1568 books (79 pages) in this category
Development, Security and Unending War
Governing the World of Peoples
by Mark Duffield
<p>According to politicians, we now live in a radically interconnected world. Unless there is international stability <strong>–</strong> even in the most distant places <strong>–</strong> the West's way of life is threatened. In meeting this ...
ISBN: 9780745657936
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eBookHow the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam
by Robert Dreyfuss
<p><strong>The first complete account of America's most</strong><br /> <strong>dangerous foreign policy miscalculation: sixty years of support for Islamic fundamentalism</strong></p> <p>Devil's Game is the gripping story of America's misguided
ISBN: 9781466849006
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eBookCuba, Mexico, and the Rise of China
by Adrian H. Hearn
<p>In <em>Diaspora and Trust</em> Adrian H. Hearn proposes that a new paradigm of socio-economic development is gaining importance for Cuba and Mexico. Despite their contrasting political ideologies, both countries must build new forms of trust ...
ISBN: 9780822374589
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eBookDiasporic Activism in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
by Svenja Gertheiss
<p>With their homelands at war, can Diasporas lead the way to peace, or do they present an obstacle to conflict resolution, nurturing hate far away from those who actually fall victim to violence? And which of these roles do the Jewish and ...
ISBN: 9781317368854
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eBookDiplomacy and Security Community-Building
EU Crisis Management in the Western Mediterranean
by Niklas Bremberg
<p>This book contributes to the ongoing debate in IR on the role of security communities and formulates a new mechanism-based analytical framework.</p> <p>It argues that the question we need to ask is how security communities work at a time ...
ISBN: 9781317406631
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eBookA Brief Introduction
by Paul Sharp
<p>This book provides an introduction to the theory and practice of diplomacy and its vital role in an era of increasing international uncertainty.</p> <p>The work employs a distinctive "diplomatic perspective" on international ...
ISBN: 9781351371469
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eBookDiplomacy of the Russo-Japanese War
by White, John Albert
<p>Concentrating on the political rather than the military aspects of the Russo-Japanese War, Professor White describes the attempts by Witte, Komura, and others to assume the role in the Far East traditionally held by the Chinese. In a detailed
ISBN: 9781400877201
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eBookDiplomacy, Trade, and South Korea’s Rise to International Influence
by Dennis Patterson & Jangsup Choi
<p>This volume details how the diplomatic successes of South Korean presidents removed the country from the international isolation it experienced in the aftermath of the Korean War and also provided the necessary international connections for ...
ISBN: 9781498583091
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eBookby Andrew F. Cooper
<p>No longer content to fade away into comfortable retirement, a growing number of former political leaders have pursued diplomatic afterlives. From Nelson Mandela to Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton, to Tony Blair and Mikhail Gorbachev, this set ...
ISBN: 9780745687384
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eBookDiplomatic Style and Foreign Policy
A Case Study of South Korea
by Jeffrey Robertson
<p>The book explores diplomatic style and its use as a means to provide analytical insight into a state’s foreign policy, with a specific focus on South Korea.</p> <p>Diplomatic style attracts scant attention from scholars. It is dismissed as ...
ISBN: 9781317282990
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eBookA Focused Comparison Approach
by Barry H. Steiner
<p>This book is intended as a primer for generalizing on a case-comparison basis about diplomatic statecraft, including resources and techniques available to states to attain their objectives. Twenty years in the making, it employs an inductive ...
ISBN: 9781442239074
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eBookDisarmament: A Basic Guide
by Office for Disarmament Affairs
<p>Conceived as a comprehensive introduction to a field central to the work of the United Nations, Disarmament: A Basic Guide aims to provide a useful overview of the nuanced challenges of building a more peaceful world in the twenty-first ...
ISBN: 9789213582534
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eBookA Critical History of Non-Lethality
by Seantel Anaïs
<p>Non-lethal weapons take many forms – from rubber bullets to electroshock and long-range acoustic devices – which their proponents argue are ethical, legal, and humane. Social scientists, historians, legal scholars, and activists have long ...
ISBN: 9780774828567
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eBookDiscontent with democracy - How income inequality affects the satisfaction with democratic realities
by Malte Turski
<p>Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - Basics and General, grade: 1,0, University of Aarhus (Institut for Statskundskab), course: Dissatisfaction with Democratic Politics and the Challenge of Populism, language: English, ...
ISBN: 9783640848225
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eBookDo International Corruption Metrics Matter?
The Impact of Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index
by Omar E. Hawthorne
<p>Transparency International’s CPI is used as the authoritative tool to assess countries’ corruption perceptions scores by both international governments and several international agencies. The use and reference of TI’s CPI does not translate ...
ISBN: 9781498508957
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eBookDoes the United Nations Organization matter in global governance?'
by Arina T
<p>Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: International Organisations, grade: 2,0, Berlin School of Economics and Law, language: English, abstract: These days Globalization is on everyone's lips. ...
ISBN: 9783656144694
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eBookDomestic Role Contestation, Foreign Policy, and International Relations
by Cristian Cantir & Juliet Kaarbo
<p>Despite the increase in the number of studies in international relations using concepts from a role theory perspective, scholarship continues to assume that a state’s own expectations of what role it should play on the world stage is shared ...
ISBN: 9781317226444
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eBookThe United States and the Marshall Islands during the Cold War
by Martha Smith-Norris
<p><em>Domination and Resistance</em> illuminates the twin themes of superpower domination and indigenous resistance in the central Pacific during the Cold War, with a compelling historical examination of the relationship between the United ...
ISBN: 9780824858124
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eBookRethinking Canada’s International History
by Laura Madokoro, Francine McKenzie & David Meren
<p>How has race shaped Canada’s international encounters and its role in the world? How have the actions of politicians, diplomats, citizens, and nongovernmental organizations reflected and reinforced racial power structures in Canada? In this ...
ISBN: 9780774834469
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eBookDon't Mention the War: Northern Ireland, Propaganda and the Media
by Miller, David
Widely used on both Irish Studies and Media Studies courses. Paints a disburbing picture of the success of media managers in manipulating perceptions of the Northern Ireland conflict. ...
ISBN: 9781783718795
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