International Relations category: 9182 books
by Jonathan Luckhurst
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
This book analyzes the Group of Twenty (G20) since the 2008 financial crisis. The latter event undermined conventional wisdom and governance norms, constituting a more contested international economic regime. G20 leaders sought a cooperative response to the 2008 crisis through the forum, aware of...
Good Fences, Bad Neighbors
Border Fixity and International Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
Border fixity—the proscription of foreign conquest and the annexation of homeland territory—has, since World War II, become a powerful norm in world politics. This development has been said to increase stability and peace in international relations. Yet, in a world in which it is unacceptable...
International Politics and Inner Worlds
Masks of Reason under Scrutiny
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
This book takes radical aim at the conventional conduct of international relations analysis. It reexamines the role of ideas, the usefulness of psychoanalysis, the rage for and at rational choice, the influence of the public on foreign policy, counterinsurgency evangelism, and development orthodoxies...
Global Justice and Neoliberal Environmental Governance
Ethics, Sustainable Development and International Co-Operation
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2007
This book is an ethical critique of existing approaches to sustainable development and international environmental cooperation, providing a detailed and structured account of the tensions, normative shifts and contradictions that currently characterize it.
With specific focus on three environmental...
China Reclaims World Power Status
Putting an end to the world America made
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Using both Chinese and Western theoretical approaches, this book analyses the strategies implemented by China for reclaiming power in the international domain. Examining domestic measures taken by China to assure its economic and social development, it also considers the strengths and weaknesses of...
Freedom, Security and Justice in the European Union
Internal and External Dimensions of Increased Cooperation after the Lisbon Treaty
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
As the European Union has evolved, it has also begun to address policy questions which are closer to the very heart of the state. From cooperation in Justice and Home Affairs, originally conceived as the third pillar of European cooperation, has emerged the Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice (AFSJ). A...
Europe in Emerging Asia
Opportunities and Obstacles in Political and Economic Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
In light of the Eurozone crisis and the growth of Asian economies, have new challenges emerged for the relations between nations in these regions? As the Asian consumer class grows and its culture globalizes, what does this mean for the export of Eurocentric values and norms? And what does the future...
Cultural Security
Evaluating the Power of Culture in International Affairs
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Over the past two centuries, abuse of antiquities and fine art has evolved from the “spoils of war” into a medium for conducting terrorism which strives to erase the cultural heritage of “the other”. At the same time, the growth of the art market over the past fifty years has created opportunities...
The Origins of JapaneseChinese Territorial Dispute
Using Historical Records to Study the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands Issue
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Most books on the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands dispute between China and Japan are authored by either Chinese who argue that the islands belong to China or by Japanese who contend that the islands are rightfully Japan's. This book is the first of its kind — by a Japanese who supports China's claim or...
India China Relations
Changing Profile in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
The epithets, such as 'civilizational states', 'natural allies', 'twin engines/key drivers' of Asian economic growth and the 'Asian giants' relating to India and China are very much in vogue in the international parlance. India-China relationship, in an upbeat mood, was variously envisioned as 'mutually...
The New Political Economy of United States-Caribbean Relations
The Apparel Industry and the Politics of NAFTA Parity
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This informative book brings a fresh perspective to the continuing debate about globalization and regionalization in the global political economy and the ways in which state policy, in both developed and developing countries, shapes the patterns of economic integration and competitiveness among participating...
China's Asia
Triangular Dynamics since the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
This balanced and deeply informed book provides a comprehensive account of China’s Asia policy since the Cold War. Lowell Dittmer traces the PRC’s policy toward its Asian neighbors in the context of the country’s move from a developing nation to a great power, capable of playing a role in world...
The Domestic Abroad
Diasporas in International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2010
In the past few decades, and across disparate geographical contexts, states have adopted policies and initiatives aimed at institutionalizing relationships with "their" diasporas. These practices, which range from creating new ministries to granting dual citizenship, are aimed at integrating diasporas...
Autonomy and Negotiation in Foreign Policy
The Beagle Channel Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
This book provides a unique view on the Beagle Channel crisis (1977-1984) between Argentina and Chile by examining it in a global political context. The author explores the factors which led from imminent conflict to signing the Treaty of Peace and Friendship in just six years. Regional and international dimensions...