Best Foreign Policy International Relations Books

Best Free Foreign Policy International Relations Books of 2024

  • Security and Sustainable Development in Myanmar reviews

    Security and Sustainable Development in Myanmar Book Reviews

    Helen James

    Helen James considers security in Myanmar/Burma. She uses the ideas put forward in the United Nations Development Programme's 1994 report, of human, as opposed to state and&am...

  • The G20 reviews

    The G20 Book Reviews

    Peter I. Hajnal

    This revised and updated edition presents detailed analysis of the history and current state of the G20, and the challenges it faces. The emergence of the G20 was the result of cal...

  • Soft Power and Great-Power Competition reviews

    Soft Power and Great-Power Competition Book Reviews

    Joseph S. Nye

    This open access book consists of essays selected from Joseph S. Nye, Jr.’s last three decades of writing and illustrate a variety of perspectives on the nature of power, the role ...

  • Transnational Migration and Work in Asia reviews

    Transnational Migration and Work in Asia Book Reviews

    Kevin Hewison & Ken Young

    Focusing on the issues associated with migrating for work both in and from the Asian region, this book sheds light on the debate over migration and trafficking. With contr...

  • US Nation-Building in Afghanistan reviews

    US Nation-Building in Afghanistan Book Reviews

    Conor Keane

    Why has the US so dramatically failed in Afghanistan since 2001? Dominant explanations have ignored the bureaucratic divisions and personality conflicts inside the US state. This b...

  • The Sub-National Politics of Punjab reviews

    The Sub-National Politics of Punjab Book Reviews

    Niklas Manhart

    The Indian state of Punjab is mentioned mostly for the secessionist activities of its Sikh majority, the assassination of Indira Ghandi marking their inglorious peak in 1984. But d...

  • Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry reviews

    Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry Book Reviews

    Susanne Soederberg

    WINNER of the BISA IPEG Book Prize 2015 http://www.bisaipeg.org/ipegbookprize2015winnerannounced/  Under the rubric of ‘financial inclusion’, lending to the poor –in both ...

  • Understanding Globalization, Global Gaps, and Power Shifts in the 21st Century reviews

    Understanding Globalization, Global Gaps, and Power Shifts in the 21st Century Book Reviews

    Huiyao Wang & Lu Miao

    This open access book aims to help readers make sense of our changing world by sharing the views of global thought leaders on some of the most important issues of our time, from US...

  • The Impact of Protracted Peace Processes on Identities in Conflict reviews

    The Impact of Protracted Peace Processes on Identities in Conflict Book Reviews

    Joana Ricarte

    This open access book discusses the impact of protracted peace processes on identities in conflict. It is concerned with how lingering peace processes affect, in the longterm, patt...

  • Reliability and Alliance Interdependence reviews

    Reliability and Alliance Interdependence Book Reviews

    Iain D. Henry

    In Reliability and Alliance Interdependence , Iain D. Henry argues for a more sophisticated approach to alliance politics and ideas of interdependence.   It is often assum...

  • World Protests reviews

    World Protests Book Reviews

    Isabel Ortiz, Sara Burke, Mohamed Berrada & Hernán Saenz Cortés

    This is an open access book. The start of the 21st century has seen the world shaken by protests, from the Arab Spring to the Yellow Vests, from the Occupy movement to the...

  • Security in an Interconnected World reviews

    Security in an Interconnected World Book Reviews

    Ernst Hirsch Ballin, Huub Dijstelbloem & Peter de Goede

    This open access book follows the idea that security policy must be based on strategic analysis. Defence policy and the role of the armed forces can subsequently be determ...

  • EU-VIETNAM FREE TRADE AGREEMENT reviews

    EU-VIETNAM FREE TRADE AGREEMENT Book Reviews

    Andy Fratton

    Lo scopo di questa pubblicazione è quello di fornire informazioni alle imprese sulle diverse aree coperte dall'Accordo di libero scambio UE Vietnam e dall'Accordo di pro...

  • Adaptive Mediation and Conflict Resolution reviews

    Adaptive Mediation and Conflict Resolution Book Reviews

    Cedric de Coning, Ako Muto & Rui Saraiva

    ‘Books about liberal peacebuilding’s shortcomings rarely go beyond platitudes of inclusion, local ownership, and flexibility. This book grapples seriously with what it would mean t...

