Analyzing the trajectory of global capitalism as seen from working-class and anti-colonial movements in the Global South, this book demonstrates how theoretical work in Marxist political economy and scholarship in social history can work in tandem to articulate the structures of world-historical capitalism.

Marxist Theory and Social History of the Global South presents a distinct approach to social history, exploring Marxist theory from an explicitly anti-imperialist perspective from the Global South to unfolding Marxist political economy, empirical work on anti-fascist movements in the 1970s Global South, engagement with experimental art as left politics in the Global South, historiographies of labor movements, and writings on historical methods. Approaching the humanities and the social sciences through the lens of anti-authoritarian, anti-imperialist Marxist political economy, this book engages with Marxism articulated in a range of different forms to determine that one must break with nationalist historiography and must not view decolonization as a uniform struggle against colonialism for all people. Analysis must view decolonization as affecting categories of people unevenly and narrate decolonization through the overlooked question of class struggle to effectively dismantle power and hierarchy.

Providing an important theoretical framework for contemporary Marxist theory and social history, Plys has created a key resource for advanced students and researchers in sociology, social theory, political science, postcolonial studies, economics, and cultural studies, expanding coverage of a deeply overlooked area in political sociology.

Delving into the lives of ten Ivoirian citizens in the aftermath of the Ivoirian Civil War, this book sheds new light on how ordinary people contribute to post-conflict peacebuilding, and how it impacts their day-to-day lives.


Ex-combatants contemplate the glory days of the conflict and how they have struggled to reintegrate into a post-conflict society which they feel does not want them. Survivors explain the challenges of returning home after war and dealing with trauma in a country where their families have been torn apart. Civilians discuss the ways that they have helped to build peace and the power that their knowledge of the local context has had on peacebuilding. Soldiers explore the difficulty of integrating rebels into the military at the end of a war and the ongoing challenges that this poses to military cohesion.

Taken together, these stories highlight the need for peacebuilding programmes to ditch one-size-fits-all approaches in order to grapple with the specific social dynamics in post-conflict countries. This is essential reading for researchers and students of peacebuilding, international development and African studies, as well as for practitioners the world over.

The Cairo School of an Islamic Civilizational Paradigm in International Relations: The Building Process traces the intellectual evolution of a multi-generational scholarly project developed at Cairo University's Faculty of Economics and Political Science over four decades. Rather than treating Islam as a cultural or political variable, the paradigm positions Islam as a standpoint shaping knowledge production in the discipline. It introduces a taw?idi (monotheism-based) epistemic framework that rethinks the claimed universality of International Relations' metatheoretical foundations while recognizing plural worldviews and their formative role in theory, methodology, and ontology.

Moving beyond traditional jurisprudential approaches, the paradigm advances a multidimensional civilizational approach to International Relations that integrates historical, ethical, cultural, and social dimensions into the analysis of global politics. This book explores the paradigm's origins, core assumptions, conceptual architecture, and cumulative development across generations. It situates the approach primarily in relation to positivist and post-positivist traditions while also engaging non-Western approaches and emphasizes its comparative method of theorization and concept formation.

Arguing for a more inclusive and epistemologically diverse understanding of global politics, The Cairo School of an Islamic Civilizational Paradigm in International Relations: The Building Process will appeal to advanced students and scholars of International Relations, catering to those with an inclusive and epistemologically diverse understanding of global politics.

This book explores Russia's relations with Eurasian countries in response to its growing isolation from the Western world.

Vladimir Putin's world view, shaped by history and personal experience, has led to an ideological focus on an inevitable civilizational clash with the West, closely tied to his dominance of the political system at home. This book offers an insight into the evolution of Russian foreign policy, its asymmetry with the political system and Russia's perception of itself and the world. By doing so, readers gain both a deep and unique understanding of Russia's world view and how Western approaches can evaluate and address these perspectives to avoid the dangerous cycle of conflict.

