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The Czech Republic (also known as Czechia since 2016) has had a troubled post-communist transition, in particular with the ascent of billionaire oligarch Andrej Babis to the office of prime minister of the Czech Republic in 2017, returning in 2015. The second edition of this book adds chapters on the Catholic Church, sexual minorities, and xenophobia, together with a completely new conclusion and updating to most of the remaining chapters. The authors demonstrate that civic values, such as tolerance, individual rights, respect for the harm principle, the principle of equality, and the rule of law, are key factors in determining whether the Czech Republic will maintain its democracy in the coming years.

The Andaman and Nicobar Islands (ANI) occupy a uniquely strategic position at the mouth of the Bay of Bengal, forming one of the most strategically located island chains in the world. Positioned close to the Strait of Malacca, these 572 islands serve as the first land connection from the Strait and overlook one of the world's busiest sea lines of communication. As the Indo-Pacific becomes the new theatre of great power contestation in the 21st century, the Andaman Sea will no longer remain the tranquil backwater it has been for the past two centuries. This comprehensive volume brings together accomplished academicians and practitioners to examine the multifaceted importance of the ANI through three distinct sections: history, geography, and tradition; security dimensions; and economic development and connectivity. The volume adopts a multidisciplinary approach, relying on substantial primary sources and combining theoretical frameworks with situational assessments. It addresses critical, yet understudied, aspects, including maritime boundaries with Indonesia and Myanmar, marine ecosystems, underwater domain awareness, power projection capabilities, and blue economy potential.

This volume is essential reading for students, researchers, academicians, policymakers, and think tanks engaged in South Asian studies, maritime security, Indo-Pacific affairs, strategic studies, and international relations. It provides invaluable insights for understanding India's maritime profile and the geostrategic significance of the ANI in contemporary global affairs.

Artificial intelligence in an age of rivalry, risk, and power.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging and evolving amid intense global competition. Geopolitics of AI examines how breakthroughs in AI intersect with great-power rivalry, military competition, economic statecraft, and competing models of governance-and how those dynamics will shape the development and use of AI itself.

Edited by Hal Brands, this volume brings together leading scholars and policy analysts to address AI's strategic implications. Contributors examine how AI may alter military operations, economic productivity, alliance structures, and deterrence, while also creating new challenges of instability, escalation, and misuse. The book also considers how geopolitical competition will influence technological innovation in the years ahead. Rivalries among major powers will shape research priorities, regulatory approaches, and international norms and will determine whether AI becomes a source of cooperation, coercion, or conflict. These pressures raise urgent questions about governance, control, and the balance between innovation and restraint.

Geopolitics of AI offers a timely, wide-angle perspective on one of the defining challenges of contemporary international politics. It will be of interest to scholars and students of international relations and security studies, as well as policymakers, analysts, and readers seeking to understand how emerging technologies are reshaping global order.

This book investigates why some foreign powers that initially assist warring parties in civil wars later escalate to direct military involvement.

This volume connects proxy war and direct intervention through a new theoretical framework, Support Escalation Theory, arguing that intervention ("direct support") is risky and costlier than the transfer of resources ("indirect support"), and so is not chosen lightly. Using case studies, including Fascist Italy's involvement in the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s and Russia's intervention in the Donbas in 2014, this book highlights why foreign sponsors prefer to escalate from indirect to direct support: they do so when the time window to affect the conflict and avoid a negative outcome is running out, and the warring party would not be able to use further indirect support that would no longer be helpful. Therefore, foreign sponsors feel the incentive to step in with their own forces. Additional examples test how widely the pattern holds in the 20th and 21st centuries, shedding light on one of the most important-and dangerous-features of modern conflict.

This book will be of much interest to students of civil wars, conflict studies, security studies, and International Relations.

