Diplomacy

This important new study provides a critical analysis of the foreign policies conducted during the first two terms of Tony Blair's government.

From the UN Security Council and the European Union's Council of Ministers to obscure committees on food labelling or the scheduling of World Fairs, several thousand multilateral conferences are held each year.

Diplomatic Interventions argues that war is a social construction.

Can a distinct national foreign policy still be identified for small EU member states, and what accounts for the balance between national and EU foreign policy?

Essence of Diplomacy explores the essential, timeless features of diplomacy, drawing on the historical record of over three millennia.

Lord D'Abernon was the first British ambassador to Berlin after the First World War.

This book offers an introductory guide for students to four centuries of diplomatic thought.

This book outlines an idea of world politics as an activity of thinking and speaking about the conditions of world order.

The United Nations: Reality and Ideal examines the structure, operation and history of the United Nations.

This comprehensive, in-depth assessment of the German foreign policy record under the Red-Green government of Gerhard Schroder and Joschka Fischer from 1998 to 2005, produced by a team of German and international experts, explores the idea of continuity and the sources, depths and directions of German foreign policy.

The New Multilateralism in South African Diplomacy provides a detailed analysis of how post-apartheid South Africa has participated in multilateral diplomacy in a variety of sub-regional, regional and international settings during the last decade.

Through personal experience and a lively narrative, this book examines the difficulty of communicating in adversarial environments like Iraq and Afghanistan, the complexity of multi-linguistic communications, and the importance of directing American cultural power in the national interest.

Heo conceptualizes reconciliation in International Relations theory and fills a gap by building a theoretical framework for interstate reconciliation.

This is a completely revised and updated edition of the standard textbook on diplomatic theory and practice.

This book begins by discussing the problems of non-recognition and breaches in diplomatic relations, and then considers the advantages and disadvantages of the different methods which states, not in diplomatic relations, employ when they nevertheless need to communicate.

The origins of the Second World War remain clouded in Churchillian mythology.

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.

During the premodern period, Japan had significant political, economic and cultural relations with Korea.

Inventing International Society is a narrative history of the English School of International Relations.

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

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.