Diplomacy

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197500354Author Allie KosterichFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USA

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197565742Author Pablo J BoczkowskiFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USA

In Reliability and Alliance Interdependence, Iain D. Henry argues for a more sophisticated approach to alliance politics and ideas of interdependence. It is often assumed that if the United States failed to defend an ally, then this disloyalty would...

Indirect Rule examines how states indirectly exercise authority over others and how this mode of rule affects domestic and international politics. Indirect rule has long characterized interstate relationships and US foreign relations. A key mechanism of...

Whales: large, mysterious, intelligent - and endangered. In 1986, a global moratorium on whaling was issued by the International Whaling Commission. However, that decision was not without controversy. Some countries, such as Norway, continue to whale in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472055036Author Raffaele MarchettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472055067Author Eric N. RichardsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan...

As India finds itself in the envious position of kingmaker, both the status quo and revisionist major powers are jockeying for India's support for either upholding or revising the current world order. Using India's bilateral treaties as a proxy measure...

Based on a decade of direct diplomatic engagement with the United Nations, a decade of teaching on international relations, and another decade of research and teaching on Islamic and comparative peace studies, this book offers a friendship-related...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472054862Author Jing SunFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472054404Author Michael S. KochinFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan Press

Resisting Europe conceptualizes the foreign policies of Europe-defined as the European Union and its member states-toward the states in its immediate southern 'neighborhood' as semi-imperial attempts to turn these states into Europe's southern buffer...

Zachary C. Shirkey argues that the United States is overly reliant on the active use of force and should employ more peaceful foreign policy tools. Force often fails to achieve its desired ends for both tactical and strategic reasons and is relatively...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781442638877Author Marcel CadieuxFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 168g

In the last quarter century the Soviet Union and the United States have repeatedly come into conflict in various parts of the third world. During this period the most backward third world countries have sometimes proved susceptible to radical revolution,...

In early 2009, at the start of a new administration in Washington, the Brookings Institution Press published The Obama Administration and the Americas: Agenda for Change, offering a roadmap for a fresh approach to U.S. relations with its neighbors. Now,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781442651982Author Robert O ByrdFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 408g

In 1998 and in 2006, North Korea conducted ballistic missile tests that landed dangerously close to Japan. In the first case, the North Korean tests provoked only Japanese alarm and severely constrained action. In the second, the tests led to unilateral...

Focusing on two of the most fraught and intractable public debates of the present time: human-induced climate change and the human rights of refugees, asylum seekers, immigrants and the stateless, this book raises critical questions about the role and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947661127Author Daniel S. HamiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Center for Transatlantic Relations SaisPublisher Center for Transatlantic...

Human geopolitics, the competition for population rather than territory, is an essential but weakly understood dimension of world politics today. Such competition has preceded violent conflict throughout history, but has been muted since the Treaties of...

The Polar North is known to be home to large gas and oil reserves and its position holds significant trading and military advantages, yet the maritime boundaries of the region remain ill-defined. In the twenty-first century the Arctic is undergoing...

Within Asia, the period from 1840s to 1960s had witnessed the rise and decline of Pax Britannica, the growth of multiple and often competing anti-colonial movements, and the entrenchment of the nation-state system. Beyond Pan-Asianism seeks to...

Every two seconds a person is displaced, caught in one of the more than 40 active conflicts around the world that show no sign of ending. Since 1994, there has been ongoing war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has uprooted millions of people...

Cynthia Arnson incorporates substantial amounts of new primary source and recently declassified material coming out of the Iran-Contra trials and other Freedom of Information Act requests in this new edition of Crossroads. She also includes an entirely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143460121Author Nirupama RaoFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House India

The Politics of Military Force examines the dynamics of discursive change that made participation in military operations possible against the background of German antimilitarist culture. Once considered a strict taboo, so-called out-of-area operations...

In the final days of this century, the United States will need to amend the core of its foreign policy a formidable task in a large democracy. American thinking, still grounded in post-World War II perceptions, has failed to keep pace with the demands of...

The response of an autocratic nation's armed forces is crucial to the outcome of democratization movements throughout the world. But how can military officers and defense officials in democratic nations persuade their counterparts in autocratic regimes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815721413Author Hakan AltinayFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm)...

The emergence of large trade imbalances among the industrial countries during the 1980s-particularly the massive deficit of the United States and the surpluses of Germany and Japan-has led to growing disenchantment with the international economic system...

The United States has used military force short of war as an instrument of diplomacy on many occasions and in many areas of the world in the years since the Second World War. This book describes and analyzes the circumstances accompanying 215 shows of...

According to this book, the United States is currently in a moment of crisis, fomented by anxieties around race and gender politics. Unlike fear, which is usually focused on a particular object, anxiety is indeterminate and uncertain. It is also the...

In this frank and engaging book, foreign minister Igor S. Ivanov describes the evolution of Russian foreign policy since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Drawing on Russia's long diplomatic history, Ivanov analyzes the complex process through which a...

Crafting a new policy toward Iran is a complicated, uncertain, and perilous challenge. Since it is an extremely complex society, with an opaque political system, it is no wonder that the United States has not yet figured out the puzzle that is Iran. With...

As the Indo-Pacific emerges as the world’s most strategically consequential region and competition with China intensifies, the United States must adapt its approach if it seeks to preserve its power and sustain regional stability and prosperity. Yet as...

In the wake of World War II, the United States and its allies developed a new type of security arrangement in which a state could maintain a long-term, peacetime military presence on the territory of another equally sovereign state that, unlike earlier...

The purpose of U.S. foreign policy is, at least theoretically, to keep Americans safe. Yet as we confront a radically changed world, it has become clear that the terms of that policy have failed. Washington's insistence on a market economy, its faith in...

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of international diplomacy, covering both theory and practice. This second edition has been revised and updated, with new material on such key contemporary issues as Syria, Ukraine, migration...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399562389Author Richard HaassFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc