International Relations category: 9182 books
The Diplomacy of Culture
The Role of UNESCO in Sustaining Cultural Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Cultural diversity, because it is perceived to have significant security, developmental, and social implications, is fast becoming one of the major political issues of the day. At the international level, it overlaps with the now extensive debates on multiculturalism within states. This work shows...
by Dominik Naab
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: International Organisations, Sciences Po Paris, Dijon, Nancy, Poitier, Menton, Havre, language: English, abstract: The realistic point of view that international relations are only ruled by states is definitely...
by Ronald Bruce St John
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Diplomatic relations between the United States and Libya have rarely followed a smooth path. Washington has repeatedly tried and failed to mediate lasting solutions, to prevent recurrent crises, and to secure its own national interests in a region of increasing importance to the United States. Libya...
by Peter Clegg (Editor), Emilio Pantojas-García (Editor)
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
This edited volume brings together the perspectives of scholars and officials from Europe and the Caribbean to provide a much-needed international, comparative and interdisciplinary perspective on the status and performance of the non-independent territories in the Caribbean. The status of the non-independent...
Debating U.S.-Cuban Relations
How Should We Now Play Ball?
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
The boundary between Cuba and the United States has become more and more porous, as have those with Latin America and the Caribbean. Never in the past half-century has Cuba’s leadership or its social and political fabric been so exposed to the influence of the outside world. In this book, an all-star...
by Herbert Adams Gibbons
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Originally published in 1922, An Introduction to World Politics, was published at a particularly interesting time in international relations, just a few short years after the first world war. With this in mind, Gibbons has approached this text as a general introduction to world politics, both examining...
US-China Relations
China policy on Capitol Hill
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2008
With China’s rapid ascendance to great power status, the U.S.-China relationship has become one of the most important international relationships in the world today. This book explores relations between the U.S. and China, focusing in particular on China policymaking in the U.S. Congress, which...
Securing Southeast Asia
The Politics of Security Sector Reform
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
This book uniquely applies the security reform agenda to Southeast Asia. It investigates recent developments in civil-military relations in the region, looking in particular at the impact and utility of the agenda on the region and assessing whether it is likely to help make the region more stable...
Producing Security
Multinational Corporations, Globalization, and the Changing Calculus of Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Scholars and statesmen have debated the influence of international commerce on war and peace for thousands of years. Over the centuries, analysts have generally treated the questions "Does international commerce influence security?" and "Do trade flows influence security?" as synonymous.
In...
Preventive Force
Drones, Targeted Killing, and the Transformation of Contemporary Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
More so than in the past, the US is now embracing the logic of preventive force: using military force to counter potential threats around the globe before they have fully materialized. While popular with individuals who seek to avoid too many “boots on the ground,” preventive force is controversial...
Syria and the USA
Washington's Relations with Damascus from Wilson to Eisenhower
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
The conclusion of World War I and the subsequent breakup of the Ottoman Empire led to the
independence of a number of Arab nations and resulted in a Western scramble for roles of
control and influence over them. It was not until after World War I that Syria and the United States had...
Chinese-Japanese Competition and the East Asian Security Complex
Vying for Influence
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
This volume examines contemporary diplomatic, economic, and security competition between China and Japan in the Asia-Pacific region.
The book outlines the role that Sino-Japanese competition plays in East Asian security, an area of study largely overlooked in contemporary writing on Asian security,...
The Limits of Ethics in International Relations
Natural Law, Natural Rights, and Human Rights in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Ethical constraints on relations among individuals within and between societies have always reflected or invoked a higher authority than the caprices of human will. For over two thousand years Natural Law and Natural Rights were the constellations of ideas and presuppositions that fulfilled this role...
by Jayanta Kumar Ray
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
This book analyses India’s relations with its neighbours (China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka) and other world powers (USA, UK, and Russia) over a span of 60 years. It traces the roots of independent India’s foreign policy from the Partition and its fallout, its nascent years under Nehru, and...