International Relations category: 9182 books
The Power of International Theory
Reforging the Link to Foreign Policy-Making through Scientific Enquiry
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This new study challenges how we think about international relations, presenting an analysis of current trends and insights into new directions.
It shows how the discipline of international relations was created with a purpose of helping policy-makers to build a more peaceful and just world....
China Turns to Multilateralism
Foreign Policy and Regional Security
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2007
China’s recent rapid economic growth has drawn global attention to its foreign policy, which increasingly has had an impact on world politics. In contrast with China’s long-standing preference for bilateralism or unilateralism in foreign policy, recent decades have seen changes in the PRC’s...
by Peter Radan
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Secession is a detachment of a territory from an existing state with the aim of creating a new state on the detached territory. Secession is usually an outcome of the political mobilization of a population on the territory to be detached and, as a political phenomenon, is a subject of study in the...
Punishment, Justice and International Relations
Ethics and Order after the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
This book examines the international political order in the post-Cold War era, arguing that this order has become progressively more punitive. This is seen as resulting from both a human-rights regime that emphasizes legal norms and the aggressive policies of the United States and its allies in the...
by Joseph Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2008
This book provides a comprehensive survey of Japanese-Russian relations from the end of the Russo-Japanese War until the present. Based on extensive original research in both Japanese and Russian sources, it traces the development of relations from the tumultuous pre-war period, through the Second...
Explorations in Ethics and International Relations
Essays in Honour of Sydney Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
This book examines the interaction between the realms of ethics and international relations. The essays discuss such issues as the responsibilities of defence scientists; theological reflections on compromise; the ethics of risk-taking; the international legal protection of human rights and the collaboration...
The Paradox of EU-India Relations
Missed Opportunities in Politics, Economics, Development Cooperation, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
The Paradox of EU-India Relations: Missed Opportunities in Politics, Economics, Development Cooperation, and Culture, by Shazia Aziz WYlbers, discusses areas where EU-Indian relations are strained and areas where there is meaningful cooperation, and then situates those areas within the broader context...
International Trade and Developing Countries
Bargaining Coalitions in GATT and WTO
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
A keen analysis of how and why countries bargain together in groups in world affairs, and why such coalitions are crucial to individual developing nations. It also reveals the effects these negotiating blocs are having on world affairs.
Successful coalition building has proven to be a difficult...
Southeast Asia and China
A Contest in Mutual Socialization
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
The recent uncertainties over the South China Sea have become one major issue in the relations between China and Southeast Asian countries. The South China Sea issue, however, is countered by the deepening economic integration between China and Southeast Asia, which is likely to continue should China's...
by Emilian Kavalski
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
This book offers a relational theory of International Relations (IR). To show the ways in which the relationality is foreshadowed in IR conversations it makes the following three points:
it recovers a mode of IR theorizing as itinerant translation;
it deploys the concept and practices...
(In)Security and the Production of International Relations
The Politics of Securitisation in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
This book provides a framework for analysing the interplay between securitisation and foreign affairs, reconnecting critical security studies with traditional IR concerns about interstate relations.
What happens to foreign policymaking when actors, things or processes are presented as threats?...
Geo-economics and Power Politics in the 21st Century
The Revival of Economic Statecraft
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Starting from the key concept of geo-economics, this book investigates the new power politics and argues that the changing structural features of the contemporary international system are recasting the strategic imperatives of foreign policy practice.
States increasingly practice power politics...
Absolute and relative gains in the American decision to release nuclear weapons over Hiroshima and Nagasaki
A Historical Case Study
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Master's Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject Politics - International Politics - General and Theories, grade: 80/100, University of Leicester (Department of Politics and International Relations), course: International Relations, language: English, abstract: The question of whether states pursue...
by Nassef M. Adiong
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Scientific Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Near East, Near Orient, grade: A+, Technological University of the Philippines (Department of Political Science), course: Comparative Foreign Policy, language: English, abstract: The same peculiarity as...