International Relations category: 9182 books
Michael J. Shapiro
Discourse, Culture, Violence
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Michael J. Shapiro’s writings have been innovatory with respect to the phenomena he has taken to be political, and the concomitant array of methods that he has brilliantly mastered. This book draws from his vast output of articles, chapters and books to provide a thematic yet integrated account...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Japan's Foreign Relations in Asia has been specifically designed to introduce students to Japan’s foreign relations in Asia since 1990, a period in which there have been dramatic developments in Japan, including the reinterpretation of the Constitution and expanded US–Japan defence cooperation....
The Diplomacy of Détente
Cooperative Security Policies from Helmut Schmidt to George Shultz
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
This book investigates the underlying reasons for the longevity of détente and its impact on East–West relations.
The volume examines the relevance of trade across the Iron Curtain as a means to facilitate mutual trust, as well as the emergence of new habits of transparency regardless of...
Making Things International 1
Circuits and Motion
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Building on recent debates in critical social theory and international relations, Making Things International I: Circuits and Motion presents twenty-five essays that engage the global, the local, and the international through the lens of objects. It represents the first substantial new materialist intervention...
To Agree or Not to Agree
Leadership, Bargaining, and Arms Control
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
Why were the leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union able to negotiate a series of arms control agreements despite the deep and important differences in their interests during the Cold War? Lisa A. Baglione considers a variety of explanations for the successes--and failures--of these negotiations...
China and the Middle East Since World War II
A Bilateral Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
This book examines Sino-Middle Eastern relations on a bilateral level since World War II. It highlights the depth of China’s involvement in the region with each country on a five dimensional approach: energy security, trade relations, political relations, arms sales/security cooperation, and cultural...
Switzerland and the European Union
A Close, Contradictory and Misunderstood Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Despite its geographical centrality and its considerable economic involvement in Europe, Switzerland remains unusual in that it is neither a member of the European Union or the European Economic Area. At a time when the Union is both expanding and seeking to develop its integration, the country constitutes...
Indo-Russian Relations
Prospects, Problems and Russia Today
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2001
Introduction Indo-Russian Relations : An Overview Russian-Indian Relations : A View into the Third Millennium Indo-Russian Strategic Cooperation Indo-Russian Strategic Partnership for Enhanced Cooperation The Phases in Indo-Russian Relations Future of India-Russia Defence Cooperation India-Russia...
Perspectives on International Relations
Power, Institutions, and Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Perspectives on International Relations: Power, Institutions, and Ideas shows students new to the field how theories (perspectives) of international affairs—realism, liberalism, constructivism (identity), and critical theory—play a decisive role in explaining every-day debates about world affairs....
Caution and Cooperation
The American Civil War in British-American Relations
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
A provocative reinterpretation of Civil War–era diplomacy
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“Phillip E. Myers’s Caution and Cooperation places Anglo-American relations during the Civil War within the broader context of the whole nineteenth century, arguing convincingly...
International Relations in Political Thought
Texts from the Ancient Greeks to the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2002
This unique collection presents texts in international relations from Ancient Greece to the First World War. Major writers such as Thucydides, Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Grotius, Kant and John Stuart Mill are represented by extracts of their key works; less well-known international theorists...
Diplomatic Material
Affect, Assemblage, and Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
In Diplomatic Material Jason Dittmer offers a counterintuitive reading of foreign policy by tracing the ways that complex interactions between people and things shape the decisions and actions of diplomats and policymakers. Bringing new materialism to bear on international relations, Dittmer focuses...
by Natalie Züfle
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - General and Theories, grade: 1,5, Free University of Berlin (Center for Global Politics), course: IR & Culture, language: English, abstract: As to understanding contemporary international relations, all three of...
Praxis
On Acting and Knowing
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Praxis investigates both the existing practices of international politics and relations during and after the Cold War, and the issue of whether problems of praxis (individual and collective choices) can be subjected to a 'theoretical treatment'. The book comes in two parts: the first deals with the...