Diplomacy

The book analyzes Brazil's Africa engagement as a rising power's strategy to gain global recognition, linking it to Brazil's broader foreign policy objectives and shedding light on the mechanisms of Brazilian status-seeking in Africa.

Though many historians date the practice of diplomacy to the Renaissance, Pierre Chaplais shows that medieval kings relied on a network of diplomats and special envoys to conduct international relations.

All over the world, the practice of peacebuilding is beset with common dilemmas: peace versus justice, religious versus secular approaches, individual versus structural justice, reconciliation versus retribution, and the harmonization of the sheer number of practices involved in repairing past harms.

Averting Global War examines major regional disputes and conflicts throughout the world as they impact upon both American domestic and foreign policy.

The first comprehensive study of Renaissance diplomacy for sixty years, focusing on Europe''s most important political centre, Rome, between 1450 and 1530.

A sweeping account of the global rise of English and the high-stakes politics of language Spoken by a quarter of the world's population, English is today's lingua franca--its common tongue.

This book critically investigates the conditions facing the warring parties during the implementation of peace agreements in Mozambique, Angola and Liberia, as successes and failures in these countries highlight incentives for the international community to keep peace processes from faltering.

This book analyses and compares instances of the diffusion of political norms and ideas in the history of Franco-German relations.

Depicting NAFTA to be but a stepping stone rather than final product of regional economic integrative efforts, a chapter-specific 15-year assessment conveys the upsides and downsides of North America's Camelot moment.

This book examines U.

This is the first full-scale study of how the British Parliament deals -- or tries to deal -- with questions of foreign policy.

In the mid-1970s, the Cold War had frozen into a nuclear stalemate in Europe and retreated from the headlines in Asia.

The book focuses on Aristide's political career, emphasizing his strategizing, compromising and dealing with the Clinton administration.

This book by a leading scholar of international relations examines the origins of the new world disorder - the resurgence of Russia, the rise of populism in the West, deep tensions in the Atlantic alliance, and the new strategic partnership between China and Russia - and asks why so many assumptions about how the world might look after the Cold War - liberal, democratic and increasingly global - have proven to be so wrong.

International Arms Trade has always been a powerful and multi-functional constituent of world politics and international diplomacy.

This book examines the origins and consequences of Burma's current policies from military, political, social, and economic perspectives.

The book offers a history of the discourses and diplomacies of Sudan's civil wars.

This book explores the relationship between diplomatic discourse and the Olympic Movement, charting its continuity and change from an historical perspective.

This book assesses the diplomatic path of influence taken by German decision-makers during the early nineties in pursuit of their cautiously articulated interest in and commitment to the eastward enlargement of NATO.

The broad diplomatic production of George P.

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

The Cold War in the Third World explores the complex interrelationships between the Soviet-American struggle for global preeminence and the rise of the Third World.

Drafted while events were fresh in his mind in 1942-1943, Alabama-born American diplomat George Platt Waller's memoir chronicles his war-time experience in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

Postwar Journeys: American and Vietnamese Transnational Peace Efforts since 1975 tells the story of the dynamic roles played by ordinary American and Vietnamese citizens in their postwar quest for peacean effort to transform their lives and their societies.

This volume brings together senior practitioners and academic specialists to consider how the EU's new foreign policy has been evolving and how the various actors are maintaining the holistic approach intended by the draftsmen of the 2009 Lisbon Treaty.

The Miloevi Trial - An Autopsy provides a cross-disciplinary examination of one of the most controversial war crimes trials of the modern era and its contested legacy for the growing fields of international criminal law and post-conflict justice.

Lyndon Johnson was often blamed for abandoning Kennedy's vision of development and progress in Latin America in favor of his own domestic concerns: anti-communism and economic stability.

For many Americans, Iran is our most dangerous enemy--part of George W.

Although much ink has been used debating China's rise and its implications for Asia and beyond, few have considered how its neighbors have been living with a rising China.

This book seeks to identify a body or tradition of diplomatic thinking and construct a diplomatic theory of international relations from it.

The year 1973 is usually considered the great equaliser among major oil producers.

How do governments that do not enjoy formal diplomatic relations use propaganda?

Bookended by remarks from African American diplomats Walter C.

The international community has donated nearly one trillion dollars during the last four decades to reconstruct post-conflict countries and prevent the outbreak of more civil war.

After the Party is the explosive story of the power struggles dominating South African politics and a crucial analysis of the ANC's record in power.

Since the 1990s, the American government has under prioritized the North Korean threat to global security, according to Bruce Bechtol, an associate professor of political science at Angelo State University.

The central country in the Western Balkans, Serbia puzzles observers by balancing its foreign policy between two competing great powers - Russia and the West.

The ashes of Herbert Norman now lie in the British cemetery at Rome, near those of Shelley and Keats.

In 2007 two former U.

Based on newly accessible Turkish archival documents, Onur Isci's study details the deterioration of diplomatic relations between Turkey and the Soviet Union during World War II.

From the rising significance of non-state actors to the increasing influence of regional powers, the nature and conduct of international politics has arguably changed dramatically since the height of the Cold War.

This edited volume analyses the evolution and main determinants of Russia's foreign policy choices.

In July 1997, the promise of the !

How do international norms evolve?

Amidst political upheaval and the decline of the Ottoman Empire, the State of Kuwait emerged as an independent country under British protection in 1899, with Sheikh Mubarak Al Sabah widely accredited as the instrument of its foundation.