While many books discuss how nations can prevent the proliferation of biological and nuclear weapons, this unique and controversial volume begins with the premise that these weapons will certainly multiply despite our desperate desire to slow this process.
Since 1980, Japan's international economic position has undergone a historic transformation that is now having significant consequences for Japan, the United States, Europe, and other countries around the world.
Despite deep roots in local community organizing and peace activism, the peacebuilding field over the past two decades has evolved into a stratified, and often disconnected, community of academics, policymakers, and practitioners.
The signing of the Association Agreement and DCFTA between Moldova and the European Union in 2014 was a strategic political act to deepen the realisation of Moldova's 'European choice'.
Since 1980, Japan's international economic position has undergone a historic transformation that is now having significant consequences for Japan, the United States, Europe, and other countries around the world.
The simple yet challenging goal of this book is to deliberate the legitimacy, and advance the feasibility, of an important new concept the notion of "e;"e;global civics.
In recent years, a more active and aggressive Congress has often sharply disagreed with the president over the ends and means of American foreign policy.
Several events in the past few years have dramatically shown how the interests of European citizens are directly affected by the stability, security and prosperity of their neighbouring regions.
The Uruguay Round trade agreement, recently ratified by Congress, was the eighth in a series of negotiations under the auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
Since the first heroic and largely spontaneous acts precipitated the end of the Cold War, Europe has been transformed in a truly remarkable and wholly unforeseen manner: Germany has been unified, the Warsaw Pact has collapsed, and the Soviet Union has disintegrated, leaving in its wake many new independent states.
In numerous crises after World War II Berlin, Korea, the Taiwan Straits, and the Middle East the United States resorted to vague threats to use nuclear weapons in order to deter Soviet or Chinese military action.
This book examines the nature of the international arms trade and the adjustment of the defense industries in the United States and Russia to the post-cold war world.
The multilateral military intervention in Somalia was one of the international community's first major attempts to respond to a dangerous new challenge in the post-cold war era the problem of state collapse and social disintegration.
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?
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?
Egypt has long been valued for its strategic importance in the Middle East and North Africa, but its relationship with the United States continues to evolve.
Elections have been used as a mechanism to institutionalize a new political order following internal conflict in Cambodia, El Salvador, Angola, Mozambique, Bosnia, and now Liberia.
Politics Over Prosperity: How Politics Destroys Nations is a rigorous exploration of the complex relationship between political power and economic development in the twenty-first century.
Desde las relaciones internacionales, este libro ofrece una perspectiva original y solida respecto al papel de la diplomacia cultural en contextos de estigmatizacion internacional.
El 29 de agosto de 1949, en Semipalatinsk, un lugar remoto en las desoladas estepas de Kasajistan, la Union Sovietica detono su primera bomba atomica: el Primer Relampago.
La publicacion de Los principios del derecho publico, tomos I y II, obra en homenaje al profesor Diego Younes Moreno, era mas que necesaria, pues el doctor Younes ha sido uno de los principales tratadistas de nuestro pais en los ultimos cincuenta anos.
Los articulos que componen este libro provienen de autoras y autores que comparten un cierto "e;ecosistema academico"e; comun, un espacio de encuentro periodico y creativo que se da en ambitos universitarios y en donde los y las estudiantes tienen un papel fundamental.
Esta obra propone una mirada critica y transformadora desde la psicologia social y comunitaria en America Latina; a partir del analisis de las violencias estructurales del capitalismo, el colonialismo, el patriarcado y el racismo -que moldean subjetividades hacia la individualidad y la resignacion-, el libro traza un horizonte de resistencias y posibilidades de transformacion.