Diplomacy

This book investigates a phenomenon in world politics that is largely overlooked by scholars, namely entities lacking international recognition of their status as independent states.

This book provides an analysis of the European Neighbourhood Policy by focusing on the impact of norms of justice and home affairs on EU external relations.

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

In this book, American and Japanese experts examine to what extent diverging priorities in the U.

This book carefully examines the historical roots of contemporary Western prejudices against both Muslims and Turks, and presents an original theory of collective identity as dramatic re-enactment as a means of understanding the remarkable persistence of medieval stereotypes.

America s regional foreign policy priorities are shifting, toward Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa, and away from Europe and Russia.

Discussing the most pressing global challenges, this book suggests ways for the Obama Administration to tackle them in a holistic manner.

The conduct of public diplomacy is carried out as much abroad, by Foreign Service Officers (FSOs) stationed at U.

Why do Britain, France, and Italy provide or refuse military support for U.

This book discusses the question of soft power and public diplomacy challenges in East Asian context.

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

North Korea's foreign policy behavior has long intrigued scholars, puzzled laymen, frustrated negotiators, and aggravated policy-makers.

This book is an analysis and a set of tools of analysis to explain and understand why, when, where, and how the United States and its major NATO allies will agree or disagree on a collective policy regarding using military force abroad.

This book explores the evolution of international punishment from a natural law-based ground for the use of force and conquest to a series of jurisdictional and disciplinary practices in international law not previously seen as being conceptually related.

This book is devoted to Israel's asymmetric wars, those conducted against irregular armed groups that have attacked it.

The Lome Peace Accord, signed in 1999, presented significant implications, challenges, and possibilities for post-conflict Sierra Leone, but the literature on post-conflict Sierra Leone only scantily addresses these issues.

Why was NAFTA not extended, even after fulfilling several stated objectives?

In 60 years the nuclear tipped South Asian enduring rivals, India and Pakistan have fought four wars and were close to a fifth one in 2001.

Averting Global War examines major regional disputes and conflicts throughout the world as they impact upon both American domestic and foreign policy.

Following the disintegration of the Soviet bloc, many Central and Eastern European Countries launched a vigorous 'return to Europe' campaign, which primarily focused on accession to NATO and the European Union.

This work represents the first systematic study of Armenia's foreign policy during the post-independence period, between 1991 and 2005.

What role does identity play in foreign policy?

Japan and the Specter of Imperialism examines competing Japanese responses to the late nineteenth century unequal treaty regime as a confrontation with liberal imperialism, including the culture and gender politics of US territorial expansion into the Pacific.

Proponents of American public diplomacy sometimes find it difficult to be taken seriously.

By placing the conflict in its historical, ideological, ethno-political and geostrategic context, the book extends beyond conventional realist approaches and lays bare those less visible dimensions that are often ignored by analysts and policy-makers alike.

This book focuses on the neglected cultural front of the Cold War in Asia to explore the mindsets of Asian actors and untangle the complex cultural alliances that undergirded the security blocs on this continent.

The War of Ideas is about the fundamental principles of human society.

This is the first systematic and critical analysis of the concept of national interest from the perspective of contemporary theories of International Relations, including realist, Marxist, anarchist, liberal, English School and constructivist perspectives.

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

A timely look at the real costs of leaders not examining their assumptions.

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

An in-depth look at how the ideas formulated by the interwar League of Nations shaped American thinking on the modern global order.

A transnational approach to understanding and analyzing knowledge circulation.

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.

American foreign policy is the subject of extensive debate.

For decades, Woodrow Wilson has been remembered as either a paternalistic liberal or reactionary conservative at home and as a naive idealist or cynical imperialist abroad.

For decades, Woodrow Wilson has been remembered as either a paternalistic liberal or reactionary conservative at home and as a naive idealist or cynical imperialist abroad.

When the United States goes to war, the nation's attention focuses on the president.

The War Ledger provides fresh, sophisticated answers to fundamental questions about major modern wars: Why do major wars begin?

Among the most momentous decisions that leaders of a state are called upon to make is whether or not to initiate warfare.

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.

Although nearly every country in the world today holds multiparty elections, these contests are often blatantly unfair.

International law presents a conceptual riddle.

International law presents a conceptual riddle.

The struggle between Russia and Great Britain over Central Asia in the nineteenth century was the original "e;great game.

How will the future leaders of Russia regard the world scene?

How will the future leaders of Russia regard the world scene?

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

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

Dancers as Diplomats chronicles the role of dance and dancers in American cultural diplomacy.