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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2025Britain’s 'Mr X’
Sir Frank Roberts and the making of British foreign policy, 1930-68
by Jonathan Colman
Over four decades as a diplomat, Sir Frank Roberts dealt with headline issues, including policy towards Germany during the years of appeasement, the Second World War alliance with the Soviet Union, the origins of the Cold War, NATO affairs, the Berlin and Cuban Missile Crises, European integration, and relations with the Federal Republic of Germany. Collaborating with the renowned American diplomat, George F. Kennan (the cryptonymous author 'X' of an influential 1947 article), his despatches from Moscow in 1946 shaped Britain's Cold War strategy. In 1954 he played an integral part in the diplomacy behind the rearmament of the Federal Republic and her incorporation into NATO, helping to build an enduring structure of transatlantic security. Roberts' career sheds new light on British foreign policy across an era in which Britain slipped from global pre-eminence to regional power status.
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Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 2022Germany's Russia problem
The struggle for balance in Europe
by John Lough
The relationship between Germany and Russia is Europe's most important link with the largest country on the continent. But despite Germany's unparalleled knowledge and historical experience, its policymakers struggle to accept that Moscow's efforts to rebalance Europe at the cost of the cohesion of the EU and NATO are an attack on Germany's core interests. This book explains the scale of the challenge facing Germany in managing relations with a changing Russia. It analyses how successive German governments from 1991 to 2014 misread Russian intentions, until Angela Merkel sharply recalibrated German and EU policy towards Moscow. The book also examines what lies behind efforts to revise Merkel's bold policy shift, including attitudes inherited from the GDR and the role of Russian influence channels in Germany.
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2020Defense of the West
by Stanley R. Sloan, Lawrence Freedman
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2018Flight MH17, Ukraine and the new Cold War
by Kees van der Pijl, Radhika Desai, Alan Freeman
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2012Justifying violence
Communicative ethics and the use of force in Kosovo
by Naomi Head, Peter Lawler, Emmanuel Pierre Guittet
When is the use of force for humanitarian purposes legitimate? The book examines this question through one of the most controversial examples of humanitarian intervention in the post Cold War period: the 1999 NATO intervention in Kosovo. Justifying Violence applies a critical theoretical approach to an interrogation of the communicative practices which underpin claims to legitimacy for the use of force by actors in international politics. Drawing on the theory of communicative ethics, the book develops an innovative conceptual framework which contributes a critical communicative dimension to the question of legitimacy that extends beyond the moral and legal approaches so often applied to the intervention in Kosovo. The empirical application of communicative ethics offers a provocative and nuanced account which contests conventional interpretations of the legitimacy of NATO's intervention. ;
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Biography & True StoriesFebruary 2024Revolutionary lives of the Red and Black Atlantic since 1917
by David Featherstone, Christian Høgsbjerg, Alan Rice
Revolutionary lives of the Red and Black Atlantic brings to light the life histories of a wide range of radical figures whose political activity in relation to the black liberation struggle was profoundly shaped by the global impact and legacy of the Russian Revolution of October 1917. The volume introduces new perspectives on the intellectual trajectories of well-known figures and critical activists including C. L. R. James, Paul Robeson, Walter Rodney and Grace P. Campbell. This biographical approach brings a vivid and distinctive lens to bear on how racialised social and political worlds were negotiated and experienced by these revolutionary figures, and on historic black radical engagements with left political movements, in the wake of the Russian Revolution.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2013The transatlantic divide
Foreign and security policies in the Atlantic Alliance from Kosovo to Iraq
by Osvaldo Croci, Emil Kirchner, Amy Verdun, Thomas Christiansen
This books, available in paperback for the first time, examines the period between the military intervention against Serbia by NATO and the one in Iraq by the US. It has been a particularly turbulent one for transatlantic security relations. Is the malaise currently affecting the Transatlantic Alliance more serious than ever before and if so why? Will differences in the assessment of how to provide order and stability in the international system as well as in the evaluation of threats and how to respond to them mark the end of the Transatlantic Alliance? Or will the US, NATO, the EU, and EU member states work together, using different instruments and accepting a degree of division of labour, to pacify, stabilise and rebuild troublesome areas as they have done in South-Eastern Europe? This book, with contributions from leading American, Canadian and European scholars, analyses the reasons behind the latest crisis of the Transatlantic Alliance and dissects its manifestations. ;
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June 2025Proxy war in Afghanistan
The politics of state-wrecking
by Abbas Farasoo
This book provides a compelling analysis of proxy warfare and its far-reaching implications for statehood, focusing on the conflict in Afghanistan. Introducing the innovative concept of "state-wrecking," it bridges theory and practice to unravel how external support for insurgent actors fuels violence, undermines territorial control and sovereignty, intensifies violence, and dismantles political legitimacy. The work shifts the discourse on proxy wars from the strategies of global powers to the procedural and structural impacts within target states. Grounded in rigorous empirical research, including interviews, archival data, and conflict analysis, the book critically examines the Pakistan-Taliban nexus and the limitations of US-led interventions. By blending a robust theoretical framework with in-depth case studies, it reveals how proxy dynamics shape conflicts, disrupt governance, and challenge international security. This is an essential resource for those seeking to understand the entanglements of modern warfare and the fragility of states under external influence.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2020Defense policies of East-Central European countries after 1989
by James W. Peterson, Jacek Lubecki
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2024Unofficial peace diplomacy
Private peace entrepreneurs in conflict resolution processes
by Lior Lehrs
This book analyses the international phenomenon of private peace entrepreneurs. These are private citizens with no official authority who initiate channels of communication with official representatives from the other side of a conflict in order to promote a conflict resolution process. It combines theoretical discussion with historical analysis, examining four cases from different conflicts: Norman Cousins and Suzanne Massie in the Cold War, Brendan Duddy in the Northern Ireland conflict and Uri Avnery in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The book defines the phenomenon, examines the resources and activities of private peace entrepreneurs and their impact on the official diplomacy, and examines the conditions under which they can play an effective role in peace-making processes. This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 16, Peace, justice and strong institutions.
