International Relations

How competing visions of world order in the 1940s gave rise to the modern concept of globalism During and after the Second World War, public intel...

Revised for its third edition, Brazil: Five Centuries of Change vividly traces the development of Brazil over the last 500 years.

This book explores the seemingly unstoppable turn away from Europe and towards Asian powers, notably China, on the part of the Russian state in the...

This volume explores the determinants of state power, the strategic options of rising powers, the drivers of conflict in dynamic international syst...

Does the Internet fundamentally change the flow of politically relevant information, even in authoritarian regimes? If so, does it alter the attitu...

Does humanitarian intervention 'work'? Could it work better if approached differently? Or should we just, in the words of one critic, 'give war a...

Sikh Nationalism and Identity in a Global Age examines the construction of a Sikh national identity in post-colonial India and the diaspora and exp...

The Wars of the French Revolution, 17921801 offers a comprehensive and jargon-free coverage of this turbulent period and unites political, social, ...

After Zionism brings together some of the worlds leading thinkers on the Middle East question. In thought-provoking essays, the contributors dissec...

'The Legacy of Iraq' critically reflects on the abject failure of the 2003 intervention to turn Iraq into a liberal democracy, underpinned by free-...

The concept of the state plays a central role in international relations, particularly in realist and neo-realist approaches. Yet, the meaning of t...

During the Second World War hundreds of Hollywood filmmakers under the command of the legendary director John Ford enlisted in the OSS to produce t...

China's Vulnerability Paradox explains the uneven transformations in global commodity markets resulting from China's contemporary, dramatic economi...

One of the prominent themes of the political history of the 16th and 17th centuries is the waxing influence officials in the exercise of state powe...

This book addresses a crucial question: the contribution of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to the historic dissolution of the USSR in 1991, which in...

From Margaret of Anjou to Katherine Parr, All the Queens Jewels examines the jewellery collections of the ten queen consorts of England between 144...

Since Soviet collapse, the independent republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan have faced tremendous political...

In 1899, U.S. Secretary of State John Hay wrote six world powers calling for an Open Door in China that would guarantee equal trading opportunities...

The global financial crisis of 2007-09, and the Great Recession that it engendered, were both a challenge and an opportunity for Asia. The region n...

This book discusses the Caucasus, analysing its strategic aspects and the policies of Russia towards the region throughout history and especially d...

The Wests actions in the Middle East are based on a fundamental misunderstanding: political Islam is repeatedly assumed to be the main cause of con...

This book aims to reinvigorate realist international relations theory by developing a catalogue of micro-mechanisms able to explain security policy...

This book presents more than 1,000 entries organized in twenty-six major categories in the fields of conflict and peace studies. It focuses on glob...

This book is a very timely account of the legal, economic and political consequences for border states caught in the current tug-of-war between the...

Why do critics and celebrants of globalization concur that international trade and finance represent an inexorable globe-bestriding force with a si...

This book examines the US foreign policy of differentiation towards the socialist regimes of Eastern Europe as it was implemented by various admini...

From the conflict between the United States and the Iranian-backed militias in Iraq and Syria to the recent Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip, eve...

Gives readers the resources to explore and understand the wide range of factors that shape American foreign policy, as well as a fact-based approac...

The Russian Invasion of Ukraine and Implications for the Central Region addresses national security threats and strategic opportunities for the Uni...

This book examines the educational role of three international organizations created as part of the post-World War II multilateral architecture: th...

The most practical guide to conducting research in Politics and International Relations. This textbook sets out how to approach every stage of your...

The most practical guide to conducting research in Politics and International Relations. This textbook sets out how to approach every stage of your...

This book examines the EUs and Russias policies in Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus through the prism of hegemony, a concept that it applies t...

Focusing on inward foreign direct investment (FDI) screening, this book provides an in-depth analysis of how European states economic interactions ...

Based on an extensive literature review, in-depth interviews, fieldwork, and anecdotal evidence, this text examines Chinas engagement with East Afr...