International relations

This book presents the latest evidence from Young Lives, a unique international study of children and poverty.

When thinking about relations between Europe and Russia, International Relations scholars focus on why conflict has replaced cooperation.

The first edition of this book, published in 1999, was well-received, but interest in it has surged in recent years.

Sociological theory has veered between an insistence on understanding human rights as a genuine universal morality and far more cynical portrayals of human rights as a veil of bourgeois capitalist enterprise.

The Routledge Handbook of American Military and Diplomatic History provides a comprehensive analysis of the major events, conflicts, and personalities that have defined and shaped the military history of the United States.

On November 1, 2006, Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB officer, sipped tea in the upmarket Millennium Mayfair hotel near the American Embassy in London - tea that had been spiked with a rare radioactive isotope called Polonium 210.

In August 1999 a forty-six-year-old sheep farmer name Jose Bove was arrested for dismantling the construction site of a new McDonald's restaurant in the south of France.

Comparative analysis of vindicatio, possessory remedies and trespass across sixteen European jurisdictions based on twelve straightforward factual cases.

The European nation state is now placed between the interconnected processes of globalization and European integration.

Focusing on the social, economic, and political structures of the postwar global order, this collection of essays discusses the search for a new international economic order, the transformation of the nation-state and the international balance of power, the technological and strategic dimensions of the nuclear age, East-West trade and technology tr

The last quarter of the twentieth century was a period of economic crises, increasing indebtedness as well as financial instability for Latin America and most other developing countries; in contrast, China showed amazingly high growth rates during this time and has since become the third largest economy in the world.

Loxley examines the impact of globalization on different countries and regions.

How are great turning points in history experienced by individuals?

Since 2003, the ongoing violence and subsequent humanitarian crisis in Darfur has attracted significant international media attention.

Using a sociology-led approach, this book explores regional law and governance in ASEAN through its regulation of foreign investment.

As one of the most innovative and influential thinkers in international relations for more than three decades, Robert O.

This volume examines the interrelationship between democratic legitimacy at the European level and the ongoing Eurozone crisis that began in 2010.

Procedural review is increasingly a means of deciding European fundamental rights cases; this book explores its practical potential and limitations.

The main tide of international relations scholarship on the first years after World War II sweeps toward Cold War accounts.

This book presents a cultural history of European integration.

There are two well-known approaches to the study of international relations: Realism and Idealism.

Collier presents a timely and fresh reexamination of one of the most important bilateral relationships of the last century.

Libya is a dynamic country with a rich and turbulent history that goes far beyond present conflicts.

This timely collection brings together original explorations of the COVID-19 pandemic and its wide-ranging, global effects on human rights.

the Atlas of AIDS Co-infection illustrates imaging features and clinical outcomes of AIDS related diseases.

Using newly available material from both sides of the Iron Curtain, William Glenn Gray explores West Germany's efforts to prevent international acceptance of East Germany as a legitimate state following World War II.

Based on the framework of geostrategic psychology, this book elucidates the intrinsic law of the rise and fall of great powers and gives insights into the quandary of China's rise and the mechanism behind the strategy.

Scaling Impact introduces a new and practical approach to scaling the positive impacts of research and innovation.

This book studies approaches to the production of manuscripts in medieval England, from the first commercial guilds to the advent of print.

A fascinating new account of Britain''s uneasy relationship with the European continent from the Second World War to the present.

Why, despite their similar goals, do the policy preferences of the European Union and United States diverge on so many multilateral issues?

Sebastian Hartmann aims at answering the question whether socioeconomic policies implemented by governments are generally rather similar or whether their content actually varies with the ideological background of governments.

Describes the creation and evolution of Chinese security and intelligence agencies as well as their role in influencing Chinese Communist Party politics throughout the party''s history.

Techno-Geopolitics explores contemporary U.

Among the most momentous decisions that leaders of a state are called upon to make is whether or not to initiate warfare.

During the period 1949 to 1979, communist China was officially pursuing a policy of self-sufficiency, and the United States and its allies were officially implementing a trade embargo against communist China.

The Soviet Union in World Politics, first published in 1980, looks at the change in direction of Soviet foreign policy away from world revolution in the 1970s.

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This volume offers a state-of-the-art study of the diverse methodological approaches and issues in the study of emotions in international relations research.

The relationship between intelligence organizations and the national security policymakers which they support has its ups and downs.

Claims to land and territory are often a cause of conflict, and land issues present some of the most contentious problems for post-conflict peacebuilding.

This is the first book to frame U.

This book argues that democracy is the inevitable product of China's industrialization and modernization, and is necessary for the development of China's current society.

Advocates within the human rights movement have had remarkable success establishing new international laws, securing concrete changes in human rights policies and practices, and transforming the terms of public debate.

This edited collection brings together internationally recognized experts in a range of areas of statistical science to honor the contributions of the distinguished statistician, Barry C.

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