Brings together scholarship on the events of 9/11, and assesses whether the truth has been told by the US government. This work shows that 11 of FBI-named Arabic hijackers could not have been on the planes, while the Dulles airport videotape - essentially being the case that hij…
Introduction : Making analytically sense of the Belt and Road Initiative : a plea for multi- and trans-disciplinary approaches and eclecticism / Alfred Gerstl and Ute Wallenböck -- The Belt and Road Initiative post-April 2019 : plus ça change! / Vijay Nambiar -- Thoughts on appr…
Demonstrates that trade policies and consumer cultures are as crucial to understanding U.S. empire as military or diplomatic interventions. Merleaux argues that ideas about race and civilization shaped sugar markets since government policies and business practices hinged on the …
"For decades, Hong Kong has maintained precarious freedom at the edge of competing world powers. In City on the Edge, Ho-fung Hung offers a timely and engaging account of Hong Kong's development from precolonial times to the present, with particular focus on the post 1997 handov…
"As the circumpolar North emerges as a significant presence in world affairs, it becomes increasingly exposed to globalization. This is the first book to describe those effects--political, economic, and cultural--in all their complexity. Gathering literature by leading political…
During the Cold War the concept of international security was understood in military terms as the threat or use of force by states. The end of EastÐWest hostilities, however, brought 'critical' perspectives to the fore as scholars sought to explain the emergence of new challenge…
The politics of aid from the perspective of international relations theories / Bernabé Malacalza -- Foreign aid's motivations : theoretical arguments and empirical evidence / Gino N. Pauselli -- The U.S. elite consensus on aid / Henry de Cazotte -- The UK : an aid superpower at …
