Diplomacy

The diaries of the last British Governor of Hong Kong, published on the 25th anniversary of the handoverIn June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to try to prepare it not (as other British colonies over the decades) for independence, but for handing back in 1997 to the Chinese, from whom most of its territory had been leased 99 years previously.

LEARN HOW TO GET MORE IN EVERY SITUATION FROM THE WORLD'S LEADING NEGOTIATOR We're always negotiating.

Matthew Parris's Parting Shots is a treasure trove of wit, venom and serious analysis.

As the NATO Alliance enters its seventh decade, it finds itself involved in an array of military missions ranging from Afghanistan to Kosovo to Sudan.

This book puts forward a new angle of understanding the society of states in the milieu of the contemporary world.

This book examines the geostrategic alliances in the Eastern Mediterranean and MENA regions.

"e;The editors have assembled an outstanding group of scholars in this very welcome addition to our understanding of Latin American external relations and British foreign policy towards the region in the 20th century.

"e;This book is a timely reminder of the ties that join Russia and the European Union and the opportunities that still exist to improve a troubled relationship.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Japan's Asian diplomacy under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

Following the vexed codification attempts of the International Law Commission and the relevant jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice, this book addresses the permissibility of the practice of diplomatic asylum under general international law.

This book aims to build the ideal model of China's grand strategy framework, which is based on three key variables: national power, strategic concept and international institution.

This book analyses and compares instances of the diffusion of political norms and ideas in the history of Franco-German relations.

This book presents a topical, holistic assessment of the European Union's democracy promotion in South-East Europe, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia, analyzed through the prism of the Normative Power Europe (NPE) framework of transnational policy formation.

The broad diplomatic production of George P.

For decades the European Union tried changing its institutions, but achieved only unsatisfying political compromises and modest, incremental treaty revisions.

A fascinating history of China's relations with the West-told through the lives of two eighteenth-century translatorsThe 1793 British embassy to China, which led to Lord George Macartney's fraught encounter with the Qianlong emperor, has often been viewed as a clash of cultures fueled by the East's lack of interest in the West.

Drawing on wide-ranging archival research, this authoritative new history examines the cultural diplomatic role played by British football in international affairs, British foreign policy, and international football during the 1930s.

Embark on the Critical Journey: When Decisions Shape Our Environments DestinyStep into a world where the very fate of our planet hangs in the balance.

At the same time as modern capitalism became an engine of progress and a source of inequality, the United States rose to global power.

An in-depth look at how the ideas formulated by the interwar League of Nations shaped American thinking on the modern global order.

This compelling history brings to life the watershed year of 1948, when the United States reversed its long-standing position of political and military isolation from Europe and agreed to an "e;entangling alliance"e; with ten European nations.

There is widespread agreement that status or standing in the international system is a critical element in world politics.

Robert Jervis has been a pioneering leader in the study of the psychology of international politics for more than four decades.

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"e;Constructive engagement"e; became a catchphrase under the Clinton administration for America's reinvigorated efforts to pull China firmly into the international community as a responsible player, one that abides by widely accepted norms.

Does growing economic interdependence among great powers increase or decrease the chance of conflict and war?

Modern warfare is almost always multilateral to one degree or another, requiring countries to cooperate as allies or coalition partners.

A new way to understand financial crises-and a blueprint for tomorrow's recoveryThe Leaderless Economy reveals why international financial cooperation is the only solution to today's global economic crisis.

In Peace Out of Reach, Stephen Eric Bronner offers an intriguing analysis and eyewitness account of the political and ideological conflicts plaguing the Middle East.

A fascinating history of China's relations with the West-told through the lives of two eighteenth-century translatorsThe 1793 British embassy to China, which led to Lord George Macartney's fraught encounter with the Qianlong emperor, has often been viewed as a clash of cultures fueled by the East's lack of interest in the West.

Offers a history of the Treaty of Lausanne, outlining the decade of war that preceded it and its enduring impact in the Middle East and beyond.

The Trump administrations peace agreements in the Middle East were the greatest foreign policy accomplishment in decades.

Tiefgreifende geopolitische Veränderungen, der Klimawandel, Covid und der russische Angriffskrieg in der Ukraine stellen die Aussenpolitik der Schweiz und ihre Partnerinnen und Partner vor grosse Herausforderungen.

Policy insider''s compelling argument to reorganise our efforts in science, diplomacy, and economics to tackle climate change five times faster.

In 2007 two former U.

This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of US policy from the perspective of an analyst and scholar from the region.

After eleven weeks of bombing in the spring of 1999, the United States and NATO ultimately won the war in Kosovo.

In this memoir, Ambassador Ray Garthoff paints a dynamic diplomatic history of the cold war, tracing the life of the conflict from the vantage points of an observant insider.

Policymakers will need all the tools at their disposal to craft an effective response to international terrorism and to protect and promote other U.

Today the United States has little leverage to promote change in Cuba.

A Brookings Institution Press and the Nixon Center publicationIn this frank and engaging book, foreign minister Igor S.

President Nixon's historic trip to China in February 1972 marked the beginning of a new era in Sino-American relations.

India and Pakistan, nuclear neighbors and rivals, fought the last of three major wars in 1971.

A Brookings Institution Press and EU Institute for Security Studies publicationThe greater Middle East region is beset by a crescent of crises, stretching from Pakistan through Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

In this new Brookings Marshall Paper, Michael O'Hanlon argues that now is the time for Western nations to negotiate a new security architecture for neutral countries in eastern Europe to stabilize the region and reduce the risks of war with Russia.

It has been thirteen years since soldiers of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) raced into the center of Beijing, ordered to recover "e;at any cost"e; the city's most important landmark, Tiananmen Square, from student demonstrators.

Though it has been nearly a decade since the attacks of September 11, the threat of terrorism emanating from the Muslim world has not subsided.

In October 2002 the United States confronted North Korea with suspicions that Pyongyang was enriching uranium in violation of the Agreed Framework that the nations had worked out during the Clinton administration.

"e;This volume fills a void in current studies of Eleanor Roosevelt.

The essential resource on military and political strategy and the making of the modern worldThe New Makers of Modern Strategy is the next generation of the definitive work on strategy and the key figures who have shaped the theory and practice of war and statecraft throughout the centuries.