"Ruhi Ramazani is widely considered the dean of Iranian foreign policy study, having spent the past sixty years studying and writing about the country's international relations. In Independence without Freedom, Ramazani draws together twenty of his most insightful and important …
How do we gain authentic information and generate credible knowledge from research in difficult places and from difficult audiences? Can we do this? Are there practical solutions to the challenges and barriers often put before us? This book guides researchers in conducting resea…
"How will China develop under Xi Jinping's rule? Is Xi Jinping, and by extension the Chinese state, now acting from a position of strength or weakness? In other words, do his policies appear to be the actions of a strong leader of an increasingly powerful nation? Or, are they th…
"The Long Shadow is the first comprehensive, systematic examination of the roles and implications of nuclear weapons in the dramatically different post-Cold War security environment. Leading experts investigate the roles and salience of nuclear weapons in the national security s…
Abstract: It is now 20 years since the Cold War effectively ended with the dramatic collapse of the Soviet Union and its client states in Eastern and Central Europe, and just over three decades since the final bloody climax of the Vietnam War played itself out on the streets of …
Although it is widely recognized that Africa's security problems are acute, it has never been a subject of much intellectual inquiry. This lack of scholarly discourse on the many dimensions of the problem of African security is the major consideration for this book. The approach…
Traditionally, the South China Sea (SCS) issue was not on the negotiation table between the United States and China. However, the tensions between the United States and China over the SCS have gradually simmered up to a strategic level. Why and how did the SCS become a flashpoin…
The study reviews and assesses Nigeria's contributions to ECOMOG peace support operations in Liberia and finds that the contributions indeed positively impacted on the success of the mission. The study reviews all available evidence and finds that without any doubt Nigeria's con…
The goal of this study is to examine the events generating the coup attempt, the government response to it and to posit the recent phenomenon of Afro-Caribbean Islam as a security threat within the fragile polities of the Caribbean Basin as a case study. By studying the ethno-re…
This study presents a detailed examination of the Arab League's history, development, structure and roles in an effort to understand the cause of its failure as a regional security organisation. The research's point of departure is a questioning of the nature and scope of this f…
Annotation The Northeast Asian security environment is closely linked to Koreas growth perspectives for the future. The spectacular rise of the South Korean economy in the past half century, also known as Miracle on the Han River, has been duly highlighted as one of the most suc…