Women Leaders in Central and Eastern Europe: Organizing, Politics, and the Path to Change is a groundbreaking edited volume that redefines leadership through the lens of women's experiences across a historically and culturally unique region. Drawing on rich, qualitative narratives, the book explores how women have led transformation in politics, public institutions, and organizational life in Central and Eastern Europe. This concise and compelling volume features case studies of individual women leaders, each situated within their country's socio-political context. Highlighting leadership as a practice of meaning-making and collective action, the book challenges dominant Western models centered on hierarchy and individualism. Instead, it offers inspiring accounts of resilience, cooperation, and visionary organizing. Each chapter includes analysis and reflections that bridge personal stories with wider themes in organization and gender studies. Ideal for researchers, scholars, students, and practitioners in organization studies, management, leadership, gender studies, and Central and Eastern European studies, this book is a vital contribution to the global conversation on inclusive and alternative leadership models. It also serves as an invaluable resource for educators and professionals seeking diverse perspectives on organizing and governance.

This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of important works of military science fiction from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and their implications for how we think about armed conflict and the future of war.

In so doing, the work re-examines classic novels such as Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers, Joe Haldeman's The Forever War and Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game. It reads these alongside works from the likes of Ursula K. Le Guin, Philip K. Dick, Kurt Vonnegut, and Frederik Pohl, and also introduces modern-day classics such as Anne Leckie's Imperial Radch trilogy, John Scalzi's Old Man's War, and Adrian Tchaikovsky's Dogs of War. It finally turns to Games Workshop's Warhammer 40,000 universe to explore some of the dark and dystopian implications that science fiction literature suggests. From the use of deep fakes in cyberwarfare to the ethics of drones and the pre-emptive killing of terror suspects from afar, the book addresses some of the key social, moral, and ethical implications of high-tech warfare, the warnings science fiction presents, and the lessons we can learn.

This book will be of interest to students of the future of warfare, technology studies, literary studies, and security studies.

This book provides an in-depth case study of White Armband Day, a civic and transnational protest against the denial of genocidal violence in Prijedor during the early days of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1995). It explores how this commemorative event emerged amid local memory struggles as a spontaneous global social media campaign for the victims' right to remember and traces its evolution into a transnational commemoration day, marked in Prijedor, across the post-Yugoslav region, within diasporic communities, and online.

Based on multi-sited fieldwork conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina and several places of settlement, the book focuses on the transnational and diasporic dimensions of this commemorative protest and pays particular attention to the role of translocal networks in establishing this commemoration within conflict-generated Bosnian-Herzegovinian diasporic communities.

The book will appeal to an international audience of academics and advanced students engaging in current discussions in memory studies, transitional justice, and diaspora studies. It will be of interest to scholars of contemporary Southeastern Europe and other societies grappling with the legacies of a violent past and to practitioners seeking to support civil society in advancing post-war justice and challenging the silencing of historic injustice.

Challenging the Western-centric foundations of International Relations (IR), this groundbreaking edited volume places Asian perspectives at the forefront of IR scholarship. Spanning nine countries across Asia, this rigorous examination reveals how concepts of sovereignty and internationalism have been uniquely interpreted and adapted across diverse Asian contexts.

Moving beyond American social science paradigms, the book traces the fascinating encounters between Western and Asian worldviews, explores country-specific IR developments and demonstrates their transformative impact on global academic discourse. It is essential reading for scholars seeking to understand IR's true global diversity and the promising future of post-Western international theory.

This book critically examines how states have leveraged the 2018 UN Global Compacts on Migration and Refugees to advance their geopolitical and strategic interests. Through a detailed analysis, it explores the emerging norm of state responsibility for managing migration while exposing the gaps, contradictions, and silences surrounding key issues such as non-refoulement, internal displacement, and climate migration. More than five years after the adoption of the Global Compacts, the authors provide a thought-provoking reflection on the assumptions, logics, and rhetoric underpinning these agreements and their implementation by states and international organizations.

This book is an essential resource for students, scholars, policymakers, and practitioners in the fields of migration studies, international relations, and human rights as well as those seeking to understand the complex interplay between migration diplomacy and global governance.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Geopolitics.

This book explores how pro-Kremlin media has shaped perceptions of Russia's allies and adversaries during Vladimir Putin's 26 years in power, revealing the hidden strategies and intentions embedded within state-controlled narratives.

Through analysis of Russian media coverage of Ukraine, China, Japan, and Britain, the book uncovers the narratives driving Russia's estrangement from the West, its alliance with China and its war in Ukraine. It contrasts state-aligned television narratives with reporting by Russia's non-state media, revealing a more diverse media landscape than is often acknowledged, at least until the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

Russia's State Media and Foreign Policy, 2000-2024 is an invaluable resource for policymakers, scholars and students studying Russian media, Moscow's foreign policy and Kremlin propaganda techniques.

