Providing students with a complete introduction to the area, with thoroughly-developed pedagogy to both guide those new to the topic and challenge those who are already engaged, this new textbook brings together leaders in the field to cover all key contemporary issues in depth.

This book collects contributions by Richard T. Griffiths on the history of European integration, some published for the first time in English. The essays range in chronology from the early experiences with the Marshall Plan to the difficulties and opportunities for the EFTA countries afforded by association with the EEC in the 1970s and 80s. The book interprets European integration far wider than simply the current European Union and its forerunners. Thus, it devotes chapters to EFTA, the OEC...

Looking at contemporary issues such as drone warfare, state violence, gender and political violence, cyberterrorism, lone-wolf terrorism, and de-radicalization, this book draws on the expertise of members of the Terrorism and Political Violence Association network to provide readers with a fascinating introduction to the area.

THE NEGLECTED DUTY, first published in 1986, shows that in the 1970s and 1980s, Egypt was already pregnant with twins: the Arab Spring and the seizure of power by Sharia fundamentalists, organized in the Muslim Brotherhood. Since June 2012, the Brotherhood rules Egypt-its dream finally come true. Is Sharia law to be applied in its entirety? Does Sharia law justify-perhaps even demand-the use of violence against any who do not submit to it, including governments, "lax" Muslims, Christians, J...

Jan Dominicus has been angry for years about the unjust treatment of the Palestinians by the Israelis. Despite the intensity of his anger, he has done little to address the problem. A few letters to the editor and a Palestinian flag hanging outside his house have been sufficient up until now. Jan would likely have never done anything more himself about the situation, but thankfully for him and his wife Jeanette, someone else cast the first stone. This stone, a broken window and the help of Je...

Military involvement in foreign policy decision-making, and its role as a driving force in that process, has long been anathema to both academic and practitioner circles. Without wanting to pursue the quest for principles or ultimate predictions this study looks specifically into the role of the military in foreign policy decision-making. It does so by carefully reconstructing and comparing the sequential series of decisions of a group of British and Dutch senior civil and military decision-m...

Luis Moreno Ocampo, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, had previously announced possible plans of undertaking investigations on the role played by entrepreneurs in financing violent conflicts in which core international crimes such as crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide have been committed. However, till this day investigations of this kind have not taken place. Nevertheless, the fact remains that the current impunity to gross human rights violations by corporations,...

Moving from conventional accounts of the society of states to non-state-centric understandings of global politics, this book presents readers with a state-of-the-art overview of international political theory.

In this much-anticipated revision of their unique text, the editors bring together 15 top scholars to highlight the importance of both internal and external forces in foreign policy making.