International Relations category: 9182 books
China's Troubled Waters
Maritime Disputes in Theoretical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
How are China's ongoing sovereignty disputes in the East and South China Seas likely to evolve? Are relations across the Taiwan Strait poised to enter a new period of relaxation or tension? How are economic interdependence, domestic public opinion, and the deterrence role played by the US likely to...
by Andreas Bieler, Adam Morton
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
This book assesses the forces of social struggle shaping the past and present of the global political economy from the perspective of historical materialism. Based on the philosophy of internal relations, the character of capital is understood in such a way that the ties between the relations of production,...
Taiwan's Relations with Mainland China
A Tail Wagging Two Dogs
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2008
Taiwan's Relations with Mainland China is the first book to deal with the role of Taiwan’s leadership politics, including the personal political styles of Lee Teng-hui and Chen Shui-bian, in the development of Taiwan’s mainland policy and the consequences for U.S.-Taiwan relations.
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A New Era in Democratic Taiwan
Trajectories and Turning Points in Politics and Cross-Strait Relations
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
In January 2016, Taiwan’s former authoritarian ruler, the KMT, the Nationalist Party of China, lost control of both the presidency and the legislature. Having led the democratization process in Taiwan during the 1980s, it maintained a winning coalition among big business, the public sector, green-collar...
Understanding North Korea
Indigenous Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Why does North Korea want to possess nuclear capabilities? In order to find the answer to this question, we must have an accurate understanding of the history and structure of the North Korean regime. So far, we have only formed conjectures and predictions regarding North Korea based on our own perspectives;...
China–South Korea Relations in the New Era
Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
This book offers a comprehensive examination of China–South Korea relations after their diplomatic normalization in 1992, paying close attention to the most recent controversies in the bilateral relationship after the turn of the century. Inspired by the sharp contrast between their booming economic...
by Martha Finnemore
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How do states know what they want? Asking how interests are defined and how changes in them are accommodated, Martha Finnemore shows the fruitfulness of a constructivist approach to international politics. She draws on insights from sociological institutionalism to develop a systemic approach to state...
India in Africa
Exploitation, Mutual Trade or Aid Donor?
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2008
Essay from the year 2007 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Africa, grade: 2,3, Sciences Politiques Lille (Institut d`Etudes de Lille), 11 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Introduction When talking about globalization and new world power, one today...
by P. R. Kumaraswamy
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
India's foreign policy toward Israel is a subject of deep dispute. Throughout the twentieth century arguments have raged over the Palestinian problem and the future of bilateral relations. Yet no text comprehensively looks at the attitudes and policies of India toward Israel, especially their development...
SouthSouth Trade and Finance in the Twenty-First Century
Rise of the South or a Second Great Divergence
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
The last two-three decades have seen a dramatic rise in South–South economic relations, yet no book exists that systematically examines these changes in the global economy. Most studies on South–South relations focus on regionalism, that is regional integration in South America, preferential trading...
Legalist Empire
International Law and American Foreign Relations in the Early Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
America's empire expanded dramatically following the Spanish-American War of 1898. The United States quickly annexed the Philippines and Puerto Rico, seized control over Cuba and the Panama Canal Zone, and extended political and financial power throughout Latin America. This age of empire, Benjamin...
The Merlion and the Ashoka
SingaporeIndia Strategic Ties
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
The Merlion and the Ashoka: Singapore–India Strategic Ties examines the historical evolution and future prospects of the strategic and defence ties between these two nations. India, which considers Singapore to be one of its closest partners in Southeast Asia, has offered Singapore unprecedented...
by Wu Baiyi, Liu Weiguang, Cai Tongchang
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
This key publication takes an in-depth look at the hugely significant and evolving relationship between China and the nations of Latin America from a Chinese perspective. With their historical links and relationships, and more recently with China and Brazils partnership within BRICS, Latin American nations...
U.S.–Cuba Relations
Charting a New Path
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
This book examines the history of United States foreign policy toward Cuba, focusing on critical junctures and recent strategic shifts. Restoring diplomatic relations with Cuba, which were severed officially in January 1961, was a huge shift in U.S. foreign policy. Relations between Cuba and the United...