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September 2010Kosovo
Geschichte eines Konflikts
by Erich Rathfelder
Kosovo, die zwischen Albanern und Serben umstrittene autonome Provinz des früheren Jugoslawiens, hat sich gegen den Widerstand Serbiens 2008 für unabhängig erklärt. Erich Rathfelder, seit 1987 immer wieder als Korrespondent vor Ort, hat den Konflikt zwischen Serben und der albanischen Bevölkerungsmehrheit hautnah verfolgt: die Aufhebung des Autonomiestatuts 1989, den gewaltlosen Widerstand der Albaner, den bewaffneten Kampf der UÇK, die Intervention der NATO im Jahr 1999, anschließend die Phase der zivilen Übergangsverwaltung. Im Zentrum seines Buches steht das Schicksal der Menschen. Die wichtigsten lokalen und internationalen Akteure reflektieren, durchaus selbstkritisch, die politische Entwicklung und ihr eigenes Handeln.
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June 2004Die Türkei und Europa
Die Positionen
by Claus Leggewie
Der Band präsentiert die Positionen der alten, im Herbst 2002 wiederaufgeflammten Debatte darüber, ob und unter welchen Bedingungen die Türkei Mitglied der Europäischen Union werden kann. Namhafte deutsche und türkische Autoren stellen dabei jeweils verschiedene Aspekte in den Vordergrund: den kulturellen (und geographischen) Kern Europas, seine demokratische, auf Respektierung der Menschen- und Bürgerrechte zielende politische Kultur, das ökonomische Gefälle und geo-strategische Überlegungen in bezug auf das NATO-Mitglied Türkei. Im 1. Teil geht es um das Selbstverständnis Europas, im 2. Teil um dessen Wahrnehmung von außen, und im 3. Teil wird dokumentiert, wie Immigration das bilaterale Verhältnis zwischen Union und Beitrittskandidat längst in ein transnationales und »weltinnenpolitisches« Problem verwandelt hat. Statistische Materialien und Dokumente der Beitrittsverhandlungen runden den Band ab.
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SociologyJanuary 2017Sport in the Black Atlantic
Cricket, Canada and the Caribbean diaspora
by Janelle Joseph. Series edited by John Horne
This book outlines the ways sport helps to create transnational social fields that interconnect migrants dispersed across a region known as the Black Atlantic: England, North America and the Caribbean. Many Caribbean men's stories about their experiences migrating to Canada, settling in Toronto, finding jobs and travelling involved some contact with a cricket and social club. This book offers a unique contribution to black diaspora studies through showing sport as a means of allaying the pain of ageing in the diaspora, creating transnational social networks and marking ethnic boundaries on a local scale. The book also brings black diaspora analysis to sport research, and through a close look at what goes on before, during and after cricket matches provides insights into the dis-unities, contradictions and complexities of Afro-diasporic identity in multicultural Canada. It will be of interest to students and scholars in sociology, sport studies and black diaspora studies.
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September 2025Geteilter Horizont
Die Zukunft der Ukraine | Wird der Kampf um die europäische Freiheit in der Ukraine entschieden?
by Katharina Raabe, Kateryna Mishchenko
Seit dem Frühjahr 2022 führt Russland seinen brutalen Krieg gegen die Ukraine. Trotz Unterstützung durch EU und NATO und deren Partner gelingt es nicht, ihn zu beenden. Moskaus Strategien, den Westen zu spalten, fallen auf fruchtbaren Boden. Längst steht fest, dass es sich nicht um einen regionalen Konflikt handelt. Der Krieg ist Teil einer Welt, deren Machtgefüge im Umbruch begriffen ist. Für die Ukraine selbst – für ihre Städte, ihre Infrastruktur, ihre Natur und alles Leben – heißt jeder neue Tag Zerstörung, Kampf und Erschöpfung. Wie arbeitet man unter Bedingungen des Zermürbungskrieges – als Lehrerin, als Drohnenoperateur, als Therapeut? Welche Strategien entwickeln die Ukrainerinnen, die Ukrainer, um gegen Müdigkeit und Verzweiflung anzukämpfen? Was bedeutet ihre Erfahrung für unsere gemeinsame Zukunft? Und was muss geschehen, damit der Krieg endet?
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2025The Global 1923 and the Treaty of Lausanne
Peace, imperialism, and the Eastern question
by Ilia Xypolia, Dionysis Tsirigotis
This book is a cutting-edge analysis of how the peace treaty was achieved in Lausanne by placing it in the global context. The Treaty of Lausanne reconsidered explores events from the long great war to the conclusion of the Treaty of Lausanne, examining imperialism and divergent - among and within states - motives, actions and constraints that shaped the peace settlement. It shows that peace can only last if it is a product of negotiation and not imposition. In doing so, the book addresses the silences and the absences that eventually formed controversial aspects of the settlement. It highlights the degree to which the Eastern Question discourse and the western powers' concerns in light of the emerging Turco-Soviet alliance, shaped the proceedings in Lausanne. The Treaty of Lausanne reconsidered reveals how the entanglement and the contestation at Lausanne continues to inform our contemporary politics today.
