International relations

The World's Most Prestigious Prize: The Inside Story of the Nobel Peace Prize is a fascinating, insider account of the Nobel peace prize.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is the worlds largest, most powerful military alliance.

The book considers the implications of the nuclear energy revival for global governance in the areas of safety, security and non-proliferation.

The Uruguay Round trade agreement, recently ratified by Congress, was the eighth in a series of negotiations under the auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).

This volume investigates the role of the transnational terrorist and criminal organizations in the peace-building processes, with a particular focus on the Western Balkan region.

This volume is a detailed account of President Clinton's foreign policy during 1992-2000, covering the main substantive issues of his administration, including Iraq, Bosnia and Kosovo.

This book focuses on qualitative research centering on the "e;Five Eyes' countries (the five countries with intelligence sharing relations: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and the United States) and how they are leveraging the instruments of national power to advance their position and to look for points of intersection where these countries will work with one another.

This title was first published in 2000: The contributors to this fully documented volume address the debate surrounding the nature, impact and desirability of the complex set of phenomena collectively referred to as 'globalization'.

Why are constitutionalist ideals so prominent in science fiction?

This book maps key moments in the history of postwar art from a global perspective.

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This book, first published in 1968, analyses Winston Churchill's war years using a wide range of little-consulted sources to give us a full and round picture of a prime minister beloved by many but disliked by others.

Based on interviews and on documentary collections in Britain, Sweden and the US, this book describes and analyses Britain's often-tortured response to the crisis which occurred in Congo immediately following its independence.

Employee engagement (or a lack thereof) can often be linked to poor communication and a detachment from company goals.

The United Nations Secretary-General and the United Nations Security Council spend significant amounts of time on their relationship with each other.

Tourism inCuba: Casinos, Castros, and Challenges presents an in-depthexploration of the history and development of tourism in Cuba.

How do political parties affect foreign policy?

Boycotts and Dixie Chicks introduces the concept of 'creative political participation', collective political actions which do not use traditional methods and which are innovative, collaborative and creative in character.

The World's Most Prestigious Prize: The Inside Story of the Nobel Peace Prize is a fascinating, insider account of the Nobel peace prize.

The prevailing Western paradigm is modernity: a model focused on individual liberty, secularism, and the scientific control of nature.

This book examines how the US is dealing with the challenge of reconciling its global interests with regional dynamics and how it is able to produce and sustain order at the system level and within regional subsystems.

The Global IR research programme promulgates a borderless ecology of cultures that has only an inside without an outside.

The Black Sea region rarely hit the media headlines until the outbreak of war in Georgia in 2008, yet its importance as a focus of European Union (EU) external policy making had already been growing for several years.

Many of the deep-rooted human conflicts that seize our attention today are not ready for formal mediation and negotiation.

The influence of the People's Republic of China on world affairs is increasingly keenly felt: in Asia, in Africa, in Latin America and in Europe and North America too.

In many ways, the United States' post-9/11 engagement with legal rules is puzzling.

This book offers new readings of the epistemology, methods and politics of Max Weber, a foundation thinker of modern social science and international relations theory.

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This book propounds the thesis that it was the dysfunction of globalization and liberalism that prompted the rise of nationalism and populism.

This book analyses and assesses the Agadir Agreement's impact on economic integration, its effect on political cooperation, and its role in promoting peace between participating countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

Irregular migration has emerged as an issue of intensive political debate and governmental practice over recent years.

After the end of the Cold War, it seemed as if Southeast Asia would remain a geopolitically stable region within the American-led order for the foreseeable future.

The European Union affects the lives of Europeans in many and varied ways, yet, in spite of its reach, it often appears a constrained political system struggling for internal consensus, reliant on the agreement of national governments, and hampered by the scepticism of electorates.

This book provides a comprehensive approach of the media, journalism and politics in Sub-Saharan Francophone Africa.

The Routledge History of Modern Latin American Migration offers a systematic account of population movements to and from the region over the last 150 years, spanning from the massive transoceanic migration of the 1870s to contemporary intraregional and transnational movements.

Revealing twenty-first century contexts, ground-breaking scenarios, and innovative mediums for this highly contested life writing genre, this volume showcases a new generation of testimonio scholarship.

Should African and Muslim-majority countries be obliged to protect LGBT rights, or do such rights violate their cultures?

Increasing US– China tensions, Russia' s invasion of Ukraine, disruptions to supply chains and maritime trade, right-wing extremism, gangs and the drug trade .

Using extensive documentation, this book examines how President Jimmy Carter's troop withdrawal and human rights policies conceived in abstraction from East Asian realities contributed to the demise of Korean President Park Chung Hee.

This book analyses the concept of the rule of law in the context of international law, through the case law of the European Court of Human Rights.

Human rights - and the international institutions that strive to protect them - are under increasing attack from powerful actors on the global stage, from recent political trends even within established democracies and from new technologies.

Regional trade agreements have expanded exponentially over the past decade, and have become a significant, if controversial, factor in the expanse of economic globalization.

In this concise account of why America used atomic bombs against Japan in 1945, J.

The author re-examines the concept of equality in international society, past and present.

A bold new history showing that the fear of Communism was a major factor in the outbreak of World War IIThe Spectre of War looks at a subject we thought we knew-the roots of the Second World War-and upends our assumptions with a masterful new interpretation.

This edited volume examines the reconstitution of the public security domain since the 9/11 attacks, focusing on the banking sector and anti-money laundering (AML) activity in particular.

Few scholars have provided as much insight into the struggle of leaders, ideas, and policies as Paul W.

The EU is one of the most notoriously complex international organisations.