International Relations

The troubled days in Russia during World War I, from the Bolshevik seizure of power in November 1917 to Russia's final departure from the war after the Treaty of Brest Litovsk in March 1918, are the setting of this absorbing historical narrative by one...

From antiquity, when the Great Pyramid was revered as a wonder of the ancient world, to the Cleopatra of Shakespeare's stage, and from the medieval Arab scholars who sought hieroglyphs' mystical wisdom, to the biblical stories still told today, Visions...

The Routledge Handbook of Air Power offers a comprehensive overview of the political purposes and military importance of air power.Despite its increasing significance in international relations, statecraft and war, the phenomenon of air power remains...

This book contains unique, firsthand experiences of both the military and civilian actors involved in civil-military interaction processes. It presents lessons learned from a variety of situations, from both NATO-led operations and UN Integrated...

History records only one peaceful transition of hegemonic power: the passage from British to American dominance of the international order. What made that transition uniquely cooperative and nonviolent? Does it offer lessons to guide policy as the United...

A 'German Europe' seems to have emerged from the euro crisis. During the last few years, Chancellor Angela Merkel has been compared with Hitler in the European media and on the streets of European capitals. There has been much debate about German...

Increasingly powerful, prosperous and authoritarian, China under the leadership of Xi Jinping has become a more intense competitor across the globe -- economically, technologically, diplomatically, militarily, and in seeking to influence people's hearts...

Fully revised and updated, this fifth edition of Understanding Global Security considers the variety of ways in which peoples' lives are threatened and / or secured in contemporary global politics. The traditional focus of security studies - war,...

Sexual violence is a significant problem within many Western militaries. Despite international attention to the issue and global #MeToo and #TimesUp movements highlighting the impact of sexual violence, rates of sexual violence are going up in many...

The first history of the Cold War focusing on the Soviet dimension, based on previously inaccessible archives The phrase "Cold War" was coined by George Orwell in 1945 to describe the impact of the atomic bomb on world politics: "We may be...

At a time when critiques of free trade policies are gaining currency, The Neomercantilists helps make sense of the protectionist turn, providing the first intellectual history of the genealogy of neomercantilism. Eric Helleiner identifies many pioneers...

Despite the frequency with which the word 'solidarity' is invoked the concept itself has rarely been subjected to close scrutiny. In this original and stereotype-busting work, David Featherstone helps redress this imbalance through an innovative...

Setting out to examine the world context within which American foreign policy must function, Mr. Kennan faces the hard facts of Soviet expansion, the ambiguous and often chaotic forces in the non-communist world, and the enormous difficulty of...

A large and widening gap has opened between Western democracies' international ambitions and their domestic political capacity to support them. On issues ranging from immigration and international trade to national security, new political parties on the...

Individualism embraces a wide diversity of meanings and is widely used by those who criticise and by those who praise Western societies and their culture, by historians and literary scholars in search of the emergence of 'the individual', by...

This volume offers an accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the history of international political thought. Taking as its starting-point the various concepts people have used to think about differences between political communities, the book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692438954Author Teri BlumenfeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Calamo PressPublisher Calamo PressWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

In this century, the world will conduct an extraordinary experiment in government. In 2050, forty percent of the planet's population will live in just four places: India, China, the European Union, and the United States. These are superstates - polities...

This book, written with unique access to official archives, tells the secret story of Britain's H-bomb - the scientific and strategic background, the government's policy decision, the work of the remarkable men who created the bomb, the four weapon...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598536584Author Jonathan SchellFormat HardbackPage Count 800Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America

We are in the midst of an energy revolution, led by the United States. As the world's greatest producer of natural gas moves aggressively to expand its exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG), America stands poised to become an energy superpower-an...

Now available in a fully revised and updated third edition, The Cold War: A Post-Cold War History offers an authoritative and accessible introduction to the history and enduring legacy of the Cold War. Thoroughly updated in light of new scholarship,...

This study of politics and the role of the state in the Arab world is aimed at students of Middle East politics, political theory and political economy. Ayubi's main objective is to place the Arab world within a theoretical framework that avoids both...

International sanctions have become the instrument of choice for policymakers dealing with a variety of different challenges to international peace and security. This is the first comprehensive and systematic analysis of all the targeted sanctions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525563570Author Robert KaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316410670Author James BradleyFormat HardbackPage Count 608Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)...

This third edition of the successful Routledge Handbook of Religion and Politics provides a definitive global survey of the interaction of religion and politics. From the United States to the Middle East, from Asia to Africa, and beyond, religion...

Why do nations break into one another's most important computer networks? There is an obvious answer: to steal valuable information or to attack. But this isn't the full story. This book draws on often-overlooked documents leaked by Edward Snowden,...

Iran has emerged from decades of isolation and struggle to become a leading, if not the pre-eminent, regional power. Iran projects its influence throughout the Middle East and parts of Central Asia. Moreover, Iranian diplomacy is active on the world...

The nuclear weapons question runs through post-1940 British history like an irradiated thread. It represents part of the hidden history of twentieth-century Britain, given the high level of technical secrecy and political sensitivity in which the bomb...

What do we mean by theory in international relations? What kinds of knowledge do theories seek? How do they stipulate it is found? How should we evaluate any resulting knowledge claims? What do answers to these questions tell us about the theory project...

This book offers a major new theory of global governance, explaining both its rise and what many see as its current crisis. The author suggests that world politics is now embedded in a normative and institutional structure dominated by hierarchies and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679752592Author George H. W. BushFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 505gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

As International Relations enters its second century as an academic discipline, leading expert Knud Erik Jorgensen provides a provocative assessment of its past, present and future. In this book, Jorgensen traces International Relations scholarship,...

Canada and the British Empire traces the evolution of Canada, placing it within the wider context of British imperial history. Beginning with a broad chronological narrative, the volume surveys the country's history from the foundation of the first...

As National Security Adviser to President Jimmy Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928-2017) guided U.S. foreign policy at a critical juncture of the Cold War. But his impact on America's role in the world extends far beyond his years in the White House, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262525886Author David L. PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 340g

This book examines the large but neglected topic of the development of maritime power from both an historical and a contemporary point of view.Navies have never been more important than they are now, in a century becoming, as widely expected,...

Originally published in 1999, this A-to-Z guidebook of wartime atrocities has received worldwide acclaim and has been translated into eleven languages. Now substantially updated, with sixteen new entries, this concise guide to the broken rules of war...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805089134Author Larry DiamondFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams) 335g