Our research was intended to provide a foundation for further work. We therefore focused on
two key preliminary questions: does environmental scarcity cause violent conflict? And, if it …

With China's rise to the status of world power, trade and political links between Africa and
China have been escalating at an astonishing rate. Sino-African relations are set to become …

China has shifted its foreign policy from one that avoided engagement in international
organizations to one that is now embracing them. These moves present a new challenge to …

What are rising powers? Do they challenge the international order? Why do some countries
but not others become rising powers? In Why Nations Rise, Manjari Chaterjee Miller …

How can a developing, democratic and predominantly Muslim country like Indonesia
manage its foreign relations, while facing a myriad of security concerns and dilemmas in the …

This volume provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the security discourse of
Chinese policy elites on the major powers in East Asia in relation to China's self-perception …

This book provides a detailed analysis of China's foreign policy towards the Gulf and
Arabian peninsula region from the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949 …

Following the approach of the classic 1974 marital-role influence study of Davis and Rigaux,
the present study focuses on differences in decision making (ie, joint, husband dominated …

Drawing on the most up-to-date sources, this book provides an in-depth examination of
Russia's relations with China and Japan, the two Asia-Pacific superpowers-in-waiting. For …

This book argues that while the US president makes foreign policy decisions based largely
on political pressures, it is concentrated interests that shape the incentive structures in which …