International Relations category: 9182 books
Latin America and the Caribbean in the Global Context
Why care about the Americas?
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Current perspectives on Latin America’s role in the world tend to focus on one question: Why is Latin America always falling behind? Analysts and scholars offer answers grounded in history, economic underdevelopment, or democratic consolidation. Bagley and Horwitz, however, shift the central question...
The Labour Party and Foreign Policy
A History
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2007
This book provides a penetrating new study of the Labour Party’s thinking on international relations, which probes the past, present and future of the party’s approach to the international stage.
The foreign policy of the Labour Party is not only neglected in most histories of the party,...
Economy of Force
Counterinsurgency and the Historical Rise of the Social
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Retrieving the older but surprisingly neglected language of household governance, Economy of Force offers a radical new account of the historical rise of the social realm and distinctly social theory as modern forms of oikonomikos - the art and science of household rule. The techniques and domestic...
John Foster Dulles
Piety, Pragmatism, and Power in U.S. Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1998
John Foster Dulles was one of the most influential and controversial figures in the history of twentieth-century U.S. foreign relations. Active in the field for decades, Dulles reflected and was a reflection of the tension that pervaded U.S. international conduct from its evolution as a global power...
The Foreign Policies of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush
A Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This book offers a comparative analysis of the approaches, policies and records of the administrations of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, through an examination of key foreign policy issues that caused controversy and debate both during the 1990s and in the years since 9/11.
In the post 9/11...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Contemporary security has expanded its meaning, content and structure in response to globalisation and the emergence of greatly improved world-wide communication. The protocols of modern warfare, including targeted killing, enhanced interrogations, mass electronic surveillance and the virtualisation...
The United Nations Human Rights Council
A critique and early assessment
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
The United Nations Human Rights Council was created in 2006 to replace the UN Commission on Human Rights. The Council’s mandate and founding principles demonstrate that one of the main aims, at its creation, was for the Council to overcome the Commission’s flaws. Despite the need to avoid repeating...
by Steve Hess, Richard Aidoo
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
This book investigates China’s emergence as an outside player in SSA over the last several decades and the current understanding of the impact of Beijing’s growing presence on the continent, including several case studies focused on specific SSA countries. China’s accelerating economic and political...
Challenges of Constructing Legitimacy in Peacebuilding
Afghanistan, Iraq, Sierra Leone, and East Timor
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Peacebuilding is a critical issue in world politics. Surprisingly, however, there has not been a full examination of concrete policies and implementation strategies to generate legitimacy in "host states" by either international relations (IR) theorists or practitioners.
The objective...
Asia's Space Race
National Motivations, Regional Rivalries, and International Risks
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
In contrast to the close cooperation practiced among European states, space relations among Asian states have become increasingly tense. If current trends continue, the Asian civilian space competition could become a military race. To better understand these emerging dynamics, James Clay Moltz conducts...
World of Walls
The Structure, Roles and Effectiveness of Separation Barriers
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
"We’re going to build a wall.”
Borders have been drawn since the beginning of time, but in recent years artificial barriers have become increasingly significant to the political conversation across the world. Donald Trump was elected President of the United States while promising to build...
Japan and China as Charm Rivals
Soft Power in Regional Diplomacy
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
In international relations today, influence is as essential as military and economic might. Consequently, leaders promote favorable images of the state in order to attract allies and win support for their policies. Jing Sun, an expert on international relations and a former journalist, refers to such...
Japanese Diplomacy in the 1950s
From Isolation to Integration
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
This book provides a detailed examination of Japan's diplomatic relations in the 1950s, an important decade in international affairs when new structures and systems emerged, and when Japan established patterns in its international relationships which continue today. It examines the process of Japan's...
Failed Imagination? -second edition
The Anglo-American new world order from Wilson to Bush
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
The main purpose of this book is to explain how (mainly) American, but also British and other Western, policy makers have planned and largely managed to create an international order in their own image, the so-called ‘New World Order’. It shows how this seismic shift in international relations...