International relations Books

Karim examines the changes and continuity of Indonesia's foreign policy in the post-authoritarian era, under presidents Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Joko Widodo.

This book explores the rivalry between the United States, Russia, and China in the region, investigating its effects and assessing the influence of regional actors and issues.

This edited book analyzes Kosovo's foreign policy and bilateral relations with the United States and several European countries.

Contributors from Japan, Korea and China explore the reaction of the United Nations to emerging global issues. The areas explored and discussed include global governance, peace and security, global health governance, global citizenship, nuclear...

This book scrutinizes how three small Scandinavian countries - Norway, Sweden and Denmark - developed a unique foreign policy that brought Israel and the Palestinians to the negotiating table.

This book attempts to encapsulate the history of Hong Kong ever since the territory was acquired by Great Britain to the signing of the Joint Declaration and the Basic Law, the democracy debate in Hong Kong, the ethnic Indians in Hong Kong and the pangs...

Why is it so hard for international development organizations-even ones as well-resourced and influential as the World Bank-to generate and sustain change in the way things are done in those countries where they work? This book provides an answer to the...

Bowden's oratorical firepower is on full display in this 2009 interview. Members of the London New-Right put every question to him you ever wanted to ask, letting Bowden hold forth on such topics as race and politics, the EU, Islam, gender roles,...

This nuanced book offers a rare in-depth analysis of Cuban immigrants' social, cultural, economic, and political adaptation, their transformation of Miami into the "northern most Latin American city," and their cross-border engagement and homeland impact.

This book discusses the increasing tendency in certain government quarters to incorporate struggles by peoples for their self-determination into the wider anti-terrorist agenda of the post-9/11 era. This tendency distorts the laws of armed conflict and...

　This book aims to redefine maritime diplomacy for the modern era. Maritime diplomacy encompasses a spectrum of activities, from co-operative measures such as port visits, exercises and humanitarian assistance to persuasive deployment and coercion. It is...

This volume examines international statebuilding in terms of language and meanings, rather than focusing narrowly on current policy practices.

Acknowledgement of the ethical dimension of global finance is commonplace in the wake of financial crises. The sub-prime crisis and ensuing credit crunch are only the latest in a long run of global financial crises that wreak social havoc and force us to...

This book offers valuable insights into the causes and consequences of nuclear proliferation.Through the development of new datasets and the application of cutting edge research methods, contributors to this volume significantly advance the frontiers of...

The Non-Governmental Development Organisations (NGDOs) have, over the past two decades, entered centre stage in their active participation in the social, political and economic issues affecting both the developing and developed world. This book offers a...

This book refutes the claim that American foreign policy has varied considerably across time and space, arguing that key policy goals and underlying ideological and political factors have not significantly changed over the last hundred years.

This multidisciplinary edited volume explores how the spread of the 'War on Terror' has entwined matters of state sovereignty and states of war into mutually affecting relations. Pre-emptive attacks on terrorist groups in 'rogue' states, 'outsourcing' of...

This book examines the decade in office of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its efforts to transform the Turkish republic toward a more Islamist-oriented system.This book was published as a special issue of the Turkish Studies.

This book confronts and discusses different conceptions of political representation with respect to their application to the system of multi-level governance in the European Union. This book was based on a special issue of  Journal of European...

The ubiquity of the commitment to economic growth, which Purdey refers to as the growth paradigm, is extraordinary. National governments around the world are seized of the same objective. Major international institutions such as the UN, the WTO, the...

The industrialization of prostitution and the sex trade has created a multibillion-dollar global market, involving millions of women, that makes a substantial contribution to national and global economies.The Industrial Vagina examines how prostitution...

Democracy promotion, security and energy are the predominant themes of US policy in Central Asia after the Cold War. This book analyses how the Bush administration understood and pursued its interests in the Central Asia states, namely Kyrgyzstan,...

The Middle East conflict system is perhaps the world's most important and intractable problem area, whose developments carry global consequences. An effective investigation of the context and change in the region calls for a melding of academic...

This book identifies the political and legal issues surrounding the codification of the law of diplomatic protection. It analyses the seriousness of the security issue for diplomats and increase in diplomatic attacks and the impact of this form of...

