The hardline view of Sino-Indian relations found in the published reports of Indian and Chinese security analysts is often at considerable odds with the more tempered opinions those same analysts express in private interviews and conversations. What is the reality of the increasingly important security relationship between the two countries? The authors of this new study address that question i…
"This book is centrally concerned with the question of who and what foreign policy is - and should be - for. As such it will be of interest to the informed general reader as well as all those involved in the academic study of international relations."
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.
On 24 November 2007 Australia resoundingly changed government. If you think you know what really happened during that tumultuous year behind the closed doors of the Liberal Party, in the back rooms of the ACTU and deep in the campaign war room of the Labor Party, think again. 2007 was a year to remember in Australian politics. It saw the dramatic fall of John Howard and the unexpected rise of K…
From the legendary New York City mayoral race of 1977 to his twenty-year efforts to modernize Israeli politics to Bill Clinton's 1996 reelection campaign, Schoen takes you on a fascinating, eye-opening ride across the international political landscape of the past three decades. Demonstrating how politics has evolved and how he has utilized the latest technology to help candidates win the hearts…
But who is Kevin Rudd? We know the soundbites - a sometimes rough childhood in Queensland, a diplomatic career in Beijing, an extremely successful wife - but how well do we know the man who now runs the country? What did his time as a bureaucrat in the Queensland government reveal about him? How influential a role does his religion play in his life? Who are the people most significant to him? I…
The book's analysis shows the limits of alternative explanations and substantiates a sanguine view of programmatic competition, while nevertheless recognizing that this form of party system organization is far from ubiquitous and enduring in Latin America.
Men in White is the inside story of one of the world's most successful political parties the ruling People's Action Party of Singapore. With its victory in the 2006 polls, PAP has won 12 successive general elections since it assumed power in 1959. Narrated in three parts, Men in White chronicles the rise, fall, capture, split, and rise of a political party which has become synonymous with th…
The contents of this book: 1. The 1955 System: Origin and Transformation 2. Rearmament Controversis and Cultural Conflict in Japan: The Case of the Conservation 3. The Japan Socialist Party before the Mid-1960s
This book is the first comprehensive account of the influence of ideology on contemporary British politics. It examines the extent to which parties can be considered to have pursued ideological objectives and presents a sustained analysis of the relationship between theory and practice in British politics.