International relations

A 2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleJapan's challenges and opportunities in a new era of uncertaintyHenry Kissinger wrote a few years ago that Japan has been for seven decades ?

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Taking a long view of the three-party relationship, and its future prospectsIn this Asian century, scholars, officials and journalists are increasingly focused on the fate of the rivalry between China and India.

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Religion and Security: The New Nexus in International Relations focuses on a groundbreaking theme.

Religion and Security: The New Nexus in International Relations focuses on a groundbreaking theme.

Coexistence in an atmosphere of mutual respect in a pluralist world order has become an even greater challenge in the practice of international relations since the murderous acts committed by al-Qaeda on September 11, 2001 (9/11) that demanded justice.

No event in post World War II diplomacy has been more written about than the Suez crisis of 1956-and for good reason: it signaled the fall of British power and influence in the Middle East.

Edward Shils's The Torment of Secrecy is one of the few minor classics to emerge from the cold war years of anticommunism and McCarthyism in the United States.

Naval Power in Action focuses attention to the United States' current competition with China, laying out a case for acting in three areas: strengthen the homeland to economic coercion, modernize and reorganize institutions to successfully compete, and winning the positional fight with China over markets and military posture.

Organized around the major events that marked Hammarskjold's eight and a half years in office, this volume takes stock of Hammarskjold first as a person and then as an international functionary.

The establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in July 1998 has attracted growing interest in the evolving role of politics in international law.

Global society has been analyzed in any number of ways: books dealing with its economic and cultural implications flood the market.

In this balanced and thought-provoking study, Russell Crandall examines the American decision to intervene militarily in three key episodes in American foreign policy: the Dominican Republic, Grenada, and Panama.

Since the tragic events of September 11, Central Asia has been drawn into the intense struggle of the international community against the forces of religious extremism and transnational crime.

When he was elected President in 1845, James K.

Globalization and Resistance brings together cutting-edge theory and research about how global economics and politics alter the way ordinary people engage in contentious political action.

The twentieth century witnessed the rise of the United States as the preeminent player on the world stage.

Intelligence and the National Security Strategist: Enduring Issues and Challenges presents students with a useful anthology of published articles from diverse sources as well as original contributions to the study of intelligence.

A child may be born into a poor country, but not a poor world.

At the dawn of the twentieth century, observers heralded a new era of social progress, seemingly limitless technological advances, and world peace.

This book investigates politics of denaturalisation as a system of thought that influences seminal cultural political values, such as community, nationality, citizenship, selfhood and otherness.

It was one of the pivotal times of the twentieth century--during George Bush''s presidency, an extraordinary series of international events took place that materially changed the face of the world.

This book breaks new ground in our understanding of a pivotal period in the history of American foreign policy, the early Cold War, and the struggle for dominance in China between the Nationalists and Communists.

This comprehensive survey of historical and contemporary issues related to maritime crime and piracy, with a special focus on Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, explains why piracy is a growing problem and how it affects security policy making in the United States.

Piracy is a significant global threat to international sea-borne trade - the life-blood of modern industrial economies and vital for world economic survival.

HOW COULD THIS HAVE HAPPENED?

Martin Barber was a senior UN official and has extensive experience in humanitarian affairs and peace operations - both at UN Headquarters and in the field.

Beginning on the eve of Oceanic exploration, and the first European forays into the Indian Ocean and the Middle East, The Ottomans and the Mamluks traces the growth of the Ottoman Empire from a tiny Anatolian principality to a world power, and the relative decline of the Mamluks - historic defenders of Mecca and Medina and the rulers of Egypt and Syria.

The EU is one of the most notoriously complex international organisations.

Moscow in the 1960s was the other side of the Iron Curtain: mysterious, exotic, even dangerous.

As climate change makes the Arctic a region of key political interest, so questions of sovereignty are once more drawing international attention.

Institutions do not decide whom to destroy or to kill, whether to make peace or war; those decisions are the responsibility of individuals.

Renewing Destruction examines how wind energy projects impact people and their environments.

** The Sunday Times #1 Bestseller**'One of the greatest political memoirs of all time' GuardianWhat happens when you take on the European establishment?

Over the last decade, the internet and cyber space has had a phenomenal impact on all parts of society, from media and politics to defense and war.

In Mexico City, as in many other large cities worldwide, contemporary modes of urban governance have overwhelmingly benefited affluent populations and widened social inequalities.

The 1915 Rent Strikes in Glasgow, along with similar campaigns across the UK, catalysed rent restrictions and eventually public housing as a right, with a legacy of progressive improvement in UK housing through the central decades of the 20th century.

Facing the current growing global archipelago of encampments, this book project intends to develop a geographical reflection on 'the camp', as a modern institution and as a spatial bio-political technology.

In warfare, civil unrest, and political protest, chemicals have served as means of coercion, suppression, and manipulation.

This book explores contemporary migration by boat through the intertwined, and under-explored, elements of empirical data, governance and geopolitics, and discourses.

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How do faith-based organizations influence the work of transnational peacebuilding, development, and human rights advocacy?

In an ever more globalized world, sustainable global development requires effective intercultural co-operations.

Our world is characterized by mobility.

International joint development programs are important because of their potential to reduce costs and increase partnership benefits such as interoperability, economies of scale, and technical advancement.

At a time of geopolitical tension and mutual distrust, the United States and Russia must work together in those areas where coordination is critical to global security, both to help stabilize the relationship and to buffer against conflict in the future.

These are turbulent times for American foreign policy.

Long considered a subfield of international relations and political science, Peace Studies has solidified its place as an interdisciplinary field in its own right with a canon, degree programs, journals, conferences, and courses taught on the subject.

In the growing literature on middle powers, this book contributes by expanding case study analysis and extending international relations theory in its application to foreign policy decisions.