International Relations

This collaborative and edited volume explores the geopolitical and geostrategic significance of the South China Sea disputes. Experts from interdis...

This concise and balanced account details Pakistan's turbulent 73-year history of civil war, military coups, political assassinations, wars with In...

Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan has been in the spotlight since 9/11. This tiny piece of land is crucial to all: a determina...

In a strange way, the United States achieved its goal for the Vietnam War, but forgot why it was fighting. It was not fighting to keep South Vietna...

The SAGE Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science and International Relations offers a comprehensive overview of research processes in soc...

Winner of the 2020 Pushkin House Book PrizeRussias relationship with its neighbours and with the West has worsened dramatically in recent years. Un...

Activists have exposed startling forms of labor exploitation and environmental degradation in global industries, leading many large retailers and b...

What can the international community do when countries would rather ignore a thorny problem? Scorecard Diplomacy shows that, despite lacking tradit...

For over sixty years the United States has been the largest economy and most powerful country in the world. However, there is growing speculation t...

The fifth edition of this classic reader retains many of the articles that have made the book a must-assign for classes on development and politica...

Eqbal Ahmad (1930?-1999) was a bold and original activist, journalist, and theorist who brought uncommon perspective to the rise of militant Islam,...

It is because Catholicism played such a formative role in the construction of Western legal culture that it is the focal point of this enquiry. The...

Starting as a civil uprising calling for liberal reforms in March 2011, the unrest in Syria rapidly deteriorated into a proxy-led armed conflict in...

How do states overcome problems of collective action in the face of human atrocities, terrorism and the threat of weapons of mass destruction? How ...

With events and movements such as #MeToo, the Gender Equality UN Sustainable Development Goal, the Irish and Chilean abortion policy changes, and t...

This book challenges the unacceptable gap between the positive rules of the international law governing armed hostilities and actual state practice...

Belief in the United States as a force for good in the world runs deep. Yet an honest consideration reveals a history marred by great crimes and ...

Iran has remained one of the most effective tools in Russia's foreign policy towards the West for more than two hundred years. Drawing on previousl...

The Hidden Hands of Justice: NGOs, Human Rights, and International Courts is the first comprehensive analysis of non-governmental organization (NGO...

Italian adventurer and sea captain Celso Cesare Moreno traveled the world lying, scheming, and building an extensive patron/client network to estab...