Diplomacy

In the seventeenth century, riots, rebellions, and revolts flared around Europe.

An exciting and richly detailed new history of the Silk Road that tells how it became more important as a route for diplomacy than for tradeThe King's Road offers a new interpretation of the history of the Silk Road, emphasizing its importance as a diplomatic route, rather than a commercial one.

In the first modern biography of Red jacket, Christopher Densmore sheds light on the achievements of this formidable Iroquois diplomat who, as a representative of the Seneca and Six Nations, met and negotiated with American presidents from George Washington to Andrew Jackson.

The paradox of U.

The Islamic Republic of Iran faced a favorable strategic environment following the US invasions of Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003.

"e;Jones provides a nuanced perspective on both the promise and limits of this unheralded form of unofficial diplomacy.

This two-volume set explores in-depth the economic origins and repercussions of the Arab Spring revolts.

Franco-American diplomatic relations were tested at pivotal moments in world history.

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Border fixity-the proscription of foreign conquest and the annexation of homeland territory-has, since World War II, become a powerful norm in world politics.

American foreign policy is the subject of extensive debate.

The newly born League of Nations confronted the post-WWI world-from growing stateless populations to the resurgence of right-wing movements-by aiming to create a transnational, cosmopolitan dialogue on justice.

A transnational approach to understanding and analyzing knowledge circulation.

A timely investigation into the conditions that make international agreements-and the institutions that enforce them-vulnerable.

Among the most momentous decisions that leaders of a state are called upon to make is whether or not to initiate warfare.

A timely look at the real costs of leaders not examining their assumptions.

A fresh account of the US presidential rhetoric embodied in Cold War international travel.

“This is a brilliant and hardheaded book.

Multilateralism has long been a study of contrasts.

An examination of the U.

Western struggles-and failures-to create functioning states in countries such as Iraq or Afghanistan have inspired questions about whether statebuilding projects are at all viable, or whether they make the lives of their intended beneficiaries better or worse.

A groundbreaking look at the future of great power competition in an age of globalization and what the United States can do in responseThe two decades after the Cold War saw unprecedented cooperation between the major powers as the world converged on a model of liberal international order.

A penetrating account of the dynamics of World War II’s Grand Alliance through the messages exchanged by the "Big Three" Stalin exchanged more than six hundred messages with Allied leaders Churchill and Roosevelt during the Second World War.

At the end of the Cold War, the United States emerged as the world’s most powerful state, and then used that power to initiate wars against smaller countries in the Middle East and South Asia.

In this landmark work, two leading theorists of international relations analyze the strategies designed to avoid international conflict.

The first objective assessment of the high-stakes diplomatic sparring between Washington and Tehran during President Obama’s first years in office Have the diplomatic efforts of the Obama administration toward Iran failed?

A trusted economic commentator provides a penetrating account of the threats to China's continued economic rise Under President Xi Jinping, China has become a large and confident power both at home and abroad, but the country also faces serious challenges.

Why the future of great power politics is likely to resemble its dismal past Can great powers be confident that their peers have benign intentions?

A new edition of the classic work on the economic tools of foreign policyToday's complex and dangerous world demands a complete understanding of all the techniques of statecraft, not just military ones.

From the acclaimed author of The Gunpowder Age, a book that casts new light on the history of China and the West at the turn of the nineteenth centuryGeorge Macartney's disastrous 1793 mission to China plays a central role in the prevailing narrative of modern Sino-European relations.

This volume explores the governance of the transforming Arctic from an international perspective.

This book reinforces the need to understand the sources of global change that is taking place and to accommodate it in the world political, social, and economic systems.

By delving into the history of geopolitics and bringing us up to date with cutting-edge case studies looking at infrastructure, terrain, and maps, this book will dispel simplistic and misleading notions about the nature of how humans interact with the environment.

This book examines the continuities and substantial transformations in Greek foreign policy before the beginning and during the unfolding of the economic crisis.

Making War and Building Peace examines how well United Nations peacekeeping missions work after civil war.

In A Necessary Engagement, the CIA's former point man on Islam makes a vigorous case for a renewal of American public diplomacy in the Muslim world.

This book addresses head-on a core current critique of how the Sino-American relationship was managed across eight administrations.

Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as Americans increasingly came into contact with the Islamic world, U.

Elbridge Durbrow served as the third United States ambassador to the Republic of Vietnam from 1957 to 1961.

The Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) had many opponents when, in 1995, it came up for extension.

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.

India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, left behind a legacy of both great achievements and surprising defeats.

Canada is a key member of the world's most important international intelligence-sharing partnership, the Five Eyes, along with the US, the UK, New Zealand, and Australia.

Nations have powerful reasons to get their military alliances right.

Uneasy Partnerships presents the analysis and insights of practitioners and scholars who have shaped and examined China's interactions with key Northeast Asian partners.

This is the first book-length study of the role that friendship plays in diplomacy and international politics.

Selected among Foreign Affairs's "e;Best of Books 2024"e;China is unique in modern world history.

Alongside war, there has always been diplomacy; alongside the warlord, the diplomat seeking a nonmilitary solution.

In January 1981, just days before Jimmy Carter left the White House, many of the president's officials were well satisfied with the administration's campaign to promote human rights.