This is a new analysis of the key issues facing Chinese policy makers in their approach towards Taiwan, This is one of the most tense and potentially explosive relationships in world politic. This book explains succinctly the impetus, the methods and the consequences if China is to use force, a prospect that has become greater following the return of President Chen Shui- bian to power in Taiwan…
Examines how China has approached diplomacy, strategy, and negotiation throughout its history, and reflects on the consequences for the global balance of power in the twenty-first century
It is not just, as many argue, a question of the rise of China. For the first time in history Asia will not be dominated by just one country or by outside powers. It will contain three large, economically powerful countries, all with interests and ambitions that range across the whole region and the world. The future of the world economy will be determined by the competition between these three…
The contents of this book: - Gascony and Anglo-French Relations - Wanderings of Diplomatic Document - English Diplomtic and Related Matters
The central objective of this study is to describe and analyse the politics of security policy change in Japan and its significance to the Asia-Pacific region as a whole.
Provides information on international diplomatic relations during 1990-91. This book focuses on the crisis in the Gulf, with six essays exploring diplomatic initiatives. Additional essays highlight German reunification, post-Cold War Europe and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
The Study: Confronting Challenges, Maximising Opportunities. A New Diplomacy for Market Access, traces the region's responses to many of these challenges as they appeared to our respective countries in the years since becoming independent nations. Indeed, what the Study has done is not merely to acknowledge the existence of these challenges, but it addresses their changing faces as well. The es…
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."
The past few years have witnessed a number of remarkable developments in the field of nuclear arms control and non proliferation. The United States and the Soviet Union (now Russia) signed the START I and II agreements, which promised to reduce the nuclear arsenals of the two countries by two-thirds, to approximately 3,000 nuclear warheads each by the year 2003. President Bush's announcement on…