International relations

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

This book is the first account of the personal lives of the nearly 1,000 long-term political prisoners arrested under various sedition laws for their opposition to World War I, their trade union activities, or their unpopular political or religious beliefs.

Kurdistan is among the world's most notorious cases of self-determination denied, and the reasons why this outcome remains unachieved reveal as much about the biases of international law as they do about the merits of the case for Kurdistan.

This book details the responsibilities and activities of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.

The essential history of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) during the Nixon Administration How did Richard Nixon, a president so determined to compete for strategic nuclear advantage over the Soviet Union, become one of the most successful arms controllers of the Cold War?

EU policy shapes all areas of our lives - from our money, to our food, to our welfare.

Behavioural sciences help refine our understanding of human decision-making.

China's relations with its neighbors have evolved since 1949, and in the 21st century many scholars argue that China's rising power has led it to be increasingly domineering over those smaller countries in Northeast, Southeast, Central, and South Asia.

In the wake of 9/11, the United States government rediscovered the value of culture in international relations, sending cultural ambassadors around the world to promote the American way of life.

Shared water resources in Israel and Palestine are often the site of political, economic, historical, legal and ethical contestation.

Since the AIDS epidemic was recognized, information on safer sex has been assumed to be the most crucial means of preventing further spread of the disease.

In this affecting and innovative global history-starting with the European children who fled the perils of World War II and ending with the Central American children who arrive every day at the U.

Drafted while events were fresh in his mind in 1942-1943, Alabama-born American diplomat George Platt Waller's memoir chronicles his war-time experience in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

David Bruce (1898-1977) was a prominent American diplomat, who served in France, Germany, and the UK.

Relations between the new state of Israel and the European Union in the first twenty years of the Community's existence were a major policy issue given the background of the Holocaust and the way the new nation was established.

Australian Foreign Affairs is published three times a year and seeks to explore - and encourage - debate on Australia's place in the world and global outlook.

Using new archival material, Lawrence Tal examines how Jordan remained stable during the volatile period between 1955 and 1967.

With the fall of communism and the appearance of a new world order, it is hoped that the United Nations will become the principle organisation for the regulation of relations between states as well as for the settlement of conflict.

In this book, leading experts discuss innovative components of complexity theory and chaos theory in economics.

With existing literature focusing largely on Western perspectives of peace and their applications, a global understanding of peace is much needed.

Drawing on recently declassified government files, private papers and interviews, this book argues that through a combination of preventative diplomacy and robust defence planning, the Labour government of 1974-79 succeeded in maintaining peace, avoiding the fate of its Tory successors.

This book is an original study of the contemporary debate over U.

Examining the principle of mutual recognition in the EU legal order, this book takes a cross-policy approach to focus on the principle in the internal market and in the criminal justice area.

Sheds new light on a transformation process: the struggle to create a modern Atlantic order in the long twentieth century.

This book introduces the field of hermeneutics through a critique of military operations in Afghanistan.

This book is a comprehensive reference book and commentary on basic documents about relations between the EU and the People's Republic of China from 1949 to the present.

The euro crisis made Europe's stateless currency falter.

Before social unrest shook the region in the 1970s, Central America experienced more than a decade of rapid export growth by adding cotton and beef to the traditional coffee and bananas.

Explore the production of bestsellers at the Frankfurt Book Fair, through an investigation involving three consecutive years of fieldwork.

This volume examines the contributions to International Law of individual members of the Advisory Committee of Jurists in the League of Nations, and the broader national and discursive legal traditions of which they were representative.

Since the success of the best-selling first edition, the world has remained fascinated with US foreign policy, not least because of the far-reaching consequences of the US led invasion of Iraq.

In this provocative book, Peter Gries directly challenges the widely held view that partisan elites on Capitol Hill are out of touch with a moderate American public.

Through a multidisciplinary approach, African Frontiers counters the superficial, Eurocentric and gender insensitive dominant discursive representation of Africa within the discourse of war and conflict management, and security and peace/nation-building.

Jina Kim investigates how North Korea rationalized its pursuit of nuclear weapons programs for more than two decades, by exploring the dialectical development of the nuclear crisis and the obstacles generated by complex internal Korean dynamics and conflicting interests amongst the major players concerned.

This book explores European Union crisis management and draws implications for its role as an international security actor.

The problems related to the process of industrialisation such as biodiversity depletion, climate change and a worsening of health and living conditions, especially but not only in developing countries, intensify.

Canada has not always had the role of 'friendly neighbor to the north.

This book analyses the states of emergency exposing the intersections between colonial law, international law, imperialism and racial discrimination.

This book studies how transnational migrants create a sense of home in their host countries.

Rebuilding Afghanistan in Times of Crisis provides academics and researchers interested in planning, urbanism and conflict studies with a multidisciplinary, international assessment of the reconstruction and foreign aid efforts in Afghanistan.

Within international law there is no unified concept of peace.

This book examines whether India is successfully integrating and adapting to the global strategic management system.

London has long been a magnet for migrants, millions of whom have been attracted by its economic, educational and cultural roles as a truly global city.

The European Union in the Twenty-First Century: Major Political, Economic and Security Policy Trends unpacks some of the most prominent issues faced by the EU over the last two decades and considers how they may shape its future, as well as the future of international politics.

Most violent conflicts since the turn of this century were in countries that had experienced an earlier violent conflict.

An examination of how, despite similar historical contexts, India became a stable democracy post-independence, whilst Pakistan became an unstable autocracy.

This book considers the principal challenges facing the European Union, which has been buffeted by a series of profound crises, both internal and external.