International Relations category: 9182 books
Iraqi Kurdistan, the PKK and International Relations
Theory and Ethnic Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Due to its primacy in explaining issues of war and peace in the international arena, the discipline of International Relations (IR) looms large in analyses of and responses to ethnic conflict in academia, politics and popular media – in particular with respect to contemporary conflicts in the Middle...
Social Emergence in International Relations
Institutional Dynamics in East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
This book presents a conceptualization of social emergence in international relations as a novel angle to analyse institutional dynamics in East Asia, introducing the concept of emergence from a critical realist perspective. The author examines East Asia’s characteristic mesh work of regional institutions...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
There is a growing recognition that globalization is leading to fundamental changes in world order, creating new imperatives and requiring new ways of understanding the international system. Two of the most important actors in the contemporary international system are the United States and Europe,...
Diplomacy and Nation-Building in Africa
Franco-British relations and Cameroon at the End of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Cameroon stands as a remarkable example of nation-building in the aftermath of European domination. Historically divided between the French and British empires, the country experienced a remarkable drive to self-determination in 1961, culminating in both the re-unification of two of its divided territories...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
This edited volume examines concepts of sincerity in politics and international relations in order to discuss what we should expect of politicians, within what parameters they should work, and how their decisions and actions could be made consistent with morality.
The volume features an international...
US-China Relations in the 21st Century
Power Transition and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
US-China Relations in the 21st Century addresses the bilateral relations of these two nations on an international, domestic, societal and individual level between 1990 and 2005. Peaceful power shifts remain a central dilemma in world politics, since historically power transition from a dominant nation...
The Real and the Ideal
Essays on International Relations in Honor of Richard H. Ullman
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2001
A teacher, scholar, practitioner, and publicist, Richard Ullman has been a unique and influential figure in U.S. foreign and security policy over the past forty years. This volume, created on the initiative of some of Ullman's most accomplished former students, is less a summing up of his work than...
China's Japan Policy
Adjusting to New Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
China and Japan are the two most important countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Their economic ties are significant not only because they are the second and third largest economies in today's world, but also because their economic relationship has an important impact on regional economic co-operation...
Ontological Entanglements, Agency and Ethics in International Relations
Exploring the Crossroads
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
While the relevance of ontological commitments for epistemology and methodology in International Relations have been the subject of growing debate for several years, the implications for ethics and political agency of embracing an ontology of entanglement have remained unexplored. This work focuses...
by James A. Caporaso, Mary Anne Madeira
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
The study of international relations now goes well beyond state-to-state politics and even regional politics. Technological forces are working their effects on the world as a whole, bringing state and non-state actors into contact with one another. Globalization, Institutions and Governance...
US-China-EU Relations
Managing the New World Order
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010
This volume brings together a group of leading international scholars to discuss how US-China-EU relations will shape the future of international politics.
Arguing that these three powers will play a key role in establishing and managing a new world order, the contributors examine how a future...
by Hanna Ojanen
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
This book studies inter-organisational relations from a new angle: power. Drawing on examples that highlight how the EU relates to NATO and to the UN, it shows how consequential inter-organisational relations are for the functioning and nature of the organisations, and how important it is to detect...
by Jessica Auchter
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
International Relations has traditionally focused on conflict and war, but the effects of violence including dead bodies and memorialization practices have largely been considered beyond the purview of the field. Drawing on Jacques Derrida’s notion of hauntology to consider the politics of life...
SinoJapanese Relations
Rivals or Partners in Regional Cooperation?
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Sino-Japanese relations have been on the mend since Shinzo Abe assumed the Japanese Prime Minister's office in September 2006. His visit to China in October 2006 and the reciprocal visits of Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao in April 2007, and President Hu Jintao in May 2008, facilitated the further...