International relations

This is a book about how 21st-century capitalism really works.

This book surveys the changing role of senior civil servants in Western Europe and explores whether they have kept their central role in government decision-making.

Fully revised and updated from the successful first edition, this title analyses the practice of international courts and tribunals with regard to the valuation of investment claims against states, paying specific attention to the question of interest.

This report discusses the estimated $1 trillion annual global infrastructure gap and provides recommendations on how U.

Politics is hugely complex.

The promotion of the rule of law has become an increasingly important element of peacekeeping and peacebuilding operations, particularly in Africa, where there have been numerous internal armed conflicts and missions over the last decade.

Colin Hay argues that the crisis in which we are still mired is best seen as a crisis of growth and not as a crisis of debt.

This book investigates the radical transformation of the relationship between Germany and France, neighbors whose border constituted one of the deepest fault lines of European history.

Paul Harvey uses four characters that are important symbols of religious expression in the American South to survey major themes of religion, race, and southern history.

The Elusive Tipping Point: China-India Ties for a New Order is a timely foreign-policy-relevant book.

Originally published in 1985, in the deteriorating climate of East-West relations technology transfer became vitally important.

This book carries out a comprehensive analysis of the Maria Luz incident, a truly significant episode in Japanese and world history, from a legal perspective.

The Evolution of Migration Management in the Global North explores how the radically violent migration management paradigm that dominates today's international migration has been assembled.

The enlargement of European-based organisations has reached a near terminal point.

Egypt under the British tends to be looked at now through a post-Suez lens – an inevitable disaster and the last puncturing of a doomed empire.

In the present stage of international capitalist development, women are increasingly being drawn into paid employment by multinational and state investment in the Third World.

Even when they don''t want peace, combatants seek out UN peacemaking for its unique tactical, material, and symbolic benefits.

This book offers a rich perspective on Africa's agency in the changing global order marked by intense geopolitical contestations.

With the thoroughness that this recently spotlighted nation requires, this volume examines Kuwaits internal and external security situation after the turbulent days of the Gulf War and investigates continued Western involvement in its safekeeping.

This book argues that it is time to step back and reassess the anti-corruption movement, which despite its many opportunities and great resources has ended up with a track record that is indifferent at best.

This book accounts for transformations in the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP)during fifteen years of operations (2001-2016), and argues that the EU evolved into a softer and more civilian security provider, rather than a military one.

This book critically examines the global diffusion and local reception of resilience through the implementation of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) programmes in Pacific and Caribbean island states.

The Microfoundations of Diaspora Politics examines the various actors within and beyond the state that participate in the design and implementation of diaspora policies, as well as the mechanisms through which diasporas are constructed by governments, political parties, diaspora entrepreneurs, or international organisations.

Explores how Vattel used the natural law tradition to frame a pragmatic and treaty-oriented model of the law of nations.

The so-called 'Cedar Revolution' in Lebanon, triggered by the assassination of the former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri in February 2005, brought to an end three decades of Syrian military presence in the country.

This book selects the most outstanding journal articles from the Chinese version of Foreign Affairs Review written by prestigious Chinese scholars in recent years.

Dimensions of Heritage and Memory is a landmark contribution on the politics of the past in Europe today.

This book examines global change from a dialectical perspective.

 This book explores how and why Mexico s approach to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) implementation with the Lopez Obrador administration is unsustainable and non-transformative, overshadowed by his vision of Mexico s Fourth Transformation .

Yemen is facing a unique confluence of crises.

An Atlas and Survey of Latin American History provides a comprehensive, accessible introduction to both the human and physical geography of Latin America and the social, cultural, political and economic events that have defined its history.

This book examines reform of the Russian military since the end of the Cold War.

Amid the geopolitical and social turmoil of the 1970s, the United Nations declared 1975 as International Women's Year.

Apocalyptic rhetoric creates dangerous politics; three great thinkers show how clear-eyed realism is our best hope.

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This handbook offers readers various perspectives on globalization and multilateralism with Chinese characteristics.

How does migration feature in states' diplomatic agendas across the Middle East?

The Mexico-Guatemala border has emerged as a geopolitical hotspot of illicit flows of both goods and people.

Brazil's growing dependence on agriculture has positioned agribusiness in a uniquely privileged position to influence Brazilian foreign policy.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of neo-liberal and progressive economic reforms and policies implemented in Chile since the Pinochet dictatorship.

This book reviews the past and provides new strategies to help BIMSTEC achieving a new paradigm of integration.

Can institutions, in the sense of formal organizations, be considered vulnerable to moral burdens?

This collection of essays delves into issues associated with British foreign policy in the ten years that Headlam-Morley worked with the Foreign Office in early twentieth century Britain.

West Africa (1977) surveys the first century of European enterprise - rivalry, and exploitation - in West Africa.

Bartholomew Paudyn investigates how governments across the globe struggle to constitute the authoritative knowledge underpinning the political economy of creditworthiness and what the (neoliberal) 'fiscal normality' means for democratic governance.

This book brings together a diverse range of scholars and practitioners working at the nexus of peace and development to reflect, at the mid-way point of the Sustainable Development Goals implementation period, what impact Goal 16 has made, or may yet make, toward reducing violence in 'all its forms.

In recent decades, the rise of world markets and the technological revolutions in transportation and communication have brought what was once distant and inaccessible within easy reach of the individual.

This book traces the evolution of Chilean political and legal institutions by looking at the process of democratization.