This accessible, user-friendly and bang-up-to-date introduction to International Politics blends key facts and terms with strong analytical commentary, examining the debates and issues of greatest relevance to the study of the subject.Focusing on the period since 1900, the book provides detailed coverage of key events from the origins of the First World War to the post-Cold War international order. Written in a clear and jargon-free style, particular features include: * The shift from Great Powers to Superpowers in the first half of the twentieth century* The Cold War and post-Cold War order*...
This accessible, user-friendly and bang-up-to-date introduction to International Politics blends key facts and terms with strong analytical commentary...
The European Union faces a crossroads in the twenty-first century. While there is evidence of declining enthusiasm for European integration, the EU plays an increasingly vital role in tackling problems that can no longer be dealt with at member state level. In recent years, the EU has developed a stronger foreign, security and defence policy, and has had to face up to the challenges of tackling organised crime, human trafficking and drug smuggling.
In this fully updated new edition, Alasdair Blair examines the economic, political, social and personal factors that have...
The European Union faces a crossroads in the twenty-first century. While there is evidence of declining enthusiasm for European integration, the EU...
In the climate of global interdependence, financial decline, and the international 'war on terror', international relations loom large on the world stage. In this book, Alasdair Blair re-assesses the history of Britain's relations with other world powers in the light of recent events.
In the climate of global interdependence, financial decline, and the international 'war on terror', international relations loom large on the world st...
Published in 1999. This book provides a detailed analysis of the positions and strategies adopted by Britain during the 1990-91 Intergovernmental Conference which concluded in the Maastricht Treaty on European Union. The main focus is on the questions of British policy coordination and the factors which determined the government's position during the negotiations on European Political Union and European Monetary Union. This is the first major study which reconstructs the mechanisms of British policy making and notes the internal and external factors which shaped the construction of the...
Published in 1999. This book provides a detailed analysis of the positions and strategies adopted by Britain during the 1990-91 Intergovernmental Conf...
