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Using a comparative and thematic approach, this book looks at key aspects of the dynamics in East Asian politics: security, political economy and society. It examines the impact of development at the societal, national, and international levels on the conduct of politics in East Asia.

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Explores the key contexts for and dimensions of contemporary Australian foreign policy towards Africa. It highlights a deepening of diplomatic and political relations, a trebling of the official aid budget to Africa, and over $50 billion of Australian-based investment in Africa's resources sector, and suggests measures to make such engagement sustainable and of mutual benefit.

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This work takes as its focus a selection of the key political and other questions which currently confront Europe. Authors confront key questions such as how Europe should be defined: discussing for example the understanding of the "common European home" that applies within the former Soviet Union.

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This book provides a comprehensive, detailed and critical examination of Britain's role in the US-led war on terror. -- .

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This volume provides ways to tackle the political, economic, and social dilemmas in Nigerias Fourth Republic to promote national cohesion, political stability, and peaceful coexistence.

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This book explores US policy in Africa and the challenges facing Nigeria in development, good governance, and security, including the possibilities of USNigerian collaboration on issues of global security. This book emphasizes the growing role that Nigeria will play in global security in the twenty-first century as the African regional power.

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No Enchanted Palace traces the origins and early development of the United Nations, one of the most influential yet perhaps least understood organizations active in the world today. Acclaimed historian Mark Mazower forces us to set aside the popular myth that the UN miraculously rose from the ashes of World War II as the guardian of a new and peace

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This in-depth analysis shows how the high stakes contest surrounding open source information is forcing significant reform within the U.S. intelligence community, the homeland security sector, and among citizen activists.

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High-ranking government officials, defense analysts, and scholars focus on the geopolitics and security of the Nordic region at a time when East-West relations in Europe are undergoing momentous changes.

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This book elucidates the tension between the European Unions normative and empirical dimensions underlying IsraeliEuropean Union relations, and uses this uneasy relationship as a case study through which to bridge the theoretical gap between Normative Power Europe scholarship and European Union external perceptions studies.

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This book elucidates the tension between the European Unions normative and empirical dimensions underlying IsraeliEuropean Union relations, and uses this uneasy relationship as a case study through which to bridge the theoretical gap between Normative Power Europe scholarship and European Union external perceptions studies.

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This volume contains a collection of essays dealing with the pressure put on academic freedom by the expansion of higher education. It includes considerations of academic freedom brought by the expansion of Western universities to illiberal societies, and by students coming from abroad to universities in the global north.

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The most comprehensive coverage to date of the institutional development of Northern Ireland following the UK government's devolution programme and Northern Ireland's development as an autonomous policy actor in Europe -- .

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The authors explore the prospects for cooperative regional engagement, a nuclear build-down in the North Pacific, and possible involvement of the UN in the resolution of the territorial dispute.

The dissolution of the Soviet Union raised hopes for a rapid improvement of Japanese-Russian relations.

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Recounts the steps leading to the signing of the European Economic Area agreement that will extend the EC's single internal market to the EFTA countries; explores the political dimension of Norway's relations with the EC; and examines the economic dimension of the relationship.

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The Scandinavian countries today form a security-community for economic cooperation and the settlement of international controversy by peaceful methods rather than by war. This status was achieved not while Norway and Sweden were amalgamated in a political union from 1814 to 1905, but only after separation. In this book Dr. Lindgren analyzes some o

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How did Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic become the newest members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Based on interviews conducted with more than 75 individuals from Cabinet officials to desk officers James M.

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This book spans more than 200 years of U.S. diplomatic history. Its geographical scope widens along with the expanding interests of America itself, from initial exclusive concern with the empires of Europe, to the emerging nations of Latin America, and the commercial opportunities and geopolitical concerns of Asia and Africa.