Scribner, 2021. — 304 p. From the author of the New York Times bestseller Prisoners of Geography, the highly anticipated follow-up that uses ten maps of crucial regions around the globe to explain the geopolitical strategies of today’s world powers and what it means for our future. Tim Marshall’s global bestseller Prisoners of Geography offered us a “fresh way of looking at...
Siland Press, 2022. — 92 p. According to the mainstream Western narrative, Vladimir Putin is an insatiable, Hitler-like expansionist who invaded Ukraine in an unprovoked land grab. That story is incorrect. In reality, the United States and NATO bear much of the responsibility for the Ukraine crisis. Through a series of misguided policies, Washington and its European allies...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 336 p. Given the turbulence in the international order in recent years, one of the central concerns among observers of world politics is the question of China's ultimate goals. As China emerges as a superpower that rivals the United States, American policymakers grappling with this century's greatest geopolitical challenge are looking for...
I.B. Tauris, 2020. — 295 р. Since the start of the Trump era, the United States and the Western world has finally begun to wake up to the threat of online warfare and the attacks from Russia. The question no one seems to be able to answer is: what can the West do about it? Central and Eastern European states, however, have been aware of the threat for years. Nina Jankowicz has...
Yale University Press, 2021. — 568 p. Thirty years after the Soviet Union’s collapse, this book reveals how tensions between America, NATO, and Russia transformed geopolitics in the decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The most engaging and carefully documented account of this period in East-West diplomacy currently available. Not one inch. With these words, Secretary of...
OR Books, 2022. — 198 р. Russia’s brutal February 2022 invasion of Ukraine has attracted widespread condemnation across the West. Government and media circles present the conflict as a simple dichotomy between an evil empire and an innocent victim. In this concise, accessible and highly informative primer, Medea Benjamin and Nicolas Davies insist the picture is more...
Routledge, 2019. — 137 p. This book cuts through the misunderstandings about Russia’s geopolitical challenge to the West, presenting this not as ‘hybrid war’ but ‘political war.’ Russia seeks to antagonise: its diplomats castigate Western ‘Russophobia’ and cultivate populist sentiment abroad, while its media sells Russia as a peaceable neighbour and a bastion of traditional...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 384 p. Getting to grips with the overlapping geopolitical, economic, and political crises faced by Western democratic societies in the 2020s. The 21st century has brought a powerful tide of geopolitical, economic, and democratic shocks. Their fallout has led central banks to create over $25 trillion of new money, brought about a new age of...
Public Affairs, 2022. — 432 p. A war between China and the US would be catastrophic, deadly, and destructive. Unfortunately, it is no longer unthinkable. The relationship between the US and China, the world’s two superpowers, is peculiarly volatile. It rests on a seismic fault—of cultural misunderstanding, historical grievance, and ideological incompatibility. No other nations...
Springer, 2021. — 188 p. This book analyses the expansion of The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) into the post-Soviet space after the end of the Cold War. Based on an extensive analysis of the literature and government documents, including doctrines, statements and speeches by the most influential decision-makers and other actors, it sheds new light on the...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 552 p. How did Western imperialism shape the developing world? In Imperialism and the Developing World, Atul Kohli tackles this question by analyzing British and American influence on Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America from the age of the British East India Company to the most recent U.S. war in Iraq. He argues that both Britain...
Simon and Schuster, 1994. — 361 p. In this "timely antidote to the parade of reassurance churned out in Washington's rent-a-scholar centers", Edward N. Luttwak reveals that the American Dream has become a fantasy and supplies powerful remedies to reverse our nation's slide into Third-World status. Is the United States losing a war it does not even know it is fighting? Edward N....
Harper Perennial, 1998. — 305 p. Edward Luttwak's analysis of the new capitalism, or what he calls Turbo capitalism, was very well considered and presented. Luttwak knows Europe very well, as he lives and teaches in Italy and speaks a number of languages fluently. The book is not a condemnation o capitalism; rather it shows how from the late seventies and after the fall of...
МГУ им. М.В. Ломоносова. — М.: 2018. — 295 с. Цель данного исследования – выявить стратегический потенциал и инструменты влияния БРИКС как коллективного актора мировой политики в условиях трансформации мирового порядка. Объект – межгосударственное объединение БРИКС, созданное в XXI веке восходящими державами современности для целей совместного обсуждения и решения проблем...
Диссертация на соискание ученой степени кандидата политических наук: 23.00.04 — Политические проблемы международных отношений, глобального и регионального развития. — МГИМО МИД РФ. - Москва, 2019. - 265 с. Научный руководитель: кандидат политических наук, доцент Никитина Ю.А. Актуальность исследования. Сегодня Россия и Китай являются двумя полюсами силы в регионе Евразия, и...
Routledge, 2013. — 570 p. Since the late 1980s, critical geopolitics has gone from being a radical critical perspective on the disciplines of political geography and international relations theory to becoming a recognised area of research in its own right. Influenced by poststructuralist concerns with the politics of representation, critical geopolitics considers the ways in...