This book offers a comprehensive guide to achieving sustainability within the local government sector. It addresses the challenges of financial and operational decline faced by local governments worldwide, providing a detailed roadmap to improve their long-term viability.

Professors Drew and Miyazaki combine extensive practical experience with comprehensive scholarly knowledge, informed by their distinguished careers and significant advisory work. Each chapter addresses critical components of sustainability, offering evidence-based recommendations alongside engaging case studies drawn from the authors' experiences working with local governments. These case studies illustrate the practical applications of the book's strategies, making it both informative and accessible for readers seeking actionable guidance. Readers will benefit from a blend of academic research, real-world examples, and practical solutions tailored to the complexities of local government.

Making Local Government Sustainable serves as a foundational text for scholars, policymakers, and regulators interested in sustainable local government. Academics will find it valuable as a rigorous, well-researched resource filling a crucial gap in existing literature on local government sustainability. Additionally, its unique combination of practical experience and rigorous scholarly content make it an ideal reference for academic courses in public administration.

How your personal story can shape public policy.

In a crowded media landscape, personal stories can cut through noise, shift public opinion, and influence decision-makers. In More Than Personal, David Chrisinger offers a practical guide for transforming lived experience into persuasive advocacy. Drawing on his work teaching narrative strategy and public policy writing at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy, Chrisinger shows readers how to craft concise, compelling stories suitable for op-eds, legislative testimony, policy briefs, and one-on-one meetings with elected officials.

Chrisinger introduces readers to distinct types of storytellers, explains how audience values shape reception, and demonstrates how effective narratives can expose problems, build solidarity, correct misinformation, and motivate action. Each chapter provides concrete tools: structuring stories using Aristotle's dramatic arc, identifying the central "object of desire," uncovering deeper meaning beneath surface events, and shaping scenes that engage readers quickly. Chrisinger emphasizes clarity and economy, helping advocates develop narratives that fit within the tight constraints of political communication while retaining emotional force. The book also addresses the strategic realities of advocacy: not all audiences respond to the same stories, and understanding values and context is essential to persuasion.

Through examples of effective and revised narratives, readers learn how to sharpen their message and align it with specific policy goals. Designed for activists, community leaders, policy professionals, and students, More Than Personal equips readers with the skills to use their own experiences as tools for meaningful political change.

The Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment (APRSA) advances rigorous analysis of the deeper drivers, emerging trends and future trajectories of the key security challenges and policies currently shaping the Asia-Pacific. It contextualises the broader debates at the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia's premier defence summit convened by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, where the Strategic Dossier is published and launched every year.

This thirteenth edition of the APRSA covers six chapters and is written by 11 IISS experts from across its offices in London, Berlin Singapore and Washington and includes original maps, graphs, charts and tables. The chapters collectively examine how military perception, strategic geography and emerging technology continue to shape major security policies and trends across the Asia-Pacific.

The special-topic chapter this year will examine how the military doctrines of major and regional powers will shape the future of warfare in the Asia-Pacific. The other five chapters cover the following topics:

• Land-force modernisation in Asia
• Quantum-security cooperation between Japan, South Korea and the US
• Nuclear-weapons modernisation risks in the Asia-Pacific
• Maritime choke-point contestation in the Indian Ocean
• Thailand's frontline role in addressing the post-coup Myanmar conflict

AI Use Cases for Public Diplomacy reveals how AI is reshaping the landscape of public diplomacy-and how it can aid diplomats in the contest for hearts and minds.

Every day, embassies monitor narratives, craft messages for divided publics, counter disinformation, respond to crises, and build coalitions across cultural and linguistic divides. These are high-stakes tasks, performed under time pressure, with imperfect information. Now, AI is transforming that challenge. Retired U.S. Foreign Service Officer Dr. Don Kilburg draws on more than two decades of frontline diplomatic experience. Through ten richly detailed chapters, a consistent narrative framework (the fictional Republic of Z), and nearly two hundred sources, he shows how AI can expand diplomatic reach, sharpen timing, and sustain credibility while confronting the ethical dilemmas head-on.

