International Relations

Thirty years after the end of the Cold War, world peace is at risk again. The United States has withdrawn from the disarmament treaty with Russia, Europe is disintegrating, China is surging forward and a wave of nationalism and populism is destabilizing...

Concepts have a particular importance for students of politics and international relations. Political argument often boils down to a struggle over the legitimate meaning of terms and enemies may argue, fight and even go to war, each claiming to be...

"Mitchell Dean has written an outstandingly clear and scholarly introduction to the central theses and methods of the analysis of the mentalities and techniques of rule... He not only provides a guide to Foucault's own thought in this area, but he...

"The WikiLeaks of its day" (Time) is as relevant today in the time of Trump as it was a in the time of Richard Nixon. "The most significant leaks of classified material in American history." -Washington PostNot Fake News! The basis for the 2018 film The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815738558Author C. Fritz FoleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 584Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 844gDimensions(mm)...

In Descent Into Chaos: Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Threat to Global Security Ahmed Rashid explores the most volatile and dangerous region in the world. The war on terror is being lost - but not just in Iraq. As this devastating book shows, the real...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782315010417Author Jacques BaudFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Max Milo EditionsPublisher Max Milo EditionsWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375707599Author Robert D. KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House USA PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Described as Mrs Thatcher's favourite diplomat, Robin Renwick was at the centre of events in the negotiations to end the Rhodesian War. As Ambassador in South Africa, he played a bridging role between the government and the ANC, having become a trusted...

This is the story of one of the most enduring conspiracy theories in British politics, an intrigue that still has resonance almost a century later: the Zinoviev Letter of 1924. Almost certainly a forgery, no original has ever been traced, and even if...

This edited volume examines power in its different dimensions in global governance. Scholars tend to underestimate the importance of power in international relations because of a failure to see its multiple forms. To expand the conceptual aperture, this...

For as long as there have been nations, there has been an "international"-a sphere of cross-border relations. But for most of human history, this space was sparsely occupied. States and regions were connected by long-distance commerce and the spasms of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781595589125Author Peter KornbluhFormat PaperbackPage Count 606Imprint The New PressPublisher The New PressWeight(grams) 865g

An inside look at how congressional deference to the presidency and State Department has led to such foreign policy failures as Somalia, Bosnia and Iraq.Book InformationISBN 9780465007325Author Stephen WeissmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Basic...

Praised in the New York Times Book Review for its "Herculean power of synthesis," George C. Herring's 2008 From Colony to Superpower has won wide acclaim from critics and readers alike. Years of Peril and Ambition: U.S. Foreign Relations, 1776-1921 is...

Contemporary International Relations is as much a conversation between the living and the dead as it is among the living. Its debates are thoroughly rooted in and shaped by the thought of many bygone minds, both ancient and modern. With this in mind, The...

Warfare is the most dangerous threat faced by modern humanity. It is also one of the key influences that has shaped the politics, economics, and society of the modern period. But what do we mean by modern war? What causes modern wars to begin? Why do...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142001585Author Richard OveryFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 600gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm...

Europe is still a divided continent. In the place of a fallen Berlin wall, there is a chasm between the East and the West. Are these differences a communist legacy, or do they run even deeper? What divides us today? To say simply that it is the...

The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations first edition was winner of the ISA-Northeast's Yale H. Ferguson Award, and the ISA Theory Section's Best Book of the Year award.The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations provides an introduction...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789394407725Author Manoj JoshiFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins India

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782663683Author National Intelligence CouncilFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Military BookshopPublisher Military BookshopWeight(grams) 667g

Sport plays a highly significant role in the lives of millions the world over, and yet the impact of this global phenomenon on the subject of international relations hes been neglected. The contributors to this collection argue that sport remains both an...

From the acclaimed author of The Gunpowder Age, a book that casts new light on the history of China and the West at the turn of the nineteenth centuryGeorge Macartney's disastrous 1793 mission to China plays a central role in the prevailing narrative of...

'An excellent contribution to our knowledge of Iran and Soleimani.' Kim Ghattas, author of Black Wave When the US assassinated Qassem Soleimani, he was one of the most powerful men in Iran. Known as 'the shadow commander', he enacted the wishes of the...

Running 3,000 miles from the eat-coast boomtown of Shanghai to the border of Kazakhstan in the north-west, Route 312 - China's 'Route 66' - is a road that Rob Gifford has always wanted to travel. Gifford's journey and his desire to get to the heart of...

This is a collection of articles dealing with the point of view of symbolic interactionism and with the topic of methodology in the discipline of sociology. It is written by the leading figure in the school of symbolic interactionism, and presents what...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802141644Author Robert CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

'An excellent book.' - Simon Kuper, Financial Times 'A biography that reads like an Icelandic saga.' - The Times The definitive UPDATED biography of perhaps the most respected political figure in the world fully updated to within a month of publication...

Sanctions have become the go-to foreign policy tool for the United States. Coercive economic measures such as trade tariffs, financial penalties, and export controls affect large numbers of companies and states across the globe. Some of these penalties...

An exploration of how China's Belt and Road Initiative seeks to reshape international order and how it has catalyzed a new era of infrastructural geopolitics Over the past decade China has put infrastructural and urban development at the heart of a...

Racism and imperialism are the twin forces that propelled the course of the United States in the world in the early twentieth century and in turn affected the way that diplomatic history and international relations were taught and understood in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501121463Author Tim MarshallFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 160mm...

Highlights of the extraordinary wartime diaries of Ivan Maisky, Soviet ambassador to London The terror and purges of Stalin's Russia in the 1930s discouraged Soviet officials from leaving documentary records let alone keeping personal diaries. A...

Are Islam and the West on a collision course? From the Ayatollah Khomeini to Saddam Hussein, the image of Islam as a militant, expansionist, and rabidly anti-American religion has gripped the minds of Western governments and media. But these perceptions,...

The third edition of this popular core textbook provides wide-ranging coverage of the structure, internal working, policies and performance of international organizations such as the UN, EU, IMF and World Bank. Such organizations have never been so...

The supranational law of the European Union represents a uniquely powerful, far-reaching, and controversial instance of the growth of international legal governance, one that has forever altered the political and legal landscape of its Member States. The...

Since Muhammad Bouazizi set himself on fire in Tunisia on December 17, 2010, galvanizing the Arab uprisings that continue today, the entire Middle East landscape has changed in ways that were unimaginable years before. In spite of the early hype...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781108971676Author Ayse ZarakolFormat PaperbackImprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press

A complete six-year primary Science course that takes an enquiry-based, active learning approach to teaching young learners the skills they need to think like scientists. A* Students learn to think creatively through answering questions about the...