Diplomacy

Until recently, Southeast Asia was plagued by separatist insurgencies that had simmered, seemingly intractable, for several decades.

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Relations between China and India underwent a dramatic transformation from Buddhist-dominated to commerce-centered exchanges in the seventh to fifteenth centuries.

A bold new account of Europe's plight as it faces political fracture, economic stagnation and external challenges from the U.

Becoming Enemies brings the unique methods of critical oral history, developed to study flashpoints from the Cold War such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, to understand U.

The world is awash with ethnic and religious conflict.

Egypt has long been valued for its strategic importance in the Middle East and North Africa, but its relationship with the United States continues to evolve.

The multilateral military intervention in Somalia was one of the international community's first major attempts to respond to a dangerous new challenge in the post-cold war era the problem of state collapse and social disintegration.

For over four years, Washington responded to war in Bosnia by handing the problem to the Europeans to resolve and substituting high-minded rhetoric for concerted action.

An estimated 25 million people worldwide are internally displaced a significantly larger population than the 18 million refugees.

The signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was expected to signal the beginning of a new era of close co-operation between Mexico and the United States.

This book examines the nature of the international arms trade and the adjustment of the defense industries in the United States and Russia to the post-cold war world.

The war in Georgia.

Rising China and emerging India are becoming major maritime powers.

The first edition of Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy is one of the most successful Brookings titles of all time.

Oil stands alone among primary commodities in its potential for sending economic shock waves across the world.

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It's time for new policies based on changing U.

Fostering a transatlantic renaissance to salvage the Western allianceIs the Western alliance, which brought together the United States and Europe after World War II, in an inevitable state of decline, and if so, can anything be done to repair it?

Political risk now affects more markets and countries than ever before and that risk will continue to rise.

A vision of a European future of peace and stability despite the present gloomThe world appears to be at another major turning point.

A behind-the-scenes look at how the United States aided the Velvet RevolutionDemocracy's Defenders offers a behind-the-scenes account of the little-known role played by the U.

An insider's account of the often-fraught U.

Catalysts for Change examines the strengths and weaknesses of one of the United Nations' most important human rights mechanisms the collection of independent experts known as special procedures as they negotiate the rocky terrain where rights meet reality.

Oil stands alone among primary commodities in its potential for sending economic shock waves across the world.

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British foreign policy has always been based on distinctive principles since the setting up of the Foreign Office in 1782 as one of the two original offices of state, the other being the Home Office.

The period from the outset of World War I to the end of World War II was among the most significant in the history of the United States.

Dispatches from the Frontlines analyzes some of the world's most contentious hotspots.

A clear-eyed look at modern India's role in Asia's and the broader worldOne of India's most distinguished foreign policy thinkers addresses the many questions facing India as it seeks to find its way in the increasingly complex world of Asian geopolitics.

From Moscow, the world looks different.

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

After more than a decade of great effort and sacrifice by America and its allies, the Taliban still has not been defeated, and many Afghans believe that a civil war is coming.

An insider's account of the often-fraught U.

In a relatively short time, the EU has become one of the most important actors on the world stage.

"e;"e;Future presidents will need to find the right balance in China policy, so as to maintain America's strength and watchfulness but not fall into the classic security dilemma, wherein each side believes that growing capabilities reflect hostile intent and responds by producing that reality.

A look behind the scenes of some of India's most critical foreign policy decisions by the country's former foreign secretary and national security adviser.

An insider's account of the complex relations between the United States and post-Soviet UkraineThe Eagle and the Trident provides the first comprehensive account of the development of U.

Catalysts for Change examines the strengths and weaknesses of one of the United Nations' most important human rights mechanisms the collection of independent experts known as special procedures as they negotiate the rocky terrain where rights meet reality.

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

For some observers, nuclear arms control is either a relic of the cold war, or a utopian dream about a denuclearized planet decades in the future.

A critical examination of the history of US-Palestinian relationsThe United States has invested billions of dollars and countless diplomatic hours in the pursuit of Israeli-Palestinian peace and a two-state solution.

The first edition of Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy is one of the most successful Brookings titles of all time.

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

Some may dispute the effectiveness of aid.

Can Germany and Japan do more militarily to uphold the international order?

Never before has the call for good governance been greater.

In late 2012, the CSIS Global Health Policy Center organized a working group to analyze the opportunities for global health diplomacy in Barack Obama's second term.

In October, 1962, the Cuban missile crisis brought human civilization to the brink of destruction.

Since World War II, Germany has confronted its own history to earn acceptance in the family of nations.