Diplomacy

Why do some leaders and segments of the public display remarkable persistence in confrontations in international politics, while others cut and run? The answer given by policymakers, pundits, and political scientists usually relates to issues of resolve...

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...

While the American alliance system in Asia has been fundamental to the region's security and prosperity for seven decades, today it encounters challenges from the growth of China-based regional organizations. How was the American alliance system...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670090617Author George K. VargheseFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin VikingPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaWeight(grams) 442gDimensions(mm)...

This book explores the bilateral relations between the United States and the Vatican from 1975 to 1980, a turbulent period that had two presidents, three presidential envoys, and three popes. This previously untold story shows how the United States and...

For half a century, ten dynamic nations in Southeast Asia have been implementing a shared vision of economic growth, sustainable development, and cultural progress. Today, the economies of those nations are linked inextricably with the future of greater...

What will the next generation of Russian leaders be like? How will they regard the United States, democracy, free speech, and immigration? What do they think of their current leaders? And what sorts of tactics will they bring to international negotiating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833048073Author C. Christine FairFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint RANDPublisher RANDWeight(grams) 417g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789085940050Author Niklas HohneFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Techne PressPublisher Techne Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789057270437Author Anneke GalamaFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint International BooksPublisher International Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910760123Author Jiemian YangFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint ACA Publishing LimitedPublisher ACA Publishing Limited

Why do weak states resist threats of force from the United States, especially when history shows that this superpower carries out its ultimatums? Cheap Threats upends conventional notions of power politics and challenges assumptions about the use of...

This book addresses the most important question in geopolitics today - the future of relations between the US and China. Concerned that the rise of China will challenge the its hegemony in world affairs, the US has decided to reassert its influence in...

This captivating book presents innovative answers to the question: why storytelling? Each chapter represents leading edge narrative research designs from Arthur V. Mauro Institute for Peace and Justice in central Canada, one of the world's leading...

The book is a collection of texts by the late former President of the Republic of Korea and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Kim Dae-jung, along with contributions by other authors including the late former President of the Federal Republic of Germany,...

The period encompassed by this volume-with the start of the Civil War and World War I as bookends-has gone by a number of colorful names: The Imperial Years, The New American Empire, America's Rise to World Power, Imperial Democracy, The Awkward Years,...

Ethnic Diasporas and the Canada-United States Security Community focuses on three diasporas and their impact on North American security relations, the Irish and Germans, which were mainly in the US, and the Muslim diaspora, which is based in both...

In his new book, Lessons from a Diplomatic Life: Watching Flowers from Horseback, retired State Department official and career diplomat Marshall P. Adair recounts and reflects on his time in the US Foreign Service. The story of his assignments throughout...

Adopted by the UN General Assembly on 13 September 2007, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples affirms the "minimum standards for the survival, dignity and well-being of the indigenous peoples of the world." The...

The alliance between the United States and South Korea has endured through seven decades of shifting regional and geopolitical security contexts. Yet it now faces challenges from within. Domestic political turmoil, including deepening political...

The deaths of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other U.S. personnel in Benghazi, Libya, on 11 September 2012, along with attacks on U.S. embassies in Egypt, Sudan, Tunisia, and Yemen, have drawn renewed attention to the challenges facing U.S...

Written in a lively and readable style by the world's leading authority on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and US-European relations, Defense of the West is the history of a transatlantic security relationship that has endured for over seventy...

Written by one of the leading scholars in the field, American Foreign Policy focuses on foreign policy strategy as well as foreign policy politics. The heavily revised Fifth Edition offers greater emphasis on the role that domestic politics and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447059558Author Ozdemir A OzgurFormat HardbackPage Count 174Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 5390g

This is the first and only book to provide a moral analysis of the war in Iraq and its implications for the future of war and peacemaking. As a leading authority on the development and application of moral traditions related to war, Johnson's analysis...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781575910482Author Ufot InameteFormat HardbackPage Count 313Imprint Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,U.S.Publisher Associated University Presses

At first glance the history of relations between Europe and Islam seems to be filled only with armed conflict, victories, and defeats-a record that would confirm the idea of an implacable hostility between two civilizations that has endured for centuries...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825360733Author Sebastian HoepfnerFormat HardbackPage Count 380Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 530g

Some fifty thousand Soviets visited the United States under various exchange programs between 1958 and 1988. They came as scholars and students, scientists and engineers, writers and journalists, government and party officials, musicians, dancers, and...

This book reviews the past and provides new strategies to help BIMSTEC achieving a new paradigm of integration. It primarily deals with the regional cooperation and integration issues, and assesses policy priorities, effectiveness, implementation...

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the complexities of change and continuity in West Asia, its society, religion and politics. An overview of the region’s political, social and economic characteristics brought into sharper relief with the...

Andre Goodfriend was Deputy Chief of Mission from 2013 to 2015 at the US Embassy in Budapest. In the absence of an ambassador, most of the time he was Charge d'Affaires. Goodfriend represented his country, and for that matter, liberal democracy, in the...

The rapprochement between Germany and Israel in the aftermath of the Holocaust is one of the most striking political developments of the twentieth century. German Chancellor Angela Merkel recently referred to it as a 'miracle'. But how did this 'miracle'...

In Frenemies Mark L. Haas addresses policy-guiding puzzles such as: Why do international ideological enemies sometimes overcome their differences and ally against shared threats? Why, just as often, do such alliances fail? Alliances among ideological...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815739098Author Cheng LiFormat HardbackPage Count 484Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 948gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Encoding the Olympics assembles a uniquely representative international team of media experts to provide a comprehensive review of the global impact of media and cultural communications associated with the Beijing 2008 Olympics. Commissioned by the IOC,...

The Oslo secret negotiations from 1992 to 1993 were some of the most astonishing and also successful negotiations in the Middle East, leading to the mutual recognition between the PLO and Israel. Through an in-depth examination of the Oslo...

North Korea features highly on the agenda of the main actors in East Asia and around the globe, and many large foreign policy initiatives have been undertaken since the structural constraints of the Cold War started to loosen in the early 1990s. The...

With expert contributions from both the US and Japan, this book examines the legacies of the US Occupation on Japanese politics and society, and discusses the long-term impact of the Occupation on contemporary Japan. Focusing on two central themes -...

Member states of ASEAN - the Association of South-East Asian Nations - have developed a distinctive approach to political and security co-operation. This approach builds on the principles of sovereign equality, non-intervention and non-interference,...