Product Description: The missile defence policy of the US plays a crucial role in international affairs and is normally studied from a US perspective. This book is different, it delivers a sharp analysis of regional and national variations and integrates them with US viewpoints to present a rounded and comprehensive study...read more

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Product Description: A decade ago the term "new world order" was a commonly-used expression. Now at the beginning of the 21st century the contours of this order are less clear. How can this international order be described and interpreted and how can it be explained from contrasting theoretical viewpoints? Ten scholars in international politics - many of them experts in the field - offer penetrating contributions to provide a survey of the ongoing debate surrounding the new world order...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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)