Skyhorse, 2022. — 359 p. In The Great Reset: And the War for the World, the most controversial man on earth Alex Jones gives you a full analysis of The Great Reset, the global elite's international conspiracy to enslave humanity and all life on the planet. If you really want to know what’s happening in the world, this is the one book you must read now. Alex Jones is the most...
Routledge, 2021. — 336 p. This volume examines the role of Russia in the world under President Putin's rule. When the Soviet Union disintegrated after the Cold War, Russia seemingly embarked on the establishment of a democratic political system and seemed intent on joining the liberal international order. However, under President Putin's rule, there have been dramatic shifts in...
Routledge, 2021. — 235 p. Intensifying geopolitical rivalries, rising defence spending and the proliferation of the latest military technology across Asia suggest that the region is set for a prolonged period of strategic contestation. None of the three competing visions for the future of Asian order – a US-led ‘Free and Open Indo-Pacific’, a Chinese-centred order, or the...
La Découverte, 2021. — 632 p. Vingt ans après le 11 septembre 2001, le monde continue de connaître des soubresauts majeurs et de profondes recompositions de puissances. L'ordre international mis en place peu après la Seconde Guerre mondiale est remis en cause. La géopolitique et la géoéconomie permettent d'analyser ces changements, et c'est l'ambition de ce manuel que d'offrir...
Routledge, 2022. — 357 p. BRICS is conceivably the most formidable organisation to have emerged in the post-Cold War period in the non-Western world. This book highlights the significance of BRICS in a wider global context and foregrounds the long-pending demand for the reform of global governance institutions. The volume: • Traces how the organisation came into being and looks...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 159 p. This book demonstrates that geohistory is a more effective concept than geopolitics in understanding inter-state relations, at a time of considerable confusion in world affairs, and that Francesco Guicciardini’s thoughts are an efficient medium to demonstrate not only the inadequacies of geopolitics, but that a geohistorical approach can be a...
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020. — 512 p. This authoritative Handbook presents a comprehensive analysis of the spatial transformation of the state; a pivotal process of globalization. It explores the state as an ongoing project that is always changing, illuminating the new spaces of geopolitics that arise from these political, social, cultural, and environmental negotiations....
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 314 p. America and Europe responded to Russia's annexation of Crimea on March 18, 2014 by discarding their policy of East-West partnership and reverting intermittently to a policy of cold war. The West believes that this on-again/off-again second Cold War will end with Russia's capitulation because it is not a sufficiently great power, while...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. — 255 p. Three former western Soviet republics - Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova - now find themselves torn between the European Union and the increasingly assertive Russia. This volume examines the foreign and domestic policies of these states with an eye to the lasting legacy of Russian domination and the growing attraction of Europe.
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 323 p. The history of oil is a chapter in the story of Europe's geopolitical decline in the twentieth century. During the era of the two world wars, a lack of oil constrained Britain and Germany from exerting their considerable economic and military power independently. Both nations' efforts to restore the independence they had enjoyed during...
Диссертация на соискание научной степени кандидата политических наук: 23.00.04 — Политические проблемы международных отношений, глобального и регионального развития. — МГИМО МИД РФ. — Москва, 2017. — 232 с. Научный руководитель: доктор исторических наук, профессор Лунев С.И. Основные процессы, которые происходят в современных международных отношениях, говорят о том, что мир все...
Lexington Books, 2022. — 359 p. This book provides analyses with respect to a wide range of contemporary issues, from China to Eurasia, including Turkey's foreign policy, conflicts in the Eastern Mediterranean, Caucasia, Central Asia, Russia, EU, migration, Middle Eastern issues, current conflicts and influences over global competition, energy security and the future of...
Yale University Press, 2022. — 328 p. The United States is entering an era of great-power competition with China and Russia. Such global struggles happen in a geopolitical twilight, between the sunshine of peace and the darkness of war. In this innovative and illuminating book, Hal Brands, a leading historian and former Pentagon adviser, argues that America should look to the...
Brill - Nijhoff, 2021. — 390 p. — (Geopolitics and International Relations 1). Today’s analysts of world affairs are often loosely referring to ‘geopolitics’, but do not always clearly define it. This book therefore offers a necessary introduction into the main components of geopolitical analysis, an overview of the main geopolitical schools of thought, as well as reflections...
I.B. Tauris, 2021. — 272 p. Why and how will the fourth industrial revolution impact great power politics? Here, Glenn Diesen utilizes a neoclassical approach to great power politics to assess how far the development of AI, national and localized technological ecosystems and cyber-warfare will affect great power politics in the next century. The reliance of modern economies on...
Routledge, 2022. — 254 p. This book analyses the ways in which foreign policy actors in Asia have responded to the emerging great power conflict between the US and the People's Republic of China focusing on medium and small states across the Indo-Pacific. The book offers a much-needed Counterpoint to existing analyses on the Indo-Pacific and China’s BRI and presents a new...
