Diplomacy

In this book, Mayumi Itoh presents a comprehensive and in-depth examination of China's first Premier Zhou Enlai's youth in Japan, where he received his enlightenment in Marxism from the Japanese scholar Kawakami Hajime.

This book, in its effort to formulate compatibility between Islamic law and the principles of international diplomatic law, argues that the need to harmonize the two legal systems and have a thorough cross-cultural understanding amongst nations generally with a view to enhancing unfettered diplomatic cooperation should be of paramount priority.

China's exponential rise and America's relative decline have led to a transition of power in contemporary Asia.

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

This book explores new grounds that public diplomacy is entering today, as domestic publics come to the forefront of the policy - acting both as foreign policy constituencies and public diplomacy actors cooperating with their foreign counterparts.

This is the first book to tell the story of the diplomacy that has made the international trading system what it is today.

This book seeks to explain why weak states exist within the international system.

This book explores the revival under Edward VII of the ceremonial state visit by British monarchs, showing the impact and importance of active royal diplomacy during his reign.

Drawing together articles from the new online journal The Asan Forum, commissioned from leading experts in the USA, Japan, and South Korea, this book reconsiders what we thought we knew about the three legs of this alliance triangle.

This book presents reflections of prominent international peacemakers in the Middle East, including Jimmy Carter, Lakhdar Brahimi, Jan Eliasson, Alvaro de Soto, and others.

How will a unified Korea respond to the Kim regime's crimes against humanity?

Today, by many accounts, China is the world's foremost purveyor of foreign aid and foreign investment to developing countries.

Today, by many accounts, China is the world's foremost purveyor of foreign aid and foreign investment to developing countries.

Set against the backdrop of tensions in East Asia, this book analyzes how East Asia's "e;new middle powers"e; and emerging powers employ public diplomacy as a key element of their foreign policy strategy and in so doing influence regional power dynamics.

This book examines the growing interest by Asian states, which are normally considered as 'outsiders' in the Arctic governance system.

The central objective of this edited volume is to help unlock a set of intriguing puzzles relating to changing power dynamics in Eurasia, a region that is critically important in the changing international security landscape.

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.

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.

Offering a comprehensive, up-to-date examination of the complex web of wars and proxy wars, revolutions and counter-revolutions that are ripping the Middle East apart, this book puts these events in their historical context and leads readers through the labyrinth that is the new Middle East.

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

This book analyzes the ways in which US policy toward Iraq was dictated by America's broader Cold War strategy between 1958 and 1975.

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

Two major themes in contemporary international relations-Sino-European relations and global governance-are both addressed in this volume.

This edited volume revisits the idea of the Western Hemisphere.

Macro-regional strategies seek to improve the interplay of the EU with existing regimes and institutions, and foster coherence of transnational policies.

This book brings together twelve scholars six Americans and six Chinese to explore the ways America and China think about international order.

This volume is the result of a 2013 conference held by the Asan Institute for Policy Studies (South Korea) on the 'middle power' countries of Mexico, Indonesia, the Republic of Korea, Turkey and Australia (MIKTA).

This book addresses the complex origins of the Ukrainian crisis.

This book investigates relations between Israel, the Palestinian territories and the European Union by considering them as interlinked entities, with relations between any two of the three parties affecting the other side.

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.

A scholarly perspective of a soldier's own challenges working in the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS).

Over the last few years the Arctic has become a region of growing interest to the international community.

In the past generation, Brazil has risen to become the seventh largest economy and fourth largest democracy in the world.

Japan's Foreign Aid Policy in Africa seeks to evaluate TICAD's intellectual contribution to and its development practices regarding Africa over the past 20 years.

This volume details the evolution of Japan's foreign policy and its initiatives with respect to Central Asia.

The book presents a model of interaction effects between policymakers and the media which can shed light on the former's ability to enhance democratic legitimacy in foreign policy decision-making.

This book studies the reactions of India, Brazil, and South Africa the three main non-proliferation actors of the Global South to Iran's nuclear program.

Based on newly declassified documents, this book offers a provocative new analysis of President Jimmy Carter's political role in Arab-Israeli diplomacy.

The book analyzes Brazil's Africa engagement as a rising power's strategy to gain global recognition, linking it to Brazil's broader foreign policy objectives and shedding light on the mechanisms of Brazilian status-seeking in Africa.

European states and international organizations have established multiple policies and mechanisms to deal with various risks, crises and disasters.

Russia's place in the world as a powerful regional actor can no longer be denied; the question that remains concerns what this means in terms of foreign policy and domestic stability for the actors involved in the situation, as Russia comes to grips with its newfound sources of might.

This volume presents a contemporary analysis of the impact of China's rise on the Mekong Region at a critical point in Southeast Asian history.

US Foreign Policy and the Modernization of Iran examines the evolution of US-Iranian relations during the presidencies of John F.

The book provides the first comprehensive comparative analysis of the development of EU enlargement conditionality across four different enlargement waves - the first (2004) and the second (2007) phase of the Eastern enlargement, the EU enlargement to Croatia (2013), and the ongoing enlargement round involving Turkey and the Western Balkans.

The North Atlantic continues to be an area of international strategic significance regionally and globally.

This edited volume analyses the evolution and main determinants of Russia's foreign policy choices.

As a bridge between Europe and Asia, the West and the Middle East, Turkey sees its influence increasing.

This book examines the emergent conviction that UN robust peacekeeping works better than UN traditional peacekeeping in reducing civilian killings within contemporary post-cold war violent civil wars.

When the post-war relationship between Spain and America began, Hitler's old ally was an unlikely candidate for US influence.

The Napoleonic Empire played a crucial role in reshaping global landscapes and in realigning international power structures on a worldwide scale.