Diplomacy

Mediation is one of the most important management strategies in international relations, yet it has been the focus of relatively little scholarship.

This book takes a somewhat different view of international or diplomatic history by concentrating on the more profound elements of sino-foreign relations, namely the economic and the commercial, especially with regard to Britain and France.

This collection of articles examines mediation in a range of situations including international relations, informal mediation by private individuals and by scholars and practitioners, as well as the superpowers as mediators.

This book deals with the relations of the Jewish Agency and the State of Israel with the Lebanese Maronites in the period 1920-1984.

Exploring the 'promise' and 'peril' associated with the opening two years of the presidency of Barack Obama, this book is a comparative look at the various aspects of his presidential strategy including the impact of his legislative agenda, his use of executive power, and the burgeoning disillusionment within the African American community.

This book fills a gap in the literature on coercion and assesses the usefulness of coercive diplomacy in the post-Cold war era.

This book is about Europe's apparent inability to cope with the complex international environment.

Experts from academia, governments, think tanks, NGOs, trade unions, and business investigate whether the public should play a greater role in foreign policy making by analysing their current role in the Iraq war (USA), Post-Apartheid (South Africa), trade relations with China (New Zealand) and other cases.

Formulating a strategy involves complex interactions between politicians, strategic commanders and generals in the field.

Recreating the diplomatic career of Jack Garnett, from 1902-1919, John Fisher reveals a fascinating individual as well as contextualizing his story with regard to British policy in the countries to which he was posted in Europe, Asia, Africa and South America, during a period of rapid change in international politics and in Britain's world role.

Bringing together both contemporary and historical just war concepts, Peter Lee shows that Blair's illusion of morality evaporated quickly and irretrievably after the 2003 Iraqinvasion because the ideas Blair relied upon were taken out of their historical context and applied in a global political system where they no longer hold sway.

In the context of the financial and economic crisis, corporate governance and regulatory supervision failures, Laura Horn investigates one of the defining questions in social power relations in contemporary capitalism: who controls the modern corporation, and why.

Addressing the impact of the Russian Revolution and change and continuity in diplomacy during the transition from Empire to Soviet Union, this book examines how Russia's diplomacy was conducted, the diplomats behind it, the establishment of the Soviet diplomatic corps and the steps taken to integrate the Soviets into the diplomatic world.

This book examines the role of everyday action in accepting, resisting and reshaping interventions, and the unique forms of peace that emerge from the interactions between local and international actors.

EU law consists of several thousand acts of which the overwhelming majority are made by the Commission.

To date, the Heath-Nixon years have been widely portrayed as marking a low-point in the history of Anglo-American relations - even the end of the 'special relationship'; using a wealth of archival material on both sides of the Atlantic, and examining a range of global developments, Allies Apart offers a fresh interpretation of this pivotal period.

An empirical assessment of whether participatory governance reforms within the EU enhance or endanger democracy.

Viewing the rise of China from Japan's perspective, the author elucidates Japanese policy responses and their implications for regional institution building.

This book looks at Chinese policy towards the South Pacific in the context of China's grand strategy.

Why and how did Japan Table Tennis Association President Goto Koji invite China to participate in the World Table Tennis Championships in Nagoya, Japan, in 1971 (the Nagoya World's)?

During the first decade of the twenty-first century, the United States increasingly has relaxed its regulatory posture in the face of critical challenges to public health and the environment.

Neither a case study of a particular genocide nor a work of comparative genocide, this book explores the political constraints and imperatives that motivate debates about genocide in the academic world and, to a lesser extent, in the political arena.

This book brings together for the first time a large collection of essays (including three new ones) of a leading writer on diplomacy.

This book presents an overview of psycho-social research on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, presents and analyzes people-to-people activities in the region, and offers new conceptualizations for Israeli-Palestinian co-creation of a grassroots peace and social justice processes.

In the aftermath of the financial crisis, Cooper locates the WTO-focused struggle between the US and the very small island state of Antigua on Internet gambling in the wider International Political Economy.

A novel explanation of how EU member states overcome their divergent preferences to reach agreement on common foreign policies, with fourteen in-depth case studies covering diplomatic and security issues, enlargement, trade, development and environmental protection.

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

This book shows how domestic political institutions and the lack of time pressure have an impact on negotiations at the WTO.

Regional cooperation has become a distinctive feature of the Balkans, an area known for its turbulent politics.

Sustainable Diplomacies looks at how to create conditions for the reconciliation of rival ways of living, the formation of durable relationships and the promotion of global peace and security.

Scholars and policymakers in EU foreign policy lament the EU's inability to assert itself on the world stage.

Taking insights and controversies from feminist political theory, Lu looks to illuminate alternative images of 'sovereignty as privacy' and 'sovereignty as responsibility', and to identify new challenges arising from the increased agency of private global civil society, and their relationship with the world of states.

Fifteen years after the first Summit of the Americas, the world and the Americas have changed enormously.

Contributors offer new approaches to the study of the European Neighbourhood Policy.

Hugh Miall draws upon conflict theory, case studies of averted conflict and a survey of the preventors of war since 1945 to explore how some conflict can be avoided at times of great social or political change.

Britain's rarely-examined, nineteenth-century diplomatic efforts for abolition took contemporary pre-eminence over most questions and almost sparked war with France in 1845.

What role, if any, does the foreign ministry perform in contemporary world politics?

This study of the Greek-Turkish Aegean dispute book shows that the dispute is resolvable and that the crux of the problem is not the incompatibility of interests but the mutual fears and suspicions, which are deeply rooted in historical memories, real or imagined.

An analysis of the German Question's influence on the origins of the Cold War, arguing that the legal and diplomatic intercourse between the Allies regarding the treatment of the German Question brought forward the elements of intervention and coexistence which formed the basis for a relatively peaceful postwar international order.

This methodical analysis of Greece's strategy towards Turkey highlights important new findings about the role particular elements of a state's strategic culture play in explaining major and/or minor shifts in strategy.

This book examines how the International Monetary Fund engages in the politics of ideas to shape domestic institutional change.

Critics question the representativeness of NGOs, the democratic quality of their internal procedures, and their accountability to the wider public.

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

Katsumata demonstrates that something interesting is taking place inside the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF).

What are the achievements, the limits and the failures of the EU's involvement in the Arab-Israeli conflict?

This is an in-depth analysis of the various methods used by small states to overcome their vulnerabilities in the international arena.

The right to individual and collective self-defense in international law and politics has always been a controversial issue.

The book explores the role of new modes of governance in helping future member states to cope with their accession to the EU.

This book is the first study of the role of British Ambassadors in shaping Anglo-American relations during the first generation of the 'special relationship'.

This volume outlines the methods appropriate to an English School understanding of international relations and their assumptions about how knowledge of the social is gained.