International Relations

Between 1956 and 1963, the United Nations grappled with the Hungarian question; namely, what it should do about the events and aftermath of the cou...

Between 1956 and 1963, the United Nations grappled with the Hungarian question; namely, what it should do about the events and aftermath of the cou...

In 1997, the smooth handover of Hong Kong between China and the United Kingdom defied pessimistic predictions about Hong Kong's future. The success...

Are we as a species headed towards extinction? As our economic system renders our planet increasingly inhospitable to human life, powerful individu...

Germany's unification in October 1990 was one of the most momentous events in modern European history and world politics since the end of World War...

This book evaluates the global response to climate change from a cosmopolitan justice perspective. Going above and beyond existing studies, Dietzel...

Building upon a previous study of Japan's colonial empire, this volume examines the period from 1895 to 1937 when Japan's economic, social, politic...

Since the turn of the century bilateral trade between China and Latin America has increased by more than a factor of ten. In 2000, two-way trade st...

Between 1968 and 1975, there was a subtle thawing of relations between East and West, for which Brezhnev coined the name Détente, and perhaps a c...

This book focuses on queer people and their encounters with international law.Traversing a wide range of topics, from trans discrimination and conv...

This edited collection is the product of a National Research Working Group (NRWG) established by Said Adejumobi and supported by the Open Society I...

This book analyzes major human security threats in the MENA region, including food, water, energy, climate, and health security. It also examines s...

This series of original case studies, focusing on the proceedings and wider diplomatic significance of lavish banquets held across the period at ic...

Steven Hurst traces the development of the Iranian nuclear weapon crisis across its historical context: from the conception of Iran's nuclear progr...

Settlement projects are sustained clusters of policies that allow states to strategically plan, implement and support the permanent transfer of nat...

Combining his expertise as a national security correspondent and research academic, Paul Lashmar reveals how and why the media became more critical...

Systematically analyses the impact of external military crises on Japanese security policy expansion in the post-Cold War period.Focuses on the wid...

In the past 15 years, UK anti-militarist activists have auctioned off a tank outside an arms fair, superglued themselves to Lockheed Martin's centr...

Raymond Aron made major investigations into the dialectic between war and peace, and also developed a sophisticated theory of international relatio...

In the 21st century, more than any other time, US agencies have relied on contractors to conduct core intelligence functions. This book charts the ...

James Lockhart blends Chilean, inter-American and transatlantic national, regional and world-historical trends into a century-long Cold War narrati...

Exploring the physical, embodied landscape of the military-peace complex in AfghanistanThis book focuses on the military and statebuilding componen...

The ArmenianAzerbaijani conflict for control of the mountainous territory of Nagorny Karabakh is the longest-running dispute in post-Soviet Eurasia...

Does political Islam have a specific vision of global politics? How has the foreign policy of Islamist forces developed in order to impose their id...

Drawing on extensive interviews and archival research, this biography uncovers the motivations and ideals that informed Smiley's commitment to cove...

Lee, Chan and their contributors analyse the different kinds of soft power deployed by Taiwan in its bid to strengthen its relations with its neigh...

This handbook examines the study of international relations (IR) in Russia, giving a comprehensive analysis of historical, theoretic-conceptual, ge...

Foregrounding the ways in which men experience transnational migration, Migratory Men: Place, Transnationalism and Masculinities considers how we c...

This book offers new and cutting-edge analyses of under-explored subjects and issues in the realm of soft power. It attempts to fill significant sc...

This book injects nuance into the debate about the moral legitimacy of environmental and animal activism and explores how activism can lead to stig...

The book focuses on the main security threats, defence industry, arms trade, defence policies and military capabilities related issues in the Asia-...