Diplomacy

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.

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Robert Dallek, a luminary in the field of political biography--author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Nixon and Kissinger and the New York Times bestselling biography of John F.

Robert Dallek, a luminary in the field of political biography--author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Nixon and Kissinger and the New York Times bestselling biography of John F.

Bits and Atoms explores the governance potential found in the explosive growth of digital information and communication technology in areas of limited statehood.

In 1945, both the U.

In many ways, the Northern soldier in the Civil War fought as if he had never left home.

Contestation and Adaptation unravels the complexities of national-identity contestation among various ethnic minority groups in China.

Among the top ten oil exporters in the world and a founding member of OPEC, Venezuela currently supplies 11 percent of U.

How do international norms evolve?

In many ways, the Northern soldier in the Civil War fought as if he had never left home.

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

Europeans, Africans, and American Indians practiced slavery long before the first purchase of a captive African by a white land-owner in the American colonies; that, however, is the image of slavery most prevalent in the minds of Americans today.

Understanding China's world role has become one of the crucial intellectual challenges of the 21st Century.

In the past quarter century, the importance of Asia in international relations has grown exponentially.

During a television broadcast in 1959, US President Dwight D.

The Cold War in the Third World explores the complex interrelationships between the Soviet-American struggle for global preeminence and the rise of the Third World.

Since Gideon Rose's 1998 review article in the journal World Politics and especially following the release of Lobell, Ripsman, and Taliaferro's 2009 edited volume Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy, neoclassical realism has emerged as major theoretical approach to the study of foreign policy on both sides of the Atlantic.

The Hopkins Touch offers the first portrait in over two decades of the most powerful man in Roosevelt's administration.

Conflict and dispute pervade political and policy discussions.

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For most of the twentieth century, the most critical concerns of national security have been balance-of-power politics and the global arms race.

It was forty-two years ago that Winston Churchill made his famous speech in Fulton, Missouri, in which he popularized the phrase "e;Iron Curtain.

The Munich crisis of 1938, in which Great Britain and France decided to appease Hitler's demands to annex the Sudentenland, has provoked a vast amount of historical writing.

One of the most ambitious legacies of the 20th century was the universal commitment to ensure freedom from want as a human right.

By all measures, the late twentieth century was a time of dramatic decline for the Islamic world, the Ummah, particularly its Arab heartland.

The world is poised for another important transition.

Since the original publication of this classic book in 1979, Roosevelt's foreign policy has come under attack on three main points: Was Roosevelt responsible for the confrontation with Japan that led to the attack at Pearl Harbor?

On March 21, 1968, Yasir Arafat and his guerrillas made the fateful decision to break with conventional guerrilla tactics, choosing to stand and fight an Israeli attack on the al-Karama refugee camp in Jordan.

During the 1920s and 1930s thousands of European and American writers, professionals, scientists, artists, and intellectuals made a pilgrimage to experience the "e;Soviet experiment"e; for themselves.