International Relations

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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...

As the two most influential and powerful actors in Eurasia the nature of the Turkish-Russian relationship affects the situation in the Black Sea, S...

Civil society plays an increasingly powerful role in the global landscape, emerging as key actors in preventing and managing conflict, and building...

This volume explores the contemporary challenges to US national cybersecurity.Taking stock of the field, it features contributions by leading exper...

This book explores the influence of private United States (US) philanthropic foundations in the governance of global problems. Through a close scru...

This book seeks to launch a new research agenda for the historiography of Dutch foreign relations during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It...

Since the end of the 1960s, Japan’s power in the world has largely been linked to its economic successes, while it has pursued a decidedly pacifist...

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...

As experienced by the United States, competition has played out in three distinct types of threat activity: sabotage (the destruction of capabiliti...

This book, first published in 1994, provides a comprehensive treatment of a crucial set of geopolitical issues from a region where political develo...

How do emerging states obtain international recognition and secure membership of international organisations in contemporary world politics? This b...

The question of how political parties are, and ought to be, regulated has assumed an increased importance in recent years, both within the scholarl...

This book examines the extent to which a space has opened up in recent years for the so-called "rising powers" of the global South to offer an alte...