International Relations category: 9182 books
Maritime Security
International Law and Policy Perspectives from Australia and New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Maritime security is of vital importance to Australia and New Zealand as both countries depend on maritime transport for their economic survival. Since the events of September 11th 2001, significant questions have been raised as to whether Australia and New Zealand are adequately prepared for the...
International Aid and China's Environment
Taming the Yellow Dragon
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2006
Rapid economic growth in the world's most populous nation is leading to widespread soil erosion, desertification, deforestation and the depletion of vital natural resources. The scale and severity of environmental problems in China now threaten the economic and social foundations of its modernization.
Using...
Accountability for Killing
Moral Responsibility for Collateral Damage in America's Post-9/11 Wars
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
The unintended deaths of civilians in war are too often dismissed as unavoidable, inevitable, and accidental. And despite the best efforts of the U.S. to avoid them, civilian casualties in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan have been a regular feature of the United States' wars after 9/11. In Accountability...
by Ho-Won Jeong
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2008
'...effectively fills a long-standing void and will no doubt be hailed as a much-needed new addition to the literature... This text very much exemplifies the strength of Ho-Won Jeong as a theorist and one of the more prolific writers in the larger peace and conflict studies field... the final three...
Regional Organizations and Peacemaking
Challengers to the UN?
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
This book analyses the new and difficult roles of regional organizations in peacemaking after the end of the Cold War and how they relate to the United Nations (UN).
Regional organizations have taken an increasingly prominent role in international efforts to deal with international security....
Reframing the International
Law, Culture, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Re-Framing the International insists that, if we are to properly face the challenges of the coming century, we need to re-examine international politics and development through the prism of ethics and morality. International relations must now contend with a widening circle of participants reflecting the diversity and uneveness of status, memory, gender, race, culture and class.
by Jens Bartelson
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
This book is a critical inquiry into sovereignty and argues that the meaning and functions performed by this concept have changed significantly during the past decades, with profound implications for the ontological status of the state and the modus operandi of the international system as a whole.
Although...
Rules, Politics, and the International Criminal Court
Committing to the Court
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
In this new work, Dutton examines the ICC and whether and how its enforcement mechanism influences state membership and the court’s ability to realize treaty goals, examining questions such as:
Why did states decide to create the ICC and design the institution with this uniquely strong enforcement...
The Political Economy of Noncompliance
Adjusting to the Single European Market
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
The Political Economy of Noncompliance explains why states fail to comply with international law.
Over the last sixty years, states have signed treaties, established international courts and other supranational institutions to achieve the benefits of international cooperation. Nowhere has this...
by Xing Qu, Longbiao Zhong
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
With the second-largest economy and rapidly growing military strength, China is now an emerging regional and global super power, which makes it confronted with a sudden increase in opportunities, pressures and conflicts in terms of international issues.
This book gives a comprehensive and systematic...
EU Foreign Policy in a Globalized World
Normative power and social preferences
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2008
Written by leading experts in the field, this volume identifies European collective preferences and analyzes to what extent these preferences inform and shape EU foreign policy and are shared by other actors in the international system.
While studies of the EU’s foreign policy are not new,...
Chinese Public Diplomacy
The Rise of the Confucius Institute
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
This book presents the first comprehensive analysis of Confucius Institutes (CIs), situating them as a tool of public diplomacy in the broader context of China’s foreign affairs.
The study establishes the concept of public diplomacy as the theoretical framework for analysing CIs. By applying...
International Institutions of the Middle East
The GCC, Arab League, and Arab Maghreb Union
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
This volume is a key text for understanding the major regional international organizations of the Middle East. Analysing the Arab League, the Gulf Cooperation Council, and the Arab-Maghreb Union in a concise and accessible format, it explores their successes and failures across their full range of...
by Oliver Bange, Elizabeth Chadwick, Tvrtko Jakovina
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
Neutrality serves different purposes during times of war and peace. ‘Notions of Neutralities’ portrays those historical challenges that neutrals faced, and are still facing, to maintain some form of economic stability and political order as chaos and wars rage. Neutrals are exposed to existential...