International Relations category: 9182 books
Reassessing Order and Disorder in the Middle East
Regional Imbalance or Disintegration?
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
The Middle East is undergoing a period of profound change, partly brought about by the United States’ interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq, but also by the Arab Spring. This is affecting regional relations between states and between the region and the US. For example, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the...
Power, Place, and State-Society Relations in Korea
Neo-Confucian and Geomantic Reconstruction of Developmental State and Democratization
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
No book has addressed the simultaneous phenomena of Korea’s rapid economic development and its vibrant democratization in a single coherent paradigm. The late developmentalist approach emphasizes the strong role of Korea’s state and bureaucratic efficiency but does not explain how political development...
by Nicholas Platt
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
China Boys offers a close-up, worm's-eye view of the U.S. opening to China and the pioneer days in U.S.-China relations that followed. Diplomat Nicholas Platt describes preparations for the historic Nixon visit to China in 1972 and the interplay within the U.S. delegation during the visit itself. He...
by Huang Ping, Ni Feng
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Offering insights and analysis on Chinas approach to America and its relationship with the American government, this insightful book reveals Chinas current thinking and strategies towards China-US relations and trade policies. It also provides comprehensive analyses into the competitive strengths of the USA and the status of American power in the global community.
by Robert G. Sutter
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
The foreign relations of the People's Republic of China have gone through dramatic change since 1949. The strong-man rule of Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party leader's dominance of Chinese foreign policy decision making for three decades witnessed dramatic swings in alignment, repeated and...
Security Relations between China and the European Union
From Convergence to Cooperation?
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Over the past decade, the EU and China have expanded their relations beyond a focus on economic and trade issues to the sphere of security. Taking a broad definition of security, a multidisciplinary approach, and a comparative perspective (including scholars from both Europe and China), this book...
Turkey’s Relations with the Middle East
Political Encounters after the Arab Spring
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This volume examines contemporary political relations between Turkey and the Middle East. In the light of the Arab Uprisings of 2011, the Syria Crisis, the escalation of regional terrorism and the military coup attempt in Turkey, it illustrates the dramatic fluctuations in Turkish foreign policy towards...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book is a wide-ranging and innovative study of Israeli-Lebanese relations from the birth of the Jewish state in 1948 to the Israel-Lebanon War of 2006. Israel’s relationship with its Arab neighbours is a subject of perennial interest in the Middle East. The relationship between Israel and Lebanon...
Holding the Line
Race, Racism, and American Foreign Policy Toward Africa, 1953-1961
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2005
The rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union intensified as Dwight D. Eisenhower entered the White House. However, the burning question for the vast majority of the world's population was not whether they would join the "Free World" or the Soviet bloc, but whether they could...
Worse Than a Monolith
Alliance Politics and Problems of Coercive Diplomacy in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
In brute-force struggles for survival, such as the two World Wars, disorganization and divisions within an enemy alliance are to one's own advantage. However, most international security politics involve coercive diplomacy and negotiations short of all-out war. Worse Than a Monolith demonstrates that...
by Gregory B. Weeks
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Featuring numerous updates and revisions, U.S. and Latin American Relations, 2nd Edition offers in-depth theoretical and historical analyses to explore the complex dynamic between the United States and the countries that comprise Latin America.
Presents a theoretical framework that allows readers...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
This volume examines the trajectory of Pakistan’s democratic transition and the implications of this change for its security.
In May 2013, for the first time in its 66-year history, Pakistan saw an elected government complete a full term in office and transfer power through the ballot box...
The Iraq War and Its Consequences
Thoughts of Nobel Peace Laureates and Eminent Scholars
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2003
An extraordinary collection of essays by Nobel Peace laureates and leading scholars on the concluded Iraq War, The Iraq War and its Consequences is the First and Only book that brings together more than 30 Nobel Peace laureates and eminent scholars to offer opinions, analyses and insights on the war...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Containing thirteen chapters by Indian and European scholars and practitioners,this volume critically examines the multifarious domestic and external challenges that Pakistan confronts today. It discusses the vicissitudes of the European Union’s relations with Pakistan and the cultural, economic,...