Does history matter? Is it anything more than entertainment? And if so, what practical
relevance does it have? In this fully revised second edition of a seminal text, John Tosh …

In the comprehensively revised and updated new edition of this highly-acclaimed text, John
Dumbrell assesses how and why the Anglo-American special relationship found a new …

The Euro-Zone represents the single most important step in European Integration since
1957 and one of the boldest economic, monetary, and political projects in modern history. In …

Whenever asked to name his most significant accomplishment as West Germany's first
Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer would invariably reply:" The alliance with the free West." …

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) was intended to create jobs and
boost the economies on both sides of the Atlantic. However, constituency support was …

Even today, in an era of cheap travel and constant connection, the image of young people
backpacking across Europe remains seductively romantic. In Backpack Ambassadors …

This article proposes the notion of a security imaginary as a heuristic tool for exploring
military isomorphism (the phenomenon that weapons and military strategies begin to look …

What was the relationship between President Franklin D. Roosevelt, architect of America's
rise to global power, and the 1936–39 Spanish Civil War, which inspired passion and …

Over the past fifty years, crisis management has become essential to achieving and
maintaining national security. This book offers a comparative analysis of the preconditions …

Qcar Wilde famously referred to fox-hunting as the" unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible."
With apologies to Wilde, those of us bounding off over conceptual hedges in quest of …