International Relations category: 9182 books
No Exit from Pakistan
America's Tortured Relationship with Islamabad
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
This book tells the story of the tragic and often tormented relationship between the United States and Pakistan. Pakistan's internal troubles have already threatened US security and international peace, and Pakistan's rapidly growing population, nuclear arsenal, and relationships with China and India...
Back Channel to Cuba
The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
History is being made in U.S.-Cuban relations. Now in paperback and updated to tell the real story behind the stunning December 17, 2014, announcement by President Obama and President Castro of their move to restore full diplomatic relations, this powerful book is essential to understanding ongoing...
Iran's Nuclear Programme
Strategic Implications
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
This book examines the strategic implications of Iran’s nuclear programme, providing an inventory of the negotiations and a discussion of possible solutions to this pressing international security issue.
The Islamic Republic of Iran’s nuclear programme has been the cause of one of the most...
The Flawed Architect
Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2004
Henry Kissinger dominated American foreign relations like no other figure in recent history. He negotiated an end to American involvement in the Vietnam War, opened relations with Communist China, and orchestrated détente with the Soviet Union. Yet he is also the man behind the secret bombing of...
Crisis and Commitment
United States Policy Toward Taiwan, 1950-1955
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This analytical study examines in comprehensive detail the making of the American military and political commitment to Taiwan during the first half of the 1950s. Starting with President Truman's declaration in January 1950 that the United States would not militarily assist Taiwan's Nationalist Chinese...
The Crescent Moon and the Magen David
Turkish-Israeli Relations Through the Lens of the Turkish Public
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
The nationalist outlook of the Turkish state since the beginning of the Republican era in 1923 targeted uniform identity formation. While Turkey did not recognize the existence of ethnic identities as long as they were Muslim, non-Muslims were challenging this ideal. During this social engineering,...
by William Hale
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
The American-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003 has affected Turkey's foreign policy in unpredictable ways. On the one hand stood Turkey's vital alliance with the US, stretching back to the early days of the cold war; on the other, the strong opposition of the Turkish people to the invasion of Iraq....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
The Oxford Handbook on the World Trade Organization provides an authoritative and cutting-edge account of the World Trade Organization. Its purpose is to provide a holistic understanding of what the WTO does, how it goes about fulfilling its tasks, its achievements and problems, and how it might contend...
Tangled Titans
The United States and China
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Tangled Titans offers a current and comprehensive assessment of the most important relationship in international affairs—that between the United States and China. How the relationship evolves will have a defining impact on the future of world politics, the Asian region, and the citizens of many...
Dancing with the Dragon
China's Emergence in the Developing World
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
For the past several decades, China has been transforming itself from an isolated and backward agrarian society into an economic superpower with global interests and responsibilities. Over 300 million Chinese have been lifted out of poverty and China now enjoys the fastest growing and third largest...
The Chessboard and the Web
Strategies of Connection in a Networked World
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
From a renowned foreign-policy expert, a new paradigm for strategy in the twenty-first century In 1961, Thomas Schelling’s The Strategy of Conflict used game theory to radically reenvision the U.S.-Soviet relationship and establish the basis of international relations for the rest of the Cold War....
Mediatized China-Africa Relations
How Media Discourses Negotiate the Shifting of Global Order
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This cutting edge book explores the role of the media in the highly disputed area of China-Africa relations, notably how various aspects of the issue have been portrayed, negotiated and contested in media and academic discourses. As Africa’s biggest trading partner and creditor, China explores...
Volunteer Tourism in the Global South
Giving Back in Neoliberal Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
This work explores the increasingly popular phenomenon of volunteer tourism in the Global South, paying particular attention to the governmental rationalities and socio-economic conditions that valorise it as a noble and necessary cultural practice.
Combining theoretical research with primary...
Private Power and Global Authority
Transnational Merchant Law in the Global Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2003
Transnational merchant law, which is mistakenly regarded in purely technical and apolitical terms, is a central mediator of domestic and global political/legal orders. By engaging with literature in international law, international relations and international political economy, this book develops...