By shedding light on EULEX - the EU mission to Kosovo – this open access book investigates the EU’s peacebuilding activities in that country, in the light of the normative power theory in the post-conflict setting and peacebuilding theory. Ten years after the massive engagement of the ...
Genre: Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, International, War & Peace / Size: 124 pages / Free from 25 February 2020
IS THE GOVERNMENT ONLINE?: SOCIAL MEDIA AS A MAIN BATTLEFIELD FOR THE POLITICAL COLLISIONS by Ali Salim
Young generation spends more time reading twitter or FB news line than reading the news in newspapers or official portals. That’s why Social Media have a big role in the forming of the political position by people in all ages and genders.
When the information is about any news or ...
Genre: Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Government, International / Size: 45 pages / Free from 22 February 2020
Russia's Turn to the East: Domestic Policymaking and Regional Cooperation (Global Reordering) by Helge Blakkisrud
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Genre: Business & Finance, Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, International / Size: 167 pages / Free from 22 February 2020
A Conspicuous Silence: American Foreign Policy, Women, and Saudi Arabia: A Selection from The Hillary Doctrine: Sex and American Foreign Policy by Valerie M. Hudson
Hillary Rodham Clinton was the first to clearly state that: "the subjugation of women is a direct threat to the security of the United States." This declaration has come to be known as the Hillary Doctrine, and it was formally incorporated into the first Quadrennial Diplomatic and Developm...
Genre: Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, International / Size: 46 pages / Free from 21 February 2020 
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Hit the Road Jack: A wickedly suspenseful serial killer thriller (Jack Ryder Book 1) by Willow Rose
New series from the Amazon Bestselling author Willow Rose. Ben is supposed to be in school. It's Monday morning but his parents are still asleep after a night of heavy drinking. Ben Waits patiently, even though he knows he is missing out on today's field trip to the zoo. But, when his b...
Genre: Arts & Photography, Dance, Fashion, Film & Video, Music, Photography, Pop Culture, Television, Biography & True Accounts, Arts & Literature, Ethnic, Historical, Leaders & Notable People, Memoirs, Professionals & Academics, Reference & Collections, Travel, Business & Finance, Business Life, Economics, Finance, Industries & Professions, Investing, Marketing & Sales, Personal Finance, Reference, Small Business & Entrepreneurship, Children's eBooks, Arts, Music & Photography, Computers & Internet, Science, Nature & How It Works, Sport & Outd / Size: 454 pages / Free from 20 February 2020 
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Mobile Professional Voluntarism and International Development: Killing Me Softly? by Helen Louise Ackers
This book is open access under a CC BY license.This book explores the impact that professional volunteers have on the low resource countries they choose to spend time in. Whilst individual volunteering may be of immediate benefit to individual patients, this intervention may have detriment...
Genre: Professional & Technical, Medicine, Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, International, Science & Maths / Size: 173 pages / Free from 19 February 2020
Taking a bottom up perspective, this book explores local framings of a wide range of issues related to benefit-sharing, a growing concept in global environmental governance. Benefit-sharing in Environmental Governance draws on original case studies from South Africa, Namibia, Greece, Argen...
Genre: Business & Finance, Economics, Finance, Industries & Professions, Politics & Social Sciences, International, Science & Maths, Environment, Nature & Ecology / Size: 240 pages / Free from 17 February 2020
Sincerity in Politics and International Relations (Open Access) (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics Book 130) by Sorin Baiasu
This edited volume examines concepts of sincerity in politics and international relations in order to discuss what we should expect of politicians, within what parameters they should work, and how their decisions and actions could be made consistent with morality.The volume features an int...
Genre: Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Philosophy, International, Political Parties, Practical Politics / Size: 221 pages / Free from 15 February 2020
MYANMAR: REINTEGRATING INTO THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY by Chenyang Li
Located at the junction of East Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia, Myanmar is one of the most important countries in the world's geopolitical landscape. Its ongoing political and economic reforms arouse growing concern from the international community, especially great powers like the US...
Genre: Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, International / Size: 423 pages / Free from 13 February 2020
Japan’s Arduous Rejuvenation as a Global Power: Democratic Resilience and the US-China Challenge by Victor Teo
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Genre: History, Asia, World, Politics & Social Sciences, International, Practical Politics / Size: 242 pages / Free from 13 February 2020
Arms Race: China and the Geopolitics of the South China Sea by Aldéric Au
As friction in the South China Sea threatens to spark war, this primer brings a timely analysis of the changing power balance.As China rises, it is not in its interests to trigger a war. However, with that rise comes expanding interests; strategic, military, economic, and political, which ...
Genre: Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, International / Size: 167 pages / Free from 13 February 2020 
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Ginseng and Borderland: Territorial Boundaries and Political Relations Between Qing China and Choson Korea, 1636-1912 by Seonmin Kim
A free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Ginseng and Borderland explores the territorial boundaries and political relations between Qing China and Cho...
Genre: History, Asia, Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, International / Size: 224 pages / Free from 13 February 2020
Tempting Fate: Why Nonnuclear States Confront Nuclear Opponents (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) by Paul C. Avey
Why would countries without nuclear weapons even think about fighting nuclear-armed opponents? A simple answer is that no one believes nuclear weapons will be used. But that answer fails to consider why nonnuclear state leaders would believe that in the first place. In this superb unpackin...
Genre: History, Military, Professional & Technical, Technology & Engineering, Politics & Social Sciences, Freedom & Security, International / Size: 270 pages / Free from 13 February 2020 5 reviews
Africa's Lions: Growth Traps and Opportunities for Six African Economies by Haroon Bhorat
Examining the economic forces that will shape Africa's future.Africa’s Lions examines the economic growth experiences of six fast growing and/or economically dominant African countries. Expert African researchers offer unique perspectives into the challenges and issues in Ethiopia, Ghana...
