Diplomacy

Explores how people at the margins of American politics (America''s middlemen) have historically shaped war, peace, expansion, and empire.

Rising food prices, climate change, and the ravages of global capitalism have made the poor increasingly vulnerable to economic crises.

Passed in 2000, the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 and subsequent seven Resolutions make up the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda.

Narendra Modi's energetic personal diplomacy and promise to make India a 'leading power' surprised many analysts.

A lexicon of the legal, administrative, and military terms and concepts central to the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories.

EU law consists of several thousand acts of which the overwhelming majority are made by the Commission.

South Africa is the most industrialized power in Africa.

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

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This book examines six summits spanning the beginning and the end of the Cold War.

No longer content to fade away into comfortable retirement, a growing number of former political leaders have pursued diplomatic afterlives.

Why have states throughout history regularly underestimated dangers to their survival?

International law presents a conceptual riddle.

What role do ideas play in state-building and state activity?

Today, two politicians are criticized and compared to Hitler; President Vladimir Putin of Russia and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan.

This volume examines the heights of American global power in the mid-twentieth century and the challenges to that power since.

In October 2002 the United States confronted North Korea with suspicions that Pyongyang was enriching uranium in violation of the Agreed Framework that the nations had worked out during the Clinton administration.

This book offers a range of perspectives on the Africa-China partnership in the context of the Forum on China and Africa Cooperation (FOCAC).

Our world is currently divided into territorial states that resist all attempts to change their borders.

Given the destruction and suffering caused by more than four years of industrialised warfare and economic hardship, scholars have tended to focus on the nationalism and hatred in the belligerent countries, holding that it led to a fundamental rupture of any sense of European commonality and unity.

Strange Allies examines three intersecting themes of fundamental importance to the international history of the period between the two world wars.

This book examines the history of Herbert Hoover's Commission for Relief in Belgium, which supplied humanitarian aid to the millions of civilians trapped behind German lines in Belgium and Northern France during World War I.

Nicholas Meets Barrington tells the story of a mid 20th century young life that blossoms into diplomacy at the tail end of imperial Britain.

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The end of the Cold War and the 'War on Terror' has signalled a shift in the security policies of all states.

Argues that diplomacy is structured by a largely unspoken hierarchy of standing, which practitioners refer to as the ''pecking order''.

In recent generations, the study of dynastic politics and diplomatic history has undergone a revival.

This book addresses the most important question in geopolitics today - the future of relations between the US and China.

What were the calculations made by the US and its major allies in the 1960s when they faced the signing of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)?

Bearing Witness While Black tells the story of this century's most powerful Black social movement through the eyes of 15 activists who documented it.

Presidents George H.

This book examines the history of Belgium's annexation of the former German territories of Eupen and Malmedy during the interwar period.

This book traces the history of German records captured by American and British troops in 1945 and the negotiations for their return into German custody.

The diaries of the last British Governor of Hong Kong, published on the 25th anniversary of the handoverIn June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to try to prepare it not (as other British colonies over the decades) for independence, but for handing back in 1997 to the Chinese, from whom most of its territory had been leased 99 years previously.

"e;The editors have assembled an outstanding group of scholars in this very welcome addition to our understanding of Latin American external relations and British foreign policy towards the region in the 20th century.

The question of how to constrain states that commit severe abuses against their own citizens is as persistent as it is vexing.

Western politicians, pundits, and the public were wholly unprepared for the violent conflicts erupting in eastern and central Europe and the former Soviet Union after the end of the Cold War.

Contesting the Origins of the First World War challenges the Anglophone emphasis on Germany as bearing the primary responsibility in causing the conflict and instead builds upon new perspectives to reconsider the roles of the other Great Powers.

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

The story of the women, financiers, and other unsung figures who helped to shape the post-Napoleonic global orderIn 1814, after decades of continental conflict, an alliance of European empires captured Paris and exiled Napoleon Bonaparte, defeating French military expansionism and establishing the Concert of 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.

Decades-long field research, investigate Chinese approach in Africa''s development, reinterpret classics on industrial capitalism, and reveal effects of non-linear synergism

Considers war initiation, wartime politics, war policies and war termination through the complex roles played by citizen wartime casualties.

This book examines the role of Buddhism in India-Japan relations through three approaches.

The United States has struggled to define its approach to what has been called the "e;information battlefield"e; since the information era began.

An analysis of the German Question's influence on the origins of the Cold War, arguing that the legal and diplomatic intercourse between the Allies regarding the treatment of the German Question brought forward the elements of intervention and coexistence which formed the basis for a relatively peaceful postwar international order.