This is a true story of a young Canadian man who has psychosis and is commanded by voices to start travelling. His mental health deteriorates as he travels. He ends up in Kyiv, Ukraine. He somehow manages to meet with a group of Cossacks whom he finds...

This is Volume I of Miscellaneous Papers Relating to Indo-China and the Indian Archipelago, which is part of a series of seven on SouthEast Asia. Originally published in 1887, these papers are from the 'journals' of the Royal Asiatic, Bengal Asiatic and...

Given the widely-accepted premise that free trade is the best means of maximising overall societal welfare, why has it proven so difficult to achieve in certain industries? This book tackles arguably the most perennial and deep-rooted of all questions in...

Law, Force and Diplomacy at Sea, first published in 1985, is one of the few comprehensive treatments on the subject from a strategic perspective. It offers a detailed strategic analysis of the background and outcome of the Third UN Conference on the Law...

First published in 1977, this study offers a comprehensive, systematic and integrated survey of the important relationship between navies and the making and execution of foreign policy. Ken Booth explains the functions navies can perform in both war and...

Contemporary international affairs are largely shaped by widely differing thematic issues and actors, such as nation states, international institutions, NGOs and multinational companies. Obtaining a deeper understanding of these multifaceted themes...

As India prepares to take its place in shaping the course of an 'Asian century', there are increasing debates about its 'grand strategy' and its role in a future world order. This timely and topical book presents a range of historical and contemporary...

Bringing together a range of South Asian perspectives on rising China in a comparative framework, an attempt has been made, for the first time, to identify and examine the political, economic and socio-cultural stakeholders and constituencies that...

Examining the underlying logic of the strategic and economic partnership between the Republic of Korea and India, this book is the first detailed study of the numerous facets - cultural, economic, people-to-people, and strategic - of blossoming relations...

This series of books brings together results of an intensive research programme on aspects of the national systems of innovation in the five BRICS countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. It provides a comprehensive and comparative...

A crucial commentary on the worst global economic crisis since the Great Depression, this book argues for 'Three Rs' - Regulation, Responsibility and Radicalism - i.e., state regulation of finance, state responsibility towards society, and radical social...

This book is one of the first in-depth and systematic studies on the functioning and aspiring federations of South Asia. It examines how federal dynamics in India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka are impinged on by the nature of their specific...

This book explores contemporary propaganda and mainstream Western news media, with reference to the Ukraine crisis.It examines Western media narratives of the immediate causes of the crisis, the respective roles of those who participated in or otherwise...

This book expands on the existing literature on the international dimension of democratization by introducing the concept of democracy projection.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Mediterranean Politics.

The book develops a robust and holistic theoretical understanding of the intrinsic security concerns which lie at the heart of the protracted conflict in Cyprus.

This book is an international history of the foundation of modern arms control, highlighting the fact that the instrument is varied, resilient, successful, and enduring.

Alverdian explores how a distinct national character of maritime governance enables Indonesia to go beyond an archipelagic to a 'maritime' character, focusing on political culture and connecting previous studies on historical changes and geopolitical...

This book investigates to what extent UNSCR 1325/WPS agenda has functioned in practice, to advance women's equality and empowerment in the peacekeeping context and beyond.

This edited volume explores Global International Relations in terms of teaching and research in Southeast Asia and China with the purpose of revealing existing and "hidden" pre-theories, conceptual frameworks, and theoretical contributions rooted in...

The Global Governance Forum and the Global Challenges Foundation collaborate in this collection in their concern that the UN Charter and the contemporary infrastructure for international cooperation are no longer fit for purpose and lack the instruments,...

This book explores America's decline as a global power, arguing that the implosion of Pax Americana was initiated by the process of globalization, preceding the collapse of the Soviet Union by nearly a decade. The era of Pax Americana, and with it...

Intelligence operations that used secret radio methods did not end when the Berlin Wall fell. They are still used by spies operating in denied areas and various radical underground groups.Intelligence officers who operate overseas under non-official...

The book is a discussion ,or really an interactive learning dialogue for average people, of the historical precedents and geo-political environment that explains Russian and Chinese political and military strategies. Both Russia and China are...