International Relations category: 9182 books
Politics of Urbanism
Seeing Like a City
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
To see like a city, rather than seeing like a state, is the key to understanding modern politics. In this book, Magnusson draws from theorists such as Weber, Wirth, Hayek, Jacobs, Sennett, and Foucault to articulate some of the ideas that we need to make sense of the city as a form of political order.
Locally...
by Tim Pfefferle
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Politics - Basics and General, grade: 74, Queen Mary University of London (Department of Politics and International Relations), course: Introduction to International Relations, language: English, abstract: This essay investigates the elements which can be considered...
International Governance, Regimes, and Globalization
Case Studies from Beijing and Taipei
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
In the this collection, International Governance, Regimes, and Globalization, the writers explore international relations and globalization by using specific examples from Beijing and Taipei. In December 1949, when China was politically divided the People's Republic of China (PRC) central government...
The Northeast Question
Conflicts and frontiers
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
This book explores the idea, psychology and political geography of Northeast India as forged by two interrelated but autonomous meta-narratives. First, the politics of conflict inherent in, and therefore predetermined by physical geography, and second, the larger geopolitics that was unfolding during...
Forgotten Vanguard
Informal Diplomacy and the Rise of United States-China Trade, 1972–1980
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
The trading relationship between the United States and China, though now robust, was a recent and hardly inevitable development. Political animosity stemming from the Korean War and America's subsequent strategic embargo of China broke off economic and cultural ties. Following two decades of China's...
by Xuetong Yan
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
The rise of China could be the most important political development of the twenty-first century. What will China look like in the future? What should it look like? And what will China's rise mean for the rest of world? This book, written by China's most influential foreign policy thinker, sets out...
New Frontiers in China's Foreign Relations
Zhongguo Waijiao de Xin Bianjiang
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
This book stands as a rebuke to any who would attempt to forward simplistic interpretations of China's rise. In place of parsimonious arguments, or an endorsement of any singular set of images (whether pacific or confrontational), it repeatedly calls attention to the remarkable complexity of China's...
Southeast Asia and the Rise of China
The Search for Security
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Since the early 1990s and the end of the Cold War, the implications of China's rising power have come to dominate the security agenda of the Asia-Pacific region. This book is the first to comprehensively chart the development of Southeast Asia’s relations with the People’s Republic of China (PRC)...
Corporate Power and Ownership in Contemporary Capitalism
The Politics of Resistance and Domination
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2009
Despite the influence corporations wield over all aspects of everyday life, there has been a remarkable absence of critical inquiry into the social constitution of this power. In analysing the complex relationship between corporate power and the widespread phenomenon of share ownership, this book...
Latin America and the Asian Giants
Evolving Ties with China and India
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
How an evolving relationship with China and India is changing Latin America's political and economic dynamics.
In the years since China has adopted a "going global" strategy to promote its overseas investment, expand export markets, and gain much-needed access to natural resources...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
This edited volume is an outcome of the first major collaborative project between Japanese economists and political scientists, funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. The authors of the individual chapters show that Asian states play games of conflict and cooperation strategically...
Explanation and Progress in Security Studies
Bridging Theoretical Divides in International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Explanation and Progress in Security Studies asks why Security Studies, as a central area of International Relations, has not experienced scientific progress in the way natural sciences have—and answers by arguing that the underlying reason is that scholars in Security Studies have advanced a range...
Portugal in the European Union
Assessing Twenty-Five Years of Integration Experience
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
This book examines the involvement of Portugal in the European integration process since the country signed the Accession Treaty in 1985.
The volume elicits how Portugal has grasped opportunities and challenges emanating from its participation in the institutional, regulatory and political...
Japan and China
A Contest in Aid to Sub-Saharan Africa
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Since the opening up of China in 1979, the country had experienced phenomenal economic growth over the decades and overtook Japan as the second-largest economy in 2010. With the establishment of a conservative administration led by Shinzo Abe in December 2012 and Xi Jinping's ascendance to power as...