International Relations category: 9182 books
Harmony and Development
ASEAN-China Relations
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2007
This book celebrates the 15th anniversary of China–ASEAN dialogue, which has captured the limelight as a key development in international relations in the Asia-Pacific. The contributions discuss a wide range of complex and challenging issues concerning ASEAN–China relations in a readable, informative,...
The Foreign Encounter in Myth and Religion
Modes of Foreign Relations and Political Economy, Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Foreign Encounter In Myth And Religion is the second volume of Modes of Foreign Relations and Political Economy, a three-volume project which is changing the way we think about international relations.In the first, Deutscher prize-winning volume, Kees van der Pijl introduced the ground-breaking argument...
Inter-organizational Relations in International Security
Cooperation and Competition
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
This book examines the politics of the relationships between multilateral organizations that have come to play a major role in contemporary efforts to manage international security.
Drawing on concepts developed in Organizational Studies, the book starts from the assumption that inter-organizational...
by Badredine Arfi
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
International Relations (IR) theorists have ceaselessly sought to understand, explain, and transform the experienced reality of international politics. Running through all these attempts is a persistent, yet unquestioned, quest by theorists to develop strategies to eliminate or reduce the antinomies,...
Pakistan-Japan Relations
Continuity and Change in Economic Relations and Security Interests
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2008
This is the first book-length study to explain the complex nature of Pakistan-Japan relations. It analyses the evolution and development of relations between the two countries by defining two key factors: economic interests and security concerns in the US-led global security system. Providing a thorough...
International Relations in South Asia
Search for an Alternative Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
This collection explores 'state of the art' methods to understand International Relations in South Asia, from disciplinary, pedagogic and epistemological standpoints. It probes alternative methods to comprehend international politics in the region: through constructivism, critical theories, post-colonial...
by Kendall Stiles
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Do states trust each other? What are the political and ethical implications of trust? Drawing from a wide range of disciplines, Trust and Hedging in International Relations adds to the emerging literature on trust in international relations by offering a systematic measure of state-to-state trust....
Theories of International Relations
Contending Approaches to World Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Since the field of International Relations was established almost a century ago, many different theoretical approaches have been developed, each offering distinctive accounts of the world, why it has come to be the way it is, and how it might be made a better place.
In this illuminating textbook,...
International Organizations and Global Civil Society
Histories of the Union of International Associations
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
The Union of International Associations (UIA) was founded in 1910, aiming to coordinate the relations and interests of international organizations across the world. Its long history makes it a prism through which to study the field of international organizations and its dynamics.
Bringing together...
Tunisia's International Relations since the 'Arab Spring'
Transition Inside and Out
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
When popular protests started in Tunisia in late 2010, few anticipated the implications these events would have for the entire Arab region. In the following years, this region witnessed deep changes, increased divisions, and even failing states. Meanwhile, Tunisia managed to assert itself as a new...
White World Order, Black Power Politics
The Birth of American International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Racism and imperialism are the twin forces that propelled the course of the United States in the world in the early twentieth century and in turn affected the way that diplomatic history and international relations were taught and understood in the American academy. Evolutionary theory, social Darwinism,...
by Jeffrey Haynes
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Not so very long ago it seemed reasonable to assert that the influence of religion on global politics was on the wane. As the Western world became increasingly secular and the process of globalisation deepened, it seemed inevitable - on the surface at least - that the voice of religion was to be...
Communitarian International Relations
The Epistemic Foundations of International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
In Emanuel Adler's distinctive constructivist approach to international relations theory, international practices evolve in tandem with collective knowledge of the material and social worlds. This book - comprising a fresh selection of his journal publications, a substantial new introduction, three...
Militarism and International Relations
Political Economy, Security, Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
This book examines contemporary militarism in international politics, employing a variety of different theoretical viewpoints and international case studies.
Militarism – understood as the social and international relations of the preparation for, and conduct of, organized political violence...