International relations

Shows how the United Nations'' management of counter-terrorism stifles the law''s ability to speak against the injustices of collective security.

Central to all our lives, work affects our status in the state, the family, and the economy.

A new era of international migration has been accompanied by increasingly restrictive immigration controls to manage migration to more developed countries.

Black Hands, White House documents and appraises the role enslaved women and men played in building the US, both its physical and its fiscal infrastructure.

This book argues that regional organizations can be a potent force for instilling and protecting democracy throughout the world.

The Armed Conflict Survey 2023 provides an exhaustive review of the political, military and humanitarian dimensions of active armed conflicts globally in the period from 1 May 2022-30 June 2023.

Numbers dominate global politics and, as a result, our everyday lives.

The book provides a comprehensive understanding of the unfolding geopolitical changes in the South Caucasus in the age of increased great power competition across Eurasia.

In recent decades, gold mining has moved into increasingly remote corners of the globe.

The book is about new dynamic forces that are driving change in Japan.

Ragged Trousered NGOs is a compelling first-hand account of the NGO sector and wider civil society over the past 40 years, examining how and why people take collective action and engage in social development projects.

Challenging those who accept or advocate executive supremacy in American foreign-policy making, Constitutional Diplomacy proposes that we abandon the supine roles often assigned our legislative and judicial branches in that field.

At turns surprising, funny, and gut-wrenching, this is the hopeful story of the ordinary yet extraordinary people who have figured out how to build lasting peace in their communitiesThe word "e;peacebuilding"e; evokes a story we've all heard over and over: violence breaks out, foreign nations are scandalized, peacekeepers and million-dollar donors come rushing in, warring parties sign a peace agreement and, sadly, within months the situation is back to where it started--sometimes worse.

Beneficial social and economic exchange relies on a certain level of trust.

Revered by millions, the Papacy is an international power that many nations have viewed with suspicion, some have tried to control, and not a few have spied upon.

Justice, the State and International Relations offers a review of historical traditions of international ethical and political theory in the light of modern developments in political philosophy.

The early 17th century was a time of great literature the era of Cervantes and Shakespeare but also of international tension and heightened diplomacy.

„Umweltsicherheit“ ist ein aktuelles wie gesellschaftspolitisch relevantes Thema – Thorsten Schulz-Walden geht es aus historiografischer Perspektive an.

Horst Schreiber analysiert in vier Geschichten von Opfern und Tätern die terroristische Seite des Nationalsozialismus und ihre Aufarbeitung nach 1945.

Gale explains why international negotiations have not produced a sustainable solution to tropical rainforest degradation.

The 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster led many to believe that the nuclear era was coming to an end.

How presidents forged the American centuryThis book examines the foreign policy decisions of the presidents who presided over the most critical phases of America's rise to world primacy in the twentieth century, and assesses the effectiveness and ethics of their choices.

The Diffusion of Military Power examines how the financial and organizational challenges of adopting new methods of fighting wars can influence the international balance of power.

In India, the system of espionage is as old as the Rigveda.

This book evaluates President Hassan Rouhani's foreign policy during his first two years in office, looking at the case studies of Armenia, Azerbaijan, the UAE, Turkey, and Syria, as well as the Iran-US relationship.

It is not hyperbole to suggest that the foundations of post-cold war security in Europe have been badly damaged by the conflict in Ukraine since 2014.

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International Law is both an introduction to the subject and a critical consideration of its central themes and debates.

This volume explores the shared expectations that education is a panacea for the difficulties that refugees and their receiving countries face.

Transforming Governance: New Values, New Systems in the New Business Environment, edited by Maria Aluchna and GAler Aras addresses the current state, as well as the development of corporate governance and its perceived tasks and functions, in response to the changing market and regulatory environment.

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This is the history of an unprecedented deception operation - the biggest KGB deception of all time.

Nuclear Power in the Developing World (1982) explores the issue of nuclear power policies in developing countries.

The transnational architecture of global information networks has made territorial borders less significant.

This EU-funded project examines the dynamics of conflict, collaboration and competition in relation to access to oil, gas and minerals.

This book examines how mass media debates have contributed to the politicization of the European Union.

In the wake of its creation in 1948, the state of Israel was confronted with the challenge of establishing foreign relations with key players in the region, in the face of opposition from most of the Arab states.

This book revisits post-Cold War Disarmament Disintegration and Reintegration (DDR) programmes in the light of previous experiences of disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration.

An innovative framework for advancing human rights Human rights are among our most pressing issues today, yet rights promoters have reached an impasse in their effort to achieve rights for all.

The book attempts to understand the myriad roles of ballistic and cruise missiles in international security.

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.

The last decade has seen a far-reaching revolution in the oil industry, both in the US and globally.

With a range of case studies from every continent, the contributors to this book analyze the challenges that arise for states living with much larger neighbors, and the policies they develop to account for this asymmetry.

This book makes a substantial and timely contribution to discussions on energy security in Oman, providing a systematic analysis of energy security in Oman from 1920 to 2020.

In this book, senior scholars and a new generation of analysts present different applications of recent advances linking beliefs and decision-making, in the area of foreign policy analysis with strategic interactions in world politics.

While international investment law is one of the most dynamic and thriving fields of international law, it is increasingly criticized for failing to strike a fair balance between private property rights and the public interest.

Though often overlooked, public opinion has always played a significant role in the development and promotion of US foreign policy and this work seeks to comprehensively assess the impact and nature of that opinion through a collection of historical and contemporary essays.

In the early 1990s North America was the vibrant centre of an increasingly democratic and revitalized western hemisphere.