International Relations category: 9182 books
The United Nations, Peace and Security
From Collective Security to the Responsibility to Protect
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Ending humanitarian atrocities has become as important for the United Nations as preventing interstate war. This book examines the transformation of UN operations, analysing its changing role and structure. Ramesh Thakur asks why, when and how force may be used, and argues that the growing gulf between...
The Exclusions of Civilization
Indigenous Peoples in the Story of International Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
This book builds upon an inter-disciplinary body of literature to detail the centrality of European colonialism and imperialism in the constitution of modern international relations. A critical historical analysis that challenges conventional assumptions about the evolution and expansion of international...
by Peter J. Beck
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Although the Falklands War of 1982 had a decisive outcome in respect to the restoration of British control, it failed to resolve the basic cause of the war: the Anglo-Argentine dispute over sovereignty. Relations between the two countries remain unstable, whilst a series of events throughout the past...
International Summitry and Global Governance
The rise of the G7 and the European Council, 1974-1991
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
This volume is the first detailed study of the emergence of regular and frequent heads of government meetings (summits), covering the period from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s.
Summit meetings of heads of government have become 'banal' in today's world. Yet they are a relatively recent practice...
by Robert Jervis, Robert Jervis
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Since its original publication in 1976, Perception and Misperception in International Politics has become a landmark book in its field, hailed by the New York Times as "the seminal statement of principles underlying political psychology." This new edition includes an extensive preface by the author...
Military Engagement
Influencing Armed Forces Worldwide to Support Democratic Transitions
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
The response of an autocratic nation's armed forces is crucial to the outcome of democratization movements throughout the world. But what exact internal conditions have led to real-world democratic transitions, and have external forces helped or hurt? Here, experts with military and policy backgrounds,...
The Logic of Conformity
Japan's Entry into International Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
In The Logic of Conformity, Tomoko T. Okagaki examines Japan’s entry into the European state system in the late nineteenth century. Okagaki focuses on the extraordinary degree of conformity that Japan demonstrated in accommodating itself to Western norms of international relations within a very...
by Joseph Yu-Shek Cheng
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Since the mid-1990s, the Chinese authorities have gradually come to embrace multilateralism to realize their basic foreign policy objectives in maintaining a peaceful international environment and enhancing China's international status and influence. This embrace is largely based on pragmatic considerations....
by Purnendra Jain
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2006
This book moves away from the common belief that Japan’s international relations are firmly the preserve of the national government in Japan’s highly centralised political system. Examining examples of subnational governments (SNGs) across Japan the book uncovers a significant and generally unrecognised...
The Idea of International Society
Erasmus, Vitoria, Gentili and Grotius
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
This book offers the first comprehensive account and re-appraisal of the formative phase of what is often termed the 'Grotian tradition' in international relations theory: the view that sovereign states are not free to act at will, but are akin to members of a society, bound by its norms. It examines...
Diplomacy in the 21st Century
A Brief Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2019
This book provides an introduction to the theory and practice of diplomacy and its vital role in an era of increasing international uncertainty.
The work employs a distinctive "diplomatic perspective" on international relations and argues that the experience of conducting diplomacy...
Strategic Narratives
Communication Power and the New World Order
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Communication is central to how we understand international affairs. Political leaders, diplomats, and citizens recognize that communication shapes global politics. This has only been amplified in a new media environment characterized by Internet access to information, social media, and the transformation...
by Ryszard M. Czarny
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
This book presents the legal and political factors determining international relations, including the processes of integration in all their complexity. The overall structure of the book, together with the composition of its separate chapters, allows for some general assumptions, identifying the main...
Sports Diplomacy
Origins, Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
This book offers an accessible overview of the role sport plays in international relations and diplomacy.
Sports diplomacy has previously been defined as an old but under-studied aspect of the estranged relations between peoples, nations and states. These days, it is better understood as the...