2nd Ed. — Polity, 2018. — 182 p. — ASIN B07BK1SR7D, ISBN 1509517081. The age of Western hegemony is over. Whether or not America itself declines or thrives under President Trump's leadership, the post-war liberal international order underpinned by US military, economic and ideological primacy and supported by global institutions serving its power and purpose, is coming to an...
Routledge, 2010. — 200 p. — ISBN 9781138789098. This book offers a concise and detailed analysis of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) foreign aid as a main instrument in its foreign policy. Exploring the cultural factors that have impacted on the foreign policy behaviour of the UAE and its foreign aid, the author argues that Arabism and Islamic traditions have shaped the country’s...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 260 p. This book explores the complexity of the Syrian question and its effects on the foreign policies of Russia, Iran, and Turkey. The Syrian crisis has had a major effect on the regional order in the Middle East. Syria has become a territory where the rivalry between Russia and Western powers is being played out, and with the West’s gradual...
Chiarelettere, 2012. — 84 p. — ISBN 886190310X. Salvare gli stati attraverso l'aumento dell'imposizione fiscale e la depressione del livello dei consumi è un'idea folle che ha generato in tutta Europa una rivolta contro il modus operandi ortodosso dell'establishment finanziario che ci governa: una nuova oligarchia fatta da enti sovranazionali, banche centrali, banche private e...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 293 p. — (Very Short Introductions). In the wake of the post-Cold War era, the aftermath of 9/11, the 2008 global financial crisis, and the emergence of the G20 at the leaders level, few commentators expected a reshaping of the global system towards multipolarity, and away from the United States. And yet, the BRICS - encompassing Brazil, Russia,...
New York, NY: Avid Reader Press, 2021. — 576 p. — ISBN-13 978-1982160272. “A provocative read...There are few tomes that coherently map such broad economic histories as well as Mr. Dalio’s. Perhaps more unusually, Mr. Dalio has managed to identify metrics from that history that can be applied to understand today.” —Andrew Ross Sorkin, The New York Times From legendary investor...
London — New York: Routledge, 2018. — 208 p. — (Rethinking Asia and International Relations). — ISBN 978-1-138-50032-7. What explains the rise of populist movements across the West and their affinity towards Russia? UKIP’s Brexit victory, Trump’s triumph, and the successive elections and referendums in Europe were united by a repudiation of the liberal international order....
De Gruyter, 2022. — 114 p. — (Volume 2 in the series De Gruyter Disruptions). — ISBN 978-3-11-098175-9. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is the latest chapter in a series of events that have their origins in World War One. The difficult existential questions that emerged before and during this conflict still remain unresolved. Contrary to the claim that wars are not supposed to...
Milano: Rizzoli, 2010 - 206 pagine, (in italiano) . ISBN 881704542X Quindici anni fa Ida Magli è stata una delle prime studiose autorevoli a schierarsi nettamente contro l'idea di un'Unione Europea, mostrandone i limiti, le storture e gli errori d'impostazione. Oggi, con la crisi dell'euro e il collasso di interi Stati, davanti a crescenti spinte separatiste e ai molti "no" sul...
I.B. Tauris, 2020. — 256 p. The Baltics are about to be thrust onto the world stage. With a "belligerent" Vladimir Putin to their east (and "expansionist" NATO to their west), Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are increasingly the subject of unsettling headlines in both Western and Russian media. But how real are these fears, subject as they are to media embellishment,...
4th Updated Edition — Oxford University Press, 2018. — 152 p. The European Union (EU) stands out as a fascinatingly unique political organisation. On the one hand, it has shown the potential for developing deep and wide-ranging cooperation between member states, going far beyond that found anywhere else in the world. On the other, it is currently in the throes of a phase of...
Encounter Books, 2015. — 440 p. — ISBN 9781594038433 The United States is a nation in crisis. While Washington’s ability to address our most pressing challenges has been rendered nearly impotent by ongoing partisan warfare, we face an array of foreign-policy crises for which we seem increasingly unprepared. Among these, none is more formidable than the unprecedented partnership...
Harvard University Press, 2020. — 336 p. Two world wars left millions stranded in Europe. The collapse of empires and the rise of independent states in the twentieth century produced an unprecedented number of people without national belonging and with nowhere to go. Mira Siegelberg’s innovative history weaves together ideas about law and politics, rights and citizenship, with...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 251 p. — (Governance and Limited Statehood). — ISBN10: 3319626949, 13 978-3319626949. This book addresses a conundrum for the international development community: The law of development cooperation poses major constraints on delivering aid where it is needed most. The existence of a state with an effective government is a basic condition for the...
William Collins, 2019. — 336 p. — ISBN 978-0-008327-61-0. THE GLOBALIST is the first in-depth biography of an international power-broker who was instrumental in shaping the global economy that we know today. PETER SUTHERLAND played a defining role in world history over the past 25 years and was arguably the most influential Irish person ever to have lived. He was Ireland's...
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