International relations Books

This ground-breaking collection reflects the growing momentum of interest in the international legal community in meshing the insights of queer legal theory with those critical theories that have a much longer genealogy - notably postcolonial and...

During the last twenty years, burgeoning transnational trade, investment and production linkages have emerged in the area between the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The appearance of this area of interdependence and interaction and its potential impact on...

This book advances an ecologically grounded approach to International Political Economy (IPE). Katz-Rosene and Paterson address a lacuna in the literature by exploring the question of how thinking ecologically transforms our understanding of what IPE is...

This book seeks to address and fill a puzzling omission in contemporary critical IR scholarship. Following on from the aesthetic turn in IR, critical and 'postmodern' IR has produced an impressive array of studies into movies, literature, music and art...

Originally published in 1986, this volume deals with both population growth in Latin America and the possible consequences of this growth for the security of the USA. The text analyses the demographic dimensions of the phenomenon and then considers the...

Preface and Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Chronology of Events Introduction Kosovo and the Dissolution of Yugoslavia The Absence of Prevention Towards Intervention The Kosovo Verification Mission From Rambouillet to Paris NATO Goes to War The...

Introduction Failed Attempts to Prevent War The Entry of Mediators The Cease-Fire in Slovenia The Search for a Comprehensive Settlement The Cease-Fire in Croatia Collective Mediation in Bosnia 1992-94 American Policy and the Making of the Dayton Accords...

Preface - Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - PART 1 INTRODUCTION - Human Rights and Foreign Policy: Theoretical Foundations; D.M.Hill - Human Rights and Contemporary State Practice; D.M.Hill - PART 2 THE THEORY OF HUMAN RIGHTS - How...

List of Tables List of Figures Notes on the Contributors List of Acronyms Sanctions as Economic Statecraft: An Overview; S.Chan & A.Cooper Drury How and Whom the US President Sanctions: A Time-Series, Cross-Section Analysis of US Sanction Decisions and...

Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: To Explain the Early Rapprochement Prewar and Wartime Japanese Business Involvement in Malaya Rapprochement Through Trade Rapprochement Through Japanese Re-entry Diplomatic Conditions and Efforts for...

Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction Reconstructing Sovereignty The Quest for Community: Internal Challenges to Sovereignty Permeable Borders: Human Migration Humanitarian Access and Intervention The Institutional Foundations of the New Sovereignty...

Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Western Europe between Soviet Threat and American Guarantee NATO's Nuclear Strategy: Compromises British Strategy: Inter-dependence French Strategy: Independence The Federal Republic of Germany: Consultation...

Acknowledgements - Foreword - Introduction - In Whose Interest: Authoritarian Social Organisation, NGO Advocacy Campaigns and the Poorest. An Exploration of Two Indonesian Examples - In Whose Interest: Democratic Community Building through Civics in...

One of the more positive international trends as of late has been the transformation of several countries from authoritarian-based dictatorships and single party systems into multi-party democracies characterized by peaceful political transitions. In...

List of Acronyms and Abbreviations - List of Tables and Figures - List of Contributors - Introduction; G.R.D.Underhill - PART 1: SECTORS, REGIONS, AND INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION - Private Markets and Public Responsibility in a Global System: Conflict and...

List of Maps - Preface - Acknowledgements - List of Abbreviations - Chronology - The Kurds: Approximate Numbers and Locations - The Kurds - The Kurds Divided - The Kurdish Republic of Mahabadi 1946 - Kurdish Repression: 1950-60 - The Kurdish Revolt in...

List of Tables and Figures - Acknowledgements - List of Abbreviations - Japan's Alliance Politics - Japan's Secondary Alliance Dilemma - Japan's Self-Defence Forces and the Alliance - 'Defence Inc' - Alliance Techno- nationalism - Japan's Alliance after...

Tables and Figures - Acronyms and Abbreviations - Acknowledgements - Introduction and Overview - The World Bank Takes Centre Stage - 'Accountable to Whom?' and Other Issues for NGOs - World Bank-NGO Project Cooperation: Less than Meets the Eye? - Moving...

A longtime bestseller, Politics and Change in the Middle East employs a multidisciplinary approach to comprehensively and evenhandedly study the region's past, present, and future. Through politics, economics, culture, and history, this text offers a...

In the past quarter century, the importance of Asia in international relations has grown exponentially. This Handbook gathers the most important scholars in the field of Asia's international relations to address this momentous change in world...

Our world is currently divided into territorial states that resist all attempts to change their borders. But what entitles a state, or the people it represents, to assume monopoly control over a particular piece of the Earth's surface? Why are they...

A Practitioner's Guide to Defense Sector Reform is a practitioner-oriented conceptual road map for program managers and implementers who have the difficult job of achieving reform in a wide range of defense sectors around the globe. The environment in...

¿Qué hacer frente a cualquier tipo de problema? Más allá de Maquiavelo se presenta como un conjunto de herramientas para afrontar conflictos de toda clase. Mediante el análisis de los componentes de un conflicto, los...

Russlands Krieg gegen die Ukraine ist ein weiterer Schritt auf dem Weg in eine konfrontative Ordnung Europas und der Welt. Frieden und Freiheit, Sicherheit und Wohlstand in der EU sind in Gefahr. Im Zentrum eines europäischen Aufbruchs stehen...

Joe Biden schuldet mir noch 150 Dollar. Das kann man mir glauben, aber muss man nicht. Wir haben uns 1994 in einem Swingerclub bei Hamburg getroffen, ich habe ihm eine Dame vermittelt und ging entsprechend in Vorleistung. Ich wartete mehrere Stunden vor...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Politik - Internationale Politik - Region: Ferner Osten, Note: 1,7, Universität Rostock (Institut fuer Politik- und Verwaltungswissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Russland und seine Nachbarn - Hintergründe,...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Politik - Internationale Politik - Allgemeines und Theorien, Note: 1,0, Universität Rostock (Institut für Politik und Verwaltungswissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Proseminar Klassiker der Staatsphilosophie,...

Akademische Arbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Politik - Allgemeines und Theorien zur Internationalen Politik, Note: 2,3, Universität Trier (Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Asyl in der Europäischen Union...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Politik - Internationale Politik - Region: Naher Osten, Vorderer Orient, Note: 1,3, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Überblick und Analyse der Vorbedingungen,...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Politik - Region: Südosteuropa, Note: 1.0, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Veranstaltung: Deconstructing Yugoslav Conflicts, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Krieg im ehemaligen Jugoslawien...

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2013 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Africa, ( Atlantic International University ), course: Health Policy, language: English, abstract: The paper seeks to evaluate the Zimbabwe...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Politik - Grundlagen und Allgemeines, Note: 1,3, Freie Universität Berlin (Lateinamerika-Institut), Veranstaltung: HS Politikberatung im internationalen Vergleich , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Diagnose...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Politik - Region: Naher Osten, Vorderer Orient, Note: 1,3, Freie Universität Berlin (Otto-Suhr-Institut Berlin), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Nahe Osten1 sowie weite Teile Nordafrikas stellen seit vielen...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Politik - Region: Osteuropa, Note: 1,3, Universität Lüneburg, Veranstaltung: Demokratisierung in Mittel und Osteuropa - Politische Systeme im neuen Europa, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Durch den Wegfall des...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Politik - Region: Mittel- und Südamerika, Note: 1,0, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Traditioneller Weise ist die Kultur in Mexiko männerdominiert und wird durch das...

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Politik - Region: Afrika, Note: 1,3 , Universität Bremen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der moderne Nationalstaat, wie er sich zunächst in Europa seit dem Mittelalter entwickelt hat, ist in den letzten Jahren...