International Relations category: 9182 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Security Council resolutions have undergone an important evolution over the last two decades. While continuing its traditional role of determining state-specific threats to peace and engaging accordingly in various peaceful or coercive measures, the Security Council has also adopted resolutions that...
by Gary Goertz, Paul F. Diehl
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
This book provides the first detailed analysis of international rivalries, the long-standing and often violent confrontations between the same pairs of states. The book addresses conceptual components of rivalries and explores the origins, dynamics, and termination of the most dangerous form of rivalry--enduring...
Handbook of War Studies III
The Intrastate Dimension
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2009
Handbook of War Studies III is a follow-up to Handbook of War Studies I (1993) and II (2000). This new volume collects original work from leading international relations scholars on domestic strife, ethnic conflict, genocide, and other timely topics. Special attention is given to civil war, which...
Creating International Studies
Angell, Mitrany and the Liberal Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Through a critical evaluation of the works of Norman Angell and David Mitrany, this book explores the liberal roots of the academic discipline of International Relations (IR). Ashworth argues that, far from being the product of timeless realist truths, IR’s origins are rooted in liberal attempts...
International Political Economy in Context
Individual Choices, Global Effects
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Although many international political economy texts offer good descriptions of what events have occurred in global economic and political relations, they fail to develop explicit theoretical frameworks explaining why. Andrew C. Sobel's International Political Economy in Context: Individual Choices,...
International Order in Diversity
War, Trade and Rule in the Indian Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
International relations scholars typically expect political communities to resemble one another the more they are exposed to pressures of war, economic competition and the spread of hegemonic legitimacy standards. However, historically it is heterogeneity, not homogeneity, that has most often defined...
International Bureaucracy
Challenges and Lessons for Public Administration Research
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
This book applies established analytical concepts such as influence, authority, administrative styles, autonomy, budgeting and multilevel administration to the study of international bureaucracies and their political environment. It reflects on the commonalities and differences between national and...
High-Table Diplomacy
The Reshaping of International Security Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
The proliferation of “minilateral” summits is reshaping how international security problems are addressed, yet these summits remain a poorly understood phenomenon. In this groundbreaking work, Kjell Engelbrekt contrasts the most important minilateral summits—the G7 (formerly G8) and G20—with...
China's International Transboundary Rivers
Politics, Security and Diplomacy of Shared Water Resources
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
China has forty major transboundary watercourses with neighbouring countries, and has frequently been accused of harming its downstream neighbours through its domestic water management policies, such as the construction of dams for hydropower. This book provides an understanding of water security...
Causes and Consequences of International Conflict
Data, Methods and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Investigation into the causes of international conflict has in many ways formed the central locus of the early work in the scientific investigation of world politics. This edited volume contains the most recent quantitative work in this area, reflecting the current state of the field in the topics...
Climate Change and Energy Insecurity
The Challenge for Peace, Security and Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Climate change is now recognised as one of the greatest challenges facing the international community and when coupled with energy production and use - the most significant contributor to climate change - and the related security problems the double threat to international security and human development...
The International Politics of Democratization
Comparative perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
This book examines the international dimensions of democratization processes, showing the degree to which international actors, ranging from states to non-governmental players, have an influence on what were once thought of as exclusively domestic processes of political change.
The contributors...
Internal Conflict and the International Community
Wars Without End?
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This insightful book debates whether conflict within states has emerged as the Achilles Heel of the international community. It covers a wide-range of issues including the roots of internal conflict, small arms supplies, intervention, human rights and international humanitarian law, refugees and post-conflict...
Regional Maintenance of Peace and Security under International Law
The Distorted Mirrors
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
This book explores the scope and limits of what is appropriate for regional action in the maintenance of peace and security. It offers a comparative study of legal regulation of the use of force in the maintenance of peace and security of different security regions in the context of the UN system...