This theme will look at, amongst other things, resource insecurity, the variable geometry and uneven effects of globalisation.

Key publications

Ashour, O. 2009. The Deradicalization of Jihadists: Transforming Armed Islamist Movements. Routledge.

Black, J. 2010. The War of 1812.

Caspersen, N. Stansfield, GRV. 2010. Unrecognized States in the International System. London, Routledge.

Dreher, A. Kotsogiannis, C. McCorriston, S. 2009. How Do Institutions Affect the Shadow Economy and Corruption? International Tax and Public Finance.

Gleave, R. 2009. Religion and Society in Qajar Iran. London, Routledge.

Grant, S. Kajii A. Polak, B. Safra, Z. 2010. Generalized utilitarianism and Harsanyi's impartial observer theorem, Econometrica.

Heathershaw, J. 2009. Post-Conflict Tajikistan: The Politics of Peace-Building and the Emergence of Legitimate Order. Routledge.

King, AC. 2010. The Transformation of Europe's Armed Forces: from the Rhine to Afghanistan, Cambridge University Press.

Mark, JA. 2010. The Unfinished Revolution: Making Sense of the Communist Past in Central-Eastern Europe, Yale University Press.

Mark, JA. 2010. What Remains? Anti-Communism, Forensic Archaeology and the Retelling of the National Past in Lithuania and Romania. Past and Present.

McCorriston, S. 2012. Commodity Prices, Government Policies and Competition in S. Evenett, F. Jenny (eds) Trade, Competition and the Pricing of Commodities, Centre for Economic Policy Research.

Overy, RJ. 2009. 1939:Countdown to War, Allen Lane.

Overy, RJ. 2008. Apocalyptic Fears: Bombing and Popular Anxiety in Inter-War Britain. S-Nodi: Public and Private in Contemporary History.

Pappe, I. 2010. The Husyanis: The Rise and Fall of A Palestinian Aristocracy, University of California Press.

Rappert, B. 2009. Experimental Secrets: International Security, Codes, and the Future of Research, University Press of America.

Rappert, B. 2012. How to Look Good in War. London, Pluto Press.

Stansfield, GRV. 2010. The Reformation of Iraq's Foreign Relations: New Elites and Enduring Legacies. International Affairs, Wiley-Blackwell.

Thomas, MC. 2009. French Empire Elites and the Politics of Economic Obligation in the Inter-War years. Historical Journal.

Thomas, MC. 2011. Colonial Violence in Algeria and the Distorted Logic of State Retribution: The Stif uprising of 1945. Journal of Military History.

Thomas, M. 2012. Violence and Colonial Order: Police, Workers, and Protest in the European Colonial Empires, 1918-40. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Thorpe, AJ. 2008. Parties at War: Political Organization in Second World War Britain, Oxford University Press.

Thompson, A. 2012. Britain's Experience of Empire in the Twentieth Century. Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Toyre, R. 2010. Churchill's Empire: The World That Made Him and the World He Made, Macmillan.