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Israel and Hizbollah
An asymmetric conflict in historical and comparative perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
This book examines the local and international dynamics and strategies that have come to define the often violent relationship between Israel and Lebanon.
Since the end of the Cold War, academic debate over the nature of war in the contemporary world has focused upon the asymmetric nature of...
The Myth of the Democratic Peacekeeper
Civil-Military Relations and the United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
The Myth of the Democratic Peacekeeper reevaluates how United Nations peacekeeping missions reform (or fail to reform) their participating members. It investigates how such missions affect military organizations and civil-military relations as countries transition to a more democratic system.
Two-thirds...
by Stephen Hopgood
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
"We are living through the endtimes of the civilizing mission. The ineffectual International Criminal Court and its disastrous first prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, along with the failure in Syria of the Responsibility to Protect are the latest pieces of evidence not of transient misfortunes but of...
The Status of Law in World Society
Meditations on the Role and Rule of Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Friedrich Kratochwil's book explores the role of law in the international arena and the key discourses surrounding it. It explains the increased importance of law for politics, from law-fare to the judicialization of politics, to human rights, and why traditional expectations of progress through law...
Civilizing the Enemy
German Reconstruction and the Invention of the West
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
For the past century, politicians have claimed that "Western Civilization" epitomizes democratic values and international stability. But who is a member of "Western Civilization"? Germany, for example, was a sworn enemy of the United States and much of Western Europe in the first...
Glimmer of a New Leviathan
Total War in the Realism of Niebuhr, Morgenthau, and Waltz
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2003
The Second World War put an end to America's historical isolation from international power politics, and so also to the long-standing American defiance of the Realist ideology that shaped Old World affairs. The advent of transoceanic military technologies, now wielded by menacing states such as Nazi...
White World Order, Black Power Politics
The Birth of American International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Racism and imperialism are the twin forces that propelled the course of the United States in the world in the early twentieth century and in turn affected the way that diplomatic history and international relations were taught and understood in the American academy. Evolutionary theory, social Darwinism,...
The Invention of International Relations Theory
Realism, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the 1954 Conference on Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
The 1954 Conference on Theory, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation, featured a who's who of scholars and practitioners debating the foundations of international relations theory. Assembling his own team of experts, all of whom have struggled with this legacy, Nicolas Guilhot revisits a seminal...
The System Worked
How the World Stopped Another Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
International institutions, from the International Monetary Fund to the International Olympic Committee, are perceived as bastions of sclerotic mediocrity at best and outright corruption at worst, and this perception is generally not far off the mark. In the wake of the 2008 financial crash, Daniel...
by Stephen Chan
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
The world is troubled and full of misunderstandings. It seems a new world order of fundamentalist violence and meaningless atrocity is upon us, whilst civilised instruments for cooperation and compromise are becoming increasingly ineffective.
In this timely book, Stephen Chan explores the historical...
Spheres of Influence in International Relations
History, Theory and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Current events happening around the world, especially the ’humanitarian interventions’ by NATO and the West within the context of the so-called Arab Spring, make the understanding of the role of spheres of influence in international politics absolutely critical. Hast explores the practical implications...
Climate change as a cause of intra-state conflicts: Darfur case study
A tragedy of Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Master's Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: A, , course: International security, language: English, abstract: Climate change presents a serious threat to the security and prosperity of all countries. The...
The Cold War and After
History, Theory, and the Logic of International Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
What makes for war or for a stable international system? Are there general principles that should govern foreign policy? In The Cold War and After, Marc Trachtenberg, a leading historian of international relations, explores how historical work can throw light on these questions. The essays in this...
Sudan - An Analysis of the British Colonial Policy and its Legacy
An Analysis of the British Colonial Policy and its Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2010
Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Near East, Near Orient, grade: 90, Ben Gurion University, course: European Colonialism in the Middle East, language: English, abstract: In 1900 Bernard Shaw completed the difficult task of drafting the Fabian's...