This book analyses the opportunities enabled for Armenia by China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in the framework of economic cooperation, policy diversification, social inclusion and regional cohesion. It will be of interest to policy-makers, international relations, security studies and area studies.

Originally published in 1989, this book reviews the history of maritime control measures from before the First World War and provides a critical examination of both the objectives of maritime power and the concepts of disarmament, peace zones, parity, verifiability and peaceful co-existence

Sixty percent of infectious human diseases are shared with other vertebrates. Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode tell how innovations to combat livestock infections—border control, food inspection, drug regulation, federal research labs—turned the U.S. into a world leader in combatting communicable diseases, and remain central to public health policy.

Through a series of case studies, Gavin J. Bailey reveals new details of how Britain used American aircraft and integrates this with broader British statecraft and strategy. He challenges conceptions that Britain was strategically reliant on the US and reveals a complicated, asymmetrical dependency between the wartime allies.

Explores the politics and aesthetics of ‘artivism’, resistance and creative spaces against authoritarianism and oppression in Turkey, Algeria, Tunisia, Jordan, Syria, Iran, Morocco, Egypt. Lebanon and Sudan.

Art and Action uncovers forgotten arguments for art as a vehicle of reform. Championed by artists and art writers in nineteenth-century England, this idea shaped beliefs about art's purpose, inspired new strategies of political engagement, and laid the groundwork for the aesthetic revolution of the twentieth century.