International Relations category: 9182 books
by Giacomo Chiozza, H. E. Goemans
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
Chiozza and Goemans seek to explain why and when political leaders decide to initiate international crises and wars. They argue that the fate of leaders and the way leadership changes, shapes leaders' decisions to initiate international conflict. Leaders who anticipate regular removal from office,...
Harmonious Intervention
China's Quest for Relational Security
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Two major features of international relations at the beginning of the 21st century are global governance and the rise of China. Global governance, advocating global norms, requires intervention into sovereign domains in defiance of those norms. However, an ascendant China adheres to a classic stance...
Towards Korean Reconciliation
Socio-Cultural Exchanges and Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Despite historic summits and spectacular acts of reconciliation between the rival neighbours, promises of improved cross-border relations between North and South Korea have been slow to materialize. In this insightful book, Gabriel Jonsson examines the impact that increased levels of socio-cultural...
Governmentality
Critical Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
First developed by Michel Foucault more than thirty years ago, "governmentality" has become an essential set of tools for many researchers in the social and political sciences today. What is "governmentality"? How does this perspective challenge the way we understand political...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Max Weber explored the political, epistemological and ethical problems of modernity, and understood how closely connected they were. His efforts are imaginative, sophisticated, even inspiring, but also flawed. Weber's epistemological successes and failures highlight unresolvable tensions that are...
Otherworldly Politics
The International Relations of Star Trek, Game of Thrones, and Battlestar Galactica
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
In Otherworldly Politics, Stephen Benedict Dyson examines the fictional but deeply political realities of three television shows: Star Trek, Game of Thrones, and Battlestar Galactica.
Dyson explains how these shows offer alternative histories and future possibilities for humanity. Fascinated...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
The creation of the UN system during World War II is a largely unknown or forgotten story among contemporary decision makers, international relations specialists, and policy analysts.
This book aims to recover the wartime history of the United Nations and explore how the forgotten past can...
Understanding Conflict and Violence
Theoretical and Interdisciplinary Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2007
This book examines and interprets a wide range of approaches to the causes of violence and conflict.
The causes of violence and conflict are often left untheorized, or they are discussed as an existent problem assumed to be an inevitable part of human interaction. Adopting an accessible approach,...
The United States and the Caribbean
Transforming Hegemony and Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2005
This volume provides the first comprehensive assessment of post-Cold War US-Caribbean relations.
Focusing on Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Trinidad-Tobago, the book looks at the political history of the region during the Cold War years, the region's current political economy, international...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2008
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Canadian Foreign Policy: 1945-2000
Major Documents and Speeches (Rideau Series #1)
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
Canada's role on the world stage has increased dramatically since the middle of the twentieth century. Once an offshoot of England, we have grown to become a recognized voice internationally.
Canadian Foreign Policy: 1945-2000 is a collection of key documents and speeches tracing the evolution...
Emotional Choices
How the Logic of Affect Shapes Coercive Diplomacy
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Why do states often refuse to yield to military threats from a more powerful actor, such as the United States? Why do they frequently prefer war to compliance? International Relations scholars generally employ the rational choice logic of consequences or the constructivist logic of appropriateness...
Persian Gulf 2014
India’s Relations with the Region
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
This series called *Persian Gulf *focuses on India’s bilateral relations with the region and discusses the political, strategic, economic, energy, cultural and social relations.
Backed by statistical information, it provides a comprehensive account of various aspects of the bilateral relations...
Superpower Rivalry and Conflict
The Long Shadow of the Cold War on the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Variously described by historians and thinkers as the ‘most terrible century in Western history’, ‘a century of massacres and wars’ and the ‘most violent century in human history’, the 20th century – and in particular the period between the First World War and the collapse of the USSR...