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Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013

This edited volume provides a critical overview of the new stabilization agenda in international relations. The primary focus of so-called stability operations since 9/11 has been Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq. Covering the wider picture, this volume provides a comprehensive assessment of...
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The Samoan Tangle

A Study in Anglo-German-American Relations 1878–1900

by Paul M. Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013

Exploring the diplomatic negotiations that led to the division of the Samoan Islands between Germany, Great Britain and the United States in 1899, this book is a significant study of international relations between the three late 19th-century superpowers. The author demonstrates how the Pacific islands...
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Security as Practice

Discourse Analysis and the Bosnian War

by Lene Hansen
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013

This important text offers a full and detailed account of how to use discourse analysis to study foreign policy. It provides a poststructuralist theory of the relationship between identity and foreign policy and an in-depth discussion of the methodology of discourse analysis. Part I offers a...
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Violent Peace

Militarized Interstate Bargaining in Latin America

by David R. Mares
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2001

When is military force an acceptable tool of foreign policy? Why do democracies use force against each other? David R. Mares argues that the key factors influencing political leaders in all types of polities are the costs to their constituencies of using force and whether the leader can survive their...
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Taiwan's Security

History and Prospects

by Bernard Cole
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2006

This is the first explanation and evaluation of Taiwan’s defence forces and infrastructure. It examines not only Taiwan’s armed forces, but also its Ministry of National Defence, personnel issues, and civil-military relations. This book provides crucial base-line data and evaluation of...
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by Dan Reiter, Allan C. Stam
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010

Why do democracies win wars? This is a critical question in the study of international relations, as a traditional view--expressed most famously by Alexis de Tocqueville--has been that democracies are inferior in crafting foreign policy and fighting wars. In Democracies at War, the first major study...
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World Politics

International Relations and Globalisation in the 21st Century

by Jeffrey Haynes, Peter Hough, Shahin Malik
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017

A crucial companion for your International Relations course   Helping you to successfully navigate the exciting and complex field of global politics, this book gives you a clear overview of the field and will make sure you get the most out of your course.   In the book: Chapters...
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From Empire to Community

A New Approach to International Relations

by Amitai Etzioni
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015

Whether one favors the U.S. global projection of force or is horrified by it, the question stands - where do we go from here? What ought to be the new global architecture? Amitai Etzioni follows a third way, drawing on both neoconservative and liberal ideas, in this bold new look at international...
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Fragmented Borders, Interdependence and External Relations

The Israel-Palestine-European Union Triangle

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Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016

This book investigates relations between Israel, the Palestinian territories and the European Union by considering them as interlinked entities, with relations between any two of the three parties affecting the other side. The contributors to this edited volume explore different aspects of Israeli-Palestinian-European Union interconnectedness.
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Misunderstanding Russia

Russian Foreign Policy and the West

by Magda Leichtova
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016

Well argued and balanced, Leichtova provides an alternative and more constructive understanding of what drives Russian foreign policy. The book is based on the concepts of constructivism and orientalism in international relations to analyse the policies of the Russian Federation. This book highlights...
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by P. R. Chari, Vyjayanti Raghavan
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015

This book addresses the compulsions that underlie the China’s relations with India and South Korea— both increasingly mutually dependent on China for markets, trade, investments, technology, tourism, etc. It inquires into two sets of regional relationships, with China being the common linking...
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by Daniel Joseph Tauss
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015

Using an interdisciplinary social-science approach, Temporal Horizons and Strategic Decisions in US–China Relations: Between Instant and Infinite takes on the challenge of understanding the foreign policy decision process through the lens of the temporal horizon. A temporal horizon is the distance...
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Borderland Russians

Identity, Narrative and International Relations

by G. Hønneland
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2010

Geir Hønneland discusses some of the big questions in social science: What is identity? What is the role of identity and narrative in the study of international relations? The location is the Kola Peninsula, the most heavily militarized area of the world during the Cold War, now set to become Europe's next big oil playground.
Cover of Historical Dictionary of United States-Africa Relations
by Robert Anthony Waters Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2009

The image of Africa among Americans at the beginning of the 21st century is tragic; America's image among Africans is of a place that is splendid but arrogant and unfeeling. Both have large elements of truth. Poverty, coups, corruption, pandemic disease, and tribal, racial, and religious violence...
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