International relations

Through an examination of violent neighborhoods this book shows how criminals affect local politics in Colombia, Brazil, and Jamaica.

This book explores and analyzes emerging innovations within today's most cutting-edge science and technology (S&T) areas, which are cited as carrying the potential to revolutionize governmental structures, economies, and international security.

This book looks at the emerging power dynamics in the Indo-Pacific region and locates India and its interests within the overarching geostrategic framework.

This study examines Norway's place in the strategic policies of the Eisenhower administration.

As climate change and extreme weather events increasingly threaten traditional landscapes and livelihoods of entire communities the need to study its impact on human migration and population displacement has never been greater.

This book moves away from originary myths of region and identity that have dominated academic and mediatized representations of Punjab, a land-locked region divided between India and Pakistan after the Partition of 1947, and instead focuses on the role of the imagination in producing Punjab.

After Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, leaders in China and the United States had high hopes of a lasting partnership between the two countries.

The concepts of agency and structure are of increasing and defining importance to international relations and politics as fields of enquiry and knowledge.

When Charles de Gaulle declared that it is because we are no longer a great power that we need a grand policy, he neatly summarized France s predicament on the world scene.

Europe's transformations is the unifying theme for this collective work that brings together leading academics and policy makers from across Europe and beyond.

Human trafficking has come to be seen as a growing threat, and transnational advocacy networks opposed to human trafficking have succeeded in establishing trafficking as a pressing political problem.

This book focuses on the construction of the economic policies of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and its institutions.

Written by a leading scholar of public diplomacy, Boundary Spanners of Humanity introduces a pan-human vision of communication that can revolutionize how we collaborate to solve global problems.

Environmental Integration in Competition and Free-Movement Laws engages in a comprehensive analysis of the obligation of Article 11 TFEU (integration of environmental protection requirements) in the three core areas of EU internal market law: competition, state aid, and free movement.

This book contains some of the newest, most exciting ideas now percolating among political scientists, from hallway conversations to conference room discussions.

To succeed in achieving its national security objectives the United States needs to use Associative Power in place of both Hard Power and Soft Power.

The Gambia Colony and Protectorate (1967) provides both a history of the colony and a wealth of valuable practical and statistical information about its establishment and running.

This book explores the powers, activities, and accountability of MI5 from the end of the Second World War to 1964.

What is Non-Traditional Security?

This book  finds that the R&D and technological innovation of a country is not a result, but a factor, of sustained economic growth.

This book explores and analyses the evolving African security paradigm in light of the multitude of diverse threats and challenges facing the continent and the international community.

Latin America has changed dramatically over the past few years.

This book examines the changing dynamics of power in the international arena since the end of the Cold War.

Seit Jahrzehnten wird um eine Wiedervereinigung Zyperns gerungen.

This book analyses the evolving geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific region and explains how Djibouti fits in the global strategies of four major powers-the US, China, Japan, and France.

This volume is a collection of the best essays of Professor Benjamin Miller on the subjects of international and regional security.

How social networks shaped the imperial Chinese stateChina was the world's leading superpower for almost two millennia, falling behind only in the last two centuries and now rising to dominance again.

The behaviour of many Poles towards the Jewish population during the Nazi occupation of Poland has always been a controversial issue.

The Sandinista Revolution and its victory against the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua gripped the United States and the world in the 1980s.

By developing a new analytical method of narrative discourse analysis, this study introduces new insights from literary studies and narratology into International Relations.

Politics in North and South Korea provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the political dynamics of the two Koreas.

An Introduction to Strategic Studies addresses some of the major questions that govern both international relations and human survival.

This book presents a study of the COVID-19 pandemic using computational social scientific analysis that draws from, and employs, statistics and simulations.

There are enormous challenges in establishing policing systems in young democracies.

The increasing emergence, re-emergence, and spread of deadly infectious diseases which pose health, economic, security and ethical challenges for states and people around the world, has given rise to an important global debate.

Negotiations are central to the operation of the international system, found at the heart of every conflict and every act of cooperation.

The first study to systematically analyze the patterns of China''s foreign policy crisis behavior after the Cold War.

In less than 100 years, international organizations have evolved from curiosities into keystones of international law.

For many observers, the European Union is mired in a deep crisis.

This book provides a timely examination of the Ebola pandemic in Sierra Leone from four different standpoints: 1) a social standpoint that focuses on the way in which the vulnerable Sierra Leonian population viewed the pandemic in light of their cultural beliefs, memories of past wars and narratives and actions of the government; 2) a good governance standpoint that exposes lapses in health governance and the general unpreparedness of the government and international community to deal with the outbreak; 3) a scientific research standpoint that looks at the role played by the Sierra Leone's Lassa Fever Research Laboratories as a main hub for the investigation, monitoring and evaluation of communicable diseases in the Mano River Union countries; and 4) an international politics standpoint that examines the development of a new bio-security international apparatus involving a wide range of international actors and institutions.

Fighting Terrorism and Drugs is an examination of European states in their fight against terrorism and drugs, from the 1960s up to the present day.

This book presents an original framework of transnational asylum to inform future cooperation between states on asylum processing and refugee protection.

In the 2010 federal election, independent candidate Andrew Wilkie grabbed headlines after winning the seat of Denison, and with it a key role in deciding who would form the next government of Australia.

Heart of the Nation traces America's volunteer tradition-the golden thread of American democracy-and how Presidents from Washington to Obama have called on citizens to serve neighbor and nation.

This book explores the discursive constructions of gender equality and the implications of these understandings in a broad range of policy fields.

Originally published in the UK in 1956, this book presents the essence of the political philosophy of one of Europe's best-known post-war statesmen, as well as his experience in government as head of Germany in one of its most critical periods of history.

French and Soviet Musical Diplomacies in Post-War Austria, 1945-1955 investigates how promoting 'national' music and musicians was used as an important asset by France and the USSR in post-Nazi Austria, covering music's role in international relations at various levels, within changing power frameworks.

Bringing together both contemporary and historical just war concepts, Peter Lee shows that Blair's illusion of morality evaporated quickly and irretrievably after the 2003 Iraqinvasion because the ideas Blair relied upon were taken out of their historical context and applied in a global political system where they no longer hold sway.

The long separation of health and International Relations, as distinct academic fields and policy arenas, has now dramatically changed.