Diplomacy

The Arctic is heating up.

Michael Oppenheimer's Pivotal Countries, Alternate Futures is both a synthesis of our knowledge on scenario planning and a practical guide for policymakers.

This book investigates the radical transformation of the relationship between Germany and France, neighbors whose border constituted one of the deepest fault lines of European history.

Dancers as Diplomats chronicles the role of dance and dancers in American cultural diplomacy.

This book, available in paperback for the first time, offers a new and innovative way of looking at Irish foreign policy, linking its development with changes in Irish national identity.

The granting of diplomatic asylum to Julian Assange, the dangers faced by diplomats in troublespots around the world, WikiLeaks and the publication of thousands of embassy cable - situations like these place diplomatic agents and diplomatic law at the very centre of contemporary debate on current affairs.

American Isolationism Between the World Wars: The Search for a Nation's Identity examines the theory of isolationism in America between the world wars, arguing that it is an ideal that has dominated the Republic since its founding.

Discusses how deeply held beliefs guide American foreign policy and identifies the foundations of those beliefs, explaining how they have inspired poor strategic decisions in Washington.

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.

What are the achievements, the limits and the failures of the EU's involvement in the Arab-Israeli conflict?

Focuses on the British Russia Company, revealing how commercial competition between the British and Russian empires became entangled.

Originally published in 1991, The Roots of Appeasement outlines the attitudes of the British weekly press and its editors to Nazism and to German and British foreign policies during the 1930s.

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 examines how North Korea has managed to weather an uncertain political future and catastrophic economic system since the end of the Cold War.

Explores how Turkey first became a democracy and Western ally in the 1950s and why this is changing today.

Neoliberal policy approaches have swept over the American political economy in recent decades.

A Brookings Institution Press and EU Institute for Security Studies publicationThe greater Middle East region is beset by a crescent of crises, stretching from Pakistan through Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

As the UK enters a period of intense public introspection in the wake of Brexit, this book takes on one of the key questions emerging from the divisive process: what is Britain's place in the world?

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.

The emergence of large trade imbalances among the industrial countries during the 1980s-particularly the massive deficit of the United States and the surpluses of Germany and Japan-has led to growing disenchantment with the international economic system.

The Dust of Kandahar provides a personal account of one diplomat's year of service in America's longest war.

A timely look at the real costs of leaders not examining their assumptions.

Turkism and the Soviets (1957) uses Turkish, Russian and Western sources to present a remarkable study of the Turkish world and its importance in international relations.

Concentrating on the rivalry between the formal and informal empires of Great Britain, Japan and the United States of America, this book examines how regional relations were negotiated in Asia and the Pacific during the interwar years.

In 1937, Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King travelled to Nazi Germany in an attempt to prevent a war that, to many observers, seemed inevitable.

Restless Citizens gives a unique insider's view of how the United Nations treats its employees.

In 1950, nearly 300 of Europe's leading artists, philosophers and writers formed an international society intended to end the Cold War.

This second volume of the updated edition describes the dynamics of United States foreign policy from 1865 to 1913.

The first detailed Iranian account of the diplomatic struggle between Iran and the international community, The Iranian Nuclear Crisis: A Memoir opens in 2002, as news of Iran's clandestine uranium enrichment and plutonium production facilities emerge.

This volume documents the UK Government's response to the unfolding social and political changes in Eastern Europe during 1989.

John Brady Kiesling, a twenty-year veteran of the foreign service, publicly resigned his position as political counselor of the U.

The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (VCDR) was signed at the height of the Cold War more than fifty years ago.

Now in its fifth edition, Origins of the Cold War 1941-1949 covers the formative years of the momentous struggle that developed between two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union.

In 1940, the USSR occupied and annexed Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, leading to calls by many that the Soviets had violated international law.

During the first half of the twentieth century, world politics was reshaped in pursuit of a new international order.

The contributors attempt to look into how China and Europe differently interpret political concepts such as: sovereignty, soft power, human rights, democracy, stability, strategic partnership, multilateralism/multipolarization, and global governance, to examine what implications of their conceptual gaps may have on China-EU relations.

The global implications of China's rise as a global actorIn 2005, a senior official in the George W.

Over a long and varied career, Major-General William Beatson earned a fine reputation as a leader of irregular cavalry in the nineteenth century.

The Routledge History of Monarchy draws together current research across the field of royal studies, providing a rich understanding of the history of monarchy from a variety of geographical, cultural and temporal contexts.

This is the first book that analyzes the transnational impact of the Great War simultaneously on two countries, Spain and Argentina, that remained neutral throughout the conflict.

On October 1, 2009, the People's Republic of China (PRC) celebrated the 60th anniversary of its founding.

Exchange programs are often considered to create goodwill for host countries among foreign citizens - yet is this the case?

After eleven weeks of bombing in the spring of 1999, the United States and NATO ultimately won the war in Kosovo.

Why NATO Endures examines military alliances and their role in international relations.

When the United States goes to war, the nation's attention focuses on the president.

This memoir attempts to capture the humor and sheer incongruity of working across cultures in an international career spanning diplomacy and education.

An examination of how peacekeeping is woven into national, regional and international politics in Africa, and its consequences.

In this memoir, Ambassador Ray Garthoff paints a dynamic diplomatic history of the cold war, tracing the life of the conflict from the vantage points of an observant insider.