Diplomacy

"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.

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.

From Moscow, the world looks different.

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.

The global implications of China's rise as a global actorIn 2005, a senior official in the George W.

The United States may be headed toward a disastrous conflict with China unless Washington updates its understanding of contemporary Chinese societyAfter four decades of engagement, the United States and China now appear to be locked on a collision course that has already fomented a trade war, seems likely to produce a new cold war, and could even result in dangerous military conflict.

President Obama has just three years left in office to define his legacy in world affairs.

The book also details Russia's attempt to abort the Ukrainian revolution through threats, economic pressure, lies, and intimidation.

In recent decades, India has grown as a global power, and has been able to pursue its own goals in its own way.

A revealing memoir by the Israeli leader who almost made peace with the PalestiniansWritten almost entirely from inside a prison cell, Searching for Peace is the compelling memoir of former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert.

“America First” is “America Alone”Foreign policy is like physics: vacuums quickly fill.

Leading scholars and policymakers explore how history influences foreign policy and offer insights on how the study of the past can more usefully serve the present.

Explore the numerous paradoxes at the heart of the theory and practice of democracy promotion.

For years China's international investment interests focused on a search for natural resources in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Hand-Off details the Bush administration's national security and foreign policy as described at the time in then-classified Transition Memoranda prepared by the National Security Council experts who advised President Bush.

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Collier presents a timely and fresh reexamination of one of the most important bilateral relationships of the last century.

How psychology explains why a leader is willing to use military force to protect or salvage reputationIn Who Fights for Reputation, Keren Yarhi-Milo provides an original framework, based on insights from psychology, to explain why some political leaders are more willing to use military force to defend their reputation than others.

The Democracy Perspective in the Americas presents the author's views on the evolution of democracy in the American hemisphere and the challenges confronting this form of governance.

This book contains critical analyses of President Barack Obama's foreign policy instruments toward Africa and suggests how to continue, strengthen, and modify these policy instruments.

This bookrecommends balance between cooperation and competition in intercultural/international relations, with more emphasis on the former.

Divided Dynamism presents a cogent and comprehensive review of the political and unification policies of separated nations.

Latin American History through its Art and Literature uses 2,000 years of Latin American history as the organizing theme, and then explores that history through the words of the writer, the brush of the painter, the pen of the cartoonist, and the lens of the photographer.

In this new perspective, Iran's quest for nuclear power-in the context of the global energy challenge and the Cold War-era nuclear arms race-takes on new dimension.

India and Pakistan will be among the most important countries in the twenty-first century.

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

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.

On the Boundaries focuses on the connections between international relations, comparative politics, and foreign policy.

From Balewa's declaration, 'Today is Independence Day,' to Azikiwe's impassioned plea, 'Let us bind the nation's wound and let us heal the breaches of the past so that in forging our nation there shall emerge on this continent a hate-free, fear-free, and greed-free people,' to Buhari's patriotic fervor, 'This generation [of Nigerians].

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 authors of this book are uniquely qualified to analyze the contemporary security landscape and promote necessary and pressing change.

This memoir attempts to capture the humor and sheer incongruity of working across cultures in an international career spanning diplomacy and education.

In The Anatomy of Deception, Abele reconstructs the public dialogue that led to the United States collectively making the decision to invade and occupy the sovereign nation of Iraq.

Were there any missed chances to build a more peaceful world than the present one after the Cold War?

Conflict in the Horn of Africa examines how the Kenya-Somalia border problem has deep roots in pre-colonial and colonial times mirroring the phenomenon of shifting territorial and human frontiers and treaties which Britain, France, Italy, and Ethiopia made before and after World Wars I and II.

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The End of French Rule in Cameroon is a study of the decolonization movement in Cameroon.

Restless Citizens gives a unique insider's view of how the United Nations treats its employees.

Between 2003 and 2010, under President Lula, Celso Amorim was at the forefront of an important period in the history of Brazil's international relations-one in which the country practiced a newly assertive foreign policy, extending its diplomatic reach to the global stage.

The history of Britain's complex relationship with Europe, untangled"The best short introduction to both the political realignment that produced the 2016 Referendum result and the immense fallout since.

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

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

A 2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleJapan's challenges and opportunities in a new era of uncertaintyHenry Kissinger wrote a few years ago that Japan has been for seven decades ?

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Taking a long view of the three-party relationship, and its future prospectsIn this Asian century, scholars, officials and journalists are increasingly focused on the fate of the rivalry between China and India.

In this balanced and thought-provoking study, Russell Crandall examines the American decision to intervene militarily in three key episodes in American foreign policy: the Dominican Republic, Grenada, and Panama.

HOW COULD THIS HAVE HAPPENED?

Beginning on the eve of Oceanic exploration, and the first European forays into the Indian Ocean and the Middle East, The Ottomans and the Mamluks traces the growth of the Ottoman Empire from a tiny Anatolian principality to a world power, and the relative decline of the Mamluks - historic defenders of Mecca and Medina and the rulers of Egypt and Syria.

Institutions do not decide whom to destroy or to kill, whether to make peace or war; those decisions are the responsibility of individuals.