International relations

An historical and comparative analysis of democratization in Europe since 1800 which highlights the varied factors accounting for both its success and failure in the past, and its present prospects.

Firearms: Global Perspectives on Consequences, Crime and Control explores the many dimensions of the illicit use of firearms across the globe, including legal, social science, technical and research perspectives on the issue.

This book explores the relationship between the "e;human constant"e; (Jen) of the four large-scale civilizational societies-China, the USA, Japan, and India-and their international behavior, response patterns, and interaction with the international system.

As economic, social and environmental connections among states have grown stronger and denser in the last decades, new levels and types of governance have emerged.

This volwne is the outcome of the 19th Kiel Week Conference held at the Institute of World Economics, 22-24 June 1988.

Japan has been one of the most important international sponsors of human security, yet the concept has hitherto not been considered relevant to the Japanese domestic context.

One of the most ambitious legacies of the 20th century was the universal commitment to ensure freedom from want as a human right.

Through its strength in numbers and remarkable presence in politics, Pentecostalism has become a force to reckon with in twenty-first-century Zambian society.

This book situates public theology within the genre of political theology.

Over the last decade, Chinese energy companies have engaged in the acquisition of oil and gas in Africa.

This book provides a substantial contribution to understanding the international legal framework for the protection and conservation of cultural heritage.

In the first published account of the massive U.

Can the G-20 become a steering committee for the world's economy?

The first authoritative account concerning the lack of conflict in the Nordic region, this text evaluates why the area is more peaceful than the rest of Europe and whether there is a lesson to be learned from the area.

This edited volume provides state perspectives on Europe's security engagement in the Indo-Pacific from four different sub-regions and twelve different countries in the Indo-Pacific, namely - East Asia (Japan, China and South Korea); Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Vietnam and Singapore); Oceania (Australia, New Zealand and Fiji) and lastly South Asia (India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives).

This book analyses collaboration in the Greater Mekong Subregion.

An analysis of the issues and events related to the conflict between Greece and Turkey, with emphasis on the period after the 1974 Cyprus crisis.

For over twenty years, at the heart of Whitehall, Sir Stephen Wall worked for British leaders as they shaped Britain's European policy: Margaret Thatcher fighting to get 'her money back'; John Major at Maastricht where the single European currency was born; Tony Blair negotiating the Amsterdam, Nice and Constitutional Treaties.

Examining India-America relations between 1942-62, this book reconsiders the role of America in shaping the imagination of post-colonial India.

Entdecken Sie Taiwan, die aufstrebende Inselnation, die sich zu einem Zentrum globaler Innovation und wirtschaftlicher Exzellenz entwickelt hat.

This title was first published in 2000: This book investigates the European Parliament's stance vis-a-vis the 1990-1991 Gulf and 1991-1992 Yugoslav crises.

This book explores the interests of British leaders, diplomats and consuls in the unifying of Italy.

Curtis Breight challenges the view that Renaissance English rulers could not dominate their domestic population.

Peacekeeping training centres play a crucial role in preparing peacekeepers for their deployment.

This book is original in focusing on critical political economy, identifying its character and reviewing its continuing legacy.

A unique collaboration providing an analysis of the conflict in Syria, focusing on the integration between legal and political studies.

This book examines the justifications for, and practice of, war by the US since 1990, and examines four case studies: the Gulf War, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq.

This book seeks to show that the Anthropocene epoch of the earth system has converged with the global epoch of capitalist history.

This book deals with the contemporary history of the imprisonment of Palestinians in Israeli prisons since 1967, and, since the 2000s, in Palestinian facilities.

Throughout the world, there has been a growing wave of interest in global corporate power and the rise of a transnational capitalist class, triggered by economic and political transformations that have blurred national borders and disembedded corporate business from national domiciles.

The destruction of the Armenian community in the Ottoman Empire was an unprecedented tragedy.

This book explores British reflections of Japanese education between 1858 and 1914, by referring to accounts by British observers, derived from documentary sources such as newspapers, journal articles, published books, and official reports.

BEAT THE DRUM SLOWLY is the story of war, parenthetically and unfortunately, it is also unavoidably, the story of mans history.

This book posits an alternative narrative to China's rise by focusing on its impact on Asia.

Agent Link: The Spy Erased from History is a biography of William Wolfe Weisband who one colleague described as a "e;charter member"e; of America's top-secret Cold War codebreaking pioneers.

Shows how different countries'' foreign aid programs are profoundly shaped by their visions of the purpose of aid.

Different international relations theorists have studied political change, but all fall short of sufficiently integrating human reactions, feelings, and responses to change in their theories.

Offers a unique analysis of abortion policy worldwide focusing on effects of civil society, national governments and intergovernmental organizations.

Over the past five years, the EU has established a new system of diplomacy centred on the European External Action Service (EEAS) and the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.

Perspective on the EU''s ability to maintain a leading position in climate change politics, and challenges of mitigation and adaptation.

This book analyzes initiatives and concepts initiated by China, Japan and South Korea (the Republic of Korea) toward Central Asia to ascertain their impact on regionalism and regional cooperation in Central Asia.

Explores how the idea of rare books was shaped by collectors, traders and libraries from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries.

This book brings together contributions from leading scholars around the world on the most relevant and pressing economic themes surrounding the UK-EU relationship.

In July 2015, eight parties - France, Germany and the United Kingdom, together with the European Union and China, Russia and the United States on the one side, and Iran on the other - adopted the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), better known as the Iran nuclear deal.

This book analyses the American way of war within the context of Clausewitzian theory.

Infrastructure and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa analyzes the extent to which, how, and how fast the infrastructure needs of the poor have been met in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Ideal for general readers as well as professionals conducting extensive research, this informative book offers a collection of documents on the origins and conduct of the Iraq War.

The Political Economy of Regionalism: The Case of Southern Africa challenges prevailing wisdom, showing how ruling political elites and 'big business' join forces with certain external actors in order to promote market integration and economic globalization, boost regimes, and to satisfy group-specific and even personal interests.

As one of the most pioneering development economists, Hans Singer has stimulated many of the ideas that have engaged the attention of the world community for several decades.