International Relations category: 9182 books
Peace Negotiations and Time
Deadline Diplomacy in Territorial Disputes
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
This book discusses the role of time in peace negotiations and peace processes in the post-Cold War period, making reference to real-world negotiations and using comparative data.
Deadlines are increasingly used by mediators to spur deadlocked negotiation processes, under the assumption that...
by Hao Ping
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
In China, John Leighton Stuart (1876-1962) is a controversial figure occupying an important position in the history of modern China and Sino-U.S. relations. As a scholar and educator, Stuart loved Chinese culture and contributed much to the development of Chinese education. While as a missionary,...
The Securitization of Humanitarian Migration
Digging moats and sinking boats
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
This book examines how western liberal states are progressively restricting access to refugees and asylum seekers, even though these states have signed international agreements obliging them to offer protection to those fleeing persecution and to advocate the spread of human rights and humanitarian...
Iran in the 20th Century
Historiography and Political Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2009
Political upheaval has marked Iran's history throughout the twentieth century. The country has been ravaged by two world wars and the brutal Iran-Iraq War which cost tens of thousands of lives. There was a Constitutional Revolution in 1905-1909 and coups in 1921 and 1953, when Reza Shah and Mohammad...
Yunnan-A Chinese Bridgehead to Asia
A Case Study of China’s Political and Economic Relations with its Neighbours
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
The Chinese Government’s five-year strategy for social and economic development to 2015 includes the aim of making the southwestern province of Yunnan a bridgehead for ‘opening the country’ to southeast Asia and south Asia. Yunnan - A Chinese Bridgehead to Asia traces the dynamic process which...
US Policies in Central Asia
Democracy, Energy and the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Democracy promotion, security and energy are the predominant themes of US policy in Central Asia after the Cold War. This book analyses how the Bush administration understood and pursued its interests in the Central Asia states, namely Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan....
Reconciliation in Bloodlands
Assessing Actions and Outcomes in Contemporary Central-Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Central-Eastern Europe, in the mid-20th century, was a scene of Holocaust, mass killings, war, deportations and forced resettlements under the competing totalitarian invasions and afterwards. It was also the area where churches, politicians and citizens were engaged in reconciliation between antagonized...
Rethinking Ethical Foreign Policy
Pitfalls, Possibilities and Paradoxes
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2006
This new volume moves beyond the limits of current debate to show how today’s foreign policy is increasingly about values rather than interests and why ethics are now playing a central role.
Rather than counterposing interests and ethics, trying to find ‘hidden agendas’ or emphasizing...
Vernacular Sovereignties
Indigenous Women Challenging World Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Indigenous women are rarely accounted for in world politics. Imagined as passive subjects at the margins of political decision-making, they often epitomize the antithesis of international relations. Yet from their positions of marginality they are shaping sovereignty.
In Vernacular Sovereignties,...
Conceptual Gaps in China-EU Relations
Global Governance, Human Rights and Strategic Partnerships
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
The contributors attempt to look into how China and Europe differently interpret political concepts such as: sovereignty, soft power, human rights, democracy, stability, strategic partnership, multilateralism/multipolarization, and global governance, to examine what implications of their conceptual gaps may have on China-EU relations.
50 Years of Singapore-Europe Relations
Celebrating Singapore's Connections with Europe
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
As Singapore enters its 50th year of independence, it is a good time to reflect on its past as well as look to the future. 50 Years of Singapore-Europe Relations: Celebrating Singapore's Connections with Europe is one such contribution to the wi
Japan and the G7/8
1975-2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
This book analyses Japan's international relations and participation in the multilateral forum, the G8, since its creation in 1975. The author explores the motivation of the Japanese government and non-governmental actor's aims and objectives and examines how and to what extent they have been achieved....
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Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
The process of food production and distribution has grown into a global corporate system in recent years. This has caused significant impacts on sustainability on an international scale, particularly for developing nations. Establishing Food Security and Alternatives to International Trade in Emerging...
The European Community and the World
A Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
The European Community (EC) has taken on an outward-looking dimension over the years since its first establishment, developing structures and tools which are unprecedented in the history of international relations.
The original signatories of the Treaty of Rome accepted the idea of a «little» Europe...