International relations

This comprehensive volume is a three-part study of whether the Chinese political system has maintained a significant degree of regime legitimacy in the context of rising domestic discontent, in particular the popular protests against socio-economic inequality and environment degradation.

Amongst the riches of nineteenth century India, as the British fought their way across Mughal territory, an orphaned streetgirl ends up at court with the ear of the Emperor.

The aim of this book is to explain and assess the relevance of the ideas of Gramsci to a world fundamentally transformed from that in which his thought was developed.

In the past decade, human rights as a component of U.

The study of LGBT aging is in its infancy.

This book evaluates American foreign policy actions from the perspective of great power responsibility, with three case studies: Operation Iraqi Freedom, American drone strikes in Pakistan and the post- 9/11 practice of extraordinary rendition.

This book brings together recent research on the end of the Cold War in the Third World and engages with ongoing debates about regional conflicts, the role of great powers in the developing world, and the role of international actors in conflict resolution.

This book explores the challenges that multilateralism faces today and questions the idea of a 'crisis' of multilateral cooperation and international organizations.

Foreword Frederick D.

This edited volume brings together leading scholars to debate the promises of poststructural politics within the study of the International Political Economy (IPE).

First published in 1986, The Decline of Arab Oil Revenues explores the fall in the economic value of Arab oil reserves in the 1980s.

This volume seeks to start a revival of the field of disarmament law scholarship.

In recent decades, Saudi Arabia has committed itself to playing the part of mediator in intra-national and international conflicts in the greater Middle East region.

This book defines the broad parameters of social change for Native American nations in the twenty-first century, as well as their prospects for cultural continuity.

​Mariam Bochorishvili analysiert die Georgienpolitik der EU sowohl aus der akteurszentrierten als auch aus der systemischen Perspektive.

Challenging the conventional narrative that the European Union suffers from a "e;democratic deficit,"e; Athanasios Psygkas argues that EU mandates have enhanced the democratic accountability of national regulatory agencies.

This book takes a new look at the Commonwealth from the founding of the Secretariat in 1965 to the 14th Commonwealth Games in 1990.

This book recovers the history of realist theorization on nationalism and the nation-state.

The aim of this book is to analyse why and how states respond to human security, both at home and abroad.

In recent years, the term sectarianism has been widely used to explain contemporary affairs across the Middle East and North Africa.

The role of business in global governance is now widely recognized, but exploration of its role in global financial governance has been more haphazard than systematic.

President Nixon's famous 1972 trip has gone down in history as the first great opening between the West and Communist China.

Broadening the Debate on EU-Africa Relations is designed to expand the scope of our understanding of the multi-layered relationship between the European Union and African political actors in order to shape both the academic and policy level discourse.

This book focuses on transnationalism as a key concept to evaluate how Europe experiences, perceives and responds to current cross-border security challenges from a legal and political perspective.

This book explores the links between the British government and the dictatorships of Argentina and Chile, 1973-82, using newly-opened British archives.

When Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons against his own people in Syria, he clearly crossed President Barack Obama's "e;red line.

In a sweeping review of forty truth commissions, Priscilla Hayner delivers a definitive exploration of the global experience in official truth-seeking after widespread atrocities.

Even in Latin America's most socially and economically stable countries, new parties emerge constantly, old parties collapse, and party systems across the region are notoriously fragile.

This book explores the images and perceptions of the European Union (EU) in the eyes of one of the EU's three strategic partners in Asia in the context of its own distinct policies and identity.

First published in December 1919, this global bestseller attacking those who had made the peace in Paris after the First World War, sparked immediate controversy.

Democracy promotion has been an influential policy agenda in many Western states and international organisations, and amongst many NGO actors.

The Middle East is the region in which the first act of cyber warfare took place.

This book is the first scholarly study of the famous Jesuit Chinese children's primer, the Four Character Classic, written by Giulio Aleni (1582-1649) while living in Fujian, China.

This book examines the responsibility of judges of domestic courts following unconstitutional usurpation of power of government (coups d'etat).

After decades of intense interest and rivalry with the USA, the end of the Cold War and the dismantling of the USSR officially marked a period of significant retreat of Russia from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

'A masterly account.

This book explores the potential of movement as a means of eliciting conflict transformation and unfolding peace at the intrapersonal and relational levels.

Das Ende des Ost-West-Konfliktes, die deutsche Vereinigung, die Auflösung der Sowj- union und das Großprojekt Erweiterung der Europäischen Union haben die internationale Politik in den 90er Jahren nachhaltig verändert.

World football is in crisis.

The heralding of ambitions and hardening of geopolitical and military stances by China has given rise to few questions: Did China challenge the United States too hard and too soon and, by doing so, seriously jeopardize its chances of achieving its objectives?

This book examines the relationship between the Czech Republic and the European Union (EU).

This volume offers an overview of the critical challenges faced by aspiring African entrepreneurs and their coping strategies to sustain and develop their businesses.

Using the example of Werner Faymann, Dalia Grybauskaite, Angela Merkel, Viktor Orban and Mark Rutte, the book examines the impact that the European Council's environment has on leadership styles and the impact of leaders on the institution's decision-making during the financial and debt crisis, the Ukraine crisis, and the migration crisis (2010-2016).

From the perspectives of the political sciences as well as literature and language studies, this volume looks comparatively at Canadian and European constellations of cultural and linguistic diversity.

A hard look at the challenges to the authority and roles of international legal institutions since the 1990s.

This book provides a unique perspective on the perpetrators and victims of political violence, using original evidence from the deadly attacks perpetrated in Paris in 2015.