International Relations category: 9182 books
Sovereignty in Fragments
The Past, Present and Future of a Contested Concept
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
The political make-up of the contemporary world changes with such rapidity that few attempts have been made to consider with adequate care, the nature and value of the concept of sovereignty. What exactly is meant when one speaks about the acquisition, preservation, infringement or loss of sovereignty?...
Southeast Asia and the English School of International Relations
A Region-Theory Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
This book examines the interface between the theoretical framework known as the English School and the international and transnational politics of Southeast Asia. The region-theory dialogue it proposes signals productive ways forward for the theory.
Power Plays
How International Institutions Reshape Coercive Diplomacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Coercive diplomacy - the use of threats and assurances to alter another state's behavior - is indispensable to international relations. Most scholarship has focused on whether and when states are able to use coercive methods to achieve their desired results. However, employing game-theoretic tools,...
Secular Morality and International Security
American and British Decisions about War
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
“[Fanis] demonstrates an impressive ability to travel nimbly between abstract theoretical concepts and a messy reality. In each one of the case study chapters, her analysis is rich, thoughtful, and imaginative.”
—Ido Oren, University of Florida
Combining insights from cultural studies,...
China Rising
Peace, Power, and Order in East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2007
Throughout the past three decades East Asia has seen more peace and stability than at any time since the Opium Wars of 1839-1841. During this period China has rapidly emerged as a major regional power, averaging over nine percent economic growth per year since the introduction of its market reforms...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Two of the dominant themes of discussion in international relations scholarship over the last decade have been global governance and rising powers. Underlying both discussions are profound ethical questions about how the world should be ordered, who is responsible for addressing global problems, how...
The Return of Bipolarity in World Politics
China, the United States, and Geostructural Realism
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the international system has been unipolar, centered on the United States. But the rise of China foreshadows a change in the distribution of power. Øystein Tunsjø shows that the international system is moving toward a U.S.-China standoff, bringing us back...
A U.S.-Indonesia Partnership for 2020
Recommendations for Forging a 21st Century Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A U.S.-Indonesia Partnership for 2020 explores avenues to boost cooperation in all three of these pillars. Political and security relations between the United States and Indonesia have grown more robust in recent years. Trade and economic relations, while growing, remain contentious. This study assesses...
Regional Development Banks in Comparison
Banking Strategies versus Development Goals
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
In a study that contributes to international relations and international political economy theory, Ruth Ben-Artzi raises substantive issues relating to aid, development, international relations and globalization. Regional development banks (RDBs), designed by politicians and economists to maneuver...
Marxism and World Politics
Contesting Global Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
This book brings together internationally-distinguished scholars from History, Philosophy, Development Studies, Geography, and International Relations (IR) to examine recent developments in Marxist approaches to world politics.
Offering original and stimulating analyses of subjects traditionally...
State Death
The Politics and Geography of Conquest, Occupation, and Annexation
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2011
If you were to examine an 1816 map of the world, you would discover that half the countries represented there no longer exist. Yet since 1945, the disappearance of individual states from the world stage has become rare. State Death is the first book to systematically examine the reasons why some states...
Governing the Use-of-Force in International Relations
The Post 9/11 US Challenge on International Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
This book examines US recourse to military force in the post-9/11 era. In particular, it evaluates the extent to which the Bush and Obama administrations viewed legitimizing the greater use-of-force as a necessary solution to thwart the security threat presented by global terrorist networks and WMD proliferation.
Into the Desert
Reflections on the Gulf War
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
In the decade following the first Gulf War, most observers regarded it as an exemplary effort by the international community to lawfully and forcefully hold a regional aggressor in check. Interpretations have changed with the times. The Gulf War led to the stationing of US troops in Saudi Arabia,...
International Organizations and the Idea of Autonomy
Institutional Independence in the International Legal Order
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
International Organizations and the Idea of Autonomy is an exploratory text looking at the idea of intergovernmental organizations as autonomous international actors. In the context of concerns over the accountability of powerful international actors exercising increasing levels of legal and political...