International category: 36838 books
Nuclear Proliferation and International Order
Challenges to the Non-Proliferation Treaty
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
This book examines the state of the nuclear non-proliferation regime and the issues it faces in the early 21st century.
Despite the fact that most countries in the world have signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) there is growing concern that the NPT is in serious trouble and may not be...
Strategies to Achieve a Binding International Agreement on Regulating Cartels
Overcoming Doha Standstill
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
This book addresses the lack of binding multi-lateral international agreement on cartels, through analysis of trials and failures. It also suggests strategic approaches to overcome current standstills. In addition, the book contrasts international agreement on cartels with inter-governmental commodity...
by Michael Byers
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Climate change and rising oil prices have thrust the Arctic to the top of the foreign policy agenda and raised difficult issues of sovereignty, security and environmental protection. Improved access for shipping and resource development is leading to new international rules on safety, pollution prevention...
Politics Without Sovereignty
A Critique of Contemporary International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
Written by leading scholars, this volume challenges the recent trend in international relations scholarship – the common antipathy to sovereignty.
The classical doctrine of sovereignty is widely seen as totalitarian, producing external aggression and internal repression. Political leaders...
Managing Global Issues
Lessons Learned
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Globalization is pushing to the fore a wide variety of global problems that demand urgent policy attention. Managing Global Issues provides a comprehensive comparative assessment of international efforts to manage global problems. It identifies and explains successes and failures of such efforts,...
Reputation and International Cooperation
Sovereign Debt across Three Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
How does cooperation emerge in a condition of international anarchy? Michael Tomz sheds new light on this fundamental question through a study of international debt across three centuries. Tomz develops a reputational theory of cooperation between sovereign governments and foreign investors. He explains...
The RMB Exchange Rate
Past, Current, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Over the past two decades, China's robust economic performance has propelled it to the world stage. At the same time, the world has increasingly scrutinized China's economic policies and activities. One of the hotly contested issues is China's foreign exchange rate policy. China's current reform and...
by Hassane Cissé, Daniel D. Bradlow, Benedict Kingsbury
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
This book focuses on the legal challenges and opportunities for International Financial Institutions in the post-crisis world. It includes contributions from academics, practitioners and Bank staff. The contributions cover a broad array of issues, included governance reform and constitutional framework...
by Amy L. Sayward
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
The United Nations in International History argues for a new way of examining the history of this central global institution by integrating more traditional diplomacy between states with new trends in transnational and cultural history to explore the organization and its role in 20th- and 21st-century...
Saving the Oceans Through Law
The International Legal Framework for the Protection of the Marine Environment
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
The oceans cover more than seventy per cent of the surface of the planet and they provide many vital ecosystem services. However, the health of the world's oceans has been deteriorating over the past decades and the protection of the marine environment has emerged as one of the most pressing legal...
Japan's International Relations
Politics, Economics and Security
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
The latest edition of this comprehensive and user-friendly textbook provides a single volume resource for all those studying Japan's international relations. It offers a clear and concise introduction to the most important aspects of Japan's role in the globalized economy of the twenty-first century....
Asia in Washington
Exploring the Penumbra of Transnational Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
For several centuries, international relations has been primarily the purview of nation-states. Key powers have included at various times Great Britain, France, Japan, China, Russia (then the U.S.S.R., and then Russia again), and the nation most influential in international relations for the past...
War and Ideas
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book collects the key essays, together with updating notes and commentary, of Professor John Mueller on war and the role of ideas and opinions.
Mueller has maintained that war (and peace) are, in essence, merely ideas, and that war has waned as the notion that 'peace' is a decidedly good...
by Damon P. Coppola
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2015
Introduction to International Disaster Management, Third Edition, continues to serve as the leading comprehensive overview of global emergency management. This edition provides practitioners and students alike with a comprehensive understanding of the disaster management profession by utilizing a...