  • Geo-Politics in Northeast Asia reviews

    Geo-Politics in Northeast Asia Book Reviews

    Akihiro Iwashita, Yong-Chool Ha & Edward Boyle

    GeoPolitics in Northeast Asia focuses on the dynamics of Northeast Asia as a region. The chapters in this book offer a nuanced approach for understanding the geopolitics of this st...

  • Managing Great Power Politics reviews

    Managing Great Power Politics Book Reviews

    Kei Koga

    This Open Access book explains ASEAN’s strategic role in managing great power politics in East Asia. Constructing a theory of institutional strategy, this book argues that the regi...

  • China-US Competition reviews

    China-US Competition Book Reviews

    Simona A. Grano & David Wei Feng Huang

    “This edited volume is a collection of chapters by noted scholars of USChina relations as well as regional experts on Europe and East Asia. It makes a major contribution to our und...

  • El Colonialismo reviews

    El Colonialismo Book Reviews

    Jorge Simán Abufele

    El colonialismo consistió en un proceso histórico cuyo objetivo fue la conquista para el dominio territorial, político, económico, militar y cultural que se aplicaba sobre un puebl...

  • Education for Sustaining Peace through Historical Memory reviews

    Education for Sustaining Peace through Historical Memory Book Reviews

    Markus Schultze-Kraft

    ‘This is a necessary exercise in deconstruction and reconstruction that challenges conventional and critical approaches to peace education. SchultzeKraft’s new book is an impressiv...

  • Lives in Peace Research reviews

    Lives in Peace Research Book Reviews

    Stein Tonnesson

    This open access book explains how PRIO, the world’s oldest peace research institute, was founded and how it survived through crises. The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) is th...

  • The Political Economy of Non-Western Migration Regimes reviews

    The Political Economy of Non-Western Migration Regimes Book Reviews

    Rustamjon Urinboyev & Sherzod Eraliev

    This open access book contributes new theoretical and comparative insights on migrant agency, undocumentedness and informality in nonWestern, nondemocratic migration regimes. The b...

  • Negotiating Bioethics reviews

    Negotiating Bioethics Book Reviews

    Adèle Langlois

    A PDF version of this book is available for free in Open Access at www.tandfebooks.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons AttributionNon CommercialNo Derivatives ...

  • Tensiones y transiciones en las relaciones internacionales reviews

    Tensiones y transiciones en las relaciones internacionales Book Reviews

    Carlos Alejandro Cordero García, Pablo Calderón Martínez, Antonio López Mijares, Santiago Aceves Villalvazo, Olga Aikin Araluce, Erick Gonzalo Palomares Rodríguez, Marcela Morales Robles, Verónica S. Souto Olmedo, Erika Schmidhuber Peña, Adriana Gonzalez Arias, Andrea Pérez De Alba, Talien Corona Ojeda & Adriana Patricia López Rodríguez

    Este libro reúne 12 textos en torno a la realidad internacional con­temporánea, que se presentan a modo de reflexiones, investigacio­nes empíricas y análisis conceptuales, elaborad...

  • A Buddhist Approach to International Relations reviews

    A Buddhist Approach to International Relations Book Reviews

    William J. Long

    This book is an open access book. Many scholars have wondered if a nonWestern theory of international politics founded on different premises, be it from Asia or from the “Global So...

  • The Geopolitics of the Global Energy Transition reviews

    The Geopolitics of the Global Energy Transition Book Reviews

    Manfred Hafner & Simone Tagliapietra

    The world is currently undergoing an historic energy transition, driven by increasingly stringent decarbonisation policies and rapid advances in lowcarbon technologies. The largesc...

  • The Future of Land Warfare reviews

    The Future of Land Warfare Book Reviews

    Michael E. O'Hanlon

    What happens if we bet too heavily on unmanned systems, cyber warfare, and special operations in our defense? In today's U.S. defense policy debates, big land wars are out. Dr...

  • Feminist IR in Europe reviews

    Feminist IR in Europe Book Reviews

    Maria Stern & Ann E. Towns

    The aim of this open access book is to take stock of, critically engage, and celebrate feminist IR scholarship produced in Europe. Organized thematically, the volume highlights a w...

  • European Variations as a Key to Cooperation reviews

    European Variations as a Key to Cooperation Book Reviews

    Ernst Hirsch Ballin, Emina Ćerimović, Huub Dijstelbloem & Mathieu Segers

    This Open Access book offers a novel view on the benefits of a lasting variation between the member states in the EU. In order to bring together thirty very different European stat...

