International relations

Le Monde diplomatique is one of the most highly respected independent periodicals.

Investment treaties are some of the most controversial but least understood instruments of global economic governance.

As the financial crisis continues to cast its long shadow over Europe, the view that immigrants compete unfairly for jobs and present an unsustainable burden on the European Social Model appears to be gathering support in some circles.

This book is the first and only practical guide to negotiating peace.

This volume documents the UK Government's response to the unfolding social and political changes in Eastern Europe during 1989.

In July 1969, while the world was expectant about the upcoming first manned landing on the moon, two little-known Central American States crossed sabers in what was derogatorily coined by the media as 'The Soccer War'.

Wie verhandeln politische Eliten der USA in Präsidentschaftswahlkämpfen außen- und wirtschaftspolitische Fragen – wie etwa die Bedeutung militärischer Stärke, die Legitimation von Kriegen, die Besteuerung von Spitzenverdienern oder den Umgang mit Globalisierung?

As demand for fresh water rises, together with population, water scarcity already features on the national security agenda of many countries.

Looks at German–American relations from World War II until the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Far China Station was the first work to put nineteenth century American naval and diplomatic affairs in the Far East into clear perspective.

This text provides students with a practical introduction to the concepts, structure, politics, law, hazards, threats, and practices of homeland security everywhere, focusing on US "e;homeland security,"e; Canadian "e;public safety,"e; and European "e;domestic security.

The German Colonial Experience provides readers with an understanding of how the Germans gained, explored, pacified, ruled, and exploited their colonies prior to their loss in World War I.

THE EXPLOSIVE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A bombshell.

For Hayek, spontaneous order - the emergence of complex order as the unintended consequence of individual actions that have no such end in view - is both the origin of the Great Society and its underlying principle.

This book sheds light on structural drivers that led to the Chinese omnipresence in African infrastructure markets and offers a strategic-relational approach to the study of African agency in Sino-African infrastructure encounters.

This book studies how a modern monarchy transformed Bhutan into a parliamentary democracy.

Debates about global justice have traditionally fallen into two camps.

In 1966, Dr.

This book presents a study of Japanese involvement in post-Soviet Central Asia since the independence of these countries in 1991, examining the reasons for progress and stagnation in this multi-lateral relationship.

Colonial hierarchy and race fueled rapid militarization in the British Empire that shaped the violent course of the twentieth century.

This book explores the process by which defence policy is made in contemporary Britain and the institutions, actors and conflicting interests which interact in its inception and continuous reformulation.

In a more contentious world economy, where trade and finance are increasingly interlinked with economic security and geopolitical considerations, questions arise about the underpinnings of the US dollar's global leadership.

Today, Western intervention is a ubiquitous feature of violent conflict in Africa.

An expanded and updated edition of a classic work on human rights and global justiceSince its original publication, Basic Rights has proven increasingly influential to those working in political philosophy, human rights, global justice, and the ethics of international relations and foreign policy, particularly in debates regarding foreign policy's role in alleviating global poverty.

Hegel and Schelling in Early Nineteenth-Century France is a two-volume work that documents the French reception of G.

Lebow asks what kinds of knowledge international relations theories seek?

This book explains why China chooses to coerce Asia-Pacific regional states, despite the risk of such actions creating a backlash and complicating its strategic calculus.

This book is the first collection of state-of-the-art research projects analyzing water conflict and cooperation with an explicitly theoretical point of view.

This book is focused on the transcultural memory of the Mediterranean region and the different ways it is articulated by contemporary art practices and museum projects linked to migrations, exile, diaspora and transnationality.

This book advances an ecologically grounded approach to International Political Economy (IPE).

This handbook explores, contextualises and critiques the relationship between anthropocentrism - the idea that human beings are socially and politically at the centre of the cosmos - and international law.

Until now little attention has been paid to the development of military capabilities designed to target food crops with biological warfare agents.

This textbook introduces students to the critical role of the US intelligence community within the wider national security decision-making and political process.

This book explores the journey that Kenya has travelled as a nation since its independence on December 12, 1963.

This book offers an introductory guide for students to four centuries of diplomatic thought.

This collection of imagined book covers will have you scratching your head and laughing out loud with every page turn.

Douglas Little explores the stormy American relationship with the Middle East from World War II through the war in Iraq, focusing particularly on the complex and often inconsistent attitudes and interests that helped put the United States on a collision course with radical Islam early in the new millennium.

Recent decades have seen a rise in the significance of governance layers beyond the nation state and even Europe.

This book examines the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) in the context of internal functions performed with regard to the European Union (EU) political system and its key actors.

A bold argument that tackles current trends, such as rising nationalism, arguing that they strengthen rather than undermine transatlantic ties.

Foreign Policies of EU Member States provides a clear and current overview of the motivations and outcomes of EU Member States regarding their foreign policy-making within and beyond the EU.

The relationship between the United States of America and the People's Republic of China is traced in this dictionary containing hundreds of cross-referenced entries on the presidents and prime ministers, the secretaries of state and foreign ministers, other key players, and the more significant institutions and events.

Sin, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation: Christian and Muslim Perspectives is a collection of essays and scripture passages studied at the 2014 Building Bridges seminar.

The South China Sea is a geopolitical hotspot where China and the US compete for dominance and the adjacent countries try to improve their position by hedging between these two superpowers.

The epithets, such as civilizational states, natural allies, twin engines/key drivers of Asian economic growth and the Asian giants relating to India and China are very much in vogue in the international parlance.

There has been a rapid increase in the pace and scope of international collaborative research in developing countries in recent years.

This edited volume examines contemporary relations between Europe and Asia through the prism of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM).

This book, available in paperback for the first time, offers a new and innovative way of looking at Irish foreign policy, linking its development with changes in Irish national identity.

This book examines the extent to which Russia's strategic behavior is the product of its imperial strategic culture and Putin's own operational code.

During the past decade northern Europe has started to assume an identity of its own.