International Relations category: 9182 books
Transition Scenarios
China and the United States in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
China’s rising status in the global economy alongside recent economic stagnation in Europe and the United States has led to considerable speculation that we are in the early stages of a transition in power relations. Commentators have tended to treat this transitional period as a novelty, but history...
Strategic Reassurance and Resolve
U.S.-China Relations in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
After forty years of largely cooperative Sino-U.S. relations, policymakers, politicians, and pundits on both sides of the Pacific see growing tensions between the United States and China. Some go so far as to predict a future of conflict, driven by the inevitable rivalry between an established and...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
Observes how the growth of the political authority of the Council challenges the basic idea that states have legal autonomy over their domestic affairs. The individual essays survey the implications that flow from these developments in the crucial policy areas of: terrorism; economic sanctions; the...
The Discourse of Palestinian-Israeli Relations
Persistent Analytics and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Many observers have portrayed the Oslo Process as a milestone in the peacemaking process between Palestinians and Israelis. In this controversial and groundbreaking new work, McMahon challenges the interpretation of the Oslo Process as a breakthrough or new beginning in Palestinian-Israeli relations....
Re-Orienting Australia-China Relations
1972 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Drawing on contributors from academic and policy communities, this volume explores the major aspects of Australia-China relations. The frequently overlooked connection between Australia and Taiwan is also considered to allow readers to reach a full appreciation of the restraints engendered by the...
by Pami Aalto
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
This book is the first comprehensive study of how and why the European Union has enlarged to become northern Europe’s leading power.
Pami Aalto presents a new approach to the under-theorized field of EU foreign policy studies, showing how, since 1990, the EU has enlarged to include Finland,...
by Elia R.G. Pusterla
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2015
The book deeply analyses the bilateral relations between Switzerland and the European Union and their effect on the former's sovereignty in the context of Europeanisation. This touches on philosophical debates on the complexity of sovereignty. What sovereignty is at stake when talking about Swiss-EU...
Western Perspectives on the People's Republic of China
Politics, Economy and Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
How have Westerners seen the People's Republic of China over the years? The question raises many important issues, which this book aims to present, analyze and explain. The basic conclusion is that Western perspectives are somewhat more complex than simply viewing China's realities. Involved also...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
This edited volume seeks to provide guidance on how we can approach questions of governing and agency—particularly those who endeavour to embark on grounded empirical research— by rendering explicit some key challenges, tensions, dilemmas, and confluences that such endeavours elicit. Indeed, the...
Representing Religion in the European Union
Does God Matter?
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Religious actors are becoming part of the EU bureaucratic system, and their mobilisation in Brussels and Strasbourg in the last decade has increased dramatically. This book explores the mechanism and impact of religious representation by examining relations between religious practitioners and politicians...
Turkish-Greek Relations
The Security Dilemma in the Aegean
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
The discord between Turkey and Greece has grown deeper and wider over time, over a series of seemingly vital issues, which have at times brought the two countries to the brink of war. Yet in 1999 the two countries opened a dialogue on non-sensitive issues such as trade, the environment and tourism.
The...
China-ASEAN Sub-Regional Cooperation
Progress, Problems and Prospect
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
This book is an edited volume about China-ASEAN relations with contributions from experts based in China and Singapore. The book includes a few excellent papers that were presented at a conference the editor organized in October 2009 and also two other research papers. They examine China-ASEAN relations...
Isolate or Engage
Adversarial States, US Foreign Policy, and Public Diplomacy
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
The U.S. government has essentially two choices when dealing with adversarial states: isolate them or engage them. Isolate or Engage systematically examines the challenges to and opportunities for U.S. diplomatic relations with nine intensely adversarial states—China, Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
This book examines Winston Churchill’s role in the creation and development of the Anglo–American special relationship.
Drawing together world leading and emergent scholars, this volume offers a critical celebration of Churchill’s contribution to establishing the Anglo–American special...