Treaties category: 216 books
The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)
An emerging collaboration architecture
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is an international organization comprised of the eight countries in South Asia. This work aims examine the institutional structure, objectives and effectiveness of the SAARC in its role as South Asia’s leading regional institution.
Drawing...
AFA2 Trump in Asia
The New World Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
‘We’ve hidden behind a hope that American power and resolve will again prevail. Trump tears away any excuse for wishful thinking.’ MICHAEL WESLEY
The second issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines the United States’ sudden shift from the Asia Pivot to America First. It provides...
Lessons from U.S. Allies in Security Cooperation with Third Countries
The Cases of Australia, France, and the United Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
Several key U.S. allies engage in security cooperation, albeit on a smaller scale than the United States. To see what the U.S. Air Force can learn from these efforts, the authors examined how and why three allies--Australia, France, and the United Kingdom--provide security cooperation and highlight three...
U.S. Overseas Military Presence
What Are the Strategic Choices?
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
The role of the United States and its global military presence are under debate in the face of changing strategic and economic realities. The authors present a menu of global postures and compare them in terms of the U.S. Air Force bases, combat forces, active-duty personnel, and base operating costs....
How Statesmen Think
The Psychology of International Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Robert Jervis has been a pioneering leader in the study of the psychology of international politics for more than four decades. How Statesmen Think presents his most important ideas on the subject from across his career. This collection of revised and updated essays applies, elaborates, and modifies...
Transforming NATO
New Allies, Missions, and Capabilities
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
Transforming NATO: New Allies, Missions, and Capabilities, by Ivan Dinev Ivanov, examines the three dimensions of NATO’s transformation since the end of the Cold War: the addition of a dozen new allies; the undertaking of new missions such as peacekeeping, crisis response, and stabilization; and...
by Professor David Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
The UK’s vote to leave the European Union is a pivotal moment in British history. Over the past forty years, the UK’s economy has become increasingly intertwined and dependent on its relationship with the other EU member states with both the EU and the UK’s economic landscape irrevocably fashioned...
Turkey's Integration into the European Union
Legal Dimension
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Relations between Turkey and the European Union have a very long history. Officially, they began with the Ankara Agreement. Following the signature of this Agreement, the relationship has undergone many developments. Some authors compare this relation to a turbulent marriage; though it has its share...
The Millennium Development Goals and Beyond
Global Development after 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have contributed to reductions in poverty and improvements in the human condition in many parts of the world since their "invention" in 2000 and 2001. It nonetheless remains the case that today, as on all the previous days of the twenty-first century,...
Powerplay
The Origins of the American Alliance System in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
While the American alliance system in Asia has been fundamental to the region's security and prosperity for seven decades, today it encounters challenges from the growth of China-based regional organizations. How was the American alliance system originally established in Asia, and is it currently...
China-Europe Relations
Perceptions, Policies and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2007
The fast-developing relationship between China and Europe has become one of the most important in international affairs. China-Europe Relations takes an innovative and insightful look at this phenomenon, examining:
the state of Chinese studies in Europe and European studies in China
the decision-making...
Afghanistan's Local War
Building Local Defense Forces
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
In Afghanistan, local communities have played a critical role in security, especially in rural areas. Afghan national security forces are important to the top-down strategy, but the Afghan government and NATO forces also need to leverage local communities to gain a complementary bottom-up strategy....
by Putnam Weale
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
The Anglo-Japanese Alliance Treaty was first signed in January 1902 and was seen as a major milestone in diplomatic relations as well as seeing an end to Great Britain’s ‘Splendid Isolation’ policy. Originally published in 1922, Weale’s study aims to outline the steps taken to bring about...
by Justus D. Doenecke, Mark A. Stoler
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2005
Elected an unprecedented four times to the presidency, Franklin D. Roosevelt led the United States through some of the most dramatic and trying foreign and domestic episodes in its history. Coming to power in the throws of a crippling depression, Roosevelt quickly found himself having to juggle the...