International Relations category: 9182 books
Refugees in Extended Exile
Living on the Edge
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This book argues that the international refugee regime and its ‘temporary’ humanitarian interventions have failed. Most refugees across the global live in ‘protracted’ conditions that extend from years to decades, without legal status that allows them to work and establish a home. It is contended...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Focused on the role of Central Europe in international politics at the turn of the 20th century, the authors take stock of the knowledge about the discipline of IR, enhance the visibility of scholars from Central Europe, and fill the void which has emerged after several researches on Central Europe were completed in the 1990s.
South-South Cooperation Beyond the Myths
Rising Donors, New Aid Practices?
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
This book, which brings together scholars from the developed and developing world, explores one of the most salient features of contemporary international relations: South-South cooperation. It builds on existing empirical evidence and offers a comparative analytical framework to critically analyse...
The League of Nations
Enduring Legacies of the First Experiment at World Organization
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
The League of Nations occupies a fascinating yet paradoxical place in human history. Over time, it’s come to symbolize both a path to peace and to war, a promising vision of world order and a utopian illusion, an artifact of a bygone era and a beacon for one that may still come. As the first experiment...
by Mark Langan
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Africa’s association with the European Union has long been hailed as a progressive model of North-South relations. European officials, in particular, have represented the Africa-EU ‘partnership’ as a pro-poor enterprise in which trade interests are married to development prerogatives.
Applying...
Politics in a Religious World
Building a Religiously Informed U.S. Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Politics in a Religious World examines why US diplomacy often misunderstands, if not ignores, the role of religion in international conflicts.
After the Cold War, it became evident that religion was a key factor in many conflicts, including Bosnia, Rwanda, and Afghanistan. However, the US failed...
by Christoph Bluth
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
Korea is one of the critical flashpoints in the world today. News of North Korea's recent nuclear tests, conducted in defiance of international pressure, drew widespread condemnation and raised serious concerns about the threat now posed to regional and international security by the regime of North...
The Modern Mercenary
Private Armies and What They Mean for World Order
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
It was 2004, and Sean McFate had a mission in Burundi: to keep the president alive and prevent the country from spiraling into genocide, without anyone knowing that the United States was involved. The United States was, of course, involved, but only through McFate's employer, the military contractor...
After the Enlightenment
Political Realism and International Relations in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
After the Enlightenment is the first attempt at understanding modern political realism as a historical phenomenon. Realism is not an eternal wisdom inherited from Thucydides, Machiavelli or Hobbes, but a twentieth-century phenomenon rooted in the interwar years, the collapse of the Weimar Republic,...
Korea in the New Asia
East Asian Integration and the China Factor
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2007
Since the late 1970s a number of regional developments have impacted upon South Korea’s political and economic standing in Asia. China’s spectacular growth and closer integration with its neighbouring economies, along with a tendency toward more assertive political and diplomatic activity, have...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2007
This book engages the view that students of International Relations need to break with the habit of defining power in terms of military capabilities of states.
Featuring contributions from both upcoming and distinguished scholars, including Steven Lukes, Joseph Nye, and Stefano Guzzini, it...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
At a time of geopolitical tension and mutual distrust, the United States and Russia must work together in those areas where coordination is critical to global security, both to help stabilize the relationship and to buffer against conflict in the future. The analyses in this volume examine prospects...
Challenging America's Global Preeminence
Russia's Quest for Multipolarity
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Examining the shifts in Russian foreign policy and their potential impact on the status and influence of the United States in the international system, this outstanding volume examines why the Kremlin initially sought an alliance with the United States and the internal and external reasons why such...
Empire Within
International Hierarchy and its Imperial Laboratories of Governance
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
This book explores the reverberating impacts between historical and contemporary imperial laboratories and their metropoles through three case studies concerning violence, surveillance and political economy.
The invasions of Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003 forced the United States to experiment...