Governance Dilemmas in Canada, North America, and Beyond: A Tribute to Stephen Clarkson

Alejandro Angel , Marjorie Griffin Cohen , Daniel Drache , Michèle Rioux

This book discusses the development of Canadian political economy through the legacy of Stephen Clarkson, who for over 40 years analyzed the challenges that economic changes brought to the economic governance of Canada, North America, and the world. Tracing the main...

Hybrid Diplomacy with NGOs

Raffaele Marchetti

This book explores a new way of doing diplomacy through the engagement with non-governmental organizations, here referred to as hybrid diplomacy. Today’s global politics is played out most successfully by the combined actions of different actors. A specific type of...

World Protests

Mohamed Berrada , Sara Burke , Isabel Ortiz , Hernán Saenz Cortés

This is an open access book.The start of the 21st century has seen the world shaken by protests, from the Arab Spring to the Yellow Vests, from the Occupy movement to the social uprisings in Latin America. There are periods in history when large numbers of people have...

The Political Economy of China—US Relations

Mzukisi Qobo

This book offers a rich perspective on Africa’s agency in the changing global order marked by intense geopolitical contestations. It discusses ways in which the African continent has been on the margins of the global economic system because of the actions of major...

Abraham and the Secular

Uzma Ashraf Barton , Simone Raudino

This volume offers both theoretical approaches and case studies on the relationship between religion and the secular world. Bringing together contributions from seasoned authors, religious leaders, and brilliant new scholars, it frames the long-standing debate on how to...

France and the Reunification of Germany

Tilo Schabert

With the collapse of the Soviet Union and its Eastern European bloc, the reunification of Germany was a major episode in the history of modern Europe — and one widely held to have been opposed by that country's centuries-old enemy, France. But while it has been...

The Political Economy of Eastern Europe 30 years into the ‘Transition'

Agnes Gagyi , Ondrej Slacálek

Europe Beyond the Euro

Charles Enoch

This book observes that a key determinant of Europe’s welfare over the coming decades will be how the region manages crises, both financial and societal. It examines how key institutional developments, such as Economic and Monetary Union, reflected differentiated...

Hegemonic Transition

Florian Böller , Welf Werner

This book offers an assessment of the ongoing transformation of hegemonic order and its domestic and international politics. The current international order is in crisis. Under the Trump administration, the USA has ceased to unequivocally support the institutions it...

The Political Economy of Middle Class Politics and the Global Crisis in Eastern Europe

Agnes Gagyi

Contrary to dominant narratives which portray East European politics as a pendulum swing between democracy and authoritarianism, conventionally defined in terms of an ahistorical cultural geography of East vs. West, this book analyzes post-socialist transformation as...

The International Society Tradition

Cornelia Navari

This book traces the development of the international society tradition from its origins in Grotius’ On the Law of War and Peace to its crystallization in Bull’s The Anarchical Society. It follows the idea of sociability among peoples as it was presented by Grotius and...

The Wrecking of the Liberal World Order

Vittorio Emanuele Parsi , Malvina Parsi

The ‘Liberal World Order’ (LWO) is today in crisis. But what explains this crisis? Whereas its critics see it as the unmasking of Western hypocrisy, its longstanding proponents argue it is under threat by competing illiberal projects. This book takes a different stance:...

Towards an International Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence

Tugrul Keskin , Ryan David Kiggins

This volume seeks to leverage academic interdisciplinarity to develop insight into how Artificial intelligence (AI), the latest GPT to emerge, may influence or radically change socio-political norms, practices, and institutions. AI may best be understood as a predictive...

Guicciardini, Geopolitics and Geohistory

William Mallinson

This book demonstrates that geohistory is a more effective concept than geopolitics in understanding inter-state relations, at a time of considerable confusion in world affairs, and that Francesco Guicciardini’s thoughts are an efficient medium to demonstrate not only...

Blue Governance in the Arctic and Antarctic

Geir Hønneland

This book discusses to what extent the precautionary approach to fisheries management is reflected in the MSC Fisheries Standard and in the certification of four clusters of fisheries in polar waters. Certification according to private sustainability standards...

The Role of Monitoring and Evaluation in the UN 2030 SDGs Agenda

Ruby Dagher , Nadini Persaud

This book examines the UN 2030 SDGs Agenda and its comprehensive, multi-stakeholder approach to achieving a more human rights-based and environmentally sustainable development process. More crucially, it provides a much needed and innovative analysis of the role of...

Empires in World History

Niv Horesh

This study focuses on Empires, from an economic historical perspective. In doing so, it relates current debates in international relations (IR) and politics to the vexed legacy of empires in the past.The book includes analyses of the comparative scholarly...

Caste Panchayats and Caste Politics in India

Anagha Ingole

The book refutes the dominant understanding about caste panchayats as mere dispute resolution bodies that are vestiges of the past. In tracing the long career and evolution of intra-caste governance from 300 BC to the present, it challenges several orthodoxies in the...

NATO in Contemporary Times

John Michael Weaver

This book builds on the six years of hands-on experience that the author had while working in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.  It provides an overview and history of NATO, looks at the political and military components of the Alliance, as well as the...

Interpreting Conflict

Lucía Ruiz Rosendo , Marija Todorova

This edited book examines the role of interpreting in conflict situations, bringing together studies from different international and intercultural contexts, with contributions from military personnel, humanitarian interpreters and activists as well as academics. The...