Diplomacy

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.

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.

This book focuses on the 2001-2002 crisis that brought India and Pakistan to the brink of war.

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.