Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Oil is the world's single most important commodity and its political effects are pervasive. Jeff Colgan extends the idea of the resource curse into the realm of international relations, exploring how countries form their foreign policy preferences and intentions. Why are some but not all oil-exporting 'petrostates' aggressive? To answer this question, a theory of aggressive foreign policy preferences is developed and then tested, using both quantitative and qualitative methods. Petro-Aggression shows that oil creates incentives that increase a petrostate's aggression, but also incentives for the opposite. The net effect depends critically on its domestic politics, especially the preferences of its leader. Revolutionary leaders are especially significant. Using case studies including Iraq, Iran, Libya, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, this book offers new insight into why oil politics has a central role in global peace and conflict.

Petroleum industry and trade. --- War --- #SBIB:327.5H21 --- #SBIB:327.6H01 --- Economics of war --- Competition, International --- War, Cost of --- Energy industries --- Oil industries --- Economic aspects. --- Vrede – oorlog, oorlogssituaties --- Internationale en diplomatieke relaties: specifieke conflicten --- Petroleum industry and trade --- Economic aspects --- Political science --- International Relations --- General. --- Social Sciences --- Political Science

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Foreign Intervention in Africa chronicles the foreign political and military interventions in Africa from 1956 to 2010, during the periods of decolonisation and the Cold War, as well as during the periods of state collapse and the 'global war on terror'. In the first two periods, the most significant intervention was extra-continental. The USA, the Soviet Union, China, Cuba and the former colonial powers entangled themselves in countless African conflicts. During the period of state collapse, the most consequential interventions were intra-continental. African governments, sometimes assisted by powers outside the continent, supported warlords, dictators and dissident movements in neighbouring countries and fought for control of their neighbours' resources. The global war on terror, like the Cold War, increased foreign military presence on the African continent and generated external support for repressive governments. In each of these cases, external interests altered the dynamics of Africa's internal struggles, escalating local conflicts into larger conflagrations, with devastating effects on African peoples.

AFRICA--FOREIGN RELATIONS --- INTERVENTION (INTERNATIONAL LAW)--AFRICA --- Insurgency --- Insurgent attacks --- Rebellions --- Civil war --- Political crimes and offenses --- Revolutions --- Government, Resistance to --- Internal security --- History. --- Africa --- Foreign relations. --- Politics and government. --- Foreign economic relations. --- #SBIB:327.5H21 --- #SBIB:327.6H01 --- #SBIB:328H41 --- #SBIB:327.5H10 --- Vrede – oorlog, oorlogssituaties --- Internationale en diplomatieke relaties: specifieke conflicten --- Instellingen en beleid: Afrika: comparatief / diverse landen --- Strategie: algemeen --- History --- Arts and Humanities

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

The international relations of the Middle East have long been dominated by uncertainty and conflict. External intervention, interstate war, political upheaval and interethnic violence are compounded by the vagaries of oil prices and the claims of military, nationalist and religious movements. The purpose of this book is to set this region and its conflicts in context, providing on the one hand a historical introduction to its character and problems, and on the other a reasoned analysis of its politics. In an engagement with both the study of the Middle East and the theoretical analysis of international relations, the author, who is one of the best known and most authoritative scholars writing on the region today, offers a compelling and original interpretation. Written in a clear, accessible and interactive style, the book is designed for students, policymakers, and the general reader.

International relations. Foreign policy --- Internal politics --- anno 1900-1999 --- anno 2000-2009 --- Middle East --- #SBIB:053.AANKOOP --- #SBIB:327.6H01 --- #SBIB:328H512 --- 814 Theorie van de internationale betrekkingen --- 883.4 West-Azië --- Internationale en diplomatieke relaties: specifieke conflicten --- Instellingen en beleid: Midden-Oosten / landen in het Midden-Oosten --- Foreign relations. --- Politics and government --- Moyen-Orient --- Politique et gouvernement --- Relations extérieures --- 327 --- Internationale politiek --- Midden-Oosten --- Social Sciences --- Political Science

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Israel and Iran have come to view each other as direct regional rivals. The two countries are not natural rivals; they have shared geopolitical interests, which led to years of cooperation both before and after the 1979 Islamic revolution. But their rivalry has intensified recently, particularly with the rise of fundamentalist leaders in Iran and the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran posing grave strategic and ideological challenges to Israel.

