International Relations category: 9182 books
International Relations in Southeast Asia
The Struggle for Autonomy
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
This fully revised and updated edition of Donald E. Weatherbee’s widely praised text offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to international relations in contemporary Southeast Asia. The author analyzes the efforts of the Southeast Asian states to adapt collectively through the ASEAN Community-building...
Non-Western International Relations Theory
Perspectives On and Beyond Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Given that the world has moved well beyond the period of Western colonialism, and clearly into a durable period in which non-Western cultures have gained their political autonomy, it is long past time that non-Western voices had a higher profile in debates about international relations, not just as...
An Introduction to the English School of International Relations
The Societal Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
This outstanding book is the first comprehensive introduction to the English School of International Relations. Written by leading ES scholar Barry Buzan, it expertly guides readers through the English School’s formative ideas, intellectual and historical roots, current controversies and future...
Critical Practices in International Theory
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Critical Practices in International Theory brings together for the first time the essays of the leading IR theorist, James Der Derian. The essays cover a variety of issues central to Der Derian's work including diplomacy, alienation, terrorism, intelligence, national security, new forms of warfare,...
China-Taiwan Relations in a Global Context
Taiwan's Foreign Policy and Relations
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
This book traces the development of Taiwan’s relations with its diplomatic partners and its policy towards the political opponents of its political opponent - mainland China. Paying particular attention to the powers that could exercise great influence in the future of East Asia, China-Taiwan Relations...
Beyond Soccer
International Relations and Politics as Seen through the Beautiful Game
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
As the world’s most popular game, soccer is unique in its ability to reflect and impact culture, society, and politics. Beyond Soccer: International Relations and Politics as Seen through the Beautiful Game provides students with a new and innovative way to learn about political science and international...
Culture and International Relations
Narratives, Natives and Tourists
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2004
Culture and International Relations contextually re-examines the history of international relations in order to explore how the discipline has imported and employed the concept of culture. The author challenges the notion that IR has only been interested in culture since the end of the Cold War by tracing different understandings of culture throughout its history.
Sorry States
Apologies in International Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Governments increasingly offer or demand apologies for past human rights abuses, and it is widely believed that such expressions of contrition are necessary to promote reconciliation between former adversaries. The post-World War II experiences of Japan and Germany suggest that international apologies...
Regionalism in Africa
Genealogies, institutions and trans-state networks
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Africa, which was not long ago discarded as a hopeless and irrelevant region, has become a new 'frontier' for global trade, investment and the conduct of international relations.
This book surveys the socio-economic, intellectual and security related dimensions of African regionalisms since...
The International Relations of Middle-earth
Learning from The Lord of the Rings
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Based on their successful undergraduate course at the University of Southern California, Abigail E. Ruane and Patrick James provide an introduction to International Relations using J. R. R. Tolkien's fantastically popular trilogy The Lord of the Rings. Because Tolkien's major themes---such as good...
Understanding JapanChina Relations
Theories and Issues
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
This timely book examines new developments in Japan–China relations and new research conducted in Japan, China and elsewhere since 2006. The book covers major issues such as the September 2010 Chinese fishing boat collision incident, cross-Strait relations, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations,...
by Dr Theresa Callan, Lisa Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
From action research to validity, this innovative and informative text is an invaluable guide to a variety of core research concepts in both political science and international relations.
Key Features:
- Each entry is consistently structured, providing: a clear definition, a focused...
Fictional International Relations
Gender, Pain and Truth
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
This book proposes the idea of fictional International Relations (IR) and engages with feminist IR by contextualising the case of a woman spy in Korea in the Cold War.
Fictional imagination and feminist IR encourage one to go beyond conventional or standard ways of thinking; it reshapes taken-for-granted...
Recentering Africa in International Relations
Beyond Lack, Peripherality, and Failure
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
This innovative book responds to an existing demand for taking Africa out of a place of exception and marginality, and placing it at the center of international relations and world politics. Bringing together a number of scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds to stage a critical intervention...