International Relations category: 9182 books
International Politics
Political Issues Under Debate - Vol. 1
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
This volume analyses the historical background of violent international conflicts. Starting with an analysis of the conflict and cooperation structures in post-communist Eastern Europe and the eastern expansion of the European Union, the author discusses the problem of acts of intervention in response...
by Bernd Reismann
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2006
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: South East Europe, Balkans, grade: 2,0, University of Münster (Institut für Politikwissenschaft), course: Conflict Resolution, 10 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This paper deals...
Global Governance and Local Peace
Accountability and Performance in International Peacebuilding
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
Why do international peacebuilding organizations sometimes succeed and sometimes fail, even within the same country? Bridging the gaps between the peacekeeping, peacebuilding, and global governance scholarship, this book argues that international peacebuilding organizations repeatedly fail because...
Global Labour and the Migrant Premium
The Cost of Working Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
This book provides the first systematic account of the premium costs that migrants pay to live and work abroad.
Reducing the costs of international labour migration, specifically worker-paid costs for low-skilled employment, has become an important item on the global agenda over the last years...
Fear and Uncertainty in Europe
The Return to Realism?
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
Russia’s intervention in the Ukraine, Donald Trump’s presidency and instability in the Middle East are just a few of the factors that have brought an end to the immediate post-Cold War belief that a new international order was emerging: one where fear and uncertainty gave way to a thick normative...
The International Politics of the Asia-Pacific
Fourth and Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2019
This fully revised fourth edition of Michael Yahuda's successful textbook brings the subject up-to-date, introducing students to the international politics of the Asia-Pacific region since 1945. As well as assessing the post-cold War uncertainties that challenged balance and power with the region,...
Acting Like a State
Kosovo and the Everyday Making of Statehood
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
How do emerging states obtain international recognition and secure membership of international organisations in contemporary world politics? This book provides the first in-depth study of Kosovo’s diplomatic approach to becoming a sovereign state by obtaining international recognition and securing...
The Global City 2.0
From Strategic Site to Global Actor
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Global cities all over the world are taking on new roles as they increasingly participate directly and independently in international affairs and global politics. So far, surprisingly few studies have analyzed the role of the Global City beyond its already well explicated role in the globalized economy....
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Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
This book offers an accessible examination of the human rights of migrants in the context of the UN’s negotiations in 2018.
This volume has two main contributions. Firstly, it is designed to inform the negotiations on the UN’s Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration announced...
Science and International Environmental Policy
Regimes and Nonregimes in Global Governance
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2005
The proliferation of environmental agreements is a defining feature of modern international relations that has attracted considerable academic attention. The cooperation literature focuses on stories of policy creation, and ignores issue areas where policy agreements are absent. Science and International...
International Organization
Theories and Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
The newly revised and updated edition of International Organization is an introduction to the study of international organizations in the field of International Relations intended for students in the discipline. It looks at the different ways in which IOs are studied and then applies these different modes to a variety of specific case studies.
Local Legitimacy in Peacebuilding
Pathways to Local Compliance with International Police Reform
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
This book analyses the role of legitimacy in explaining local actors’ compliance with international peacebuilding operations.
The book provides a comparative, micro-level study of local actors’ reasons for compliance with or resistance to international peacebuilding. Specifically, it analyses...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
The Routledge Handbook of Human Rights and Disasters provides the first comprehensive review of the role played by international human rights law in the prevention and management of natural and technological disasters.
Each chapter is written by a leading expert and offers a state-of-the-art...
by Mark Raymond
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
Rule-based global order remains a central object of study in International Relations. Constructivists have identified a number of mechanisms by which actors accomplish both the continuous reproduction and transformation of the rules, institutions, and regimes that constitute their worlds. However,...