International Relations (all books)

EU Enlargement and the Transatlantic Alliance: A Security Relationship in Flux
Sven Biscop and Johan Lembke, editors

What is the interplay between EU enlargement and a fluctuating transatlantic security partnership? Will the accession of new EU members reinforce this partnership, or instead increase the    More >

Great Powers in the Changing International Order
Nick Bisley

What does it mean to be a great power? What role do great powers have in managing international order, and is that role still relevant in a globalizing world? Are new great powers likely to    More >

Politics of Illusion: The Bay of Pigs Invasion Reexamined
James G. Blight and Peter Kornbluh, editors

The defeat of the attempted April 1961 invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs (Playa Giron) was one of the worst foreign–policy disasters in U.S. history. Since then, explanations of the    More >

US Democracy Promotion in the Arab World: Beyond Interests vs. Ideals
Mieczysław P. Boduszyński

Whether democracy promotion should play a role in US foreign policy continues to be a subject of considerable debate, perhaps nowhere more than with regard to the Arab World. But looking    More >

Tourists, Migrants, and Refugees: Population Movements in Third World Development
Milica Z. Bookman

As travelers increasingly seek out the exotic wildlife and idyllic sunsets of the developing world, a complex relationship involving tourism, the migration of workers, and the involuntary    More >

Critical Security Studies and World Politics
Ken Booth, editor

Realist assumptions of security studies increasingly have been challenged by an approach that places the human being, rather than the state, at the center of security concerns. This text is    More >

Iraq: Preventing a New Generation of Conflict
Markus E. Bouillon, David M. Malone, and Ben Rowswell editors

Is an end to the violence in Iraq, and the establishment of an enduring peace within a unified state, a realistic goal? Addressing this question, the authors of Iraq Preventing a New    More >

Complex Political Victims
Erica Bouris

Looking beyond the standard discourse about political victims, with its dichotomies of good and evil—and believing that more can be done to effectively recognize and respond to    More >

Strategic Moral Diplomacy: Understanding the Enemy’s Moral Universe
Lyn Boyd-Judson

Is it possible for nations to negotiate in the context of seemingly incompatible moral values? Lyn Boyd-Judson answers yes—and argues that it can be strategically useful, as well as    More >

Clinton’s War on Terror: Redefining US Security Strategy, 1993-2001
James D. Boys

In the aftermath of the catastrophic attacks of September 11, 2001, President Bill Clinton's time in office was portrayed as one in which vital opportunities to confront growing threats    More >

Killing Civilians in Civil War: The Rationale of Indiscriminate Violence
Jürgen Brandsch

Conventional wisdom tells us that targeting civilians in civil wars makes little sense as a combat strategy. Yet, the indiscriminate violence continues. Why? To tackle this vexing    More >

The Caribbean in the Pacific Century: Prospects for Caribbean-Pacific Cooperation
Jacqueline A. Braveboy-Wagner, with W. Marvin Will, Dennis J. Gayle, and Ivelaw Griffith

Despite the current global focus on prospects for the integrated European market, there are many in the policymaking and business communities who believe that the next century will be a    More >

The Foreign Policies of the Global South: Rethinking Conceptual Frameworks
Jacqueline Anne Braveboy-Wagner

Seeking to refocus thinking about the behavior of the global south ("third world") states in international affairs, this book explores contending explanations of global south    More >

Young Soldiers: Why They Choose To Fight
Rachel Brett and Irma Specht

They are part of rebel factions, national armies, paramilitaries, and other armed groups and entrenched in some of the most violent conflicts around the globe. They are in some ways still    More >

Diasporas and Development: Exploring the Potential
Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff, editor

For some time in diaspora studies, attention to remittances has overshadowed the growing impact of emigrant groups both within the social and political arenas in their homelands and with    More >

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