Diplomacy

Explaining The Iraq War provides an original critique of conventional explanations of the Iraq War.

One of Singapore's top diplomats, Bilahari Kausikan was the Institute of Policy Studies' (IPS) 2015/16 S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore.

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

This book looks at Israeli-Palestinian relations through three different conceptual lenses: the individual decision-maker, domestic politics, and the international system.

Despite the long-held and jealously guarded ASEAN principle of non-intervention, this book argues that states in Southeast Asia have begun to display an increasing readiness to think about sovereignty in terms not only of state responsibility to their own populations but also towards neighbouring countries as well.

Available in paperback for the first time, this book assesses the strains within the 'Special Relationship' between London and Washington and offers a new perspective on the limits and successes of British influence during the Korean War.

Bits and Atoms explores the governance potential found in the explosive growth of digital information and communication technology in areas of limited statehood.

In this examination of Union and Confederate foreign relations during the Civil War from both European and American perspectives, Howard Jones demonstrates that the consequences of the conflict between North and South reached far beyond American soil.

This book analyses international relations between the USA, China, and Russia and provides an overview of how the US-China-Russia triangle has evolved over time.

This book examines the League of Nations, state-supported terrorism, and British foreign policy after the rise of Hitler in the 1930s.

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Developing an original approach, this book examines how both nationalism and climate change threaten humankind with future catastrophes, arguing that humanity is on a fast track to a dystopian future unless significant changes are implemented.

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

The response of an autocratic nation's armed forces is crucial to the outcome of democratization movements throughout the world.

The work draws on wide-ranging area analysis to develop inductively new concepts and approaches for further use in explanation and application.

This book studies and comprehends the strategic concept of the Belt and Road and presents China's glorious achievements in the field of diplomacy from five aspects, namely 'build a community of shared future for mankind', 'build new type of international relations taking win-win cooperation as core', 'practice the right view of rightness and benefit', 'lead the reform of global governance system', and 'promote the strategic concept of the Belt and Road'.

This book examines media coverage and public diplomacy regarding the North Korea nuclear controversy, with a focus on the history of military and diplomatic efforts to resolve tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

The Handbook introduces to readers (accessibly for specialist and non-specialist scholars, students and layman audiences) the diverse universe of non-state actors (NSAs) that have played or are currently playing a significant role in the context of East-West relations (from 1945 to the present).

Major changes in Burma's political situation since 2016 have raised questions concerning the appropriateness of U.

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

The year 1973 is usually considered the great equaliser among major oil producers.

Self-determination, imported into the Middle East on the heels of World War I, held out the promise of democratic governance to the former territories of the Ottoman Empire.

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

This book brings together up-to-date research from prominent international scholars in a collaborative exploration of the Japan's efforts to shape Asia's rapidly shifting regional order.

This book explores the relationship between diplomatic discourse and the Olympic Movement, charting its continuity and change from an historical perspective.

This book analyzes the relations between two geographical areas with different levels of regional institutionalization: the European Union and Latin America.

Transnational Broadcasting in the Indo-Pacific brings together research spanning journalism, broadcast and political science to interrogate the issues arising from a rapidly changing global political and broadcast environment.

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Two centuries ago, Europe emerged from one of the greatest crises in its history.

Using extensive documentation, this book examines how President Jimmy Carter's troop withdrawal and human rights policies conceived in abstraction from East Asian realities contributed to the demise of Korean President Park Chung Hee.

The history of international thought is a flourishing field, but it has tended to focus on Anglo-American realist and liberal thinkers.

Bookended by remarks from African American diplomats Walter C.

An exploration of how ethical behaviour in international affairs advances national security.

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.

This cutting edge collection focuses on the nature of civil society and its role in facilitating governance in Central Asia, considering local implications related to the concept of social capital and civil society in the Uzbek context.

During the Cold War, thousands of musicians from the United States traveled the world, sponsored by the U.

What were the calculations made by the US and its major allies in the 1960s when they faced the signing of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)?

Authoritarian states work hard to manage their images abroad.

Postwar Journeys: American and Vietnamese Transnational Peace Efforts since 1975 tells the story of the dynamic roles played by ordinary American and Vietnamese citizens in their postwar quest for peacean effort to transform their lives and their societies.

The End of French Rule in Cameroon is a study of the decolonization movement in Cameroon.

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.

In The Bush Agenda, Antonia Juhasz exposes a radical corporate globalization agenda that has been refined by leading members and allies of the Bush administration over decades and reached its fullest, most aggressive implementation under George W.

This study examines the record of French and EU interactions with China, Japan and Vietnam in the areas of economic exchanges, political security relations and human rights to establish if there has been a trend of converging 'European' politics and collective European conceptions of interest and identity.

The broad diplomatic production of George P.

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

This accessible collection examines twelve historic events in the international relations of East Asia.

Lebanon's significance to the Middle East and the global arena is greater than its small size suggests - bordering Israel and Syria, it holds a geo-strategic role as the playing field for their competition as well as for their allies, America and Iran.

When and why do powerful countries seek to enact major changes to international order, the broad set of rules that guide behavior in world politics?