We are pleased to inform you that the book entitled Application of International Relations Theories in Asia and Africa, co-edited and co-authored by ISAD lecturers: Marcin Grabowski and Tomasz Pugacewicz was just published by the Swiss based publisher, Peter Lang Verlag. 

The book analyses applicability of Western IR theories in Asia and Africa, as well as International Relations theory development in Asia. Set of case studies of application of IR theories to analysis to international phenomena in those regions is also presented in the book.

It tries to answer questions, how to turn nations that are underdeveloped and torn apart by conflict into good places to live and how to help them develop. Issues connected with globalization, political challenges, constitutional systems as a condition for development are addressed. Problems of entrepreneurship in developing regions, as well as transnational connections between countries, making them vulnerable to economic crises are also touched upon. Finally, issues connected with institutional design, clean energy, health service challenges, as well as gender issues are analyzed. All those issues refer to developing countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, as well as Central and Eastern Europe.

Excerpts of the book were published at: https://www.academia.edu/40341635/

See the book and other of the series at the publisher’s web page: https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/65501

International Security and Development programme