International Relations category: 9182 books
Theorizing Southeast Asian Relations
Emerging Debates
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
The recent proliferation of theories of international relations has transformed analyses of Southeast Asia’s international affairs. A new generation of scholars has promoted a lively and illuminating debate which has seen the traditional realist/ neorealist approach, which continues to hold centre...
Interrogating International Relations
India's Strategic Practice and the Return of History
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
The book interrogates the disciplinary biases and firewalls that inform mainstream international relations today, and problematises the several tropes that have come to typify the strategic histories of post-colonial societies such as India. Questioning a range of long-held cultural representations...
The Middle East in International Relations
Power, Politics and Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2005
The international relations of the Middle East have long been dominated by uncertainty and conflict. External intervention, interstate war, political upheaval and interethnic violence are compounded by the vagaries of oil prices and the claims of military, nationalist and religious movements. The...
On the Boundaries
When International Relations, Comparative Politics, and Foreign Policy Meet
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
On the Boundaries focuses on the connections between international relations, comparative politics, and foreign policy. To many observers, international relations and comparative politics have recently lost focus. Both fields continually move away from foreign policy concerns. In this provocative...
Imagining India as a Global Power
Prospects and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the various dimensions of India’s international positioning and foreign relations. Already a dominant player in South Asian politics, India has gained a strong footing in the international pecking order with the signing of the Indo-US nuclear agreement...
Nationalism in China - Implications for Chinese International Relations
Implications for Chinese International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2006
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Far East, grade: 1,3, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Institut für Politikwissenschaft), course: China in World Politics, 42 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In the past, Chinese...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Nowhere are clashes between competing ethical perspectives more prevalent than in the realm of International Relations. Thus, understanding tragedy is directly relevant to understanding IR. This volume explores the various ways that tragedy can be used as a lens through which international relations might be brought into clearer focus.
International Civil Society
Social Movements in World Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Since the end of the Cold War, activists and scholars alike have celebrated the phenomenal growth of transnational social movements across the globe. For some, this new eruption of grass-roots political activism on a world scale – from the Rio Earth Summit to the Seattle anti-globalization protests...
The Concept of Truth in International Relations Theory
Critical Thought Beyond Post-Positivism
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
This book charts the role played by conceptions of truth in the development of a critical tradition of International Relations theory. Providing a detailed account of the conceptions which have shaped the work of Critical Theorists and Poststructuralists, the book reaffirms the importance of epistemic...
by Christer Pursiainen
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
An original and challenging examination of how to transform post-Sovietological study of Soviet and Russian foreign policy into a more integrated part of the Social Sciences and International Relations Theory. This book represents the first detailed and sustained synthesis international relations theory and Soviet/Russian foreign and security policy in academic literature.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Divided into three sections, the Handbook of US-Middle East Relations provides a thorough and up-to-date overview of contemporary US-Middle East relations in historical perspective. With chapters contributed by leading experts in the field, this Handbook will be of use to academics, students and researchers...
The International Relations of the Middle East in the 21st Century
Patterns of Continuity and Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
A comprehensive and timely survey of Middle Eastern international relations, Tareq Ismael provides in-depth analysis of the interrelated dimensions of confrontation that have entangled almost every aspect of life in the region, transforming it into a 'penetrated political system'. Essential for readers...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Despite the increase in the number of studies in international relations using concepts from a role theory perspective, scholarship continues to assume that a state’s own expectations of what role it should play on the world stage is shared among domestic political actors.
Cristian Cantir...
Who's Afraid of Children?
Children, Conflict and International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Brocklehurst's impressive work breaks new ground in normative international political theory. It develops a new theoretical framework which exposes how children are present in international relations and security practices using an empirical and comparative assessment of the role of children and youth...