International Relations category: 9182 books
The ICJ and the Evolution of International Law
The Enduring Impact of the Corfu Channel Case
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
In 1949 the International Court of Justice (ICJ) handed down its first judgment in the Corfu Channel Case. In diffusing an early Cold War dispute, the Court articulated a set of legal principles which continue to shape our appreciation of the international legal order. Many of the issues dealt with...
Restraining Great Powers
Soft Balancing from Empires to the Global Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
How subtler forms of balance-of-power politics can help states achieve their goals against aggressive powers without wars or arms races
At the end of the Cold War, the United States emerged as the world’s most powerful state, and then used that power to initiate wars against smaller countries...
India-Pakistan Nuclear Diplomacy
Constructivism and the Prospects for Nuclear Arms Control and Disarmament in South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Using a constructivist model, this study brings nuclear arms control and disarmament back into the debates on the future of Indo-Pakistani relations. Constructivism recognizes the independent impact of international norms, such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Norm (NNPN), on India and Pakistan’s...
Global Politics
A New Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
The third edition of Global Politics: A New Introduction continues to provide a completely original way of teaching and learning about world politics. The book engages directly with the issues in global politics that students are most interested in, helping them to understand the key questions and...
Intelligence Oversight in the Twenty-First Century
Accountability in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
This book examines how key developments in international relations in recent years have affected intelligence agencies and their oversight.
Since the turn of the millennium, intelligence agencies have been operating in a tense and rapidly changing security environment. This book addresses the...
The Kurds in a New Middle East
The Changing Geopolitics of a Regional Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2018
This book examines the Kurds’ rise as new regional actors in the Middle East and the impact this is having on the regional order. Kurdish political activism has reached a new height in the beginning of the 21st Century with Kurdish movements in Iraq, Turkey and Syria establishing themselves as a...
Countering Online Propaganda and Extremism
The Dark Side of Digital Diplomacy
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Exploring the ‘dark side’ of digital diplomacy, this volume highlights some of the major problems facing democratic institutions in the West and provides concrete examples of best practice in reversing the tide of digital propaganda.
Digital diplomacy is now part of the regular conduct...
Face-to-Face Diplomacy
Social Neuroscience and International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Face-to-face diplomacy has long been the lynchpin of world politics, yet it is largely dismissed by scholars of International Relations as unimportant. Marcus Holmes argues that dismissing this type of diplomacy is in stark contrast to what leaders and policy makers deem as essential and that this...
by Stylianos A. Sotiriou
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
Eurasia has long been characterized by intense competition among populations and among States. The collapse of the Soviet Union constituted a critical juncture in the region’s course, since informal and formal norms subsided, giving rise to a hardly regulated socio-political environment, where survival...
Unsettled Balance
Ethics, Security, and Canada’s International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
This book will be required reading for students and scholars of Canadian foreign policy, international relations, security studies, and political geography.
by Charles Butler
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2012
Charles Butler KC (14 August 1750 2 June 1832) was an English Roman Catholic lawyer and miscellaneous writer. His 1777 pamphlet supporting naval impressments won him the patronage of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, but Butler withdrew from general political activity to press for Catholic relief....
The United Nations under Ban Ki-moon
Give Diplomacy a Chance
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2019
This book chronicles the story of the United Nations under Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in the decade 2007–2016. Marcel Jesenský provides a compelling account of the organization’s activities and Ban Ki-moon’s role in reconciling the aims, principles and prerogatives of his office, the organization...
by Getahun Kumie
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Master's Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Africa, grade: Very Good, Addis Ababa University (Department of Politcal Science and International Relations), course: International Relations, language: English, abstract: The commencement of Grand Ethiopian...
by Wu Enyuan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
A detailed examination of the hugely significant relationship between China and the nations of Central Asian and Eastern Europe (including Russia) from a Chinese perspective. Written by leading academics and researchers from CASS, the Chief Editor is the influential Wu Enyuan, Director of the Institute...