International relations

The New Ice Curtain explores Russia's strategic ambitions for its Arctic region-an understudied and underappreciated region that encompasses nearly the entire northern coast of Eurasia.

More than a decade into the "e;war on terrorism,"e; much of the political debate in the United States is still fixated on the legacy of 9/11.

Satellite imagery and geospatial analysis tools offer an unprecedented opportunity to harness new technologies in order to help resolve boundary disputes.

This report studies the impact of Western sanctions imposed on Russia since 2014 over the crisis in Ukraine.

The CSIS Working Group on Private-Sector Development in Fragile, Conflict-Affected, and Violent States identifies tools available to the international business community and the U.

In October, 1962, the Cuban missile crisis brought human civilization to the brink of destruction.

2023 Naval Institute Press Author of the YearFinalist - National Security Book Award This nation';s Cold War and Global War on Terror defense structures need an update.

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The importance of subnational regions to politics, governance, and economic development in Western Europe has long been recognized.

During the past decade, the world reached the point of becoming more urban than not, as the majority of people on the planet now live not in small towns or villages but in provincial, national, and global cities.

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Traces our country's long history of covert and special operations, focusing on the similarities and differences in the practice from the Revolutionary War to the present.

Ideal for general readers as well as professionals conducting extensive research, this informative book offers a collection of documents on the origins and conduct of the Iraq War.

Since World War II, Germany has confronted its own history to earn acceptance in the family of nations.

The nature of the threats facing America today has drastically reduced the margin for error in senior political appointments.

This intriguing study is the first comprehensive survey of American public opinion about Nazi Germany in the prewar years.

Twenty years ago, India launched its "e;Look East"e; policy.

This book examines how the United States's extensive nation-building and stability operations will continue to evolve in the 21st century in the face of ever-growing budgetary concerns and constraints.

India has long been motivated to modernize its military, and it now has the resources.

"e;"e;Future presidents will need to find the right balance in China policy, so as to maintain America's strength and watchfulness but not fall into the classic security dilemma, wherein each side believes that growing capabilities reflect hostile intent and responds by producing that reality.

The response of an autocratic nation's armed forces is crucial to the outcome of democratization movements throughout the world.

This in-depth study provides a timely assessment of how the foreign, military, and security policies of Venezuela shape relations with the United States in the Chavez era.

This new volume in the Global Security Watch series examines the contemporary foreign, military, and security policies of India as it moves towards becoming a formidable global power in the coming decades.

Authored by an individual with 30 years of experience studying terrorism as well as access to the most senior counter-terrorist army and police officers combating the IRA, this book provides the first complete analysis of the world's premier terrorist group to explain them in ideological as well as operational terms.

Organized around the major events that marked Hammarskjold's eight and a half years in office, this volume takes stock of Hammarskjold first as a person and then as an international functionary.

Experiencing a major crisis from different viewpoints, step by step.

Now more than ever the role of icons and monuments in shaping a national identity is a subject of vital importance to scholars of both nationalism and memory studies.

Referendums have become an undeniably important, and perhaps inescapable, peacemaking tool in contemporary peace processes.

For some observers, nuclear arms control is either a relic of the cold war, or a utopian dream about a denuclearized planet decades in the future.

The growth of think tanks with uniquely Asian characteristicsPolicy research institutes better known as think tanks ;are long established and well known in Western countries but have developed only in recent years in much of the rest of the world.

Jad traces the transformation of the Palestinian women's movement from the 1930s to the post-Oslo period and through the Second Intifada to examine the often-fraught relationship between women and nationalism in Palestine.

Since 2011, the Arab world has seen a number of autocrats, including leaders from Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen, fall from power.

Israel's 1977 political election resulted in a dramatic defeat for the ruling Labor movement, which had enjoyed more than four decades of economic, political, and cultural dominance.

From Moscow, the world looks different.

Is the United States still a "e;"e;superpower"e;"e;?

A telling history of one of the most important relationships in the Middle EastThis is the first book to tell the remarkable story of the relationship between Jordan and the United States and how their leaders have navigated the dangerous waters of the most volatile region in the world.

How Putin's autocracy undercut Russia's economy and chances for democracyDuring his nearly twenty years at the center of Russian political power, Vladimir Putin has transformed the vast country in many ways, not all of them for the better.

The global implications of China's rise as a global actorIn 2005, a senior official in the George W.

The United States may be headed toward a disastrous conflict with China unless Washington updates its understanding of contemporary Chinese societyAfter four decades of engagement, the United States and China now appear to be locked on a collision course that has already fomented a trade war, seems likely to produce a new cold war, and could even result in dangerous military conflict.

Now, more than ever, the world needs growth-oriented and socially inclusive policymaking.

For several centuries, international relations has been primarily the purview of nation-states.

Edward Shils's The Torment of Secrecy is one of the few minor classics to emerge from the cold war years of anticommunism and McCarthyism in the United States.

No event in post World War II diplomacy has been more written about than the Suez crisis of 1956-and for good reason: it signaled the fall of British power and influence in the Middle East.

President Obama has just three years left in office to define his legacy in world affairs.

The book also details Russia's attempt to abort the Ukrainian revolution through threats, economic pressure, lies, and intimidation.

Since it first appeared in 1971, Rise to Globalism has sold hundreds of thousands of copies.

The financial services sector is critical to the economy and represents a vital component of our nation's critical infrastructure.

Written for foreign policy practitioners, scholars, and students, this book offers critical insights into the modern landscape of international politics and warfare and explains how the United States can sustain its strategic advantages in the 21st century and beyond.

Facing the current growing global archipelago of encampments, this book project intends to develop a geographical reflection on 'the camp', as a modern institution and as a spatial bio-political technology.