Lightning Source, 2023. — 252 p. Ukraine has been beset by war since February 2014, when Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his forces to seize Crimea. He subsequently fomented a conflict in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region. After eight years of conflict in Ukraine and growing tensions, Russia launched an all-out invasion on 24 February 2022, not only sparking the largest...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 459 p. This book presents a comparative analysis of Russia and Iran under sanctions. Whilst the growing literature on sanctions has focused primarily on their effectiveness, much less attention has been paid to the ways in which sanctions have transformed target societies and states. Despite, or indeed because of, the relentless enactment of...
Harvard University Press, 2021. — 401 p. An essential guide to the intractable public debates about the virtues and vices of economic globalization, cutting through the complexity to reveal the fault lines that divide us and the points of agreement that might bring us together. Globalization has lifted millions out of poverty. Globalization is a weapon the rich use to exploit...
Yale University Press, 2021. — 375 p. Can great powers be confident that their peers have benign intentions? States that trust each other can live at peace; those that mistrust each other are doomed to compete for arms and allies and may even go to war. Sebastian Rosato explains that states routinely lack the kind of information they need to be convinced that their rivals mean...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 370 p. In this book Richard Sakwa provides a new analysis of the end of the Cold War and the subsequent failure to create a comprehensive and inclusive peace order in Europe. The end of the Cold War did not create a sustainable peace system. Instead, for a quarter of a century a 'cold peace' reflected the tension between cooperative and...
Routledge, 2016. — 278 p. This seminal book explores the complex relationship between popular geopolitics and nation branding among the Newly Independent States of Eurasia, and their combined role in shaping contemporary national image and statecraft within and beyond the region. It provides critical perspectives on international relations, nationalism, and national identity...
Routledge, 2017. — 252 p. This volume examines geopolitics by looking at the interaction between geography, strategy and history. This book addresses three interrelated questions: why does the geographical scope of political objectives and subsequent strategy of states change? How do these changes occur? Over what period of time do these changes occur? The theories of Sir...
Penguin Publishing Group, 2022. — 224 р. In its fight for global dominance, Communist China has thrown out the old rules of war. China expert General Robert Spalding walks us through their new playbook. Many Americans are finally waking up to the alarming reality of China's stealth war on the United States and puzzling over how to push back against its insidious infiltration....
Lexington Books, 2020. — 272 p. The transformation of the BRIC acronym from an investment term into a household name of international politics and into a semi-institutionalized political outfit (called BRICS, with a capital ‘S'), is one of the defining developments in international politics in the past decades. While the concept is now commonly used in the general public debate...
Haymarket Books, 2023. — 425 p. A leading international relations expert uncovers the key stages that led from the end of the Cold War to the War in Ukraine. With the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, warnings of a new Cold War proliferated. In fact, argues Gilbert Achcar in this timely new account, the New Cold War has been ongoing since the late 1990s. Racing to solidify...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 372 p. Contemporary trade policy is increasingly framed in geo-strategic terms. But how much of that rhetoric is reflected in actual policy choices by the EU or its trading partners? This book provides a first systematic study of the broader international context in which EU trade agreements are conceived, negotiated, and designed. Building on a...
2nd ed. — Routledge, 2023. — 317 p. Continuing civil wars and humanitarian crises, coupled with a changing geopolitical dynamic, highlighted by increased Russian and Chinese presence in the Middle East, call for new thinking. What happens in the Middle East has major global repercussions. This second edition of the ground-breaking textbook Middle East Politics and International...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 241 p. The book provides a comprehensive understanding of the unfolding geopolitical changes in the South Caucasus in the age of increased great power competition across Eurasia. Recent research on the geopolitics of the South Caucasus focuses either on interstate relations among Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia or on each of regional actor’s (Russia,...
Routledge, 2021. — 237 p. This book analyses Russia-Europe/EU relations by exploring their practical essence and conceptualizing them in terms of the main categories of international relations research. It argues that the liberal world order, established in Cold War days, whereby international relations are underpinned by a global balance of power and a highly institutionalized...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 608 p. The global battle among the three dominant digital powers―the United States, China, and the European Union―is intensifying. All three regimes are racing to regulate tech companies, with each advancing a competing vision for the digital economy while attempting to expand its sphere of influence in the digital world. In Digital Empires, her...
Routledge, 2017. — 212 p. Disorder erupted in Ukraine in 2014, involving the overthrow of a sitting government, the Russian annexation of the Crimean peninsula, and a violent insurrection, supported by Moscow, in the east of the country. This Adelphi book argues that the crisis has yielded a ruinous outcome, in which all the parties are worse off and international security has...
Routledge, 2018. — 269 p. Based on rigorous analysis of the propaganda of five Western European separatist parties, this book provides in-depth examination of the ‘nationalism of the rich’, defined as a type of nationalist discourse that seeks to end the economic ‘exploitation’ suffered by a group of people represented as a wealthy nation and supposedly carried out by the...
Routledge, 2022. — 109 p. Debating the War in Ukraine discusses whether the war could have been avoided, and, if so, how? In this dialogical book, the authors discuss nodal points of history in terms of counterfactuals and contrastive explanations, concluding by considering future possibilities. They start in the 1990s where several causal elements of the war originate...