Innovations in International Affairs
About the Book Series
Innovations in International Affairs aims to provide cutting-edge analyses of controversial trends in international affairs with the intent to innovate our understanding of global politics. Hosting mainstream as well as alternative stances, the series promotes both the re-assessment of traditional topics and the exploration of new aspects.
The series invites both engaged scholars and reflective practitioners, and is committed to bringing non-western voices into current debates.
Innovations in International Affairs is keen to consider new book proposals in the following key areas:
- Innovative topics: related to aspects that have remained marginal in scholarly and public debates
- International crises: related to the most urgent contemporary phenomena and how to interpret and tackle them
- World perspectives: related mostly to non-western points of view
To submit a proposal for this series, please contact the series editor, Raffaele Marchetti: [email protected]
World War Aid: Interventionist Aid and War in Ukraine
1st Edition
By Igor Pellicciari
April 14, 2025
World War Aid offers a novel perspective on the unprecedented aid in the Ukrainian conflict, destined to leave an international "echo" reaching far beyond the individual historical case and the aid sector alone. This book clarifies the evolving scenario of a conflict that, before tanks, had long ...
Transformative Feminist Mobilization in the Arab Region: A Decade of Activism
1st Edition
By Tania N. Haddad, Lina Abou-Habib, Tracy Sakr
April 01, 2025
Transformative Feminist Mobilization in the Arab Region aims to identify how intersectional feminist civil society groups in selected countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)/ Southwest Asia and North Africa SWANA region advocate for change and how they interact with governments and the...
Learning Policy Advice in International Affairs and Diplomacy
1st Edition
By Giulio Venneri
January 06, 2025
Learning Policy Advice in International Affairs and Diplomacy broadens understanding of, and helps develop the skills necessary for, effective written and oral communication in the realm of international affairs and diplomacy. Readers will become acquainted with the principles of policy development...
Changing Patterns of Warfare between India and Pakistan: Navigating the Impact of New and Disruptive Technologies
1st Edition
By Rizwana Abbasi, Muhammad Saeed Uzzaman
October 09, 2024
Changing Patterns of Warfare between India and Pakistan analyzes how advanced nuclear technologies and the advent of disruptive technologies have affected the evolving conflict between India and Pakistan. Advanced nuclear technologies such as nuclear submarines, aircraft carriers, ballistic missile...
Human Costs of War: 21st Century Human (In)Security from 2003 Iraq to 2022 Ukraine
1st Edition
By Bulent Gokay, Lily Hamourtziadou
September 12, 2024
Human Costs of War documents and analyses the direct and indirect toll that war takes on civilians and their livelihoods, taking a human security approach exploring personal, economic, political and community security in Afghanistan, Iraq and Ukraine, in the contexts of the War on Terror and the ...
Lessons for Implementing Human Rights from COVID-19: How the Pandemic Has Changed the World
1st Edition
Edited
By Jędrzej Skrzypczak, Oscar Pérez de la Fuente
August 30, 2024
This book explores the effect of the pandemic on human rights; civil and political rights (CPR); economic, social, and cultural rights (ESCR); and freedoms around the world. The COVID-19 pandemic radically changed many aspects of the lives of individuals and entire societies. This crisis and the ...
Megatrends of World Politics: Globalization, Integration and Democratization
1st Edition
Edited
By Marina M. Lebedeva, Denis A. Kuznetsov
August 26, 2024
Megatrends of World Politics identifies globalization, integration, and democratization as three key trends shaping the future of world politics and international relations, and demonstrates their effects in today’s global processes. The authors of this book discuss the essence of these three ...
Activism in Hard Times in Central and Eastern Europe: People Power
1st Edition
Edited
By Patrice C. McMahon, Paula M. Pickering, Dorota Pietrzyk-Reeves
June 07, 2024
Activism in Hard Times in Central and Eastern Europe elevates the voices of civic activists from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and analyzes a wealth of information to generate new insights into how activism in the region manages to be vibrant, diverse, and consequential. Because of these ...
International and Local Actors in Disaster Response: Responding to the Beirut Explosion
1st Edition
By Tania N. Haddad
January 29, 2024
International and Local Actors in Disaster Response uses the Beirut explosion in August 2020 to explore disaster prevention and response in developing states. Disasters, whether man-made or natural, have always tested governments and their bureaucracies. Despite numerous research efforts, existing ...
Re-Framing Foreign Aid History and Politics: From the Fall of the Berlin Wall to the COVID-19 Outbreak
1st Edition
By Igor Pellicciari
January 29, 2024
This book presents an integrated analysis, at once conceptual, historical, and political, of the growing impact of State Funded Aid on international relations, particularly after the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the end of the bipolar system. In order to observe Aid as an emerging ...
The Broken Promise of Global Advocacy: Inequality in Global Interest Representation
1st Edition
By Marcel Hanegraaff, Arlo Poletti
January 29, 2024
The Broken Promise of Global Advocacy addresses two key normative debates associated with the rise of transnational advocacy: whether global interest communities are biased in favor of wealthier countries; and whether the growth of global advocacy implies the emergence of a global civil society ...
The Russia Scare: Fake News and Genuine Threat
1st Edition
By Richard Sakwa
January 29, 2024
The Russia Scare assesses the scope, character and extent of Russian interference in the affairs of liberal democratic states. This book examines the ‘Russia scare’ in a dynamic manner, stressing the interaction between threat perception, responses and subsequent policies. What forms did this ...