International relations

This work examines terrorist activity worldwide from the mid-1990s to the 21st century.

A figure of enduring ingenuity, the nation has for centuries played a part on the socio-political stage.

Inequality is one of the most burning issues of our time, affecting young people in particular.

Encoding the Olympics assembles a uniquely representative international team of media experts to provide a comprehensive review of the global impact of media and cultural communications associated with the Beijing 2008 Olympics.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of Japan's national security institutions and policy today, including a detailed discussion of Japan's regional security environment and its alliance with the United States in the context of the Democratic Party of Japan's rise to power in August 2009.

Dieses Buch erklärt, was Organisationen in Zeiten großer Veränderungen und Krisen "resilient" – also widerstandsfähig – gegen schwierige Einflüsse und Gefährdungen macht und was Führungskräfte beitragen können, um die Resilienz der Organisation zu sichern.

This book, first published in 1983, brings together leading world experts on film and radio propaganda in a study which deals with each of the major powers as well as several under occupation.

As climate change makes the Arctic a region of key political interest, so questions of sovereignty are once more drawing international attention.

Leffler argues that American officials did not disregard European developments after World War I but, rather, they sought to settle the war debt and reparations controversies, to stabilize European currencies, and to revive European markets.

This widely-praised book identified peaceful struggle as a key phenomenon in international politics a year before the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt confirmed its central argument.

Canadians like to think that their country is law-abiding and honours its international commitments.

Dieses Buch gilt seit langem als das Standardwerk zur Entstehungsgeschichte des Staatsvertrags vom 15.

What were the calculations made by the US and its major allies in the 1960s when they faced the signing of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)?

Despite its claims to global scope and relevance, International Political Economy as a field of study remains entrenched in a narrow set of theoretical, conceptual and empirical foundations derived from the experiences of the advanced industrialized democracies.

Presenting a thorough record of Canada's diplomatic ties with China, Canada and China recounts ten stories regarding China policy decisions made by the Canadian government.

Following the financial crisis at the end of the twentieth century, regionalisms in the global political economy have evolved in a number of ways.

While globalization unifies the world, divisions re-emerge within it in the form of a spectacular separation between Islam and the West.

While globalization unifies the world, divisions re-emerge within it in the form of a spectacular separation between Islam and the West.

An examination of the scope of States'' right of self-defence under Article 51 of the UN Charter in the post-9/11 security environment.

India and Israel contextualises the varied aspects of the partnership between India and Israel, with a specific focus on the dominant driver - the defence engagement between the two sides, forged in the context of mutual complementarities.

This book offers an innovative theoretical and empirical analysis of integration in EU foreign and interior policies across the three pillars, from the Maastricht Treaty to the Treaty of Nice.

A lexicon of the legal, administrative, and military terms and concepts central to the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories.

The EU and China are often characterised as parties whose bilateral political differences still remain too large to bridge, so that they have failed to convert rhetorical promises into tangible results of cooperation, particularly with regards to the field of international security.

This book explains the phenomenon of states'' compliance with human rights tribunals'' rulings using theories from international law, human rights, and international relations.

Chinese President Xi Jinping launched the Silk Road Economic Belt component of the One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative at Kazakhstan in 2013.

Questions of power are central to understanding global trade politics and no account of the World Trade Organization (WTO) can afford to avoid at least an acknowledgment of the concept.

The Islamic State in the Post-Modern World is a study of the political development of Pakistan.

The first transnational history of the U.

This book uses the political economy approach to examine the relative failure of federalism in Nigeria.

This book analyzes two main trends of prevailing populism and nationalism in China and Southeast Asian nations and rising tensions in the South China Sea (SCS) by experts from China and Southeast Asia.

How do nations come to shape our collective imagination so profoundly?

"e;The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses.

This timely study examines the Defense Department's FY 2017 budget proposal for the size and shape of military forces; what that proposal means for cost, strategy, and risk; and challenges the proposal faces in implementation.

This book explores China's engagement with Latin America and the Caribbean as a case study of its broader effort to use commercial tools and instruments of state to create a global economic order that functions to its benefit, while neutralizing challenges from institutions, states, and others that would oppose it.

Over the past thirty-five years the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST), one of the largest social movements in Latin America, has become famous globally for its success in occupying land, winning land rights, and developing alternative economic enterprises for over a million landless workers.

A portrait of the effectiveness of moderation in US foreign policy, as illustrated by three of America's most consequential and widely-admired postwar presidents: Dwight Eisenhower, George H.

To what extent did Europeanisation contribute to Ireland's transformation from 'poor relation' to 'peer idol'?

Why are some nations wealthy while others are desperately poor?

Translated from the original Russian, this book analyzes the economic development of leading European empires and the United States of America.

At a time of great global uncertainty and instability, communities face fracturing from the increasing influence of extremist movements hostile to democratic and multicultural norms.

This book offers an up-to-date assessment of the state of Switzerland-EU relations with the aim of drawing lessons from the Swiss experience to shed light on the challenges facing the UK post-Brexit and, more broadly, on how non-member states can adapt to "e;integration without membership"e;.

The Supply Side of Security conceptualizes military alliances as contracts for exchanging goods and services.

Many African countries are increasingly interested in learning from China's experiences in achieving effective agricultural development.

Since its origins, there have been competing views concerning the nature, scope and objectives of the process of integration and of the European Union.

This book explores the ambit of the notion of persecution in international law and its relevance in the current geopolitical context, more specifically for refugee women.

Thisbook provides the first comprehensive analyses of the challenges all Europeanwelfare systems have been facing since 2007, combining in-depth country-basedstudies and comparative chapters.

This book provides the first systematic comparative analysis of climate security discourses.

Exposes the fallacy that an increased degree of socio-cultural understanding leads to a greater chance of success in counterinsurgency operations.