International relations

Security Council resolutions have undergone an important evolution over the last two decades.

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.

Appearing on the world stage in 1918, Lithuania suffered numerous invasions, border changes and large scale population displacements.

The phenomenon of Europeanization has become a topic that is constantly under debate.

This accessible new textbook situates the European Union in a dramatically changed world order.

This book investigates the geopolitics and strategic dimensions of US-American foreign policy during George W.

This book is the first authoritative and up-to-date survey of the history of Iraq from earliest times to the present in any language.

The entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty has brought about a proliferation of "e;integration principles"e;.

This book explores the thoroughly human dimension of the health care and prevention responses to the HIV crisis in the UK, and the impact that such initiatives had on the progression of the epidemic.

In Chinese Capitalisms , experts examine the rise of capitalism on China and Taiwan, analyzing impacts exerted by global capitalism, Chinese civilization, and remnants of socialist practice.

This handbook provides contributions by some of the world-leading experts in the field on recent phenomena and trends in transnational terrorism.

The book deals with the urgent need for the EU to position itself globally in the wake of Brexit, a rapidly worsening climate crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, an aggressive Russia, and an ever more assertive China.

On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran and took sixty-six Americans captive.

This book uses surveys to bridge the gap between studies into European economics and policymaking in Europe.

In this remarkable and engaging book, William LeoGrande offers the first comprehensive history of U.

  This book advances North Atlantic Treaty Organization (henceforth, NATO) burden analysis through a decomposition of the political, financial, social, and defense burdens members take on for the institution.

What obligations do nations have to protect citizens of other nations?

This book explores the natures of recent stabilisation efforts and global upstream threats.

This book is about Russia.

Investment treaties grant special international protection to foreign investors, and give them a means to enforce those rights against States in which they have invested.

The late-nineteenth century in Europe was a period of profound political, social, and technological change.

This book covers the multi-faceted incentives, trade-offs, and challenges associated with the economics and politics of resource efficiency investments.

A natural hazard is a physical event but a disaster is a social and political phenomenon.

In this revised edition of the highly praised Engaging India, Strobe Talbott updates his bestselling diplomatic account of America's parallel negotiations with India and Pakistan over nuclear proliferation in the late 1990s.

The First Bilateral Investment Treaties is the first and only history of the U.

This book explores a range of connections between India and Australia that fall outside the formal diplomacy of the two states.

___________'This excellent book demands the attention of anyone concerned about civil liberties in the United Kingdom' Guardian1969 was a year of rising tension, violence and change for the people of Northern Ireland.

The study deals with challenging questions of long-term future of global economy and the mankind.

This book uses Securitisation Theory to explore how Muslims have been constructed as a security issue in Africa after the 9/11 attacks in the United States.

Drawing upon a variety of empirical and theoretical perspectives, The Urban Climate Challenge provides a hands-on perspective about the political and technical challenges now facing cities and transnational urban networks in the global climate regime.

This book delves into migration management via an original case study of a guest worker programme involving the circular migration to Spain of female Moroccan agricultural workers destined for the strawberry agri-food industry in the south.

This book examines the crisis in Ukraine, tracing its development and analysing the factors which lie behind it.

Repression, armed conflicts, interstate wars, the international arms trade, military regimes, and increasing worldwide military expenditures are all indications of one particularly significant development in world politics: global militarization.

Human Rights: A Primer breaks new ground in clarifying for undergraduates the international significance of human rights.

Focusing on the economic, developmental, political and cultural issues of its member states, this book offers a critical assessment of the ASEM process since its inception in 1996, which now brings together all 27 EU members, the European Commission, and 16 East Asian states.

Consumer out-of-court redress in the European Union is experiencing a significant transformation; indeed the current changes are the most important that have occurred in the history of the EU.

Standing on the roof of Canada House following one of the worst wartime air raids on London and surveying the devastation around them, two men resolved to devote their lives to the cause of peace.

On War and Democracy provides a richly nuanced examination of the moral justifications democracies often invoke to wage war.

This book explores the methods through which international law and its associated innovative global governance mechanisms can strengthen, foster and scale up the impacts of treaty regimes and international law on the ability to implement global governance mechanisms.

With the end of the Cold War, many of the old threats to European security have disappeared.

Despite the torrent of coverage devoted to war with Iraq, woefully little attention has been paid to the history of the region, the policies that led to the conflict, and the daunting challenges that will confront America and the Middle East once the immediate crisis has ended.

This book examines the experiences of a range of countries in the conflict in Afghanistan, with particular focus on the demands of operating within a diverse coalition of states.

This book assesses the concept of religious liberty in the United States according to the political theory of John Locke.

In light of the Eurozone crisis and the growth of Asian economies, have new challenges emerged for the relations between nations in these regions?

The European Union is a key player in international economic relations, but its exact role and how it goes about making decisions and negotiating is often poorly understood within and especially outside the EU.

This book takes the political theory of intersectionality - the most cutting-edge approach to the politics of gender, race, sexual orientation, and class - and introduces it to the general public for the first time.