International Relations

Can the power of the G20 be legitimate? This book examines the politics surrounding the G20’s efforts to act effectively and legitimately and the p...

Donor nations may advise and counsel, but the creation of a liberal nation state falls to its own people. They must create laws, exercise their lib...

Most research on framing has focused on media and elite frames: the ways that the mass media and politicians present information about issues and e...

What difference does gender make to foreign diplomacy? What do we know about women's participation as decision-makers in international affairs? Is ...

This book is not about the events of 1989, but about 1989 as a world event. Starting with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Sovie...

Cosmopolitan Dystopia shows that rather than populists or authoritarian great powers it is cosmopolitan liberals who have done the most to subvert ...

As we face new challenges from climate change and the rise of populism in Western politics and beyond, there is little doubt that we are entering a...

This book relates a complex ethical (re)assessment of the continued reliance by some states on nuclear weapons as instruments of state power. This ...

This book traces the development of Taiwan’s relations with its diplomatic partners and its policy towards the political opponents of its political...

At the turn of the century the regional-global security partnership became a key element of peace and security policy-making. This book investigate...

Bitzinger examines the phenomenon of attempted self-reliance in arms production within Asia, and assesses the extent of success in balancing this i...

Authoritarianism and the Evolution of West European Electoral Politics provides a novel explanation of rising Euroscepticism and right-wing populis...

This book, first published in 1988, analyses the economic changes that China and Japan underwent in the 1980s – changes that not only underlined, b...

Persian in International Relations and Foreign Policy develops the reader’s command of the Persian language via thematic units that explore global ...

Religious pluralism is everywhere in today's politics. Increased immigration flows, the collapse of communism, and the globalization of communicati...

Rising Powers and State Transformation advances the concept of ‘state transformation’ as a useful lens through which to examine rising power states...

While imagological works in the field of American Studies have traditionally focused on the construction of America by outsiders, this study takes ...

For most of the twentieth century tin was fundamental for both warfare and welfare. The importance of tin is most powerfully represented by the tin...

Originally published in 1998, The "Man" Question in International Relations looks the prevalence of man in the world of international relations. Th...

This book, first published in English in 1966, is a comprehensive guide to, and analysis of, the Third Reich’s policy towards the Arab world. Based...

This updated and expanded fourth edition of Chinese Foreign Policy seeks to examine the decision-makers, processes, and rationales behind China’s e...

The book analyzes relations between Poland and Mexico from historical and contemporary perspective. It includes their political, economic and cultu...

In this intrepid study, noted Nigerian historian Onianwa Oluchukwu Ignatus investigates the air war component of the Nigerian-Biafran War, a crucia...