International Relations category: 9182 books
Capital, the State, and War
Class Conflict and Geopolitics in the Thirty Years' Crisis, 1914-1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
The history of the modern social sciences can be seen as a series of attempts to confront the challenges of social disorder and revolution wrought by the international expansion of capitalist social relations. In Capital, the State, and War, Alexander Anievas focuses on one particularly significant...
Israel in the World
Legitimacy and Exceptionalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Since independence, Israel has lived with a paradox, needing and seeking legitimacy, understanding, and empathy from the world community while simultaneously also discounting the world. This volume reflects upon Israel’s troubled attempts to balance its desire to be different from a world that it...
by Ephraim Dowek
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
A memoir by former diplomat Ephraim Dowek which provides a comprehensive study of the relations between Egypt and Israel from peace until the present day. This is an informative account of the author's time in Egypt as a high-level Israeli diplomat (he was eventually appointed Ambassador) and as a...
Negotiating Environment and Science
An Insider's View of International Agreements, from Driftnets to the Space Station
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
In this thought-provoking new book, career U.S. State Department negotiator Richard J. Smith offers readers unprecedented access to the details about some of the most complex and politically charged international agreements of the late and immediate post Cold War era. During his nine years as Principal...
The Europa Lectures, 2002–2014
From Enlargement to Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Commencing in 2001, the Europa Lecture has become a high-profile fixture on the EU-New Zealand calendar. As witnessed by the fifteen lectures reproduced in this new volume, the speakers were selected for both their high-level profile as well as their importance to this bilateral dialogue. This volume...
by Han Shih Toh
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
"Han Shih Toh's book will be a good place to start for those eager to learn how China is flexing its economic muscles overseas."
South China Morning Post
With the rapid increase in China's overseas investment and trade, China's global economic clout is increasing by the day....
Documenting World Politics
A Critical Companion to IR and Non-Fiction Film
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
As a central component of contemporary culture, films mirror and shape political debate. Reflecting on this development, scholars in the field of International Relations (IR) increasingly explore the intersection of TV series, fiction film and global politics. So far, however, virtually no systematic...
International Relations in the Post-Industrial Era
Rephrasing the Third World
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
The current emphasis on the greening of the world marks a beginning of a new concern for our relationship with our planet. This book states that we are entering into a new era - a transitional time in history in which the values of the industrial revolution are being replaced by a post-industrial consciousness.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
The Handbook provides a comprehensive range of contributions on the relations between the EU and Asia - two regions undergoing significant changes internally yet also developing stronger relations in the context of an emerging multi-polar world. It collates some 40 contributions from various disciplines by contributors from throughout the world.
Japan's Middle East Security Policy
Theory and Cases
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This study examines how Japanese policy toward Middle East security issues is shaped by the need to both maintain Japan’s security alliance with the US and its oil relationship with states in the Middle East. Yukiko Miyagi introduces the historic roots of Japan’s policy, and then focuses on the...
The Invasion of Afghanistan and UK-Soviet Relations, 1979-1982
Documents on British Policy Overseas, Series III, Volume VIII
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
This volume examines British policy towards the Soviet Union in the aftermath of the invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979.
The documents in this volume, many released into the public realm for the first time, describe the development of British policy towards the Soviet Union during the...
The African Union
The First Ten Years
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the African Union during the organization’s first ten years of existence. It takes the reader through the various intergovernmental processes that preceded and followed the establishment of the Union and through the workings of key organs such as the...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
This book is based on the proceedings of a major conference on France, Europe and development aid, from the Treaties of Rome to the present day, organised by the French Development Agency (AFD) and the Institute of Public Management and Economic Development (IGPDE). It presents, in the form of a dialogue...
by Angelo Repousis
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
The pre–Cold War motives of American intervention in Greece
Most studies of U.S. relations with Greece focus on the Cold War period, beginning with the enunciation of the Truman Doctrine in 1947. There is little substance in the extant literature about American policy toward or interaction...