Putin and Eurasian Relations is aimed at general readers interested in history, politics and Russia, as well as students of international politics, Russian studies and related fields such as China, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Iran. Researchers and academics seeking a theoretical and conceptual foundation on Russian policy-making and identity will also find this book valuable.

De Medicina Equorum (On the Medicine of Horses) by Jordanus Ruffus of Calabria is a foundational medieval treatise on horse care and the treatment of equine diseases. Drawing on his experience as a stablemaster at the court of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, Jordanus Ruffus combines practical guidance, clinical observation, and theoretical knowledge to provide a comprehensive account of equine management and health in the thirteenth century. This edition, based on Heironymous Molin's Latin transcription, presents the treatise in its first complete English translation, making an influential medieval text accessible to modern readers for the first time.

This book is divided into three parts, beginning with an introduction to Jordanus Ruffus, his treatise, and its reception by Molin and modern historians. The second, larger part provides a facing-page Latin-English translation of the full text of De Medicina Equorum. The third part of this edition is a glossary, which provides some of the more important Latin terms with English translations and comparisons to modern equine diseases.

On the Medicine of Horses is essential reading for students and scholars of historical horsemanship, human-animal relationships, and medieval veterinary studies, as well as practitioners interested in historical approaches to equine care.

Cities are at the centre of a contemporary civilisational crisis, marked by displacement, climate breakdown, armed conflict, authoritarianism, and widening inequality. These conditions are not external shocks to urban life but constitutive forces through which cities are made, governed, inhabited, and contested. It is from these uneven, conflictual, and lived terrains that Southern urbanism(s) is being enacted today. This Handbook traces key debates shaping contemporary urbanisation through Southern urbanism(s) as an epistemic orientation, engaging critically with how urban theory and practice are being reworked in contexts where crises are most intensely lived and negotiated. Rather than offering models or solutions, the volume examines how urban knowledge is produced through situated practices, struggles, and experiments.

The book is organised into six interconnected sections that address the ethics and politics of urban inquiry; the entanglements of theory and practice; the governance of contested cities; the Southern infrastructural turn; struggles over situated urban justice; and pluriversal urban future imaginaries. The Handbook argues that centring situated reflections from and about Southern urbanism(s) enables scholars and practitioners to learn from the front lines where urban challenges are confronted, contested, and re-imagined. The "South" is treated not as a fixed geography but as a relational and epistemic position shaped by power, positionality, and lived urban conditions. Engaging questions that scholars and practitioners grapple with in their everyday work, the volume explores how theory emerges through practice, how global agendas are negotiated or resisted, and how alternative imaginaries of justice and urban futures are mobilised for the global majority.

The Handbook is an essential guide and reference not only for researchers engaged with southern (urban) theory and southern urbanism(s), but also for undergraduate and graduate teaching and for urban practitioners, policymakers, and activists.

This unique volume brings together intergenerational survivors of genocide and mass atrocities, who are actively engaged in producing knowledge related to their lived and inherited experiences, to share their stories. Centering survivor positionality as a source of epistemic insight rather than bias, the book examines how intergenerational experiences shape scholarship, pedagogy, advocacy, healing, and atrocity prevention practice.

Contributors reflect on the benefits, risks, and ethical tensions of this focal positionality while offering concrete recommendations to reduce harm and strengthen support across academic, humanitarian, and policy domains. Organized thematically, the volume explores personal and communal ways of knowing atrocity, identity, and moral inheritance, and the structural conditions under which survivor-scholars work. The book is divided into three parts, including teachings about one's own lived experiences, narratives about positionality and identity, and navigating and improving conditions for intergenerational survivors in knowledge production.

Exploring how intergenerational experiences impact the production of knowledge on atrocity violence, this book will appeal to scholars and students of genocide and mass atrocity prevention, memory studies, transitional justice, peacebuilding, and related interdisciplinary fields.

