International Relations category: 9182 books
Nuclear Multilateralism and Iran
Inside EU Negotiations
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Drawing on the author’s personal experience, this book presents an insider’s chronology and policy analysis of the EU’s role in the nuclear negotiations with Iran.
The European Union strives to be a global player, a “soft power” leader that can influence international politics and...
Semantics of Statebuilding
Language, meanings and sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
This volume examines international statebuilding in terms of language and meanings, rather than focusing narrowly on current policy practices.
After two decades of evolution towards more ‘integrated,’ ‘multi-faceted’ or, simply stated, more intrusive statebuilding and peacebuilding...
China’s Foreign Aid
60 Years in Retrospect
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
This book analyzes the changes in and development of China’s Foreign Aid Policy and Mechanisms over the past 60 years. It offers readers a thorough introduction to China’s Aid to Africa; its Aid to Southeast Asian Countries; its Aid Policy Toward Central Asian Countries; and its Aid to Latin America...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Transatlantic relations have been among the most crucially important areas for US foreign policy since 1945. For reasons of self-interest and with regard to common transatlantic values and political, economic and security interests, every American Secretary of State to date has dedicated a considerable...
Iran-Turkey Relations, 1979-2011
Conceptualising the Dynamics of Politics, Religion and Security in Middle-Power States
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Both Turkey and Iran are large and important countries in the Middle East; how these two countries relate to each other is of crucial importance both for the region and for the wider world. This book explores the diplomatic, security and energy relations of these two middle power states since 1979,...
Anarchy, Order and Power in World Politics
A Comparative Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This title was first published in 2002: Questioning the most fundamental assumptions of international relations theory, this absorbing work compares and contrasts domestic and international politics regarding the issues of order and disorder taking into account aspects of the two realms which have...
The Anarchical Society at 40
Contemporary Challenges and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2017
Hedley Bull's The Anarchical Society was published in 1977. Forty years on, it is considered one of the classic texts in International Relations. It does not, however, address many world political issues that now concern us deeply, such as terrorism, global financial crises, climate change, the impact...
by Ebonine Victor
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Master's Thesis from the year 2016 in the subject Politics - Basics and General, grade: 71, , course: International Relations, language: English, abstract: The study aims at uncovering the immediate and remote causes of china's land reclamations and assertiveness in the South China Sea. It uncovers...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
In this book, China-Latin America relations experts Margaret Myers and Carol Wise examine the political and economic forces that have underpinned Chinese engagement in the region, as well as the ways in which these forces have shaped economic sectors and policy-making in Latin America. The contributors...
by David P. Forsythe
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
This fourth edition of David P. Forsythe's successful textbook provides an authoritative and timely analysis of the place of human rights in an age of upheaval in international politics. Human rights standards are examined at the global, regional and national levels, with separate chapters on transnational...
British liberal internationalism, 1880–1930
Making progress?
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book explores the development, character, and legacy of the ideology of liberal internationalism in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. Liberal internationalism provided a powerful way of theorising and imagining international relations, and it dominated well-informed political...
Reforming the UN Security Council Membership
The illusion of representativeness
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
This book comprehensively examines the different proposals put forward for reforming the UN Security Council by analysing their objectives and exploring whether the implementation of these proposals would actually create a representative and more effective Security Council. The book places the discussion...
by Barbara Zanchetta
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Barbara Zanchetta analyzes the evolution of American-Soviet relations during the 1970s, from the rise of détente during the Nixon administration to the policy's crisis and fall during the final years of the Carter presidency. This study traces lines of continuity among the Nixon, Ford and Carter...
Norm Contestation
Insights into Non-Conformity with Armed Conflict Norms
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
This Brief uses the theory of norm contestation as a model for understanding variation in norm-related behavior in international relations. While most typical approaches to understanding norms view norms as stable structures and actor responses to them as unquestioned, in a global political climate...