Diplomacy

Introduction to Global Politics, Fourth Edition, is an accessible, comprehensive, and well-written introductory textbook which emphasizes the evolution of major global issues from the past to the present.

This is the first book-length study of the role that friendship plays in diplomacy and international politics.

This book examines the strategic implications of fragmented global governance by institutions for African states and their coalitions.

The division of Korea in August 1945 was one of the most consequential foreign policy decisions of the twentieth century.

A fresh account of the US presidential rhetoric embodied in Cold War international travel.

In the Cold War era, the confrontation between capitalism and communism played out not only in military, diplomatic, and political contexts, but also in the realm of culture-and perhaps nowhere more so than the cultural phenomenon of sports, where the symbolic capital of athletic endeavor held up a mirror to the global contest for the sympathies of citizens worldwide.

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

During four decades of fast-paced economic growth, China's ascent has reverberated across the full social spectrum, from international relations to technology, from trade to global health, from academia to climate change.

Political risk now affects more markets and countries than ever before and that risk will continue to rise.

Integrating theory and case studies, this cogent text explores the processes and factors that shape foreign policy.

Considers war initiation, wartime politics, war policies and war termination through the complex roles played by citizen wartime casualties.

"e;"e;Future presidents will need to find the right balance in China policy, so as to maintain America's strength and watchfulness but not fall into the classic security dilemma, wherein each side believes that growing capabilities reflect hostile intent and responds by producing that reality.

Power Plays argues that international institutions prevent extortion in some areas, but cause states to shift coercive behavior into less effective policy domains.

History is being made in U.

This book explores the pitfalls and bottlenecks of viewing the Arctic from a mere scientific prism and offers recommendations to approach it from a strategic construct and climate change by strengthening bilateral and multilateral cooperation with the Arctic states and the Arctic intergovernmental organisations.

The War Ledger provides fresh, sophisticated answers to fundamental questions about major modern wars: Why do major wars begin?

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If you ever wondered who becomes an American ambassador and why, this is the book for you.

The Compendium of World Sovereigns series contains three volumes: Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern.

The book probes major security and governance trends in Africa's Great Lakes region since the 1990s.

The Macedonian Question - the struggle for control over a territory with historically ill-defined borders and conflicting national identities - is one of the most intractable problems in modern Balkan history.

What role does identity play in foreign policy?

In recent decades Russia has played an increasingly active role in the Middle East as states within the region continue to diversify their relations with major external powers.

Building, or re-building, states after war or crisis is a contentious process.

History is being made in U.

This book is the record of interviews conducted on Former President of Taiwan Lee Teng-hui's subconscious [guardian spirit] in February 2014.

This international history of the origins of ''cold war'' in postwar Europe examines the complex relationship between the United States and Italy.

The Kashmir issue is typically cast as a "e;territorial dispute"e; between two belligerent neighbors in South Asia.

In 1899 the United States, having announced its arrival as a world power during the Spanish-Cuban-American War, inaugurated a brutal war of imperial conquest against the Philippine Republic.

This book brings together a unique team of academics and practitioners to analyse interests, institutions, and issues affecting and affected by the transition from Asia-Pacific to Indo-Pacific.

This book addresses one of the most pressing geopolitical inquiries of our era: how will China's ambition manifest on the global stage?

This book assesses the diplomatic path of influence taken by German decision-makers during the early nineties in pursuit of their cautiously articulated interest in and commitment to the eastward enlargement of NATO.

Why did the Russian take-over of Crimea come as a surprise to so many observers in the academic, practitioner and global-citizen arenas?

The 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations has for over 50 years been central to diplomacy and applied to all forms of relations among sovereign States.

This is the first published study of the political negotiations in Ireland in 1992.

Memorialised as a US heroine and an iconoclastic humanitarian who sought to protect society's marginalised, Eleanor Roosevelt also, at times, disappointed contemporaries and biographers with some of her stances.

This book explains the increasingly turbulent Sino-Japanese relations since the 2000s by innovatively investigating the formation mechanism of mutual misperception deeply rooted in China-Japan-U.

This book explores the possibility and feasibility of building a new model of major-country relations between China and the United States, which is of great significance to the sound interaction between the two countries and the preservation of peace and stability of the world.

This collection of essays offers a fresh look at the 1970s, the crucial decade when the nuclear non-proliferation regime took shape.

Public diplomacy has become one of the most discussed phrases in political science.

The National Basketball Association (NBA), founded over 75 years ago, is staging a 21st century takeover.

Frequent instances of intervention in current world affairs have threatened the status of nonintervention as a rule of international relations.