China’s Law of the Sea is the first comprehensive study of the law and geopolitics of China’s maritime disputes. It provides a rigorous empirical account of whether and how China is changing “the rules” of international order—specifically, the international law of the sea.
Yale University Press, 2023, ISBN: 9780300256475
By Isaac B. Kardon
What does China’s regional diplomacy tell us about the country’s geopolitical position and ambitions, and what patterns does it reveal? Building from international relations theories focused on how external threats, domestic politics, and ideology influence foreign policy, Yuxing Huang puts forward a nuanced argument. He suggests that in an environment of numerous regional competitors and alignments, China has developed a form of asymmetric statecraft toward its many weaker neighbors.
University of British Colombia Press, 2023, ISBN: 9780774868112
By Yuxing Huang
Chip War reveals that China, which spends more money each year importing chips than it spends importing oil, is pouring billions into a chip-building initiative to catch up to the US. At stake is America’s military superiority and economic prosperity. Economic historian Chris Miller explains how the semiconductor came to play a critical role in modern life and how the U.S. become dominant in chip design and manufacturing and applied this technology to military systems.
Scribner, 2022, ISBN: 9781982172008
By Chris Miller
Hostile Homelands puts India’s relationship with Israel in its historical context, looking at the origins of Zionism and Hindutva; India’s changing position on Palestine; and the countries’ growing military-industrial relationship from the 1990s. Lucid and persuasive, Essa demonstrates that the India-Israel alliance spells significant consequences for democracy, the rule of law and justice worldwide.
Pluto Press, 2023, ISBN: 9780745345017
By Azad Essa
Governing Security After War examines the political dimensions of security governance, arguing that the extent to which state policymakers adopt changes to the management and oversight of security forces depends on internal political dynamics.
Oxford University Press, 2022, ISBN: 9780197572382
By Louis-Alexandre Berg
Seeking the Bomb is the first book to analyze how states pursue nuclear weapons by examining which strategies of nuclear proliferation are available to aspirants, why aspirants select one strategy over another, and how this matters to international politics.
Princeton University Press, 2022, ISBN:
By Vipin Narang
A brilliant big-picture vision of the greatest challenge of our time – how to bridge the bitter divides within diverse democracies enough for them to remain stable and functional. The Great Experiment draws crucial insights from history, social psychology, and comparative politics.
Penguin Press, 2022, ISBN-13: 978-0593296813
By Yascha Mounk
In recent years, China has become a world leader in e-commerce, e-currency, 5G and artificial intelligence, cementing itself as a major competitor to established powers. How has China pulled this off? The answer lies in the country’s Digital Silk Road, a multi-faceted programme to connect the world via digital means.
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022, ISBN-13: 978-1803921204
By Gerald Chan
While violence has declined worldwide, civil wars have increased. Even countries we thought could never experience another civil war – such as the USA, Sweden and Ireland – are showing signs of unrest. How Civil Wars Start explains the rise of civil war and the conditions that create it.
Viking, 2022, ISBN-13: 978-0593137789
By Barbara F. Walter
Tarek Cherkaoui reveals how geo-political and ideological legacies of the past, which divide the world into a dichotomy of ‘us’ against ‘them’, play a dominant role in reinforcing the ensuing polarization of our media.
London, Bloomsbury, 2021.
By Tarek Cherkaoui.
Drawing on unprecedented access to the video archives of B’Tselem, an Israeli NGO that distributes cameras to Palestinians living in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, Liat Berdugo lays out an argument for a visual studies approach to videographic evidence in Israel/Palestine.
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021
By Liat Berdugo
In Rich Thanks to Racism, Jim Freeman, one of the country’s leading civil rights lawyers, explains why as he reveals the hidden strategy behind systemic racism.
Cornell University Press, 2021.
By Jim Freeman
The authors offer a critique of the existing discourse on revisionism and investigate the historical origin and evolution of the foreign policy orientations of revisionist states in the past.
Oxford, June 2021.
By Steve Chan, Huiyun Feng, Kai He, and Weixing Hu
A sober and frank account of the strategic options and constraints affecting NATO. This is the first volume to examine current military risks and threats for NATO from a military strategy vantage point.
Oxford, 2021.
Edited by Janne Haaland Matlary and Robert Johnson
Ferris’ informative official history of GCHQ, one of the United Kingdom’s leading intelligence agencies, is remarkable.
Bloomsbury Publishing, August 2021.
By John Ferris
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