International Relations category: 9182 books
Foundations of World Order
The Legalist Approach to International Relations, 1898–1922
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 1999
In Foundations of World Order Francis Anthony Boyle provides the first historically comprehensive analysis of U.S. foreign policy regarding international law and organizations. Examining the period from the Spanish American War to the establishment of the League of Nations and the Permanent Court...
Threats of Force
International Law and Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Despite recent attempts by scholars to examine the absolute prohibition of threats of force under Article 2(4) of the UN Charter, threats remain a largely un-chartered area in international law when compared with actual uses of force. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach and utilising strategic...
Russian-European Relations in the Balkans and Black Sea Region
Great Power Identity and the Idea of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
This book provides a detailed analysis of Russia’s ‘great power identity’ and the role of Europe in forming this identity. ‘Great power identity’ implies an expansionist foreign policy, and yet this does not explain all the complexities of the Russian state. For instance, it cannot explain...
A neorealist assessment of India´s Look East Policy
The Balancing of China as a motive for India´s close cooperation with Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
Master's Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Near East, Near Orient, grade: 1, University of Salzburg (Fachbereich für Politikwissenschaft und Soziologie), language: English, abstract: In line with its new foreign policy after the end of the Cold War...
The United States and India: A History Through Archives
The Later Years: Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Declassified documents arguably offer a premier vantage for understanding global governance, current security concerns, and the international market. While the first volume dealt with India—US bilateral relations during the 'Formative Years', this two-part volume focuses on the 'Later Years': the...
The United States and India: A History Through Archives
The Later Years: Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Declassified documents arguably offer a premier vantage for understanding global governance, current security concerns, and the international market. While the first volume dealt with India—US bilateral relations during the 'Formative Years', this two-part volume focuses on the 'Later Years': the...
Emotional Motives in International Relations
Rage, Rancour and Revenge
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
The study of emotions in International Relations is gaining wide-spread attention. Within the "emotional turn" in IR the emotion of rage however has not been given sufficient attention, instead being used as short-hand for irrationality and excess.
Rage is arguably one of the oldest and most...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
This path-breaking book addresses the oft-avoided, yet critical question: where are the women located in contemporary diplomacy and international negotiation? The text presents a novel research agenda, including new theoretical and conceptual perspectives on gender, power and diplomacy. The volume...
Covenant Brothers
Evangelicals, Jews, and U.S.-Israeli Relations
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Weaving together the stories of activists, American Jewish leaders, and Israeli officials in the wake of the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, Covenant Brothers portrays the dramatic rise of evangelical Christian Zionism as it gained prominence in American politics, Israeli diplomacy,...
by Volker Rittberger, Bernhard Zangl, Andreas Kruck
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2019
The third edition of this popular core textbook provides wide-ranging coverage of the structure, internal working, policies and performance of international organizations such as the UN, EU, IMF and World Bank. Such organizations have never been so important in addressing the challenges that face...
by Yong-Soo Eun
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
International Relations (IR) as a discipline is often deemed to be “too Western” centric. It has been argued that much of mainstream IR theory is “simply an abstraction of Western history.” In this respect, many IR scholars have called for “broadening” the theoretical horizon of IR while...
International Development and Global Politics
History, Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This textbook provides a historical survey of economic and political development theory and practice from 1945. Against the background of changes in global politics, it explores how the project of international development has been shaped in a series of wider contexts. Divided into two historical...
The Eurocentric Conception of World Politics
Western International Theory, 1760–2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
John Hobson claims that throughout its history most international theory has been embedded within various forms of Eurocentrism. Rather than producing value-free and universalist theories of inter-state relations, international theory instead provides provincial analyses that celebrate and defend...
Global Political Economy
Understanding the International Economic Order
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
This book is the eagerly awaited successor to Robert Gilpin's 1987 The Political Economy of International Relations, the classic statement of the field of international political economy that continues to command the attention of students, researchers, and policymakers. The world economy and political...