International relations

This book investigates the patterns of conflict management in contemporary Southeast Asia.

In Communism in India, Bidyut Chakrabarty-an expert on contemporary Indian political economy and social movements-presents a sweeping analysis of the changing nature of communist ideology over the past century in India.

The book gathers together a set of lively, provocative essays by leading voices in International Political Economy to debate the evolution of the field, its current state and its future directions.

This collected volume of essays focuses on two complementary themes: firstly, the theoretical approaches to the study of European Political Cooperation; and secondly, the empirical analysis of EPC activity.

This book is a comprehensive study of Southeast Asian views of their respective countries' foreign policies towards the United States.

The opening of classified documents from the Soviet era has been dubbed the "e;archival revolution"e; due to its unprecedented scale, drama, and impact.

The potential conflict among economic and ecological goals has formed the central fault line of environmental politics in the United States and most other countries since the 1970s.

Adopted in April 2004, UN Security Council Resolution 1540 obliges all states to take steps to prevent non-state actors, especially terrorist organizations and arms traffickers, from acquiring weapons of mass destruction and related materials.

This book argues that popular culture has been transformed in a silent revolution from emphasising history's heroes to its victims.

Introducing East Asia is an ideal textbook for those new to the study of one of the most exciting and important regions in the world.

Explores the manifold relationship between black women and international law, highlighting the historic and contemporary ways they have influenced and been influenced.

This book examines the interface between transnational private governance and domestic politics in South America.

The book studies the development of Japan's Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) vision.

Conflict prevention and crisis management has become a key activity for the EU since the creation of the Common Security and Defence Policy in 1999.

CHRONIC PAIN AND HIV: a practical approach Patients suffering from HIV/AIDS often experience chronic pain due to the many diseases and infections they pick up as a result of a weakened immune system.

This book considers the remarkable political, economic and social transformations that have taken place in India since 1980.

This edited volume examines the historical development of Chinese-medium schools from the British colonial era to recent decades of divergent development after the 1965 separation of Singapore and Malaysia.

Der Siebenjährige Krieg (1756–1763) bildete in gewissem Sinne den "Ersten Weltkrieg" in der Geschichte.

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.

A cutting-edge contribution to the aesthetic turn in international relations scholarship, this book exposes the role of poetic techniques in constituting the reality of international politics.

This book intends to make sense of how Chinese leaders perceive China's rise in the world through the eyes of China's international relations (IR) scholars.

Stephen Rabe's timely book examines President Dwight D.

In the last two decades public policies have reflected a drive for accelerated global economic integration ("e;globalization"e;), associated with greater economic liberalization.

This volume focuses on multilateralism in the 21st century and examines how, and how effectively, the EU delivers on its commitment to effective multilateralism.

Why are some states able to deliver public services to their citizens while others cannot?

This edited volume addresses the broader aspects of the political and social landscape, human rights violations, accountability and advocacy efforts, and humanitarian challenges faced by the Rohingya from Myanmar.

This is the first historical biography in English to be published on Egyptian scholar-diplomat, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the most intellectually accomplished of the nine UN secretaries-general.

In view of the explosion of violent conflicts in many parts of the world and the hasty, but prevailing, assumption that ethnicity is the source of these conflicts, this book is encompassed to highlight, describe and examine how ethnicity is politicized in many of these current conflicts.

The most dangerous corner of Africa is its north-eastern Horn where instability reigns and terrorism thrives on the antagonisms of all it governments.

At the conclusion of World War II, Asia was hardly more than a geographic expression.

The peaceful end of apartheid in South Africa was a monumental event in late twentieth century history.

Originally published in 2005.

Defensive Federalism presents an original contribution to the field of federalism and multinational democracies, exploring the concept of defensive federalism as a protection of self- government against the "e;tyranny of the majority"e;.

A history of the development of the Kurdish national movement in Iran which reflects on seven decades of the movement from 1947.

This book analyzes the law and politics in the peaceful use of nuclear energy.

This book appears at a time of intense debate on how states should respond to refugees: some philosophers argue states are not necessarily obligated to admit a single refugee, others argue states should continually admit refugees until the point of societal collapse.

This book explores how governments in multi-level states coordinate immigrant integration policies.

During the last five decades, U.

Human geopolitics, the competition for population rather than territory, is an essential but weakly understood dimension of world politics today.

This handbook builds a shared understanding of the troubling politics of philanthropy and the disturbing history and practices of humanitarianism.

After Terror presents sustained reflections by some of the world's most celebrated thinkers on the most pressing question of our time: how can we find ways to defuse the ticking bombs of terrorism and excessive interventions against it?

Recovers and analyzes novel manuscripts and post-publication revisions to construct a new narrative about eighteenth-century authorship.

This book examines how Ronald Reagan's electrifying 1964 televised speech, "e;A Time For Choosing,"e; ignited the conservative movement within the GOP.

This book pursues a Marxist approach with an emphasis on class to reflect on Marx's Capital in the context of the East.

This volume explores the reasons why American leaders from the 1700s onwards frequently adopt policies of unilateralism.

This book seeks to re-appreciate the concept of customary international law as a form of spontaneous societal self-organisation, and to develop the methodological consequences that ensue from this conception for the practice of its application.

Contested Sites in Jerusalem is the third and final volume in a series of books which collectively present in detail the work of the Jerusalem Old City Initiative, or JOCI, a major Canadian-led Track Two diplomatic effort, undertaken between 2003 and 2014.