International relations

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By delvinginto the complex, cross-generational exchanges that characterize anypolitical project as rampant as empire, thisthought-provoking study focusesonchildrenand their ambivalent, intimate relationships with mapsandpracticesof mappingat the dawn of the American Century.

The Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842, which led to the settlement of the Canadian boundary dispute, was instrumental in maintaining peace between Great Britain and the United States.

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Miller shows how the American stake in Saudi Arabian oil challenged the United States to create closer ties with the Saudi kingdom, compelling the move from isolation to involvement with the Middle East.

Brady examines the role that politics has played in the success or failure of negotiations between the United States and other countries during the 1970s and 1980s.

In 1965, fed up with President Lyndon Johnsons refusal to make serious diplomatic efforts to end the Vietnam War, a group of female American peace activists decided to take matters into their own hands by meeting with Vietnamese women to discuss how to end U.

In the field of American studies, attention is shifting to the long history of U.

One of the central issues in democratic theory is the proper role of public opinion in the conduct of international affairs.

In this ambitious and innovative study Gregg Brazinsky examines American nation building in South Korea during the Cold War.

This comprehensive study of China's Cold War experience reveals the crucial role Beijing played in shaping the orientation of the global Cold War and the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union.

This is a compelling and dramatic account of Cuban policy in Africa from 1959 to 1976 and of its escalating clash with U.

How do international leaders emerge and why are they successful in bringing followers to converge on their positions?

After the fall of the Ottoman Empire following World War I, the Kurds in the Middle East became the largest ethnic group in the region without a state of their own.

At the end of World War II, the Allies were unanimous in their determination to disarm the former aggressor Germany.

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South Africa's Suspended Revolution tells the story of South Africa's democratic transition and the prospects for the country to develop a truly inclusive political system.

Surveillance and Spies in the Civil War represents pathbreaking research on the rise of U.

While a substantial body of research explains how the conflict between India and Pakistan originated and developed over time, a systematic and multivariate inquiry cutting across different IR paradigms to understand this rivalry is rare or limited.

This comprehensive study of Chinas Cold War experience reveals the crucial role Beijing played in shaping the orientation of the global Cold War and the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union.

In this remarkable and engaging book, William LeoGrande offers the first comprehensive history of U.

In this examination of Union and Confederate foreign relations during the Civil War from both European and American perspectives, Howard Jones demonstrates that the consequences of the conflict between North and South reached far beyond American soil.

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Dismantling the myths of United States isolationism and exceptionalism, No Higher Law is a sweeping history and analysis of American policy toward the Western Hemisphere and Latin America from independence to the present.

After World War II, an atomic hierarchy emerged in the noncommunist world.

Terrorism, Politics, and Human Rights Advocacy provides an insider-outsider analysis of the #BringBackOurGirls (#BBOG) movement.

Under the Eisenhower Doctrine, the United States pledged to give increased economic and military aid to receptive Middle Eastern countries and to protect with U.

Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine administered an unprecedented shock to the European and global energy markets, triggering emergency interventions and market reforms to limit the impact of the crisis on energy prices and supply security.

Under the Eisenhower Doctrine, the United States pledged to give increased economic and military aid to receptive Middle Eastern countries and to protect with U.

Through a close examination of the United States military governments established in Puerto Rico, and with careful attention to the important Foraker Act of 1900, the author presents in detail the results of Puerto Ricos transition from the old world to the new.

Historians of the Cold War, argues William Hitchcock, have toooften overlooked the part that European nations played in shapingthe postWorld War II international system.

Focusing primarily on the exclusion of the Chinese, Lucy Salyer analyzes the popular and legal debates surrounding immigration law and its enforcement during the height of nativist sentiment in the early twentieth century.

Moving beyond traditional state-centered conceptions of foreign relations, Christopher Endy approaches the Cold War era relationship between France and the United States from the original perspective of tourism.

In this book, Aaron Forsberg presents an arresting account of Japans postwar economic resurgence in a world polarized by the Cold War.

Using new archival sources including previously secret documents of the East German secret police and Communist Party M.

In the late 1950s, against the unfolding backdrop of the Cold War, American and European leaders began working to reshape Western Europe.

In April 1955, twenty-nine countries from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East came together for a diplomatic conference in Bandung, Indonesia, intending to define the direction of the postcolonial world.

Essay from the year 2001 in the subject Politics - Topic: International Organisations, grade: 1.

The growing presence of China in Africa has drawn increasing scholarly and public attention.

The growing presence of China in Africa has drawn increasing scholarly and public attention.

A systemic account of how institutions shape economic developmentInstitutions matter for economic development.

"e;Domestic politics matters"e; has become a rallying cry for international relations scholars over the past decade, yet the question still remains: Just how does it matter?

During the Cold War, international trade closely paralleled the division of the world into two rival political-military blocs.

A sample of recent thinking in international relations theory, World Politics, October 1961, is offered also in a special hard-cover edition.

Robert Powell argues persuasively and elegantly for the usefulness of formal models in studying international conflict and for the necessity of greater dialogue between modeling and empirical analysis.

In this ambitious work a leading scholar undertakes a full-scale reconceptualization of international relations.

French foreign policy in the 1960's seemed unique because it was dominated by the anachronistic ideals of Charles de Gaulle.

This book critically examines how the international norm of the Responsibility to Protect has been effectively limited by its interpretation by liberal states.

In this innovative theoretical book, Elizabeth Kier uses a cultural approach to take issue with the conventional wisdom that military organizations inherently prefer offensive doctrines.

From the 1850s to the 1920s, laws regulating the industrial labor process, pensions for the elderly, unemployment insurance, and measures to educate and ensure the welfare of children were enacted in many industrializing capitalist nations.