Best Paid Foreign Policy International Relations Books of 2024

  • Security and Sustainable Development in Myanmar reviews

    Security and Sustainable Development in Myanmar Book Reviews

    Helen James

    Helen James considers security in Myanmar/Burma. She uses the ideas put forward in the United Nations Development Programme's 1994 report, of human, as opposed to state and&am...

  • The G20 reviews

    The G20 Book Reviews

    Peter I. Hajnal

    This revised and updated edition presents detailed analysis of the history and current state of the G20, and the challenges it faces. The emergence of the G20 was the result of cal...

  • Soft Power and Great-Power Competition reviews

    Soft Power and Great-Power Competition Book Reviews

    Joseph S. Nye

    This open access book consists of essays selected from Joseph S. Nye, Jr.’s last three decades of writing and illustrate a variety of perspectives on the nature of power, the role ...

  • Transnational Migration and Work in Asia reviews

    Transnational Migration and Work in Asia Book Reviews

    Kevin Hewison & Ken Young

    Focusing on the issues associated with migrating for work both in and from the Asian region, this book sheds light on the debate over migration and trafficking. With contr...

  • US Nation-Building in Afghanistan reviews

    US Nation-Building in Afghanistan Book Reviews

    Conor Keane

    Why has the US so dramatically failed in Afghanistan since 2001? Dominant explanations have ignored the bureaucratic divisions and personality conflicts inside the US state. This b...

  • The Sub-National Politics of Punjab reviews

    The Sub-National Politics of Punjab Book Reviews

    Niklas Manhart

    The Indian state of Punjab is mentioned mostly for the secessionist activities of its Sikh majority, the assassination of Indira Ghandi marking their inglorious peak in 1984. But d...

  • Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry reviews

    Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry Book Reviews

    Susanne Soederberg

    WINNER of the BISA IPEG Book Prize 2015 http://www.bisaipeg.org/ipegbookprize2015winnerannounced/  Under the rubric of ‘financial inclusion’, lending to the poor –in both ...

  • Understanding Globalization, Global Gaps, and Power Shifts in the 21st Century reviews

    Understanding Globalization, Global Gaps, and Power Shifts in the 21st Century Book Reviews

    Huiyao Wang & Lu Miao

    This open access book aims to help readers make sense of our changing world by sharing the views of global thought leaders on some of the most important issues of our time, from US...

  • The Impact of Protracted Peace Processes on Identities in Conflict reviews

    The Impact of Protracted Peace Processes on Identities in Conflict Book Reviews

    Joana Ricarte

    This open access book discusses the impact of protracted peace processes on identities in conflict. It is concerned with how lingering peace processes affect, in the longterm, patt...

  • Reliability and Alliance Interdependence reviews

    Reliability and Alliance Interdependence Book Reviews

    Iain D. Henry

    In Reliability and Alliance Interdependence , Iain D. Henry argues for a more sophisticated approach to alliance politics and ideas of interdependence.   It is often assum...

  • World Protests reviews

    World Protests Book Reviews

    Isabel Ortiz, Sara Burke, Mohamed Berrada & Hernán Saenz Cortés

    This is an open access book. The start of the 21st century has seen the world shaken by protests, from the Arab Spring to the Yellow Vests, from the Occupy movement to the...

  • Security in an Interconnected World reviews

    Security in an Interconnected World Book Reviews

    Ernst Hirsch Ballin, Huub Dijstelbloem & Peter de Goede

    This open access book follows the idea that security policy must be based on strategic analysis. Defence policy and the role of the armed forces can subsequently be determ...

  • EU-VIETNAM FREE TRADE AGREEMENT reviews

    EU-VIETNAM FREE TRADE AGREEMENT Book Reviews

    Andy Fratton

    Lo scopo di questa pubblicazione è quello di fornire informazioni alle imprese sulle diverse aree coperte dall'Accordo di libero scambio UE Vietnam e dall'Accordo di pro...

  • Adaptive Mediation and Conflict Resolution reviews

    Adaptive Mediation and Conflict Resolution Book Reviews

    Cedric de Coning, Ako Muto & Rui Saraiva

    ‘Books about liberal peacebuilding’s shortcomings rarely go beyond platitudes of inclusion, local ownership, and flexibility. This book grapples seriously with what it would mean t...

