The history, current state, and likely future of the European Union

Provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary perspective, combining insights from EU Studies, International Relations, Sinology, and History. Deals with the historical perspective of the dynamics between China and Central Asia.

By exploring British and Russian mind-sets of the time this book traces the links between wartime social unrest, growing trade unionism in the police and the military, and Moscow's subsequent infiltration of Whitehall.

Building on the work of Husserl, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Arendt, and other practitioners of the life of theory, Sloterdijk launches a posthumanist defense of philosophical inquiry and its everyday, therapeutic value.

This urgently needed guide analyzes the responses of regional NATO members, particularly regarding the annexation of Crimea and the Putin-Erdogan rift over Syria.

While focusing on contemporary developments of the Russian state, this book highlights those developments' roots in the historic concept of autocracy.

"The book brings together essays that have mapped [Mansfield's] paths of reflection over the past thirty years. . .

Among his own posthumously released drafts, one, at least, is incontestably neither mistake nor out-take: the text of his lecture course on Machiavelli, originally delivered at the cole Normale Suprieure in 1972, intermittently revised up ...

On these subjects Machiavelli wrote no books: the text of his philosophy is his life itself, a life that was filled with paradox, uncertainty, and tragic drama.

The book analyzes the negative role played by Russophobia and advocates a different approach to Russia in the post-Cold War world.