This book is essential reading for diplomats, embassy staff, politicians, and public communicators who are ready to act on the greatest lesson the AI revolution teaches us: credibility can no longer be faked, only earned.

This book offers a qualitative cohort analysis in a comparative case study of national identity and political violence in the Basque and Kurdish contexts.

Rooted in the author's work concerning social reproduction mechanisms of political violence, it examines two non-state politico-military organizations, Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA, Basque Homeland and Freedom) and Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan (PKK, Kurdistan Workers' Party), the vanguard actors of two long-lasting ethnic conflicts in Spain and Turkey. It draws upon in-depth interviews conducted in the Basque Country and Kurdistan with former and active militants of both organizations who exercised violent practices to show how individuals within certain age groups share a specific range of experiences, a particular mode of thought, and historically relevant actions. This generational analysis illuminates a cause-and-effect relationship explaining the emergence and continuity of armed struggle in specific time intervals.

This volume will therefore appeal to a wide range of scholars and researchers of sociology, social movement, history, political sciences, and anthropology.

Why do we care about listening? This collection examines listening in various political contexts, illuminating its profound role in democratic communication. Listening is not merely a passive act; it expresses, relies on, and alters power. If we understand listening and ignoring to be acts of political power, then it bears asking what a specifically democratic practice of listening entails.

This volume brings together philosophical, observational, and experimental research to investigate when and how listening takes place, the obstacles to effective listening, and its implications for democratic representation, deliberation, and policymaking. The chapters employ diverse methodological approaches-from meta-analyses to field experiments-to provide a systematic account of the antecedents and consequences of political listening in contemporary democracy. The studies help explain how and why listening matters, particularly during times of democratic stress, and reveal how listening shapes voter confidence, reduces in-group bias, and influences legislative engagement with constituents.

Essential reading for scholars and practitioners in political science, communication studies, democratic theory, and public policy, this volume closes the gap between normative political theory and empirical research, providing a comprehensive framework for assessing listening as a democratic practice. The essays in this volume were originally published as a special issue of Political Communication.

Foreword by Charles Wheelan, author of New York Times bestseller Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data

What makes some evidence strong, some evidence weak, and some evidence total nonsense? Truth Addict is your guide to answers.

Individuals, policymakers, and businesses across the globe want to make decisions based on evidence. But not all evidence is created equal.

Truth Addict is the layperson's guide to data, truth, and the gap between them. Whether it's collected through laboratory experiments or public surveys, market research or archival records, data has a story to tell us-but only if we can read it. Drawing on engaging examples, John V. Kane details the logic of gathering and analyzing data as a means of getting us closer to the truth, even if the truth hurts.

Developing research questions. Defining variables. Choosing metrics. Testing hypotheses. Quantifying relationships. Ruling out chance. Considering alternative explanations. Knowing not just that "correlation does not equal causation," but also how to tell the difference. These are key steps along Kane's "Road to Evidence," a journey that begins with curiosity and ends at objective knowledge. You don't have to be a math whiz to study our social world-Truth Addict provides every reader tools to uncover the reality within the numbers.

This book combines process tracing with original quantitative and qualitative analysis of U.S. and Chinese official discourse, legislation, and elite perspectives in order to trace the key turning points in Sino-U.S. relations since the 1970s.

Challenging the Thucydides Trap and Power Transition Theory, the book argues that war between China and the United States is not structurally inevitable. Instead, their relationship has been shaped-and often stabilized-by shifting mechanisms across different phases of power transition. It identifies three core stabilizers: Stability through Ambiguity, where uncertainty about intentions and capabilities delays containment; Mutually Assured Economic Destruction (MAED) / Reciprocal Vulnerability Interdependence (RVI), where asymmetric interdependence creates credible deterrence; and Order-Succession Rise, where a rising power inherits and adapts-rather than overturns-the existing order, as the status quo power seeks alternatives.

By integrating historical comparison with rigorous empirical evidence, it offers a theoretically innovative and globally generalizable account of power transition-one that explains how sustained stability is possible even amid intensifying great power competition. This book will appeal to students and scholars of Chinese politics, US politics, comparative politics, and international relations.

