Diplomacy

This book sheds light on the complexities of the European Union's (EU) influence in a world dominated by global power politics.

Shedding new light on how U.

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 book examines the history of Herbert Hoover's Commission for Relief in Belgium, which supplied humanitarian aid to the millions of civilians trapped behind German lines in Belgium and Northern France during World War I.

"e;Diplomacy Between the Wars"e; is a detailed inside story of diplomacy seen through the careers of five remarkable career diplomatists.

Israel''s Armor provides a foundational history of the Israel lobby and its influence on American foreign policy.

Bringing together historians of US foreign relations and scholars of Iranian studies, American-Iranian Dialogues examines the cultural connections between Americans and Iranians from the constitutional period of the 1890s through to the start of the White Revolution in the 1960s.

Remembering the Cold War examines how, more than two decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Cold War legacies continue to play crucial roles in defining national identities and shaping international relations around the globe.

While diplomacy is a well-established topic for study, global governance is a relatively new arrival to the conceptual landscape of international relations.

In 1803, the United States purchased 828,000 square miles of land from France at a price of approximately three cents per acre, dramatically altering the young nation's geography and its political future.

Discusses how deeply held beliefs guide American foreign policy and identifies the foundations of those beliefs, explaining how they have inspired poor strategic decisions in Washington.

South Africa is still the major-player in African diplomacy, its military resources far outstripping those of other nations on the continent.

This book is about how China strives to rebuild its soft power through communication.

Days of Decision spans a century of American foreign policymaking, from the Spanish- American War of 1898 to the attacks of September 11, 2001.

The book examines diplomatic immunity and provides a historical analysis of the granting of diplomatic immunity to non-diplomats, based on the perspectives of several states.

After World War II, American statesman and scholar Lincoln Gordon emerged as one of the key players in the reconstruction of Europe.

Border fixity-the proscription of foreign conquest and the annexation of homeland territory-has, since World War II, become a powerful norm in world politics.

This book is the first collection of state-of-the-art research projects analyzing water conflict and cooperation with an explicitly theoretical point of view.

This book explores the meaning of peace according to (some of) the people who make it.

Steamship Nationalism is a cultural, social, and political history of the S.

Are nuclear weapons useful for coercive diplomacy?

This book examines the career of Sir Orme Sargent, one of the most important and distinguished British diplomats of the twentieth century.

The book delves into the intricate interplay between health resilience and governance in the context of India, providing a thorough examination of critical domestic and international issues.

The Afghan Syndrome (1982) analyses and interprets the 1979 Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan and also examines its effects on America, China, India, Pakistan and other Islamic nations.

Neue Kommunikationsformen und neue Akteure verändern die internationalen Beziehungen.

Exchange programs are often considered to create goodwill for host countries among foreign citizens - yet is this the case?

This book explores Chinese soft power and public diplomacy, and the way that it has played out in the context of the US-China relationship.

This book seeks to launch a new research agenda for the historiography of Dutch foreign relations during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This book explores the growing importance of subnational diplomacy by examining the state of California.

Never before has the call for good governance been greater.

Fostering a transatlantic renaissance to salvage the Western allianceIs the Western alliance, which brought together the United States and Europe after World War II, in an inevitable state of decline, and if so, can anything be done to repair it?

The pursuit of energy security and climate action is inextricably linked to the intricate web of geopolitical dynamics.

A Brookings Institution Press and the Center for International Security and Cooperation publicationWhat role should nuclear weapons play in today's world?

The need to negotiate effectively with India is only growing as its power rises.

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

This book states that burden-sharing is one of the most persisting sources for tension and disagreement within NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation).

Now in its fifth edition, Origins of the Cold War 1941-1949 covers the formative years of the momentous struggle that developed between two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union.

After more than a decade of great effort and sacrifice by America and its allies, the Taliban still has not been defeated, and many Afghans believe that a civil war is coming.

After the Party is the explosive story of the power struggles dominating South African politics and a crucial analysis of the ANC's record in power.

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How does migration feature in states' diplomatic agendas across the Middle East?

In foreign policy, the Trump administration has appeared to depart from long-standing norms of international behavior that have underwritten American primacy for decades in a more interdependent and prosperous world.

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?

Covering the development of the Cold War from the mid-twentieth century to the present day, The Cold War 1949-2016 explores the struggle for world domination that took place between the United States and the Soviet Union following the Second World War.

Differing interpretations of the history of the United Nations on the one hand conceive of it as an instrument to promote colonial interests while on the other emphasize its influence in facilitating self-determination for dependent territories.

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