After years of paralysis, the 1990s saw an explosion in the number of United Nations field operations around the world. In terms of scope and level of ambition, these interventions went beyond the tried and tested principles of classical UN peacekeeping. Indeed, in some cases - such as Cambodia, Kosovo and East Timor - the UN presence assumed the form of quasi-protectorates designed to steer war-torn and deeply divided societies towards lasting peace.
Pages: 303
Publication date: March 2007
Price: 30.19 €
China in the 21st Century
'Struggling Giant' explores the future of this emerging economic powerhouse and what the next two decades might bring in the critical areas of the environment, economy and political stability.
Pages:151
Publication date: 2007
Price: 20.66 €
Raul Castro and the Future of Cuba’s Revolution
This is a compelling behind-the-scenes account of the extraordinary Castro brothers and the impending dynastic succession of Fidel's younger brother Raul.
Publication date : February 2007
Pages: 289
Price: 15.28 €
The Politics, cultures and economies of the World
The 2008 edition of The Statesman’s Yearbook contains information and analysis on every country in the world, including biographical profiles of current leaders, government histories, economic overviews and maps. Every copy comes with a single-user licence giving access to the full text online, updated regularly and fully searchable.
Pages: 1600
Publication date: August 2007
Price: 225.00 €
Terror, Technology and Strategy in the Twenty-First Century
In the globalised world of the twenty-first century, security policy in Western societies is driven by a wish to prevent future threats from becoming reality. Applying theories of ‘risk society’ to the study of strategy, this book analyses the creation of a new approach to strategy.
Price: 26.67 €
A Very Short Introduction
There are more international migrants today than every before, and their number is set to increase. It is a complex and divisive issue: the subject of intense public and political concern, and the reality for many migrants – both legal and irregular – is one of exploitation and abuse.
140 pages
Format : 173mm x 110mm
Price: 10.85 €
A Very Short Introduction
How can two people’s lives in two parts of the world become so different, and remain so different? Why are some lives – and some futures – so wealthy, and others so deprived?
Price: 10.85 €
A Beginner's Guide
The U.S. views Hamas as a terrorist organisation. Yet, to the great surprise of many, Hamas swept to victory in the 2006 Palestinian Authority elections. Hamas is now a democratically elected political party. This is the first beginner's guide to this controversial political organisation. Explaining the reasons for Hamas's success, this book provides the key facts that are so often missing from conventional news reports. It's a one-stop guide that gives a clear overview of Hamas's history, key beliefs, and its political agenda.
'This book could not be timelier. Khaled Hroub expertly answers every important question about Hamas and insightfully explains its ideology, organisation and appeal. Concise, lucid and invaluable.' James Piscatori, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
Price: 28.00 €
Chomsky argues that the real ‘rogue’ states are not dictator-led developing countries, but the United States and its allies.
Price: 19.50 €
Identifies today's most pressing issues in the fight against corruption worldwide.
Price: 30.00 €
A brilliant account of the workings of state terrorism by the world’s foremost critic of US imperialism.
Price: 21.00 €
Perfect as an introduction to Chomsky's broader thoughts, this will be of particular interest to students of media studies and the general reader.
Price: 19.50 €
6th EDITION - January 2005
“An extraordinarily wide-ranging compendium of information on the contemporary world of political parties…this is an essential reference volume for all academic and public libraries”, Political Studies Review
A4 (297 x 210 mm)
Hardback
710 pages + x
Price: 139.00 €
Economic Interdependence and Political Order
Making sense of today's international economic and political system is one of the most challenging tasks facing scholars, citizens and decision makers. Making the International is an innovative introductory text that enables the reader to develop a confident grasp of political and economic analysis.
Price: 33.00 €
The attack on Afghanistan might, at first sight, appear to have pushed other recent interventions into the background - but in this persuasive and vigorously argued critique, distinguished columnist and writer Diana Johnstone demonstrates that the Afghan bombings are part of a longer history of the global use of military force on the part of the Great Powers that is now threatening to spiral out of control.
'... a "must" book for progressives, and for anybody who wants to cut through the remarkable structure of disinformation regarding the Kosovo war ... ' Edward S. Herman
Price: 24.00 €
'... human rights rationale for interventionism is a genuine menace to human rights and to democracy is convincingly demonstrated in this fine book.' Edward S. Herman
Price: 24.00 €
From 23 to 26 January 2001 the incoming Belgian Presidency of the European Union organized an international conference on the strategies of the European Union and the United States in combating trans-national organized crime.
The conference gathered policy-makers, police and judicial authorities and other actors with a view to discussing important problems regarding the fight against organized crime.
Apart from focusing on the European dimension of the subject (including Eastern Europe), the conference primarily addressed co-operation with the United States.
This book collects, along with a number of plenary reports, texts that have been presented and discussed at the conference and during the workshops, dealing with integrity and control on information exchange, cross-border operational activities, international/regional framework to fight organized crime, intelligence gathering in the context of peace-keeping activities, training of law enforcement authorities, integrity/corruption, drug trafficking, trafficking in human beings, money laundering and cyber crime.
Price: 110.00 €
A damning critique of the so-called 'democratisation' process in Bosnia since the war - demonstrating that the process is far from democratic, and is ultimately intended to govern Bosnia in western interests.
