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Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
This book focuses on Boko Haram and terrorism in Nigeria, framing the conflict in an international law context. It analyses the nature of political violence and the dominant roles of a violent nation-state (in both colonial and post-colonial experiences) and the rise of terrorism in Nigeria. The book...
Understanding IFRS Fundamentals
International Financial Reporting Standards
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
A one-stop resource for understanding and applying current International Financial Reporting Standards
The move to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) is the single most important initiative in the financial reporting world, with more than 100 countries requiring or allowing...
International Management
Explorations Across Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2012
Winner of the Management and Leadership Textbook category at the CMI Management Book of the Year Awards 2013/14, International Management explores management opportunities in encounters across the world between national, organizational, political, professional and social cultures. It is soundly based...
International Business
Managing Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
"This is a wonderful text, remarkable for its breadth and freshness of approach. Hill links the often arcane world of international business to society and history. He has a good eye for the telling detail and the illuminating quotation. I shall be recommending this to my friends who are teaching,...
Power, Money, and Trade
Decisions that Shape Global Economic Relations
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
This book is an introduction to International Relations that uses examples from International Political Economy (IPE). It presents the theories and paradigms of International Relations in the context of the issues of trade, investment, and monetary relations. Largely it does so by developing historical...
by Elizabeth Borgwardt
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2007
In a work of sweeping scope and luminous detail, Elizabeth Borgwardt describes how a cadre of World War II American planners inaugurated the ideas and institutions that underlie our modern international human rights regime. Borgwardt finds the key in the 1941 Atlantic Charter and its Anglo-American...
The Eurocentric Conception of World Politics
Western International Theory, 1760–2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
John Hobson claims that throughout its history most international theory has been embedded within various forms of Eurocentrism. Rather than producing value-free and universalist theories of inter-state relations, international theory instead provides provincial analyses that celebrate and defend...
Just War and International Order
The Uncivil Condition in World Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
At the opening of the twenty-first century, while obviously the world is still struggling with violence and conflict, many commentators argue that there are many reasons for supposing that restrictions on the use of force are growing. The establishment of the International Criminal Court, the growing...
Governing the World
The History of an Idea, 1815 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
The story of global cooperation between nations and peoples is a tale of dreamers goading us to find common cause in remedying humanity’s worst problems. But international institutions have also provided a tool for the powers that be to advance their own interests and stamp their imprint on the...
International Intervention and State-making
How Exception Became the Norm
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
This book analyses the changing dynamics of sovereignty resulting from contemporary international state-building interventions.
It aims to highlight how the exercise of ‘exceptional’ forms of power by intervening agencies impacts on the sovereign capacity of intervened states. Drawing upon...
Chaos in the Liberal Order
The Trump Presidency and International Politics in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Donald Trump’s election has called into question many fundamental assumptions about politics and society. Should the forty-fifth president of the United States make us reconsider the nature and future of the global order? Collecting a wide range of perspectives from leading political scientists,...
Words Over War
Mediation and Arbitration to Prevent Deadly Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2000
The international community can creatively and aggressively address deadly conflict through mediation, arbitration, and the development of international institutions to promote reconciliation. The editors of this book designed a systematic framework with which contributors compare third party intervention...
by Filippo Dionigi
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
How do the norms of the liberal international order affect the activity of Islamist movements? This book analyzes and assesses the extent to which Islamist groups, which have traditionally attempted to shield their communities from “alien” moral conceptions, have been affected by the rules and...
China, Europe and International Security
Interests, Roles, and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
This book examines the roles played by China and Europe in the domain of international security in the 21st century.
Bringing together Chinese and European expertise on the Sino-European Security relationship , this book positions Europe - both the EU and the major national actors - and China...