Diplomacy

This book offers a range of perspectives on the Africa-China partnership in the context of the Forum on China and Africa Cooperation (FOCAC).

United Nations Peacekeeping in Africa provides an exploration of United Nations military intervention in Africa, from its beginnings in the Congo in 1960 to the new operations of the twenty-first century.

Diplomacy is a neglected aspect of Hellenistic history, despite the fact that war and peace were the major preoccupations of the rulers of the kingdoms of the time.

This book reveals the nature of Sino-US strategic competition by examining the influence exerted by major secondary stakeholders, e.

In the 21st century, new kinds of challenges resulting from interdependence among states and globalization have had a determining impact of the conduct of diplomacy.

This book focuses on the increasing contest and limited cooperation between India and China in Southeast Asia, which is beyond their shared border.

Explore the numerous paradoxes at the heart of the theory and practice of democracy promotion.

This book examines the contention that current US-Russia relations have descended into a 'New Cold War'.

In Mr Rajaratnam's words Lee Khoon Choy "e;possesses in great measure the qualities necessary to make a good ambassador"e;.

Preventive Diplomacy (PD) has been recognized as a useful tool to address security issues in the Asia-Pacific region.

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

This book explores the struggles over the mediated construction and projection of the image of the nation at times of social unrest.

Diplomat and raconteur Zalman Shoval leads readers behind the closed doors of Jerusalem and Washington in this memoir, into the rooms where prime ministers and presidents made decisions about the first Gulf War, the fate of Jonathan Pollard, the role of the PLO, and Israel's responses to international criticism and hostilities.

For over four years, Washington responded to war in Bosnia by handing the problem to the Europeans to resolve and substituting high-minded rhetoric for concerted action.

Shows how migration influenced American foreign policy in Cuban-American relations during the Cold War.

This edited book explores the multi-layered relationships between public diplomacy and intensified uncertainties stemming from transnational political trends.

Leading scholars and policymakers explore how history influences foreign policy and offer insights on how the study of the past can more usefully serve the present.

Providing perspectives from five Western capitals, this multinational study examines the formidable political and structural conditions for effective collaboration between NATO and the United Nations in performing peace-making and peacekeeping missions.

Although many observers argue that US-Russia relations are a simple reflection of elites' political and economic preferences in both countries, these preferences tend to arise from pre-existing belief systems that are deeply rooted in the public and accentuated by mass media.

Heightened tensions in the South China Sea have raised serious concerns about the dangers of conflict in this region as a result of unresolved, complex territorial disputes.

An insider's account of the often-fraught U.

This is a dangerous time-the international system is teetering, jolted by a raging pandemic, climate change, income inequality, cyber threats, terrorism, authoritarian regimes, nationalist demagogues, and frightened and impatient publics.

The purpose of this book is to project diplomacy as an unavoidable instrument for monitoring, prevention and control of health and disaster risks among African countries.

This collection of essays delves into issues associated with British foreign policy in the ten years that Headlam-Morley worked with the Foreign Office in early twentieth century Britain.

In September 1978, William Quandt, a member of the White House National Security Council staff, spent thirteen momentous days at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland, where three world leaders were holding secret negotiations.

The exact legacies of the two Hague Peace Conferences remain unclear.

In the 1980s, Britain actively engaged with China in order to promote globalisation and manage Hong Kong's decolonisation.

This textbook deals with the Middle East conflict as a key element of international relations.

A definitive new account of the catalytic events of July 1914 that led to the outbreak of the First World War.

This volume draws together the many discrete studies of tolerance to create a global and comprehensive synthesis.

The late Israeli Foreign Minister, Prime Minister and President Shimon Peres was a towering figure in Israeli and Middle Eastern politics.

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

Historically, the relationship between India and Pakistan has been mired in conflicts, war, and lack of trust.

This study tells the story of the strategic nuclear forces deployed to England by the United States from the late 1940s, and details the secret agreement made to launch atomic strikes against the USSR.

This book aims to build the ideal model of China's grand strategy framework, which is based on three key variables: national power, strategic concept and international institution.

An exciting and richly detailed new history of the Silk Road that tells how it became more important as a route for diplomacy than for tradeThe King's Road offers a new interpretation of the history of the Silk Road, emphasizing its importance as a diplomatic route, rather than a commercial one.

The period from the outset of World War I to the end of World War II was among the most significant in the history of the United States.

Between 2003 and 2010, under President Lula, Celso Amorim was at the forefront of an important period in the history of Brazil's international relations-one in which the country practiced a newly assertive foreign policy, extending its diplomatic reach to the global stage.

A Brookings Institution Press and the Center for Global Development publicationThe plight of the poorest around the world has been pushed to the forefront of America's international agenda for the first time in many years by the war on terrorism and the formidable challenges presented by the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

From cooperation to a new cold war: is this the future for today's two great powers?

For two Americans in Saigon in 1963, the personal and the political combine to spark the drama of a lifetime Before it spread into a tragic war that defined a generation, the conflict in Vietnam smoldered as a guerrilla insurgency and a diplomatic nightmare.

Die Studie liefert einen innovativen Beitrag zur Komplexitätsforschung in den Internationalen Beziehungen und deren Beschäftigung mit bilateralen Beziehungen.

Averting Global War examines major regional disputes and conflicts throughout the world as they impact upon both American domestic and foreign policy.

Despite the ongoing drawdown of strategic forces under the terms of START, both the United States and Russia maintain large arsenals of nuclear weapons poised for immediate launch.

In 1965, fed up with President Lyndon Johnson's refusal to make serious diplomatic efforts to end the Vietnam War, a group of female American peace activists decided to take matters into their own hands by meeting with Vietnamese women to discuss how to end U.