Product Description: This book analyses security strategies in the American world order, systematically comparing Russian, Middle Eastern and European policies. The main finding is that the loss of relative power has decisive importance for the security strategies of states, but that particular strategies can only be explained when relative power is combined with ideology and the probability of military conflict...read more

Product Description: This new book offers a coherent model of a unipolar world order. Unipolarity is usually described either as a ‘brief moment’ or as something historically insignificant. However, we have already seen nearly twenty years of virtual unipolarity and this period has been of great significance for world politics...read more

Product Description: The end of the Cold War profoundly affected Middle Eastern politics. In Unipolarity and the Middle East, a neorealist model for unipolarity is put forward in order to explain the effects of the end of the Cold War as well as the subsequent international dynamics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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In this work, a neo-realist model for unipolarity is put forward in order to explain the effects of the end of the Cold War on Middle Eastern politics, as well as the subsequent international dynamics. Events include the unification of Yemen, Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and operation Desert Storm.

Product Description: The aim of this collaborative work is to focus on the international dimension of the security challenges faced by Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania after their re-emergence as independent states in 1991. Given their specific geopolitical positioning between the "old" West and Russia, they are subject to particularly acute attention in spite of their smallness...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)