This book addresses four key questions about contemporary Arctic geopolitics: How do Arctic states view security from a geopolitical perspective? What conditions could re-stabilize Arctic cooperation? What forces have shaped current Arctic dynamics? And what choices could foster future collaboration, innovation, and sustainability in the region? Geopolitical contestation resulting from Russia's invasion of Ukraine has significantly impacted cooperation between Arctic states. The suspension of the Arctic Council under Russia's chairmanship, Finland and Sweden's NATO accession, limited progress under Norway's chairship, increasing militarization in Russian and Nordic Arctic territories, expanding military exercises, and governance challenges under Denmark's new chairship represent the new realities of Arctic geopolitics. Environmental and climate threats emanating from the Arctic, once the primary concern for regional and global states, have been overshadowed by traditional hard security considerations. Consequently, the Arctic's strategic importance has grown exponentially while trust between East and West has deteriorated. Military threat perceptions between the Arctic Seven NATO members and Russia now stand at unprecedented levels. This edited volume presents diverse perspectives on how Arctic states are reassessing existing and future governance and security mechanisms in the region.

This book will appeal to scholars and students of international relations, security studies, Arctic studies, and geopolitics, as well as policymakers, diplomats, and anyone interested in contemporary Arctic governance, climate security, and great power competition in polar regions.

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

This book analyzes Japan's evolving strategic role in the Indo-Pacific region amidst intensifying geopolitical rivalries and alliance shifts. The study covers Japan's diplomatic recalibrations, economic statecraft, and maritime strategy in response to China's expansionist behavior. It explores Japan's deepening partnerships with Quad nations and democratic allies for regional stability and also includes:

• Critical examination of Japan's evolving strategic role in the Indo-Pacific region amidst intensifying geopolitical rivalries and alliance shifts
• Analysis of Japan's diplomatic recalibrations and economic statecraft in response to China's expansionist behavior and regional security challenges
• Investigation of Japan's deepening partnerships with Quad nations and democratic allies for maintaining regional stability and security cooperation
• Assessment of Japan's military capabilities and air power development within the framework of constitutional constraints and defense modernization
• Study of Japan's maritime strategy and regional engagement balancing pacifist identity with proactive security responsibilities

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This book assesses the evolving competition between two Asian powers, India and China, for primacy in the South Asian region. By collating voices from the region, it explores how the competition is playing out and shaping the regional order and how South Asian states are responding to the increasing competition. The volume highlights how South Asian countries have leveraged their agency and exploited the competition to further their interests in multiple ways. By focusing on these objectives, this book reflects on key themes and concepts in the discipline of International Relations, such as great power competition, security dilemma, and agency-seeking behaviour of smaller countries.

Part of the International Politics in the Age of Disruption series, this book will be indispensable for students, researchers, and practitioners of military studies, security studies, hierarchy of power, political studies, international relations, and South Asian studies.

This book examines the intersection of military intelligence and corporate influence in modern warfare exploring private military companies, technological advancements in intelligence gathering, cyber warfare threats, and economic dimensions of conflict. The book assesses how corporate entities shape intelligence strategies and security policies, redefining contemporary battlefields.

• Comprehensive analysis of the intersection between military intelligence and corporate influence in modern warfare
• Examination of private military companies and their role in contemporary security operations
• Assessment of technological advancements in intelligence gathering and cyber warfare capabilities
• Analysis of economic dimensions of warfare and corporate involvement in national security
• Expert insights into evolving intelligence strategies beyond traditional state actors

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This seminal volume offers a systematic analysis of the factors, rationales, and evolving forms of private philanthropic engagement in education from countries across the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Providing a critical and nuanced examination into the dynamics of private philanthropy's role in education, the volume features a diverse range of case studies from Lebanon, Malaysia, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina, furthering debate at the intersection between philanthropy and education policy. Chapters showcase a variety of methodologies such as network analysis to explore philanthropic foundations such as the Lemann Foundation in Brazil, Grupo Luksic in Chile, and Fundacion Perez Companc in Argentina, as well as European philanthropic foundations active in sub-Saharan Africa, providing a novel, more regionally focused perspective on education and philanthropy. Other chapters employ a variety of research methods to explore how these non-state actors promote what are thought to be politically and economically expedient policies. Documentary analysis of archival sources, interviews, institutional theory, Resource Dependence Theory, Bourdieusian theoretical frameworks, and critical policy analysis also feature in the book.

