International Relations category: 9182 books
Fifty Years of EU-Turkey Relations
A Sisyphean Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
The publication of this book marks the fiftieth year of Turkey’s application to the European Economic Community for associate membership, and evaluates EU-Turkey relations in a historical perspective.
Examining the evolving approaches of Turkey and of the EU towards each other, the volume...
by Necati Polat
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
International Relations, Meaning and Mimesis is an innovative assessment of the uses of theory in making sense of international politics, opening up new pathways to thinking about the basics of the study area.
Insights drawn from an interdisciplinary corpus of critical scholarship are synthesized...
by Stephen Chan
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
The world is troubled and full of misunderstandings. It seems a new world order of fundamentalist violence and meaningless atrocity is upon us, whilst civilised instruments for cooperation and compromise are becoming increasingly ineffective.
In this timely book, Stephen Chan explores the historical...
The Cold War and After
History, Theory, and the Logic of International Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
What makes for war or for a stable international system? Are there general principles that should govern foreign policy? In The Cold War and After, Marc Trachtenberg, a leading historian of international relations, explores how historical work can throw light on these questions. The essays in this...
The Discipline of Western Supremacy
Modes of Foreign Relations and Political Economy, Volume III
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Concluding the Deutscher Memorial Prize winning trilogy on 'Modes of Foreign Relations and Political Economy', this is a magisterial historical sociology of International Relations theory.*BR**BR*In The Discipline of Western Supremacy Kees van der Pijl argues that, from the late European Middle Ages,...
by David Criekemans, Thijs van de Graaf, Thomas Sattich
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Renewables are a game changer for interstate energy relations. Their abundance and intermittency, possibilities for decentral generation and use of rare earth materials, and generally electric nature of transportation make them very different from fossil fuels. What do these geographic and technical...
Routledge History of International Organizations
From 1815 to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
This is a definitive and comprehensive history of international organizations from their very beginning at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 up to the present day, and provides the reader with nearly two centuries of world history seen from the perspective of international organizations. It covers the...
A Global Security Triangle
European, African and Asian interaction
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
This book considers the interactions between Africa, Asia and Europe, analysing the short and long term strategies various states have adopted to external relations.
The urgency attached to the agenda of international terrorism and human and drugs- trafficking has forced the European Union...
Chinese Foreign Policy
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2019
This updated and expanded fourth edition of Chinese Foreign Policy seeks to examine the decision-makers, processes, and rationales behind China’s expanding international relations as well as offering an in-depth look at China’s modern global relations.
Among the key issues explored in this...
Governance through Development
Poverty Reduction Strategies, International Law and the Disciplining of Third World States
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Governance through Development locates the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) framework within the broader context of international law and global governance, exploring its impact on third world state engagement with the global political economy and the international regulatory norms and institutions...
by David Armstrong, Theo Farrell, Hélène Lambert
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
In this fully updated and revised edition, the authors explore the evolution, nature and function of international law in world politics and situate international law in its historical and political context. They propose three interdisciplinary 'lenses' (realist, liberal and constructivist) through...
Politics Without Sovereignty
A Critique of Contemporary International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
Written by leading scholars, this volume challenges the recent trend in international relations scholarship – the common antipathy to sovereignty.
The classical doctrine of sovereignty is widely seen as totalitarian, producing external aggression and internal repression. Political leaders...
Cases in International Relations
Principles and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Designed to complement the main themes of any introductory course, Snow’s bestselling text presents original case studies that survey the state of the international system and look in-depth at issues of current interest. The cases are extremely timely, geopolitically diverse, accessibly written,...
The EU-Russia Strategic Partnership
The Limits of Post-Sovereignty in International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Why have the European Union and the Russian Federation encountered severe difficulties in developing their relationship? Why haven’t the parties lived up to the initial promise and enthusiasm of the early 1990s?
Beginning with the immediate aftermath of the dissolution of the Soviet Union,...