Our Global Studies Series provides students with comprehensive background and current information shaping regional cultures and countries of the world today. Ea

In sum, by showing how and why local regional disputes quickly develop into global crises through the paired power of historical memory and time-space compressi

Post-communist Russia turned against the West in the 2000s, losing its earlier eagerness to collaborate with western Europe on economic and security matters and

In The Near Abroad, Zbigniew Wojnowski traces how Soviet Ukrainian identities developed in dialogue and confrontation with the USSR's neighbours in Eastern Euro

Taking into account how Russian domestic politics under Vladimir Putin influence its foreign policy, Stoner explains how Russia has battled its way back to inte