"Authoritarian regimes in many countries, and the men that lead them, depend for their power and wealth on the international management of licit and illicit funds under their control. Frank Vogl show that curbing the activities of these enablers as they act on behalf of their kleptocratic clients is of vital importance to secure democracy, enhance national security, and ensure international financial stability"--

Stacia E. Zabusky is Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and Associate in Research at the Institute for European Studies, Cornell University. In this first ethnographic study of the European Space Agency, Stacia Zabusky explores the complex processes involved in cooperation on space science missions in the contemporary context of European integration. Zabusky argues that the practice of cooperation does...

"Honorable Mention for the 2011 Best Book, International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association" Charles L. Glaser is professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University. He is the author of Analyzing Strategic Nuclear Policy (Princeton). Within the realist school of international relations, a prevailing view holds that the anarchic structure of the international system invariably forces...

For the first time in seven decades, there is no single power or alliance of powers ready to take on the challenges of global leadership. A generation ago, the United States, Europe, and Japan were the world's powerhouses, the free-market democracies that propelled the global economy forward. Today, they struggle just to find their footing. Acclaimed geopolitical analyst Ian Bremmer argues that the world is facing a leadership vacuum. The diverse...

"Andreas Malm and Wim Carton present a history of the present phase of the crisis, one likely to last decades as the fossil fuel industry swims in the largest profits ever made. Money continues to flow into the construction of pipelines, platforms, terminals, mines--assets that will have to be destroyed for the planet to remain liveable. Too much heat has become officially acceptable because such revolutionary destruction is not. But should the rest...

"An unprecedented new international moral and legal rule forbids one state from hosting money stolen by the leaders of another state. The aim is to counter grand corruption or kleptocracy ("rule by thieves"), when leaders of poorer countries--such as Marcos in the Philippines, Mobutu in the Congo, and more recently those overthrown in revolutions in the Arab world and Ukraine--loot billions of dollars at the expense of their own citizens. This money...

This work by Francis Sydney Marvin was originally published in 1922 and it is now republished with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Unity of Western Civilization' is a wonderful work charting the historical development of the western world.

In the 21st century, the world is faced with threats of global scale that cannot be confronted without collective action. Although global government as such does not exist, formal and informal institutions, practices, and initiatives-together forming "global governance"-bring a greater measure of predictability, stability, and order to trans-border issues than might be expected. Yet, there are significant gaps between many current global problems...

"A dynamic historian revisits the workers' internationals, whose scope and significance are commonly overlooked. In current debates about globalization, open and borderless elites are often set in opposition to the immobile and protectionist working classes. This view obscures a major historical fact: for around a century-from the 1860s to the 1970s-worker movements were at the cutting edge of internationalism. The creation in London of the International...

Leila J. Rupp is Professor of History at Ohio State University. She is the author of Mobilizing Women for War: German and American Propaganda, 1939-1945 (Princeton) and coauthor, with Verta Taylor, of Survival in the Doldrums: The American Women's Rights Movement. Worlds of Women is a groundbreaking exploration of the "first wave" of the international women's movement, from its late nineteenth-century origins through the Second World War. Making...