While dozens of recent books and articles have predicted the near-certainty of China's rise to global supremacy, this book boldly counters such widely-held assumptions. Timothy Beardson brings to light the daunting array of challenges that today confront China, as well as the in…
This book addresses the issue of grand strategic stability in the 21 st century, and examines the role of the key centres of global power - US, EU, Russia, China and India - in managing contemporary strategic threats. This edited volume examines the cooperative and conflictual c…
Following a coup by the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) in April 1978, the Soviet Union and the United States were increasingly drawn into a civil war in Afghanistan that helped to shape the end of the Cold War, with the crucial decisions made in Moscow, Washingt…
The main aim of this study is to find out whether or not, and to what extent the European Neighbourhood Policy contributes to European security in the light of effects of changing international structure on European scale. To that end, a neo-realist approach is applied in the st…