Izrailʹ --- Medinat Yiśraʼel --- Yiśraʼel --- Izrael --- Isrāʼīl --- Israele --- Isŭrael --- I-se-lieh --- Medinat Israel --- State of Israel --- מדינת ישראל --- إسرائيل --- دولة إسرائيل --- Dawlat Isrāʼīl --- Ізраіль --- Дзяржава Ізраіль --- Dzi︠a︡rz︠h︡ava Izrailʹ --- Stát Izrael --- Država Izrael --- Ισραήλ --- Израиль --- Государство Израиль --- Gosudarstvo Izrailʹ --- イスラエル --- Isuraeru --- 以色列 --- Yiselie --- #SBIB:327.6H01Instellingen en beleid: Israël --- Nuclear weapons --- #SBIB:327.5H21 --- #SBIB:327.6H01 --- #SBIB:328H514 --- #SBIB:328H515 --- Vrede – oorlog, oorlogssituaties --- Internationale en diplomatieke relaties: specifieke conflicten --- Instellingen en beleid: Israël --- Instellingen en beleid: Iran --- Iran --- Israel --- United States --- República Islâmica do Irã --- Irã --- Persia --- Northern Tier --- Islamic Republic of Iran --- Jumhūrī-i Islāmī-i Īrān --- I-lang --- Paras-Iran --- Paras --- Persia-Iran --- I.R.A. --- Islamische Republik Iran --- Islamskai︠a︡ Respublika Iran --- I.R.I. --- IRI --- ايران --- جمهورى اسلامى ايران --- Êran --- Komarî Îslamî Êran --- ישראל --- Palestine --- Foreign relations --- Military policy.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Many environmental problems cross national boundaries and can be addressed only through international cooperation. In this book Robert Darst examines transnational efforts to promote environmental protection in the USSR and in five of its successor states--Russia, Ukraine, and the Baltic republics of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania--from the late 1960s to the present. The core of the book is a comparative study of three key issues: nuclear power safety, transboundary air pollution, and Baltic Sea pollution. Although expectations were high that the end of the Cold War and the breakup of the Soviet Union would lead to increased East-West environmental cooperation, the opposite has been true. Russia and the other successor states have generally agreed to address such problems only when paid to do so. Darst finds that post-Cold War environmental cooperation has been most successful when there is an overlap between the environmental and economic interests of the successor states and those of their Western neighbors, and when the foundation for cooperation was laid during the Cold War period. The book is based on extensive original field research, including interviews with diplomats, government officials, scientists, and environmental activists in the successor states and Western Europe. Its findings underscore the importance of the domestic and international political context in which international environmental policy making occurs. It also deepens our understanding of the opportunities and dangers of positive inducements as a tool of international environmental policy.

Environmental protection --- Environmental policy --- Marine pollution --- Air --- Transboundary pollution --- Nuclear power plants --- International cooperation --- Pollution --- Safety measures --- Atomic power plants --- Nuclear power stations --- Power plants, Nuclear --- Transfrontier pollution --- Transnational pollution --- Marine environment pollution --- Marine water pollution --- Ocean pollution --- Offshore water pollution --- Sea pollution --- Seawater --- Environment and state --- Environmental control --- Environmental management --- Environmental quality --- State and environment --- Environmental quality management --- Protection of environment --- Government policy --- Nuclear facilities --- Power-plants --- Antinuclear movement --- Nuclear energy --- Atmosphere --- Coastal zone management --- Oceanography --- Water --- Marine resources conservation --- Environmental auditing --- Environmental sciences --- Applied ecology --- Environmental engineering --- ENVIRONMENT/Environmental Politics & Policy --- SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/International Relations & Security --- #SBIB:327.6H01 --- #SBIB:33H071 --- #SBIB:35H434 --- Internationale en diplomatieke relaties: specifieke conflicten --- Economische internationale betrekkingen --- Beleidssectoren: milieubeleid en ruimtelijke ordening