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…
In revising classic works in political science, Longman celebrates the contributions its authors and their research have made to the discipline The Longman Classics in Political Science series honors these authors and their work Providing students with an updated context, each title in the series includes a foreword, written by one of today's top scholars, offering a fresh, in-depth analysis of…
This book comes out of papers and comments presented during the international conference on The Future of the Non-Aligned Movement held by CSIS 16-17 June 1992, and it reflects the interests and aspirations of the participants. The conference was attended by participants from Non-Aligned countries - India, Indonesia, Yugoslavia, Pakistan, Ghana, Cyprus, Malaysia, Vietnam and Egypt.
The disappearance and formation of states and nations after the end of the Cold War have proved puzzling to both theorists and policymakers. Lars-Erik Cederman argues that this lack of conceptual preparation stems from two tendencies in conventional theorizing. First, the dominant focus on cohesive nation-states as the only actors of world politics obscures crucial differences between the state…
This book contains publications about the non-aligned movement in a changing world that show the political, economic and social emancipation of the third non-aligned movement. The sequence of events starting with the unique Bandung Conference, followed by the meetings in Brioni and Cairo, culminated at the 1961 Belgrade Summit which formally started the periodic gatherings of the Heads of State…