International Relations category: 9182 books
Liberals, International Relations and Appeasement
The Liberal Party, 1919-1939
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
This work shows the importance of analysing the "low" politics of areas that have traditionally been dominated by "high" politics. The role of bodies such as the Liberal Summer School and the Women's Liberal Federation are examined, along with the work of thinkers such as JM Keynes.
by Christopher M. Dent
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
East Asia is one of the world's most dynamic and diverse regions and is also becoming an increasingly coherent region through the inter-play of various integrative economic, political and socio-cultural processes. Fully updated and revised throughout, this new edition explores the various ways in...
Responsibility to Protect
Cultural Perspectives in the Global South
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This volume explores in a novel and challenging way the emerging norm of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), initially adopted by the United Nations World Summit in 2005 following significant debate throughout the preceding decade.
This work seeks to uncover whether this norm and its founding...
The Gulf
The Bush Presidencies and the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush both led the United States through watershed events in foreign relations: the end of the Cold War and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Many high-level cabinet members and advisers played important foreign policy roles in both administrations,...
by Jeremy Youde
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
In the 1980s, health was a marginal issue on the international political agenda, and it barely figured into donor states' foreign aid allocation. Within a generation, health had developed a robust set of governance structures that drive significant global political action, incorporate a wide range...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
This study provides a comprehensive discussion of all aspects of the European Union presence in International Organisations (IOs). The editors seek to explore both the political and institutional implications of the EU’s interaction with IOs and the effect of the EU’s presence on the functioning...
Deepening EU-Georgian Relations
What, Why and How?
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
The purpose of this Handbook is to make the legal content of the Association Agreement clearly comprehensible. It covers all the significant political and economic chapters of the Agreement, and in each case explains the meaning of the commitments made by Georgia and the challenges posed by their...
Space Policy in Developing Countries
The Search for Security and Development on the Final Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
This book analyses the rationale and history of space programs in countries of the developing world.
Space was at one time the sole domain of the wealthiest developed countries. However, the last couple of decades of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first century have...
by Richard Ned Lebow
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Cause is a problematic concept in social science, as in all fields of knowledge. We organise information in terms of cause and effect to impose order on the world, but this can impede a more sophisticated understanding. In his latest book, Richard Ned Lebow reviews understandings of cause in physics...
A Nation Like All Others
A Brief History of American Foreign Relations
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Belief in the United States as a force for good in the world runs deep. Yet an honest consideration reveals a history marred by great crimes and ordinary errors, alongside many achievements and triumphs. In this comprehensive account of American foreign relations from the nation’s founding through...
A World Beyond Borders
An Introduction to the History of International Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
This short and well-written overview provides essential information on the history of international organizations (IOs), with particular focus on the League of Nations, the development of the United Nations, and the UN system. Starting at the beginning of the twentieth century, when there were very...
by Richard Ned Lebow
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
Drawing on political theory, comparative politics, international relations, psychology and classics, Ned Lebow offers insights into why social and political orders form, how they evolve, and why and how they decline. Following The Tragic Vision of Politics and A Cultural Theory of International Relations,...
International Organizations and Implementation
Enforcers, Managers, Authorities?
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2007
International organizations have once more become subjects of investigation for a whole range of scholars: political scientists, international relations specialists, organization theorists, and policy experts alike. The end of the Cold War, increased globalization, and the intensification of regional...
by Mark Schafer, Scott Crichlow
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2010
Are good and bad outcomes significantly affected by the decision-making process itself? Indeed they are, in that certain decision-making techniques and practices limit the ability of policymakers to achieve their goals and advance the national interest.
The success of policy often turns on...