International relations

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.

World Out of Balance is the most comprehensive analysis to date of the constraints on the United States' use of power in pursuit of its security interests.

First serious examination of the curious demise of Reichsfuhrer SS Heinrich Himmler that also investigates an extraordinary web of secret deals and international intrigue.

Getulio Dornelles Vargas established his dictatorship in Brazil in 1937, and from 1938 through 1940 American diplomats and military planners were preoccupied with the possibility that Brazil might ally herself with Nazi Germany.

Kenya has been the object of much controversy among students of African politics.

Democracies often go to war but almost never against each other.

War--or the threat of war--usually strengthens states as governments tax, draft soldiers, exert control over industrial production, and dampen internal dissent in order to build military might.

During the Cold War, most international relations theorists and strategic studies analysts paid little attention to ethnic and other forms of communal conflict.

In the last fifteen years, the number, size, and scope of peacekeeping missions deployed in the aftermath of civil wars have increased exponentially.

By combining historical and political analysis with a sophisticated sociological approach, Jane Gross offers a new itnerpretations of the German occupation of Poland during World War II.

This book is not only an explanation of the political dynamic that led to the Polish "e;revolution"e; and the birth of Solidarity in 1980 and 1981 but an extremely important analysis of postwar East Central Europe.

In February 1920 the civil war that had ravaged Russia in the wake of the Bolshevik seizure of power was all but over, and with it the attempt of foreign governments to intervene on behlf of the anti-Communist forces.

Even as the evidence of global warming mounts, the international response to this serious threat is coming unraveled.

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

"e;A timely and provocative book exploring the origins of the national security state and the urgent challenge of reining it in"e; (The Washington Post).

Judicial reform became a priority for international development in the 1990s and remains central to EU enlargement conditionality today.

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

How do international organizations change?

With sweeping changes in the Soviet Union and East Europe having shaken core assumptions of U.

A contrarian yet highly engaging account of the spread of illiberal and anti-democratic sentiment throughout our culture that places responsibility on the citizens themselves.

A contrarian yet highly engaging account of the spread of illiberal and anti-democratic sentiment throughout our culture that places responsibility on the citizens themselves.

This book analyses three key concepts, global public goods, global commons, and fundamental values, as tools geared towards the protection of the general interests of the international community.

This book analyses three key concepts, global public goods, global commons, and fundamental values, as tools geared towards the protection of the general interests of the international community.

Even after seventy-five years, the UN Security Council meets nearly every day.

Even after seventy-five years, the UN Security Council meets nearly every day.

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

The explosion of the Covid-19 pandemic in February 2020 led to a paradigm change in the European Union architecture of economic governance.

The explosion of the Covid-19 pandemic in February 2020 led to a paradigm change in the European Union architecture of economic governance.

In the historiographic debate over Germany's responsibility for the outbreak of the two world wars, little attention has been paid to German politico- military activity in the Weimar Republic.

Drawing on over two decades of research in and on China and on extensive reviews of current scholarship, China: The Basics introduces readers to the key aspects of Chinese society, culture, and politics.

A comparative and comprehensive account of the jurisprudence of constitutional conflict between the Court of Justice and national courts with the power of constitutional review.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a pivotal institution in global economic governance tasked with ensuring monetary stability and preventing financial crises through promoting balanced trade, economic growth, and poverty reduction.

How should we make sense of the political dynamics in Africa today?

This book offers an all-encompassing, critical analysis of U.

Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2023 im Fachbereich Politik - Thema: Internationale Beziehungen, Note: 1,0, Universität Rostock (Institut für Politik- und Verwaltungswissenschaften), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Studie untersucht, ob die Theorie des Neokolonialismus von Kwame Nkrumahs heute noch als analytisches Werkzeug dienen kann.

Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject Politics - Region: South Asia, grade: 1.

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Politik - Internationale Politik und Länderanalysen, Note: 1,3, Universität Passau (Vergleichende Regierungslehre), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die komplexen Zusammenhänge der politischen und wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung Chinas sollen in dieser Arbeit durch eine zeitliche Komprimierung eingegrenzt und vereinfacht dargestellt werden.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Politik - Internationale Politik und Länderanalysen, Note: 1,0, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Veranstaltung: Politische Systeme der MENA-Region, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Arbeit widmet sich der eingehenden Analyse der politischen Eliten in Tunesien, um zu verstehen, wie ihre Rollen im Kontext des politischen Wandels im letzten Jahrzehnt evolviert sind.

In the last two decades, there has been a widespread movement from authoritarian to democratic rule among developing countries, often occurring against a backdrop of severe economic crises and the adoption of market-oriented reforms.

Master's Thesis from the year 2024 in the subject Politics - Region: Africa, , course: Master of International Relations and Diplomacy, language: English, abstract: This thesis aims to explore the peace building initiatives that Somalia implemented after the 1990 conflict.

Evaluation has become a key tool in assessing the performance of international organizations, in fostering learning, and in demonstrating accountability.

This book challenges the traditional view that meaningful analogies cannot be drawn between domestic and international politics.

This book challenges the traditional view that meaningful analogies cannot be drawn between domestic and international politics.

This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of how the European Union defines, practises, operationalises, and is perceived through science diplomacy in the Middle East.

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Politics - Region: Africa, grade: 1,7, University of Bologna, course: Political Development in Least developed Countries, language: English, abstract: The transformation process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is one of the most crucial political changes during the last few years.

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.

Why are countries often able to communicate critical information using diplomacy?

Is it possible to use the social science toolkit developed in the West to explain social change in the East?

Les conflits armes, l'insecurite et les migrations constituent aujourd'hui des defis majeurs pour de nombreux pays africains.