Geopolitics

Following the 2008 Beijing Olympics and Global Financial Crisis, China's foreign policy shifted to become more assertive, effecting a systematic de...

China is not only a great power but often an opaque one. What does its regional diplomacy tell us about the countrys geopolitical position and ambi...

Although many observers argue that US-Russia relations are a simple reflection of elites' political and economic preferences in both countries, the...

Developing Asia has been the site of some of the last century's fastest growing economies as well as some of the world's most durable authoritarian...

Securitizing Youth offers new insights on young peoples engagement in a wide range of contexts related to the peace and security field. It presents...

Cold War legacies in Southeast Asia enable new geographies of enclosureIn the twenty-first century, land deals in the Global South have become incr...

A sweeping history of Islamism in Central Asia from the Russian Revolution to the present through Soviet-era archival documents, oral histories, an...

The land between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan Valley has been one of the most disputed territories in history. Since the establishment of t...

Networked Selves is an original analysis of one of the most defining cultural features of our time: how people turn to the Web to construct a publi...

Networked Selves is an original analysis of one of the most defining cultural features of our time: how people turn to the Web to construct a publi...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE'Magisterial' Max Hastings, The Sunday Times'Monumental' Rana Mitter, Times Literary Supplement'Every...

'A tour de force of accessible scholarship' The Guardian'Impressive ... It is a complicated story that still reverberates, and Gingeras narrates it...

An original history of Russia's thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Putin's politics and rekindled the Cold War. ...

The last four decades have been shaped by the rise of Islamist politics across significant swathes of the globe. Whether by gun or by ballot box, v...

What explains the variety of responses that states adopt toward different refugee groups? Refugees might be granted protection or turned away; they...

During four decades of fast-paced economic growth, Chinas ascent has reverberated across the full social spectrum, from international relations to ...

During four decades of fast-paced economic growth, Chinas ascent has reverberated across the full social spectrum, from international relations to ...

Would the Islamic State ever renounce violence? In the current political climate, the question seems preposterous. Yet, at the height of a terroris...

Without a doubt, the topic of energy--from coal, oil, and nuclear to geothermal, solar and wind--is one of the most pressing across the globe. It i...

A vivid portrayal of what drove George W. Bush to invade Iraq in 2003--an outcome that was in no way predetermined. America's decision to go to ...

CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES * TELEGRAPH * PROSPECT'The best account of the ongoing conflict its preconditions and its pres...

Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine administered an unprecedented shock to the European and global energy markets, triggering emergency interventions...

The United States' ignominious exit from Afghanistan in 2021 topped two decades of failure and devastation wrought by the war on terror. A long-run...

The Singapore Lecture series was inaugurated in 1980 by the ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute (formerly Institute of Southeast Asian Studies) with a fou...

We are the only species that uses fire. It has determined how we have made our home on this planet and it has propelled us to the role of the domin...