Diplomacy

Decades-long field research, investigate Chinese approach in Africa''s development, reinterpret classics on industrial capitalism, and reveal effects of non-linear synergism

This book examines Republican China's diplomatic strategies and engagement, and power reconfiguration in East Asia after 1914.

Why does 1919 deserve further study and debate a hundred years later?

Today, two politicians are criticized and compared to Hitler; President Vladimir Putin of Russia and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan.

Accompanying the oft-noted globalisation of international relations, there is an equally significant trend towards 'localisation' as a range of subnational constituencies and the authorities that represent them respond to externally-generated pressures on the one hand, and seek to exploit enhanced opportunities to operate in the international arena on the other.

Is the Armenian Genocide a strictly historical matter?

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.

In the Direction of the Persian Gulf (1977) analyses the Soviet Union's interest in the countries of the Persian Gulf against the background of its relations with the Arab world, and the complexities of power politics.

This book explores dance and choreography as sites for the articulation of new theoretical and historical paradigms in inter-Asia cultural studies.

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

This volume is the first comprehensive scholarly analysis of the strategic reconfiguration of Central Asia as Russia has become more disengaged from the nations in the region and as these nations have developed new relations to the south, east, and west.

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

In recent years, a number of European countries abolished national border controls in favor of Europe's external frontiers.

This volume examines the role of League of Nations committees, particularly the Advisory Committee of Jurists (ACJ) in shaping the statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice (PCIJ).

A 2024 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLEExploring how climate change has configured the international arena since the 1950s, this book reveals the ways that climate change emerged and evolved as an international problem, and how states, scientists and non-governmental organizations have engaged in diplomatic efforts to address it.

North Korea's Nuclear Cinema examines why and how North Korea has transitioned to an image-based nuclear power in the changing context of a post-Cold War world.

This book explores how Russia's War on Ukraine has changed the global nuclear order.

The Turkish-Armenian conflict has lasted for nearly a century and still continues in attenuated forms to poison the relationship between these two peoples.

History is being made in U.

Using a case study approach, Kay explores Canada's response to key issues such as the recognition of the new state of Israel, the status of Jerusalem, the Palestinian refugee problem, arms sales to Israel, particularly the sale of F-86s in 1956, and the Suez war.

A groundbreaking reevaluation of paleolithic art through the lens of modernism, from the acclaimed historian of art and architectureIn The Beginnings of Art, Sigfried Giedion, best known as a historian of architecture, shifts his attention to art and its very origins.

This volume is timely in that it explores key issues which are currently at the forefront of the EU's relations with its eastern neighbours.

This multidisciplinary volume examines the meaning of global conflict and cooperation by international actors that can be caused by dis- or misinformation to people and discusses how to build diplomacy for peace and regional cooperation.

This book presents the evolution of the field of foreign policy analysis and explains the theories that have structured research in this area over the last 50 years.

At a time when the international community is again threatening some countries with sanctions, this book comes as a warning.

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

In Kissinger and Latin America, Stephen G.

Many believe the solution to ongoing crises in the news industry--including profound financial instability and public distrust--is for journalists to improve their relationship with their audiences.

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

Providing a detailed examination of climate negotiations records since the 1990s, this book shows that, in addition to agreeing on climate policy frameworks, the negotiations process is of crucial importance to success.

A revelatory, behind-the-scenes account of Russian-American relations, from a former US ambassador and 'Obama's top White House advisor on Russia policy' (The New York Times)In 2008, when Michael McFaul was asked to leave his perch at Stanford and join President-elect Barack Obama's national security team, he had no idea that he would find himself at the beating heart of one of today's most contentious international relationships.

'We need to determine a foreign policy of our own - one that looks after Australia's interest in the new order; an order which will have China as its centre of gravity.

In February of 2011, Libyan citizens rebelled against Muammar Qaddafi and quickly unseated him.

This book is about the trajectory of Indo-Afghanistan relations and its setting in the multilateral global order especially the interplay of the super-powers and the regional powers along with the emerging humanitarian crisis along with India's concern and insecurity dilemma that emerged due to Taliban 2.

Using the case studies of Afghanistan, Iraq, Bosnia, Lebanon and Northern Ireland this book dissects internationally-supported peace interventions.

Questions about the viability of the Iraqi security forcesbrought into sharp focus by the U.

This book is a diplomatic history of Europe and the wider world over a period of 500 years, from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the early twenty-first century - with a crucial aspect.

Museum diplomacy has come to new prominence in the contemporary moment.

Deng Xiaoping is widely acknowledged as the principal architect of China's economic reforms, but how far was he also responsible for shaping China's foreign policy which emphasized "e;peace and development"e;?

How have the workings of the British civil service changed over the past forty years?

For over twenty-five years John Dickson served the United States as a Foreign Service officer in North America, South America, the Caribbean, and Africa.

Die Auflösung der europäischen Kolonialreiche und die Entstehung neuer unabhängiger Staaten in Afrika und Asien gehört zu den wichtigsten historischen Prozessen des 20.

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

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

This book introduces a new perspective on risk seeking behaviour, developing a framework based on various cognitive theories, and applying it to the specific case-study of Turkey's foreign policy toward Syria.

A History of the Manila Pact and the Southeast Asia Treaty Organisation (SEATO) from its establishment in 1954 until its dissolution in 1977.

Frances involvement in the American Civil War was critical to its unfolding, but the details of the European powers role remain little understood.