The book deals with the functional dynamics, and the operational mechanics of the Indian Foreign Office from its inception to date.It has filled the gap in information about the implementation of India's foreign policy by providing a detailed analysis of the procedures and functional dynamics of the Ministry of External Affairs. No book in the past, to the best of one's knowledge, has made such…
On 5-6 April 1995 the International Symposium on Diplomacy Beyond 2000 was held at the University of Westminster, London. The Symposium was focused on the practical problems which diplomats face in their professional life and in handling issues of a greater importance and complexity
The contents of this book: - RP-US Bases - Universities in World Affairs - Rich and Poor States: North-South Axis - Indepedence vs. Foreign Military Intervention
For this Second Edition, Modern Diplomacy has been extensively updated and expanded to take in not only important changes in diplomacy, but also several new chapters. These cover environmental diplomacy, mediation, the process of normalisation and case examples of environmental negotiations and international agreements.
"This book contains the most comprehensive and critical account available of the evolution of ASEAN's norms and the viability of the ASEAN Way of conflict management. It is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of Asian Studies, International Relations and Politics."
Through interviews, gives a behind-the-scenes look at negotiations to denuclearize the Korean peninsula. Offering multiple perspectives on the second Korean nuclear crisis, provides a window of understanding on the historical, geopolitical, and security concerns at play on the peninsula since 2002, paying special attention to China's dealings with North Korea
Since the end of the Korean War, Northeast Asia has been at peace but held in a state of tension due to the seemingly permanent rivalry between the superpowers and their respective allies in the region.
In line with recent reviews of policy by Aung San Suu Kyi and the U.S. Government, ASEAN's Myanmar Crisis: Challenges to the Pursuit of a Security Community provides a clear and innovative analysis of why it is necessary to reassess regional and international approaches to Myanmar. For the first time, this book also reveals the full extent to which Myanmar has challenged the solidarity and deve…
The Stockholm Initiative on Global Security and Governance brings out the most urgent themes from the international indepen- dent commissions of the 1980's, chaired by Willy Brandt and Olof Palme, by Gro Harlem Brundtland and Julius Nyerere. The memorandum on COMMON RESPONSIBILITY IN THE 1990's focuses on major areas for multilateral cooperation and on ways and means to strengthen international…
A related adjustment in American policy toward China has been the extent to which the United States has re-initiated a high-level dialogue with the PRC President Bush, perhaps because he did not want to be seen as being too soft on China in the wake of the Tiananmen incident, suspended a high-level dialogue with Beijing. Under President Clinton, to some extent perhaps because the Administration…