Public Relations category: 887 books
Harmony and Development
ASEAN-China Relations
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2007
This book celebrates the 15th anniversary of China–ASEAN dialogue, which has captured the limelight as a key development in international relations in the Asia-Pacific. The contributions discuss a wide range of complex and challenging issues concerning ASEAN–China relations in a readable, informative,...
Angry Public Rhetorics
Global Relations and Emotion in the Wake of 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
In Angry Public Rhetorics, Celeste Condit explores emotions as motivators and organizers of collective action—a theory that treats humans as “symbol-using animals” to understand the patterns of leadership in global affairs—to account for the way in which anger produced similar rhetorics in...
Uneasy Neighbors
Israel and the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Uneasy Neighbors: Israel and the European Union presents a concise and thorough analysis of significant aspects of Israeli-European relations from the late 1950s to the present day. Its primary concern is to examine major facets of the troubled Israeli-European relations, which are characterized by...
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
Experts from academia, governments, think tanks, NGOs, trade unions, and business investigate whether the public should play a greater role in foreign policy making by analysing their current role in the Iraq war (USA), Post-Apartheid (South Africa), trade relations with China (New Zealand) and other cases.
Power, Money, and Trade
Decisions that Shape Global Economic Relations
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
This book is an introduction to International Relations that uses examples from International Political Economy (IPE). It presents the theories and paradigms of International Relations in the context of the issues of trade, investment, and monetary relations. Largely it does so by developing historical...
Black Like You
Blackface, Whiteface, Insult & Imitation in American Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2007
A refreshingly clearheaded and taboo-breaking look at race relations reveals that American culture is neither Black nor White nor Other, but a mix-a mongrel.
Black Like You is an erudite and entertaining exploration of race relations in American popular culture. Particularly compelling is Strausbaugh's...
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...
Networked Governance and Transatlantic Relations
Building Bridges through Science Diplomacy
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
In today’s complex and interconnected world, scholars of international relations seek to better understand challenges spurred by intensified global communication and interaction. The complex connectedness of modern society and politics compels us to investigate the pattern of interconnections among...
Strategic Narratives
Communication Power and the New World Order
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Communication is central to how we understand international affairs. Political leaders, diplomats, and citizens recognize that communication shapes global politics. This has only been amplified in a new media environment characterized by Internet access to information, social media, and the transformation...
Explaining News
National Politics and Journalistic Cultures in Global Context
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
The book challenges the idea that processes of globalization are leading to an increasing homogenization of news on a worldwide scale by focusing on two defining crises of our time - 9/11 and the War in Afghanistan. The empirical analysis combines process-tracing, as well as both quantitative and...
Understanding the Politics of Pandemic Scares
An Introduction to Global Politosomatics
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Reactions to pandemics are unlike any other global emergency; with an emphasis on withdrawal and containment of the sight of the infected. Dealing with the historical and conceptual background of diseases in politics and international relations, this volume investigates the global political reaction...
by Alex S. Vitale
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The problem is not overpolicing, it is policing itself
Recent years have seen an explosion of protest against police brutality and repression. Among activists, journalists and politicians, the conversation about how to respond and improve policing has focused on accountability, diversity, training,...
The Disparity of European Integration
Revisiting Neofunctionalism in Honour of Ernst B. Haas
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
This new study revisits the work of the late Ernst Haas, assessing his relevance for contemporary European integration and its disparities.
With his seminal book, The Uniting of Europe Haas laid the foundations for one of the most prominent paradigms of European integration – neofunctionalism....