Bøger i St. James's Studies in World Affairs serien

Climate change is one of the most pressing environmental issues of our time. Although cohesive solutions remain elusive, U.S. media attention on climate change is decreasing. This study examines how media attention to climate change solutions has changed over time, and makes recommendations on how coverage trends can be influenced.

Records the experiences of female victims of the armed conflict in Nepal between 1996-2006, shows how the conflict exacerbated the prevailing gender inequality suffered by women, and presents the social history of women whose traumatic experiences are often shadowed by the larger picture of the war.

Studies the Kashmir Valley, one of the most complex situations in international politics, from the perspective of human security. This study moves our understanding of Kashmir to a grassroots level, and assesses the challenges posed by intensive militarisation to the ability (or inability) to lead a life as one wishes.

Explores the place of cybersecurity within the larger international debate on security issues, arguing that it is important to begin placing cybersecurity in the context of national security matters, since the issues are most often relegated to technology debates.

Presenting a highly original chronological case study of the role of sports in the making of Taiwan's foreign policy, Catherine Kai-Ping Lin enriches our understanding of Taiwan's unique position in the world by arguing that nationalist forces within the Taiwanese government used athletic competition to promote Taiwanese nationalism and nationhood.

Presents insights from a conference hosted by the Vaclav Havel Program for Human Rights and Diplomacy at Florida International University. The book's fundamental topic is memory, the human capacity to retain its contents in the flux of time, which is explored and discussed both theoretically and in terms of current action-oriented public discourse.

Analyses the internal tensions of the Soviet-led Cold War alliance as its careened toward its end. Starting with the peak of the alliance's power under Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, the book follows its ossification to its increasing haplessness under Brezhnev's successors Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko.

Presents the work of numerous distinguished scholars, including many native to the region, who explore the fascinating variety of factors behind the rise and fall of the Arab Spring, along with foreign and security policy of regional great powers such as Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and their roles in the construction of the new Middle East.

Questions the legality of the detentions at Guantanamo Bay, emphasizing that Guantanamo is a legal detention camp and evaluates the rights that its detainees have under international humanitarian and human rights law. The text's main objective is to analyse the status of the detainees: can they be classified as prisoners of war or unlawful combatants, as labelled by the US government?

Argues that feminist international relations (IR) theory has inadvertently resulted in a biased worldview, the very opposite of what feminist IR set out to try to rectify. This book contests theoretical presumptions of Western feminist IR and attempts to reformulate it in contexts of non-Western cultures.

In this groundbreaking study, international relations scholar Hicham Tohme offers a critique of current academic, scholarly, and public understandings of Russia's geostrategic outlook through the lens of the ongoing Syrian crisis. This critique is based on a reassessment of four key concepts that shape our knowledge of Russia's foreign policy.

Using both realist and critical theories in a comparative framework, China Moves South states that while realism may offer a reasonable approach to explaining China's geopolitical behaviour, critical theory is a more appropriate lens to challenge China's occupations.

The failure of six countries to reach an agreement in the Six-Party Talks on Korea has shown the futility of negotiations to denuclearize North Korea. As Victor Ofosu shows in this timely new study, diplomacy failed because nuclear reversal is not in Pyongyang security, regional, or economic interests. This analysis examines factors which may encourage North Korea and other nuclear powers to reverse their posture, including considerations of constraint surrounding the INF treaty between the United States and Russia. The book also considers arguments criticizing the effectiveness of arms control agreements, the application of security and domestic models of arms control, and how security and domestic issues can deter a state from complying with a treaty.