Diplomacy

When four-star general John Rogers Galvin retired from the US Army after forty-four years of distinguished service in 1992, the Washington Post hailed him as a man "e;without peer among living generals.

The world is poised for another important transition.

In the twenty-first century, East Asia has been increasingly marked both by tensions at a government level and a chauvinistic mood among the polity.

This book explores the conditions of international relations from the end of WWII to the present, focusing on the American determination to provide world leadership.

Gestures of Conciliation examines the ideas, assumptions and theories that underpin how leaders of parties in intractable conflicts begin and sustain a process of peacemaking by offering to their adversaries 'olive-branches' - in more modern terms symbolic gestures, concessions, tension-reducing moves or confidence-building measures.

This book analyzes the relations between two geographical areas with different levels of regional institutionalization: the European Union and Latin America.

What role does identity play in foreign policy?

This book develops a new approach in explaining how a nation's Grand Strategy is constituted, how to assess its merits, and how grand strategies may be comparatively evaluated within a broader framework.

Hugh Gibson, US Minister to Poland from 1919 to 1924, recorded his involvement with the rocky first years of Polish statehood in this collection of official dispatches and personal letters.

The United Nations in International History argues for a new way of examining the history of this central global institution by integrating more traditional diplomacy between states with new trends in transnational and cultural history to explore the organization and its role in 20th- and 21st-century history.

Beginning with the extraordinary rescript by Tsar Nicholas II in August 1898 calling the world's governments to a disarmament conference, this book charts the history of the two Hague peace conferences of 1899 and 1907 – and the third conference of 1915 that was never held – using diplomatic correspondence, newspaper reports, contemporary publications and the papers of internationalist organizations and peace activists.

This book looks at policy change in political parties through an examination of the British and French Left's policy towards Israel in the postwar period.

This book examines media coverage and public diplomacy regarding the North Korea nuclear controversy, with a focus on the history of military and diplomatic efforts to resolve tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

This book, spanning the years 1957-1961, is the second in a four-part collection of documents from the archives of the Russian Federation's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Israel State Archives portraying relations between the Soviet Union and the State of Israel.

National security affairs analyst Ehud Eilam examines the strategy of containment in the Middle East as it is currently pursued.

Decolonisation and Regional Geopolitics argues that as much as the 'Congo crisis' (1960-1965) was a Cold War battleground, so too was it a battleground for Southern Africa's decolonisation.

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

Dean Acheson was one of the most influential Secretaries of State in U.

Explores the place of science and technology in international relations through early attempts at international governance of aviation and atomic energy.

Diplomacy and Intelligence in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean World examines the activities of diplomats in the expansion of their home country's informal imperial ambitions.

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

A vision of a European future of peace and stability despite the present gloomThe world appears to be at another major turning point.

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None of the founding fathers seems more elusive than Thomas Jefferson.

Neoliberal policy approaches have swept over the American political economy in recent decades.

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 is a critical study of the concept of sovereignty and its relationship to responsibility.

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 Universal Politics, Ilan Kapoor and Zahi Zalloua argue that, in the face of the relentless advance of global capitalism, a universal politics is needed today more than ever.

To fully comprehend the Vietnam War, it is essential to understand the central role that southerners played in the nation's commitment to the war, in the conflict's duration, and in the fighting itself.

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From the rising significance of non-state actors to the increasing influence of regional powers, the nature and conduct of international politics has arguably changed dramatically since the height of the Cold War.

The Puzzle of Peace moves beyond defining peace as the absence of war and develops a broader conceptualization and explanation for the increasing peacefulness of the international system.

China Boys offers a close-up, worms-eye view of the U.

Why have states returned to the United Nations with unprecedented enthusiasm since 1987?

Ideas die at the hands of journalists.

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Evaluates the causes and consequences of presidential threats toward other nations, revealing the nature of modern presidential foreign policy representation.

This collection of essays delves into issues associated with British foreign policy in the ten years that Headlam-Morley worked with the Foreign Office in early twentieth century Britain.

The authors use multilateral security governance theory to propose mutual persuasion, institution-building, incorporation of non-state actors into multilateral strategies, collective action, and multilateral governance as a strategy for modern Mexico.

The response of an autocratic nation's armed forces is crucial to the outcome of democratization movements throughout the world.

A comprehensive presentation of political life in Israel from the pre-state formative period to the present.

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

Decolonisation and Regional Geopolitics argues that as much as the 'Congo crisis' (1960-1965) was a Cold War battleground, so too was it a battleground for Southern Africa's decolonisation.

The correspondence between the old Congress and the American agents, commissioners, and ministers in foreign countries was secret and confidential throughout the Revolution.

This book explores the EU's effectiveness as an international mediator and provides a comparative analysis of EU mediation through three case studies: the conflict over Montenegro's independence, the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia, and the Geneva International Discussions on South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

Turkey and the West: From Neutrality to Commitment considers the formulation of Turkish foreign policy in the post-Ataturk period of 1938 to 1958 and discusses Turkey's uneasy shift from neutrality to become a member of the Western Alliance.

This study offers an analysis of Qatar's foreign policy since its independence from Britain in 1971.

In recent decades Russia has played an increasingly active role in the Middle East as states within the region continue to diversify their relations with major external powers.