The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Geopolitics
The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Geopolitics

Author: Zak Cope

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2025-06-28

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783031472268

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The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Geopolitics features expert geopolitical analysis from internationally renowned experts in the field. Reflecting the need for global analysis of national and regional politics, The Handbook highlights the wider strategic, economic, cultural, and security geography of contemporary international relations. The contributions underscore the complex interplay between sociopolitical processes at the national level and their articulation at the regional and global levels.

The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary International Political Economy
The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary International Political Economy

Author: Timothy M. Shaw

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-12-19

Total Pages: 713

ISBN-13: 1137454431

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Published 35 years after Palgrave Macmillan’s landmark International Political Economy (IPE) series was first founded, this Handbook captures the state of the art of contemporary IPE. It draws on the series’ history of focusing on the oft-neglected study of the global South. Providing interdisciplinary perspectives from scholars hailing from the global North and South, the Handbook illustrates the theoretical innovations and empirical richness necessary to explain today’s ever-changing world. This is a world in which the global South and North are not only being transformed by the end of bipolarity and the rise of the BRICS, but also by diverse global crises and growing cross-border challenges. It is a world where human development, governance and security are becoming ever more elusive, where, profoundly altered by the rise of new technologies, the structure of relations between nations itself is changing, becoming increasingly interconnected, both digitally and physically. Understanding these issues is of critical importance to better anticipate current and future global transformations. This Handbook is the ideal primer for all scholars, practitioners and policy makers looking to do so.

The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Kenya
The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Kenya

Author: Wanjala S. Nasong'o

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-05-27

Total Pages: 485

ISBN-13: 3031158547

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This volume is a bold attempt to address a comprehensive range of themes and issues relating to contemporary Kenya. It covers independent Kenya’s history, society, culture, economics, politics, and environment with great breadth and depth, comprising thirty-four chapters divided into three parts. Part I focuses on independence and the political economy of development, followed by Part II on environment, globalization, gender, and society. Part III examines the external context’s impact and implications for Kenya and the role of Kenya in the global political economy.

The Palgrave Handbook of Society, Culture and Outer Space
The Palgrave Handbook of Society, Culture and Outer Space

Author: James S. Ormrod

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-09-11

Total Pages: 707

ISBN-13: 1137363525

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Societies have always been formed in a relationship with the rest of the universe. With rapid developments in satellite communications and imaging, space exploration and tourism, military space technology, and cosmology itself, relationships with outer space are changing. These changes have inspired a wave of critical academic work in recent years, re-examining the history, present and future of outer space and the place of humans within it. This handbook provides an in-depth exploration of major themes relating to society, culture and the universe and will inspire and cultivate debate in this exciting and burgeoning area of study for future researchers and theorists. Bringing together scholarship from a range of disciplines including geography, economics, history, political science, sociology, philosophy, science and technology studies, law, cultural astronomy, anthropology, media studies, literature, psychosocial studies and art, it closely examines how outer space is socially produced, experienced, perceived and imagined, and the significance of this for terrestrial social life.

The Palgrave Handbook of Critical International Political Economy
The Palgrave Handbook of Critical International Political Economy

Author: Alan Cafruny

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-05

Total Pages: 473

ISBN-13: 1137500182

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Challenging the assumptions of ‘mainstream’ International Political Economy (IPE), this Handbook demonstrates the considerable value of critical theory to the discipline through a series of cutting-edge studies. The field of IPE has always had an inbuilt vocation within Historical Materialism, with an explicit ambition to make sense, from a critical standpoint, of the capitalist mode of production as a world system of sometimes paradoxically and sometimes smoothly overlapping states and markets. Having spearheaded the growth of a vigorous critical scholarship in the 1960s and 1970s, however, Marxism and neo-Gramscian approaches became increasingly marginalized over the course of the 1980s. The authors respond to the exposure of limits to mainstream contemporary scholarship in the wake of the onset of the Global Financial Crisis, and provide a comprehensive overview of the field of Critical International Political Economy. Problematizing socioeconomic and political structures, and considering these as potentially transitory and subject to change, the contributors aim not simply to understand a world of conflict, but furthermore to uncover the ways in which purportedly objective analyses reflect the interests of those in positions of privilege and power.

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy
The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy

Author: Andrew Fenton Cooper

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2013-03-28

Total Pages: 990

ISBN-13: 0199588864

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Including chapters from some of the leading experts in the field this Handbook provides a full overview of the nature and challenges of modern diplomacy and includes a tour d'horizon of the key ways in which the theory and practice of modern diplomacy are evolving in the 21st Century.

The Palgrave International Handbook of Gender and the Military
The Palgrave International Handbook of Gender and the Military

Author: Rachel Woodward

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-06-27

Total Pages: 570

ISBN-13: 1137516771

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The Palgrave International Handbook of Gender and the Military provides a comprehensive overview of the multiple ways in which gender and militaries connect. International and multi-disciplinary in scope, this edited volume provides authoritative accounts of the many intersections through which militaries issues and military forces are shaped by gender. The chapters provide detailed accounts of key issues, informed by examples from original research in a wealth of different national contexts. This Handbook includes coverage of conceptual approaches to the study of gender and militaries, gender and the organisation of state military forces, gender as it pertains to military forces in action, transitions and transgressions within militaries, gender and non-state military forces, and gender in representations of military personnel and practices. With contributions from a range of both established and early career scholars, The Palgrave International Handbook of Gender and the Military is an essential guide to current debates on gender and contemporary military issues.

The Genesis of Geopolitics and Friedrich Ratzel
The Genesis of Geopolitics and Friedrich Ratzel

Author: Alexandros Stogiannos

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-10-29

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 3319980351

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This book discusses the influence of Friedrich Ratzel's ideas in more contemporary geopolitical analytical systems and the geodeterminism commonly attributed to him. The author thoroughly analyzes the structural components of Ratzel's thought. The research is inspired by the numerous contradictory approaches in the secondary literature, presenting Ratzel as both humanist and racist, geo-determinist and multidimensional analyst, organicist and social scientist, precursor of Geopolitics and opponent to the same idea. In this work, more particular issues are approached: the establishment of a scientific Political Geography; the methodological approach of his multidisciplinary work; the redefinition of his geopolitical period; his notion of state and the evaluation of sociological and cultural parameters as factors of state power; the biogeographical content of the notion of Lebensraum; his attitude towards the racist theories as well as towards the Darwinian theories; his overall worldview and the confrontation with cosmopolitism; his contribution to an interdisciplinary, positivist and scientific approach in analyzing social and international affairs; his thoughts on the architecture of Europe. The book will be useful for researchers and students in many scientific fields, such as International Relations, Geopolitics, Geography and History of Geography.