Offering insights and direction for future research in the field, this volume will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students in international and comparative education and education policy. Policymakers as well as regional and international organizations, including NGOs and INGOs, that support educational interventions in the Global South will also find the volume of use.

This book analyzes how cyberspace transforms power, sovereignty, and security in twenty-first century international relations. The study covers cyber capabilities across great powers, middle powers, and small states including analysis of major incidents like Stuxnet, WannaCry, and SolarWinds and also includes:

• Comprehensive examination of how cyberspace transforms power, sovereignty, and security in twenty-first century international relations
• Analysis of cyber capabilities across great powers, middle powers, and small states including US, China, Russia, Israel, Iran, and others
• Development of Cyber Leviathan concept as organizing framework for understanding contested digital authority and governance structures
• Investigation of cyber conflict evolution from supporting instrument to primary arena of great-power rivalry and strategic competition
• Case studies of major cyber incidents including Stuxnet, WannaCry, SolarWinds, and election interference operations

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This book explores the influence of religion, culture, community, and digital innovation as key dimensions of climate change communication in Asia.

As climate change continues to shape our world, effective communication plays a vital role in bridging the gap between scientific knowledge and public action. Against this backdrop, this book examines the role of climate change communication in Asia by showcasing unique cases and examples from selected countries including Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Pakistan, India, the Philippines, China, South Korea, Iran, Afghanistan, and Kazakhstan. Divided into four key parts, the chapters draw on a broad selection of examples including rising sea levels in Jakarta, increasing numbers of typhoons in East Asia, extreme heatwaves and climate-induced agricultural losses in India and Pakistan, and accelerated glacial melt in Central Asia.

Overall, the book demonstrates the importance of distinguishing regional experiences from Western perspectives and highlights the critical role that climate change communication plays in raising awareness and promoting informed responses in Asian countries. This book will serve as a valuable reference source for students, academics, and industry professionals at both local and global levels.

This book analyzes military professional practices with respect to differences in their social structure, material embedding, and cultural patterns.

The volume offers a comprehensive and nuanced understanding of the military institutional and organizational landscape, highlighting variation, heterogeneity, and diverging beliefs in military organization, in contrast to the traditional image of a monolithic, unitary, and authoritarian institution. In particular, the volume provides a widened empirical focus beyond infantry units to include the air force and navy. The overall conclusion of the book is that military organizations are a lot more variegated and internally differentiated than their public image implies and what previous research has suggested.

This book will be of much interest to students of military studies, sociology, defense studies, and international relations.

Chapters 1 and 10 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 International license.

This book uncovers the rich heritage of borderlands. At the border, people exist in-between, whether they live their lives at the near boundaries, or whether they are just passing through, as travelers or tourists.

The heritage of these spaces is a vast collection of remnants and reminiscences, defined by memory, preservation, and geopolitics at the margins. It is at once a heritage of borders, and the bordering of heritage. This book defines border heritage as a realization, valuation, and manifestation of this being and belonging in-between: a form of heritage bordered by the politics of inclusion and exclusion of the various authorities of states, heritage organizations, communities, and tourism agencies. Richly illustrated with case studies and examples drawn from around the world, the book considers post-colonial border heritage, the growing pursuit of border heritage tourism, a new agenda for border wall studies, the continuing politics of legacy, the temporal cycles and rhythms in border heritage, and the heritage of border culture endurance, recurrence, and revival.

Bringing together a wide range of spatial and temporal approaches to border heritage, this book will be perfect for researchers and students of border and heritage studies, as well as professionals specializing in heritage management or tourism.

