Bücher der Reihe St. James's Studies in World Affairs

Studies the Kashmir Valley, one of the most complex situations in international politics, from the perspective of human security. This study moves our understanding of Kashmir to a grassroots level, and assesses the challenges posed by intensive militarisation to the ability (or inability) to lead a life as one wishes.

Presents insights from a conference hosted by the Vaclav Havel Program for Human Rights and Diplomacy at Florida International University. The book's fundamental topic is memory, the human capacity to retain its contents in the flux of time, which is explored and discussed both theoretically and in terms of current action-oriented public discourse.

Analyses the internal tensions of the Soviet-led Cold War alliance as its careened toward its end. Starting with the peak of the alliance's power under Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, the book follows its ossification to its increasing haplessness under Brezhnev's successors Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko.

Argues that feminist international relations (IR) theory has inadvertently resulted in a biased worldview, the very opposite of what feminist IR set out to try to rectify. This book contests theoretical presumptions of Western feminist IR and attempts to reformulate it in contexts of non-Western cultures.

Using both realist and critical theories in a comparative framework, China Moves South states that while realism may offer a reasonable approach to explaining China's geopolitical behaviour, critical theory is a more appropriate lens to challenge China's occupations.