Douglas A. Irwin 
Trade Policy Disaster [EPUB ebook] 

The US and international defense industrial sectors have faced many challenges over the last twenty years, including cycles of growth and shrinkage in defense budgets, shifts in strategic defense pri …

Popolo applies Foucauldian methodology to the understanding of Complexity Science for the purposes of generating new understandings related to International Relations in general and to the Kosovo con …

Current events happening around the world, especially the ’humanitarian interventions’ by NATO and the West within the context of the so-called Arab Spring, make the understanding of the role of sphe …

Over the last decade the ‘transition paradigm’, which is based on the conviction that authoritarian political systems would over time necessarily develop into democracies, has been subjected to serio …

Authoritarian Russia has adopted five strategies to preserve the Kremlin”s political power: insulate, bolster, subvert, redefine and coordinate. Thomas Ambrosio examines each of these in turn, all o …

States that withdraw from the international system provide insight into an unexplored area of international relations in terms of rationality, self-interest, power politics, cooperation and alliances …

Every generation leaves both assets and liabilities to the next. Alert people can see we are going to leave our children and grandchildren with a nearly unsolvable test of energy supplies; waste poll …

This volume examines the complex international system of the twenty first century from a variety of perspectives. Proceeding from critical theoretical perspectives and incorporating case studies, the …

Offering a clear and logical analysis of the panoply of European Union aid policies and a theoretically informed evaluation of their operation, Patrick Holden contends that the major thrust of EU aid …

With the collapse of the USSR, fifteen fledgling sates inherited a massive Soviet arsenal, unstable political systems, and desperate economies. A ‘sell everything’ mentality threatens to result in th …