Diplomacy

On September 5, 2009, the commanding officer of NATO's German troops in Afghanistan ordered a U.

To fully comprehend the Vietnam War, it is essential to understand the central role that southerners played in the nation's commitment to the war, in the conflict's duration, and in the fighting itself.

This book explores the relationship between the development of UN peacekeeping and the protection of civilians under international law.

The world's problems--climate change, epidemics, and the actions of multinational corporations--are increasingly global in scale and beyond the ability of any single state to manage.

In 1814 the five reigning dynasties of Europe, Alexander I of Russia and ministers such Metternich and Talleyrand, descended upon Vienna.

Since the turn of the century bilateral trade between China and Latin America has increased by more than a factor of ten.

This is the first study of how major global problems have been managed through the international distribution of special responsibilities.

In the aftermath of the First World War, the victorious powers - more or less liberal democracies - argued that democracy would bring peace to Europe because this was the only effective way for legitimate states, with governments based on the consent of the governed, to be organized.

Through personal experience and a lively narrative, this book examines the difficulty of communicating in adversarial environments like Iraq and Afghanistan, the complexity of multi-linguistic communications, and the importance of directing American cultural power in the national interest.

By placing the conflict in its historical, ideological, ethno-political and geostrategic context, the book extends beyond conventional realist approaches and lays bare those less visible dimensions that are often ignored by analysts and policy-makers alike.

This book tackles the question: when international security institutions face a legitimacy crisis, why are some replaced while others endure?

What is grand strategy and what is it good for?

An examination of the nature of middle power diplomacy in the post-Cold War era.

The division of Korea in August 1945 was one of the most consequential foreign policy decisions of the twentieth century.

The revival of authoritarianism is one of the most important forces reshaping world politics today.

Becoming Enemies brings the unique methods of critical oral history, developed to study flashpoints from the Cold War such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, to understand U.

The Jay Treaty: Political Battleground of the Founding Fathers delves into one of the most pivotal and hotly debated treaties in early American history.

A portrait of the effectiveness of moderation in US foreign policy, as illustrated by three of America's most consequential and widely-admired postwar presidents: Dwight Eisenhower, George H.

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

The Kosovo question posed a great challenge to the international order in the western Balkans for a number of decades prior to the outbreak of war in the 1990s.

The central objective of this edited volume is to help unlock a set of intriguing puzzles relating to changing power dynamics in Eurasia, a region that is critically important in the changing international security landscape.

This book explores the viability of future UK-EU internal security arrangements in light of Brexit, including their impact on the UK's and the EU's security and international standings.

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.

Informal Alliance is the first archive-based history of the secretive Bilderberg Group, the high-level transatlantic elite network founded at the height of the Cold War.

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

The Turkish-Armenian conflict has lasted for nearly a century and still continues in attenuated forms to poison the relationship between these two peoples.

A Times History Book of the Year 2022From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings 'the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis' Daily TelegraphThe 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and Soviet Union.

This is a startling and controversial investigation into the international assistance given to countries at war.

This book presents reflections of prominent international peacemakers in the Middle East, including Jimmy Carter, Lakhdar Brahimi, Jan Eliasson, Alvaro de Soto, and others.

Building, or re-building, states after war or crisis is a contentious process.

A recent National Security Strategy report singles out nuclear proliferation as one of the gravest threats to the United States.

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This collection of essays offers a fresh look at the 1970s, the crucial decade when the nuclear non-proliferation regime took shape.

A guide to the practice of mediation as a means of resolving conflict, this short how-to manual includes all the resources needed to teach and train mediators in the skills of conflict resolution.

In Alliance Curse, Hilton Root illustrates that recent U.

Memorialised as a US heroine and an iconoclastic humanitarian who sought to protect society's marginalised, Eleanor Roosevelt also, at times, disappointed contemporaries and biographers with some of her stances.

This book explores how the United Nations (UN) attempts to stabilise and justify an ambivalent meaning of protection and its socio-political roles in the Protection of Civilians agenda.

Rare insights into Canada and Canadian foreign policy by leading foreign and Canadian policy thinkers and doers.

This volume details the evolution of Japan's foreign policy and its initiatives with respect to Central Asia.

“A heartening reminder that politicians, at their best, can rise above petty rivalries and jealousies to serve a larger cause.

This book examines Israel's relationship and political decision-making process towards the Occupied Territories from the aftermath of the Six Day War to the Labour Party's electoral defeat in 1977.

Neither a case study of a particular genocide nor a work of comparative genocide, this book explores the political constraints and imperatives that motivate debates about genocide in the academic world and, to a lesser extent, in the political arena.

This book outlines an idea of world politics as an activity of thinking and speaking about the conditions of world order.

Between 1948 and 1951, the Marshall Plan delivered an unprecedented $12.

Examining American foreign policy towards the Horn of Africa between 1945 and 1991, this book uses Ethiopia and Somalia as case studies to offer an evaluation of the decision-making process during the Cold War, and consider the impact that these decisions had upon subsequent developments both within the Horn of Africa and in the wider international context.

Edited by one of the most renowned scholars in the field, Richard K.

How can two states with enemy relations transform their relationship?

The story of failed diplomacy during the peacemaking process at Versailles and the path that led to World War II.