International Relations category: 9182 books
Proudly We Can Be Africans
Black Americans and Africa, 1935-1961
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2009
The mid-twentieth century witnessed nations across Africa fighting for their independence from colonial forces. By examining black Americans' attitudes toward and responses to these liberation struggles, James Meriwether probes the shifting meaning of Africa in the intellectual, political, and social...
Germany's Foreign Policy Towards Poland and the Czech Republic
Ostpolitik Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
This is a new exploration of how the events of the twentieth century still cast a shadow over relations between Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic.
Using social constructivism theory, it provides a comparative assessment of Germany's post-reunification relations with the Czech Republic...
Sino-U.S. Energy Triangles
Resource Diplomacy Under Hegemony
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
The remarkable performance of the Chinese economy in the last three decades has placed China at the centre of the world stage. In 1993, China became a net importer of energy, although it was not until the early 2000s that the world began to pay more attention to China’s energy needs and...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
Academics and policymakers frequently discuss global governance but they treat governance as a structure or process, rarely considering who actually does the governing. This volume focuses on the agents of global governance: 'global governors'. The global policy arena is filled with a wide variety...
Cold War Holidays
American Tourism in France
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Moving beyond traditional state-centered conceptions of foreign relations, Christopher Endy approaches the Cold War era relationship between France and the United States from the original perspective of tourism. Focusing on American travel in France after World War II, Cold War Holidays shows how...
by Marcus Power
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2019
Geopolitics and Development examines the historical emergence of development as a form of governmentality, from the end of empire to the Cold War and the War on Terror. It illustrates the various ways in which the meanings and relations of development as a discourse, an apparatus and an aspiration,...
Success and Failure in Limited War
Information and Strategy in the Korean, Vietnam, Persian Gulf, and Iraq Wars
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Common and destructive, limited wars are significant international events that pose a number of challenges to the states involved beyond simple victory or defeat. Chief among these challenges is the risk of escalation—be it in the scale, scope, cost, or duration of the conflict. In this book, Spencer...
The Currents of War
A New History of American-Japanese Relations, 1899-1941
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
From 1899 until the American entry into World War II, U.S. presidents sought to preserve China's territorial integrity in order to guarantee American businesses access to Chinese markets -- a policy famously known as the "open door." Before the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, Americans saw Japan...
Russian Policy towards China and Japan
The El'tsin and Putin Periods
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2007
Drawing on the most up-to-date sources, this book provides an in-depth examination of Russia’s relations with China and Japan, the two Asia-Pacific superpowers-in-waiting. For Russia there has always been more than one ‘Asia’: after the collapse of the Soviet Union, there were those in the Russian...
India-US Relations in the Age of Uncertainty
An uneasy courtship
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
In the initial phase of the Obama administration, India’s ruling class and strategic community formed a perception that the spirit of strategic partnership between the two countries might be diluted on account of China looming large in the priorities of this administration. Despite occasional...
Engaging with the World
Critical Reflections on Indias Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This volume represents one of the rare and comprehensive exercises in critically analysing diverse aspects of Indias engagement with the world after the cold war. It is primarily written for the students and scholars in international relations who are trying to grapple with different aspects of Indias...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2008
Since the end of the Cold War NATO has redefined its raison d’etre, extending its membership, broadening its political goals and widening its zone of operation. It has also sought to enhance its co-operation with Russia, for example through the NATO-Russia Council, though moves here have coincided...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Providing a comprehensive overview of Russia’s foreign policy directions, this handbook brings together an international team of scholars to develop a complex treatment of Russia’s foreign policy. The chapters draw from numerous theoretical traditions by incorporating ideas of domestic institutions,...
Turkmenistan's Foreign Policy
Positive Neutrality and the consolidation of the Turkmen Regime
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2008
Turkmenistan, an independent nation since 1991, is a strategically important Central Asian state. This book covers the most significant period of the establishment of the Turkmen political regime. At the core of this book is the Doctrine of Positive Neutrality, which, from 1995 onwards, constituted...