International Relations category: 9182 books
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...
Canada/US and Other Unfriendly Relations
Before and After 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Molloy depicts a relationship between Canada and the US based on envy, rivalry, and misunderstanding. Drawing on a range of disciplines including sociology, international relations, and cultural studies, she examines contentious events in Canada/US relations and their connections to each country's political identity.
Transatlantic Relations and Modern Diplomacy
An interdisciplinary examination
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
This book explores the transatlantic relationship between the US and Europe from multiple perspectives and disciplines.
Since the end of the Cold War, a multi-polar world has replaced the dual power economic and political stranglehold previously shared by the US and Russia. Amid the shift in...
Becoming Asia
Change and Continuity in Asian International Relations Since World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
At the conclusion of World War II, Asia was hardly more than a geographic expression. Yet today we recognize Asia as a vibrant and assertive region, fully transformed from the vulnerable nation-states that emerged following the Second World War. The transformation was by no means an inevitable one,...
The Arab Spring, Democracy and Security
Domestic and International Ramifications
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
This volume analyzes the political, economic and strategic dimensions of the recent upheavals in the Middle East known as the Arab Spring.
Mass demonstrations in many Arab states challenged the political status quo and the existing political and cultural system in the region. While it is too...
British Egyptian Relations
From Suez to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
This account of the first major forum to review relations between Britain and Egypt, held in London in 2006, demonstrates how political, economic and cultural interaction between the countries has developed since the Suez invasion of 1956. In addition to providing a historical assessment, it suggests...
Digital Diplomacy
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
This book analyses digital diplomacy as a form of change management in international politics.
The recent spread of digital initiatives in foreign ministries is often argued to be nothing less than a revolution in the practice of diplomacy. In some respects this revolution is long overdue....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
Since they were pioneered in the 1970s by Robert Keohane and others, the broad range of neoliberal institutionalist theories of international relations have grown in importance. In an increasingly globalized world, the realist and neorealist focus on states, military power, conflict, and anarchy has...
Brazil on the Global Stage
Power, Ideas, and the Liberal International Order
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
In the past generation, Brazil has risen to become the seventh largest economy and fourth largest democracy in the world. Yet its rise challenges the conventional wisdom that capitalist democracies will necessarily converge to become faithful adherents of a US-led global liberal order. Indeed, Brazil...
The United States and Latin America in the 1990s
Beyond the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2014
A comprehensive examination of both unresolved tensions in inter-American relations and the specific problems facing U.S. and Latin American policymakers in the 1990s.--American Political Science Review
"These well-integrated essays analyze the key issues in contemporary inter-American...
by Council on Foreign Relations
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Ten years have passed since the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) last convened an Independent Task Force to address U.S. trade policy. Over the course of the decade, as Americans witnessed dramatic turns of global economic fortune and stagnant or declining wages and benefits at home, their traditional wariness of international trade has cooled to near antipathy.
Participation and Interaction
The Theory and Practice of China's Diplomacy
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
This book selects the most outstanding journal articles from the Chinese version of Foreign Affairs Review written by prestigious Chinese scholars in recent years. The articles focus on analysis of foreign affairs issues which are of relevance to China, and provide insightful perspectives on China's...
by Sergey Smolnikov
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
This book seeks to answer one main question: what is the core concern of great powers that streamlines their behavior in the contemporary system of international relations? Building on the examples of the United States, China, Russia, France, and Britain, it tracks both consistency and fluctuations...
Constructing National Security
U.S. Relations with India and China
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Jarrod Hayes explores why democracies tend not to use military force against each other. He argues that democratic identity - the shared understanding within democracies of who 'we' are and what 'we' expect from each other - makes it difficult for political leaders to construct external democracies...