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After the proclamation of the Truman Doctrine in 1947, the United States became deeply involved in Greek affairs. By 195......more

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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

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Camouflaged by "Covid-19," an undeclared global class war was initiated in 2020, aimed at replacing liberal democracy wi......more

This book helps explain how and why there are such diverging outcomes of UN peace negotiations and treaties through a de......more

Anthropocene and Cosmopolitan Citizenship criticizes the Westphalia system of international relations and, as an alterna......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

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

This edited volume offers a new critical approach to the study of Zionist history and Israeli-Palestinian relations, bas......more

Can the West Be Saved? Liz Truss, the former Conservative prime minister of Great Britain, fears that’s an open question......more

The Persian Gulf has long been a contested space--an object of imperial ambitions, national antagonisms, and migratory d......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

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

Three decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States finds itself in a volatile rivalry with the other two gre......more

The calendar. The Senate. The university. The piano, the heliocentric model, and the pizzeria. It’s hard to imagine a wo......more

In an era of increasing geopolitical tensions, disruptive technologies, and the rise of authoritarianism, the question o......more

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The purpose of this book is to examine the foreign policy of Jacinda Ardern’s New Zealand Government between 2020 and ea......more

This book examines the impact of epidemics in Africa, exploring some of the adaptation and crisis management strategies ......more

Postcolonial Surveillance investigates the long history of the European border regime, focusing on the colonial forerunn......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

Trauma is commonly understood as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Yet, as this book explains, the concept of PTSD ......more

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This book explores the different forms of populism in European countries. Starting from a theoretical point of view, the......more

The Cold War Past and Present (1987) analyses the generally antagonistic postwar relations between the Soviet Union and ......more

One unintended consequence of the unprecedented rural-to-urban migration in China over the past three decades is the exp......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 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 unique scientific contribution to the debate on Marx’s legacy in proposing to critically articulate......more

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the regulation of party finance in post-Soviet countries by leading acade......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 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

Sports have historically been part of a broader quest of regimes for prestige on the world stage, but also to project he......more

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Bringing together eminent International Relations (IR) scholars from China and the West, this book examines moral realis......more

Exploring the digital frontiers of feminist international relations, this book investigates how gender can be mainstream......more

This book explores civil-military relations in Asia. With chapters on individual countries in the region, it provides a ......more

Everything that rises is bound to fall. The international system has been a stage for many states and different ideologi......more

This book presents a comprehensive view on how the American military examined the aftermath of the Yom Kippur War and us......more

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This book critically analyzes US political-military strategy by arguing that freedom of the seas discourse is fundamenta......more

This book is the first systematic effort to investigate the ramifications of the introduction of the Spitzenkandidaten p......more

This book aims to examine how informality of spatial governance has influenced the evolution of the conflict in Somalia ......more

International Security: Threats, Theories, and Transformation maps out security studies, the subdiscipline of discipline......more

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December 2, 1971 ushered the United Arab Emirates into existence and marked the end of one hundred fifty years of Britis......more

The United States was an upside-down British Empire. It had an agrarian economy, few large investors, and no territorial......more

The United States was an upside-down British Empire. It had an agrarian economy, few large investors, and no territorial......more

This Element applies a new version of liberalism to international relations (IR), one that derives from the political th......more

This book examines the economic and social impacts of switching diplomatic relations from Taiwan to China, and vice vers......more

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