International relations

Since 9/11, Canada has been on the front lines of a New World Order that few understand.

Carolin Anthes investigates how and why the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) struggles with systematically integrating a right to food approach in its operations.

Nach einer Einschätzung von Kazimierz Dziewanowski lautet die grundlegende Frage zur polnischen Außenpolitik: „Kann man irgendjemandem vertrauen?

This book provides an explanation for the fundamental disagreement pertaining to immigration and asylum in Europe.

Declassified documents arguably offer a premier vantage for understanding global governance, current security concerns, and the international market.

Sixty years on from the signing of the Refugee Convention, forced migration and refugee movements continue to raise global concerns for hosting states and regions, for countries of origin, for humanitarian organisations on the ground, and, of course, for the refugee.

The EU plays an increasingly important role in issues such as the fight against organised crime and the management of migration flows, transforming the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ) into a priority of the EU's political and legislative agenda.

This book documents how the Arctic region has been represented in the media: exploring how the media has framed the Arctic and whether this has an impact on governmental decision-making and public preferences.

This volume examines the explanatory nesting approach in the analysis of international relations and its continuing relevance in the 21st century.

This book examines the features and functions of international legitimacy and how these change over time.

Greater understanding of the forms and consequences of investment and disinvestment in the extractive industries is required as a result of capitalist expansion, recent declines in global commodity prices, and claims that extractive sector projects, especially in the global south, are poverty reduction projects.

Universality Ethics and International Relations introduces students to the key debates about ethics in international relations theory.

This succinct overview of Marshall's life and work as an economist sets his major economic contributions in perspective, by looking at his education, his travel, his teaching at Cambridge, Oxford and Bristol, his policy views as presented to government inquiries and his political and social opinions.

This book examines the large-scale return migration of South and Southeast Asian workers triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, exploring its causes, consequences, challenges, and policy responses.

La violence demeure une véritable toile de fond qui alimente les écrits africains postcoloniaux.

This book builds on the idea that peer-to-peer infrastructures are gradually becoming the general conditions of work, economy, and society.

This book presents the argument that solution-driven policy and treaty changes, if faithfully implemented, will rekindle the relevance of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in combatting and prosecuting atrocity crimes.

Winner of the 2010 George Louis Beer Prize of the American Historical Association.

The Middle East is a continuing crisis area in world politics.

Why do some attempts to conclude alliance treaties end in failure?

The Optional Protocol to the UN Convention Against Torture (OPCAT) establishes an independent international monitoring committee (SPT) which itself will visit states and places where persons are deprived of their liberty.

An introduction to studying and editing texts in all forms, from manuscript to digital.

The world is in a mess.

Safe from the battlefields of Europe and Asia, the United States led the postWorld War II global economic recovery through international assistance and foreign direct investment.

Britain and France were surprised at having to convince the US of the need to intervene in Libya in 2011.

To harmonize the rules on mediation within the European Union, Directive 2008/52/EC was created imposing mandatory standards on certain aspects of mediation.

This book examines China's relations with its weak peripheral states through the theoretical lens of structural power and structural violence.

This book focuses on a review of how sixty years of case-law and regulatory activity transformed the European continent and the world.

This volume examines the role of League of Nations committees, particularly the Advisory Committee of Jurists (ACJ) in shaping the statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice (PCIJ).

From the first days of his unexpected presidency in April 1945 through the landmark NSC 68 of 1950, Harry Truman was central to the formation of America's grand strategy during the Cold War and the subsequent remaking of U.

The trajectory of Turkey's Justice and Development Party (AKP) rule offers an ideal empirical window into puzzling shifts in Turkey's domestic politics and foreign policy.

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is one of the most talked about yet little understood policy initiatives of the People's Republic of China.

Life and Work in Post-Soviet Russia revolves around the professional and personal experience of living and working in Moscow of a Singapore diplomat, beginning in the aftermath of the USSR's collapse and ending in the first decade-and-a-half of this century.

An historically-informed account of rising powers and their quest for eminence in the core institutions of international order.

In recent years several Latin American countries have adopted a more assertive and autonomous stance in their foreign policy.

Warum ein neuer deutsch-französischer Grundlagenvertrag?

With her research, Svenja Post offers an in-depth analysis of the implementation of the Comprehensive Approach in international crisis management both on EU and on member state national level.

Examines the history of the struggle to advance human rights and provides a global framework of constitutional protections to implement these rights.

This book examines how international order at sea is challenged, changed and maintained.

Biofuels and the Globalization of Risk offers a fresh, compelling analysis of the politics and policies behind the biofuels story, with its technological optimism and often-idealized promises for the future.

Why do some states resist entering into international treaty regimes while others demonstrate eagerness to participate?

The book is the beginning of new interdisciplinary research series at the intersection of international relations, diplomacy, law, economics, and politics on the basis of global digital transformation.

Both Turkey and Iran are large and important countries in the Middle East; how these two countries relate to each other is of crucial importance both for the region and for the wider world.

This book explores the intricate web of global development assistance, dissecting India's unique position within this dynamic landscape, to study the country's evolving role in International Development.

This text provides an inter-disciplinary critique of the new global economy and information society, tracing its roots in the infrastructures of Canada's development from the canoes and ships of the fur trade, through the railways and telegraph of industrialization, to mass-print media, radio, television and film distribution.

This book analyses the concept and conditions of transnational solidarity, the challenges and the opportunities, from an interdisciplinary global perspective.

Combining theoretical analyzes with case studies, this book increases understanding of the internationalization, diffusion and escalation of ethnic conflict.

Some of Bill Clinton's most basic foreign policy elements - democratic peace, the post-Cold War peace dividend, geopolitics and state-society relations - are epitomized in the US-Russian Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) Purchase Agreement.