Summary Regional institutions are an increasingly prominent feature of world politics. Their characteristics and performance vary widely: some are highly legalistic and bureaucratic, while others…
Publication Type: Books
Summary This book offers the first systematic analysis of Putin’s two wars, placing the Second Chechen War and the War with Georgia of 2008 in…
Summary What is driving political extremism in Pakistan? In early 2011, the prominent Pakistani politician Salmaan Taseer was assassinated by a member of his own…
Summary Do Russia and the European Union have any substantial influence over the political trajectories of post-Soviet states? Shedding new light on the interplay between…
Summary Since the Cold War ended, China has become a global symbol of disregard for human rights, while the United States has positioned itself as…
Summary Unplanned Development(s) offers a fascinating and fresh view into the realities of development planning. While to the outsider most development projects present themselves as…
Summary How close are we to a nuclear Iran? What does it mean for American foreign policy? How did we get to this point? And…
Summary This book offers a comparative and historical analysis of foreign direct investment (FDI) liberalization in China and India and explains how the return of…
Summary Although India and China have very different experiences of colonialism, they respond to that history in a similar way—by treating it as a collective…
Summary In this controversial critique of American political culture and its historical roots, Anatol Lieven contends that U.S. foreign policy since 9/11 has been shaped…
Summary The last two decades have seen a slow but steady increase in nuclear armed states, and in the seemingly less constrained policy goals of…
Summary Iran’s advanced nuclear program may be the world’s most important emerging international security challenge. If not stopped, a nuclear-capable Iran will mean an even…
Summary The global financial crisis of 2007–2008 was both an economic catastrophe and a watershed event in world politics. In American Power after the Financial Crisis,…
Summary This balanced and thoughtful book presents a thorough analysis of the dynamics of China’s foreign relations. Sebastian Heilmann and Dirk H. Schmidt provide a…
Summary China’s rise has upset the global balance of power, and the first place to feel the strain is Beijing’s back yard: the South China…
