International Relations category: 9182 books
The International Ambitions of Mao and Nehru
National Efficacy Beliefs and the Making of Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011
Why do leaders sometimes challenge, rather than accept, the international structures that surround their states? In The International Ambitions of Mao and Nehru, Andrew Kennedy answers this question through in-depth studies of Chinese foreign policy under Mao Zedong and Indian foreign policy under...
The Politics of the Globalization of Law
Getting from Rights to Justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
How does the globalization of law, the emergence of multiple and shifting venues of legal accountability, enhance or evade the fulfillment of international human rights? Alison Brysk’s edited volume aims to assess the institutional and political factors that determine the influence of the globalization...
by Rachel Stohl, Suzette Grillot
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
The multi-billion dollar business of the international conventional arms trade involves virtually every country in the world. Around the globe, people's lives are being irrevocably changed by the effects of guns, tanks, and missiles. These weapons have the potential to cause a deadly and current threat...
Soft Power
China's Emerging Strategy in International Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2009
Soft power has become a very popular concept in international affairs, appearing in government policy papers, academic discussions, and the popular media. In China, soft power has become one of the most frequently used phrases among political leaders, leading academics, and journalists. Defined against...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Written by an international team of experts from the US, UK, Hong Kong, China, Korea and Canada, this important and interesting book examines and explores the relationship between the international political and economic system, and China’s economic and political transition.
Exploring international...
Defacing Power
The Aesthetics of Insecurity in Global Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
"Combining a rich and varied set of theoretical insights with a subtle analysis of the politics of American foreign policy, Defacing Power marks an important contribution toward understanding the power of identity in world politics. Engagingly written and rigorously argued, Steele's challenging...
Cases of Conflict
Transboundary Disputes and the Development of International Environmental Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Cases of Conflict focuses on times of dispute as important moments in the development of international environmental law. Conflict tests international law—both its content and its relevance become clearer in times of controversy—but conflict can also help shape the law.
Drawing from a growing...
International Legal Theory
Essays and engagements, 1966-2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Nicholas Onuf’s International Legal Theory: Essays and Engagements 1966-2007 is a collection of the author’s articles and book reviews from the period, including some previously unpublished material. The book records the author’s efforts to address important problems in international legal theory...
The Contentious Politics of Statebuilding
Strategies and Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
The book examines the dynamics between domestic and international statebuilding actors.
While the dynamics between "local" and "international" statebuilding actors have been previously theorised through concepts such as hybridity and friction, there have been few attempts...
From the ICISS Report to the 2005 World Summit
The mainfactors influencing the evolution of the R2P
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2010 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: International Organisations, grade: 70, University of Cape Town (Department of Political Science), course: International Relations, language: English, abstract: A large portion of the literature that deals...
China Stands Up
The PRC and the International System
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2007
In 1949 Mao Zedong made the historic proclamation that "the Chinese people have stood up". This statement was significant, undoubtedly reflecting the changing nature not only of China’s self-perception, but also of its relationship with the rest of the world. In terms of reducing the imperialist...
International Election Monitoring, Sovereignty, and the Western Hemisphere
The Emergence of an International Norm
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
This book traces the process by which national elections became international events or, more precisely, what the effects of this process are on state sovereignty.
Contrary to the conventional wisdom in International Relations - to judge by the neglect of this phenomenon in the literature -...
International Conflict Mediation
New Approaches and Findings
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
This book examines how new empirical approaches to mediation can shed fresh light on the effectiveness of different patterns of conflict management, and offers guidelines on the process of international mediation.
International conflict mediation has become one of, if not the most prominent...
by Jonathan Wilkenfeld, Kathleen Young, David Quinn
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
This new book shows how international crises are dangerous episodes that can be destabilizing not only to the actors directly involved but also to the entire international system.
Recognizing the primacy of crises as defining moments in international relations, scholars and policy makers alike...