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  • Global Politics in the 21st Century

    Between Regional Cooperation and Conflict

    Edited by Andrzej Mania, Marcin Grabowski, Tomasz Pugacewicz ...
    Series Book 5 - International Relations in Asia, Africa and the Americas
    This book focuses on the problem of regionalism, the crucial phenomenon in international relations at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. Regionalism is analyzed both in terms of regional economic and political integration, as well as regional competition and conflict. The book is divided into three parts, based on the functional and geographical criteria. The first part is devoted to the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Great and Small Games in Central Asia and the South Caucasus

    by Andrzej Mania, Tomasz Pugacewicz, Marcin Grabowski ...
    Series Book 14 - International Relations in Asia, Africa and the Americas
    With 30 years having passed since Central Asia and the South Caucasus emerged on the international stage, a new approach to understanding its contemporary dynamics is required. This volume argues for a multidimensional analysis of international, regional, and domestic cooperation and conflicts in the region. The authors analyze foreign policies of great powers such as Russia, China, U.S., EU, ... Read more

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    The New National Elite and the New National Narrative

    by Irina Ghaplanyan ...
    Series series BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
    Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Armenia has struggled to establish itself, with a faltering economy, emigration of the intelligentsia and the weakening of civil society. This book explores how a new national elite has emerged and how it has constructed a new national narrative to suit Armenia’s new circumstances. The book examines the importance of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Security Strategies and American World Order

    Lost Power

    by Birthe Hansen, Peter Toft, Anders Wivel ...
    Series series Contemporary Security Studies
    This book analyses security strategies in the American world order, systematically comparing Russian, Middle Eastern and European policies.The main finding is that the loss of relative power has decisive importance for the security strategies of states, but that particular strategies can only be explained when relative power is combined with ideology and the probability of military conflict. ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Human Rights and Democracy in EU Foreign Policy

    The Cases of Ukraine and Egypt

    by Rosa Balfour ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in European Politics
    This book investigates the disparity between rhetoric and performance in the European Union response to abuses of human rights and transgression of democracy. With the Arab spring putting the spotlight on the EU’s self-portrait as committed to promoting global human rights and democracy, this book examines the paradoxes of its international posture and the inconsistencies and double standards of ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • State Erosion

    Unlootable Resources and Unruly Elites in Central Asia

    by Lawrence P. Markowitz ...
    State failure is a central challenge to international peace and security in the post–Cold War era. Yet theorizing on the causes of state failure remains surprisingly limited. In State Erosion, Lawrence P. Markowitz draws on his extensive fieldwork in two Central Asian republics—Tajikistan, where state institutions fragmented into a five-year civil war from 1992 through 1997, and Uzbekistan, which ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Central Asia

    Edited by Rico Isaacs, Erica Marat ...
    The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Central Asia offers the first comprehensive, cross-disciplinary overview of key issues in Central Asian studies. The 30 chapters by leading and emerging scholars summarise major findings in the field and highlight long-term trends, recent observations and future developments in the region. The handbook features case studies of all five Central Asian republics ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Issues in EU and US Foreign Policy

    by Mika Aaltola, Cristian A. Cantir, Bjorn Olav Knutsen, Aylin Ünver Noi, Hanna Ojanen, Patryk Pawlak, Chiara Ruffa, Charlotta Spolander, Emma J. Stewart, May-Britt Stumbaum, Dimitrios Triantaphyllou, Yannis Tsantoulis ...
    Issues in E.U. and U.S. Foreign Policy, edited by Münevver Cebeci, aims at analyzing the perceptions, interests, and policies of the EU and the US on various international issues. It portrays their convergences and divergences, and reflects on their interplay. The book has a geographical focus rather than a thematic one; however, some themes such as weapons of mass destruction, dual use technology ... Read more

    $141.99 USD

  • Weapons of the Wealthy

    Predatory Regimes and Elite-Led Protests in Central Asia

    by Scott B. Radnitz ...
    Mass mobilization is among the most dramatic and inspiring forces for political change. When ordinary citizens take to the streets in large numbers, they can undermine and even topple undemocratic governments, as the recent wave of peaceful uprisings in several postcommunist states has shown. However, investigation into how protests are organized can sometimes reveal that the origins and purpose ... Read more

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  • Incomplete State-Building in Central Asia

    The State as Social Practice

    by Viktoria Akchurina ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book is about transformation of the state and an incomplete state-building. It defies the transitology assumption of continuity, linearity and dichotomy of formal and informal in the transformation of the state. Contrary to the conventional approaches, it claims that any social order or its political scaffolding, the state, is always incomplete and we need to develop cognitive maps to better ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Great Games, Local Rules:The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia

    The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia

    by Alexander Cooley ...
    The struggle between Russia and Great Britain over Central Asia in the nineteenth century was the original "great game." But in the past quarter century, a new "great game" has emerged, pitting America against a newly aggressive Russia and a resource-hungry China, all struggling for influence over one of the volatile areas in the world: the long border region stretching from Iran through Pakistan ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Politics of Authoritarian Rule

    by Milan W. Svolik ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    What drives politics in dictatorships? Milan W. Svolik argues authoritarian regimes must resolve two fundamental conflicts. Dictators face threats from the masses over which they rule - the problem of authoritarian control. Secondly from the elites with whom dictators rule - the problem of authoritarian power-sharing. Using the tools of game theory, Svolik explains why some dictators establish ... Read more

    $24.99 USD