Treaties category: 216 books
The Price of Alliance
The Politics and Procurement of Leopard Tanks for Canada’s NATO Brigade
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
This book will appeal to students and scholars of Canadian history, particularly Canadian military and political history, foreign policy, the Cold War, and NATO, along with anyone interested in the history of the Canadian Army, especially its armoured capabilities.
Opening NATO's Door
How the Alliance Remade Itself for a New Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2004
How and why did NATO, a Cold War military alliance created in 1949 to counter Stalin's USSR, become the cornerstone of new security order for post-Cold War Europe? Why, instead of retreating from Europe after communism's collapse, did the U.S. launch the greatest expansion of the American commitment...
by Louis Asare
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2019
Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today's clash of civilizations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel-Palestine...
Risking NATO
Testing the Limits of the Alliance in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2010
NATO's success in Afghanistan--or lack thereof--will have significant implications for the alliance itself. The authors examine the current mission in light of NATO's history and with an eye toward the future. NATO faces a long and daunting list of issues that extends beyond the borders of the member...
Climate Diplomacy from Rio to Paris
The Effort to Contain Global Warming
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
The essential primer for understanding climate diplomacy, describing both the major players and the path to progress, from the 1992 Rio Summit to the 2015 Paris Climate Conference Climate Diplomacy from Rio to Paris is the first accessible overview of climate diplomacy in its first quarter century. The...
Taiwan and Post-Communist Europe
Shopping for Allies
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
Taiwan and Post-Communist Europe examines Taiwan’s economic diplomacy towards post-communist states in Central and Eastern Europe. The media, and occasionally academia, have often suggested that Taipei resorts to costly aid, trade and investment diplomacy to facilitate its foreign relations, whilst...
Integrating Africa
Decolonization's Legacies, Sovereignty and the African Union
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
The African Union (AU) is a continental organization that comprises every African state except for Morocco, is indeed a pioneering undertaking. Its ambitious aim is to integrate all member states, with the ultimate goal of forming the United States of Africa. Despite several attempts to build a union,...
by Gbenga Oduntan
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Africa has experienced a number of territorial disputes over land and maritime boundaries, due in part to its colonial and post-colonial history. This book explores the legal, political, and historical nature of disputes over territory in the African continent, and critiques the content and application...
The San Francisco System and Its Legacies
Continuation, Transformation and Historical Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
In September 1951, Japan signed a peace treaty with forty-eight countries in San Francisco; in April 1952, the treaty came into effect. The San Francisco Peace Treaty is an international agreement that in significant ways shaped the post–World War II international order in the Asia-Pacific. With...
Who Participates in Global Governance?
States, bureaucracies, and NGOs in the United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Why are non-state actors sometimes granted participation rights in international organizations? This book argues that IOs, and the states that compose them, systematically pursue their interests when granting participation rights to NSAs.
This book demonstrates that NSAs have long been participants...
The Discourse of Palestinian-Israeli Relations
Persistent Analytics and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Many observers have portrayed the Oslo Process as a milestone in the peacemaking process between Palestinians and Israelis. In this controversial and groundbreaking new work, McMahon challenges the interpretation of the Oslo Process as a breakthrough or new beginning in Palestinian-Israeli relations....
by Nanette Svenson
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
This book seeks to explore how the UN has generated, warehoused, disseminated, structured, packaged, expanded, transferred and leveraged its vast resources of accumulated information and experience throughout the decades and, particularly, since the start of the 21st century with the introduction...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
The creation of the UN system during World War II is a largely unknown or forgotten story among contemporary decision makers, international relations specialists, and policy analysts.
This book aims to recover the wartime history of the United Nations and explore how the forgotten past can...
by Rafael A. Sánchez Sánchez
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Since its inception in the 1960s to the regional negotiations in the 1990s and onwards, Central American integration has been a process characterized by both dramatic advances and setbacks. This book provides a theoretical explanation of this ebb and flow, examining different stages including the...