International Relations category: 9182 books
Canada Looks South
In Search of an Americas Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Recent events in the western hemisphere have led to a dramatic shift in the strategic and political importance of Latin America. But with relations still cool between the United States and Cuba, and Venezuela becoming more distant every day, there is considerable potential for Canada – with its...
Normative Power Europe Meets Israel
Perceptions and Realities
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
The book draws on some of the scholarship in perception studies and “Normative Power Europe” theory. The study of perceptions, although dating back to the mid-1970s, is gaining renewed currency in recent years both in international relations, in general, and in European Union studies, in particular....
The Cosmopolitan Potential of Exclusive Associations
Criteria for Assessing the Advancement of Cosmopolitan Norms
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Contemporary cosmopolitan moral theorists argue that in our increasingly interconnected world all individuals need to recognize that moral duties span state borders, involving responsibilities such as respecting human rights. Such arguments usually focus on the duties of individuals or on reforms...
The Abe Doctrine
Japan's Proactive Pacifism and Security Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
This book focuses on Prime Minister Abe’s policy toward international peace and security proposed in 2013 under the basic principle of ‘proactive contribution to peace’. To this end, this book investigates Prime Minister Abe’s policy-making process of the Peace and Security Legislation, which...
Arab Regionalism
A Post-Structural Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Arab regionalism details and examines the power relations involved in the making of an Arab region.
On an empirical level, this book concentrates on the drawing of topographic and ideational boundaries in the Arab region, on Arab regional organizations, on the functional cooperation among Arab...
by Gideon Baker
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
A long neglected concept in the field of international relations and political theory, hospitality provides a new framework for analysing many of the challenges in world politics today, from the search for peaceable relations between states to asylum and refugee crises.
by Gillian Wylie
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
This book explores the international politics behind the identification of human trafficking as a major global problem. Since 2000, tackling human trafficking has spawned new legal, security and political architecture. This book is grounded in the premise that the intense response to this issue is...
International Security Studies
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
This new textbook provides students with a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the subject of security studies, with a strong emphasis on the use of case studies.
In addition to presenting the major theoretical perspectives, the book examines a range of important and controversial...
US-Japan-North Korea Security Relations
Irrepressible Interests
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book examines the major security and related issues between the United States, Japan and North Korea (officially, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea - DPRK).
Although focusing mainly on current issues, this book also provides sufficient historical background to enable readers...
by Miroslav Nincic
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Recent American foreign policy has depended heavily on the use of negative inducements to alter the behavior of other states. From public browbeating through economic sanctions to military invasion, the last several presidents have chosen to use coercion to advance U.S. interests when dealing with...
Angry Public Rhetorics
Global Relations and Emotion in the Wake of 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
In Angry Public Rhetorics, Celeste Condit explores emotions as motivators and organizers of collective action—a theory that treats humans as “symbol-using animals” to understand the patterns of leadership in global affairs—to account for the way in which anger produced similar rhetorics in...
The February 2011 UN veto of Russia and China in the Syria case
A Russian perspective of the two-level game
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: International Organisations, grade: A, Webster University (International Relations), course: INTL5570 , language: English, abstract: On February 4th 2012, Russia and China vetoed an Arab-West plan in the United Nations...
The United States and Turkey's Path to Europe
Hands across the Table
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Turkey’s relations with the European Union is one of the most enigmatic topics in the European Studies literature. This country, kept at bay by Europeans for centuries, once came unexpectedly close to full-membership. The progress Turkey recorded in its European quest is difficult to account for...
Civil Society and International Governance (Open Access)
The role of non-state actors in global and regional regulatory frameworks
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project.
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