International Politics

There is an ever-burgeoning number of books analyzing the Russian experience, or aspects of it. This Handbook is the first volume which gives both a broad survey of the literature as well as highlighting the cutting edge research work...

Transnational organized crime is a dangerous phenomenon that crosses borders, challenges States, exploits individuals, pursues profit, wrecks economies, destroys civil society, and ultimately weakens global democracy. It is a phenomenon that is all too often misunderstood and misrepresented. This Ha..

The fundamental aim of this book is to interpret Russia’s foreign policies in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia and the relevance for those policies of the creation of the Eurasian Economic Union...

Scientific Research in World War II seeks to explore how scientists managed to cope with the particular circumstances created by the war.  The book focuses on both war-waging countries such as the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, and the United States, and those under occupation, such as the Netherla..

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

This book focuses on four former Soviet sub-regions - the Baltic Sea region, the Slavic republics, the Black Sea region, and Central Asia - to explore the degree to which "democratic security" has been established...

This book explores how France changed security and defense policy and its underlying identity constructions from the Chirac to the Sarkozy years, offering a new and innovative explanation for a major change in French foreign policy and grand strategy...

This volume explores the life experiences, agency, and human rights of trafficked women in order to shed light on the complicated processes in which anti-trafficking, human rights and social justice are intersected...

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

As China has become a net importer of energy, it has increasingly come up against the US in competition for the energy of a third state. Examining this triangular relationship, this book includes case studies on China's energy relationship with countries including Canada, Australia, Saudi Arabia, An..

Status-seeking is an important aspect of the foreign policies of a number of small states, but one that has been rarely studied. This book aims to contribute to our understanding not only of status-seeking, by coming at that question from a new angle, that of a small state, but also to our understan..

Compares and explores how social democratic governments have had to adapt to globalization, European integration and social change; and whether they have successfully managed to uphold old social democratic goals and values in light of the devaluation of traditional policy instruments...