International relations

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is emerging as a vital lynch-pin in Chinas efforts to establish a maritime and continental zone of influence in the Indo-Pacific region.

Southeast Asia serves as an excellent case study to discuss major transformations in the relationship between states.

';The only way this war is going to end is if the American people truly understand what we have done in their name.

The purpose of this book is twofold.

International Institutions (IIs), International NGOs (INGOs) and Transnational Hybrid Organizations (THOs) play a hugely important role in the modern world economy.

This book, available for the first time in paperback, looks at the liberalisation process in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) during the period 1987-89, focusing on Gorbachev's initiative to encourage perestroika in all the fraternal regimes of CEE outside the Soviet Union.

Drawing on ancient texts and modern interpretations, this work explores the foundations for war in China's strategic culture Shih, Li and Tao.

This volume examines and critiques several of the classical theoretical foundations of domestic and international organization, concentrating on the contestable conceptions of community, order, justice, freedom, responsibility and wealth developed by the major political theorists of the modern epoch.

This volume presents a critical analysis of transatlantic relations in the field of environmental governance and climate change.

A case for why regionalization, not globalization, has been the biggest economic trend of the past forty years The conventional wisdom about globalization is wrong.

This book examines how developing countries often sign up to highly potent rules underwriting economic globalisation without even realising it.

The paradox of U.

Johnston unpacks and critiques the legal, economic, and scientific basis for precautionary climate policies pursued in the United States.

This collection of essays by renowned scholar Amitai Etzioni aims to provoke reconsiderations of basic assumptions of foreign policy by students, academics and practitioners.

Berengaria of Navarre was queen of England (1191-99) and lord of Le Mans (1204-30), but has received little attention in terms of a fully encompassing biography from Navarrese, Anglophone, and French perspectives.

Policing the Global South provides scholarship which further transnationalises and democratises ideas about policing practices and philosophies, highlighting renovations in approaches to policing studies, and injecting innovative perspectives into the study of policing from scholars positioned on the 'periphery'.

The book argues that the concept of self-defense in Islamic and International law is compatible.

This title was first published in 2001: Japan has a long history of being isolated from multilateral diplomacy.

Oil wealth and Federal Conflict in American Petrofederations documents the critical relationship between oil rents and federal conflicts by illustrating key concepts with six representative cross-regional case studies.

Examining how changing conditions in the Mediterranean Region have affected the decisions of those considering migrating from Sub-Saharan Africa to or through the Region, this book represents an important and overdue contribution to international policy-making and academic discourse.

EU expansion has stoked fears that criminals from the East may abuse freedom of movement to exploit the benefit systems of richer states.

Turkey and the West: From Neutrality to Commitment considers the formulation of Turkish foreign policy in the post-Ataturk period of 1938 to 1958 and discusses Turkey's uneasy shift from neutrality to become a member of the Western Alliance.

This book analyses the economic history of the nuclear program in Spain, from its inception in the 1950s to the nuclear moratorium in the early 1980s, and investigates the economic, financial and business origins of atomic energy in Spain.

This book focuses on how discourse and various narratives contribute to the construction of the European Union as a political actor, thus seeking to challenge the more established approaches to the study of the Union.

This book focuses on the ECOWAS Commission, both as an autonomous actor, as well as a policy-making nexus for its member states and external actors.

The world was at war, America precariously poised on the sidelines.

This book examines the relationship between women, gender and the international security agenda, exploring the meaning of security in terms of discourse and practice, as well as the larger goals and strategies of the global women's movement.

This book discusses the Belt and Road Initiative at the provincial level in China.

In the 1980s a large number of Latin American countries undertook stabilization and structural adjustment programmes similar, though smaller in magnitude, to the ones that Eastern Europe is now undergoing.

European Navies and the Conduct of War considers the different contexts within which European navies operated over a period of 500 years culminating in World War Two, the greatest war ever fought at sea.

Since the field of International Relations was established almost a century ago, many different theoretical approaches have been developed, each offering distinctive accounts of the world, why it has come to be the way it is, and how it might be made a better place.

The long-awaited second edition of this seminal text, reconceived as a critical analysis of the world''s leading comparative asylum jurisprudence.

Violence against women is a major problem in all countries, affecting women in every socio-economic group and at every life stage.

How do emerging states become full, functioning members of the international system?

Originally published in 1998, International Society and the De Facto Society explores the phenomenon of de facto statehood in contemporary international relations.

With the process of a "e;wider Europe"e; (EU-Commission President Romano Prodi's "e;ring of friends"e;) that extends from Marrakech in Morocco to St.

Establishes a framework for analyzing and assessing the accountability mechanisms of international organizations, and applies it to three case studies.

What is the future of food in light of growing threats from the climate emergency and natural resource depletion, as well as economic and social inequality?

This book examines the extent to which Russia's strategic behavior is the product of its imperial strategic culture and Putin's own operational code.

Öffentliche Verwaltungen und öffentliche Betriebe werden von ihren Trägern eingesetzt, um öffentliche Aufgaben zu erfüllen.

As the central feature on the American political landscape, it is only natural that scholars and commentators focus on the presidency.

In March 1961, President John F.

This volume examines international statebuilding in terms of language and meanings, rather than focusing narrowly on current policy practices.

Afghan women were at the forefront of global agendas in late 2001, fueled by a mix of media coverage, humanitarian intervention and military operations.

When and how do great and middle powers moderately challenge the status quo?

An innovative and provocative study tackling the main assumptions surrounding Israel''s claim to Jewish identity.

The 2010's was a critical period in the continuing, established trend of the spread of democracy worldwide: from the Arab Spring countries of Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and Yemen to the unfolding turmoil of Myanmar and Ukraine, by way of the upheavals in Burkina Faso, Senegal and Ivory Coast, social mobilisation against autocratic, corrupt, or military regimes has precipitated political transitions that are characteristic of "e;democratisation.