International Relations category: 9182 books
Civilizing the Enemy
German Reconstruction and the Invention of the West
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
For the past century, politicians have claimed that "Western Civilization" epitomizes democratic values and international stability. But who is a member of "Western Civilization"? Germany, for example, was a sworn enemy of the United States and much of Western Europe in the first...
Spheres of Influence in International Relations
History, Theory and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Current events happening around the world, especially the ’humanitarian interventions’ by NATO and the West within the context of the so-called Arab Spring, make the understanding of the role of spheres of influence in international politics absolutely critical. Hast explores the practical implications...
Venezuela
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Among the top ten oil exporters in the world and a founding member of OPEC, Venezuela currently supplies 11 percent of U.S. crude oil imports. But when the country elected the fiery populist politician Hugo Chavez in 1998, tensions rose with this key trading partner and relations have been strained...
US-China Relations
Perilous Past, Uncertain Present
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
This comprehensive assessment of historical and contemporary determinants of Sino-American relations has been brought up to date with full treatment of rising tensions over salient differences since the ascendance of China’s dynamic leader Xi Jinping (2012– ). Incoming President Barack Obama (2009–2017)...
by Christoph Wehr
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2004
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Eastern Europe, grade: good, Vilnius University (Institute of International Relations and Political Science), course: Baltic sea region: conflict, cooperation and regionalism, language: English, abstract: Introduction...
The Politics of Becoming European
A study of Polish and Baltic Post-Cold War security imaginaries
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2009
This book weaves together perspectives drawn from critical international relations, anthropology and social theory in order to understand the Polish and Baltic post-Cold War politics of becoming European.
Approaching the study of Europe’s eastern enlargement through a post-colonial critique,...
Power, the State, and Sovereignty
Essays on International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
Stephen Krasner has been one of the most influential theorists within international relations and international political economy over the past few decades. Power, the State, and Sovereignty is a collection of his key scholarly works. The book includes both a framing introduction written for this...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Written as EU-Russia relations began their swift decline as a result of the Ukrainian crisis, this book examines the nature of these two actors’ relationship in respect of their Partnership for Modernisation. The contributing authors look at modernisation through different lenses applying varying...
Inquiry, Logic, and International Politics
With a New Preface by Harvey Starr
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Through the use of logic, simulation, and empirical data, Benjamin A. Most and Harvey Starr develop and demonstrate a nuanced and more appropriate conceptualization of explanation in international relations and foreign policy in Inquiry, Logic, and International Politics. They demonstrate that a concern...
Energy Security
Europe's New Foreign Policy Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2009
The geopolitics of oil and gas have made a spectacular return to the international political agenda. The European Union (EU) has recognized the importance of incorporating energy security more systematically into foreign policy. It has committed itself to pursuing an energy security policy based on...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
This book provides an original and thoroughly academic analysis of the link between Russian energy and foreign policies in Eurasia, as well as offering an interpretation of Russia’s coherence on the international stage, seeking to understand Russia and explain its behaviour.
The authors analyse...
Freedom vs Necessity in International Relations
Human-Centred Approaches to Security and Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
The last two decades have seen the remarkable rise to dominance of human-centred understandings of the world. Indeed, it is now rare to read any analysis of insecurity, conflict or development which does not discuss the need to 'empower' or 'capacity-build' local individuals or communities. In this...
by Fraser Cameron
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
This text is the best introduction to the history, institutions, actors, processes and challenges of European Foreign Policy. This 2nd edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect the substantial changes to European Foreign Policy as a result of the Lisbon Treaty and other significant changes...
The Implementation Game
The TRIPS Agreement and the Global Politics of Intellectual Property Reform in Developing Countries
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
With the launch of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995, its Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) emerged as a symbol of coercion in international economic relations. In the decade that followed, intellectual property became one of the most contentious topics...