International Relations category: 9182 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
This book reflects on the way in which war and police/policing intersect in contemporary Western-led interventions in the global South. The volume combines empirically oriented work with ground-breaking theoretical insights and aims to collect, for the first time, thoughts on how war and policing...
Sweet Talk
Paternalism and Collective Action in North-South Trade Relations
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
Developed nations strive to create the impression that their hearts and pockets bleed for the developing world. Yet, the global North continues to offer unfavorable trade terms to the global South. Truly fair trade would make reciprocal concessions to developing countries while allowing them to better...
The Rebuilding of Greater Russia
Putin's Foreign Policy Towards the CIS Countries
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2007
This book describes the strategies used by President Putin from 2000 onwards to recreate 'Greater Russia', that is a Russia that controls most of the territory of the former Soviet Union.
It shows the subtlety of the means of control, often through creating economic dependencies in the 'near...
International Ethics
Concepts, Theories, and Cases in Global Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Mark Amstutz illustrates the role of moral norms in global politics and the ethical foundation of the rules, institutions, and structures of global society with twenty-six new and revised case studies, including the ethics of climate change, the refugee crisis, and the Syrian civil war. The cases...
by Stanley Michalak
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
In clear and jargon-free style, A Primer in Power Politics explains the concept of power politics and provides an introduction to the principles of humanistic political realism. This book answers the questions: When and why do states resort to the use of force, and what are the uses and limits of...
Political Culture, Political Science, and Identity Politics
An Uneasy Alliance
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Political Culture (defined as the values, beliefs, and behavioral patterns underlying the political system) has long had an uneasy relationship with political science. Identity politics is the latest incarnation of this conflict. Everyone agrees that culture and identity are important, specifically...
Becoming Enemies
U.S.-Iran Relations and the Iran-Iraq War, 1979–1988
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Becoming Enemies brings the unique methods of critical oral history, developed to study flashpoints from the Cold War such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, to understand U.S. and Iranian relations from the fall of the Shah in 1978 through the Iranian hostage crisis and the Iran-Iraq war. Scholars and...
Troubled Partnership
U.S.-Turkish Relations in an Era of Global Geopolitical Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2010
U.S.-Turkish relations, long a vital element of U.S. policy, have seriously deteriorated in recent years. However, the arrival of a new U.S. administration offers an opportunity to repair recent fissures. Priority should be given to harmonizing policy toward Iraq and the Middle East as well as Central Asia and the Caucasus.
Islamic Law and the Law of Armed Conflict
The Conflict in Pakistan
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
Islamic Law and the Law of Armed Conflict: The Conflict in Pakistan demonstrates how international law can be applied in Muslim states in a way that is compatible with Islamic law. Within this broader framework of compatible application, Niaz A. Shah argues that the Islamic law of qital (i.e. armed...
Europeanization and Foreign Policy
State Identity in Finland and Britain
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
This book examines the relationship between the European Union (EU) and its member states by analysing how the process of integration in the field of foreign policy is shaping member states' identities.
Focusing on the mutually constitutive aspects of the relationship between the EU and its...
Russia and the EU in a Multipolar World
Discourses, Identities, Norms
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
This timely book offers a multifaceted analysis of EU-Russian relations, drawing on the investigation of competing models of international society. Makarychev argues that the huge variety of interest-based and normative models is best explained through the study of foreign policy and identity discourses....
Rethinking International Protection
The Sovereign, the State, the Refugee
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
This book provides a critical account of the concept of international protection. The author questions the boundaries between protection and assistance, and challenges the dominant focus on state sovereignty. Drawing upon a broad range of sources, she scrutinises the central role played by the state...
Social Justice, Global Dynamics
Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Many theoretical publications make assumptions about the facts of globalization, and in particular about the role and autonomy of the nation state. These factual claims and assumptions often play an important role in justifying the normative conclusions, yet remain under-explored.
This interdisciplinary...
Emerging Powers, Emerging Markets, Emerging Societies
Global Responses
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
The rise of emerging or new powers has recently become one of the most researched areas in International Relations. While most studies focus on relations between traditional and emerging powers, this edited collection turns the focus 180 degrees and asks how countries outside these two power sets...