International relations

Explores Britain''s most prominent armaments firms and their relationships with the British Government and foreign states from 1855 to 1955.

Essential for students and scholars in politics and law, Pelc provides a comprehensive account of the politics of treaty flexibility.

In Gaining Currency, leading China scholar Eswar S.

In this classic account, Bernard Wasserstein draws on the files of the Shanghai Police as well as the intelligence archives of the many countries involved, to provide the definitive story of Shanghai's secret war.

The twentieth century witnessed the rise of the United States as the preeminent player on the world stage.

This comprehensive and clearly written textbook offers a long-awaited introduction to the trade policy of the European Union, the world's largest trading entity.

This 2004 book is an empirical study of public opinion and elite attitudes towards immigration in the EU.

This book makes a psycho-social study of HIV-AIDS.

An examination of how international law fails to challenge fundamental assumptions and address practical issues of hunger and climate change.

Andrew Williams analyses the role of values in the European Union and suggests how to make the EU more just.

A description of the current global food system, this book challenges our ethical responsibility to the global poor and implicates us all for failing to curb global hunger and malnutrition.

This book stems from a simple 'feminist curiosity' that can be succinctly summed up into a single question: what happens to combatant women after the war?

This book presents insightful perspectives on the invocation, implementation and application of UN-approved financial sanctions and related issues.

This book identifies scenarios for changes in transmission infrastructure, contracting, consumption patterns and fossil fuel financing policies, considering climate goals and the consequences of the conflict in Ukraine.

First published in 1933, this title explores the inner workings and diplomatic culture of the League of Nations in Geneva, at a time when the increasing strain of international relations was beginning to take its toll and disillusionment towards the League was growing.

A growing number of scholars have sought to re-centre emotions in our study of international politics, however an overarching book on how emotions matter to the study of politics and war is yet to be published.

This book explores the interplay between various semiotic modes in multimodal texts and the ways in which they are employed to express cultural translation, seeking to expand prevailing views of translation and adaptation in light of everchanging social realities.

Mark Dawson analyses how non-binding ''new governance'' methods are transforming EU social law and policy.

This book assesses how progress in disarmament diplomacy in the last decade has improved human security.

The Soviet Union (1989) examines the state of the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980s.

This book explores new grounds that public diplomacy is entering today, as domestic publics come to the forefront of the policy - acting both as foreign policy constituencies and public diplomacy actors cooperating with their foreign counterparts.

This new textbook provides an introduction to humanitarian protection, a field of study concerned with international responses to armed conflict, political violence, and humanitarian crisis.

The Colonial Office (1956) examines the organisation and work of the Office as it stood in the mid-1950s.

How can we know if the peace that has been established following a civil war is a stable peace?

This book explores the intangible human capital which international migrants bring with them and develop further when working and living abroad, drawing on case studies and original data from Central Europe and Mexico-USA.

This short manuscript is both a distillation of some of the latest work on disaster risk reduction and an interpretation of this distillation from the author's political economic perspective.

'I strongly agree with the central message of [the] book.

Ethiopia has played a unique role in the history of Africa.

Since the attacks of September 11th 2001 and up to and beyond Osama bin Ladin's death, al-Qaeda has come to embody the new enigmatic face of terrorism, dominating discussions of national and international security.

This book describes the complex of economic processes which sustains inflationary pressure in nations with severe inflation problems.

With the pace of trade and investment picking up, coupled with closer international cooperation with Beijing through the G20, FOCAC and BRICS grouping, South Africa-China ties are assuming a significant position in continental and even global affairs.

This book examines the polarization of positions surrounding the transnational boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement aimed at ending the Israeli occupation.

Complex Adaptive Systems, Resilience and Security in Cameroon comprehensively maps and analyses Cameroon's security architecture to determine its resilience.

This book argues that the unresolved stateness in the republics of the former Yugoslavia played a key role in determining the course and dynamics of their turbulent democratic transition.

Annika Mombauer's essential source reader translates, cross-references and annotates a vast range of international diplomatic and military documents on the origins of the First World War.

Since the end of the Cold War, a virtual army of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) from the United States, Britain, Germany, and elsewhere in Europe have flocked to Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia.

This book, first published in 1955, examines the total economic, political and social breakdown that Germany suffered in the last year of the Second World War and in its immediate aftermath, and the beginnings of the recovery in the Western half of the now-divided nation.

The election of Donald Trump as the forty-fifth president of the United States was a watershed moment in American history.

This innovative new book examines government approaches to Public-private partnership (PPP) formation.

If boundaries protect us from threats, how should we think about the boundaries of states in a world where threats to human rights emanate from both outside the state and the state itself?

The European Union is often depicted as a dominant global regulator.

The aim of this study is to examine the extent to which the end of the Cold War led to Europeanisation in the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP).

In Bloc Politics at the United Nations, Endeley presents a detailed analysis of the structure and functioning of the African Group at the United Nations (UN).

This collection brings together leading scholars and practitioners to assess the processes, institutions and outcomes of the EU's collective diplomatic engagement in the fields of security, human rights, trade and finance and environmental politics.

Debate surrounding "e;China's rise,"e; and the prospects of its possible challenge to America's preeminence, has focused on two questions: whether the United States should "e;contain"e; or "e;engage"e; China; and whether the rise of Chinese power has inclined other East Asian states to "e;balance"e; against Beijing by alignment with the United States or ramping up their military expenditures.

Seeking to extend our understanding of the contemporary global political economy, this book provides an important and original introduction to the current theoretical debates about social reproduction and argues for the necessity of linking social reproduction to specific contexts of power and production.

This book examines the ways in which colonialism continues to define the political economy of Nigeria sixty years after gaining political independence from the British.