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International Trials and Reconciliation
Assessing the Impact of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Transitional justice is a burgeoning field of scholarly inquiry. Yet while the transitional justice literature is replete with claims about the benefits of criminal trials, too often these claims lack an empirical basis and hence remain unproven. While there has been much discussion about whether...
Policing Across Borders
Law Enforcement Networks and the Challenges of Crime Control
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
Globalization has had a sharp impact on the definition of ‘national security,’ as the interconnectedness of many threats calls for them to be addressed at the national and global level simultaneously. Law enforcement efforts must increasingly include elements of international and transnational...
Non-Western International Relations Theory
Perspectives On and Beyond Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Given that the world has moved well beyond the period of Western colonialism, and clearly into a durable period in which non-Western cultures have gained their political autonomy, it is long past time that non-Western voices had a higher profile in debates about international relations, not just as...
International Marketing
Sociopolitical and Behavioral Aspects
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 1991
Social, economic, political, business, and cultural environmental factors affect the international marketing operation and performance of international firms. This highly insightful volume focuses on four of the most significant forces with which companies must deal on an international level--macro international marketing issues, sociopolitical int
The Ebola Pandemic in Sierra Leone
Representations, Actors, Interventions and the Path to Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
This book provides a timely examination of the Ebola pandemic in Sierra Leone from four different standpoints: 1) a social standpoint that focuses on the way in which the vulnerable Sierra Leonian population viewed the pandemic in light of their cultural beliefs, memories of past wars and narratives...
Defining Issues in International Arbitration
Celebrating 100 Years of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Defining Issues in International Arbitration: Celebrating 100 Years of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators brings together world-renowned international arbitration specialists - both practitioners and academics - who have never before appeared in the same volume. This book contains an invaluable...
Evolution of International Aviation
Phoenix Rising
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The purpose of this book is twofold. First, it lays out the forces that shaped the international aviation industry and that changed all the rules in the drive for liberalization. Second, it looks at the many interesting and difficult choices ahead that the airline industry in general and the international...
by V. Kubalkova, A. Cruickshank
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Refuting the assumption that orthodox Marxist theory contains anything of relevance on international relations, this book, originally published in 1980, clarifies, reconstructs, and summarizes the theories of international relations of Marx and Engels, Lenin, Stalin and the Soviet leadership of the...
Food Fights over Free Trade
How International Institutions Promote Agricultural Trade Liberalization
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2011
This detailed account of the politics of opening agricultural markets explains how the institutional context of international negotiations alters the balance of interests at the domestic level to favor trade liberalization despite opposition from powerful farm groups. Historically, agriculture stands...
An Introduction to the English School of International Relations
The Societal Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
This outstanding book is the first comprehensive introduction to the English School of International Relations. Written by leading ES scholar Barry Buzan, it expertly guides readers through the English School’s formative ideas, intellectual and historical roots, current controversies and future...
Polarity, Balance of Power and International Relations Theory
Post-Cold War and the 19th Century Compared
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
This book discusses the rise of polarity as a key concept in International Relations Theory. Since the end of the Cold War, until at least the end of 2010, there has been a wide consensus shared by American academics, political commentators and policy makers: the world was unipolar and would remain...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
The book deals with the controversial relationship between African states, represented by the African Union, and the International Criminal Court. This relationship started promisingly but has been in crisis in recent years. The overarching aim of the book is to analyze and discuss the achievements...
The International Politics of Fashion
Being Fab in a Dangerous World
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
This book seeks to address and fill a puzzling omission in contemporary critical IR scholarship. Following on from the aesthetic turn in IR, critical and ‘postmodern’ IR has produced an impressive array of studies into movies, literature, music and art and the way these media produce, mediate,...
Power Transition and International Order in Asia
Issues and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
This edited volume examines how the transition and diffusion of power in global politics is impacting on stability and order in Asia.
Both in the academic field of International Relations (IR) and among policymakers, the big question today concerns the rise of China, the relative decline of...