International Relations category: 9182 books
Understanding the Politics of Pandemic Scares
An Introduction to Global Politosomatics
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Reactions to pandemics are unlike any other global emergency; with an emphasis on withdrawal and containment of the sight of the infected. Dealing with the historical and conceptual background of diseases in politics and international relations, this volume investigates the global political reaction...
by Antje Wiener
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Antje Wiener examines the involvement of local actors in conflicts over global norms such as fundamental rights and the prohibition of torture and sexual violence. Providing accounts of local interventions made on behalf of those affected by breaches of norms, she identifies the constraints and opportunities...
by Simon Chesterman, David M. Malone, Santiago Villalpando
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
The United Nations is a vital part of the international order. Yet this book argues that the greatest contribution of the UN is not what it has achieved (improvements in health and economic development, for example) or avoided (global war, say, or the use of weapons of mass destruction). It is, instead,...
Dangerous Neighborhood
Contemporary Issues in Turkey's Foreign Relations
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Contemporary Turkish politics have long been roiled by cultural and social debates rooted in the legacy of modernization initiated in the 1920s by Mustafa Kemal Atati?1/2rk. Islamist challenges to Ataturk's secularism, to political corruption and economic inefficiency, and debates over the meaning...
The Politics of the First World War
A Course in Game Theory and International Security
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
The Great War is an immense, confusing and overwhelming historical conflict - the ideal case study for teaching game theory and international relations. Using thirteen historical puzzles, from the outbreak of the war and the stability of attrition, to unrestricted submarine warfare and American entry...
The Dragon, the Lion, and the Eagle
Chinese-British-American Relations, 1949-1958
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
The establishment of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949 and the subsequent conclusion of the Sino-Soviet Alliance Treaty destroyed the old balance of power in East Asia and introduced new forces into the international system. These developments had important implications for Great Britain...
Window on Freedom
Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2003
The civil rights movement in the United States drew strength from supporters of human rights worldwide. Once U.S. policy makers--influenced by international pressure, the courage of ordinary American citizens, and a desire for global leadership--had signed such documents as the United Nations charter,...
The Anglosphere
A Genealogy of a Racialized Identity in International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
The Anglosphere refers to a community of English-speaking states, nations, and societies centered on Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States, which has profoundly influenced the direction of world history and fascinated countless observers. This book argues that the...
Policing the Globe
Criminalization and Crime Control in International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2006
In this illuminating history that spans past campaigns against piracy and slavery to contemporary campaigns against drug trafficking and transnational terrorism, Peter Andreas and Ethan Nadelmann explain how and why prohibitions and policing practices increasingly extend across borders. The internationalization...
No Illusions
The Voices of Russia's Future Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
How will the future leaders of Russia regard the world scene? How will they regard the United States, democracy, free speech, and immigration? What do they think of their current leaders? And what sorts of tactics will they bring to international negotiating tables, political and otherwise? No Illusions:...
by M.S. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Though international relations and the rise and fall of European states are widely studied, little is available to students and non-specialists on the origins, development and operation of the diplomatic system through which these relations were conducted and regulated. Similarly neglected are the...
by David P. Forsythe
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
This third edition of David P. Forsythe's successful textbook provides an authoritative overview of the place of human rights in an age of upheaval in international politics. Human rights standards are examined at the global, regional and national levels, with separate chapters on transnational corporations...
Power in the Changing Global Order
The US, Russia and China
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Power has been compared to the weather: people discuss it all the time, but very few really understand it. This book seeks to demystify this complex concept by providing students with an incisive and engaging introduction to the shifting configurations of power in the contemporary global order.
Drawing...
Power in the Global Information Age
From Realism to Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2004
One of the most brilliant and influential international relations scholars of his generation, Joseph S. Nye Jr. is one of the few academics to have served at the very highest levels of US government. This volume collects together many of his key writings for the first time as well as new material,...