政治学 — 全 下位分類

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.

Revisiting the Classic Studies is a series of texts that introduces readers to the studies in psychology that changed the way we think about core topics in the discipline today. It provokes students to ask more interesting and challenging questions about the field by encouraging a deeper level of engagement both with the details of the studies themselves and with the nature of their contribution.

Edited by leading scholars in their field and written by researchers at the cutting edge of these developments, each book details the original works and their theoretical and empirical impact, and then discusses the ways in which thinking and research has advanced in the years since the studies were conducted.

Political Psychology: Revisiting the Classic Studies examines 17 influential studies that shaped how we understand political attitudes, identity, and behaviour. From Milgram to Sherif, each chapter explores the historical context, impact, and legacy of these works, showing how they continue to inform and challenge contemporary political psychology research.

Bringing together a diverse list of contributors from Europe, Australia and North America, this book challenges conventional wisdom about utopian thinking in International Relations. The volume demonstrates how utopian thinking has shaped a range of IR theories through its resolutely realistic focus on pressing political crises.

This essential collection shows utopia's empirical significance in world politics by offering fresh perspectives on revolutionary movements, racial imaginaries, technocratic expertise and global climate change, among other issues. It is a vital intervention that reshapes disciplinary understanding and establishes new research directions for scholars examining the pasts and futures of world politics.

Crossroads of Violence is a history of the intertwined development of the drug trade and socialist guerrilla movements in northwestern Mexico during the 1960s and 1970s. The Golden Quadrilateral, an area encompassing the states of Sonora, Chihuahua, Sinaloa, and Durango, never fully reaped the benefits of the Mexican Revolution. Both the socialist armed struggle and the drug trade offered hopeful possibilities for the region's underprivileged classes. Drawing on oral histories and declassified documents, Adela Cedillo traces the rise and fall of these guerrilla movements and criminal organizations, along with the brutal setbacks they faced as the federal government implemented a de facto state of siege. The convergence of the war against guerrilla groups-known as the Dirty War-and the War on Drugs led to the consolidation of a "parallel state": an informal partnership between elements of the national security apparatus and criminal organizations, whose shared goals were to profit from the drug trade and preserve the ruling party's hegemony. The legacy of that alliance has shaped Mexico's political life and the endless War on Drugs well into the twenty-first century.

This book examines the politics of the Korean defence industry's global expansion and outreach in the recent 2020s, exploring the future evolution of the industry, which has been undergoing the stunningly speedy AI transformation (or equivalent) and the role it is set to play in the global security structure.

Despite being faced with considerable challenges over the past 60-plus years (including technological unfeasibility, long-term economic inefficiency, and political pressures), Korea's defense industry has successfully capitalized on significant global expansion opportunities that have emerged in the 2020s. Its strategic implication has been growing fast under the evolving condition of security convergence in interregional as well as interdimensional perspectives. Chapters also analyze the impact of Korea's growing reliance on defense-industry, which is becoming increasingly significant to the country's stock market and national strategy. The book then examines the long-term sustainability of the rapid expansion so far enjoyed by Korea's defense industry, and looks to the strategic approaches needed to firmly consolidate its top-ranking status in global arms market.

Ultimately providing theoretical, analytical and empirical perspectives on the Korean defense industry's global expansion, this book will be of use to scholars and postgraduates in the fields of security studies, international political economy, and Korean studies more broadly. Policy makers involved in security and military policy, military personnel, business leaders, engineers, journalists, and decision makers will also find the volume of use.

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.

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.

Representative democracy grew out of struggles by excluded groups demanding a voice in politics. In this book, renowned political theorist Rosemary H. T. O'Kane asks why democracy is so deeply desired, yet why it often falls short in practice. She explores how democratic systems can be strengthened against the pressures that threaten them, showing democracy as a living system shaped by institutions, society and collective action.

