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This textbook presents security studies as a branch of international relations theory, providing readers with the critical conceptual tools to develop their expertise. The author evaluates the claims of rival theories - realism, neorealism, liberal institutionalism, classical economic liberalism, and Marxism - to explain why international actors choose or eschew force and coercive threats in order to elicit favorable outcomes in their interdependent exchanges. Also discussed are behaviorism and constructivism, contesting approaches to validate prevailing security paradigms. The author argues that only an interdisciplinary approach to security, drawing on the insights of each perspective, can meet the rigorous requirements of testable theory and the practical needs of actors in an increasingly globalizing world. The book will provide students and scholars of international relations and security studies with a valuable survey of the subject, and includes essay questions and guides to further reading

The book investigates the competitive opportunities for Canadian and UK businesses in the world economy generally, but more particularly in a bilateral (Canada-UK) and regional bloc (European Union-North American Free Trade Association) setting. Part 1 examines Canadian-UK trade and investment flows and policies. Part 2 presents an empirical investigation of the experiences of a sample of Canadian firms with business interests in the UK and the European Union and, likewise, UK firms with business interests in Canada and the United States.

SINCE THE END OF THE COLD WAR, SINO-RUSSIAN RELATIONS HAVE EVOLVED IN A SURPRISINGLY HARMONIOUS FASHION. ON APRIL 23, 1997, BEIJING AND MOSCOW ANNOUNCED BROAD STRATEGIC AGREEMENT AND REJECTED "HEGEMONISM AND POWER POLITICS" AS THE BASIS OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. DESPITE THEIR WARM BILATERAL RELATIONS, THERE IS ONE AREA WHERE THE TWO POWERS LACK A STABILIZING DIMENSION: ECONOMICS. THE ROLES OF RUSSIA AND CHINA IN THE NEW GLOBAL ECONOMIC SYSTEM ARE UNCLEAR AND HOW THEIR FUTURE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ROLES WILL INTERACT WITH THEIR FOREIGN POLICY IS UNKNOWN. IN THIS ESSAY, THE AUTHOR ASSESSES THE CURRENT ECONOMIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CHINA AND RUSSIA, INDICATES POSSIBLE LINES OF FUTURE DEVELOPMENT, AND SPECULATES ABOUT THEIR FUTURE POLITICAL RELATIONS.

Coping with the challenges of global economic governance is a topical issue of the current international agenda, and the object of a vivid debate among scholars and policy-makers. The international financial and economic crisis that erupted in 2007 reveals the fallibility of the neoliberal paradigm that has dominated the world economic landscape for the last quarter of a century; regulatory and supervisory institutions have disclosed their weaknesses, and markets have shown their limits in de