Bücher der Reihe Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

This book sheds light on the mechanisms of base politics that surround US overseas military bases, comparing several countries across different regions.Analysing cases from Japan, Greenland, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, and Singapore, the contributors paint a detailed and complex picture of the role and impact of US bases. In times of war they project military power, and in times of peace they deter the emergence of general and latent threats. Furthermore, they are used to secure access to resources, and as a means of politically and economically influencing small and mid-size countries. From the viewpoint of the countries that host them, military bases allow the host many benefits of the US security umbrella, but can cause internal problems, including accidents and noise pollution that accompany the functioning of a base, as well as constraining their own sovereignty. Military bases do not simply serve to bring America strategic and security benefits - as symbols of the hierarchical structure of the international system, they influence power relations in the entire world.An invaluable resource for scholars of International Relations with an interest in the practical and theoretical challenges of the US's relationship with its allies.

This book presents insightful perspectives on the invocation, implementation and application of UN-approved financial sanctions and related issues.With contributions from academics, diplomats and UN panel experts, Yoshimura offers an analysis of how the UN financial sanctions have evolved, the different roles of various major international actors in agreeing and deploying them, and their success in achieving desired outcomes. It also sheds light on a vital role of Japan in the formulation and deployment of financial sanctions, as the third largest economy in the world with very limited armed forces and a pacifist constitution.Offering valuable consideration into one of the key implements of international law, this is an essential guide for scholars and practitioners in Diplomacy and International Relations.

This work examines concept of sincerity in politics and international relations in order to discuss what we should expect of politicians, within what parameters should they work, and how their decisions and actions could be made consistent with morality. Offering a significant comprehensive outlook on the practical limits o

This book offers a first overarching look at the relationship between states and their citizens abroad, approached through the concept of "duty of care".

This is one of the first books to explore the nexus between civil society, religion, and global governance, their impact on human security and well-being, and significance for current debates in international politics.

This volume explores the needs of people in conflict areas, arguing that Europe should develop a new human security capability that involves the military, police and civilians all working together to enforce the law rather than to fight wars.

This book brings together leading American, British, Canadian, French, German and Japanese scholars to discuss key questions that faced the signatories to the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Contributors from Japan, Korea, and China explore the reaction of the United Nations to emerging global issues.A collaboration between the Japan Association for United Nations Studies with the Korea Academic Council on the United Nations System and the China Academic Net for United Nations Studies, this book presents a range of perspectives from both academics and practitioners. The areas explored and discussed include global governance, peace and security, global health governance, global citizenship, nuclear disarmament, and the Sustainable Development Goals. In particular and among other issues it addresses both the coordination of COVID-19 management and responses to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.An invaluable, diverse, and concertedly non-Western approach to the challenges facing the UN.

Assessing the different kinds of borders between African nations, the contributors present a borderland and trans-region approach to understanding the challenges and opportunities facing the peoples of the African continent.Africa faces rampant violence, terrorism, deterioration of water-energy-food provision, influxes of refugees and immigrants, and religious hatred under the trends of globalization. Solutions for these issues require new perspectives that are not attempted by conventional state-building approaches. Statehood is limited in many places on the African continent because many states are combined by loose political ties. African states' borders tend to be regarded as porous and fragile. However, as the contributors to this volume argue, those porous borders can contribute to cultural and socio-economic network construction beyond states and the creation of active borderlands by increasing people's mobility, contact, and trade.A must read for scholars of African studies that will also be of great value to academics and students with a broader interest in nationhood, globalization, and borders.