International Relations category: 9182 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Many international relations scholars argue that private authority and private actors are playing increasingly prominent roles in global governance. This book focuses on the other side of the equation: the transformation of the public dimension of governance in the era of globalization. It analyses...
by Richard Ned Lebow
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Identity is the master variable for many constructivist scholars of international politics. In this comparative study, Richard Ned Lebow shows that states do not have identities any more than people do. Leaders, peoples, and foreign actors seek to impose national identifications consistent with their...
Global Resource Scarcity
Catalyst for Conflict or Cooperation?
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
A common perception of global resource scarcity holds that it is inevitably a catalyst for conflict among nations; yet, paradoxically, incidents of such scarcity underlie some of the most important examples of international cooperation. This volume examines the wider potential for the experience of...
The Global Politics of Science and Technology - Vol. 2
Perspectives, Cases and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
An increasing number of scholars have begun to see science and technology as relevant issues in International Relations (IR), acknowledging the impact of material elements, technical instruments, and scientific practices on international security, statehood, and global governance. This two-volume...
The Asia-Europe Meeting
The Theory and Practice of Interregionalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2007
Focusing on the economic, developmental, political and cultural issues of its member states, this book offers a critical assessment of the ASEM process since its inception in 1996, which now brings together all 27 EU members, the European Commission, and 16 East Asian states. The underlying theme...
After the Cold War: Domestic Factors and U.S.-China Relations
Domestic Factors and U.S.-China Relations
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
As relations between the United States and China move into a period of intense activity and sensitivity, this timely book addresses the impact of domestic factors in both countries on their post-Cold War/post-Tiananmen relations. The contributors examine the issue from a number of distinct perspectives:...
Networks of Nations
The Evolution, Structure, and Impact of International Networks, 1816–2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2010
Maoz views the evolution of international relations over the last two centuries as a set of interacting, cooperative and conflicting networks of states. The networks that emerged are the result of national choice processes about forming or breaking ties with other states. States are constantly concerned...
Studying Hong Kong
20 Years of Political, Economic and Social Developments
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
This book captures the essence of Hong Kong's development in the past two decades from 1997 to 2017. It is broken into four parts — economics, society, politics and culture.
Hong Kong's role remains as a gateway for global trading houses, businessmen, investors and traders. Hong Kong continues...
Governing Insecurity in Japan
The Domestic Discourse and Policy Response
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Since the end of the Cold War, Japan's security environment has changed significantly. While, on the global level, the United States is still Japan's most important security partner, the nature of the partnership has changed as a result of shifting demands from the United States, new international...
Comparative Regionalism
Economics and Security
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
This book comprises key essays on comparative regionalism and, more broadly, on regional conflict and cooperation by Professor Etel Solingen.
The study of regionalism, a subject pioneered by Solingen in the 1990s, is now an established field of inquiry, with a large community of scholars and...
Piracy in Southeast Asia
Trends, Hot Spots and Responses
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
This book combines multi-disciplinary ethnographic and theoretical approaches to examine piracy in Southeast Asia and the regional and international responses to this threat.
During the piracy boom of the early to mid-2000s, the issue of piracy in Southeast Asia received substantial academic...
New Regional Geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific
Drivers, Dynamics and Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
During the last twenty years, burgeoning transnational trade, investment and production linkages have emerged in the area between the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The appearance of this area of interdependence and interaction and its potential impact on global order has captured the attention of political...
Security and Climate Change
International Relations and the Limits of Realism
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
This new book explains why the international community has responded with a sense of fatalistic passivity to climate change.
It presents a distinct critique of realism through the study of this topic, commonly overlooked in international relations. The author argues that the realist view rests...
Turkish Foreign Policy
International Relations, Legality and Global Reach
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Rich in its spatial scope, this edited collection provides an extensive and detailed overview of contemporary Turkish foreign policy. From the founding principles of foreign policy in the early republic to changing patterns during the second half of the 20th century, this text not only charts underexplored...