International Relations category: 9182 books
The War for Syria
Regional and International Dimensions of the Syrian Uprising
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019
Examining the international dimensions of the Syrian conflict, this book studies external factors relating to the Uprising. It explores the involvement of outside powers and the events’ impact both on regional and international level.
Syria was widely perceived to be essential to the regional...
On Cultural Diversity
International Theory in a World of Difference
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
The rise of non-Western Great Powers, the spread of transnational religiously-justified insurgencies, and the resurgence of ethno-nationalism raise fundamental questions about the effects of cultural diversity on international order. Yet current debate - among academics, popular commentators, and...
From Cold War to Hot Peace
An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From the diplomat Putin wants to interrogate—and has banned from Russia—a revelatory, inside account of U.S.-Russia relations from 1989 to the present**
“A fascinating and timely account of the current crisis in the relationship between Russia and the...
China 1945
Mao's Revolution and America's Fateful Choice
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
A riveting account of the watershed moment in America’s dealings with China that forever altered the course of East-West relations
As 1945 opened, America was on surprisingly congenial terms with China’s Communist rebels—their soldiers treated their American counterparts as heroes, rescuing...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
Neoclassical realism is an important new approach to international relations. Focusing on the interaction of the international system and the internal dynamics of states, neoclassical realism seeks to explain the grand strategies of individual states as opposed to recurrent patterns of international...
by Robert W. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
The period between 1775 and 1815 could be called the “critical period” of American foreign relations. At no time in American history was the existence of the republic in greater physical peril. Questions of foreign policy dominated American public life in a way unequalled until World War II. From...
by Richard T. Arndt
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2005
During the last five decades, U.S. cultural diplomacy programs have withered because of politics and accidents of history that have subordinated cultural diplomacy to public relations campaigning, now called ôpublic diplomacy.ö With anti-Americanism on the rise worldwide, cultural diplomacy should...
Xi Jinping on the Global Stage
Chinese Foreign Policy Under a Powerful but Exposed Leader
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Robert D. Blackwill, Henry A. Kissinger senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, and Kurt M. Campbell, chairman and chief executive officer of the Asia Group, analyze the rise of Chinese President Xi Jinping and call for a new American grand strategy for Asia that "seeks to avoid a U.S.-China confrontation and maintain U.S. primacy in Asia."
The Iran Wars
Spy Games, Bank Battles, and the Secret Deals That Reshaped the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
From the Wall Street Journal reporter who’s been breaking news on the historic and potentially disastrous Iran nuclear deal comes a deeply reported exploration of the country’s decades-long power struggle with the United States—for readers of Steve Coll’s Ghost Wars and Lawrence Wright’s...
Deadly Embrace
Pakistan, America, and the Future of the Global Jihad
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Pakistan and America have been gripped together in a deadly embrace for decades. For half a century American presidents from both parties pursued narrow short-term interests in Pakistan. This myopia actually backfired in the long term, helping to destabilize the political landscape and radicalizing...
Reconstructing the Cold War
The Early Years, 1945-1958
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
General answers are hard to imagine for the many puzzling questions that are raised by Soviet relations with the world in the early years of the Cold War. Why was Moscow more frightened by the Marshall Plan than the Truman Doctrine? Why would the Soviet Union abandon its closest socialist ally, Yugoslavia,...
Blue and Gray Diplomacy
A History of Union and Confederate Foreign Relations
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In this examination of Union and Confederate foreign relations during the Civil War from both European and American perspectives, Howard Jones demonstrates that the consequences of the conflict between North and South reached far beyond American soil.
Jones explores a number of themes, including...
The American Century and Beyond
U.S. Foreign Relations, 1893-2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
In his last years as president of the United States, an embattled George Washington yearned for a time when his nation would have "the strength of a Giant and there will be none who can make us afraid." At the turn of the twentieth century, the United States seemed poised to achieve a position of...
Bridge Builder
An Insider’s Perspective of Over 60 Years in Post-War Reconstruction, International Diplomacy, and German-American Relations
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Walther Leisler Kiep is one of the most independent and influential German post-war politicians. He is also a successful entrepreneur and longtime chairman of Atlantik-Brücke, the influential German-American friendship organization, which he now serves as honorary chairman. In his autobiography,...