International Relations category: 9182 books
The Onset of Global Governance
International Relations Theory and the International Criminal Court
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Assessing the formation process of the International Criminal Court (ICC), this study provides a fuller and richer understanding of this institution. It does so by adopting three analytical approaches: neoliberal institutionalism, regime theory and global governance. Examining the implications of...
by Natalie Züfle
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Far East, grade: 1,5, Free University of Berlin (Center for Global Politics), course: International Relations Theory, language: English, abstract: Organski concludes that there are no really viable possibilities to...
Power and Influence after the Cold War
Germany in East-Central Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2000
Challenging conventional wisdom about German dominance in the new Europe, this study presents a new approach to the question of power and influence after the Cold War. Inspired by the debate over German hegemony and drawing on intensive fieldwork, Ann L. Phillips develops two original cases of German...
Singapore in the Malay World
Building and Breaching Regional Bridges
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
Relations between Singapore and her immediate Malay neighbours have been perennially fraught with tension and misunderstanding. In making sense of this complex relationship, Lily Rahim explores the salience of historical animosities and competitive economic pressures, and Singapore’s janus-faced...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2006
If we are to believe the media then a war between China and Taiwan is inevitable. Incorporating interviews, archives and original research, this book examines the troubled relationship between China, Taiwan and the US, bringing Taiwanese views on identity politics to the forefront of the discussion.
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Japanese Development Cooperation
The Making of an Aid Architecture Pivoting to Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
The world order as we know it is currently undergoing profound changes, and in its wake, so is foreign aid. Donors of foreign aid, development assistance or development cooperation around the world are already facing new challenges in the changing development architecture. This is an architecture...
by Danielle Chubb
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
In South Korea, the contentious debate over relations with the North transcends traditional considerations of physical and economic security, and political activists play a critical role in shaping the discussion of these issues as they pursue the separate yet connected agendas of democracy, human...
One Alliance, Two Lenses
U.S.-Korea Relations in a New Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2010
One Alliance, Two Lenses examines U.S.-Korea relations in a short but dramatic period (1992–2003) that witnessed the end of the Cold War, South Korea's full democratization, inter-Korean engagement, two nuclear crises, and the start of the U.S. war on terror. These events have led to a new era of...
Protean Power
Exploring the Uncertain and Unexpected in World Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Mainstream international relations continues to assume that the world is governed by calculable risk based on estimates of power, despite repeatedly being surprised by unexpected change. This ground breaking work departs from existing definitions of power that focus on the actors' evolving ability...
China’s Diplomacy and Economic Activities in Africa
Relations on the Move
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
This book advocates a broad outlook of China-Africa relations and highlights China’s soft power in Africa. Lahtinen discusses China’s impact in generating economic growth and argues how some African countries have become too dependent on it, as exposed by the recent economic downturn. This book...
by L. Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
An exploration of the role of the news media in the development of EU-China relations after the end of the Cold War, this book provides empirical evidence to support what Nye and Anholt have argued: that branding a country's image is soft power. The author examines the nature of European Union and...
Years of Peril and Ambition
U.S. Foreign Relations, 1776-1921
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Praised in the New York Times Book Review for its "Herculean power of synthesis," George C. Herring's 2008 From Colony to Superpower has won wide acclaim from critics and readers alike. Years of Peril and Ambition: U.S. Foreign Relations, 1776-1921 is the first volume of a new split paperback edition...
Power Relations in the Twenty-First Century
Mapping a Multipolar World?
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
This volume critiques contemporary power trends by examining key bilateral dynamics between five putative ‘poles’ of the multipolar order in the twenty-first century.
Written by emerging scholars and established academics, this work provides a timely and authoritative analysis of one of...
Japan, Russia and their Territorial Dispute
The Northern Delusion
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
The territorial dispute between Japan and Russia over four islands off the northeast coast of Hokkaidō has been an enduring obstacle to closer relations between the two powers and therefore an important determinant of geopolitics in North-East Asia. Having emerged at the end of World War II, this...