International Relations category: 9182 books
US Power in Latin America
Renewing Hegemony
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
An original account of contemporary US-Latin American relations, this book utilises neo-Gramscian and historical materialist approaches to build a novel conceptual framework for analysing US hegemony, extending critical theory in new and exciting directions. It disaggregates US power into distinct...
Security Unbound
Enacting Democratic Limits
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Security concerns have mushroomed. Increasingly numerous areas of life are governed by security policies and technologies. Security Unbound argues that when insecurities pervade how we relate to our neighbours, how we perceive international politics, how governments formulate policies, at stake is...
by Alan L. McPherson
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2006
Over the last sixty years, the relationship between the United States and Latin America has been marred by ideological conflict, imbalances of power, and economic disparity. The U.S.-sponsored coup in Guatemala, the near lynching of Vice President Richard Nixon in Venezuela, and the disastrous Bay of...
by J. Troy
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Troy analyses how the understanding of religion in Realism and the English School helps in working towards the greater good in international relations, studying religion within the overall framework of international affairs and the field of peace studies.
Strategic Preemption
US Foreign Policy and the Second Iraq War
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Placing the second US-Iraq conflict in the context of emerging trends in international relations, this exceptional, timely volume examines the broad framework of US policy toward Iraq under the administration of George W. Bush. The Second Iraq War marks the third time since 1991 that the United States...
Iran and Nuclear Weapons
Protracted Conflict and Proliferation
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2009
This book investigates what is driving Iran's nuclear weapons programme in a less-hostile regional environment, using a theory of protracted conflicts to explicate proliferation.
Iran’s nuclear weapons program has alarmed the international community since the 1990s, but has come to the forefront...
Fighting for Status
Hierarchy and Conflict in World Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
There is widespread agreement that status or standing in the international system is a critical element in world politics. The desire for status is recognized as a key factor in nuclear proliferation, the rise of China, and other contemporary foreign policy issues, and has long been implicated in...
Turkey's Entente with Israel and Azerbaijan
State Identity and Security in the Middle East and Caucasus
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
With the end of the Cold War came a new political instability in Turkey and a shift in relations with the West, leading the government to adopt new foreign policies and forge alliances with neighbouring states. This book offers a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the evolution of the trilateral...
The Post-Imperial Age: The Great Powers and the Wider World
International Relations Since 1945: a history in two volumes
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
This volume looks at the impact on the wider world of the end of the European empires and their replacement by a new international order dominated by East-West rivalries. After surveying the decolonization process, the book looks successively at the different patterns of experience in Southern Africa,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
The publication Inward Visions: Caribbean Governance and Development offers a selection of papers that seek to pull together into a coherent framework the linkages of progress of our Caribbean society. In doing so, they allow for retrospective assessment and futuristic projections. Th e Most Honourable...
The Cold War at Home and Abroad
Domestic Politics and US Foreign Policy since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
From President Truman's use of a domestic propaganda agency to Ronald Reagan's handling of the Soviet Union during his 1984 reelection campaign, the American political system has consistently exerted a profound effect on the country's foreign policies. Americans may cling to the belief that "politics...
Safe For Decolonization
The Eisenhower Administration, Britain, and Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
How America left its indelible footprint on the culture and politics of Singapore
In the first decade after World War II, Singapore underwent radical political and socioeconomic changes with the progressive retreat of Great Britain from its Southeast Asian colonial empire. The United States,...
by Robert Jervis
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
To say that the world changed drastically on 9/11 has become a truism and even a cliché. But the incontestable fact is that a new era for both the world and US foreign policy began on that infamous day and the ramifications for international politics have been monumental.
In this book, one...
Racial Harmony Is Achievable
Lessons from the Kingdom of Hawai'i
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Racial and social relations can become harmonious and serene in every country of the world. Racism can be eliminated. The Kingdom of Hawaiʽi during the nineteenth century reveals a history of responsive politicians, economic progress, environmental preservation, and serene race relations because...