Diplomacy

This work investigates how various sacred spaces in Ottoman and Republican Turkey interfaced with British foreign policy.

This book analyses the international phenomenon of private peace entrepreneurs.

Now in its fifth edition, this volume offers a clear, concise, and nuanced history of U.

On the fortieth anniversary of the Camp David Accords, a groundbreaking new history that shows how Egyptian-Israeli peace ensured lasting Palestinian statelessnessFor seventy years Israel has existed as a state, and for forty years it has honored a peace treaty with Egypt that is widely viewed as a triumph of U.

The Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) had many opponents when, in 1995, it came up for extension.

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

In this book, some of Philip Towle's major contributions are brought together to shed light on the Cold War and its aftermath.

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.

The United States has used military force short of war as an instrument of diplomacy on many occasions and in many areas of the world in the years since the Second World War.

When Peter J.

To defeat your enemies you must know them well.

This book looks at U.

Confronting Sukarno examines the regional and international implications of the Malaysian-Indonesian Confrontation, a crisis more popularly known as Konfrontasi.

This book charts ideas European intellectuals (mostly from Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy) put forward to solve the problem of war during the first half of the twentieth century: a period that began with the Anglo-Boer war and that ended with the explosion of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

This book examines how recent fundamental changes influence Sino-Russian relations and the wider long-term implications of the revolving Sino-Russian dynamic on international affairs.

The United States is a nation in crisis.

Based on research conducted in archives in six countries, An International History of South America in the Era of Military Rule: Geared for War offers a detailed account of the tensions and fears of war that engulfed South America in the 1970s, when most countries of the region were ruled by military governments.

Lottaz, Iwama, and their contributors investigate the role of neutral and nonaligned European states during the negotiations for the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).

Why do politicians send troops to foreign soil, to fight battles they rarely win?

The Sit Room brings you inside the secretive Situation Room of the White House, the most important deliberative room in the world, during the early 1990s when the author was one of the policymakers who framed the Clinton Administration's policy towards the bloody Balkans War.

Relations between Iran and the US have been strained for over 30 years.

A Brookings Institution Press and the Nixon Center publicationIn this frank and engaging book, foreign minister Igor S.

Steamship Nationalism is a cultural, social, and political history of the S.

Can one individual influence the course of history?

Presidents George H.

This book focuses on China's foreign strategy and policy toward Central and Eastern Europe via the "e;China-CEEC"e; Cooperation Mechanism.

This book offers a concise account of US "e;dual containment"e; policy towards Iran and Iraq during the 1990s, an overlooked era between the tumult of the liberation of Kuwait and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

This study offers an explicit theory of media pressure - what it is, how it works, how it can be measured - based in part on the 'positioning theory' in discursive psychology.

The purpose of this book is to critically enhance the appreciation of Diplomacy and Sport in global affairs for both practitioners and scholars.

Political yard signs are one of the most ubiquitous and conspicuous features of American political campaigns, yet they have received relatively little attention as a form of political communication or participation.

Critics question the representativeness of NGOs, the democratic quality of their internal procedures, and their accountability to the wider public.

From the chilling threats of the "e;ISIS vampire"e; to the view of al-Qaeda as the "e;Frankenstein the CIA created,"e; terrorism seems to be inextricably bound with monstrosity.

From the acclaimed author of The Gunpowder Age, a book that casts new light on the history of China and the West at the turn of the nineteenth centuryGeorge Macartney's disastrous 1793 mission to China plays a central role in the prevailing narrative of modern Sino-European relations.

"e;Jenkins' rare combination of psychological theorizing and archival research in several countries and time periods yields a fascinating new take on the central question of when states over-estimate or under-estimate others' resolve.

This volume is a comprehensive overview of the various methods used in contemporary diplomatic practice.

President Obama has just three years left in office to define his legacy in world affairs.

Since the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the close alliance between Syria and Iran has endured for over three decades, based on geopolitical interests between the two states and often framed in the language of resistance.

Late historian Martin J.

This book presents post-peace agreement violence as a serious, yet predictable and manageable, political phenomenon.

Donald E.

Fulfilling the Sacred Trust explores the implementation of international accountability for dependent territories under the United Nations during the early Cold War era.

This study explores the Taiwan issue from the three perspectives of Beijing, Taipei, and Washington since Taiwan leader Lee Teng-hui's visit to Cornell University in 1995.

This book, first published in 1963, discusses the events of the Paris Peace Conference- the meeting of Allied victors following the end of World War I to set peace terms.

This book reinterprets the history of international human rights by arguing that the 1960s were crucial to their breakthrough.

Egypt Land is the first comprehensive analysis of the connections between constructions of race and representations of ancient Egypt in nineteenth-century America.

This book explores the emerging EU-China relationship with a focus on the impact of the Belt and Road Initiative.

In 1945, both the U.