This book offers a crash course in contemporary Russian politics. An updated version of the bestselling 2016 edition, it......more
The leading national security expert who predicted Putin’s intention to invade Ukraine argues that China’s Xi Jinping is......more
This book offers a crash course in contemporary Russian politics. An updated version of the bestselling 2016 edition, it......more
The Sandinista Revolution and its victory against the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua gripped the United States and the......more
The Sandinista Revolution and its victory against the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua gripped the United States and the......more
An important New Deal program that shaped the relationship between Puerto Rico and the United States This book explores ......more
An important New Deal program that shaped the relationship between Puerto Rico and the United States This book explores ......more
Heritage, Conflict, and Peace-Building examines the possibilities arising from, and challenges associated with, transfor......more
Heritage, Conflict, and Peace-Building examines the possibilities arising from, and challenges associated with, transfor......more
This book examines the main environmental challenges and their management in post-Soviet Eurasia and China....more
This book explores the scope and extent of the growing Chinese influence in India’s neighbourhood and its impact on Indi......more
This book explores the scope and extent of the growing Chinese influence in India’s neighbourhood and its impact on Indi......more
This book is an international history of the foundation of modern arms control, highlighting the fact that the instrumen......more
The Constitutional Courts of Small Jurisdictions identifies features and challenges common to the constitutional courts ......more
Artpeace represents a conceptual framing of the synergy between the arts and peacemaking, as well as a methodological st......more
The return of great-power competition has highlighted the risks of conflict with nuclear-armed great powers. Such a conf......more
Is the United Kingdom capable of grand strategy? Common wisdom suggests otherwise. Some think it implausible amid the ma......more
China has arguably the largest community of Australian studies in the world. However, not much is known about this pheno......more
This book examines the role of law in Europe at a time when economic policies have become dominant not only on this cont......more
This book outlines the main technological, legal, and operational options that liberal democratic nations have when conf......more
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of municipal amalgamation reforms in Europe. Adopting the analytical and met......more
The United States as Global Liberal Hegemon examines America’s role as the global liberal hegemon. Using a historical an......more
This book examines the geo-racialized order of the Colombian state and its consequences for Afro-descendant territories.......more
The world is becoming an ever-smaller place through globalization, finance and economics, technology, media, and the man......more
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Mexico is a country whose global political and economic significance are rapidly increasing. This book offers the first ......more
This book investigates the important role of local actors in Sierra Leone in helping to foster peace and provide for the......more
Drawing on evidence from eight case studies from across three Asian subregions, this volume highlights the distinctive f......more
This book explores how political power has shaped the elite and their development in North Korea by examining changes of......more
Environmental degradation is not new, yet the impact of pollution on human health and wellbeing is growing. According to......more
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on......more
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This book is the first empirical account on the making of the International Solar Alliance (ISA). Announced jointly by I......more
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The human cost of Africa’s longstanding exploitation by foreign imperialist powers within the global capitalist economy ......more
This book provides an insight into the complex entanglements between African countries and India, China, and South Korea......more
This book addresses three innovative aspects for the study of International Relations: first, proposes a novel theoretic......more
This edited volume examines the competitive dynamics of two order-building projects in the Indo-Pacific, namely China’s ......more
In an era when hashtag campaigns like #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter capture global attention for victims of injustice, po......more
After the proclamation of the Truman Doctrine in 1947, the United States became deeply involved in Greek affairs. By 195......more
Written by a team of leading China specialists, this updated 2nd edition of Chinese Politics explores the dynamics of st......more
Written by a team of leading China specialists, this updated 2nd edition of Chinese Politics explores the dynamics of st......more
From the violent skinhead protests of the early 1990s to the National Socialist Underground murder spree of the 2000s an......more
This edited book aims to present a well-balanced view on the heated debate about BRI’s "debt trap" controversy within th......more
This book helps explain how and why there are such diverging outcomes of UN peace negotiations and treaties through a de......more
Camouflaged by "Covid-19," an undeclared global class war was initiated in 2020, aimed at replacing liberal democracy wi......more
This open-access book aims to explore and promote indigenous participation in legal design and visual law, with a specif......more
This report is part of a larger RAND Corporation study on the societal foundations of national competitiveness. The auth......more
