International Security Studies (ISS) has changed and diversified in many ways since 1945.
This book provides the first intellectual history of the development of the subject in that …

Structural realism, or neorealism, is a theory of international relations that says power is the
most important factor in international relations. First outlined by Kenneth Waltz in his 1979 …

This book advances a coherent statement of defensive realism as a theory of strategy for our
time and adds to our understanding of defensive realism as a grand theory of IR in particular …

The United States faces a complex and rapidly shifting international security landscape.
Forces of ethnic and religious extremism, diffusion of information technologies, proliferation …

Militarism and the British left, 1902-1914 Militarism and the British Left, 1902–1914 Matthew
Johnson Page 2 Militarism and the British Left, 1902–1914 Page 3 This page intentionally left …

The objective of the thesis is to study the concept of state identity and its role in foreign policy
decision-making through a constructivist analysis, with particular focus on the Saudi–Iranian …

Since the 2015 ascension of King Salman bin Abdulaziz, the Saudi state has displayed
growing discontinuity with trends in its pursuit of national security. Over the past four years …

Voimatasapaino on kansainvälisen politiikan keskeinen käsite. Voimatasapainopolitiikkaa
on harjoitettu erityisesti Euroopassa viimeisen 500 vuoden aikana. Euroopan historiaa on …

This thesis analyses why US-Russia relations failed to improve post-Cold War. Existing
scholarship's explanation for the cause of this, based on offensive realist theory assumptions …

In the period of the classic gold standard, most peripheral countries were frequently affected
by so-called sudden stops as well as by financial and currency crises. Yet pre-War Japan …