International Relations category: 9182 books
Managing Money and Discord in the UN
Budgeting and Bureaucracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019
How do international organizations in the United Nations system put together their budgets? What is the role of complex principals - most notably member states - and the complex agents in the bureaucracies of international organizations in budgeting processes? And what does a focus on budgeting tell...
by Anil Kumar Singh
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
A country’s foreign policy, also called foreign relations policy, consists of self-interest strategies chosen by the state to safeguard its national interests and to achieve goals within its international relations milieu. The approaches are strategically employed to interact with other countries....
Triple-Axis
Iran's Relations with Russia and China
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
The most significant challenge to the post-Cold War international order is the growing power of ambitious states opposed to the West. Iran, Russia and China each view the global structure through the prism of historical experience. Rejecting the universality of Western liberal values, these states...
Asia's Quest for Balance
China's Rise and Balancing in the Indo-Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
In recent years the narrative surrounding China’s “peaceful rise” has given way to a more ominous story of friction, ambition, and great-power rivalry. As Chinese foreign policy has grown more nationalist and assertive, its intensifying competition with the U.S. has assumed center stage. The...
Dissolving Tensions
Rapprochement and Resolution in British-American-Canadian Relations in the Treatyof Washington Era, 1865-1914
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
**How the period from 1865 to 1914 defined Anglo-American relations **
Dissolving Tensions dismisses the long-held argument that a British-American rapprochement did not occur until the mid-1890s. Instead, author Phillip E. Myers shows that the rapprochement was distinct prior to the Civil...
Disequilibrium, Polarization, and Crisis Model
An International Relations Theory Explaining Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Different international relations theorists have studied political change, but all fall short of sufficiently integrating human reactions, feelings, and responses to change in their theories. This book adds a social psychological component to the analysis of why nations, politically organized groups,...
The Washington Dissensus
A Privileged Observer's Perspective on US-Brazil Relations
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
During the five years in which he represented Brazil in the United States (under both the Cardoso and Lula presidencies), Ambassador Barbosa witnessed presidential elections that brought opposition parties to power in both the United States and Brazil, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the outbreak of war...
Small States and Shelter Theory
Iceland’s External Affairs
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Small states are dependent on the economic, political, and societal shelter provided by larger states and international organizations to survive and prosper.
Iceland provides an ideal case study for shelter theory, due both to its smallness as compared with its larger neighbouring states, as...
The Final Frontier
International Relations and Politics through Star Trek and Star Wars
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2019
The proposed book uses the Star Trek television/movie and Star Wars movie series to explain key international relations (IR) concepts and theories. It begins with an overview of the importance of science fiction in literature and film/television. It then presents the development of the Star Trek and...
Japan’s Island Troubles with China and Korea
Prospects and Challenges for Resolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
This book examines the Senkaku/Diaoyu dispute between Japan and China and the Dokdo/Takeshima dispute between Japan and Korea, in order to offer new perspectives on the possible approaches towards amelioration and resolution of these conflicts.
Japan’s Island Troubles with China and Korea...
by Raymond Aron, Kishore Mahbubani, Fawaz Gerges
Language: French
Release Date: March 29, 2019
Language: French
Release Date: March 29, 2019
Les quatre décennies qui viennent de s’écouler ont profondément modifié les bases mêmes du système international : mondialisation de tous les échanges, révolutions techniques, bouleversement de la hiérarchie des puissances, émergence de la Chine, explosion du Moyen-Orient, mutation des...
Chaos in the Liberal Order
The Trump Presidency and International Politics in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Donald Trump’s election has called into question many fundamental assumptions about politics and society. Should the forty-fifth president of the United States make us reconsider the nature and future of the global order? Collecting a wide range of perspectives from leading political scientists,...
by Gisela Schneider
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2003
Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: International Organisations, grade: 1 (A), Southern Cross University, Lismore (Politics), course: Peace, War and International Politics, 14 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The United...
Ethics and Statecraft: The Moral Dimension of International Affairs, 3rd Edition
The Moral Dimension of International Affairs
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Ethics lie at the heart of human and therefore also international affairs, compelling nations to get involved "over there" and dedicate resources to intervention or to justify detachment. The politics and rhetoric of ethics constrain decision-makers, greatly complicating international situations....