Treaties category: 216 books
The Securitization of Humanitarian Migration
Digging moats and sinking boats
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
This book examines how western liberal states are progressively restricting access to refugees and asylum seekers, even though these states have signed international agreements obliging them to offer protection to those fleeing persecution and to advocate the spread of human rights and humanitarian...
The Little Red Dot
Reflections of Foreign Ambassadors on SingaporeVolume III
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
The first two volumes of The Little Red Dot series covered a wide range of views about Singapore's diplomacy by Singaporean diplomats. This new addition to the series offers a complementary perspective of Singapore and its bilateral relations, through the eyes of past heads of missions from foreign...
Empires of Knowledge in International Relations
Education and Science as Sources of Power for the State
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
This volume offers the first systematic account of how education and science have become sources of power for the states in international relations and what factors have effected this development.
Drawing together extensive empirical data on the USA, the EU, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and China,...
by Jefferson P. Marquis, Jennifer D. P. Moroney, Justin Beck
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2010
The U.S. government is facing the dual challenge of building its own interagency capacity for conducting stability operations while simultaneously building partner capacity (BPC) for stability operations. This study finds that although BPC and stability operations are receiving a good deal of attention...
Decoding Narendra Modi’s Foreign Policy
Assessing the First Year in Office; Projecting for the Years to Come
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Narendra Modi's first year as Indian Prime Minister has witnessed many bold and pragmatic moves as part of India's foreign policy initiatives. What is the larger game plan that he is following? Is India now ready to be more engaged in global affairs? How would he balance China? Or would he? This brief...
Re-Envisioning Global Development
A Horizontal Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Re-Envisioning Global Development offers an original conceptualisation of capitalist development from its origins to the present day.
Most approaches to understanding contemporary development assume that industrial capitalism was achieved through a process of nationally organised economic growth,...
Hired Guns
Views About Armed Contractors in Operation Iraqi Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
This study reports the results of a systematic, empirically based survey of opinions of U.S. military and State Department personnel with Iraq war experience to shed light on the costs and benefits of using private security contractors (PSCs) in the Iraq war. For the most part, respondents did not...
Ethno-Nationalism, Islam and the State in the Caucasus
Post-Soviet Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2007
With the region of the Caucasus with its ongoing, and even deteriorating, crisis and instability and its strategic and economic importance increasingly at the front of the world's attention, this volume presents and discusses some of the complexities and problems arising in the region such as Islamic...
The Asia-Europe Meeting
The Theory and Practice of Interregionalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2007
Focusing on the economic, developmental, political and cultural issues of its member states, this book offers a critical assessment of the ASEM process since its inception in 1996, which now brings together all 27 EU members, the European Commission, and 16 East Asian states. The underlying theme...
Small States and Hegemonic Competition in Southeast Asia
Pursuing Autonomy, Security and Development amid Great Power Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
In the last few decades, Southeast Asia has become generally more peaceful and more prosperous, with progress in economic development, regional cooperation and integration. ASEAN in particular plays a leading role within and beyond the region in promoting multilateral cooperation in both security...
China Watching
Perspectives from Europe, Japan and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
China Watching analyzes the state of European, Japanese and American scholarship on China over the last decade. The international team of contributors explore the main subjects and trends in research being done on contemporary Chinese politics, economy, foreign affairs and security studies. They contrast...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
The collection brings together scholars from Public Policy and Foreign Policy to address the theme of policy fiascos. So far research on failure and fiascos in both Public Policy and Foreign Policy has existed independent of each other with very little communication between the two sub-disciplines....
Crafting Peace
Power-Sharing Institutions and the Negotiated Settlement of Civil Wars
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2007
The recent efforts to reach a settlement of the enduring and tragic conflict in Darfur demonstrate how important it is to understand what factors contribute most to the success of such efforts. In this book, Caroline Hartzell and Matthew Hoddie review data from all negotiated civil war settlements...
Celebrating the Third Decade and Beyond
New Challenges to ASEAN-India Economic Partnership
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
The ASEAN-India economic integration has made substantial progress in recent years. India’s engagements with Southeast and East Asia have received new momentum under the Act East Policy (AEP). In 2017, ASEAN and India will be celebrating 25 years of their dialogue relations. The relationship is...