International Relations category: 9182 books
Myanmar
Reintegrating into the International Community
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
Located at the junction of East Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia, Myanmar is one of the most important countries in the world's geopolitical landscape. Its ongoing political and economic reforms arouse growing concern from the international community, especially great powers like the US, Japan,...
by Ingvild Bode, Aleksandra Fernandes da Costa, Thomas Diez
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
International relations is a vibrant field of significant growth and change. This book guides students through the complexities of the major theories of international relations and the debates that surround them, the core theoretical concepts, and the key contemporary issues. Introduced by an overview...
Redefining Regional Power in International Relations
Indian and South African perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
This book examines the concept of regional power in international relations. Using the emerging powers of India and South Africa as the case studies, it explores how regional powers simultaneously differ and share common features.
The book develops a method to classify and evaluate different...
by Michael P. Marks
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
This book presents an analysis of how metaphors are essential elements in the study of international relations. It acknowledges the fact that theory and practice in international relations often rest on common metaphorical concepts which have implications for the ways people around the world pursue...
The New Agenda for International Relations
From Polarization to Globalization in World Politics?
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
There have been significant political eras which have shaped not only the structure of world politics but the way in which it has been studied. The geopolitical and ideological contours of the Cold War period, for example, had an impact on almost every aspect of world politics and the study of international...
International Management and International Relations
A Critical Perspective from Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
Over the last few decades, the field of management enlarged its boundaries, especially in international terms, in a very rapid fashion—mainly because of the arrival of the so-called era of globalization. Many renowned scholars have criticized the universal approach given to ‘management’ in the...
South Korea in the United Nations
Global Governance, Inter-Korean Relations and Peace Building
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
In 1991 South Korea, along with North Korea, was made an official member of the UN. Using international relations theory, this book begins by looking at the struggle and eventual impact of the membership on the two countries post division in 1948. It investigates the predicted outcomes prior to joining,...
Balancing Sovereignty and Development in International Affairs
Cameroon's Post-Independence Relations with France, Africa, and the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Balancing Sovereignty and Development in International Affairs is about Cameroon, a minor power in world affairs, and her foreign policy and international relations, especially as she deals with major powers, in this case, France. It emphasizes Cameroon’s economic and political relations with France,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
International Relations (IR) theorists speak with conviction, and often passion, to the global condition of human society. The result is an important, dynamic and often deeply divided field. This long-awaited new edition of International Relations Theory Today offers undergraduate and postgraduate...
Posthuman International Relations
Complexity, Ecologism and Global Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
In this bold intervention, Cudworth and Hobden draw on recent advances in thinking about complexity theory to call for a profound re-envisioning of the study of international relations. As a discipline, IR is wedded to the enlightenment project of overcoming the 'hazards' of nature, and thus remains...
India-Russia Post Cold War Relations
A New Epoch of Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Post Cold War international relations have undeniably been a litmus test for the bilateral relations between India and Russia. With the emergence of a new international system, the foreign policies of both countries vacillated to explore new avenues of partnerships with other international players,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Posthumanism represents a significant new research direction both for International Relations and the social sciences. It emerges from questions about inter-species relations which challenge dominant perceptions of what it means to be human. Rather than seeing the human species as ‘in nature’...
by Christopher Lamont
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
This book guides you through the entirety of the research process in International Relations, from selecting a research question and reviewing the literature to field research and writing up. Covering both qualitative and quantitative methods in IR, it offers a balanced assessment of the key methodological...
Politicising Ethics in International Relations
Cosmopolitanism as Hospitality
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
The ethics of hospitality – the welcome of the foreigner – is implied in all moral debate in international relations ranging from questions of asylum to those of humanitarian intervention. Why then has there been so little reflection on hospitality in the study of international relations to date?
Seeking...