International Relations category: 9182 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
From the United States to the Middle East, Asia and Africa, religion continues to be an important factor in political activity and organisation. The second edition of this successful handbook provides the definitive global survey of the interaction of religion and politics.
Featuring contributions...
Risk and Securitization in Japan
1945-60
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Since the early 1990s, there has been an emphasis in international relations theory on the shift from a Cold War rationality of ‘threat’, to a post-Cold War rationality of ‘risk’. However, in Risk and Securitization in Japan, 1945-1960, Piers R. Williamson argues that this assumption of...
Power, Information Technology, and International Relations Theory
The Power and Politics of US Foreign Policy and the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
This book examines the internet as a form of power in global politics. Focusing on the United States' internet foreign policy, McCarthy combines analyses of global material culture and international relation theory, to reconsider how technology is understood as a form of social power.
Governance and Democracy
Comparing National, European and International Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
For the first time, this new collection brings together country specialists, researchers on the European Union, and leading international relations scholars to tackle a crucial question: how compatible are today’s new patterns of ‘policy networks’ and ‘multi-level’ governance with democratic...
Africa Rising?
BRICS - Diversifying Dependency
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Africa is said to be rising, turning a definitive page in its history, heralding new and exciting possibilities for the continent. This discourse maintains that with upsurge in economic growth comes improved governance and endogenous dynamics; that the emerging economies, and especially the BRICS...
Transformations of Security Studies
Dialogues, Diversity and Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
This volume brings together a group of distinguished scholars to engage in a dialogue on key developments in the study of security.
The book provides a comprehensive overview of theoretical, empirical and methodological developments within security studies, whose political and societal importance...
Arms Control
The New Guide to Negotiations and Agreements with New CD-ROM Supplement
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2002
`A unique and indispensible work that serves both as a basic introduction to the disarmament scene and a reference book for experts' - Disarmament Times
`This compendium of the history and achievements of arms control and disarmament efforts is unique in its kind and is likely to remain so....
European Union Democracy Aid
Supporting civil society in post-apartheid South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
Since the end of the Cold War, the promotion of democracy has occupied centre stage in global politics and in the academic debate on international relations. Governments, intergovernmental agencies, and international donors have invested significant resources to support the democratic consolidation...
Leadership in International Relations
The Balance of Power and the Origins of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Using the engaging case of British security policy between the world wars, this book argues that an effective balance of power, which is the key to a stable international system, is a deliberate act of policy and that leaders play a determinative role in building an effective balance.
Private Military and Security Companies
Ethics, Policies and Civil-Military Relations
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Over the past twenty years, Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) have become significant elements of national security arrangements, assuming many of the functions that have traditionally been undertaken by state armies. Given the centrality of control over the use of coercive force to...
by Julia Heise
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2005
Scientific Essay from the year 2005 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Near East, Near Orient, grade: 63% (1,7), University of Edinburgh, course: The Middle East in International Politics, 69 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The Arab-Israeli conflict,...
Wronged by Empire
Post-Imperial Ideology and Foreign Policy in India and China
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Although India and China have very different experiences of colonialism, they respond to that history in a similar way—by treating it as a collective trauma. As a result they have a strong sense of victimization that affects their foreign policy decisions even today. Wronged by Empire breaks new...
by Ken Booth
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
This book contributes to the rethinking of realism through multiple analyses of the keys works of Kenneth Waltz, arguing that a sophisticated appreciation of realism is needed to truly understand world politics and International Relations. Bringing together a theoretically varied group of leading scholars...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
In this age of information technology, the media’s role in international, bilateral, and diplomatic relations is increasingly important. It plays a crucial part in keeping countries connected and updated about actual and ground-level realities. Media Diplomacy and Its Evolving Role in the Current...