This book provides an integrated framework for analysis of international politics by linking various approaches of study into a coherent whole. It provides a coherent framework for analysis to a field characterized by a growing number of theories and perspectives. It uses current events as examples to illustrate broader generalizations. There are examples from a variety of geographical contexts…
International Relations as an academic discipline is faced with three major convergent challenges: an historical challenge; an institutional challenge; and a theoretical challenge both from these cognate disciplines and from within. This book reaffirms the specificity of International Relations.
Featuring 150 entries, International Relations: Key Concepts is the essential guide for anyone interested in international affairs. Comprehensive and up to date, it introduces the most important themes in international relations, with an emphasis on contemporary issues. Entries include diplomacy, global warming, terrorism, human rights, rogue states, loose nukes, United Nations security, arms c…
Featuring over twenty new entries & now in its second edition, this book is the essential guide for anyone interested in international affairs. Comprehensive and up-to-date, it introduces the most important themes in international relations in the post 9/11 era. M. Griffiths & T. O'Callaghan from Australia
The crisis in the Middle East pro- duced something which may well be described as a diplomatic revolution. It began apparently with an American rebuff to Egypt. It ended with scarcely veiled threats from America to Israel and in midstream it revealed the United States and the Soviet Union in uneasy alliance against Britain and France. It split the fragile unity of the Commonwealth and it led Br…
Contents: 1. The new international era: The curtain goes up 2. America and the world 3. The Soviet union in world politics 4. The new Europe and the alliance 5. The third world: Asia, Africa, Latin America etc.
The second edition of this popular text, widely used in universities around the world, has been revised and updated throughout. The chapters on the general theory of international relations have been recast to take account of the rapid rise of constructivism thinking, and the rational choice roots of neorealist and neoliberal theory have been more clearly identified.
In light of the recent demise of the Soviet Union and the subsequent withdrawal of Soviet forces from Central Europe, the debate between neoliberal institutionalism and neorealism has taken on a new relevance. Neorealism and Neoliberalism concentrates on issues of conflict and cooperation with their implications for post-Cold War international relations. Essays by some of today's most promin…
The Korea-U.S. Forum in 1992 was a series of four talks presented by Korean and U.S. experts in their fields. Scholars, political leaders, business representatives, students, and media personnel attending the talks had the opportunity to exam- ine the issues presented in each session during an open question and answer forum following the talks
Rein Müllerson defines human rights diplomacy as the use of foreign policy instruments in order to promote human rights, as well as the use of human rights issues for the sake of other foreign policy aims. The book covers topics such as the relation between human rights and international stability; the conundrum of cultural relativism; the use of force to settle human rights issues; and how vi…