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Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2007
The Doha Round of WTO negotiations commenced in November 2001 to further liberalize international trade and to specifically seek to remove trade barriers so developing countries might compete in major markets.
This book brings together an international team of leading academics and researchers...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
This book provides an original and thoroughly academic analysis of the link between Russian energy and foreign policies in Eurasia, as well as offering an interpretation of Russia’s coherence on the international stage, seeking to understand Russia and explain its behaviour.
The authors analyse...
International Negotiation
Process and Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Negotiation has always been an important alternative to the use of force in managing international disputes. This textbook provides students with the insight and knowledge needed to evaluate how negotiation can produce effective conflict settlement, political change and international policy making....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Peoples and minorities in many parts of the world assert a right to self-determination, autonomy, and even secession from a state, which naturally conflicts with that state's sovereignty and territorial integrity. The right of a people to self-determination and secession has existed as a concept within...
Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet
The New Geopolitics of Energy
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
From the author of the now-classic Resource Wars, an indispensable account of how the world's diminishing sources of energy are radically changing the international balance of power
Recently, an unprecedented Chinese attempt to acquire the major American energy firm Unocal was blocked by Congress...
by Vaughan Lowe
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2007
International Law is both an introduction to the subject and a critical consideration of its central themes and debates. The opening chapters of the book explain how international law underpins the international political and economic system by establishing the basic principle of the independence...
Chinese Foreign Policy
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2019
This updated and expanded fourth edition of Chinese Foreign Policy seeks to examine the decision-makers, processes, and rationales behind China’s expanding international relations as well as offering an in-depth look at China’s modern global relations.
Among the key issues explored in this...
Governance through Development
Poverty Reduction Strategies, International Law and the Disciplining of Third World States
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Governance through Development locates the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) framework within the broader context of international law and global governance, exploring its impact on third world state engagement with the global political economy and the international regulatory norms and institutions...
by Philip Andrews-Speed, Roland Dannreuther
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
China’s rapid economic growth has led to a huge increase in its domestic energy needs. This book provides a critical overview of how China’s growing need for oil imports is shaping its international economic and diplomatic strategy and how this affects global political relations and behaviour.
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by Morris Goldstein
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
The book includes selected papers of Morris Goldstein on the following topics in international macroeconomics: international trade, currency regimes, exchange rate policy, international policy coordination, banking, financial crises, financial regulation, IMF policies, and China's exchange rate policy....
by Niklaus Steiner
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
International migration has emerged in the last decade as one of the world’s most controversial and pressing issues. This thought-provoking textbook offers the reader a more nuanced and knowledgeable understanding of the complex economic, political, cultural, and moral concerns that arise when people...
Five Rising Democracies
And the Fate of the International Liberal Order
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Shifting power balances in the world are shaking the foundations of the liberal international order and revealing new fault lines at the intersection of human rights and international security. Will these new global trends help or hinder the world's long struggle for human rights and democracy? The...
Governing the World?
Cases in Global Governance
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
‘Global governance’ has become a key concept in the contemporary study of international politics, yet what the term means and how it works remains in question.
Governing the World: Cases in Global Governance takes an alternative approach to understanding the concept by exploring how global...
The Implementation Game
The TRIPS Agreement and the Global Politics of Intellectual Property Reform in Developing Countries
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
With the launch of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995, its Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) emerged as a symbol of coercion in international economic relations. In the decade that followed, intellectual property became one of the most contentious topics...