International relations Books

This work seeks to provide a fresh examination of the relationship between religion, identity and security in a globalizing world, arguing that in order to address human security issues we must seek a reconceptualization of human security along...

This book examines the international law of forcible intervention in civil wars, in particular the role of party-consent in affecting the legality of such intervention. In modern international law, it is a near consensus that no state can use force...

This book comprehensively examines the different proposals put forward for reforming the United Nations Security Council, analysing their objectives and exploring whether the implementation of their proposals would actually create a representative and...

With a strong comparative framework, this book examines fourteen countries with parliamentary or semi-presidential systems of government to provide a detailed investigation into the mechanisms by which governments determine the agendas of their...

Relations between Singapore and her immediate Malay neighbours have been perennially fraught with tension and misunderstanding. In making sense of this complex relationship, Lily Rahim explores the salience of historical animosities and competitive...

The book presents a radically new framework for understanding capital as a mode of power. Challenging the liberal and Marxist approaches, it articulates a new theory of accumulation, develops new empirical methods of research and offers a new history...

This book seeks to explore and understand the causes of war and poverty, drawing on the theory of democratic peace and the theory of capitalistic peace. It discusses: democracy, conflict resolution, economic development and industrial...

This book rethinks security theory from a feminist perspective - uniquely, it engages feminism, security, and strategic studies to provide a distinct feminist approach to Security Studies. 

This edited volume brings together many of the world's leading scholars of intelligence with a number of former senior practitioners to facilitate a wide-ranging dialogue on the central challenges confronting students of intelligence. The book presents a...

This important text offers a full and detailed account of how to use discourse analysis to study foreign policy. It provides a poststructuralist theory of the relationship between identity and foreign policy and an in-depth discussion of the methodology...

By combining theoretical discussions with real-world examples, The Politics of Cyber-Security offers readers valuable insights into the role of cyber-security in the realm of international politics.

In this book, Feliciano de Sá Guimarães offers an original application of Role Theory. He proposes a theory of master role transitions to explain how small powers can change regional powers' master roles without changing the regional material power...

This book investigates the drivers, tactics, and strategy that propel the Trump administration's foreign policy.The key objective of this book is to look beyond the 'noise' of the Trump presidency in order to elucidate and make sense of contemporary US...

Macro-level dynamics and modelling are well represented in the mainstream political risk literature. However, not many writings on the subject get their hands dirty in terms of revealing the hard, nuanced and practical work behind knowing what the issues...

This book offers the first major reassessment of the life and work of Sir Henry Bennet, earl of Arlington, for over a century. Arlington was one of Charles II's chief ministers and the book charts his early years through to the careers of his...

Ever since the establishment of the Fifth Republic in 1958, France has believed its strategic independence to be predicated on self-sufficiency in modern weapons. In order to maintain the requisite defence-industrial base, in the context of limited...

This book explains the development of the international system's present-day balance of power by exploring three central questions: (1) Under what conditions has the international system order evolved from a unipolar system to the current multipolar...

This book focuses on the varied support for the populist radical right in the Benelux countries: Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. Despite many common characteristics, right-wing populist parties have historically been more successful in the...

Analyzing the use of civilization in Russian-language political and media discourses, intellectual and academic production, and artistic practices, this book discusses the rise of civilizational rhetoric in Russia and global politics.Why does the concept...

This book analyzes China's foreign technology acquisition activity and how this has helped its rapid rise to superpower status.Since 1949, China has operated a vast and unique system of foreign technology spotting and transfer aimed at accelerating...

This book examines the gender dimensions of a wide array of national and international security challenges.The volume examines gender dynamics in ten issue areas in both the traditional and human security sub-fields: armed conflict, post-conflict,...

This book analyses the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as a powerful actor in International Relations by examining how the ASEAN community has evolved, looking specifically at its relationship with the EU with regards to human rights. The...

Hegemony and World Order explores a key question for our tumultuous times of multiple global crises. Does hegemony - that is, legitimated rule by dominant power - have a role in ordering world politics of the twenty-first century? If so, what form does...

Intelligence officers working under diplomatic protection are rarely out of the news for long, and the last two years have been no exception. Strong circumstantial evidence has accumulated that they have played some role in cultivating even the President...

Employed against a warlike background, the diplomatic methods of the ancient Greeks are thought by some to have been useless but by others to have been the most advanced seen prior to modern times. This book works to its own view by looking at the...

Whether states balance against or bandwagon with threatening great powers remains an unsolved problem for international relations theory. One school argues that military power compels minor powers to accommodate threats, while another defends that it...

Ginny Toliver, a life-long Philadelphian, has been a teacher, world traveler and gracious host to numerous guests from Europe, Russia and and some countries predominantly Muslim.  In this memoir of her unique life, she tells of her passion for...

The Hunt Is On. The President, the CIA, and the Russians Launch Lethal Searches for These Four Clones Four of America's founding fathers have been cloned and through a genetics acceleration process are now in their twenties. The White House panics,...

This book discusses the danger of nuclear and biological terrorism and the strategies of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia based extremist and jihadist groups to purchase fissile material in black market or steal it from a military or civilian...

This book is a compilation of papers presented at a day-long conference organised in Chennai, on March 28, 2019, by the Chennai Centre for China Studies (C3S) in partnership with the National Maritime Foundation (NMF) and the Department of Defence...

Netaji Institute for Asian Studies, an autonomous social science research institute sponsored by Government of West Bengal in its Higher Education Department, had initiated a project to publish in the form of Occasional Papers/Policy Briefs the outlines...

It does not require a person to have an extraordinary IQ to indicate the fundamental necessities of a man, which are food, dress and shelter. However, one more necessity is there to include in the list. i.e. peace. There is price for food, dress and...

The fiscal year (FY) 2017 National Defense Authorization Act, which includes a title to reform the Department of Defense (DoD) security cooperation, has far-reaching implications for U.S. defense interests in Africa. As the Chairman of the House Armed...

In recent years, the descriptive term 'Indo-Pacific' has entered the geo-strategic lexicon as a substitute for the more established expression 'Asia-Pacific'. Defined as an integrated strategic system that best captures the shift in power and influence...

The transitional politics of Eurasian space is marked by a constant struggle among three sets of ideas and institutions: the first is the remarkable resilience of Soviet ideas and institutions; second, an attempt by the regimes of these states to...