Diplomacy

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.

Self-determination, imported into the Middle East on the heels of World War I, held out the promise of democratic governance to the former territories of the Ottoman Empire.

Self-determination, imported into the Middle East on the heels of World War I, held out the promise of democratic governance to the former territories of the Ottoman Empire.

In writing about international affairs in the 1960s, historians have naturally focused on the Cold War.

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

This book focuses on the problematic relationship between legality and legitimacy when a nation (or nations) intervene in the work of other nations.

Covering the period from 1936 to 1953, Empire of Ideas reveals how and why image first became a component of foreign policy, prompting policymakers to embrace such techniques as propaganda, educational exchanges, cultural exhibits, overseas libraries, and domestic public relations.

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.

There is a broad consensus among scholars that the idea of human rights was a product of the Enlightenment but that a self-conscious and broad-based human rights movement focused on international law only began after World War II.

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

There is a broad consensus among scholars that the idea of human rights was a product of the Enlightenment but that a self-conscious and broad-based human rights movement focused on international law only began after World War II.

Arguing about matters of public policy is ubiquitous in democracies.

For many Americans, Iran is our most dangerous enemy--part of George W.

Conflict and dispute pervade political and policy discussions.

In the past two decades, many have posited a correlation between the spread of globalization and the decline of the nation-state.

For fifty-five years, the United States and Saudi Arabia were solid partners.

For many Americans, Iran is our most dangerous enemy--part of George W.

For fifty-five years, the United States and Saudi Arabia were solid partners.

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

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Policymaking in large bureaucracies is hardly a simple process.

The world is poised for another important transition.

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

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

Law and Practice of the United Nations: Documents and Commentary combines primary materials with expert commentary demonstrating the interaction between law and practice in the UN organization, as well as the possibilities and limitations of multilateral institutions in general.

Michael Oppenheimer's Pivotal Countries, Alternate Futures is both a synthesis of our knowledge on scenario planning and a practical guide for policymakers.

Why do leaders of countries opt to sign on to international institutions that constrain their freedom to enact domestic policy?

The international community has donated nearly one trillion dollars during the last four decades to reconstruct post-conflict countries and prevent the outbreak of more civil war.

With the end of the Cold War has come an upsurge in humanitarian interventions-military campaigns aimed at ending mass atrocities.

With the end of the Cold War has come an upsurge in humanitarian interventions-military campaigns aimed at ending mass atrocities.

On October 1, 2009, the People's Republic of China (PRC) celebrated the 60th anniversary of its founding.

On October 1, 2009, the People's Republic of China (PRC) celebrated the 60th anniversary of its founding.

According to conventional international relations theory, states or groups make war and, in doing so, kill and injure people that other states are charged with protecting.

This book provides an international legal analysis of the most important questions regarding Iran's nuclear program since 2002.

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Five women entered the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow and began a performance of a "e;Punk Prayer.

Governments that preside over a capable state apparatus can better uphold the rule of law, ensure democratic accountability, stimulate economic development, and provide good governance.

All over the world, the practice of peacebuilding is beset with common dilemmas: peace versus justice, religious versus secular approaches, individual versus structural justice, reconciliation versus retribution, and the harmonization of the sheer number of practices involved in repairing past harms.

In the nineteenth century, European states conquered vast stretches of territory across the periphery of the international system.

Why is it that some countries comply with international laws, while others disregard them?

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

Challenging the myth that the federal government exercises exclusive control over U.

A recent National Security Strategy report singles out nuclear proliferation as one of the gravest threats to the United States.

The Milosevic Trial - An Autopsy provides a cross-disciplinary examination of one of the most controversial war crimes trials of the modern era and its contested legacy for the growing fields of international criminal law and post-conflict justice.