How have US economic defence policies promoted its security since 1933? US Policies of Economic Warfare, 1933-1991 concentrates on an important and neglected facet of America's fight for survival in the latter half of the twentieth century. It explains how US policy-makers crafted and used instruments of economic statecraft against states that posed vital threats to the survival of the USA. This study situates economic defence policy within the broad context of US foreign policy and explores its response to the totalitarianism of the 1930s, the Second World War and the complex...
How have US economic defence policies promoted its security since 1933? US Policies of Economic Warfare, 1933-1991 concentrates on an impo...
Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) are now an inescapable part of everyday life as well as an integral element to large scale political-economic change. In this close-up study of pioneering and longstanding Internet discussion forums, M.I. Franklin explores the practice of everyday life in cyberspace. The author traces how the online practices and discussions of postcolonial and diasporic communities rearticulate the gendered, political, ethnic and cultural dimensions of daily lives, political and cultural issues on the ground. In a neoliberal global era, however, the...
Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) are now an inescapable part of everyday life as well as an integral element to large scale politica...
This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the development of relations between Russia and NATO since 1991.
Since the re-emergence of Russia as an independent state in December 1991, debates and controversies surrounding its evolving relations with NATO have been a prominent feature of the European security scene. This is the first detailed and comprehensive book-length analysis of Russia-NATO relations, covering the years 1991-2005. This new volume investigates the nature and substance of the 'partnership' relations that have developed between Russia and...
This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the development of relations between Russia and NATO since 1991.
This is the first book to present and discuss Jeremy Bentham's contributions to international relations theory. It introduces this brilliant thinker to a new audience and field in which his insights are invaluable and fascinating. Bentham is best known amongst political theory scholars, as the vast proportion of his work addressed legal theory, reform, and the ideal relationship between the governors and the governed. This major new study explores how his thinking casts light into the field of international relations, opening up an array of potentials and possibilities. It exposes the...
This is the first book to present and discuss Jeremy Bentham's contributions to international relations theory. It introduces this brilliant thinker t...
This book examines the impact of the information revolution on international and domestic security, attempting to remedy both the lack of theoretically informed analysis of information security and the US-centric tendency in the existing literature.
International Relations and Security in the Digital Age covers a range of topics, including: critical infrastructure protection, privacy issues, international cooperation, cyber terrorism, and security policy. It aims to analyze the impact of the information revolution on international and domestic security; examine what...
This book examines the impact of the information revolution on international and domestic security, attempting to remedy both the lack of theoretic...
This is one of the first books to explore the nexus between civil society, religion, and global governance, their impact on human security and well-being, and significance for current debates in international politics.
The contributors examine salient aspects of the secular state whose monopoly on, and control of, institutional violence has reified its use of power to such an extent that the modernistic separation of church and state is being called into question, as institutional limits are sought to the abuse of that power. The volume is clearly divided into six key sections:
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This is one of the first books to explore the nexus between civil society, religion, and global governance, their impact on human security and well...
