International Relations category: 9182 books
Strategic Cooperation
Overcoming the Barriers of Global Anarchy
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Power inequalities and mistrust have characterized many interstate relationships. Yet most international relations theories do not take into account power and mistrust when explaining cooperation. While some scholars argue that power relations inhibit cooperation between states, other scholars expect...
Turkey
Terrorism, Civil Rights, and the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
How do democratic societies maintain the balance between civil rights and security while continuing the fight on global terrorism? This work raises this issue and presents one country, Turkey, and its struggle to implement laws to combat terrorism and comply with the European Union’s civil rights...
by Martin Griffiths
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
International Relations (IR) theory has seen a proliferation of competing, and increasingly trenchant, worldviews with no consensus on how to evaluate their relative strengths and weakness. This innovative new text provides an original interpretation of how best to navigate the clash of perspectives...
Ontopolitics in the Anthropocene
An Introduction to Mapping, Sensing and Hacking
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
The Anthropocene captures more than a debate over how to address the problems of climate change and global warming. Increasingly, it is seen to signify the end of the modern condition itself and potentially to open up a new era of political possibilities. This is the first book to look at the new...
by Richard Ned Lebow
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
This volume brings together the recent essays of Richard Ned Lebow, one of the leading scholars of international relations and US foreign policy.
Lebow's work has centred on the instrumental value of ethics in foreign policy decision making and the disastrous consequences which follow when...
Japan in a Dynamic Asia
Coping with the New Security Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2006
Japan in a Dynamic Asia examines a new phenomenon in Japanese foreign policy: Japan's increasing activism under the Koizumi administration. Behind this policy shift are the end of the Cold War, drastic growth of China, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and new transnational security threats....
Here Comes Everyone
Anthropology and World Affairs
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
International relations, as a discipline, is overwhelmingly top-down. It looks at world affairs with notable detachment. By taking a cultural anthropological approach, however, it is possible to engage with those involved in a more comprehensive and cogent way. It is possible to provide a deeper understanding...
by Marianne Ojo
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Country’s affairs are greatly impacted by shifts in government; thus, the availability of research on current happenings within governmental policy and relations is imperative to keep citizens informed. Uncertainties and Risk Assessment in Trade Relations presents an innovative examination of the...
Russia-Cyprus Relations
A Pragmatic Idealist Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
This study assesses Moscow's special bilateral relations with Cyprus since the mid-1950s, with particular emphasis on the post-Cold War years. Melakopides develops the theory of 'pragmatic idealism' when describing the way in which Moscow's Cyprus policies were meant to satisfy not only mutual interests...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Regional transformation has emerged as a major topic of research during the past few decades, much of it seeking to understand how a region changes into a zone of conflict or cooperation and how and why some regions remain in perpetual conflict. Although the leading theoretical paradigms of international...
Negotiating sovereignty and human rights
International society and the International Criminal Court
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Negotiating sovereignty and human rights takes the transatlantic conflict over the International Criminal Court as a lens for an enquiry into the normative foundations of international society. The author shows how the way in which actors refer to core norms of the international society such as sovereignty...
Chinese Foreign Relations with Weak Peripheral States
Asymmetrical Economic Power and Insecurity
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
This book examines China’s relations with its weak peripheral states through the theoretical lens of structural power and structural violence.
China’s foreign policy concepts toward its weak neighbouring states, such as the ‘One Belt, One Road’ strategy, are premised on the assumption...
SingaporeChina Relations
50 Years
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Showcasing the substantive and multi-faceted Singapore–China relationship, this book examines the political, economic, socio-cultural, people-to-people and even military exchanges between the two countries. It also highlights flagship projects and other key private sector-led projects that have...
India-China Relations in The Contemporary Era
Opportunities, Obstacles and Outlooks
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
This book contains of some of the papers presented in an international seminar on India-China Relations in the Contemporary Era: Opportunities, Obstacles and Outlooks, organised by the department of Political Science of the HNB Garhwal University, Srinagar, Garhwal, Uttarakhand (India). The papers...