International Relations category: 9182 books
Global and Regional Problems
Towards an Interdisciplinary Study
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Distinctive due to explicit and systematically developed links between international relations (IR) and related disciplines, this book addresses global and regional interactions and the complex policy problems that often characterise this agenda. Such enhanced communication is crucial for improving...
The Challenge of Hegemony
Grand Strategy, Trade, and Domestic Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009
The Challenge of Hegemony explains how international forces subtly influence foreign, economic, and security policies of declining world powers. Using detail-rich case studies, this sweeping study integrates domestic and systemic policy to explain these countries' grand strategies. The book concludes...
EU-ASEAN Relations in the 21st Century
Strategic Partnership in the Making
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Escaping the economic and security-centered approaches, prevalent in contemporary U.S. debate the contributors explore political relations between the European Union (EU) and Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).Their inter-disciplinary perspectives touch on domains such as security, comparative integration, human rights, energy.
Constructing the World Polity
Essays on International Institutionalisation
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Constructing the World Polity brings together in one collection the theoretical ideas of one of the most influential International Relations theorists of our time. These essays, with a new introduction, and comprehensive connective sections, present Ruggie's ideas and their application to critical...
The EU-Russia Borderland
New Contexts for Regional Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, there were high hopes of Russia’s "modernisation" and rapid political and economic integration with the EU. But now, given its own policies of national development, Russia appears to have ‘limits to integration’. Today, much European political...
Trade and Human Rights
The Ethical Dimension in US - China Relations
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
This title was first published in 2002: Utilizing the case of the 1994 US decision to delink China’s human rights record from most favoured nation status, Susan C. Morris addresses the critical issues where commercialism and human rights converge. This insightful addition to the literature on US...
by P. Everts, P. Isernia
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
This book explores the intersection of the study of transatlantic relationships and the study of public support for the use of force in foreign policy. It contributes to two important debates: one about the nature of transatlantic partnership, and another about the determinants of support for the use of military force in a comparative perspective.
Russia and Germany Reborn
Unification, the Soviet Collapse, and the New Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2000
The relationship between Russia and Germany has been pivotal in some of the most fateful events of the twentieth century: the two World Wars, the Cold War, and the emergence of a new Europe from the ashes of communism. This is the first book to examine the recent evolution of that tense and often...
Transatlantic Counter-Terrorism Cooperation
The New Imperative
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
An incisive new analysis of transatlantic security cooperation, probing the roots as well as the future directions of this key relationship in world affairs.
Since the 1990s, this cooperation has expanded from traditional military security issues into countering terrorism, international organized...
The Little Red Dot
Reflections by Singapore's DiplomatsVolume II
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
This is the sequel to the bestselling book, The Little Red Dot, published in 2005. While the first volume consisted of a collection of essays by Singapore's first- and second-generation diplomats, this second volume contains essays written by the third generation of young ambassadors. The Second Minister...
by Nicholas Tarling
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Southeast Asia serves as an excellent case study to discuss major transformations in the relationship between states. This book looks at the changing nature of relationships between countries in Southeast Asia, as well as their relationships with other states in Asia and beyond.
A diverse region...
Myanmar
A Political History
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Myanmar, since its independence from the British in 1948, has witnessed decades of military dictatorship, a plethora of ethnic and political problems, and an arduous struggle to political normalcy and democracy. Reinventing its place in international trade, diplomacy, and geo-strategy, Myanmar today...
Hong Kong in the World
Implications to Geopolitics and Competitiveness
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Hong Kong in the World provides innovative insight into the role of Hong Kong — as a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China since 1997 — in the global context. This book looks into the institutional settings of Hong Kong in exercising its external relations policies, and...
by Li Shenming, Zhang Yuyan
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
A brand new series of annual reports that offer a high-level Chinese perspective on Chinas International economic relations and strategies. These books are highly detailed and research-led, offering expert analysis and evaluations from key Chinese advisers and academics.