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Security has long been a central organizing concept of international relations. Until the 1980s, students of the discipline understood its simple essence in terms of arms races and balances of power. However, the issues have changed considerably in the 1990s, and this text aims to help students understand these changes. Many attempts have been made to redefine the concept, leading to a proliferation of terms such as true security, global security, common security and environmental security, but there has been little precision associated with the use of these terms which have often been used...

Given the end of the cold war, economic development of the Asia-Pacific region, the emergence of Neo-Liberal democratisation and the further marginalisation of Africa in the global political economy, this book provides a timely theoretical analysis of current trends in the third world/global politics.

An understanding of foreign policy is of importance not only to professionals and scholars in international relations but also to the many international and multinational corporations with business interests in different parts of the world. Those who need to gain a rapid yet authoritative understanding of the foreign policies of the major powers will find the set indispensable. The four volumes--covering the USA, the Soviet Union and present-day Russia, China and Japan, and the European Union--form a timely, comprehensive and up-to-date account of the major debates and developments in the...