This volume brings together a group of leading international scholars to discuss how US-China-EU relations will shape the future of international politics.
Arguing that these three powers will play a key role in establishing and managing a new world order, the contributors examine how a future global order is developed by the interaction of these leading actors in the international system. The authors also address how the US, China and the EU promote cooperation and manage conflict of interests on a wide spectrum of issues including new security challenges. By linking the management...
This volume brings together a group of leading international scholars to discuss how US-China-EU relations will shape the future of international p...
In The Objects of Life in Central Africa the history of consumption and social change from 1840 until 1980 is explored. By taking consumption as a vantage point, the contributions deviate from and add to previous works which have mainly analysed issues of production from an economic and political perspective. The chapters are broad-ranging in temporal and geographical focus, including contributions on Congo, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Angola. Topics range from the social history of firearms to the perception of the railway and include contributions on sewing machines, traders and...
In The Objects of Life in Central Africa the history of consumption and social change from 1840 until 1980 is explored. By taking consumption a...
This volume provides a coherent and comprehensive understanding of Chinese security policy, comprising essays written by one of America's leading scholars.
Chinese Security Policy covers such fundamental areas as the role of international structure in state behavior, the use of force in international politics (including deterrence, coercive diplomacy, and war), and the sources of great-power conflict and cooperation and balance of power politics, with a recent focus on international power transitions. The research integrates the realist literature with key issues in Chinese...
This volume provides a coherent and comprehensive understanding of Chinese security policy, comprising essays written by one of America's leading s...
Lays emphasis on the continuing influence of the country's African heritage whilst also chronicling the processes of colonial conquest and of economic development stemming from the industrial revolution. This is followed by an analysis of the fundamental political changes South Africa has undergone, and a background for understanding those many things which have not changed.
Lays emphasis on the continuing influence of the country's African heritage whilst also chronicling the processes of colonial conquest and of economic...
This book surveys South African history from the discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand in the late nineteenth century to the first democratic elections in 1994. Written by many of the leading historians of the country, it pulls together four decades of scholarship to present a detailed overview of South Africa during the twentieth century. It covers political, economic, social, and intellectual developments and their interconnections in a clear and objective manner. This book, the second of two volumes, represents an important reassessment of all the major historical events, developments,...
This book surveys South African history from the discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand in the late nineteenth century to the first democratic electio...