Politics and Government

This book, first published in 1984, examines the spectacular economic growth of the Asia Pacific region in the 1970s and 1980s. How did a group of ...

This Whitehall Paper provides an in-depth analysis of Russia’s Ground Forces, including airborne and naval troops. It examines their role in Russia...

This title was first published in 1980. For years to come, the "Taiwan question’ ’ is likely to raise exceedingly difficult—and potentially divisiv...

In this myth-shattering study Isaiah Friedman provides a new perspective on events in the Middle East during World War I and its aftermath. He show...

As scholars and publics look for alternatives to what is understood as a violent Western world order, many claim that China can provide such an alt...

Sweden has often been described as a democratic forerunner, with one of the world's most stable party systems and with a well-functioning parliamen...

At a time when the field of International Relations (IR) is diverting from grand theoretical debates, rediscovering the value of classical realism ...

Mission is contrived from and performed over lived contexts, but the visions that guide and drive mission are oftentimes blinded by power, position...

As religion and politics become ever more intertwined, relationships between religion and political parties are of increasing global political sign...

Soviet Risk-Taking and Crisis Behavior, first published in 1982, examines the question: for what purposes and under what conditions were Soviet lea...

Digital technologies are influencing the way we learn, live, work, and exist in different contexts of society in the digital age. There are a varie...

In the Direction of the Persian Gulf (1977) analyses the Soviet Union’s interest in the countries of the Persian Gulf against the background of its...

This book brings together some of the finest minds of social science to answer the great questions about the future of the liberal order.With contr...

Covering the years 1921 to 2021, this Dictionary reviews the major events, leaders, ideologies, and policies of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). ...

Is America in the midst of an electoral transformation? What were the sources of Joseph Biden’s victory in 2020, and how do they differ from Republ...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERAn essential blueprint for a better future, from the leading economist and Labour rising star‘Stellar: brilliant, incred...

No empire or a regional power has helped mold the socio-political and religious landscape of a country as the Ottoman Empire and its heir (the Repu...

This book examines India’s Northeast borderland – strategically positioned at the confluence of South Asia, East and Southeast Asia – from the pers...

Natural resource extraction and primary commodity export remain persistent features of the Latin American economy. This edited volume traces the po...

President Joe Biden tells the story of his extraordinary life and career prior to his emergence as Barack Obama’s beloved, influential vice preside...

The spectres of Marx and Lenin have long loomed prominently in Africa and Asia and they still do so in the 21st century. Many of the founding fathe...

This book provides a comprehensive account of the use of airpower in the first year of the Ukraine conflict.Airpower has been central to political,...