Small states in a shifting international order

A new framework for analyzing global power dynamics and the neglected role of small states In the decades since the Cold War, international relations scholarship has predominantly examined global power dynamics through the lens of great powers-namely, the United States--and rising powers such as China ...

Geopolítica y globalización en el siglo XXI

la trampa de occidente

Desde la primera expansión europea, Occidente ha sido el eje sobre el que pivotaba todo el sistema internacional. Hoy en día vive un periodo de crisis permanente frente al auge demográfico y económico de las potencias asiáticas. Esta crisis afecta a todo el conjunto de ...

¿Qué teme Israel de Palestina?

Raja Shehadeh, ganador del premio Orwell de escritura política en 2008, abogado de derechos humanos y el escritor palestino más destacado en la actualidad, detalla la historia del conflicto palestino-israelí: desde la creación del Estado de Israel en 1948, que desencadenó el desplazamiento obligado de ...

China's belt and road power transition

preparations and blowbacks

Details the Belt and Road global infrastructure development initiative as the most important instrument for China's leadership under Xi Jinping to create an alternative global economic and geopolitical order to challenge the United States. In the opening decades of the twenty-first century the Chinese ...

Entanglements in World Politics

The Power of Uncertainty

In this seminal study, Peter J. Katzenstein drags the analysis of world politics from the Newtonian humanism of the nineteenth century into a new post-Newtonianism of the twenty-first. The key concept is entanglement. By examining differences in context, process, and language, Katzenstein specifies how risk ...

Russia's war on Ukraine

the four roots of Putin's invasion

Understanding why Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014 and 2022 is vital for preparing for what may come next. This groundbreaking book is the first to provide an interdisciplinary study of the first full-scale war in Europe since 1945, which is having global ramifications on interstate ...

Ruining revolution

how international Islamist and Salafi forces have held Libya hostage since 2011

The political turmoil in Libya, which has claimed more than 20,000 lives and frustrated international partners since 2011, is an immensely intricate power play. Its actors include an ample collection of politicians often backed by military groups, both Libyan and international. How did Libya ...

Crises, war, and diplomacy

lessons for world politics

Why do some international crises between major states escalate to war while others do not? To shed light on this question, this book reviews fifteen such crises during the period 1815-present, including the Crimean War, The Franco-Prussian War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the 2022 ...

NATO after Russia's invasion of Ukraine

threat perceptions and their consequences

Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, many observers have asserted that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has found new unity and purpose in opposition to Russian expansionism. Jason W. Davidson finds that these assertions are wrong. Through interviews in six key ...

It started in Damascus

how the long Syrian revolution reshaped our world

yrians have longed for the ordinary life that eluded them for decades. When President Bashar Assad was unexpectedly overthrown in December2024, they celebrated the end of a dictatorial dynasty. But as they strive for post-Assad justice, they must grapple with the legacy of a fight ...

America's Middle East

the ruination of a region

After Hamas' shocking 2023 attack on Israel, the United States stood firmly behind Israel's near-genocidal war on Gaza, despite widespread moral outrage and significant damage to Washington's global agenda. But Gaza is only the latest paradox in thirty-five years of Middle East policy ...

Historia mínima de Irán moderno

Por Irán moderno, este libro entiende el espacio político, económico, social y cultural que emergió del encuentro entre la dinastía Qayaríe y las potencias industriales europeas a finales del siglo XVIII y que, a lo largo del tiempo, se transformó hasta cristalizar en la actualidad ...

Violent saviours

the West, the rest, and capitalism without consent

Economic development is not really development without consent. For centuries, the developed Western world has exploited the less-developed 'Rest' in the name of progress, conquering the Americas, driving the Atlantic slave trade, and colonizing Africa and Asia. Throughout, the West has justified this global conquest ...

De Monroe a Trump

del expansionismo estadounidense temprano al imperialismo tardío

La Doctrina Monroe, en 1823, declaró la intervención de potencias europeas en América como amenaza directa a la seguridad de Estados Unidos, y América Latina y el Caribe se asumían como su área de influencia natural, bajo el lema “América para los americanos”. La meta ...

Blind-spot politics

appeasement, authoritarianism and hypocrisy in Europe

A leading Central European journalist investigates how political and intellectual elites in Europe’s democracies underestimate and enable the continent’s authoritarians—from the Cold War onwards.‘Putin has obviously deceived everyone.’ These were the words of Manuela Schwesig, First Minister of the German state ...

Autopista hacia el infierno

Las crónicas del armagedón 2015-2024

En el momento de escribir estas líneas, el mundo se está enfrentando a la inminente amenaza de una guerra nuclear. La principal perspectiva que Scott Ritter comparte en esta obra es que las armas nucleares sólo "crean la impresión de seguridad". Debido al cambio en ...

Géopolitique de l’Indo-Pacifique

Enjeux internationaux, perspectives françaises

Derrière chaque dénomination géographique se cache une intention politique. L’Indo-Pacifique ne déroge pas à la règle… Nouveau leitmotiv des relations internationales, cette construction stratégique vise à contenir la montée en puissance de la Chine et met en exergue la rivalité sino-américaine. Mais elle se ...

Géopolitique du nucléaire

Pouvoir et puissance d’une industrie duale

Le nucléaire, avec ses images choc liées à la bombe, est géo­politique par essence. Mais, jusqu’à récemment, le périmètre se limitait au nucléaire militaire, aux risques de sa prolifération et à son contrôle. Or, on découvre depuis peu la portée géo­politique du ...

Leçons de diplomatie

La France face au monde qui vient

'Il y a des moments où soudain l'Histoire s'accélère, sans qu'on sache si ce n'est qu'un remous ou si les rapides se rapprochent. Nous devons nous préparer sans jamais exclure le pire. La France a trop souffert de l'avoir ...

Géopolitique des religions

Un nouveau rôle du religieux dans les relations internationales ?

Loin de décliner irrémédiablement comme certains théoriciens de la sécularisation le prédisaient, les religions sont redevenues des acteurs incontournables des relations inter­nationales. On le mesure au réveil de la violence à justification religieuse qui constitue un élément saillant de guerres ethniques ou nationales (conflit ...