International Politics

This book explores the complex challenges that the United States and other countries experience today in fighting asymmetrical wars in which they are expected to comply with the Unoted Nations Charter as well as the Geneva Convention and other laws of war while often facing an adversary that recogni..

This book explores the complex challenges that the United States and other countries experience today in fighting asymmetrical wars in which they are expected to comply with the Unoted Nations Charter as well as the Geneva Convention and other laws of war while often facing an adversary that recogni..

This timely collection addresses the problem of ethnic conflict and its regulation. It begins with a guide to the methods used to eliminate or manage such conflict, and is followed by a global sample of case studies written by leading authorities...

In 2009 the US House of Representatives passed legislation requiring reductions in greenhouse gas emissions by 18 percent over the coming decade. Later that year, President Obama went to Copenhagen to sign a treaty requiring further reductions over a two-decade period. The President came back withou..

A unique, world-wide collection of information covering every aspect of the politics involved in human migration...

The Politics of Narcotic Drugs brings together leading experts on the drugs trade to provide an accessible yet detailed analysis of the multiple challenges that the contemporary trade in narcotic drugs and its prohibition pose, from the local to the international community...

Regional differences in wealth strongly affect national politics. Most politicians represent the interests of territories, and political debate to distribute government resources is a competition to bring money back to their district. The more wealth differs across districts, the wider policy prefer..

Since the late 1990s, development institutions have increasingly used the language of rights in their policy and practice. This special issue on feminist perspectives on politics of rights explores the strategies, tensions and challenges associated with ‘rights work’ in a variety of settings...

Using struggles around rights in the so-called Third World as their conceptual point of departure, the contributions to this book problematize human rights as both potentially emancipatory and laden with the dynamics of power that governs us as rightful or rightless subjects in the Global South as w..

In this book, John Stone highlights the equivocal position that armour has traditionally occupied in Anglo-American thought, and explains why - despite predictions to the contrary - the tank has remained an important instrument of war...

The Transnational Middle East posits that the development of regional dynamics, processes and circulations of all kinds, can be documented. In this regard, the approaches it develops — ‘bottom-up’ regionalisation, ‘globalisation from below’ — allow for a better understanding of the ways in which the..

There is a wealth of material that challenges and could help redefine the way that scholars view the post-war world order as more than a product of US hegemony. The chapters highlight various forms of agency by the Global South in human rights, security, disarmament, and especially in developing pri..