International Relations category: 9182 books
by Paul Wilkinson
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2007
Of undoubtable relevance today, in a post-9-11 world of growing political tension and unease, this Very Short Introduction covers the topics essential to an understanding of modern international relations. Paul Wilkinson explains the theories and the practice that underlie the subject, and investigates...
by Naeem Inayatullah, David L. Blaney
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
International Relations and the Problem of Difference has developed out of the sense that IR as a discipline does not assess the quality of cultural interactions that shape, and are shaped by, the changing structures and processes of the international system. In this work, the authors re-imagine IR...
Introduction to International Relations
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
How do we understand international relations in a globalized world? This clear and concise text takes as its starting point the theoretical frameworks that are the foundation of current IR. Joyce P. Kaufman explains and contextualizes the traditional theories, highlighting both their strengths and...
Global Leadership in Transition
Making the G20 More Effective and Responsive
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Global Leadership in Transition calls for innovations that would "institutionalize" or consolidate the G20, helping to make it the global economy's steering committee. The emergence of the G20 as the world's premier forum for international economic cooperation presents an opportunity to...
China's Foreign Political and Economic Relations
An Unconventional Global Power
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
This balanced and thoughtful book presents a thorough analysis of the dynamics of China’s foreign relations. Sebastian Heilmann and Dirk H. Schmidt provide a comprehensive and discriminating view of the complex, often competing factors (domestic influences, regional tensions, global uncertainties)...
Global Horizons
An Introduction to International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
In the current era we have the ability to wage global war, interact economically and culturally with any part of the world, and communicate with each other in real time. Our horizons are now global. Time and space have contracted. This text takes the change in our horizons as a key feature of modern...
The United States and Central America
Geopolitical Realities and Regional Fragility
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
This book is a concise overview of the recent history of U.S.-Central American relations. Part of the Contemporary Inter-American Relations series edited by Jorge Dominguez and Rafael Fernandez de Castro, it focuses on the relations between the U.S. and this region since the end of the Cold War.
The volume...
Taiwan and the Rise of China
Cross-Strait Relations in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Coincided with China’s economic reform and her rapid ascendance to a great power status, the relations between Taiwan and Chinese mainland since 1979 have also seen some encouraging development. However, the rapprochement is nothing but a smooth ride. Taiwan Strait has always been full of tensions...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
This is a collection of works which considers the many different facets of the EU’s increasingly important engagement with the world beyond its borders. The Treaty of Lisbon marked a change in the powers and competences endowed on the EU - the contributions to this collection consider both the direct...
Reassessment of Turkish Foreign Policy
Turkey's Changing Role in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Near East, Near Orient, grade: 1,3, University of Cologne (Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität zu Köln), course: Internationale Politik, language: English, abstract: During...
Resolving the Russo-Japanese Territorial Dispute
Hokkaido-Sakhalin Relations
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2007
The unresolved territorial dispute between Japan and Russia over the South Kuril Islands/Northern Territories remains the largest obstacle to concluding a peace treaty and fully normalising bilateral relations between the two nations. This book traces the evolution of transnational relations between...
Parallax Visions
Making Sense of American–East Asian Relations at the End of the Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 1999
In a work that synthesizes crucial developments in international relations at the close of the twentieth century, Bruce Cumings—a leading historian of contemporary East Asia—provides a nuanced understanding of how the United States has loomed over the modern history and culture of East Asia. By...
by Kate O'Neill
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
This exciting textbook introduces students to the ways in which the theories and tools of International Relations can be used to analyse and address global environmental problems. Kate O'Neill develops an historical and analytical framework for understanding global environmental issues, and identifies...
Flying Tiger
International Relations Theory and the Politics of Advanced Weapons
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
In this book, Ulrich Krotz draws from two theoretical approaches--social constructivism and historical institutionalism--to reframe our understanding of how international relationships evolve. While other scholars have touched on these issues, until now no one has provided a sustained, finely-grained,...