International relations

Airpower can achieve military objectives—sometimes, in some circumstancesIt sounds simple: using airpower to intervene militarily in conflicts, thus minimizing the deaths of soldiers and civilians while achieving both tactical and strategic objectives.

An assessment of the role of international law in preventing natural resources from fuelling armed conflict and improving their governance.

The current European Union (EU) has existed since 1 November 1993.

The liberal order is decaying.

Using primary source information, including interviews with the key decision-makers, this is an examination of the process leading to the British decision in 1966 to abandon its 127 year old military presence in Aden and thereby begin its retreat from East of Suez.

A bracing re-examination of the myths and realities of European integration which challenges conventional wisdoms of Europhiles and Eurosceptics alike.

Since the early days of the AIDS epidemic, many bizarre and dangerous hypotheses have been advanced to explain the origins of the disease.

This book examines how foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows to Central and Eastern Europe have changed after the Great Recession.

For a country of its size, Taiwan has a tremendous influence on world affairs and U.

The increased military employment of remotely operated aerial vehicles, also known as drones, has raised a wide variety of important ethical questions, concerns, and challenges.

This book analyses North Korean foreign policy since 1994, aiming to better understand the part the DPRK plays in international politics.

Megatrends of World Politics identifies globalization, integration, and democratization as three key trends shaping the future of world politics and international relations, and demonstrates their effects in today's global processes.

This book's key purpose is to contribute to the ongoing "e;theoretical"e; discussion in the field of international relations (IR) concerning the status of grand theories.

In 1998 and in 2006, North Korea conducted ballistic missile tests that landed dangerously close to Japan.

Sixty years after his death, the life and thought of the economist, John Maynard Keynes, continues to be a subject of the greatest interest to scholars.

The report was written by senior scholars of international studies and Indian Ocean studies and focuses on international relations in the Indian Ocean region and covers many aspects of OBOR policy and South Asia.

Examining the interplay between the domestic, regional and global aspects of the crisis of legitimacy of global governance, this book theoretically questions and empirically analyses the "e;crises of legitimacy"e; in global governance with respect to various mechanisms, actors, and issues.

Economic and strategic power is not the exclusive province of powerful, developed countries.

Demographic trends indicate that, if the size of our nation's military forces is to be maintained through the 1990s, a larger proportion of the declining number of eligible young men and women must be recruited and retained.

Gender and Embodied Geographies in Latin American Borders is the first study of its kind to bring a gender perspective to studies on violence and "e;illegal markets"e; in the region.

This book is about the entanglement of heritage and resistance in different situations of conflicts, and the opportunities this entanglement may provide for social justice.

This book builds on the six years of hands-on experience that the author had while working in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

As entrenched bureaucracies, military organizations might reasonably be expected to be especially resistant to reform and favor only limited, incremental adjustments.

This exciting and innovative new textbook takes a multi-perspective approach to the study of conflict management in divided societies.

In May 2004, a series of countries, most of them in Central and Eastern Europe, will become new member states of the EU.

This book focuses on the socio-cultural changes and issues experienced in ASEAN and the European Union in the post-pandemic world.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

If the growing demand for global governance breathed new life into the established G7/8 and the more recent G20, it raised questions about the evolving and optimal relationship between them.

Cosmopolitanism in the contemporary debate is firmly based in the western tradition of liberal thought, which is culturally situated.

Most governments and global political organizations have been dominated by male leaders and structures that institutionalize male privilege.

Reinhold Niebuhr's ideas about ethics, social justice, and foreign policy have been hugely influential for American political thought, and this has been true across the political spectrum, from progressive social justice activists to neo-conservatives.

This book explores South Korea's experience as an aid recipient, as an aid donor, and as an inter Korea aid provider.

The purpose of this book is to highlight contemporary changes in the world of work and employment by exploring the importance of the informal economy in Western Europe and the United States.

The Soviet Union and National Liberation Movements in the Third World (1988) is a systematic comparison of Soviet theory about, and actual behaviour toward, movements for national liberation in the Third World.

What explains the United States' persistent use of torture over the past hundred-plus years?

This book offers a comprehensive and in-depth overview of how public policy is shaping gender equality in Europe.

In the past few decades, and across disparate geographical contexts, states have adopted policies and initiatives aimed at institutionalizing relationships with "e;their"e; diasporas.

The Ashgate Research Companion to Chinese Foreign Policy draws out the full range of topics and issues that characterise China's external affairs.

In recent years the mass murder of thousands of innocent civilians by al Qaeda terrorists has plumbed the depths of criminality and immorality.

The Oxford Handbook of Italian Politics provides a comprehensive look at the political life of one of Europe's most exciting and turbulent democracies.

To what extent did Europeanisation contribute to Ireland's transformation from 'poor relation' to 'peer idol'?

Mexico's Drug War and Criminal Networks examines the effects of technology on three criminal organizations: the Sinaloa cartel, the Zetas, and the Caballeros Templarios.

Groundbreaking comparative analysis of governance systems and institutional choices in different regional and international organizations.

How are the decisions made which produce the phenomenal arsenals of nuclear weapons in the world today?

One of the perennial questions in political theology is how the concept of truth is defined and how such is grounded theologically.

We are told again and again that the world has become increasingly complex and indecipherable.

In its comparison of two major emerging nations, India and Brazil, this book approaches the subject through an innovative theoretical combination of developmental states theory and theories of the changing nature of global capitalism.

While critical security studies largely concentrates on objects of security, this book focuses on the subject position from which 'securitization' and other security practices take place.