Global security cultures

Why do politicians think that war is the answer to terror when military intervention in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Mali, Somalia and elsewhere has made things worse? Why do some conflicts never end? And how is it that practices like beheadings, extra-judicial killings, the bombing ...

Financiación del terrorismo

El aparato financiero de los grupos y organizaciones terroristas constituye un elemento esencial para la perpetración de sus actividades criminales, así como para su propia existencia y mantenimiento. Una visión eminentemente preventiva nos revela que la lucha contra la financiación del fenómeno terrorista es una ...

A Nation like all others

a brief history of american foreign relations

Belief in the United States as a force for good in the world runs deep. Yet an honest consideration reveals a history marred by great crimes and ordinary errors, alongside many achievements and triumphs. In this comprehensive account of American foreign relations from the nation ...

America's information wars

the untold story of information systems in America's conflicts and politics from World War II to the Internet Age

This book narrates the development of science, sci/tech, and intelligence information systems and technologies in the United States from the beginning of World War II to the second decade of our century. The story ranges from a description of the information systems and machines ...

The battle for Syria

international rivalry in the New Middle East

Most accounts of Syria's brutal, long-lasting civil war focus on a domestic contest that began in 2011 and only later drew foreign nations into the escalating violence. Christopher Phillips argues instead that the international dimension was never secondary but that Syria's war was ...

Countering heedless Jihad

toward a field manual for intellectual sabotage

Using concepts that are not already a part of the militant discourse as a way to undermine extremism, Countering Heedless Jihad explores a stratagem aimed at defusing jihadist ideology. It explains how to counteract idealist theology using concepts from it, borrowing ideas from some revered ...

Introduction to international relations

theory and practice

How do we understand international relations in a globalized world? This clear and concise text takes as its starting point the theoretical frameworks that are the foundation of current IR. Joyce P. Kaufman explains and contextualizes the traditional theories, highlighting both their strengths and weaknesses ...

The world according to XI

everything you need to know about the New China

China is now the most powerful country on earth. Its manufacturing underpins the world's economy; its military is growing at the fastest rate of any nation and its leader - Xi Jinping - is to set the pace and tone of world affairs for decades. In ...

Roots of war

wanting power, seeing threat, justifying force

Ever since Thucydides pondered reasons for the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, writers, philosophers, and social scientists have all tried to identify and catalog factors that promote conflict escalation. Historians emphasize path-dependencies: the future grows out of the past, hence tomorrow's wars are rooted ...

Making sense of Brexit

After the shock decision to leave the EU in 2016, what can we learn about our divided and increasingly unequal society and the need to listen to each other? This engaging and accessible book addresses the causes and implications of Brexit, exploring this moral anger ...

Trusting enemies

How can two states with enemy relations transform their relationship? Nicholas Wheeler argues that the discipline of International Relations has not done a good job of answering this question because its focus has been on the state and the individual levels of analysis. In this ...

La guerra no es santa

relato del infierno muyahidín

Prepárate. Porque “La guerra no es santa” te va a hacer llorar. Tan sólo tendrás que ponerte en el lugar. Está escrito con la sinceridad de quien no da abasto. Farahd Bitani tiene tanto que contar que se le amontonan los contenidos. Se mezcla. Le ...

The long hangover

Putin's new Russia and the ghosts of the past

In The Long Hangover, Shaun Walker provides a deeply reported, bottom-up explanation of Russia's resurgence under Putin. By cleverly exploiting the memory of the Soviet victory over fascism in World War II, Putin's regime has made ordinary Russians feel that their country is ...

La actuación normativa de la Unión Europea en la Asociación Oriental

Los casos de Georgia y Moldavia (2009-2018)

La Unión Europea (UE) ha promovido una exitosa transformación normativa en sus relaciones con Georgia y Moldavia en el marco de la Asociación Oriental. Ciertamente, ambos Estados han tomado los estándares europeos como la guía que orienta e impulsa ambiciosas reformas en sus respectivos contextos ...

Guerrillas

Si bien en la actualidad a todo aquel dispuesto a llevar a cabo actos violentos para protestar por el orden de cosas existente se le califica, casi universalmente, de terrorista, hace apenas medio siglo la figura del guerrillero era el símbolo por antonomasia de la ...

Who rules the Earth?

how social rules shape our planet and our lives

Worldwide, half a million people die from air pollution each year-more than perish in all wars combined. One in every five mammal species on the planet is threatened with extinction. Our climate is warming, our forests are in decline, and every day we hear news ...

Coercion

the power to hurt in international politics

From the rising significance of non-state actors to the increasing influence of regional powers, the nature and conduct of international politics has arguably changed dramatically since the height of the Cold War. Yet much of the literature on deterrence and compellence continues to draw (whether ...

The myth of international order

why weak States persist and alternatives to the State fade away

In February of 2011, Libyan citizens rebelled against Muammar Qaddafi and quickly unseated him. The speed of the regime's collapse confounded many observers, and the ensuing civil war showed Foreign Policy's index of failed states to be deeply flawed-FP had, in 2010, identified ...

Making the Arab world

Nasser, Qutb, and the clash that shaped the Middle East

How the conflict between political Islamists and secular-leaning nationalists has shaped the history of the modern Middle East In 2013, just two years after the popular overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian military ousted the country's first democratically elected president-Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim ...

The killing season

a history of the indonesian massacres, 1965-66

The Killing Season explores one of the largest and swiftest, yet least examined, instances of mass killing and incarceration in the twentieth century-the shocking antileftist purge that gripped Indonesia in 1965-66, leaving some five hundred thousand people dead and more than a million others in ...