International Relations category: 9182 books
US Foreign Policy and Defense Strategy
The Evolution of an Incidental Superpower
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Safe from the battlefields of Europe and Asia, the United States led the post–World War II global economic recovery through international assistance and foreign direct investment. With an ardent decolonization agenda and a postwar legitimacy, the United States attempted to construct a world characterized...
Morocco
Challenges to tradition and modernity
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
The first edition of Morocco was published one year before the mass protests of the Arab Spring rocked the Moroccan state. Post-Arab Spring, the country has a new constitution and government, but the state remains uncompromising on any true reform of the monarchy’s claims to power.
This new...
Singapore's Foreign Policy
The Search for Regional Order
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2007
The conventional understanding of Singapore's foreign policy can be summarized in three main propositions: first, it is dictated by the imperatives of being a small state; second, its primary purpose is to ensure Singapore's survival, given its small size; and third, this logic of survival dictates...
by Elise Verdonck
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Essay from the year 2014 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Near East, Near Orient, University of Auckland, course: International Peace & Security, language: English, abstract: International law historically originates from the need to stabilise relations between people...
India's National Security
Annual Review 2015–16
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The last two years have witnessed deterioration in the global security situation characterised by increasing tensions among major powers. The threat perceptions of the US, China and Russia vis-à-vis each other have sharpened. There is stiff competition among them to dominate the strategic space in...
by Philippe Régnier, Daniel Warner
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
This title was first published in 2001: Japan has a long history of being isolated from multilateral diplomacy. With its increasing economic power, Japan has become more concerned with external foreign relations and hence more involved in multilateral diplomacy. This coherent and interrelated text,...
Assessing ASEAN's Performance and Potential - 'Why has it been imperative for ASEAN to embark on a process of reform and 'reinvention' since the regional crisis?'
'Why has it been imperative for ASEAN to embark on a process of reform and 'reinvention' since the regional crisis?'
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2006
Essay from the year 2006 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: South Asia, grade: 68% (credit), The University of Sydney, course: Dilemmas of Development in Southeast Asia, 28 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Singapore's Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong opened...
Facing China as a New Global Superpower
Domestic and International Dynamics from a Multidisciplinary Angle
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2015
This book brings together diverse perspectives from the newest generation of scholars from Canada and China to better understand China in the 21st century. It examines China's socio-political structure, its particular relationship with Canada, and interaction with the international community; and...
by Kees van der Pijl
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2006
This book offers a highly original analysis of world events in the light of the Iraq War. It explores the history and development of relations between major countries in the international community and the impact that successive wars and changes in the global political economy have had on the way...
by Peter M. Haas
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Epistemic Communities, Constructivism and International Environmental Politics brings together 25 years of publications by Peter M. Haas. The book examines how the world has changed significantly over the last 100 years, discusses the need for new, constructivist scholarship to understand the dynamics...
Canada and the Middle East
In Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Canada and the Middle East: In Theory and Practice provides a unique perspective on one of the world’s most geopolitically important regions. From the perspective of Canada’s diplomats, academics, and former policy practitioners involved in the region, the book offers an overview of Canada’s...
The Conversion of Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg
From Isolation to International Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
The United States has looked inward throughout most of its history, preferring to avoid "foreign entanglements," as George Washington famously advised. After World War II, however, Americans became more inclined to break with the past and take a prominent place on the world stage. Much has...
The Re-Emergence of the Single State Solution in Palestine/Israel
Countering an Illusion
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Providing the first in-depth intellectual and organizational mapping of the single state idea’s recent resurgence in Palestine/Israel, this book enquires into its nature as a phenomenon of resistance, as well as into its potential as a counterhegemonic force in the making against the processes of...
by A. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Why is France so often relegated to the background in studies of international relations? This book seeks to redress this balance, exploring the relationship between the United States, United Kingdom and France, and its wider impact on the theory and practice of international relations.