Diplomacy

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.

This book provides an overview of what has happened to NATO from the closing stages of the Cold War to the new era of international terrorism.

From 1960s to the early 1970s in East Asia, the Cold War bipolar system, centering on the US and USSR, shifted to a more complicated structure.

This third volume of the updated edition describes how the United States became a global power during the period from 1913 to 1945.

Diplomacy is essential to the conduct of foreign policy and international business in the twenty-first century.

George Hay, 8th Earl of Kinnoull, was an unconventional ambassador.

Practices of Diplomacy in the Early Modern World offers a new contribution to the ongoing reassessment of early modern international relations and diplomatic history.

Does growing economic interdependence among great powers increase or decrease the chance of conflict and war?

Confessional Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe examines the role of religion in early modern European diplomacy.

Diplomacy Between the Wars is a detailed inside story of diplomacy seen through the careers of five remarkable career diplomatists.

A "e;brilliant"e; examination of American complacency and how it puts the nation's-and the world's-security at risk (The Wall Street Journal).

The iconic American banana man of the early twentieth century-the white "e;banana cowboy"e; pushing the edges of a tropical frontier-was the product of the corporate colonialism embodied by the United Fruit Company.

This book brings together for the first time a large collection of essays (including three new ones) of a leading writer on diplomacy.

Two decades ago, V.

The first published work to chart the history of the Marshall Scholarship, this book details the origins of the Scholarship in the British Foreign Office and subsequently traces the award's evolution through the careers and narratives of a range of Scholars.

This international history of the origins of ''cold war'' in postwar Europe examines the complex relationship between the United States and Italy.

Elections are the means by which democratic nations determine their leaders, and communication in the context of elections has the potential to shape people's beliefs, attitudes, and actions.

The nature of the US political system, with its overlapping powers, intense partisanship, and continuous scrutiny from the media and public, complicates the conduct of foreign policy.

This book reassesses the transformation of European diplomacy which took place at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Drawing on a variety of sources, ranging from interviews with key figures to unpublished archival material, Saban Halis Calis traces this ambition back to the 1930s.

There is a broad consensus among scholars that the idea of human rights was a product of the Enlightenment but that a self-conscious and broad-based human rights movement focused on international law only began after World War II.

The Arctic is heating up.

In recent decades the Internet has played what may seem to be a unique role in international crises.

International law presents a conceptual riddle.

Addressing values and politics in the Muslim world, this pioneering volume examines attitudes towards democracy and politics, self-expression and traditional values, convergence and divergence of values between the elite and the publics of Islamic and European countries.

How do American citizens become ambassadors, and how do they serve as U.

`James Cable's book.

This volume traces the historical roots and evolution of insurgencies and counter-insurgencies in modern Asia.

During the 1920s and 1930s thousands of European and American writers, professionals, scientists, artists, and intellectuals made a pilgrimage to experience the "e;Soviet experiment"e; for themselves.

George Kennan, Charles Bohlen, W.

This IPE Classic considers one of the most pressing issues of the Twenty-First century: the relationship between domestic configurations of power and globalized production processes in shaping the process and implications of China's re-engagement with the global economy.

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

Cuba's Fidel Castro and Spain's Francisco Franco were two men with very similar backgrounds but very different political ideologies.

International Arms Trade has always been a powerful and multi-functional constituent of world politics and international diplomacy.

In 1998 and in 2006, North Korea conducted ballistic missile tests that landed dangerously close to Japan.

The normative power of the European Union has historically been a key element of its foreign policy.

The post-Cold War diplomacy of the United States evolved in stages that reflected changes in the international system.

This book is the record of interviews conducted on Former President of Taiwan Lee Teng-hui's subconscious [guardian spirit] in February 2014.

The war against ISIS is often explained through the group's own rise to power.

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.

Offers a history of the Treaty of Lausanne, outlining the decade of war that preceded it and its enduring impact in the Middle East and beyond.

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

In this concise introduction to the complexities of contemporary western intelligence and its dynamics during an era of globalization, Adam Svendsen discusses intelligence cooperation in the early 21st century, with a sharp focus on counter-terrorism and WMD counter-proliferation during the 'War on Terror.

Although there have been many studies of U.

This edited volume revisits the idea of the Western Hemisphere.

This book shows how the first institution of global governance was conceived and operated.

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