International Relations

This book is intended for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners interested in the dynamics and governance of low-carbon transitions. Drawing on the Multi-Level Perspective, it develops a whole system reconfiguration approach that explains how the...

In June 2016, more than 17 million people voted for Britain to leave the European Union. The fallout of this momentous referendum has been tumultuous and unpredictable. Now, from the authors of the highly-acclaimed Brexit: Why Britain Voted to Leave the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949762877Author Kyle FerranaFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity PressWeight(grams) 254g

A fascinating history of China's relations with the West-told through the lives of two eighteenth-century translatorsThe 1793 British embassy to China, which led to Lord George Macartney's fraught encounter with the Qianlong emperor, has often been...

Classical political theorists such as Thucydides, Kant, Rousseau, Smith, Hegel, Grotius, Mill, Locke and Clausewitz are often employed to explain and justify contemporary international politics and are seen to constitute the different schools of thought...

This book charts the relentless rise of the public relations industry and how it has transformed our society. Revealing the roots of the PR movement in the years leading up to the First World War, it shows how it became a key tool in the struggle to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788432309748Author Eduardo GaleanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 365Imprint Editores Siglo XXI de Espana, S.A.Publisher Editores Siglo XXI de Espana, S.A.

The story of how a much-contested legal category-statelessness-transformed the international legal order and redefined the relationship between states and their citizens.Two world wars left millions stranded in Europe. The collapse of empires and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845400347Author Mark BaimbridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

In Bullets Not Ballots, Jacqueline L. Hazelton challenges the claim that winning "hearts and minds" is critical to successful counterinsurgency campaigns. Good governance, this conventional wisdom holds, gains the besieged government popular support,...

Shemlan, a small, once unknown village in the hills overlooking Beirut, became notorious throughout the Middle East when Bertram Thomas chose it as the location for the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies (MECAS) in 1947. The knowledge that a western...

Buzan and Acharya challenge the discipline of International Relations to reimagine itself in the light of the thinking about, and practice of, international relations and world order from premodern India, China and the Islamic world. This prequel to...

Deception in High Places reveals the corruption endemic in Britain's biggest arms deals over the last fifty years. Based on painstaking research in government archives, collections of private and court papers and documents won by the author in a...

Today, 318 million people in 15 countries use the Euro, which now rivals the importance of the US Dollar in the world economy. This is an outcome that few would have predicted with confidence when the Euro was launched. How can we explain this success...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061189241Author Paul KengorFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 544g

The Inevitability of Tragedy is a fascinating intellectual biography that examines Henry Kissinger's role in American government through his ideas. It analyses the continuing controversies surrounding Kissinger's policies in such places as Vietnam and...

In his last years as president of the United States, an embattled George Washington yearned for a time when his nation would have "the strength of a Giant and there will be none who can make us afraid." At the turn of the twentieth century, the United...

In a world in which global trade is at risk, where warehouses and airports, shipping lanes and seaports try to guard against the likes of Al Qaeda and Somali pirates, and natural disaster can disrupt the flow of goods, even our "stuff" has a political...

After the 2008-9 global financial crisis, reforms to promote stability, social inclusion, and sustainability were promised but not delivered. As a result, the global economic situation, marred by inequality, volatility, and climate breakdown, remains...

This book examines Russia's external security policy under the presidencies of Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev and beyond.The Russian Federation has developed from a neglected regional power into a self-declared resurgent superpower. Russia's background...

The United States' ignominious exit from Afghanistan in 2021 topped two decades of failure and devastation wrought by the war on terror. A long-running "fight against migration" has stoked chaos and rights abuses while pushing migrants onto more...

States have social contractual duties to provide security for their people, but just what measures are morally required? Should states be obligated to address real/objective existential threats via securitization (i.e., threat-specific, often liberty...

How will protecting our digital infrastructure shape our future? Cybersecurity is one of the key practical and political challenges of our time. It is at the heart of how modern societies survive and thrive, yet public understanding is still...

START-UP NATION addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel - a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources-- produces more start-up...

Low growth has become the economic default in the West. While China and other Asian Tigers continue to steam ahead, western commentators either argue that stagnation is inevitable, ignoring growth in order to focus on other factors such as inflation or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560254836Author David HirstFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Thunder's Mouth PressPublisher Thunder's Mouth Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925860559Author Robert CoxFormat HardbackPage Count 36Imprint Redback PublishingPublisher Redback Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593233535Author Nadiya HussainFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Clarkson PotterPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/RodaleWeight(grams)...

Roger Owen has fully revised and updated his authoritative text to take into account the latest developments in the Middle East. This book continues to serve as an excellent introduction for newcomers to the modern history and politics of this...

For decades, Arab states and societies have been involved in an ongoing conflict over the goals and norms of Arabism. In this comprehensive study, Michael Barnett explores the relationships between Arab identity, the meaning of Arabism, and desired...

A concise, authoritative overview of a little-understood yet extremely important phenomenon in world politics: the use of economic sanctions by one country to punish another. It's hard to browse the news without seeing reports of yet another...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143118008Author Martin JacquesFormat PaperbackPage Count 848Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 139mm...

A sobering account of how the United States trapped itself in endless wars-abroad and at home-and what it might do to break free.Over the past half-century, Americans have watched their country extend its military power to what seemed the very ends of...

In this book Rob Walker offers an original analysis of the relationship between twentieth-century theories of international relations, and the political theory of civil society since the early modern period. He views theories of international relations...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307387417Author Richard RhodesFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 403gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

'No two nations have ever existed on the face of the earth which could do each other so much good or so much harm'President Buchanan, State of the Nation Address, 1859A World on Fire tells, with extraordinary sweep, one of the least known great stories...

The fourth edition of this market-leading textbook offers students a clear framework for understanding the practice and logic of International Organizations Law. It is structured around the three defining relationships IOs engage in - namely, with their...

Today's wars leave a crippling legacy of deprivation and suffering, of physical and structural injustice, long after they submit to peaceful resolution. Survivors of war must find ways to live with the stultifying injustices littering their past and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451495235Author Kai BirdFormat HardbackPage Count 832Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA Inc

This fully revised fourth edition of Michael Yahuda's successful textbook brings the subject up-to-date, introducing students to the international politics of the Asia-Pacific region since 1945. Following an evaluation of the legacy of the Cold War the...