International Relations category: 9182 books
by Karl Lemberg
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2005
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Far East, grade: 1,3, University of Potsdam, course: Security Studies, 13 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: After the end of the Cold War the Taiwan Strait is one of the remaining global...
Global Justice, Kant and the Responsibility to Protect
A Provisional Duty
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
This book provides an innovative contribution to the study of the Responsibility to Protect and Kantian political theory.
The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine has been heralded as the new international security norm to ensure the protection of peoples against genocide, ethnic cleansing,...
The European Union and the Arab Spring
Promoting Democracy and Human Rights in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
The European Union and the Arab Spring: Promoting Democracy and Human Rights in the Middle East, edited by Joel Peters, analyzes the response of the European Union to recent uprisings in the Middle East. The past year has witnessed a wave of popular uprisings across North Africa and the Middle East...
China's Economic Relations with the West and Japan, 1949-1979
Grain, Trade and Diplomacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2005
During the period 1949 to 1979, communist China was officially pursuing a policy of self-sufficiency, and the United States and its allies were officially implementing a trade embargo against communist China. However, this book, based on extensive original research, demonstrates that China was highly...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
This book explores whether the co-existence of (partially) overlapping and sometimes competing layers of authority, which characterizes today's global order, undermines or rather strengthens efforts to promote the rule of law on a global scale. Heupel and Reinold argue that whether multi-level governance...
Can Russia Change? (Routledge Revivals)
The USSR confronts Global Interdependence
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
First published in 1990, this ground-breaking book sought to determine whether contemporary Russia had the capacity to change and if, in so doing, it could alter the complex web of East-West relations from a zero-sum struggle to a state of peaceful competition and mutual security.
In order...
Coming in from the Cold War
Changes in U.S.-European Interactions since 1980
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2001
The early 1980s brought dramatic changes in East-West relations. The decade began with the death of Yugoslavia's Tito, the birth of Poland's Solidarity trade union, and the U.S. election of Ronald Reagan as president. These key developments, together with the growing financial insolvency of the Soviet...
China and India
Prospects for Peace
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
For all their spectacular growth, China and India must still lift a hundred million citizens out of poverty and create jobs for the numerous laborers. Both powers hope trade and investment will sustain national unity. For the first time, Jonathan Holslag identifies these objectives as new sources...
Kind Words, Cruise Missiles, and Everything in Between
The Use of Power Resources in U.S. Policies towards Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus 1989–2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
According to realist premises, the United States has an interest in remaining the world's only superpower, thus creating the need to manage and maintain unipolarity. The pursuit of this grand strategy, however, required the U.S. to adapt its various strategies to individual states. Poland, Ukraine,...
The Uncertain Superpower
Domestic Dimensions of U.S. Foreign Policy after the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
The book investigates US foreign policy in today's process of transformation. It shows how domestic factors determine more and more the superpower's paradigm of foreign policy. On the one hand, the US are the undisputed superpower as far as military, political or economic power are concerned, as well...
The Search for Reconciliation
Sino-Japanese and German-Polish Relations since World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
Why have some former enemy countries established durable peace while others remain mired in animosity? When and how does historical memory matter in post-conflict interstate relations? Focusing on two case studies, Yinan He argues that the key to interstate reconciliation is the harmonization of national...
The US Strategic Pivot to Asia and Cross-Strait Relations
Economic and Security Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Providing a coherent and current account of how the U.S. manages to 'pivot to Asia' amid a rising China, this book provides an insightful glimpse into China-US relations, and the complexities of the two nations' economic and defense issues as China asserts is financial and military might in Asia and beyond.
Peace and Conflict in Inter-Group Relations
The Role of Economic Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
The book ventures into the explanation of intra-state communal conflict, more narrowly of the conflict between majority and minority communal groups, and develops arguments that highlight the causal impact of intergroup economic inequality. Its quest for empirical support has led to the compilation...
The Role of Ideology in Syrian-US Relations
Conflict and Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
A study of US-Syria relations, this book analyzes the legacy of mistrust between the two states and continuities and discontinuities over time. It challenges the purely realist and power-political explanation that is dominant and points to a politically embedded set of ideas rooted in anti-colonial Arab nationalist ideology.