Instead of rooting democracy in ancient Athens or engaging in abstract philosophical debates, O'Kane takes a fresh approach. She looks at real historical and contemporary cases (from the Chartists and Russia in 1905 to civil rights movements in Northern Ireland and the United States, and the UK's anti EU campaign) while engaging with classic theories about bureaucracy, political parties, elites and power. These lessons, additionally informed by the cases of India, South Korea, Taiwan and Sweden, are then used to build a 'practical ideal' vision of representative democracy grounded in everyday realities. This practical ideal goes beyond elections and rights to include fair law, neutral bureaucracy and an active society marked by equality, civic participation and concerted action.

By blending case studies with theory, Wanting Democracy: Cases, Theories and Realization gives students a clear, accessible framework for understanding both the strengths and the limits of modern democracy today.

This new handbook is the first reference work to offer an overview of the problem of online violent extremism and possible solutions to this.

This volume provides the reader with perspectives from the emerging multidisciplinary sub-discipline of online violent extremism studies, combining historical context with contemporary case studies. Each chapter demonstrates, through its own lens and subject matter, how the myriads of digital platforms and their affordances, digital infrastructures, and the regulatory environment that sits behind them continue to shape violent extremism. Written by leading international experts and up-and-coming scholars, the 40 chapters are divided into four thematic sections: Part I, 'Online Violent Extremism and Regulatory Responses', begins by providing a conceptual overview of 'online terrorism' and 'online extremism', examining how the terms terrorism and extremism have been defined and interpreted in the online realm. Part II, 'Research Design, Methodologies and Ethics', provides theoretical and practical insights into conducting research in this area. Part III, 'Online Violent Extremism', provides an overview of the important platforms, online spaces, and emerging technologies in the field. Finally, Part IV, 'Ideologies and Actors', considers historical and contemporarily prominent ideologies, groups, movements, actors, and gender-related issues, examining how they have utilised online spaces and digital technologies.

This handbook will be of much interest to students of violent extremism, terrorism studies, criminology, security studies, and others, as well as policymakers, law enforcement, and practitioners.

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 revisits the period of rapprochement tourism between China and Taiwan from 2008 to 2016, highlighting the role it played in facilitating cultural exchange despite ongoing political tensions.

Contextualizing rapprochement tourism within broader discussions on cross-border tourism in politically sensitive regions, this book proposes a concept of 'cultural geopolitics' and an interdisciplinary framework - Mobility, Morality and Materiality - to offer a fresh perspective on heritage management. It employs tourist interviews, photographs and other visual aids to communicate complex theoretical concepts in an accessible manner. Topics covered include border repoliticization, the role of heritage in national narratives, the commodification of historical figures, and the intersection of spirituality and tourism. The book closes by outlining future directions for research, including difficult heritage management, individualized mobilities, and kinship-based return tourism, before concluding with reflections on sustainable peace and well-being.

This book will interest a range of scholars spanning the social sciences, including critical tourism studies, heritage management, cultural geography, and Chinese studies.

This book examines the role of airpower in the great power rivalry between the United States and the People's Republic of China in the East and South China Sea over Taiwan.

While the volume emphasises the role of the U.S. and the PRC, it also looks at the other regional powers with significant airpower capabilities. By including key actors heavily invested in the regional dynamics between the two great powers, this book offers new research on how each actor views the use of airpower to enhance its regional political, military strategic, and operational leverage. The first two sections of the book focus on the People's Republic of China and the United States, with each section considering (i) their grand strategy in the region, (ii) their military strategy to handle a future conflict over Taiwan, (iii) the role of airpower to this end, and finally (iv) their approach to Multi-Domain Operations or Joint All-Domain Operations. The third section looks at the most dominant regional powers with significant airpower capabilities: Taiwan, Japan, South-Korea and Australia. Finally, the fourth section examines influential alliances in the region; first the relation between Russia, China and North-Korea (DPRK), then NATO, and finally The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or The Quad, including Australia, India, Japan, and the United States. The volume will help readers better understand the complex and dynamic strategic and military context of this region, and how airpower can be used to enhance the political, military strategic and operational leverage of the various actors in the East and South China Sea.

This book will be of much interest to students of strategic studies, air power, Asian politics, and International Relations.

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.

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 making of the modern scapegoat.

