International Relations category: 9182 books
by Lutz Lindenau
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2003
Essay from the year 2002 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Africa, grade: 8,0 von max 10, University of Amsterdam (FMG), 4 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: As a participant of the course 'Abandoning Development: Africa and the Contemporary Economic...
International Environmental Treaties and State Behavior
Factors Influencing Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Despite the growing recognition of the importance of environmental issues for nation-state security, current research on international environmental security is insufficient. Although scholars in the field of International Relations believe that there is an appropriate role for international relations...
Theories of International Politics and Zombies
Revived Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2014
What would happen to international politics if the dead rose from the grave and started to eat the living? Daniel Drezner's groundbreaking book answers the question that other international relations scholars have been too scared to ask. Addressing timely issues with analytical bite, Drezner looks...
The Iran-Iraq War
New International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
This volume offers a wide-ranging examination of the Iran–Iraq War (1980–88), featuring fresh regional and international perspectives derived from recently available new archival material.
Three decades ago Iran and Iraq became embroiled in a devastating eight-year war which served to re-define...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
It is in and through practices – deeds that embody shared intersubjective knowledge – that social life is organized, that subjectivities are constituted and that history unfolds. One can think of dozens of different practices (from balancing, to banking or networking) which constitute the social...
Democracy, Sovereignty and Terror
Lakshman Kadirgamar on the Foundations of International Order
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
'For those of us who have to live with terrorism, when we leave home in the morning there is no guarantee that we will come back.' Thus Lakshman Kadirgamar, Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka, foreshadowed his own assassination at his home in Colombo in August 2005. Kadirgamar had a clear and prophetic...
Political Economy of China–Taiwan Relations
Origins and Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
China–Taiwan economic ties are now among the key factors influencing the relations between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait which is still one of the flashpoints in today’s world. This book traces the origin and the process of how so-called “cross-strait economic ties” became such a key...
by Norrin M. Ripsman, Jeffrey W. Taliaferro, Steven E. Lobell
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
Since Gideon Rose's 1998 review article in the journal World Politics and especially following the release of Lobell, Ripsman, and Taliaferro's 2009 edited volume Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy, neoclassical realism has emerged as major theoretical approach to the study of foreign...
China-EU Relations
Reassessing the China-EU Comprehensive Strategic Partnership
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
This book provides a comprehensive review of relations between China and the EU from the perspectives of politics, economy and culture in order to provide a better understanding of the development of the China-EU Strategic Partnership over the past ten years and to explore its future direction. It...
by Julia Schubert
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2004
Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject Politics - International Politics - General and Theories, grade: 1,3 (A), Martin Luther University (GPS), course: International Political Economy, 27 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In the second half of the 20. century the...
by Engin Sabanci
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
The BSEC, a relatively young organization, is the one that has covered the most ground and the most remarkable one due to its dynamic structure. This feature derives from the importance of the region in terms of security and stability and the ambitious tasks assumed by the Organization in a region...
Africa and the North
Between Globalization and Marginalization
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
An important new discussion of Africa's place in the international system.
This volume discusses Africa's place in the international system, examining the way in which the Westphalian system, in light of the impact of globalization and transnational networks, continues to play a major role...
US Cultural Diplomacy and Archaeology
Soft Power, Hard Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Archaeology’s links to international relations are well known: launching and sustaining international expeditions requires the honed diplomatic skills of ambassadors. U.S. foreign policy depends on archaeologists to foster mutual understanding, mend fences, and build bridges. This book explores...
The Environment and International Politics
International Fisheries, Heidegger and Social Method
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2005
This new study shows how environmental issues represent a deep problem in conceptualising the relationship between human beings and nature.
This key relationship grounds the implicit ethical and political concerns of International Relations and our understandings of environmental politics....