Diplomacy

This volume explores the governance of the transforming Arctic from an international perspective.

The leaders and bureaucrats of China have actively attended, initiated, promoted or made skilful use of regional multilateral political, economic, and security institutions to accelerate regional cooperation and integration with neighboring states, convince Asian states that China's rise will not threaten the regional order and their national interests, and exploit its role and diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific as a launch pad for greater influence in world affairs.

This volume brings together some of the most significant papers on international conflict mediation by Professor Jacob Bercovitch, one of the leading scholars in the field.

This book reinforces the need to understand the sources of global change that is taking place and to accommodate it in the world political, social, and economic systems.

By delving into the history of geopolitics and bringing us up to date with cutting-edge case studies looking at infrastructure, terrain, and maps, this book will dispel simplistic and misleading notions about the nature of how humans interact with the environment.

This book examines the continuities and substantial transformations in Greek foreign policy before the beginning and during the unfolding of the economic crisis.

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

In A Necessary Engagement, the CIA's former point man on Islam makes a vigorous case for a renewal of American public diplomacy in the Muslim world.

This book addresses head-on a core current critique of how the Sino-American relationship was managed across eight administrations.

Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as Americans increasingly came into contact with the Islamic world, U.

Elbridge Durbrow served as the third United States ambassador to the Republic of Vietnam from 1957 to 1961.

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

India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, left behind a legacy of both great achievements and surprising defeats.

Canada is a key member of the world's most important international intelligence-sharing partnership, the Five Eyes, along with the US, the UK, New Zealand, and Australia.

Nations have powerful reasons to get their military alliances right.

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

Alongside war, there has always been diplomacy; alongside the warlord, the diplomat seeking a nonmilitary solution.

In January 1981, just days before Jimmy Carter left the White House, many of the president's officials were well satisfied with the administration's campaign to promote human rights.

Since the 1990s, the American government has under prioritized the North Korean threat to global security, according to Bruce Bechtol, an associate professor of political science at Angelo State University.

Wages of Appeasement explores the reasons why a powerful state gives in to aggressors.

Since its inception, al Qaeda has aspired to create a safe haven in Yemen,where it has operated against U.

Days of Decision spans a century of American foreign policymaking, from the Spanish- American War of 1898 to the attacks of September 11, 2001.

There have been numerous attempts to engage the United Nations in a meaningful campaign against state-supported and other terrorist activities.

How do Arabs view America?

When Peter J.

First Published in 1984, The Special Relationship between West Germany and Israel stresses the uniqueness of the historical ties between Germans and Jews, but attempts to set the implementation of post war German - Israeli policy relations in the context of a general theory of bilateral ties between states.

National security affairs analyst Ehud Eilam examines the strategy of containment in the Middle East as it is currently pursued.

Donald E.

First Published in 1985, Turkey and the West critically examines the likely costs and benefits of closer Turkish relations with the West.

First Published in 1985, Turkey and the West critically examines the likely costs and benefits of closer Turkish relations with the West.

Survival, the bi-monthly publication from The International Institute for Strategic Studies, is a leading forum for analysis and debate of international and strategic affairs.

This book offers a comprehensive review of the Communist Party of China's approach to diplomacy, through an extensive evaluation of the major practices and theories behind the Party's diplomacy, with its main achievements in its 90 years of diplomacy highlighted.

What were the new People's Republic of China's policies to the Universal Postal Union in its early years?

This edited volume explores European cultural diplomacy, a topic of growing interest across the scholarly and applied public policy communities in recent years.

This book is the first attempt to comprehensively introduce Japanese geopolitics.

This book examines the evolution and major elements of China's Belt-and-Road Initiative (BRI), a trillion-dollar project for the revival and refinement of ancient terrestrial and maritime trade routes.

This book explores how BRICS countries respond to, and get involved in, large scale armed conflict.

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

This book examines the South China Sea territorial disputes from the perspective of international order.

This edited volume focuses on the development and conflict prevention mechanism of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS.

"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 Palgrave Pivot presents a comprehensive introduction along with four essays on the institution of the American presidency, reflecting on broad implications for American political culture and practice.

This book studies the cultural, societal, and ideological factors absent from popular discourse on Vladimir Putin's Russia, contesting the misleading mainstream assumption that Putin is the all-powerful sovereign of Russia.

In foreign policy, the Trump administration has appeared to depart from long-standing norms of international behavior that have underwritten American primacy for decades in a more interdependent and prosperous world.

This book analyses determinants and the evolution of Poland's foreign and security policy in the changing international order.

This book analyses the UN's Agenda 2030 and reveals that progress is lagging on all five interlocking and interdependent themes that are discussed: conflict prevention, development, peace, justice and human rights.

Russian public diplomacy attracts growing attention in the current global climate of tension and competition.

This book explores the EU's effectiveness as an international mediator and provides a comparative analysis of EU mediation through three case studies: the conflict over Montenegro's independence, the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia, and the Geneva International Discussions on South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

This volume brings together senior practitioners and academic specialists to consider how the EU's new foreign policy has been evolving and how the various actors are maintaining the holistic approach intended by the draftsmen of the 2009 Lisbon Treaty.