Cross-Cultural Musicology from Asia-Pacific Perspectives brings together thirteen scholars to consider what it means to teach, research, write, and talk about music history in the context of globalization. The book is divided into essays with a more critical and theoretical emphasis (Part 1) and more practically oriented chapters (Part 2), with case studies and a discussion of methods. Bringing together scholars in historical musicology, historical performance practice, and cultural studies from across four continents, this book models diverse ways of carrying out cross-cultural musicology. Cross-Cultural Musicology from Asia-Pacific Perspectives will be of interest to scholars and teachers of ethnomusicology and music history, as well as those concerned with the particular context and history of the Asia-Pacific region.

This volume of The Cairo School of an Islamic Civilizational Paradigm in International Relations advances the paradigm from intellectual formation to methodological application. It turns to the analytical tools, research approaches, and units of analysis of the Islamic Civilizational Paradigm-demonstrating how a taw?idi episteme informs the actual study of global politics.

Structured in three parts, this volume elaborates core methodological approaches, including maqa?id and sunnan, and illustrates how they generate explanatory, evaluative, and policy-relevant insights. It further develops distinctive analytical contributions of the paradigm, such as its understanding of hegemony and its incorporation of the Ummah as a level of analysis that transcends methodological nationalism. Through sustained comparison with positivist and critical traditions, this volume clarifies both points of convergence and enduring epistemological differences. This volume concludes with reflections by leading International Relations scholars who assess the paradigm's strengths, challenges, and future prospects within an evolving global discipline.

Essential reading for scholars and students of International Relations, this volume presents the Islamic Civilizational Paradigm not as a closed doctrine, but as a cumulative and dialogical project contributing to a more genuinely plural and globally inclusive field of International Relations.

This book examines how states adapt to the modern information environment and why some do so more effectively than others.

Drawing on theories of military innovation and strategic culture, this book analyzes how the information environment has altered the character of war by blurring traditional boundaries between military operations, political authority, and society. It compares how four major powers-the United States, China, Russia, and the United Kingdom-have understood and integrated information as a form of national power. Using a comparative case study methodology, this book assesses how different political systems, civil-military relationships, and cultural traditions influence whether information capabilities are treated as a supporting tool or as a central instrument of strategy. Well-known and timely cases-such as Russian information warfare, China's military-civil fusion and Digital Silk Road, and Western democratic constraints on information operations-are used to illustrate broader patterns. This book advances both theory and policy by providing practical recommendations for Western militaries seeking to modernize their cognitive and strategic influence capabilities.

This book will be of interest to students of strategic and military studies, defense studies, and international relations, as well as to military practitioners.

This book discusses the interregional relationship between Africa and Europe.

It examines various issues and dynamics in the relationship including trade, migration, regional integration and organisations, conflict, peace and security, culture, education, technology and innovation, as well as partnerships between African academic institutions and EU member states or state agencies, and with civil society organisations. Explicitly reflecting African views, the book presents unique analyses of data that generate new insights on Africa and its relationship with Europe and the EU, and provides theoretical and conceptual explanations of this, and, by extension, interregionalism. It positively argues that Africa, the African Union and its member states should introspect, reform and make the most of the opportunities that exist in initiatives such as the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), and exploit engagement in Africa's interest to transform the continent and promote development. Ultimately, the book challenges and simultaneously adds to, mostly, Eurocentric debates, literature and examinations of the Africa-EU relationship.

This book will be of key interest to researchers and scholars of African Studies, Regionalism, Regional Integration, Development Studies, Human Geography, and, more broadly, to International Relations, Political Economy and Political Science.

This book presents a theoretical framework for understanding Iraqi foreign policy from the 1950s through the late Cold War, examining how successive regimes navigated complex international and domestic pressures.