Who gets blamed when societies feel under threat and why? In Persecuted, journalism scholar Jack Lule examines the deep roots of scapegoating as essential to human society. Scapegoating helps explain how and why people unite, shaping the ways groups define belonging, exclusion, and collective identity.

Drawing on the work of Kenneth Burke and Rene Girard, Lule argues that scapegoating is not a social malfunction but a core mechanism through which communities are formed. Nations rely on scapegoating to draw boundaries between "us" and "them." What makes the modern era especially volatile, he contends, is the role of media-from early messengers and newspapers to contemporary social platforms-in manufacturing crises, amplifying accusations, identifying targets, and accelerating cycles of blame. Moving fluidly across history, theory, and contemporary politics, the book shows how media systems have increased the reach, speed, and intensity of scapegoating, often transforming local resentments into global networks of hate and hostility. Lule presents a sober analysis of how scapegoating persists precisely because it feels natural, justified, and invisible to those participating in it.

Persecuted is a concise, unsettling exploration of a process that underlies nationalism, moral panics, and political polarization. Its hope-tentative but urgent-is that recognizing the recurring power of scapegoating may help readers identify it in real time and resist its most destructive consequences.

The post-9/11 era saw patriotism transform from somber resolve into jingoistic excess, leaving many to wonder whether love of country inevitably corrupts into tribalism and violence. Critics from Leo Tolstoy to George Kateb have argued that patriotism is inherently dangerous, a relic of a less enlightened age. Yet abandoning patriotism entirely may be worse than the disease.

Why It's OK to Be Patriotic makes a philosophically rigorous case that patriotism, properly conceived, is neither irrational nor harmful-but essential to democratic life. Case argues that patriotism is best understood as love of country rather than mere loyalty, a love directed toward compatriots as participants in a shared political community. Drawing on Aristotle, contemporary philosophy, and hard-won experience, he defends patriotism as a virtue-a golden mean between tribal excess and cosmopolitan detachment-while articulating the patriotic duties of heart and mind required to maintain the civic commons. He tackles the toughest objections head-on: Does patriotism cause war? Does it rest on irrational bias? Can it be reconciled with universal moral principles?

The book culminates in a powerful meditation on America's current crisis. With political violence escalating and talk of "national divorce" gaining traction, Case argues that the only way out is through-not escape from politics, but the difficult practice of loving one's country by learning to love the people in it.

Key features:

• Provides an account of patriotism in terms of love rather than loyalty, distinguishing patriotism from nationalism, jingoism, and tribalism.
• Confronts arguments from critiques of patriotism from Emma Goldman, Leo Tolstoy, and Albert Einstein, as well as from more recent critics such as Simon Keller and George Kateb, showing that patriotism need not be irrational, harmful, or morally blind.
• Offers concrete patriotic duties of heart-mind-including resistance to contempt, epistemic civic virtues, and practices for maintaining the civic commons-that can help repair America's fraying social fabric.
• Draws on Aristotle, contemporary philosophy of love, and virtue ethics while remaining accessible to general readers concerned about their country's future.

This book explores the policymaking processes that led to Japan's modern immigration regime, including the rejection of formal immigration policy and its wider implications.

Taking a historical approach, the book identifies the "1990 system"-namely, the reforms Japan's policymakers enacted in and around 1990-as the crucial antecedent to understanding the overall continuity in the country's immigration policy trajectory. Through an actor-focused analysis, this book dissects how and why Japan adopted its seemingly contradictory immigration policy-one that simultaneously accommodates and distances itself from an ever-growing pool of foreign laborers.

Contextualizing the current status quo of immigration in Japan and using rigid historical analysis to anticipate future developments, Japan's Modern Immigration Regime will appeal to policymakers, as well as students and scholars of Japanese politics, labor migration studies, and comparative public policy studies.

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.

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.

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.

This edited book examines the link between peace or violent conflict and the practice of governance in African states.

