Diplomacy

The book turns the 'democratic peace' theme on its head: rather than investigating the reasons for the supposed pacifism of democracies, it looks for the causes of their militancy.

America's Road to Empire surveys and analyses United States' foreign relations from the country's independence in 1776 until its entry into World War One in 1917, using primary source materials and case studies.

This book investigates China's foreign policy concerning the principle of non-intervention in domestic affairs of other states in the post-Cold War period.

The Navy of the 21st Century, 2001- 2022 presents an all- inclusive listing of the ships that have served in the US Navy since the start of the new century.

This book offers a new and critical perspective on the global reconciliation technology by highlighting its contingent and highly political character as an authoritative practice of post-conflict peacebuilding.

Human rights and humanitarian diplomacy provides an up to date and accessible overview of the field, and serves as a practical guide to those seeking to engage in human rights work.

Today the United States has little leverage to promote change in Cuba.

In the 21st century, new kinds of challenges resulting from interdependence among states and globalization have had a determining impact of the conduct of diplomacy.

This study presents an in-depth survey of the principal policies and personalities of American diplomacy of the era, together with a discussion of recent historiography in the field.

Das Buch zur aktuellen Flüchtlingskrise Er rettete Zehntausende bedrohte Hutu aus dem Regenwald, koordinierte die internationalen Maßnahmen im Kosovo.

This book seeks to address US public diplomacy strategies in Latin America, of particular importance during the 1960s when the leadership of the United States had been questioned after the Cuban Revolution.

The United States, 1865-1920: Reuniting a Nation explores how the U.

Egypt figured prominently in United States policy in the Middle East after World War II because of its strategic, political, and economic importance.

The relationship between Taiwan and China is a paradox.

This book sheds light on the practice, challenges, and prospects of the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) amidst wide contestation, backlash, operational challenges, and expectation gaps associated with the theory and practice of the RtoP.

Originally published in 1991, The Roots of Appeasement outlines the attitudes of the British weekly press and its editors to Nazism and to German and British foreign policies during the 1930s.

A transnational approach to understanding and analyzing knowledge circulation.

On September 5, 2009, the commanding officer of NATO's German troops in Afghanistan ordered a U.

This book explores presidential justifications of every major American military conflict from the War of 1812 to the Second Gulf War.

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

The United Nations (UN) has always loomed large in international conflicts, but today accepted wisdom declares that the organization has lost its way.

The 1930s was a dark period in international affairs.

After four decades from the 1982 war between Britain and Argentina over possession of the Falklands/Malvinas islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, this book allows for a new and rounded reading of the causes, course and consequences of the war.

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.

A critical analysis of Australia's neoliberal state and role in the American imperial project in Asia.

In 2012, Barack Obama became the first U.

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014Scores of books have been written by Western experts, mainly American, looking at the root causes of the conflict between Iran and the US.

Cosmopolitan Dystopia shows that rather than populists or authoritarian great powers it is cosmopolitan liberals who have done the most to subvert the liberal international order.

An insider's account of Romania's emergence from communism controlIn the 1970s American attorney Alfred H.

A telling history of one of the most important relationships in the Middle EastThis is the first book to tell the remarkable story of the relationship between Jordan and the United States and how their leaders have navigated the dangerous waters of the most volatile region in the world.

Empire of Liberty takes a new look at the public life, thought, and ambiguous legacy of one of America's most revered statesmen, offering new insight into the meaning of Jefferson in the American experience.

This book presents a comprehensive framework, six pathways of connection, which explains the impact of public diplomacy on achieving foreign policy goals.

God's Marshall Plan tells the story of the American Protestants who sought to transform Germany into a new Christian and democratic nation in the heart of twentieth-century Europe.

Conflict and dispute pervade political and policy discussions.

This book addresses how digitalization has influenced the institutions, practitioners and audiences of diplomacy.

Why has the United States repeatedly engaged in the overthrow of foreign leaders and regimes?

Winston Churchill was the greatest statesman of the twentieth century, yet he began his career as a colonial policeman in the North-West borderlands of India, and this experience was the beginning of his long relationship with the Islamic world.

The world has seldom been as dangerous as it is now.

This book shows how changing diplomatic practices are central in explaining key dimensions of world politics, from law to war.

This book explores the emergence of Yugoslav globalism and how it was influenced by the early Cold War, the changes once Yugoslavia established itself as a nonaligned leader, and what the decline of Yugoslav globalism reveals about the waning Cold War and the history of internationalist diplomacy.

National security affairs analyst Ehud Eilam examines the strategy of containment in the Middle East as it is currently pursued.

China's diplomatic strategy has changed dramatically since the mid-1990s, creating both challenges and opportunities for other world powers.

Today, by many accounts, China is the world's foremost purveyor of foreign aid and foreign investment to developing countries.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the close cultural links between India and Vietnam.

The Wars of the French Revolution, 1792-1801 offers a comprehensive and jargon-free coverage of this turbulent period and unites political, social, military and international history in one volume.