International Relations

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have emerged as crucial actors in peacebuilding processes in post-conflict zones, contributing to the liberal...

Many current threats to security arising from terrorism, 'rogue' states and civil wars are highly complex and often transnational in nature and eff...

This title was first published in 2000: Yugoslavias dissolved at a time when rhetoric of the New World Order was firmly established in legal and po...

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the question remains Do good fences still make good neighbours? Since the Great Wall of China, the ...

Originally published in 1964, this volume focuses on the history of England's relations with the Near East from the death of Canning until the day ...

This book explores the IndiaMyanmar relationship in terms of ethnicity, security and connectivity. With the process of democratic transition in Mya...

From the days of steamship travel to Palestine to today's evangelical Christian tours of Jesus's birthplace, the relationship between the United St...

This book distills the essential elements of world politics, both the enduring characteristics as well as the revolutionary changes that may be alt...

The Second Amendment, by far the most controversial amendment to the US Constitution, will soon celebrate its 225th anniversary. Yet, despite the a...

Regional security institutions play a significant role in shaping the behavior of existing and rising regional powers by nurturing security norms a...

The rise of China is changing the strategic landscape globally and regionally. How states respond to potential threats posed by this new power arra...

This book contributes an original theory to understanding human rights and international trade. It offers the governance space framework for analys...

When Nelson Mandela was sworn in as president on 10 May 1994, South Africa enjoyed an unprecedented global standing. Much of the international comm...

This new handbook provides a comprehensive and multidisciplinary overview of the theoretical and empirical aspects of state recognition in internat...

Crisis in Central America examines the development of various aspects of U.S. policy toward Central America. It analyses external pressures on Cent...

In order to analyse configurations of power that transcend the territorial trap, the Caucasus is an excellent case in point. Its past and present e...

In this affecting and innovative global historystarting with the European children who fled the perils of World War II and ending with the Central ...

In this book, the relations and policies of global and regional powers, especially in the recent period, and the problems and issues that are impor...

Only two years after Sputnik, weapons were created for attacking spacecraft. These were based on land. But now there is talk of weapons in space-in...

Are countries truly reconciled after successful conflict resolution? Are only resource-rich regions capable of reconciliation, while supposedly res...

China has forty major transboundary watercourses with neighbouring countries, and has frequently been accused of harming its downstream neighbours ...

In the aftermath of the Ukraine crises, borders within the wider post-Cold War and post-Soviet context have become a key issue for international re...

Military force is considered essentially a non-military pursuit in international relations, specifically, humanitarian intervention and peacebuildi...