International relations

A searching examination of the moral limits of political compromiseWhen is political compromise acceptable-and when is it fundamentally rotten, something we should never accept, come what may?

A more democratic response to political emergenciesThis book intervenes in contemporary debates about the threat posed to democratic life by political emergencies.

Since they were pioneered in the 1970s by Robert Keohane and others, the broad range of neoliberal institutionalist theories of international relations have grown in importance.

Regulation by public and private organizations can be hijacked by special interests or small groups of powerful firms, and nowhere is this easier than at the global level.

Many political theorists today deny that citizenship can be defended on liberal grounds alone.

Increasingly today nation-states are entering into agreements that involve the sharing or surrendering of parts of their sovereign powers and often leave the cession of authority incomplete or vague.

Why have governments responded to the HIV/AIDS pandemic in such different ways?

In this pathbreaking book, Amy Zegart provides the first scholarly examination of the intelligence failures that preceded September 11.

In A Necessary Engagement, the CIA's former point man on Islam makes a vigorous case for a renewal of American public diplomacy in the Muslim world.

The Godfather Doctrine draws clear and essential lessons from perhaps the greatest Hollywood movie ever made to illustrate America's changing geopolitical place in the world and how our country can best meet the momentous strategic challenges it faces.

Was George W.

The Global Commonwealth of Citizens critically examines the prospects for cosmopolitan democracy as a viable and humane response to the challenges of globalization.

Does the United States have the right to defend itself by striking first, or must it wait until an attack is in progress?

Available in print for the first time, this day-by-day diary of George H.

A groundbreaking interpretation of the intellectual origins of the United NationsNo Enchanted Palace traces the origins and early development of the United Nations, one of the most influential yet perhaps least understood organizations active in the world today.

New insights into what makes people happy and how policymakers can foster greater satisfaction for allDuring the past forty years, thousands of studies have been carried out on the subject of happiness.

In this discerning book, Monteagle Stearns, a former career diplomat and ambassador, argues that U.

Why do very different countries often emulate the same policy model?

Nuclear Logics examines why some states seek nuclear weapons while others renounce them.

Conflicts involving religion have returned to the forefront of international relations.

The politics of legitimacy is central to international relations.

Why do some civil wars end in successfully implemented peace settlements while others are fought to the finish?

Why do democracies win wars?

With the end of the Cold War, the International Monetary Fund emerged as the most powerful international institution in history.

In this classic work, John Steinbruner argues that the time is ripe for exploration of a new theoretical perspective on the decision-making process in government.

In Reluctant Crusaders, Colin Dueck examines patterns of change and continuity in American foreign policy strategy by looking at four major turning points: the periods following World War I, World War II, the Cold War, and the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

There is a widespread belief, among both political scientists and government policymakers, that "e;democracies don't fight each other.

The Earth's human population is expected to pass eight billion by the year 2025, while rapid growth in the global economy will spur ever increasing demands for natural resources.

Etel Solingen provides a comprehensive explanation of foreign policy based on how states throughout the world have confronted the rapid emergence of a global economy and international institutions.

A generation ago, scholars saw interest groups as the single most important element in the American political system.

This book offers a compelling and comprehensive account of what happened to the KGB when the Soviet Union collapsed and the world's most powerful and dangerous secret police organization was uncloaked.

This iconoclastic and fundamental work, Eric Nordlinger's last, advocates a new variant of isolationism, a "e;national strategy"e; confining U.

By illuminating the conflict-resolving mechanisms inherent in the relationships between democracies, Bruce Russett explains one of the most promising developments of the modern international system: the striking fact that the democracies that it comprises have almost never fought each other.

Did a "e;doctrine race"e; exist alongside the much-publicized arms competition between East and West?

In June 1994 the United States went to the brink of war with North Korea.

This book is a comprehensive study of cooperation among the advanced capitalist countries.

The relationship between Russia and Germany has been pivotal in some of the most fateful events of the twentieth century: the two World Wars, the Cold War, and the emergence of a new Europe from the ashes of communism.

Can foreign invaders successfully exploit industrial economies?

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Why have governments responded to the HIV/AIDS pandemic in such different ways?

Covenants without Swords examines an enduring tension within liberal theory: that between many liberals' professed commitment to universal equality on the one hand, and their historic support for the politics of hierarchy and empire on the other.

Does the United States have the right to defend itself by striking first, or must it wait until an attack is in progress?

The Soldier and the Changing State is the first book to systematically explore, on a global scale, civil-military relations in democratizing and changing states.

Conflicts involving religion have returned to the forefront of international relations.

Nuclear Logics examines why some states seek nuclear weapons while others renounce them.

Etel Solingen provides a comprehensive explanation of foreign policy based on how states throughout the world have confronted the rapid emergence of a global economy and international institutions.

Increasingly today nation-states are entering into agreements that involve the sharing or surrendering of parts of their sovereign powers and often leave the cession of authority incomplete or vague.

Available in print for the first time, this day-by-day diary of George H.

Biology and politics have converged today across much of the industrialized world.

Modern America owes the Roman Empire for more than gladiator movies and the architecture of the nation's Capitol.