Politics Between Nations

Adebowale Akande is one of the world's best-known scholars of cross-cultural studies. As a researcher on SCOPUS, he has been cited numerous times in assorted articles with an H-index of 122/23. On Google scholar, he has been cited 35,008 times in numerous articles with an i10 index of 120 and an H-index of 50. On ResearchGate index 35.30. Akande has held faculty appointments at several international universities. In 1998, he was appointed the first black full professor at a white most prestigious university. Among multiple awards conferred, Akande received the Commonwealth Academic Fellowship in 1992; the IUPSYS International Award in 1996, and the Frank Andrew UniMICH in 1996. Further, he received the ISP Award in 2000, a Taiwan Government International Scholar Fellowship in 2005, a Nippon Foundation of Japan Fellowship in 2008, a Fellowship of Schloss Leopoldskron, Austria in 2008, a Certificate of Honor, Indian Institute of Planning and Management, in 2008, and the IAG Award in 2022. He was a co-recipient of the 2007 Ursula Gielen Global Book Award and the Gordon W. Allport Prize (2005) for research on ambivalent sexism. Akande’s major research interests mainly focus on relationships among political behavior, political psychology, transnational self-esteem, learning, power, political influence, public affairs, educational studies and prejudice. He is also known as a popularizer of cross-cultural studies. He currently serves as an international director for IR GLOBE in Vancouver and a guest professor to a number of Canadian Universities in British Columbia, Canada.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part 1: Power in Peace Relations.- Chapter 2. The Fix: Why We Can't Solve the World's Problems.- Chapter 3. The American Supremacy and Leadership Pre-eminence in NATO: A Test of the Transatlantic Alliance.- Chapter 4. Cosmopolitan Peacekeeping Through International Humanitarian Order in the Frame of Sustainability and the Global Economy.- Chapter 5. Making Waves: Accessing a Model of Sustainable Peace and Cooperation Through Qualitative Methodologies.- Chapter 6. European Union: Politics and Policies.- Chapter 7. Making War and Building Peace: What Future for the United Nations and Regional Peace Operations.- Part 2: International Politics and War on Peace.- Chapter 8. Imperial Gamble: Putin, Ukraine, (the West) and the New Cold War.- Chapter 9. The Questions of War: Taiwan and Ukraine.- Chapter 10. Populist Sharp Power: How the World Entered a New Cold War.- Chapter 11. Human Rights in the World Community: Issues, Challenges and Action Proposed.- Chapter12. Barack Obama and the Politics of Race: The Myth of Post racism and Public Perception in a New World Order.- Part 3: War, Diplomacy, Arms Races or Stability.- Chapter 13. The End of "the Endless War": Biden's Botched Afghanistan Exit and the Myth of American Decline.- Chapter 14. Nuclear Danger in Asia: Arms Races or Stability?.- Chapter 15. Addressing Disinformation & Misplaced Criticism: The Need for a More Effective EU Public Diplomacy.- Chapter 16. Children, Conflicts, and International Relations: The International Law and Children's Human Rights.- Chapter 17. Putin's Russia and the Nuclear War Threat to the West: Everyone Loses, One Step Forward, Two Steps Back.- Chapter 18. "Human Security and Human Rights: Connecting the Global and the Local".- Part 4: Global Security, Terrorism, and the Role of Force .- Chapter 19. "The Battle Against Global Terrorism the Role of Private Security in the USA and in the EU".- Chapter 20. Bringing Law as Interpretation (Through Performance Art) to the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement: A Conceptual Framework for Borderlands.- Chapter 21. ""The Hidden Figure of a Global Crime": From Human Trafficking to Human Rights: Complexities and Pitfalls".- Chapter 22. George Orwell's Animal Farm Revisited: Situating International Instability - Why? What? Whither?.- Chapter 23. A Spin of the Wheel - Co-operation or Competition: Defense Procurement and Defense Industries in International Relations.- Chapter 24. Islam V. Islamic State: Charges, Arguments, and Evidence in the Islamic Case Against Isis.- Chapter 25. "Modernizing the U.S. Strategic Land Based Missile Force: Prudent Necessity or Deterrence Distraction?".- Part 5: Foreign Policy Analysis.- Chapter 26. The New EU-Africa Relations' Strategy: Soft Power or Neoliberalist Power?.- Chapter 27. Britain's Economic Relations with Africa in a Post-Brexit, Post-Elizabethan Future.- Chapter 28. Romania: Between Europeanization and De-Europeanization.- Chapter 29. Trojan Horses or Still Out in the Cold? United States Foreign Relations with Poland: Road Ahead in the Wake of Russian Rockets Landing in NATO State Poland.- Chapter 30. Why Foreign Policies Fail, and Why Political Scientists Misunderstand Policy Failure.