International Relations category: 9182 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2008
This book examines the place of multilateralism in Russia’s foreign policy and Russia’s engagement with multilateral institutions. Throughout the post-Soviet period, both Yeltsin and Putin consistently professed a deep attachment to the principles of multilateralism. However, multilateralism as...
Diplomatic Cultures and International Politics
Translations, Spaces and Alternatives
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This volume offers an inter-disciplinary and critical analysis of the role of culture in diplomatic practice.
If diplomacy is understood as the practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of distinct communities or causes, then questions of culture and the spaces of cultural...
How Statesmen Think
The Psychology of International Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Robert Jervis has been a pioneering leader in the study of the psychology of international politics for more than four decades. How Statesmen Think presents his most important ideas on the subject from across his career. This collection of revised and updated essays applies, elaborates, and modifies...
How NATO Adapts
Strategy and Organization in the Atlantic Alliance since 1950
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Today’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization, with nearly thirty members and a global reach, differs strikingly from the alliance of twelve created in 1949 to "keep the Americans in, the Russians out, and the Germans down." These differences are not simply the result of the Cold War’s...
Maritime Diplomacy in the 21st Century
Drivers and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
This book aims to redefine maritime diplomacy for the modern era.
Maritime diplomacy encompasses a spectrum of activities, from co-operative measures such as port visits, exercises and humanitarian assistance to persuasive deployment and coercion. It is an activity no longer confined...
Stateness and Sovereign Debt
Greece in the European Conundrum
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
This book examines the present crisis of Greece’s political economy as a crisis of stateness, tackling the domestic as well as the international dimensions. It represents the first attempt by Greek academics to put forward a theoretically-informed, interdisciplinary analysis of Greece’s fiscal,...
To See Ourselves as Others See Us
How Publics Abroad View the United States after 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
"Holsti, the authority on American foreign policy attitudes, investigates others' views of us. It's not pretty. It matters. Read this."
---Bruce Russett, Dean Acheson Professor of International Relations, Yale University, and editor of the Journal of Conflict Resolution
"Clearly...
by Alejandro Colas, Richard Saull
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2007
This new study shows how the American-led ‘war on terror’ has brought about the most significant shift in the contours of the international system since the end of the Cold War.
A new ‘imperial moment’ is now discernible in US foreign policy in the wake of the neo-conservative rise...
The United States Contested
American Unilateralism and European Discontent
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Why and how is America contested by Europe? This new book answers this question and contributes to a better understanding of contemporary transatlantic tensions.
Adopting different theoretical perspectives, the leading contributors to this volume assess the European discontent with America...
by Elizabeth Chadwick
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
This book discusses the increasing tendency in certain government quarters to incorporate struggles by peoples for their self-determination into the wider anti-terrorist agenda of the post-9/11 era. This tendency distorts the laws of armed conflict and of peace alike. As inter-state anti-terrorist...
Citizenship and Security
The Constitution of Political Being
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
This book engages the intense relationship between citizenship and security in modern politics. It focuses on questions of citizenship in security analysis in order to critically evaluate how political being is and can be constituted in relation to securitising practices.
In light of contemporary...
National and European Foreign Policies
Towards Europeanization
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
National and European Foreign Policy explores the processes of interaction between the national and the European levels in foreign policy making in European Union states. The volume also assesses the mutual influence which the Member States exert on each other, independent of the EU institutions,...
UN Sanctions and Conflict
Responding to Peace and Security Threats
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
This book examines the application of the UN Security Council's mandatory sanctions since 1946, and, in particular, the regimes adopted for specific types of conflict.
Beginning in the Cold War period with South Africa and Southern Rhodesia and continuing today, following the post-9/11 experience...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The Ashgate Research Companion to Chinese Foreign Policy draws out the full range of topics and issues that characterise China's external affairs. The volume is intended to provide an overview of Chinese foreign policy that will be relevant both to experts in the field as well as those that are just...