Diplomacy

On 25 May 1993 the United Nations Security Council took the extraordinary and unprecedented step of deciding to establish the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) as a mechanism for the restoration and maintenance of international peace and security.

This book tells the dramatic story of the recruitment and training of a group of German communist exiles by the London office of the Office of Strategic Services for key spy missions into Nazi Germany during the final months of World War II.

During President Barack Obama's first term in office, the United States expanded its military presence in Afghanistan and increased drone missile strikes across Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia.

Offering an alternative and a complement to existing histories of diplomacy, this book discusses change in the form of 'tipping points', which it understands as the culmination of long-term trends.

The right to individual and collective self-defense in international law and politics has always been a controversial issue.

Palestine Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Winner 2022'Roy is humanely and professionally committed in ways that are unmatched by any other non-Palestinian scholar' - Edward W.

The United States has used military force short of war as an instrument of diplomacy on many occasions and in many areas of the world in the years since the Second World War.

An examination of how American newspaper articles on Muslims are strikingly negative by any measure.

In Peace in World History, Peter N.

"e;We will be judged in our own time and in the future by measuring the aid that we, inhabitants of a free and fortunate country, gave to our brethren in this time of greatest disaster.

How will the future leaders of Russia regard the world scene?

This volume discusses Korea's role as a middle power in the midst of the 21st century global power shift.

In recent years, a number of European countries abolished national border controls in favor of Europe's external frontiers.

South Africa is still the major-player in African diplomacy, its military resources far outstripping those of other nations on the continent.

Donald Trump, Statesman?

In the next decade China's actions on the world stage will affect us all.

Northern Ireland after the defeat of the IRA.

Explains why the EU interacts and intervenes beyond its borders, using case studies to present a theory of practice-driven action.

Diplomacy is conventionally understood as an authentic European invention which was internationalised during colonialism.

This book surveys the transformation and projection of American power abroad since the collapse of the Berlin Wall.

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.

Was Hitler A Riddle?

At the end of President Barack Obama's second term, it seemed that the U.

This study offers an explicit theory of media pressure - what it is, how it works, how it can be measured - based in part on the 'positioning theory' in discursive psychology.

Oriented for a general reading audience, this book gives a unique and rare perspective on the KGB "e;special operations"e; in Soviet Ukraine, which targeted especially the USA and Canada, using issues related to Soviet Ukrainian identity and cultural diplomacy of Soviet Ukraine after Stalin's death in 1953 until the perestroika of the 1980s.

This book explores questions such as: How do adversaries communicate?

The War Ledger provides fresh, sophisticated answers to fundamental questions about major modern wars: Why do major wars begin?

This accessible collection examines twelve historic events in the international relations of East Asia.

During the Second World War, the British government established the Special Operations Executive (SOE) for the purpose of coordinating 'all action, by way of subversion and sabotage, against the enemy overseas'.

Winner of the 2017 Tony Award for Best Play Winner of the 2017 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play Winner of the 2017 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play "e;Oslo is a wonderful and moving work that portrays how real diplomacy works.

An examination of how American newspaper articles on Muslims are strikingly negative by any measure.

With contributions from some of Canada's leading historians and political scientists, Escott Reid: Diplomat and Scholar offers a fresh perspective on the life and career of one of the most important public intellectuals and diplomats in twentieth-century Canada, critically exploring the tensions between Reid's progressive idealism and the world in which he lived.

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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.

This book, spanning the years 1965-1967 - the years leading up to and culminating in the June 1967 Six-Day War - is the fourth in a four-volume collection of documents from the Russian Federation and the Israeli State Archive portraying relations between the Soviet Union and the State of Israel.

From before the dawn of recorded history, there has been a rich flow of interaction between Japan and China.

This book comprises a range of Chinese primary documents as well as interviews in Beijing detailing the policies, principles and methods used by Zhou Enlai to sustain his practice of diplomacy as a committed revolutionary in the pursuit of China's "e;independence and self-reliance"e;.

Challenging the standard views that individual leaders either have all the power or little room to move in the making of foreign policy, this book demonstrates various ways that leaders succeed by manipulating elements of their domestic and international environments.

This book explores how BRICS countries respond to, and get involved in, large scale armed conflict.

British post-imperial decline has been much examined.

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearHow the fight for civil rights in America became an important front in the Cold WarIn 1958, an African American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was sentenced to die in Alabama for stealing less than two dollars.

For three hundred years the Society of Friends, or Quakers, has been forwarding to governments recommendations on foreign policy, and it has often been in the vanguard of thought in its social and political views.

When Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons against his own people in Syria, he clearly crossed President Barack Obama's "e;red line.

During the premodern period, Japan had significant political, economic and cultural relations with Korea.

In 1958, an African-American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was sentenced to die in Alabama for stealing two dollars.

The US's once-enthusiastic commitment to restore trustworthy relations with the Muslim world has dwindled considerably since Obama's 2009 Cairo speech.

This new publication constitutes the second volume in the widely-acclaimed Sources in European Political History.