This is the only book to tell, in a way that should appeal to both specialised historians and the general reader, the st......more
Anthropocene and Cosmopolitan Citizenship criticizes the Westphalia system of international relations and, as an alterna......more
This book is a pioneering multi-disciplinary analytical study of Caribbean political corruption grounded in Caribbean ep......more
As Volume 1 has shown, an agreed line between the US and British North America was by the mid-19th century in place acro......more
This book examines the development of Japan’s human security diplomacy for global health in the pre- and post-COVID-19 w......more
The spellbinding story of the secret life of a spy in modern China, drawn from an extraordinary archive of personal diar......more
Three decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States finds itself in a volatile rivalry with the other two gre......more
Can the West Be Saved? Liz Truss, the former Conservative prime minister of Great Britain, fears that’s an open question......more
A sobering account of how the United States trapped itself in endless wars--abroad and at home--and what it might do to ......more
The Persian Gulf has long been a contested space--an object of imperial ambitions, national antagonisms, and migratory d......more
The Persian Gulf has long been a contested space--an object of imperial ambitions, national antagonisms, and migratory d......more
The calendar. The Senate. The university. The piano, the heliocentric model, and the pizzeria. It’s hard to imagine a wo......more
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER "This work is important and astonishing, but it is also a riveting read." --Louise Penny, author o......more
COVID-19, Public Management, and Survival of East European Democracies centers initially on the development of democracy......more
This book seeks to explore a fundamental obscurity in electoral behavior literature: while socioeconomic status is typic......more
This edited volume offers a new critical approach to the study of Zionist history and Israeli-Palestinian relations, bas......more
In an era of increasing geopolitical tensions, disruptive technologies, and the rise of authoritarianism, the question o......more
Kuah explores the centrality of ancestors and ancestor worship of the Chinese in the Diaspora Chinese and China universe......more
A new collection from one of Latin America’s most dynamic radical thinkers--in the tradition of Frantz Fanon and Eduardo......more
Politics and the Pink Tide reveals how economic policy choices and the reach of political parties in civil society infor......more
This book examines the impact of epidemics in Africa, exploring some of the adaptation and crisis management strategies ......more
In considering whether Department of Defense youth programs help bridge the civilian-military divide, the authors survey......more
Inspired by Édouard Glissant’s and Marta Aponte Alsina’s critical-creative work, this book explores how Puerto Rico’s af......more
Contemporary Europe - ridden by social, political and economic crises, overlaid onto colonial and imperial trajectories,......more
The purpose of this book is to examine the foreign policy of Jacinda Ardern’s New Zealand Government between 2020 and ea......more
Trauma is commonly understood as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Yet, as this book explains, the concept of PTSD ......more
Postcolonial Surveillance investigates the long history of the European border regime, focusing on the colonial forerunn......more
This book explores the different forms of populism in European countries. Starting from a theoretical point of view, the......more
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One unintended consequence of the unprecedented rural-to-urban migration in China over the past three decades is the exp......more
The Cold War Past and Present (1987) analyses the generally antagonistic postwar relations between the Soviet Union and ......more
This book takes a fresh and interdisciplinary approach to the concept of subsidiarity. While subsidiarity is commonly un......more
This volume explores East Asian intellectual traditions and their influence on contemporary discussions of the ethics of......more
This volume explores East Asian intellectual traditions and their influence on contemporary discussions of the ethics of......more
This book provides a unique scientific contribution to the debate on Marx’s legacy in proposing to critically articulate......more
This book provides a novel theoretical framework to understand EU-China diplomatic relations. The existing scholarly lit......more
This book provides the reader with a history on the linkages between American Football and the American Way of War. It p......more
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the regulation of party finance in post-Soviet countries by leading acade......more
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of multi-level governance, political communication and public opinion in It......more
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In 2019, Solomon Islands made international headlines when the country severed its decades-old alliance with Taiwan in e......more
This open access book sets out simple solutions to managing complex catastrophes. It focusses on four kinds of crises - ......more
This book seeks to answer a number of key questions about the relationship between the IMF, developing states and the im......more
This book examines the conceptual contributions of constituent representatives in Spain during the nineteenth and twenti......more
The book offers explanations for the striking variation in the outcomes of European integration crises. It analyzes eigh......more
Bringing together eminent International Relations (IR) scholars from China and the West, this book examines moral realis......more