International relations

The perspectives of academics and practitioners are brought together in this insightful work, which examines the war on terrorism, the Iraq war and the roles of NATO and the EU.

Humanitarianism as a moral concept and an organized practice has become a major factor in world society.

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has played a vital role in promoting the process of European integration.

Exploring how the U.

In the early 21st century, five rising powers (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) formed an exclusive international club, the BRICS.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Integration von Entwicklungsländern" verfügbar.

This edited volume looks at regional integration processes in Asia.

The process of European integration and the transfer of political authority from the national to the European level have led to the emergence of a field of EU policy making in Brussels, which attracts professionals and experts from all EU member states.

This book examines the decisions by Tony Blair and John Howard to take their nations into the 2003 Iraq War, and the questions these decisions raise about democratic governance.

Mit der Auflösung der Sowjetunion und des Warschauer Pakts wird auch das westliche Militärbündnis bald der Vergangenheit angehören, lautete vor knapp zwei Jahrzehnten die Einschätzung führender Vertreter des Neorealismus, jener Denkschule also, welche die Diskussion innerhalb der politikwissenschaftlichen Teildisziplin der Internationalen Beziehungen lange Zeit dominierte.

Scientific disciplines have their own view on catastrophes.

This book explores the role of national theatres, national cultural centres, cultural policy, festivals, and the film industry as creative and cultural performances hubs for exercising soft power and cultural diplomacy.

There has been clear recognition of tendencies towards uncritically celebrating resistance and the need for critical appraisal within the literature on globalization and contestation.

A groundbreaking history of how the US Post made the nineteenth-century American West.

The title of this book comes from a toast popular with Americans in the late 1790s-"e;millions for defense, not a cent for tribute.

Why are we still at 'war' with terror 16 years after 9/11?

How do militants rationalize violence and what are their motives?

War crimes have devastating effects on victims and perpetrators and endanger broader political and military goals.

The term "e;middle power"e; is conceptually fragile.

This is the first theoretical book on Chinese Cultural Soft Power.

This title was first published in 2003.

From a nuclear North Korea and territorial disputes in the East China Sea, to global climate change and Asia-Pacific free trade agreements, Japan is at the center of some of the most challenging issues that the world faces today.

History of the British West Indies (1954) examines the history of the islands of the Caribbean from their first discovery, through the periods of colonisation and slavery, and up to the beginnings of their status as independent nations.

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We have been living and working in the information society for decades, yet still we struggle to understand and keep up in the face of its constant flux and vast scope.

Together these two companion volumes develop an innovative theory of world politics, grounded in the reinterpretation of the concepts of 'world' and 'politics' from an ontological perspective.

Negotiating China's Destiny explains how China developed from a country that hardly mattered internationally into the important world power it is today.

Scholarship on Black internationalism has experienced a revival.

This book examines why powerful states have varying success in restraining less-powerful allies from acquiring nuclear weapons, based on a broad range of historical case studies.

This book presents a 'critical reappraisal' of the resource curse thesis and extends the analysis to consider political and social dimensions, and thus, the importance of structure in the petroleum sector's governance model.

After the attacks of 9/11 terrorism and other forms of transnational risks of violence dominated official security policy.

Developing a new theory of hegemony, called group hegemony, the author explains how a few wealthy countries maintain the liberal economic order and how this helps to sustain the economic disparity between the core and the periphery in the post-World War II era.

Since the end of the Cold War, globalisation has been the dominant political and economic trend.

The Routledge Handbook of Transatlantic Relations is an essential and comprehensive reference for the regulation of transatlantic relations across a range of subjects, bringing together contributions from scholars, policy makers, lawyers and political scientists.

Evaluates the pressures, both institutional and territorial, that Brexit exerts on both the United Kingdom and Irish constitutional orders.

A moral compass for the use of limited force that draws on the just war thought of Thomas AquinasOne of the most contentious developments in contemporary international relations has been the increased use of limited force.

Most books on the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands dispute between China and Japan are authored by either Chinese who argue that the islands belong to China or by Japanese who contend that the islands are rightfully Japan's.

This book has four main objectives: to bring the thus far almost entirely neglected historical case of 'the rise of Japan' into the literature on power shifts in general and 'the rise of China' in particular; to propose a discourse-based conceptualization of identity for the study of economic policy that engages theoretical and methodological debates on how to overcome the dichotomy between 'ideational' (identity) and 'material' (economic) factors; to address the tendency to focus on the 'radical Other' in poststructuralist IR scholarship, by highlighting how heterogeneity disturbs exclusive and binary articulations of identity and difference; and to propose a method for putting political discourse theory (PDT) into practice in empirical research by drawing on rhetorical political analysis (RPA).

Das vorliegende Lehrbuch gibt dem interessierten Leser auf hohem wissenschaftlichem Niveau einen profunden Überblick über die wichtigsten Organisationen und Institutionen im weiten Bereich internationaler wirtschaftlicher Kooperation und Integration – zum Beispiel: die WTO, den internationalen Währungsfonds, die Weltbank sowie die OECD und die Europäische Union.

With regions and nations having formally fulfilled the ex ante conditionality, this book provides a first overall review of RIS3 policy processes, aiming to assess the consistency of the concept of smart specialization from an applied, policy-oriented perspective.

With thorough analysis and balanced reporting, Ghost Guns: Hobbyists, Hackers, and the Homemade Weapons Revolution is an essential resource for readers seeking to understand the rise of homemade firearms and future options for managing them.

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This book presents the first attempt to model the relationships among the distribution of power, international trade, and war.

A state-of-the-art analysis of the contentious areas of EU law that have been put in the spotlight by populism.

Responding to the growth of digital products and the commercial imperative to build new digital businesses, The Business of Digital Publishing offers a comprehensive introduction to the development of digital products in the book and journal industries.

Did Donald Trump decisively transform and alter the course of US foreign policy?

This book reviews the background and evolving features of Sino-African relations, exploring various stages over the past 50 years.

Examines liberalism''s invisible, yet influential status, in modern Iranian political and intellectual discourses.