International relations

This book examines the perplexing twists and turns in Syria-Iraq relations which since the establishment of modern Syria and Iraq after World War I have zigzagged between cooperation and hostility countless times.

This book compares the relatively peaceful relationship between the Berbers and the Moroccan state with the violent relationship between the Kurds and the Turkish state.

Claims of inter-state 'specialness' are commonplace in international politics.

Aims to provide a useful analytical tool and practical guidance on good treaty practice.

"e;"e;If a historian were allowed but one book on the American involvement in Vietnam, this would be it.

This book examines Europeanization in the European Economic Area (EEA), exploring whether non-member states can have an input into EU decision-making and whether the EU can successfully export its policies within the framework of the EEA.

This book investigates the origins of civil wars which emerge from failed attempts at democratization.

This text is the fourth and final volume in a series of essays by Japanese scholars of Southeast Asia.

This edited collection makes a highly significant critical contribution to the field of environmental politics.

At the height of the Cold War, the John F.

The past few years have witnessed changes which will be of lasting significance in international affairs.

Extremism is one of the most charged and controversial issues of the twenty-first century.

What are the causes and consequences of the crisis in Ukraine, and what has been the nature of local, national, and external actors' involvement in it?

This volume makes a unique contribution to the literature on nations and nationalism by examining why nations remain a vibrant and strong social cohesive despite the threat of globalization.

Friedrich Kratochwil''s book explores the key discourses and debates surrounding the role of law in the international arena.

This book analyzes energy security dynamics in Europe through the prism of security logics.

This book identifies the main factors shaping the fortunes of democracy globally.

Drawing on Scripture, church history, and his own story, Shane Claiborne explores how a passion for social justice issues surrounding life and death--such as war, gun ownership, the death penalty, racial injustice, abortion, poverty, and the environment--intersects with our faith as we advocate for life in its totality.

This book explores India-Bangladesh bilateral ties over the past fifty years, tracing Bengal's history, the Partition, and the birth of Bangladesh.

For much of the past century, scientists studying drugs and drug use labored in the shadows of powerful myths and misconceptions about the nature of addiction.

Questions of war were not central to the founding of the Labour Party, yet questions of war - specifically, under what circumstances the party would support the dispatch of British military forces to fight abroad - have divided and damaged the party throughout its history more deeply than any other single issue.

A collection of papers presented at the International Conference on Japanese Financial Growth, held in London in October 1988.

This book offers a comparative survey of 18 contemporary peace processes conducted by leading international scholars.

China has emerged in the 21st century as a sophisticated, and sometimes contentious, actor in the United Nations Security Council.

This volume concerns the origins, organisation and method of British, American and Soviet propaganda during the 1950s.

A critical overview and re-evaluation of the origins and development of the ''special'' relations between Israel and the United States.

This book focuses on the dynamics of Turkey's relationship with Europe in the context of the 'Arab Spring' and analyses Turkish behaviour vis-a-vis foreign policy cooperation with the EU.

This book explores the right to democracy in international law and contemporary democratic theory, asking whether international law encompasses a substantive or procedural understanding of the notion.

This book addresses the discursive importance of the prosecution's opening statement before an international criminal tribunal.

This book argues that the transformation of Japan's defense since 2012 has been triggered by the emergence of the first threat to Japan's territorial integrity since 1945, namely China's continual challenging of Japan's control of the Senkaku Islands.

Representing a crucial intervention in the history of internationalism, transnationalism and global history, this edited collection examines a variety of international movements, organisations and projects developed in Europe or by Europeans over the course of the 20th century.

A critical cultural materialist introduction to the study of global entertainment media.

Originally published in 1987.

This book investigates Nigeria's soft power capabilities in West Africa, demonstrating the extent to which the power of attraction may serve the country's foreign policy interests.

From Tunisia to Egypt and from Israel to Iran, the debates surrounding the concept of democracy in the Middle East are never straightforward.

This is a major revision and update of Nevins' earlier classic and is an ideal text for use with undergraduate students in a wide variety of courses on immigration, transnational issues, and the politics of race, inclusion and exclusion.

Comprehensive examination of restraint in international politics, considered across a range of contexts as a political process, device, and strategy.

Contemporary Peace Making draws on recent experience to identify and explore the essential components of peace processes.

Liberalism and Naval Strategy (1986) examines the role that liberalism played in shaping the naval strategy of the Pax Britannia.

This book looks at Chinese policy towards the South Pacific in the context of China's grand strategy.

During the Cold War, culture became another weapon in America's battle against communism.

From the start of the U.

Mobilizing an interdisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners, this book reviews the history and consequences of NATO's post-Cold War enlargement into Central and Eastern Europe.

This book endeavors to examine the impact of China's rapid ascendance as a donor on the "e;international development assistance regime"e; over the past two decades.

Remarkably, most conventional wisdom about the shifting balance of world power virtually ignores one of the most fundamental components of power: population.

More than ten years on from the most intense phase of the global financial crisis, and the collective international response in the G20 summit in London, a 'new normal' has emerged with systems in place to mitigate against further banking crises.