Diplomacy

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.

The book is the beginning of new interdisciplinary research series at the intersection of international relations, diplomacy, law, economics, and politics on the basis of global digital transformation.

Hemispheric foreign policy has waxed and waned since the Mexican War, and the Cold War presented both extraordinary promises and dangerous threats to U.

An insider's account of Romania's emergence from communism controlIn the 1970s American attorney Alfred H.

China Boys offers a close-up, worms-eye view of the U.

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 book comprises findings from the author's wide-ranging research since 1948 on the unresolved Arab/Israel protracted conflict.

This book provides an international legal analysis of the most important questions regarding Iran's nuclear program since 2002.

Beginning on the eve of Oceanic exploration, and the first European forays into the Indian Ocean and the Middle East, The Ottomans and the Mamluks traces the growth of the Ottoman Empire from a tiny Anatolian principality to a world power, and the relative decline of the Mamluks - historic defenders of Mecca and Medina and the rulers of Egypt and Syria.

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

The proliferation of minilateral summits is reshaping how international security problems are addressed, yet these summits remain a poorly understood phenomenon.

The first-ever attempt to paint a full-scale portrait of the Japanese Occupation of Southeast Asia during the Asia-Pacific War (1942-5).

Andrew Mumford challenges the notion of a special relationship between the United States and United Kingdom in diplomatic and military affairs, the most vaunted and, he says, exaggerated of associations in the post-1945 era.

Kawasaki, Sakade, Zimmerman, and their contributors examine the historical development of burden-sharing among the United States (US) and its allies after World War II, looking at examples from Western Europe and East Asia.

Even the most seasoned Middle East observers were taken aback by the events of early 2011.

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.

A vision of a European future of peace and stability despite the present gloomThe world appears to be at another major turning point.

This book discusses the emerging threats to European stability in different borderland regions, from the Greater Middle East to the Eastern Mediterranean, the Balkans and the Black Sea.

This edited volume brings together a series of papers on various facets of the three Baltic countries, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania which have not attracted much intellectual attention outside Europe, especially in South Asia.

EU policy-makers have in the past decade endeavoured to formulate a substantial redefinition of the organisation's international ambitions.

This book introduces a new perspective on risk seeking behaviour, developing a framework based on various cognitive theories, and applying it to the specific case-study of Turkey's foreign policy toward Syria.

Envisioning the Empress illuminates dynamic and powerful empresses who impacted not only women in their own time but whose influence extended to later generations of royalty, creating a greater role for imperial women and elevating the status of women's roles at a crucial juncture in Japanese history.

The Nixon Presidency is a concise and accessible survey of domestic policy, foreign affairs, and politics during the thirty-seventh president's time in office.

This book discusses the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) on post-COVID-19 international relations.

Two major themes in contemporary international relations-Sino-European relations and global governance-are both addressed in this volume.

This book shows that, despite lacking traditional force, public grades can motivate countries to focus on problems they would rather ignore.

This book advocates a broad outlook of China-Africa relations and highlights China's soft power in Africa.

This book analyses and compares instances of the diffusion of political norms and ideas in the history of Franco-German relations.

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

For thirteen days in October of 1962, a truly perilous flirtation with nuclear war developed between the United States and USSR, as the superpowers argued over the installation of Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba.

This handbook comprehensively covers topics in international relations, with a specific focus on China-Europe-Africa relations.

Making War and Building Peace examines how well United Nations peacekeeping missions work after civil war.

In March 1961 America’s most prominent journalist, Edward R.

The first two volumes of The Little Red Dot series covered a wide range of views about Singapore's diplomacy by Singaporean diplomats.

Analysing a struggle for neutrality amid a rapidly changing European scene, this book illustrates how the small state of Tuscany cunningly managed to preserve its sovereignty and independence during a dangerous diplomatic dispute with England.

The killing of Osama bin Laden spotlighted Pakistan's unpredictable political dynamics, which are often driven by conspiracy theory, paranoia, and a sense of betrayal.

The paradox of U.

This edited volume brings together a series of papers on various facets of the three Baltic countries, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania which have not attracted much intellectual attention outside Europe, especially in South Asia.

Cosmopolitan Dystopia shows that rather than populists or authoritarian great powers it is cosmopolitan liberals who have done the most to subvert the liberal international order.

Selected among Foreign Affairs's "e;Best of Books 2024"e;China is unique in modern world history.

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.

The National Basketball Association (NBA), founded over 75 years ago, is staging a 21st century takeover.

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

Sheds new light on a transformation process: the struggle to create a modern Atlantic order in the long twentieth century.

In this book a former United Nations Envoy offers an insider perspective on conflict management and peace efforts during the three most recent failed peace initiatives and three wars in Gaza.

Robert Jervis has been a pioneering leader in the study of the psychology of international politics for more than four decades.

From Balewa's declaration, 'Today is Independence Day,' to Azikiwe's impassioned plea, 'Let us bind the nation's wound and let us heal the breaches of the past so that in forging our nation there shall emerge on this continent a hate-free, fear-free, and greed-free people,' to Buhari's patriotic fervor, 'This generation [of Nigerians].

A new history of Asian peace since 1979 that considers America's paradoxical role After more than a century of recurring conflict, the countries of the Asia-Pacific region have managed something remarkable: avoiding war among nations.