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Examines the impact of anti-base movements on base politics and the role bilateral alliance relationships play in shaping movement outcomes.

In the past two decades, many have posited a correlation between the spread of globalization and the decline of the nation-state.

There is widespread agreement that status or standing in the international system is a critical element in world politics.

This book explores the consequences of retreat and retrenchment in foreign policy which threaten America''s own security.

Coalition Management and Escalation Control in a Multinuclear World examines the impact of new technologies on twenty-first-century crisis management and armed conflict, as well as the unprecedented number and types of actors involved in current and potential flash-points.

Canada's role on the world stage has increased dramatically since the middle of the twentieth century.

Anglo-Chinese Encounters Before the Opium War: A Tale of Two Empires Over Two Centuries studies the fascinating encounters between the two historic empires from Queen Elizabeth I's first letter to the Ming Emperor Wanli in 1583, to Lord Palmerston's letter to the Minister of China in 1840.

The newly born League of Nations confronted the post-WWI world-from growing stateless populations to the resurgence of right-wing movements-by aiming to create a transnational, cosmopolitan dialogue on justice.

Leading scholars demonstrate how colonial subjects, national liberation movements, and empires mobilized human rights language to contest self-determination during decolonization.

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.

Carter envisioned his Soviet policy moving along two interdependent tracks that should have formed a "e;virtuous circle"e;.

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

This work presents a new approach to the problem of the constitution of the Witenagemot, and one which has produced interesting and valuable results.

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

Challenges the assumption of the rationality of foreign policy makers in international relations, showing how leaders systematically vary in the rationality of their thinking.

Theories of international relations, assumed to be universally applicable, have failed to explain the creation of states in Africa.

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

A fascinating history of China's relations with the West-told through the lives of two eighteenth-century translatorsThe 1793 British embassy to China, which led to Lord George Macartney's fraught encounter with the Qianlong emperor, has often been viewed as a clash of cultures fueled by the East's lack of interest in the West.

Intelligence and Espionage: Secrets and Spies provides a global introduction to the role of intelligence - a key, but sometimes controversial, aspect of ensuring national security.

India and Pakistan will be among the most important countries in the twenty-first century.

This book explores how the EU, as an international actor, is adapting to recent transformations in the multilateral system.

Citizens in our deeply, angrily divided world desperately need peaceful and productive ways of relating to each other.

The last decades of the seventeenth century were marked by persistent, bloody conflicts between the French and their Native allies on the one side and the Iroquois confederacy on the other.

America and China are the two most powerful players in global affairs, and no relationship is more consequential.

This book looks at the historical and political dynamics of the Sino-Indian border dispute in India's Himalayan Frontiers.

In Challenges in Intelligence Analysis, first published in 2010, Timothy Walton offers concrete, reality-based ways to improve intelligence analysis.

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

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

The renowned economist and New York Times-bestselling author presents a "e;succinct and sophisticated"e; account of Western economic decline (Paul Collier, The Observer).

The text aims to uncover the roots of the United States' near perpetual involvement in war since the beginning of WWI in 1914.

A timely investigation into the conditions that make international agreements-and the institutions that enforce them-vulnerable.

Modern warfare is almost always multilateral to one degree or another, requiring countries to cooperate as allies or coalition partners.

In March 1961 America’s most prominent journalist, Edward R.

Why does an officer in an elite regiment - the Grenadier Guards - exchange a prestigious and privileged career in the British Army for service among desert tribes in harsh and unforgiving territory, and in the seemingly insoluble conflict of the turbulent Arab world?

This book concerns Bernadotte, the Swedish diplomat who was appointed the UN mediator in Palestine in 1948 and initiated the "e;Bernadotte Plans"e;.

Evan Potter analyses how the federal government has used the instruments of public diplomacy - cultural programs, international education, international broadcasting, trade, and investment promotion - to exercise Canada's soft power internationally.

Cosmopolitan Dystopia shows that rather than populists or authoritarian great powers it is cosmopolitan liberals who have done the most to subvert the liberal international order.

An insightful exploration of intelligence cooperation (officially known as liaison), including its international dimensions.

This book tackles the pressing need to expand the vision of strategic US public diplomacy.

The AWACS debate represents one of the most critical and controversial events in the history of American diplomacy and legislative politics.

A dense web of private associations drawn from multiple social classes, interest groups and value communities makes for a firm foundation for strong democracy.

Taking a comparative approach and bringing together perspectives from Japan, China, Korea, and Taiwan, this volume considers former Japanese prime minister Tomiichi Murayama's 1995 apology statement, the height of Japan's post-war apology, and examines its implications for memory, international relations, and reconciliation in Asia.

The threat of terror, which flares in Africa and Indonesia, has given the problem of failed states an unprecedented immediacy and importance.

Anyone interested in South Asian security and U.