International Relations category: 9182 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
This edited volume analyzes mistakes in different areas of international relations including the realms of security, foreign policy, finance, health, development, environmental policy and migration. By starting out from a broad concept of mistakes as “something [considered to have] gone wrong”...
Asia and Latin America
Political, Economic and Multilateral Relations
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Until the late 1980s, Japan was the only country in Asia with notable political and economic relations. Since then, however, several Asian nations have perceived growing links with the Latin American region as a means of diversifying their political and particularly economic relations while many Latin...
Ontology and World Politics
Void Universalism I
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Together these two companion volumes develop an innovative theory of world politics, grounded in the reinterpretation of the concepts of ‘world’ and ‘politics’ from an ontological perspective.
Ontology and World Politics presents a new approach to political universalism, grounded in...
The Dictator Next Door
The Good Neighbor Policy and the Trujillo Regime in the Dominican Republic, 1930-1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
The question of how U.S. foreign policy should manage relations with autocratic governments, particularly in the Caribbean and Latin America, has always been difficult and complex. In The Dictator Next Door Eric Paul Roorda focuses on the relations between the U.S. and the Dominican Republic following...
Governing Diasporas in International Relations
The Transnational Politics of Croatia and Former Yugoslavia
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
This book analyzes how states extend their sovereignty beyond their territories through the language of diasporas.
An increasing number of states are interested in supporting, managing or controlling their populations abroad, something they define as their ‘diaspora’. Yet what does it mean...
Realist Constructivism
Rethinking International Relations Theory
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
Realism and constructivism, two key contemporary theoretical approaches to the study of international relations, are commonly taught as mutually exclusive ways of understanding the subject. Realist Constructivism explores the common ground between the two, and demonstrates that, rather than being...
The Invention of International Relations Theory
Realism, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the 1954 Conference on Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
The 1954 Conference on Theory, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation, featured a who's who of scholars and practitioners debating the foundations of international relations theory. Assembling his own team of experts, all of whom have struggled with this legacy, Nicolas Guilhot revisits a seminal...
The Challenge of Apartheid: UK–South African Relations, 1985-1986
Documents on British Policy Overseas. Series III, Volume IX
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
This volume examines diplomatic relations between the United Kingdom and South Africa during one of the most turbulent periods of the apartheid era.
The crisis of apartheid that began in 1984 provoked international outrage on an unprecedented scale. This volume documents the attempt by the...
by J. M. Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
This book, originally published in 1986, analyses and describes the significance of cultural relations in international affairs. It traces the beginnings of cultural relations in the 19th century and their evolution. Consideration is given to the nature and organization of global ‘cultural diplomacy’,...
by J.H. Adam Watson
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This collection of essays records the development of Adam Watson's thinking about international theory from the 1950s to the present, exploring his contribution to, and the development of, the English School.
Adam Watson was one of the members of the British Committee on the Theory of International...
China and Latin America
Economic and Trade Cooperation in the Next 10 Years
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
The international financial crisis in 2008 marked the beginning of important changes in the international economic system. The emerging market economies are increasingly becoming a driving force for the global economic growth. Under such circumstances, the Sino–Latin American economic and trade...
Islamic Globalization
Pilgrimage, Capitalism, Democracy, and Diplomacy
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
Islamic Globalization examines the Muslim world's growing importance in creating a more inclusive international system that is increasingly multipolar and multicultural. The author describes an emerging pattern of Islamic globalization as a series of transformations in four interrelated areas —...
China and the Group 20
The Interplay between a Rising Power and an Emerging Institution
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Since the great financial crisis in 2008, the Group 20 (G20) has played an increasingly important role in global economic governance as an emerging global macroeconomic coordination mechanism. China and the Group 20 provides experts' observations on the development of the G20, G20's influence on global...
New Dynamics in US-China Relations
Contending for the Asia Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Washington’s strategic pivot to Asia and Beijing’s pursuit of new strategic and security interests in the region have led to increasing tensions between the two powers. US leaders have stressed that their increased interest in Asia is driven by a desire to benefit from the thriving regional economies,...