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Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
This book is a comprehensive guide to theories of International Relations (IR). Given the limitations of a paradigm-based approach, it sheds light on eighteen theories and new theoretical perspectives in IR by examining the work of key reference theorists. The chapters are all written to a common...
Territorial Conflicts in World Society
Modern Systems Theory, International Relations and Conflict Studies
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2007
By bringing into dialogue modern systems theory and international relations, this text provides theoretically innovative and empirically rich perspectives on conflicts in world society.
This collection contrasts Niklas Luhmann’s theory of world society in modern systems theory with more classical...
Resolving International Conflict
Dynamics of Escalation, Continuation and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2019
Resolving International Conflict rethinks the dynamics of conflict escalation and continuation by engaging with research from the wide range of subfields in this area.
The book suggests a new framework for understanding conflict as a particular form of situation, interaction and tension. It...
Constructivism and International Relations
Alexander Wendt and his Critics
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2005
This new book unites in one volume some of the most prominent critiques of Alexander Wendt's constructivist theory of international relations and includes the first comprehensive reply by Wendt.
Partly reprints of benchmark articles, partly new original critiques, the critical chapters are...
Participation and Interaction
The Theory and Practice of China's Diplomacy
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
This book selects the most outstanding journal articles from the Chinese version of Foreign Affairs Review written by prestigious Chinese scholars in recent years. The articles focus on analysis of foreign affairs issues which are of relevance to China, and provide insightful perspectives on China's...
The Rise of Korean Leadership
Emerging Powers and Liberal International Order
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
South Korea has emerged as a new middle power playing a significant role in a wide range of important global issue areas and supporting liberal international order with its leadership diplomacy. The growing role played by new powers like Korea calls into question the prevailing view that global governance...
by Sergey Smolnikov
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
This book seeks to answer one main question: what is the core concern of great powers that streamlines their behavior in the contemporary system of international relations? Building on the examples of the United States, China, Russia, France, and Britain, it tracks both consistency and fluctuations...
Human Rights and World Public Order
The Basic Policies of an International Law of Human Dignity
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
In 1980, Professors McDougal, Lasswell, and Chen published the original edition of Human Rights and World Public Order to present a "comprehensive framework of inquiry" from which to approach international human rights law, and international law, and inadequacies therein in the discourse of that time...
Governing the Global Economy
Politics, Institutions and Economic Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Governing the Global Economy explores the dynamic interaction between politics and economics, between states and markets and between international and domestic politics. The contributors study how the governance of the global economy is shaped by interaction between international institutions, domestic...
Immigration and Regional Integration in a Globalizing World
Myths and Truths about Migration
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Immigration and Regional Integration in a Globalizing World, Christopher White makes an important contribution to the immigration debate by investigating the relationship between two of the most important forces shaping the current international system—international migration and regional integration....
The Onset of Global Governance
International Relations Theory and the International Criminal Court
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Assessing the formation process of the International Criminal Court (ICC), this study provides a fuller and richer understanding of this institution. It does so by adopting three analytical approaches: neoliberal institutionalism, regime theory and global governance. Examining the implications of...
Trade Facilitation in the Multilateral Trading System
Genesis, Course and Accord
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Negotiations on trade facilitation were concluded at the WTO 9th Ministerial Conference in 2013, and the Agreements on Trade Facilitation (TFA), therefore, became the first fully multilateral agreement in WTO history. Since then, trade facilitation has been in the limelight on the stage of the world...
International Sanctions
Between Wars and Words
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2005
The main theme of the book is that the new types of sanctions constitute a challenge to the international system. First, there are more of the targeted sanctions, including financial, travel, aviation, special commodity and arms sanctions. Furthermore, there are considerable but varied practices in...
The Politics of International Criminal Justice
German Perspectives from Nuremberg to The Hague
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
To anyone setting out to explore the entanglement of international criminal justice with the interests of States, Germany is a particularly curious, exemplary case. Although a liberal democracy since 1949, its political position has altered radically in the last 60 years. Starting from a position...