International relations

This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of an epochal shift in global order - the fact that global-south countries have taken up leadership roles in peacekeeping missions, humanitarian interventions, and transnational military industries: Brazil has taken charge of the UN military mission in Haiti; Nigeria has deployed peacekeeping troops throughout West Africa; Indonesians have assumed crucial roles in UN Afghanistan operations; Fijians, South Africans, and Chileans have became essential actors in global mercenary firms; Venezuela and its Bolivarian allies have established a framework for "e;revolutionary"e; humanitarian interventions; and Turkey, India, Kenya, and Egypt are asserting themselves in bold new ways on the global stage.

Most regions of the world are plagued by conflicts that are made insoluble by a confluence of complex threads from history, geography, politics, and culture.

This book explores the rich and complex relationship between Eastern Europe and the West in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This book traces the evolution of the EU's fight against terrorism from the late 1970s until the end of the first decade after 9/11.

This handbook illustrates the depth and breadth of human rights research, intervention models, and advocacy by psychologists.

Lebow shows how and why foreign policies consistent with ethical norms are more likely to succeed, and those at odds with them to fail.

Space has been militarized for over four decades.

This book introduces ''pathway analysis'', a method to combine large and small-N research techniques and to aid understanding of causal mechanisms.

The greatest threat to the Western alliance in the 1960s did not come from an enemy, but from an ally.

This book examines the state of the nuclear non-proliferation regime and the issues it faces in the early 21st century.

This handbook offers insights into how science (physical, natural and social) and technology can support new developments to manage the complexity resident within the threat and risk landscape.

The Pergau dam in Malaysia was the most controversial project in the history of British aid.

It is universally accepted that there has been a huge growth in EU lobbying over the past few decades.

The crises of the European Union extend beyond the challenges of Covid-19, Brexit, the Eurozone, and mass migration, cutting to the core of the EU itself.

The war in Afghanistan came to an end in 2014 after nearly thirteen years of conflict.

This book examines the rise and agency of International Organizations (IOs) and their bureaucratic bodies- the International Public Administrations (IPAs)- as a reflection of an ongoing transfer of political authority and power from the domestic to the international level.

A major new text on terrorism in the contemporary world.

Sub-Saharan Africa is a region devastated by HIV/AIDS.

'Fascinating revelations' Max Hastings, Sunday Times'An immensely valuable guide to a great and terrible industry' The Economist 'The book I have long been waiting for.

Wellbeing, resilience and sustainability are three of the most popular ideas in current usage and are said to represent a much-needed paradigm shift in political and policy thinking.

Since 1959, the government of the Caribbean island of Cuba, 90 miles away from the United States of America, has defied its powerful neighbor.

This book surveys the Ukrainian-EU relationship in light of the legacies of more than two hundred years of direct Russian rule.

This book examines China's participation in the United Nations (UN).

Surveys historical, systematic and practical perspectives on literary authorship, offering a multi-layered account of authorship as a cultural phenomenon.

This book provides an introductory survey of Montesquieu's economic ideas and a fresh examination of the longstanding controversy over the meaning and purpose of Montesquieu's The Spirit of the Laws.

Despite the increased interest in Russia and its international behaviour, current analyses leave much unexplained.

Christian Political Ethics brings together leading Christian scholars of diverse theological and ethical perspectives--Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anabaptist--to address fundamental questions of state and civil society, international law and relations, the role of the nation, and issues of violence and its containment.

The modern Arab world is faced with a serious problem in the imbalance between human and natural resources.

In the twenty-five years after 1989, the world enjoyed the deepest peace in history.

In the post-Cold War era, European militaries are engaged in an ongoing adaptation which is challenging relations between armed forces and the societies that they serve.

This volume sheds new light on the interaction between Turkey and the Western Balkans.

Policy-makers tend to view the residential segregation of minority ethnic groups in a negative light as it is seen as an obstacle to their integration.

This book examines the international efforts to regulate violence in Kosovo since 1999 through the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and covers 15 years of international presence.

Leading intelligence experts Mark M.

Spain and the Great Powers in the Twentieth Centuryexamines the international context to, and influences on, Spanish history and politics from 1898 to the present day.

This IPCC Special Report provides the latest comprehensive assessment of the ocean and cryosphere in a changing climate.

Reasserting America in the 1970s brings together two areas of burgeoning scholarly interest.

This book investigates drivers and trends in nuclear proliferation in the Global South.

This book examines the impact of the National Security Act of 1947, the most important foreign policy legislation that many Americans (including policymakers and academics) have never heard of.

This book analyses Chinese discourse on Indian attitudes towards the Belt & Road Initiative (BRI), and argues that the Indian discourse is becoming one of the biggest hurdles to China creating its own narrative about China's rise in Asia and beyond.

Perspectives on World Politics has been essential reading for students of international relations since the 1980s.

Pakistan and the United States have been locked in a deadly embrace for decades.

This book argues that the new great power contest between the United States and the People's Republic of China, which has as its epicentre the complex Indo-Pacific region, is having a detrimental impact on the region's existing order system.

This work seeks to look beyond the seemingly endless deadlock in the WTO's Doha round of trade negotiations that began in November 2001 and were first scheduled to conclude by January 1, 2005.

This book examines the connection between sociology and the challenges faced by the modern military.

A decade before being proclaimed part of the "e;"e;axis of evil,"e;"e; North Korea raised alarms in Washington, Seoul, and Tokyo as the pace of its clandestine nuclear weapons program mounted.

This book discusses the core concepts of international law with a focus on India's position concerning contemporary developments in the field.

While the major trends in European integration have been well researched and constitute key elements of narratives about its value and purpose, the crises of integration and their effects have not yet attracted sufficient attention.

The United States is in the midst of a new cold war with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and America is losing.