Fatih Oguzhan Ipek analyzes the interplay between systemic factors-including influences from great and regional powers-and unit-level variables such as the Iraqi foreign policy executive (FPE) and societal elites. By exploring four critical dimensions-the threat environment, the FPE's structural autonomy, foreign policy coalitions, and domestic power balances-the book reveals how Iraqi leaders strategically used foreign policy to address both external threats and internal challenges. Case studies demonstrate how the concern for regime survival in the Hashemite monarchy motivated it to accede to the Baghdad Pact, how the Iraq-Egypt rivalry influenced Qasim's decision to invade Kuwait, how Nasserism and Arab nationalism compelled President Arif to join the 1967 Arab-Israeli War despite limited autonomy, and how Iraqi leaders responded to rising powers based on their structural position and the domestic political landscape. This analysis moves beyond conventional explanations of Iraqi foreign policy, offering a nuanced understanding of how authoritarian regimes balance external pressures and domestic constraints when formulating strategic decisions.

The Europa Directory of International Organizations 2026 is an essential guide to understanding the complex architecture of the international system.

Within a clear, unique framework the structure and recent activities of all major intergovernmental organizations and multilateral institutions are described in detail. With additional extensive background information this publication offers an insight into the role and evolving functions of these organizations in today's world.

The contact details, key personnel and activities of more than 2,000 international and regional entities have again been thoroughly researched and updated for this 26th edition.

Highlights in this edition include:

- the response of the international community to humanitarian emergencies, conflicts and climate crises throughout the world.

- specially-commissioned introductory essays, including on the role of international organizations in a changing global order.

- a fully revised Who's Who section with biographical details of the key players in the international system.

The fourth edition of this concise textbook offers students a comprehensive introduction to the politics, economy, culture and society of modern China, while grounding all of these areas in the context of China's recent history in the 19th and 20th centuries. Fully up to date, this accessible text examines key developments that are shaping China's place in the world today, including the Xi Jinping era, a complete update on the position of Hong Kong, international relations with the US and Latin America, and Chinese outward investment and financial internationalisation.

Authored by a highly-regarded expert on the topic, the book is an ideal introductory text for undergraduate and postgraduate courses on China studies and contemporary China, regardless of whether students approach the topic from a political, historical, sociological, cultural or geographical viewpoint. It can also be used on modules focussing more specifically on Chinese politics, Chinese history or Chinese society.

New to this edition:
- Coverage of the pandemic and recent protests
- A brand new chapter on China's environmental challenges
- Attention to the management of Xinjiang
- Full updates on the impact of the Russia-Ukraine war and the conflict in the Middle East

This important volume uses securitisation theory to critically evaluate India's climate change policy, scrutinising the normative and non-normative features of the theory and suggesting the introduction of open impartiality as a corrective lens to address the theory's ethical deficits.

The book demonstrates India's understanding of climate change as a threat to the economic development of the country (in addition to the threats posed by the environmental policies of developed countries). In doing so, the book contends that India's political leaders have successfully employed these twin threats to successfully securitise the economic development of India. The book uses India as a compelling case study to novelly integrate open impartiality within securitisation theory; chapters map out the normative rationale of India in securitising economic development within its climate discourse, and applies discourse analysis to speeches, negotiation statements and policy documents from Indian leaders and institutions.

Ultimately exploring how best to integrate justice issues within security studies-and more specifically climate justice in climate security discourses-the book will therefore be of interest to scholars and researchers in the fields of international relations, security studies, and environmental politics. Those specifically studying India's national security discourses will also benefit from the book.

This book examines evolving trends in India's non-traditional statecraft approaches. It analyzes cultural and diasporic diplomacy through sports, dance, and immigration histories, alongside strategic foreign policy and political leadership dynamics. Contributors explore innovative diplomatic tools such as artificial intelligence and big data applications in diplomatic practice, and also includes:

• Comprehensive examination of India's evolving diplomatic strategies beyond traditional statecraft approaches
• Analysis of cultural and diasporic diplomacy including sports, dance, and immigration histories
• Assessment of strategic foreign policy and political leadership in contemporary global context
• Exploration of innovative diplomatic tools including artificial intelligence and big data applications
• Expert perspectives on India's soft power projection across Asia and global diaspora engagement

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