Diplomacy

The twentieth century was the most bloody in history, and already conflict in this century has taken a heavy toll.

This book explores the relationship between the development of UN peacekeeping and the protection of civilians under international law.

European states and international organizations have established multiple policies and mechanisms to deal with various risks, crises and disasters.

This book seeks to understand the complex ways in which the Foreign Office adapted to the rise of identity politics in Britain as it administered British foreign policy during the Cold War and the end of the British Empire.

The book explores the role of new modes of governance in helping future member states to cope with their accession to the EU.

The main tide of international relations scholarship on the first years after World War II sweeps toward Cold War accounts.

In September 1978, William Quandt, a member of the White House National Security Council staff, spent thirteen momentous days at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland, where three world leaders were holding secret negotiations.

The space occupied by international law in shaping political action is subject to continuing debate and controversy.

Providing a comprehensive overview of two centuries of international civil servants and international secretariats, this book reveals how international secretariats have emerged and evolved, focusing on both structures (international public administrations) and the practitioners (international civil servants).

Regional cooperation has become a distinctive feature of the Balkans, an area known for its turbulent politics.

If you ever wondered who becomes an American ambassador and why, this is the book for you.

The book provides a novel analytical perspective on regional multilateralism in South Asia and its neighbouring regions and covers the genesis, evolution and status quo of the four major regional organizations.

Sustainable Diplomacies looks at how to create conditions for the reconciliation of rival ways of living, the formation of durable relationships and the promotion of global peace and security.

This book provides a unique and multifaceted view on and understanding of borders and their manifestations: physical and mental, cultural and geographical, and as a question of life and death.

The emergence of a 'new' democratic South Africa under Nelson Mandela was regarded as a high watermark for international ideals of human rights and democracy.

This book chronicles the story of the United Nations under Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in the decade 2007-2016.

Discover the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age, from the bestselling author of Wild Swans In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi the most important woman in Chinese history brought a medieval empire into the modern age.

At the same time as modern capitalism became an engine of progress and a source of inequality, the United States rose to global power.

From before the dawn of recorded history, there has been a rich flow of interaction between Japan and China.

The Bandung Conference was the seminal event of the twentieth century that announced, envisaged and mobilized for the prospect of a decolonial global order.

This book is the first collection of state-of-the-art research projects analyzing water conflict and cooperation with an explicitly theoretical point of view.

The safety of diplomats has animated recent public and political debates.

China has become the powerhouse of the world economy, its incredible boom overseen by the elite members of the secretive and all-powerful communist party.

The Sykes-Picot Agreement was one of the defining moments in the history of the modern Middle East.

In September 1978, William Quandt, a member of the White House National Security Council staff, spent thirteen momentous days at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland, where three world leaders were holding secret negotiations.

The response of an autocratic nation's armed forces is crucial to the outcome of democratization movements throughout the world.

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.

Explains how peacekeeping can work effectively by employing power through verbal persuasion, financial inducement, and coercion short of offensive force.

This book focuses on China's foreign strategy and policy toward Central and Eastern Europe via the "e;China-CEEC"e; Cooperation Mechanism.

Nations have powerful reasons to get their military alliances right.

Differing interpretations of the history of the United Nations on the one hand conceive of it as an instrument to promote colonial interests while on the other emphasize its influence in facilitating self-determination for dependent territories.

Known as the science of strategy, game theory is a branch of mathematics that has gained broad acceptance as a legitimate methodological tool, and has been widely adapted by a number of other fields.

This Element presents an overarching analysis of Chinese visions and practices of soft power.

Analysis of diplomatic communication in the period of the ''fall of Rome''.

The Sit Room brings you inside the secretive Situation Room of the White House, the most important deliberative room in the world, during the early 1990s when the author was one of the policymakers who framed the Clinton Administration's policy towards the bloody Balkans War.

"e;Jenkins' rare combination of psychological theorizing and archival research in several countries and time periods yields a fascinating new take on the central question of when states over-estimate or under-estimate others' resolve.

 In a career spanning decades, Mitchell B.

How did the worlds most warlike continent become its most peaceful one?

Modern warfare is almost always multilateral to one degree or another, requiring countries to cooperate as allies or coalition partners.

Following the vexed codification attempts of the International Law Commission and the relevant jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice, this book addresses the permissibility of the practice of diplomatic asylum under general international law.

The Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia in 1978 and the consequent outbreak of the Cambodian conflict brought Southeast Asia into instability and deteriorated relations between Vietnam and the subsequently established Vietnam-backed government in Cambodia on the one hand and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries on the other.

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Late historian Martin J.

Positive Diplomacy draws on the author's experience from his distinguished diplomatic career in the Foreign Service and his lectures at the Diplomatic Academy of London for those contemplating, or at the outset of, a diplomatic career.

Since Gideon Rose's 1998 review article in the journal World Politics and especially following the release of Lobell, Ripsman, and Taliaferro's 2009 edited volume Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy, neoclassical realism has emerged as major theoretical approach to the study of foreign policy on both sides of the Atlantic.