From Silos to Ecologies offers a new way to understand how knowledge is generated, interpreted, and used to address today's most complex social challenges. It introduces the concept with clarity and purpose, showing why single studies, narrow methods, or rigid evaluation systems are no longer sufficient for problems shaped by complexity, uncertainty, and rapid change. The book also points to issues of evaluation capture and the problematic levels of independence.

Drawing on realist evaluation, in which real-world problems, rugged landscapes, and underlying theories of solutions, serve as starting points for testing--as well as systems thinking, and practice--the book argues for approaches that are more adaptive and grounded in real-world contexts. Humility and the fallibility of knowledge generation are part of that approach. Through contributions from leading scholars and practitioners, the volume demonstrates how different forms of evidence can work together to support better decisions in areas such as maternal health, brain health, poverty reduction, and community-led innovation. Case studies from Canada, China, and India illustrate how an ecology of evidence helps practitioners navigate complexity, learn from local contexts, and design interventions that are both effective and sustainable-but are not one-size-fits-all solutions.

A call for transformation runs throughout the book: moving from routine monitoring towards deeper explanation, from bureaucratic systems toward real (and not orchestrated) learning systems, and from isolated interventions toward solutions that reflect the lived realities of communities. From Silos to Ecologies is essential reading for scholars, students, evaluators, policymakers, and anyone seeking more meaningful ways to understand and improve the world around us.

This book explores Turkey's transformation into an active and influential emerging power under the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. It argues that populist governance and foreign policy are not separate domains but expressions of a common political logic. Erdogan's populism does not simply shape Turkey's international engagement; it extends into it, producing a distinct form of populist revisionism that reworks regional orders in line with domestically forged antagonisms.

Situating Turkey's transformation within broader global trends, notably the erosion of liberal democratic institutions domestically and the unravelling of the rules-based international order, frames the core inquiry of this study. This analysis provides a sophisticated framework for understanding Turkey's foreign policy within the broader contestation of liberal norms, multilateral institutions, and the very concept of democracy itself, raising crucial questions about the resilience of liberal democracy and the adaptability of the international system in an age of populist ascendancy.

It will appeal to scholars, policymakers, international relations professionals, students, and general readers interested in populism, Turkish politics, and international relations.

Far more than a contractual step, commissioning shapes what is evaluated, whose voices matter, and how evidence informs democratic governance. The Power of Commissioning: Enabling Democratic Evaluation brings long overdue attention to this influential yet often overlooked dimension of evaluation practice.

Positioning commissioners as civic and political actors, the book shows how their choices, from problem framing and terms of reference to team selection, management, and use, can either reinforce technocratic routines or actively promote inclusion, transparency, equity, and meaningful public learning. Drawing on comparative empirical cases, it offers one of the first integrated frameworks for democratic commissioning, complete with practical principles, rubrics, and clear "dos and don'ts" that commissioners can apply directly in real systems. The volume also advances a pioneering competency model for commissioners and documents innovative capacity-building initiatives that treat them as knowledge brokers and democratic agents, an area largely absent from existing evaluation guidance.

Featuring contributions from leading scholars and practitioners in the field, The Power of Commissioning provides both conceptual depth and actionable tools. It is an essential resource for researchers, policymakers, evaluators, and commissioning professionals committed to strengthening democratic practice through evaluation.

The Market Impact of Wartime Political Rhetoric: Voices of the Russian-Ukrainian War offers a striking new account of how political speeches became an economic force during the first year of the Russian-Ukrainian war. Focusing on 2022, it shows how public addresses by Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky influenced energy markets, investor expectations, inflation, and currency stability across a deeply interconnected global economy.

This book draws on forty major wartime speeches and a rigorous analysis of market reactions, the book traces how rhetoric moved beyond propaganda and became a real driver of financial behaviour. It examines the impact of these speeches on leading U.S. oil and gas companies, while also exploring their wider effects on the Russian ruble, the Ukrainian hryvnia, and inflationary pressures in Russia, Ukraine, and the United States.Timely, original, and highly relevant, this study reveals how political language can shape economic outcomes in moments of extreme geopolitical crisis. By bringing together war, diplomacy, and financial markets, it offers a fresh perspective on the power of rhetoric in the contemporary international order.

The Market Impact of Wartime Political Rhetoric: Voices of the Russian-Ukrainian War will appeal to students and scholars and readers interested in Europe, North America, international politics, energy security, and the economic effects of war.