Genre: Business & Finance, Biographies & Primers, Economics, Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Globalisation, International / Size: 285 pages / Free from 13 February 2020 5 reviews
US Nation-Building in Afghanistan (Open Access) by Conor Keane
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Genre: History, Asia, Middle East, Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, International / Size: 256 pages / Free from 13 February 2020
The Believer: How an Introvert with a Passion for Religion and Soccer Became Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Leader of the Islamic State by William McCants
In The Believer Will McCants tells the story of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State (a.k.a. ISIS), a group so brutal and hardline that even al-Qaida deemed them to extreme. Baghdadi, an introverted religious scholar with a passion for soccer, now controls large swaths of ...
Genre: Biography & True Accounts, Specific Groups, Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Freedom & Security, International, Terrorism / Size: 21 pages / Free from 12 February 2020 5 reviews
Taiwan and China: Fitful Embrace by Lowell Dittmer
A free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. China’s relation to Taiwan has been in constant contention since the founding of the People’s Republic of C...
Genre: History, Asia, Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, International / Size: 284 pages / Free from 10 February 2020
Africa-Europe Research and Innovation Cooperation: Global Challenges, Bi-regional Responses by Andrew Cherry
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This edited volume is concerned with the evolution and achievements of cooperation in research and innovation between Africa and Europe, and points to the need for more diversified funding and finance mechanisms, and for novel models of co...
Genre: Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, International, Practical Politics / Size: 147 pages / Free from 10 February 2020
United Nations Peace Operations in a Changing Global Order by Cedric de Coning
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Genre: Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Freedom & Security, Globalisation, International, War & Peace / Size: 360 pages / Free from 10 February 2020
The Consequences of Chaos: Syria s Humanitarian Crisis and the Failure to Protect (The Marshall Papers) by Elizabeth G. Ferris
The massive dimensions of Syria's refugee crisis—and the search for solutionsThe civil war in Syria has forced some 10 million people—more than half the country's population—from their homes and communities, creating one of the largest human displacements since the end of World War I...
Genre: Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Freedom & Security, International / Size: 225 pages / Free from 10 February 2020 4 reviews
Global History and New Polycentric Approaches: Europe, Asia and the Americas in a World Network System (Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History) by Manuel Perez Garcia
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Genre: History, Asia, Historical Study, World, Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Globalisation, International / Size: 352 pages / Free from 10 February 2020 
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Democracy Promotion as Foreign Policy (Open Access): Temporal Othering in International Relations (Interventions) by Cathy Elliott
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Genre: Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Government, Ideologies, International / Size: 215 pages / Free from 10 February 2020
Trust and Terror (Open Access): Social Capital and the Use of Terrorism as a Tool of Resistance (Conceptualising Comparative Politics) by Ammar Shamaileh
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Genre: Politics & Social Sciences, International / Size: 160 pages / Free from 10 February 2020
R.J. Rummel: An Assessment of His Many Contributions (SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice Book 37) by Nils Petter Gleditsch
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Genre: Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Philosophy, Ideologies, International, Political History & Theory / Size: 138 pages / Free from 10 February 2020
Friend or Foe? The Real Story of America and Russia: (Trump, Governor) (The President) by Bill Moreno
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Genre: Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, International / Size: 31 pages / Free from 09 February 2020
This open access book examines key aspects of international cooperation to enhance nuclear safety, security, safeguards, and non-proliferation, thereby assisting in development and maintenance of the verification regime and fostering progress toward a nuclear weapon-free world. The book op...
Genre: Nonfiction, Professional & Technical, Technology & Engineering, Politics & Social Sciences, International, Science & Maths, Physics / Size: 220 pages / Free from 07 February 2020
Diplomacy and War: In Our Times by Philip Wik
War is the greatest problem of our time. This problem isn't the place for illusions. The dimensions of analysis include war not just as a social, economic, geographical, and as a political dynamic. It's also an epistemic and moral failure.
In Politics In Our Times, I explor...
Genre: Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Freedom & Security, International / Size: 191 pages / Free from 06 February 2020
Making Medicines in Africa: The Political Economy of Industrializing for Local Health (International Political Economy Series) by Maureen Mackintosh
This book is open access under a CC-BY license. The importance of the pharmaceutical industry in Sub-Saharan Africa, its claim to policy priority, is rooted in the vast unmet health needs of the sub-continent. Making Medicines in Africa is a collective endeavour, by a group of contributors...
Genre: Business & Finance, Economics, Industries & Professions, Professional & Technical, Medicine, Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, International, Education & Reference, Science & Maths, History & Philosophy, Physics / Size: 360 pages / Free from 06 February 2020 5 reviews
How Generations Remember: Conflicting Histories and Shared Memories in Post-War Bosnia and Herzegovina (Global Diversities) by Monika Palmberger
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book provides a profound insight into post-war Mostar, and the memories of three generations of this Bosnian-Herzegovinian city. Drawing on several years of ethnographic fieldwork, it offers a vivid account of how personal and collect...
Genre: History, Europe, Historical Study, Military, UK, Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Ideologies, International, War & Peace / Size: 254 pages / Free from 06 February 2020 4 reviews
Globalization and Capitalist Geopolitics (Open Access): Sovereignty and state power in a multipolar world (Rethinking Globalizations Book 60) by Daniel Woodley
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Genre: Business & Finance, Economics, Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Government, Globalisation, International / Size: 291 pages / Free from 06 February 2020 4 reviews
