International Relations

Individuals, firms, governments and nations behave strategically, for good and bad. Over the last few decades, game theory has been constructed and...

Peacekeeping is a security concept that is very representative of the current interventionism, multilateralism, human rights, and humanitarian idea...

The first war between China and Japan in 1894/95 was one of the most fateful events, not only in modern Japanese and Chinese history, but in intern...

Enlargement to Turkey is arguably the greatest challenge facing the European Union today. After the narrowly averted "train crash" over Cyprus in 2...

Individuals, firms, governments and nations behave strategically, for good and bad. Over the last few decades, game theory has been constructed and...

This book examines the application of the UN Security Council's mandatory sanctions since 1946, and, in particular, the regimes adopted for specifi...

Can the euro challenge the supremacy of the U.S. dollar as a global currency? From the time Europe’s joint money was born, many have predicted that...

Can the euro challenge the supremacy of the U.S. dollar as a global currency? From the time Europe’s joint money was born, many have predicted that...

The Beijing 2008 Olympic ceremonies were spectacular performances and technological accomplishments by the People’s Republic of China. However, the...

Despite having been active in the region since the mid-1990s, the role of NATO in the Middle East has attracted particular attention since the even...

This unique volume critically discusses the works of fifty of the most influential scholars involved in the study of the Holocaust and genocide. St...

This unique volume critically discusses the works of fifty of the most influential scholars involved in the study of the Holocaust and genocide. St...

This book examines the state of the nuclear non-proliferation regime and the issues it faces in the early 21st century.Despite the fact that most c...

Despite for many years receiving the highest per capita aid worldwide, the economies of the West Bank and Gaza Strip have failed to achieve any las...

The book begins with an agenda-setting introduction which will provide an overview of the central question being addressed, such as the circumstanc...

In a relatively short time, many European governments have been purposefully dropping the notion ‘multicultural’ or other references to cultural di...

Organized crime is now a major threat to all industrial and non-industrial countries. Using an inter-disciplinary and comparative approach this boo...

This edited volume addresses the key issues of ethics, war and international relations in the post-9/11 world.There is a lively debate in contempor...

This book explores the implications of claims that the most challenging political problems of our time express an urgent need to reimagine where an...

This book explores the implications of claims that the most challenging political problems of our time express an urgent need to reimagine where an...

This book weaves together perspectives drawn from critical international relations, anthropology and social theory in order to understand the Polis...

This unique volume offers an original collection of essays on the theme of America’s ‘special relationships’. It interrogates in an original and pr...

This unique volume offers an original collection of essays on the theme of America’s ‘special relationships’. It interrogates in an original and pr...

The first war between China and Japan in 1894/95 was one of the most fateful events, not only in modern Japanese and Chinese history, but in intern...

Through the study of five ethno-political conflicts lying on or just beyond Europe's borders, this book analyzes the impact and effectiveness of EU...

In contrast to the common perception that the United Nations is, or should become, a system of collective security, this paper advances the proposi...

Now in its second edition, Fifty Key Thinkers in International Relations has been thoroughly updated with several new entries and a new preface to ...

Presenting the first critical analysis of Carl Schmitt's The Nomos of the Earth and how it relates to the epochal changes in the international syst...

Immigration policy in the United States, Europe, and the Commonwealth went under the microscope after the terror attacks of 9/11 and the subsequent...

Enlargement to Turkey is arguably the greatest challenge facing the European Union today. After the narrowly averted "train crash" over Cyprus in 2...

This book analyses the American way of war within the context of Clausewitzian theory. In doing so, it draws conclusions about the origins, viabili...

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is the first full-length study of the largest nongovernmental, global regulatory network w...

European Navies and the Conduct of War considers the different contexts within which European navies operated over a period of 500 years culminatin...

This pioneering text brings together for the first time the global institutions on the front line of the campaign against hunger and poverty. The i...

This pioneering text brings together for the first time the global institutions on the front line of the campaign against hunger and poverty. The i...

Many nations recognize the moral and legal obligation to accept people fleeing from persecution, but political asylum applicants in the twenty-firs...