Exploring the historical roots of today's African challenges, the chapters explore the sources of legitimacy in African states and help to clarify how a strengthened social contract can be built in societies facing the fact or threat of conflict. The volume includes a variety of case study examples to illustrate the performance of states on topics such as including women, youth, and civil society, on coping with the challenge of extremism, on respecting the potential contributions of traditional authorities, and on delivering key governance outputs such as the rule of law and delivering essential services. Some chapters explore the trajectory of conflict management initiatives led from within Africa by regional and sub-regional bodies, while others give greater attention to the role of outside actors. While there have been numerous studies on conflict in Africa as well as on the impact of bad governance on specific countries, there have been few that have made the link between governance and conflict as it manifests across the continent. By exploring these issues in depth, this book sets an agenda for further research in the fields of conflict resolution, politics, and governance.

This book will be of much interest to students and practitioners of conflict management, African politics, global governance, and International Relations.

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.

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 explores the role of leadership in shaping places and driving sustainable urban and regional development. Moving beyond the traditional organisational focus of leadership studies, it uses inspiring case studies to show how place-based leadership can become more attuned to local needs, across sectors such as housing, healthcare, creative industries and environmental sustainability.

Addressing societal challenges-urbanisation, inequality and climate resilience-it offers practical strategies for place-centric leadership which drives social value. Bridging theory and practice, this timely resource will inspire academics, policy makers and practitioners to rethink leadership for equitable, thriving communities.

An innovative solution to the antidemocratic overreach of the Supreme Court, drawing on lessons from constitutional democracies around the world.

For the foreseeable future, America is stuck with a Supreme Court compromised by a crisis of legitimacy. Beyond expanding presidential power, dismantling voting rights, and protecting other forms of antidemocratic government, the Court continues to usurp lawmaking power that should belong to the people and their elected representatives in a constitutional democracy.

Julie C. Suk offers a novel solution to the problems plaguing the Supreme Court: a Shadow Court. All over the world, shadow governments act as watchdogs for representative democracies, and constitutional courts prevent slides into authoritarianism. Suk shows how Congress can build on these modern models and break the Supreme Court's monopoly on constitutional interpretation by creating a Shadow Court that would decide contested constitutional questions in the abstract before the Supreme Court could rule on them in a concrete case. Ambitious but pragmatic, The Shadow Court offers a hopeful and enduring solution for rescuing democracy in the United States.

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

Women, Peace and Security in Canada and the United States critically examines the challenges and contradictions of implementing the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda within the highly polarised political landscapes of Canada and the United States. In an era marked by democratic strain and shifting security priorities, A Fragmented Peace brings together leading scholars, policymakers, and civil society actors to explore how WPS is being implemented, challenged, and reimagined across diverse contexts-from defence institutions and legislative frameworks to grassroots activism and transnational partnerships.

The book interrogates the limits of state-centric and multilateral approaches while foregrounding the central role of civil society in sustaining and advancing the agenda. Spanning themes such as militarisation, digital threats, settler colonial legacies, youth leadership, masculinities, LGBTQI+ inclusion, and climate security, the book provides a nuanced and intersectional analysis of WPS in North America. Grounded in both empirical case studies and critical reflection, it not only diagnoses the fractures shaping contemporary WPS efforts but also identifies pathways for more inclusive, accountable, and contextually rooted feminist peacebuilding.

Women, Peace and Security in Canada and the United States will appeal to those working on foreign policy, defence, peacebuilding, and civil society advocacy, particularly where the WPS agenda is being implemented or contested.

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.

With a focus on real-world problems, the book argues for new leadership mindsets to tackle the great challenges of our time and will help build an understanding of leadership to address key issues such as climate change, technological advancement, inequality, housing and alienation.

We are hurtling towards apocalypse through a lethal convergence of violence, climate catastrophe and multiple inequalities. Leadership is often seen as the remedy, yet it also produced many of the problems it is asked to solve.

This book rethinks four leadership essentials - resisting, timing, spacing and feeling - outlining an approach that is urgent, inclusive and pragmatic. Drawing on organisation and political studies, geography and social theory, and insights from exemplary global practitioners, Smolovic Jones assembles a survival kit of practices for communities, workplaces, nations and beyond, providing a compelling framework for leading differently in a world that urgently needs it.