International Relations category: 9182 books
Middle East Politics and International Relations
Crisis Zone
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
The contemporary Middle East has been defined by political crises and conflict. The interplay of internal and external factors have set the region on a path of turmoil and crisis with devastating outcomes for its people. The absence of political accountability and representation, and policies pursued...
Turkey-Syria Relations
Between Enmity and Amity
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
In 1997 Turkey and Syria were on the brink of war, engaged in a very real power struggle. Turkey was aligned with Syria's main enemy, Israel, and there were seemingly intractable differences on the issues of borders, the sharing of river waters and trans-border communities. In less than a decade,...
Re-Writing International Relations
History and Theory Beyond Eurocentrism in Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
The book presents a possible way of reading and re-writing the Eurocentrism of International Relations. The method proposed to re-write histories of the manifestations and criticisms of Eurocentrism is through ‘connected histories’.
The first section of the book focuses on manifestations...
China's Diplomacy
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
This book offers a comprehensive review of the Communist Party of China's approach to diplomacy, through an extensive evaluation of the major practices and theories behind the Party's diplomacy, with its main achievements in its 90 years of diplomacy highlighted. It delves into the views held by the...
International Relations in Latin America
Peace and Security in the Southern Cone
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
This work studies the development of bilateral relations in two pairs of states (dyads): Argentina-Brazil and Argentina-Chile. It takes on a moderate constructivist approach that incorporates into the analysis of international relations the role of identities, ideas and perceptions as well as of material...
by Ednah M Peter
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Politics - International Politics - General and Theories, University of Botswana, course: International Relations, language: English, abstract: For years, scholars have been using different theories to analyze the way nations interact in the international systems....
Memory and Trauma in International Relations
Theories, Cases and Debates
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
This work seeks to provide a comprehensive and accessible survey of the international dimension of trauma and memory and its manifestations in various cultural contexts.
Drawing together contributions and case studies from scholars around the globe, the book explores the international political...
Essay Collections in International Relations
A Classified Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
This bibliography, originally published in 1977, details original material on international relations since 1870 written in English and appearing in non-recurrent multi-author works published between 1945 and 1975. The authors have distinguished between core topics such as foreign policy, defence,...
Rethinking Democracy Promotion in International Relations
The Rise of the Social
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
This book traces and conceptualises the changing notion of democracy and demonstrates how democracy promotion finds itself at the heart of contemporary international discourses and policies.
Democracy promotion is widely considered to constitute a hypocritical and failed ‘grand international...
The Responsibility to Protect in International Law
An Emerging Paradigm Shift
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
This book will consider a rapidly emerging guiding general principle in international relations and, arguably, in international law: the Responsibility to Protect. This principle is a solution proposed to a key preoccupation in both international relations and international law scholarship: how the...
Understanding U.S.-Latin American Relations
Theory and History
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
This book examines U.S.–Latin American relations from an historical, contemporary, and theoretical perspective. By drawing examples from the distant and more recent past—and interweaving history with theory—Williams illustrates the enduring principles of International Relations theory and provides...
Global Power Europe - Vol. 1
Theoretical and Institutional Approaches to the EU's External Relations
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
This two-volume project provides a multi-sectoral perspective over the EU's external projections from traditional as well as critical theoretical and institutional perspectives, and is supported by numerous case studies covering the whole extent of the EU’s external relations. The aim is to strive...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
This important collection of essays explores the terrain of possible Soviet-American relations in the next decade. Starting from the premise that glasnost and perestroika will not be reversed, this expert group of contributors provides a wide-ranging and far-reaching analysis of Soviet-U.S. relations...
Poland and Slovakia: Bilateral Relations in a Multilateral Context (2004–2016)
Essays on Politics and Economics
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
This book investigates the complex relations between the Republic of Poland and the Slovak Republic in the context of ongoing processes in the European Union's political and economic system. The basic assumption of the study is that Polish-Slovak relations are affected and shaped not only by the interaction...