Price: 24.00 €
Assesses the changing character of the United Kingdom, and examines the meaning of the Union in the context of New Labour and devolution.
Price: 17.00 €
History, Change and Transformation
Ordering the International is a new and exciting textbook which teaches the core themes of International Studies in an innovative way. It asks
Can we analyse international order as a whole, and if so, how?
How can we best characterise, understand and explain the processes of international interaction and the kinds of order and disorder with which they are associated?
Is the contemporary international system changing and, if so, by whose agency?
Price: 33.00 €
The Class Cleavage
In an in-depth comparative analysis, Stefano Bartolini studies the history of socialism and working-class politics in Western Europe. While examining the social contexts, organizational structures, and political developments of thirteen socialist experiences from the 1860s to the 1980s, he reconstructs the steps through which social conflict was translated and structured into an opposition, as well as how it developed its different organizational and ideological forms, and how it managed more or less successfully to mobilize its reference groups politically.
Publication date:2007
Pages: 637
Price: 47.12 €
President Ahmadinejad and the coming Nuclear Crisis
From the controversial expert who brought Iran's nuclear program to the attention of the world in 2002 comes a searing expose of the inner workings and plans of Iran's mullahs. With access to dissident groups inside Iran, Alireza Jafarzadeh traces President Ahmadinejad's radical roots and involvement in terror attacks to his impact on Iran's weapons program.
Publication date: February 2007
Pages: 284
Price: 27.26 €
The UN Secretary-General in World Politics
The Secretary-General of the United Nations is a unique figure in world politics. At once civil servant, the world's diplomat, lackey of the UN Security Council, and commander-in-chief of up to a hundred thousand peacekeepers, he or she depends on states for both the legitimacy and resources that enable the United Nations to function.
Price: 25.35 €
The first edition of Transatlantic Relations Made Simple gives a comprehensive introduction to the workings of both EU and US government systems.
Pages: 151
Publication date: December 2007
Price: 30.00 €
To make the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) sustainable, the legitimacy of the International Accounting Standards Board has to be bolstered and key supporters, such as the EU, must implement them consistently.
The report presents accounting standard-setting as a frontier experiment in international governance, where private initiative can succeed in solving a collective problem that nation-states could not tackle effectively.
Price: 9.43 €
The world's demand for food is expected to double within the next 50 years, while the natural resources that sustain agriculture will become increasingly scarce, degraded, and vulnerable to the effects of climate change. In many poor countries, agriculture accounts for at least 40 percent of GDP and 80 percent of employment. At the same time, about 70 percent of the world's poor live in rural areas and most depend on agriculture for their livelihoods.
Pages: 384
Publication Date : October 2007
Price: 26.04 €
This major new textbook introduces students to the dynamic and evolving field of foreign policy. The book opens with a consideration of different theoretical and historical perspectives; it then focuses on a range of actors and the goals they seek to advance; and it ends with a series of case studies involving issues and crises relating to a wide range of different countries Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases is timely given the growing significance of foreign policy in the post-9/11 world. It will be essential reading for all students new to foreign policy.
Pages: 480
Publication Date : 20 December 2007
Price: 39.62 €
In the post-September 11th arena of growing political tension and unease, it is more important than ever that we understand the changing world of modern international relations.
With this comprehensive and accessible book, Paul Wilkinson covers the topics that are essential to our knowledge of this complex subject. He explains the theories and the practices that underlie international relations, and investigates issues ranging from foreign policy, arms control, and terrorism, to the environment and world poverty. Wilkinson examines key questions such as how the international state system might be improved to facilitate better relations between states, explores the roles of international organizations such as the United Nations and the European Union, and discusses the influences that ethnic, and religious movements, and terrorist groups have had on shaping the way states and governments interact.
Pages: 160
Publication Date : August 2007
Price: 11.79 €
Depuis le sommet de Seattle contre l'OMC en 1999, le mouvement altermondialiste s'est durablement inscrit dans notre actualité. La presse internationale donne la parole à ses dirigeants et relaie ses initiatives. Mais que sait-on vraiment de ce courant ? S'agit-il, comme le proclament les acteurs de cette nébuleuse, d'un mouvement nouveau, homogène et transnational car se développant au-delà des frontières nationales ? D'un mouvement unifié par une lutte globale ?
Les études publiées dans ce livre interrogent ces évidences. Elles sont le résultat d'une coopération entre chercheurs européens et proposent ainsi une histoire comparée des mouvements anti-globalisation. Contre le mythe d'une société civile transnationale, les auteurs montrent que la mondialisation reste profondément ancrée dans des contextes nationaux et qu'il n'existe pas de " génération spontanée " d'un mouvement altermondialiste transnational. Pourtant, en dépit de ses différences, le mouvement engagé contre la mondialisation a su présenter un visage uni et parfois unifié. En utilisant avec habileté certaines techniques de communication et en s'appropriant des manifestations institutionnelles internationales, il s'est construit comme un pôle d'opinion incontournable. C'est à la naissance de ce mouvement social que ce livre vous invite.
Pages: 293
Publication Date : January 2008
Price: 26.98 €