Geopolitics

The world does not need a world government to govern itself. Roberto Mangabeira Unger argues that there is an alternative: to build cooperation amo...

Ever since China''s rise to global power status, a strong narrative has emerged to explain and assess the impact of the return of this once Middle ...

The global magnitude of World War I has meant that proximity and distance were highly influential in the ways the conflict was conducted, and how i...

The global magnitude of World War I has meant that proximity and distance were highly influential in the ways the conflict was conducted, and how i...

Palestine, 1850: a backwater of the Ottoman Empire, but soon to become the focus of intense jealousies. Locally Arabs and Jews became increasingly ...

Journalists are said to write the first rough drafts of history. But I was only the messenger.When Argentine troops surged onto the shores of the F...

A gripping history of China's deteriorating relationship with Hong Kong, and its implications for the rest of the world.For the 150 years that Hong...

A global history of human rights in a world of nation-states that grant rights to some while denying them to othersOnce dominated by vast empires, ...

'Whosoever commands the sea, commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the w...

The Russian annexation of the Crimea in March 2014 focused the world's attention on the Peninsula in ways not seen since the Crimean War. Thousands...

'Lively and engaging' Financial Times'Empathetic and deeply humanising' Peter Pomerantsev, author of This is Not PropagandaEach time Ukraine has re...

'Israel, six decades after its founding, remains a nation in thrall to an original martial impulse.' Born of idealism, under David Ben Gurion and ...

Despite the long and intimate history of engagement along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan's North-West, this area and its relationship ...

By 2014, the world had grown weary of Iraq and its troubles. The Americans had all but gone and the media had turned its gaze towards Syria, but Ir...

Why, with absolutely no idea what Brexit actually meant, did the UK vote for Brexit?Why, rather than vote for the best-qualified candidate ever to...

For decades, Hong Kong has maintained precarious freedom at the edge of competing world powers. In City on the Edge, Ho-fung Hung offers a timely a...

In this book, Ann Laura Stoler navigates the shadows and shatterzones of democratic policies, considering how imperial features are folded through ...

In this book, Ann Laura Stoler navigates the shadows and shatterzones of democratic policies, considering how imperial features are folded through ...

The Handbook of Personality Dynamics and Processes is a primer to the basic and most important concepts, theories, methods, empirical findings, and...

A one-volume history of the most consequential political movements of our timepopulism, nationalism, socialismand how they are influencing the twen...

Russia''s February 24 invasion of Ukraine came from nowhere...? Felshtinsky and Stanchev''s gripping history of Putin''s attempts to take Ukraine r...