This book revealingly traces the ways in which third-party perceptions of an international actor affect its agency in global affairs by using the example of the European Union's engagement in Southeast Asian non-traditional security.
This edited book brings a new analytical angle to the study of comparative regionalism by focussing on the unintended consequences of interregional relations.
This edited book brings a new analytical angle to the study of comparative regionalism by focussing on the unintended consequences of interregional relations.
This book ambitiously weaves together history and politics to explain all of the major situations where mass atrocities have occurred, or been prevented, over the 15 years since the 'Responsibility to Protect' (R2P) was adopted at the 2005 UN World Summit.
This book ambitiously weaves together history and politics to explain all of the major situations where mass atrocities have occurred, or been prevented, over the 15 years since the 'Responsibility to Protect' (R2P) was adopted at the 2005 UN World Summit.
The United States-Australia alliance has been an important component of the US-led system of alliances that has underpinned regional security in the Indo-Pacific since 1945.
The United States-Australia alliance has been an important component of the US-led system of alliances that has underpinned regional security in the Indo-Pacific since 1945.
This book provides a critical deconstruction of the human development framework promoted by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) since 1990.
The Diplomatic Record continues in its fourth year to offer the most comprehensive storehouse of current information available on international diplomatic relations, including a look ahead to ongoing negotiations, a chronology of diplomatic events for the year and a bibliography of current diplomacy-related publications.
This volume reveals to readers the impact of recent events on diplomacy a year or so into the post-Cold War world, describing disintegration in the East, integration in the West, new relations with old allies, changes in the Third World, and multilateral diplomacy.
The effort to establish economic, political, arid monetary integration in Europe is one of the great dramas of our time, and the implications of its success or failure are enormous for the rest of the world.
"e;As the number of peacekeeping efforts conducted internationally under the aegis of military forces increases, thers is more pressure to resolve the dilemma inherent in all peacekeeping activities-how to combine efficiency with legitimacy.
"e;The notion that every state has an interest in the territorial integrity of every other state-no matter how distant they are and how slight their connections-is peculiar to the twentieth century.
With the explosion of national, international, and multinational actors becoming involved in ocean exploitation, concern has arisen over how this common resource is to be managed.
The Westview series Case Studies in International Affairs stems from a major project of The Pew Charitable Trusts entitled "e;The Pew Diplomatic Initiative.
As part of its contribution to the 1979 United Nations Conference on Science and Technology for Development IUNCSTD) the United Nations Institute for Training and Research jUNITAR) organized an informal research group to assess various aspects of applying science and technology to development through the United Nations system.
The goals of the Conference were to foster increased communication and understanding between practitioners and researchers and among various research disciplines, to present and discuss research results, and to identify possible future research activities.
This unusual history of the first four secretaries-general of NATO and their importance in the post-war politics of Western defense is a study of diplomacy-of individuals and the impact of their personalities on international events.
This volume focuses on the third Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) Follow-Up Meeting which took place in Vienna from November 1986 to January 1989 against the background of dynamic developments in Eastern Europe.
The UNCTAD Liner Code: United States Maritime Policy at the Crossroads Lawrence Juda World shipping-vital to international trade-is now going through a period of radical change.
This book describes the problems encountered by UN inspection teams assigned to find and destroy Iraq's nuclear, chemical, biological, and missile capabilities following Desert Storm.
The purpose of this book is to examine the feasibility, evolution, and future of international linkages, such as environmental pacts and agreements, military alliances, the World Health Organization, the Strategic Arms Limitation treaties, and energy power pools.
In this book, the author surveys performance of the Soviet Bloc states in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) for evidence of unusual levels of assistance using aggregate data obtained from IMF and IBRD sources.
This book is about proceedings from the Third World to the South-South Conference, held in Beijing in April 1983, on strategies of development, negotiations and cooperation pursued by developing countries in the last thirty years.
This book investigates the performance of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) since its inception, focusing on four areas of central concern to African states: decolonization, conflict control, development, and human rights.
Drawing on previously untapped documents, interviews with key actors, and his own experiences in the Department of State, Nathan Pelcovits takes a fresh look at the impact of UN intervention, as peacekeeper and peacemaker, on the Arab-Israeli conflict during the formative years between 1948 and 1960.
This pilot study - the first to analyze the World Bank's lending policy in the Second United Nations Development Decade - concentrates on the Bank's shift in emphasis from traditional infrastructure projects to a new stylea projects, especially in the area of rural development, and on the resulting changes in lending criteria in the 1970s.
In the 1980s Latin America experienced its second worst economic crisis of the century; today the average per capita income is about 10 percent less than a decade ago.
This book discusses part of the military-stability problem, notably the part relating to East-West relationships, which is becoming synonymous with military stability between the Soviet Union and NATO.
This book provides a critical deconstruction of the human development framework promoted by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) since 1990.
This up-to-date analysis of the major political issues associated with the Indian Ocean region examines recent developments in South Asia, the Gulf, and Africa and their effect on Indian Ocean security matters and politics.
This volume is the result of a joint effort on the part of European and American scholars to describe and analyze the nature and the role of the European Community on the threshold of the 1990s.
This book assesses the dynamics of Europeanization within the Western Alliance in the 1980s, that is, the process of change whereby the key West European states have come to play a growing role within the Alliance.
