Russian strategy in the Middle East and North Africa

This book analyses Russia's strategy in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in the turbulent period since the inception of the Arab Spring. It explores the key policy challenges faced by Russia in the context of Russia's relations with both the regional ...

Qui contrôle qui?

Les nouveaux rapports de force mondiaux

Dans ce nouvel essai percutant, Thomas Gomart s’interroge sur les antagonismes profonds qui bouleversent notre époque. Croisant géopolitique, géoéconomie et idéologie, il analyse six duels représentatifs des nouveaux rapports de force. Qui contrôle qui ? Pour la guerre en Ukraine, Vladimir Poutine ou Volodymyr Zelensky ...

The American edge

the military tech nexus and the sources of great power dominance

To regain its capacity to effectively deter China and retain its unmatched global status, the United States must deepen its partnership with the nation's most innovative tech companies. In The American Edge, Seth G. Jones explains how the industrial bases of the world's ...

Inside the situation room

the theory and practice of crisis decision-making

Combining decades of diplomacy and world-renowned scholarship, Inside the Situation Room bridges the gap between politics and academia to illuminate how world leaders make decisions in times of crisis. For decades, people have sought to understand how and why decisions are made in times of ...

The Iraq wars

a very short introduction

American wars in Iraq were a defining feature of global politics for almost thirty years. The Gulf War of 1991, the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, and the campaign against the Islamic State beginning in 2014 each had their own logic. Each occurrence was ...

Global terrorism

This thoroughly revised and updated edition explores the evolution and persistence of terrorism by examining the core motivations-religious, ethnic, and political-driving violent extremist groups and individuals. Global Terrorism, Fifth Edition, features a variety of comprehensive case studies, and expanded coverage on: The intersection between terrorism ...

Géopolitique du Sahel

Confronté aux conséquences du dérèglement climatique, à la déferlante djihadiste et aux putschs successifs, le Sahel connaît une crise structurelle multiforme. Les ressources énergétiques et minérales de la région ont fait de cette terre aride un objet de convoitise. Les équilibres géopolitiques régionaux traditionnels évoluent ...

Géopolitique de l'Afrique

onstituée de cinquante-quatre Etats, berceau de nombreuses civilisations, l'Afrique représente à elle seule un continent-monde de plus d'un milliard d'habitants. Trop souvent considérée comme un tout homogène, elle devrait plutôt être pensée dans sa diversité et sa profondeur. Sur le plan géopolitique ...

France-Algérie

De 1962 à nos jours. Histoire d'une relation pathologique

Rappels d’ambassadeurs, arrestations arbitraires, chute des échanges commerciaux, crise des visas… Comment sommes-nous passés en quelques années d’une estime entre dirigeants français et algériens à une tension aussi forte depuis 2024 ? L’historien Pierre Vermeren décrypte sur le temps long cette relation complexe ...

Trumpismo y reconfiguración global

El tortuoso camino hacia un nuevo orden mundial

Las tensiones actuales entre Rusia y Occidente que han desembocado en la Guerra de Ucrania, tienen sus raíces en la percepción rusa de que Europa incumplió promesas realizadas tras la caída del Muro de Berlín y posterior colapso de la Unión Soviética. El tiempo dirá ...

The U.S.-Mexico border

a reference handbook

This book offers answers to essential questions about the border between the United States and Mexico and connected issues that are accessible to readers interested in immigration, border security, and international relations.Readers will learn about the political, social, and economic contexts in which the ...

International organization

The fourth edition of this popular core textbook provides wide-ranging coverage of the structure, workings, policies and performance of international organizations such as the UN, EU, IMF and World Bank. Such organizations have never been so important in addressing the challenges that face our increasingly ...

Palestine, imperialism and the struggle for freedom

For over 100 years Palestinians have resisted colonial occupation, displacement, and dispossession. Yet much of Palestine’s long history of resistance has remained hidden. Palestine, imperialism, and the struggle for freedom follows their struggles against Britain, the Zionist settler movement, and the state of Israel ...

Israel and the Gaza Strip since 1967

a history of occupation, domination and unilateralism

Since 1967, Israeli decision-makers have opted to conquer, occupy, colonize and dominate the Gaza Strip. Why has this sliver of land – home and refuge to around 400,000 Palestinians at the time of the 1967 War – been so important? Why has it come to play ...

ISIS

the march to dystopia

How should we understand ISIS today? Despite its territorial defeat in Iraq and Syria in 2019, ISIS has evolved and expanded globally. This book is the most comprehensive study of ISIS to date, benefitting from Arabic sources previously unavailable to an English-speaking audience. Renowned scholar ...

The geopolitics of fear

from security to solidarity at Europe's racial borders

The intensified securitization of the borderlands between Europe and the Middle East/North Africa over the past decade has turned the Mediterranean Sea into a graveyard. This book delves into the most vulnerable, yet understudied, area of the EU's anti-immigrant security regime: the port ...

Make China great again

online alt-history fiction and popular authoritarianism

On the Chinese internet, alternate history is booming. Millions of writers and readers fantasize about going back in time and changing their country's fate. One envisions saving the Southern Song Dynasty from the Mongols and turning China into a capitalist democracy. Another portrays a ...

Autocracy 2.0

how China's rise reinvented tyranny

In Autocracy 2.0, Jennifer Lind reveals how China's leaders defied expectations and propelled the country to innovation-superpower status - and what that means for the balance of power and global struggle between democracy and authoritarianism. In 2008, the world watched in awe as 2 ...

David and Goliath

commentaries on the Russo-Ukrainian war

The biblical image of David and Goliath captures fittingly the nature of the war that Russia, the world's largest country by surface area, unleashed on neighboring Ukraine, a country that-while still the largest on the European continent-is almost thirty times smaller and has only ...

Nuclear weapons

an international history

A groundbreaking history of nuclear weapons across the world, from their invention to the end of the Cold War How should we deal with nuclear weapons? The discovery of nuclear fission fundamentally changed the world order. Its power was harnessed, nuclear bombs invented, and the ...