• Ethical case is firmly based in the best science
• Lucid and accessible
• Combines theory and practice

How do strategists decide what they wish to achieve through war, and how they might accomplish it? And why does their understanding of violence regularly turn out to be wrong? In seeking answers to these questions Kenneth Payne draws on the study of psychology to examine strategic behaviour during the Vietnam War. He explores the ways in which cognitive biases distort our sense of our own agency and our decision-making, arguing that much of the latter is emotional, shaped by unconscious processing and driven by a prickly concern for social esteem.

The responsibility to protect (R2P) is at a crossroads, the latest in a journey that is only ten years old. This book present debates on the prevention of mass atrocities to R2P's normative prospects.

Education systems in Europe have been undergoing profound changes within the last few years. New actors, procedures, and arenas of policymaking have emerged which strongly affect today's education systems. Although traditionally assumed to be a genuinely 'national' policy field, international initiatives and programmes - among the most prominent ones being the PISA study for secondary education and the Bologna Process for higher education - have triggered fundamental reforms in many countries. This book focuses on educational outcomes and actors' reactions on internationalization.

Comprehensive collection of original chapters by leading authors in the fieldUnusual in covering the whole of Asia-including Central and South Asia as well as Northeast and Southeast AsiaUp-to-date discussion of contemporary theorizing in international relations and its relevance to AsiaChapters on functional topics across the whole region, e.g., foreign direct investment, trade, territorial and maritime disputes, energy security, human rights, health security, alliances, regional architecture, as well as detailed consideration of the major countries in individual chapters

Why do institutions emerge, operate, evolve and persist? Institutional Choice and Global Commerce elaborates a theory of boundedly rational institutional choice that explains when states USE available institutions, SELECT among alternative forums, CHANGE existing rules, or CREATE new arrangements (USCC). The authors reveal the striking staying power of the institutional status quo and test their innovative theory against evidence on institutional choice in global commerce from the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries.

Walter has recently written a blog on the topic of the book:

http://blog.oup.com/2014/10/international-arbitration-global-good-bad/