European regions

Regions are important objects of identification to their citizens, but also relevant political and legal entities in the EU’s multilevel governance system. This edited volume asks about the potential of regions for trendsetting when it comes to combat the EU’s democratic deficit today.

Revisiting regionalism and the contemporary world order

This book critically analyzes the ongoing changes in regional, intra-regional, and global dynamics and world order. It proposes a truly global IR understanding of the post-hegemonic world, weaving together the pluralist and multidisciplinary perspectives of scholars located all around the world.

Strong society, smart state

The rise and influence of public opinion on Chinese foreign policy reveals a remarkable evolution in authoritarian responses to social turmoil. James Reilly shows how Chinese leaders have responded to popular demands for political participation with a sophisticated strategy of tolerance, responsi...

Wiring the world

Wiring the World is a cultural and social history that explores how the large Anglo-American cable companies won out over alternative visions. Through telegram prices, visions for world peace, scientific innovation, and the role of the nation-state, Simone M. Müller traces globalization's diverse...

Virus alert

Bound up with the human cost of HIV/AIDS is the critical issue of its impact on national and international security, yet attempts to assess the pandemic's complex risk fail to recognize the political dangers of construing the disease as a security threat. The securitization of HIV/AIDS not only a...

Sustaining india's growth miracle

The economy of India is growing at a rate of 8 percent per year, and its exports of goods and services have more than doubled in the past three years. Considering these trends, economists, scholars, and political leaders across the globe are beginning to wonder whether India's growth can be susta...

Popular music and public diplomacy

In the early years of the Cold War, Western nations increasingly adopted strategies of public diplomacy involving popular music. While the diplomatic use of popular music was initially limited to such genres as jazz, the second half of the 20th century saw a growing presence of various popular ge...

Contentious activism and inter-korean relations

In South Korea, the contentious debate over relations with the North transcends traditional considerations of physical and economic security, and political activists play a critical role in shaping the discussion of these issues as they pursue the separate yet connected agendas of democracy, huma...

Post-digital cultures of the far right

This volume presents a critical survey of the online and offline tactics, symbols, and platforms that are used by contemporary far-right groups in Europe and North America. Featuring short, accessible analyses, the book explains how and why the Internet has been crucial to emboldening extremism a...

The adoption plan

The Adoption Plan offers a new history of the rise of global humanitarianism that places the recipients, administrators, and critics of humanitarian aid in China at the center of the story.

Polycentric water governance in spain

Nora Schütze investigates processes of coordination between the water and agricultural sector in three Spanish river basins in the context of the EU Water Framework Directive implementation.

The terrorism trap

Harrison Akins reveals how the war on terror has led to the unintended consequence of increasing domestic terrorism in U.S. partner states. He examines U.S.-backed counterterrorism operations that targeted al Qaeda in peripheral regions over which central governments held little control.

Germany’s new partners

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis Germany became Europe’s most influential nation state. This book aims to provide a comparative assessment of how this is reflected in the country’s bilateral security relationships with key global and regional partners. Prepared by an international team of...

Socializing development

As multilateral development banks gained influence in shaping global development, transnational social movements pushed to hold them accountable for their human rights impact. Leon Valentin Schettler presents a novel causal mechanism of movement advocacy, comparing the evolution of human rights s...

The war on terror

An enduring feature of American foreign policy for over two decades. This book shows how the War on Terror has changed global politics, why it has been fought and why it has proven so difficult to end despite multiple failed attempts at course correction.

Voices from iraq

Featuring the testimony of close to seventy Iraqis from all walks of life, Voices from Iraq builds a riveting chronological history unmatched for its insight and revelations. Here is a history of the war in Iraq as told entirely by Iraqis living through the U.S. invasion and occupation.Beginning ...

Mission revolution

Defined as operations other than war, stability operations can include peacekeeping activities, population control, and counternarcotics efforts, and for the entire history of the United States military, they have been considered a dangerous distraction if not an outright drain on combat resource...

A tale of two unions

Mark Corner suggests the UK can only survive as a single nation-state if it looks sympathetically at the European structures from which it detached itself.

The united states and the world economy

What are the key foreign economic policy issues facing the United States in the second half of this decade? How can the administration and Congress meet the economic challenges that lie ahead? This new book analyzes the dramatic importance of the world economy to both the domestic prosperity and ...

The art of sanctions

The Art of Sanctions offers a practical framework for planning and applying sanctions based on two critical factors: pain and resolve. Focusing on lessons learned from sanctions on Iran and Iraq, Richard Nephew provides policymakers with practical guidance on how to measure and respond to pain an...

The other cold war

In this conceptually bold project, Heonik Kwon uses anthropology to interrogate the cold war's cultural and historical narratives. Adopting a truly panoramic view of local politics and international events, he challenges the notion that the cold war was a global struggle fought uniformly around t...

Civil and uncivil violence in lebanon

In this long-awaited work, Samir Khalaf analyzes the history of civil strife and political violence in Lebanon and reveals the inherent contradictions that have plagued that country and made it so vulnerable to both inter-Arab and superpower rivalries. How did afairly peaceful and resourceful soc...

Decoding al-qaeda's strategy

The first book to draw a blueprint for defeating al-Qaeda on ideological rather than military grounds.

The israeli secret services and the struggle against terrorism

While Mossad is known as one of the world's most successful terrorist-fighting organizations, the state of Israel has, more than once and on many levels, risked the lives of its agents and soldiers through unwise intelligence-based intervention. The elimination of Palestinian leaders and militant...

Security and profit in china’s energy policy

This book identifies the interrelationship between security and profit that better describes China’s energy-security policy.

International relations theory and the asia-pacific

What will the Asia-Pacific rim look like in the years ahead? What tools will international relations theorists need to understand the complex relationship among China, Japan, and the United States as the three powers shape the economic and political future of this crucial region?Some of the best ...

China's relations with africa

This book examines the full scope of contemporary political and security relations between China and Africa. Drawing on two decades of systematic data and hundreds of surveys and in-person interviews, David H. Shinn and Joshua Eisenman shed new light on the state of China-Africa relations today a...

Hemmed in

Geopolitics and energy diplomacy in the caspian region

Yunis Gurbanov explores the strategic importance of the Caspian region and how its oil and gas resources could serve as an alternative to conventional suppliers.

Russia, the european union and nato

Russia, the European Union, and NATO still share some important common interests that need to be given greater attention. A return to strategic partnership is not conceivable without resolving the Ukraine confl ict, but prudent management of the antagonism in order to keep open the prospect of a ...

Schools for conflict or for peace in afghanistan

Dana Burde shows how aid to education in Afghanistan bolstered conflict both deliberately in the 1980s through violence-infused, anti-Soviet curricula and inadvertently in the 2000s through misguided stabilization programs

Human trafficking around the world

This unprecedented study of sex trafficking, forced labor, organ trafficking, and sex tourism across twenty-four nations.

Covering globalization

The first journalism textbook for reporters who cover finance and economics in developing and transitional countries, Covering Globalization is an essential guide to the pressing topics of our times. Written by economists from the Asian Development Bank and the International Monetary Fund as well...

How east asians view democracy

East Asian democracies are in trouble, their legitimacy threatened by poor policy performance and undermined by nostalgia for the progrowth, soft-authoritarian regimes of the past. Yet citizens throughout the region value freedom, reject authoritarian alternatives, and believe in democracy. This ...