the political integration of Indian diaspora communities into their host societies.

This book explores the power of words in post-Peace El Salvador and Guatemala-their violent and equally liberating power.

This book presents a case for a basic reorientation of International Relations away from the state and towards the study of social institutions in the sense of patterned practices, ideas and norms/rules.

Focusing on Afghanistan's relations with the West during the latter half of the 20th century, this study offers new insights on the long-term origins of the nation's recent tragedies.

The recognition of women's human rights to migrate and work as sex workers is disregarded and dismissed by anti-trafficking discourses of rescue in the latest United Nation's definition of trafficking.

Foreign policy success or failure is often attributed to the role of leadership.

Every international negotiation bears a risk of collapse, as even among like-minded countries, different players often have different priorities and interests.

Is a diplomat's life really as glamorous as a royal visit, or as dramatic as a coup d'etat in Turkey?

The persistent objector rule is said to provide states with an 'escape hatch' from the otherwise universal binding force of customary international law.