International Relations

The establishment of the IBSA as one of the principal platforms of South-South cooperation is one of the most notable developments in international...

This book presents a theory and empirical evidence for how security forces can identify militant suspects during counterinsurgency operations.A maj...

This book examines the importance of global nuclear order, emphasising the importance of perspective in our understanding of it, and its significan...

Focused on politics and security, this volume extends the G8 and Global Governance series into the domain of international security in both its cla...

The United States and Mexico share a history shaped in the 19th century by numerous US forces interventions into Mexican territory and US expropria...

This book examines the historical interactions of the West and non-Western world, and investigates whether or not the exclusive adoption of Western...

A guide to the practice of mediation as a means of resolving conflict, this short how-to manual includes all the resources needed to teach and trai...

This book provides a long-term perspective on the opinions of the British public on foreign and defence policy in the post-war era. Thematically wi...

In response to the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, the United States embarked on a dramatic and sustained effort to reform and revitalize i...

Books of great political insight and novelty always outlive their time of birth and this reissued work, initially published in 1985, is no exceptio...

China’s foreign policy in the Arab world is important because it reflects China’s general foreign policy. In this study, first published in 1981, t...

What’s the Point of International Relations casts a critical eye on what it is that we think we are doing when we study and teach international rel...

Globalization, Difference, and Human Security seeks to advance critical human security studies by re-framing the concept of human security in terms...

This book examines the experiences of Americans in Europe during the First World War prior to the U.S. declaration of war. Key groups include volun...

For almost fifty years Japan pursued a single-track approach focusing trade negotiation efforts exclusively on the global multilateral forum while ...

This book examines the changing dynamics of power in the international arena since the end of the Cold War. Brown engages in analysis of how the Un...

This radically new work provides an innovative approach to the question of why the Suez Crisis erupted. Bertjan Verbeek here applies foreign poli...

Security policy is a key factor not only of domestic politics in the U.S., but also of foreign relations and global security. This text sets to exp...

Today, the European Union faces challenges that threaten not only internal cohesion but also its position in the global system. This book is about ...

Case study rich, this volume advances our understanding of the significance of 'the city' in global governance. The editors call for innovation in ...

The present volume engages visuality in security from a variety of angles and explores what the subfield of Visual Security Studies might be.To str...

This book provides a framework for analysing the interplay between securitisation and foreign affairs, reconnecting critical security studies with ...

The Sino-Indian border war of 1962 forms a major landmark in South Asian, Asian and Cold War history. Among others, it resulted in an unresolved co...

As the demand and necessity for greater international and transnational cooperation increase, the bureaucratic bodies of international organization...

The book aims to improve our understanding of what it means to create high-quality analytical products by focusing on the concept of relevance for ...

What will the current global political order look like when American unipolarity ends? Historically, the power configurations of world political sy...

HOW COULD THIS HAVE HAPPENED? On 23 June 2016, UK voters elected to leave the European Union. The result was perhaps the biggest bombshell in moder...

This book examines the political and legal challenges of regional governance of the 28 countries of the European Union and the 48 in the Council of...

Historically, the United States saw itself as embodying the best system of government with a foreign policy goal of bringing this system to the res...

One of Singapore's top diplomats, Bilahari Kausikan was the Institute of Policy Studies' (IPS) 2015/16 S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore...

An ongoing challenge for Western aid projects in the Third World is that all too often results do not meet expectations. Determined to address this...

The U.S. military spends more than 14 countries combined and possesses state-of-the art weapons and equipment, yet after 13 years of effort, $1.4 t...

Negotiations for a new EU-China Partnership & Cooperation Agreement have just got underway and are likely to take two to three years. This is t...

One of Singapore's top diplomats, Bilahari Kausikan was the Institute of Policy Studies' (IPS) 2015/16 S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore...

The world order as we know it is currently undergoing profound changes, and in its wake, so is foreign aid. Donors of foreign aid, development assi...