Diplomacy

This book seeks to answer one main question: what is the core concern of great powers that streamlines their behavior in the contemporary system of international relations?

This book takes an in-depth look at China's diplomacy in the New Era under the leadership of Xi Jinping.

Die große Geschichte einer kleinen InselHelgoland, ein rauer Felsen in der Nordseebrandung und zugleich seit knapp 200 Jahren Symbol und Kampfplatz deutscher wie englischer Historie.

This book presents an analysis of how metaphors are essential elements in the study of international relations.

Following the publication of Negotiating and Navigating Global Health: Case Studies in Global Health Diplomacy edited by Ellen Rosskam and Ilona Kickbusch, this second volume of case studies will complement the first volume and extends its scope.

This book examines Republican China's diplomatic strategies and engagement, and power reconfiguration in East Asia after 1914.

This edited volume presents the results of a three-year comparative study on Chinese cultural diplomacy (CD) across Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia, which contributes to the broader theoretical debate on China`s increasing soft power in international relations.

A narrative history of the 1861 Washington Peace Conference, the bipartisan, last-ditch effort to prevent the Civil War, an effort that nearly averted the carnage that followed.

This book discusses how tensions and unknowns may impact future relations between a post-Brexit UK, the EU and the countries of the Gulf, including Iran.

This book offers a new approach to studying foreign aid in the 21st century.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the relations between China and the EU, tracing the development of this complex, yet intriguing, relationship between two substantially different actors.

This book analyses the evolving engagement of the United States and Cuba, along with the impact of this relationship on Cuba-CARICOM relations and the Caribbean.

The book probes major security and governance trends in Africa's Great Lakes region since the 1990s.

This book examines the crisis in Ukraine through the lens of "e;triangular diplomacy,"e; which focuses on the multiple interactions among the European Union, the United States and Russia.

This book uses an innovative interdisciplinary approach to explain how communication is a necessary condition for diplomacy in a digital and relationship-driven world.

Does America still count in the world?

Diplomacy is an established discipline, but it is still wearing its old garments,failing to display its capacity to deal with new unique bi-lateral and international disputes.

This book explores a new way of doing diplomacy through the engagement with non-governmental organizations, here referred to as hybrid diplomacy.

With the collapse of the Soviet Union and its Eastern European bloc, the reunification of Germany was a major episode in the history of modern Europe - and one widely held to have been opposed by that country's centuries-old enemy, France.

This volume brings together different approaches to diplomacy both as an institution and a practice.

The book offers a history of the discourses and diplomacies of Sudan's civil wars.

President Donald J.

This book aims to identify what components are needed for economic diplomacy in today's rapidly changing world, looking at the nature, focus and tenets of economic diplomacy, and the differences between economic diplomacy and commercial diplomacy.

This book describes the four Nuclear Security Summits held over 2010-2016 at the initiative of U.

This book explores the meaning of peace according to (some of) the people who make it.

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As with many spheres of public life, public diplomatic communication is being transformed by the boom of social media.

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

This book considers the principal challenges facing the European Union, which has been buffeted by a series of profound crises, both internal and external.

This book analyzes how international organizations and the European Union engage with civil society to pursue their policy goals.

In 1971 the United States had no diplomatic relations or established route of communications with China.

Why do some leaders and segments of the public display remarkable persistence in confrontations in international politics, while others cut and run?

A close look at the evolution of American political alliances in Asia and their futureWhile the American alliance system in Asia has been fundamental to the region's security and prosperity for seven decades, today it encounters challenges from the growth of China-based regional organizations.

On War and Democracy provides a richly nuanced examination of the moral justifications democracies often invoke to wage war.

A reexamination of America's overloaded foreign policy tradition and its importance for global politics todayDebates about U.

Theories of international relations, assumed to be universally applicable, have failed to explain the creation of states in Africa.

In an act of totally unnecessary and wanton destruction, British forces in China during the Second Opium War (1856-1860) looted and destroyed much of the Old Imperial Summer Palace (Yuanmingyuan) including three imperial gardens and hundreds of halls, pavilions, and temples stock full of ancient artwork, antiquities, and literary works.

How presidents forged the American centuryThis book examines the foreign policy decisions of the presidents who presided over the most critical phases of America's rise to world primacy in the twentieth century, and assesses the effectiveness and ethics of their choices.

In the last six decades, one of the most striking developments in international law is the emergence of a massive body of legal norms and procedures aimed at protecting human rights.

How the Grand Alliance of World War II succeeded-and then collapsed-because of personal politicsIn the spring of 1945, as the Allied victory in Europe was approaching, the shape of the postwar world hinged on the personal politics and flawed personalities of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin.

The behind-the-scenes story of how today's war crimes tribunals came to beWithin days of Madeleine Albright's confirmation as U.

A new vision for the American world orderIn the second half of the twentieth century, the United States engaged in the most ambitious and far-reaching liberal order building the world had yet seen.

A fascinating history of the international human rights movement as seen by one of its foundersDuring the past several decades, the international human rights movement has had a crucial hand in struggles against totalitarian regimes and crimes against humanity.

A close look at Woodrow Wilson's political thought and international diplomacyIn the widely acclaimed To End All Wars, Thomas Knock provides an intriguing, often provocative narrative of Woodrow Wilson's epic quest for a new world order.

Available in paperback for the first time, this book assesses the strains within the 'Special Relationship' between London and Washington and offers a new perspective on the limits and successes of British influence during the Korean War.

In this lucid and timely new book, Jeremy Pressman demonstrates that the default use of military force on both sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict has prevented its peaceful resolution.

This definitive study of the U.

Here is a witty and learned literary excursion into the world of humour and comic literature as revealed inter alia by the works of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Oliver Goldsmith and Henry Fielding - leading in the second half to some glorious insights and observations provided by author's life experience in the world of diplomacy.

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