International Relations category: 9182 books
The Kurds and US Foreign Policy
International Relations in the Middle East since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
This book provides a detailed survey and analysis of US–Kurdish relations and their interaction with domestic, regional and global politics. Using the Kurdish issue to explore the nature of the engagement between international powers and weaker non-state entities, the author analyses the existence...
by David A. Lake
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
International relations are generally understood as a realm of anarchy in which countries lack any superior authority and interact within a Hobbesian state of nature. In Hierarchy in International Relations, David A. Lake challenges this traditional view, demonstrating that states exercise authority...
A history of International Relations theory
Third edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
This introduction to International Relations theory, now in its third edition, shows how discussions of war, wealth, peace and power stretch back well over 500 years. It shows how ancient ideas still effect the way we perceive world politics. By placing international arguments, perspectives, terms...
Empires of Knowledge in International Relations
Education and Science as Sources of Power for the State
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
This volume offers the first systematic account of how education and science have become sources of power for the states in international relations and what factors have effected this development.
Drawing together extensive empirical data on the USA, the EU, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and China,...
The Global Transformation
History, Modernity and the Making of International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
The 'long nineteenth century' (1776–1914) was a period of political, economic, military and cultural revolutions that re-forged both domestic and international societies. Neither existing international histories nor international relations texts sufficiently register the scale and impact of this...
Regional Risk and Security in Japan
Whither the everyday
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Japan’s unusual position in the realm of international politics encapsulates a three-fold juxtaposition: both in and out of Asia, both occupied by and a close ally of the United States, and both a key trade partner and a strategic rival of China. Whilst international relations theory offers a number...
by George Meskhi
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Master's Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: History of Inernational Relations, grade: 96, , course: International Relations - European Studies, language: English, abstract: The relations between Georgia and Germany refer to the actual and progressively...
Power, Money, and Trade
Decisions that Shape Global Economic Relations
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
This book is an introduction to International Relations that uses examples from International Political Economy (IPE). It presents the theories and paradigms of International Relations in the context of the issues of trade, investment, and monetary relations. Largely it does so by developing historical...
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....
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Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2009
A wide range of critical theorists is used in the study of international politics, and until now there has been no text that gives concise and accessible introductions to these figures. Critical Theorists and International Relations provides a wide-ranging introduction to thirty-two important theorists...
Cyberspace and International Relations
Theory, Prospects and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Cyberspace is everywhere in today’s world and has significant implications not only for global economic activity, but also for international politics and transnational social relations. This compilation addresses for the first time the “cyberization” of international relations - the growing...
Queer International Relations
Sovereignty, Sexuality and the Will to Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
If asked about queer work in international relations, most IR scholars would almost certainly answer that queer studies is a non-issue for the subdiscipline -- a topic beyond the scope and understanding of international politics. Yet queer work tackles problems that IR scholars themselves believe...
by Paul Sharp
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2009
Diplomacy does not take place simply between states but wherever people live in different groups. Paul Sharp argues that the demand for diplomacy, and the need for the insights of diplomatic theory, are on the rise. In contrast to conventional texts which use international relations theories to make...
Realism in International Relations and International Political Economy
The Continuing Story of a Death Foretold
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Stefano Guzzini's study offers an understanding of the evolution of the realist tradition within International Relations and International Political Economy. It sees the realist tradition not as a school of thought with a static set of fixed principles, but as a repeatedly failed attempt to turn the...