Treaties category: 216 books
by Seth G. Jones, C. Christine Fair
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
Pakistan has undertaken a number of operations against militant groups since 2001. There have been some successes, but such groups as al Qa'ida continue to present a significant threat to Pakistan, the United States, and other countries. Pakistan needs to establish a population-centric counterinsurgency...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
This book examines the presence of Africa as a significant force in the western Indian Ocean. Africa will increasingly play a pivotal role in the future of the geopolitics of the Indian Ocean region. The book considers the scope for greater African involvement in Indian Ocean region-building activities,...
Becoming Enemies
U.S.-Iran Relations and the Iran-Iraq War, 1979–1988
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Becoming Enemies brings the unique methods of critical oral history, developed to study flashpoints from the Cold War such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, to understand U.S. and Iranian relations from the fall of the Shah in 1978 through the Iranian hostage crisis and the Iran-Iraq war. Scholars and...
International Environmental Agreements
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
International environmental agreements provide a practical basis for countries to address environmental issues on a global scale. This book explores the workings and outcomes of these agreements, and analyses key questions of why some problems are dealt with successfully and others ignored.
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North America in Question
Regional Integration in an Era of Economic Turbulence
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Can North America survive as a region in light of the political turbulence provoked by the global economic crisis? Or have regional integration and collaboration reached a plateau beyond which disintegration is likely? In North America in Question, leading analysts from Canada, the United States,...
by Ian Hurd
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
A provocative reassessment of the rule of law in world politics
Conventionally understood as a set of limits on state behavior, the “rule of law” in world politics is widely assumed to serve as a progressive contribution to a just, stable, and predictable world. In How to Do Things with...
Defining Sustainable Development for Our Common Future
A History of the World Commission on Environment and Development (Brundtland Commission)
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
The UN World Commission on Environment and Development, chaired by former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, alerted the world to the urgency of making progress toward economic development that could be sustained without depleting natural resources or harming the environment. Written...
Charter of the United Nations
Together with Scholarly Commentaries and Essential Historical Documents
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Although no one had ever followed North American monarch butterflies on their annual southward journey to Mexico and California, in the 1990s there were well-accepted assumptions about the nature and form of the migration. But to Robert Michael Pyle, a naturalist with long experience in monarch conservation,...
La sécurité internationale après Lisbonne
Nouvelles pratiques dans l'Union européenne
Language: French
Release Date: August 17, 2017
La littérature récente relative à la sécurité européenne tend à présenter le traité de Lisbonne comme un repère essentiel de l’évolution de la politique européenne de sécurité et de défense. Les contributions réunies dans cet ouvrage ouvrent le débat par-delà la seule architecture...
by Krishna Chilukuri
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
We live in a complex world order built with a multitude of competing sovereign nations - countries with varying economic, political and military power - a world structured by international organizations which sometimes work but at other times are bypassed. But the dominant status of the United States...
Safety, Liberty, and Islamist Terrorism
American and European Approaches to Domestic Counterterrorism
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, produced a revolution in domestic security in the United States. The Bush administration responded quickly by aggressively enforcing existing laws, sponsoring new legislation, overhauling domestic intelligence, and employing the president's executive power...
Coalition Politics and Cabinet Decision Making
A Comparative Analysis of Foreign Policy Choices
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Every day, coalition cabinets make policy decisions critical to international politics. Juliet Kaarbo examines the dynamics of these multiparty cabinets in parliamentary democracies in order to assess both the quality of coalition decision making and the degree to which coalitions tend to favor peaceful...
United Nations Industrial Development Organization
Industrial Solutions for a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
The mandate of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) is close to many of the core issues now confronting developing and transition economy countries, and this book offers the first concise and accessible guide to this important organization.
As the only UN organization...
by Steven E. Lobell, Norrin M Ripsman
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
In The Political Economy of Regional Peacemaking, scholars examine the efficacy of trade agreements, economic sanctions, and other strategies of economic statecraft for the promotion of peace both between rival states and across conflict-ridden regions more generally. In the introduction, Steven E....