International relations

In this concise account of why America used atomic bombs against Japan in 1945, J.

Secession is a live issue in today's Western Europe.

In recent years, digital technologies have substantially impacted the world of diplomacy.

When do we see social movements mobilize against the American military overseas, and what explains their varying intensity?

When do we see social movements mobilize against the American military overseas, and what explains their varying intensity?

This book explores how enduring meta-narratives shape international security policies, disarmament efforts, and arms control practices.

This book provides a cultural analysis of the Israeli defense and intelligence establishments before and after the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023.

This edited monograph aims to unpack the discourse surrounding global security from a range of multi-disciplinary perspectives.

Impartiality is a guiding principle in United Nations peace operations that has helped legitimize multilateral intervention in dozens of armed conflicts around the world.

Ongoing debates among political theorists revolve around the question of whether the overarching goal of Confucianism--serving the people's moral and material wellbeing--is attainable in modern day politics without broad democratic participation.

The dominant narrative in intelligence studies portrays the evolution of intelligence from Cold War times to the present as one of increasing complexity.

As climate change brings devastation to all areas of the world, and U.

In the aftermath of the First World War the Western great powers sought to redefine international norms according to their liberal vision.

Redefining EU Membership examines the issue of Membership within the European Union (EU) today by focusing on differentiation in and outside the EU.

The Evolution of the Jola Ethnic Group traces how globalization, imperial formations, religious movements, and postcolonial state making have reshaped Jola/Diola communities in Foni and Casamance across Senegal, The Gambia, and Guinea Bissau.

The illicit traffic in cultural objects is a grave concern to the general public and international community.

The illicit traffic in cultural objects is a grave concern to the general public and international community.

This monograph examines the growing datafication of European borders, exploring how digital technologies reshape migration governance.

The Cairo School of an Islamic Civilizational Paradigm in International Relations: The Building Process traces the intellectual evolution of a multi-generational scholarly project developed at Cairo University's Faculty of Economics and Political Science over four decades.

The intersection between fiscal state aid and taxation has become more topical than ever.

Purging the Odious Scourge of Atrocities explains the growth of a small body of human rights law that bans the use of violence against a state's own population when it is deemed a mass atrocity.

This edited monograph aims to unpack the discourse surrounding global security from a range of multi-disciplinary perspectives.

Purging the Odious Scourge of Atrocities explains the growth of a small body of human rights law that bans the use of violence against a state's own population when it is deemed a mass atrocity.

The intersection between fiscal state aid and taxation has become more topical than ever.

How do separatist conflicts arise and spread?

Over the two decades since the adoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, peacebuilding interventions around the globe have increasingly incorporated gender perspectives.

The Evolution of the Jola Ethnic Group traces how globalization, imperial formations, religious movements, and postcolonial state making have reshaped Jola/Diola communities in Foni and Casamance across Senegal, The Gambia, and Guinea Bissau.

Capacity remuneration mechanisms (or simply capacity mechanisms) have become a fact of life in member states' energy markets and are one of the hottest topics in the wider European regulatory debate.

Natural resource extraction, once promoted by international lenders and governing elites as a promising development strategy, is beginning to hit a wall.

Natural resource extraction, once promoted by international lenders and governing elites as a promising development strategy, is beginning to hit a wall.

This book challenges the assumption that authoritarianism is necessarily a phenomenon located at the level of the state, and that states as a whole are therefore either democratic or authoritarian.

Marking fifty years since the democratic transitions in Greece, Portugal, and Spain, this book traces how three countries that broke free from authoritarian rule in the mid-1970s have navigated consolidation, crisis, and the enduring tension between structural constraints and political agency to become, and remain, democracies.

War is famously associated with uncertainty.

Global tax policy has long determined which states can access the resources necessary to flourish.

Over the course of the last century, there has been an outsized incidence of conflict between democracies and personalist regimes--political systems where a single individual has undisputed executive power and prominence.

This volume of The Cairo School of an Islamic Civilizational Paradigm in International Relations advances the paradigm from intellectual formation to methodological application.

In recent years, digital technologies have substantially impacted the world of diplomacy.

This book examines the often-overlooked dynamics of how political actors from peripheral regions engage with central authorities to shape national policymaking.

The implicit topology of international institutional complexes varies greatly across policy areas.

During World War II the special relationship between the United States and Great Britain cemented the alliance that won the war.

In 1899 the United States, having announced its arrival as a world power during the Spanish-Cuban-American War, inaugurated a brutal war of imperial conquest against the Philippine Republic.

From the moment man learned how to ascend off the ground, the strategic significance of air intelligence became apparent.

The image of Africa among Americans at the beginning of the 21st century is tragic; America's image among Africans is of a place that is splendid but arrogant and unfeeling.

Given the rivalries and suspicions prevailing in the Middle East, it is not surprising that most of these states are very concerned about espionage and infiltration.

The Oxford Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis repositions the subfield of Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) to a central analytic location within the study of International Relations (IR).

In 1899 the United States, having announced its arrival as a world power during the Spanish-Cuban-American War, inaugurated a brutal war of imperial conquest against the Philippine Republic.

The Comprehensive Peace Agreement marked the end of Sudan's second civil war between the North and South.

The personalization of politics, whereby politicians increasingly become the main focus of political processes, is a prominent phenomenon in modern democracies that has received considerable scholarly attention in national politics.

The personalization of politics, whereby politicians increasingly become the main focus of political processes, is a prominent phenomenon in modern democracies that has received considerable scholarly attention in national politics.

'I recommend our diplomats and ministers read this book: it will provide them with an intellectual backbone.