International relations

This book critically analyses the concept of endurance from different theoretical, conceptual, methodological, and empirical perspectives.

While traditionally powerful Western economies are treading water at best, beset by crises in banking, housing, and employment, industrial growth and economic development are exploding in China and India.

The #1 New York Times bestselling author, Harvard Law School professor, and tireless defender of civil liberties unearths a little-known letter by his hero, Thomas Jefferson, and shares its secrets.

A recent trend in contemporary western political theory is to criticize it for implicitly trying to "e;conquer,"e; "e;displace"e; or "e;moralize"e; politics.

Leading experts analyze the impact of the rapid growth of offshore outsourcing in manufacturing and IT.

This book explains the parameters of Qatar's political growth by developing an alternative theory of power - 'rented' power.

History has not been kind to Robert Komer, a casualty of bad historical analysis and inaccurate information.

After Obama examines how and why US influence has contributed to the erosion of the world America made, endangering international order and liberal values.

A practical and empathetic guide to managing the crisis of climate displacement, and pre-empting a mass loss of human rights.

This uniquely interdisciplinary volume analyzes the challenges posed by the heterogeneity of the world where radically different players are crammed into increasingly limited political, commercial, social, and ecological space.

In the context of COVID-19, the production and governance of urban space has experienced a rapid digitalization and datafication, creating new challenges for citizenship.

Exploring the ways in which language and conflict are intertwined and interrelated, this volume examines the patterns of public discourse in Ukraine and Russia since the beginning of the Ukrainian Crisis in 2014.

This book presents a feminist historical materialist analysis of the ways in which the law, policing and penal regimes have overlapped with social policies to coercively discipline the poor and marginalized sectors of the population throughout the history of capitalism.

Foreign policy is one of the most complex policies of every state, and Portugal and Iceland are no exception.

This edited volume examines the issue of the proliferation of dual-use technology and the efforts of the international community to control these technologies.

The European Union is a key actor in international economic governance.

This book offers the first multi-case analysis of the politics of ethnic remixing in an expanding EU, including studies on Central Europe, the Balkans and Cyprus.

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This book aims to develop new methodology for the study of international relations (IR) based on joy, informed by current thinking about posthumanism, feminist theory and positive psychology.

The role of democracy promotion in US foreign policy has increased considerably in the last three decades, booming especially in the immediate years after the end of the Cold War.

The author builds two macro foundations which lead to an understanding of the economic conditions a society must satisfy in order to exist, survive, and develop.

In The Inconvenient Journalist, Dusko Doder, writing with his spouse and journalistic partner Louise Branson, describes how one February night crystalized the values and personal risks that shaped his life.

This book discusses education's role of developing social cohesion in a post-conflict environment where tensions continue to exist between the three "e;constituent"e; ethnic groups.

This edited book brings a new analytical angle to the study of comparative regionalism by focussing on the unintended consequences of interregional relations.

Forty years ago, President Richard Nixon declared a "e;war on drugs.

International joint development programs are important because of their potential to reduce costs and increase partnership benefits such as interoperability, economies of scale, and technical advancement.

This book analyses the possibilities and limitations that sub-national actors face when developing diplomatic activities in the Arctic region.

Originally published in the "e;International Quarterly of Community Health Education"e;, this work presents twenty-one chapters about the state of HIV/AIDS prevention programs in a global context.

This book explores different aspects of the regulation of private security contractors working for governments.

How to stabilize the security relationship between Washington and Beijing.

The objective of Arab Criminology is to establish a criminological subfield called 'Arab Criminology.

Contemporary violence: Postmodern war in Kosovo and Chechnya draws on several years of field research, as well as interpretive IR theory and analysis of empirical source material so as to shed light on contemporary violence.

This title examines Sub-Saharan Africa's relations with states such as the US, India, China, the EU, and Britain as well as with non-state actors.

In the wake of Soviet disintegration, Central Asia became an idiom for the ensuing confusion in the post-Cold War climate of international affairs, characterized by inter-state order and intra-state anarchy.

Britain's participation in the Iraq war defines one of the most tumultuous periods in its political history.

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This 2007 volume helps readers understand the relationship between international law and international relations (IL/IR).

The incredible real life story of the world's first super spy'Full of stimulating detail.

20 years after the Six Day War, Israeli society remains deeply divided over the future of the occupied territories.

Through a comparative study of Morocco and Tunisia, Feuer proposes a compelling theory accounting for complexities in religion-state relations across the Arab world.

This new study shows how environmental issues represent a deep problem in conceptualising the relationship between human beings and nature.

Lebanon experienced serious instability and ethno-national conflict following the Syrian withdrawal in 2005, compounded by the Arab Spring, which led to regional instability and civil war in Iraq and Syria.

This book describes the ontology structure, types of actors, their potential actions, and ways that actions can affect the things that are part of the conflict.

The intense debate over US targeted drone strikes outside war zones has been limited by the failure to review and assess a considerable body of quantitative research and qualitative material on the impacts of such strikes on terrorist groups and civilians.

In recent decades, the regions of Russia have taken different paths of regime transition.

Foreign Policy in North Africa explores how the foreign policies of North African states, which occupy a peripheral and subaltern position within the global system, have actively responded to the constraints and opportunities stemming from multi-level transformations in the 2010s.