International Relations

This four-volume collection of Open Access books presents trans-disciplinary dialogues on the modern state formation and high economic growth of mi...

On August 30, 1999, in a United Nations-sponsored ballot, East Timor voted for independence from Indonesia and for an end to a brutal military occu...

The surprising story of the movement to create a truly democratic foreign policy by engaging ordinary Americans in world affairs.No major arena of ...

This book shows how domestic political institutions and the lack of time pressure have an impact on negotiations at the WTO. It provides detailed i...

Popular struggles in the global south suggest the need for the development of new and politically enabling categories of analysis, and new ways of ...

This book explores the uses and limits of Max Weber's work for thinking sociologically about capitalism today. The books argues that through Weber,...

This book takes a fascinating look at the role of the Arab-Islamic world in the rise of the West. It examines the cultural transmission of ideas an...

The authors explore the outlook of Rwanda in the context of development of East Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. They examine Rwanda's vision, achiev...

A lively, first hand account of the ideas and activities of women and men in anti-war, anti-militarist and peace movements. The author looks at the...

The relationship between the US and China, the world's two superpowers, is peculiarly volatile. It rests on a seismic fault-of cultural misundersta...

Energy in Europe and Russia is in flux. This book presents a rich set of case studies for analyzing the complex and intertwined regional dynamics o...

Coincided with Chinas economic reform and her rapid ascendance to a great power status, the relations between Taiwan and Chinese mainland since 197...

Alfred Marshall, Principles of Economics (1890) Founder of Modern (Neo-classical) Economics. His book Principles of Economics was the dominant tex...

An analysis of the global climate talks and the key human systems threatened by increased greenhouse gas emissions including health, refugee manage...

This pioneering volume invites scholars from different social science disciplines to contribute their competing perspectives to a far-ranging albei...

Informed by the interdisciplinary approach of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and theories of identity, nation, and media, the study investigates...

The book examines the industrial growth of sanctioned nations in terms of their ability to foster trade partnerships with countries that choose to ...

This collection examines how the EU is seen in the two regions that are at the centre of its geopolitical interest. Focusing on Eastern Europe and ...

This volume explores the conditions under which regional organizations engage in governance transfer in and to areas of limited statehood. The auth...

The democratic nation state of the post-war era has undergone major transformations since the 1970s, and political authority has been both internat...

For the last two decades, Sidney Tarrow has explored contentious politicsdisruptions of the settled political order caused by social movements. The...

In a world of border walls and obstacles to migration, a lottery where winners can gain permanent residency in the United States sounds too good to...

Beckley demonstrates that no country is poised to upend American primacy, not economically, not militarily, and not technologically.... The evidenc...