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"Objective, critical, optimistic, and with a global focus, this textbook combines international relations theory, history, up-to-date research, and current affairs to give the student a comprehensive, unbiased understanding of international politics. It integrates theory and traditional approaches with globalization and research on newer topics such as terrorism, the rise of new economic superpowers, and the impact of global communications and social networking to offer the ideal breadth and depth of coverage for a one-semester undergraduate course. Student learning is supported and enhanced by box features and "Close Up" sections with context and further information, "Critical Case Studies" that highlight controversial and complex current affairs topics and show how the world works in practice, and questions to stimulate discussion, review key concepts, and encourage further study. It brilliantly demonstrates the significance and interconnectiveness of globalization and new security challenges in the 21st century and illuminates the role of leadership in transnational crises"--

China and Europe both decisively shape twenty-first century global politics. Successful cooperation between Europe and China continues, notably in climate change mitigation, or finding a way out of the financial crisis. Relations are also increasingly institutionalised, such as through Summits or High-Level Dialogues. However, although in 2013 the EU and China have celebrated the 10-year-anniversary of their Strategic Partnership, struggles have re-emerged, in relation to human rights, interv...

Two vignettes of contemporary memory politics, from the beginning and the end of the very recent period of cultural history that interests us, help to set out in the first part of this Introduction some coordinates for the field of transversal intersections which permeate 21st-century Holocaust legacies and which this special issue of Quest sets out to explore. The first vignette focuses on a strange conjunction at the turn of the millennium between two museum projects, one of them at least obliquely Holocaust-related, both forced to negotiate across fraught trans-communal cultural divides and to relate difficult parallel, convergent and divergent histories. The second picks out an instant, a transient flash point from the rolling news media of summer 2016, at which the sites, values and language of Holocaust memory were used to confront, in awkward but powerful ways,immediately contemporary anxieties and atrocities. Following these, the Introduction will move on to address the larger field of intersection between the terms, usages and scholarship of the Holocaust and genocide, including its often problematic aspects. Its aim is to set the stage and provide a framework for the six 'intersectional' essays that follow.

Bostock reviews 'Trouble in Paradise? Europe in the 21st Century' by Steven Philip Kramer and Irene Kyriakopoulos.

AbstractAfter twenty‐five years, few scholars still dispute the leading role of Liberal Intergovernmentalism (LI) in theorizing EU history. Yet some question whether it can explain Europe's recent evolution. This article argues that LI retains its place as a 'baseline' integration theory. It is uniquely able to provide credible micro‐foundations of EU decision‐making, which even theories ostensibly critical of LI borrow. It offers a richer set of innovative opportunities for forward‐looking extension than is often thought. Compared to competitors such as Post‐Functionalism and Historical Institutionalism, LI generates more consistently satisfying empirical accounts of recent EU policy‐making, particularly with regard to the outcomes that ultimately matter most, namely substantive policies. And it remains a trustworthy guide to normative evaluation, for example on the issue of democratic legitimacy. The future of integration theory lies in creatively elaborating LI and, where possible, crafting more rigorous syntheses with alternative accounts.

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part 1. Europe -- Chapter 2: A sociological analysis of United Kingdom football fans: historical debates and contemporary issues -- Chapter 3: Football fandom in France and Italy -- Chapter 4: A struggle between loyalty and commodification: Scandinavian football fans -- Chapter 5: From stands to forests: the development of Belgian and Dutch hooliganism -- Chapter 6: Fandom, society and politics in Germany, Austria and Switzerland -- Chapter 7: The long shadow of communism, hooliganism and identity politics: contemporary football fandom in Eastern Europe -- Chapter 8: Football fandom in south-eastern Europe: the countries from the former Yugoslavia -- Chapter 9: Claques, ultras and radicals: the uneven development of fandom in Spain and Portugal – a history of identities and political extremism -- Part 2. Latin America -- Chapter 10: A duel of "hinchadas": Chile and Argentina, a comparative study -- Chapter 11: The field of interactions of organized supporters' groups in Brazil -- Chapter 12: War and football in the Andes: organized groups of supporters in Peru and Colombia -- Chapter 13: Comparative history, culture and structure of Central America's fooball fan groups -- Chapter 14: Isolation, youthful rebelliousness and criminalization: football supporters' groups in Mexico -- Chapter 15: Conclusion.