  • Geo-Politics in Northeast Asia reviews

    Geo-Politics in Northeast Asia Book Reviews

    Akihiro Iwashita, Yong-Chool Ha & Edward Boyle

    GeoPolitics in Northeast Asia focuses on the dynamics of Northeast Asia as a region. The chapters in this book offer a nuanced approach for understanding the geopolitics of this st...

  • Managing Great Power Politics reviews

    Managing Great Power Politics Book Reviews

    Kei Koga

    This Open Access book explains ASEAN’s strategic role in managing great power politics in East Asia. Constructing a theory of institutional strategy, this book argues that the regi...

  • China-US Competition reviews

    China-US Competition Book Reviews

    Simona A. Grano & David Wei Feng Huang

    “This edited volume is a collection of chapters by noted scholars of USChina relations as well as regional experts on Europe and East Asia. It makes a major contribution to our und...

  • El Colonialismo reviews

    El Colonialismo Book Reviews

    Jorge Simán Abufele

    El colonialismo consistió en un proceso histórico cuyo objetivo fue la conquista para el dominio territorial, político, económico, militar y cultural que se aplicaba sobre un puebl...

  • Education for Sustaining Peace through Historical Memory reviews

    Education for Sustaining Peace through Historical Memory Book Reviews

    Markus Schultze-Kraft

    ‘This is a necessary exercise in deconstruction and reconstruction that challenges conventional and critical approaches to peace education. SchultzeKraft’s new book is an impressiv...

  • Lives in Peace Research reviews

    Lives in Peace Research Book Reviews

    Stein Tonnesson

    This open access book explains how PRIO, the world’s oldest peace research institute, was founded and how it survived through crises. The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) is th...

  • The Political Economy of Non-Western Migration Regimes reviews

    The Political Economy of Non-Western Migration Regimes Book Reviews

    Rustamjon Urinboyev & Sherzod Eraliev

    This open access book contributes new theoretical and comparative insights on migrant agency, undocumentedness and informality in nonWestern, nondemocratic migration regimes. The b...

  • Negotiating Bioethics reviews

    Negotiating Bioethics Book Reviews

    Adèle Langlois

    A PDF version of this book is available for free in Open Access at www.tandfebooks.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons AttributionNon CommercialNo Derivatives ...

  • Tensiones y transiciones en las relaciones internacionales reviews

    Tensiones y transiciones en las relaciones internacionales Book Reviews

    Carlos Alejandro Cordero García, Pablo Calderón Martínez, Antonio López Mijares, Santiago Aceves Villalvazo, Olga Aikin Araluce, Erick Gonzalo Palomares Rodríguez, Marcela Morales Robles, Verónica S. Souto Olmedo, Erika Schmidhuber Peña, Adriana Gonzalez Arias, Andrea Pérez De Alba, Talien Corona Ojeda & Adriana Patricia López Rodríguez

    Este libro reúne 12 textos en torno a la realidad internacional con­temporánea, que se presentan a modo de reflexiones, investigacio­nes empíricas y análisis conceptuales, elaborad...

  • A Buddhist Approach to International Relations reviews

    A Buddhist Approach to International Relations Book Reviews

    William J. Long

    This book is an open access book. Many scholars have wondered if a nonWestern theory of international politics founded on different premises, be it from Asia or from the “Global So...

  • The Geopolitics of the Global Energy Transition reviews

    The Geopolitics of the Global Energy Transition Book Reviews

    Manfred Hafner & Simone Tagliapietra

    The world is currently undergoing an historic energy transition, driven by increasingly stringent decarbonisation policies and rapid advances in lowcarbon technologies. The largesc...

  • The Future of Land Warfare reviews

    The Future of Land Warfare Book Reviews

    Michael E. O'Hanlon

    What happens if we bet too heavily on unmanned systems, cyber warfare, and special operations in our defense? In today's U.S. defense policy debates, big land wars are out. Dr...

  • Feminist IR in Europe reviews

    Feminist IR in Europe Book Reviews

    Maria Stern & Ann E. Towns

    The aim of this open access book is to take stock of, critically engage, and celebrate feminist IR scholarship produced in Europe. Organized thematically, the volume highlights a w...

  • European Variations as a Key to Cooperation reviews

    European Variations as a Key to Cooperation Book Reviews

    Ernst Hirsch Ballin, Emina Ćerimović, Huub Dijstelbloem & Mathieu Segers

    This Open Access book offers a novel view on the benefits of a lasting variation between the member states in the EU. In order to bring together thirty very different European stat...