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D i p l o m a c y
By Henry Kissinger

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Number Of Pages: 912
• Publication Date: 1995-04-04
• Sales Rank: 44536
• ISBN / ASIN: 0671510991
• EAN: 9780671510992
• Binding: Paperback

Brilliant, controversial, and profoundly incisive, Diplomacy stands as the culmination of a lifetime of diplomatic service and scholarship. It is vital reading for anyone concerned with the forces that have shaped our world today and will impact upon it tomorrow.

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• Publisher: Routledge
• Number Of Pages: 364
• Publication Date: 2005-12-16
• ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0415360579
• ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780415360579
• Binding: Hardcover

With high-level contributors noted for their expertise in international relations and their expertise in interregion relations, this volume will appeal to political science scholars, diplomats and those with an interest in global and regional diplomacy.

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Critical Theories, International Relations and ‘the Anti-Globalisation Movement’ The Politics of Global Resistance
Edited by Catherine Eschle and Bice Maiguashca

# Publisher: Routledge
# Number Of Pages: 283
# Publication Date: 2005
# ISBN : 0-203-68192-4 (Adobe eReader Format)
0–415–34390–9 (hbk)
0–415–34391–7 (pbk)
# Binding: Hardcover

Book Description:
With this book, Catherine Eschle and Bice Maiguashca make an important intervention in the contemporary debates on critical IR theory and the implications for concrete 'anti-globalisation' politics. In our view, their provocative and stimulating book will mark a departure from IR and IPE accounts of 'anti-globalisation' that take the theory and empirical realities as a given. Motivated by a desire to explore the intersection of critical theory and anti-globalisation practices, this book draws together insights from approaches as diverse as Marxism, Gramscian theory, feminism, poststructuralism, constructivism and postcolonialism. As such, the perspectives on power and movement that are taken in the volume cannot be easily captured under a single rubric. Eschle and Maiguascha have sought to engage their authors in an ongoing dialogue that stimulates open debate, rather than closing down possible insights into the anti-globalisation movement. Indeed, the reader will find that there are many more questions raised and explored than definitively answered in this volume. What does it mean to be 'antiglobalisation'? Is it possible to identify a singular entity we might call the 'anti-globalisation movement'? How can we best understand the politics of movement in an era of globalization? Who speaks, and who is silenced in international relations and international political economy accounts of power and resistance?

Two Worlds of International Relations
By C. Hill

• Publisher: Routledge
• Number Of Pages: 256
• Publication Date: 1994-11-02
• ISBN-10 / ASIN: 041506970X
• ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780415069700
• Binding: Hardcover

Composed of a collection of writing from academics and practioners alike, this book looks at issues such as human rights, foreign direct investment, foreign service, and international law among other concerns. It proves itself to be a broad and high-minded inquiry into the tensions that exist between international theory and the very practices its aims to understand.

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• Publisher: Routledge
• Number Of Pages: 306
• Publication Date: 2007-06-04
• ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0415386381
• ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780415386388
• Binding: Hardcover

This book is an invaluable resource for students of strategic studies, security studies, international relations, and international history.

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• Publisher: Routledge
• Number Of Pages: 192
• Publication Date: 2001-12-07
• ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0415255813
• ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780415255813
• Binding: Library Binding

This work gives a complete overview of Japanese foreign policy and Japan-Shout East Asian relations and will be invaluable to students and scholars of Japanese foreign policy, Asian studies and international relations.

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The Logic of Internationalism: Coercion and Accomodation
By Kjell Goldmann

• Publisher: Routledge
• Number Of Pages: 256
• Publication Date: 1994-09-02
• ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0415095980
• ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780415095983
• Binding: Hardcover

This book examines this controversial topic of internationalism and discusses whether such a view is realistic or whether international relations are typically characterized by tension and war.
A theory of internationalism is outlined and is shown to have two dimensions: one coercive (to enforce the rules and decisions of international institutions) and one accommodative (to avoid confrontation by means of mutual understanding and compromise). Problematic features of the theory are then considered in detail: the assumption that all international cooperation tends to inhibit war, and the tension inherent in the joint pursuit of coercion and accommodation.

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Regions and Powers: The Structure of International Security
By Barry Buzan, Ole W'ver

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Number Of Pages: 596
• Publication Date: 2004-01-12
• ISBN-10 / ASIN: 052181412X
• ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780521814126
• Binding: Hardcover

Asserting that regional patterns of security are increasingly important in international politics, this study presents a detailed account of relations between global powers. It emphasizes their relationship with the regional security complexes which make up the contemporary international system. The book analyzes Africa, the Balkans, Eastern and Western Europe, East Asia, the Middle East, North America and South Asia, tracing the history of each region through the present.

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International Relations: The Basics
By Sutch/Elias

• Publisher: Routledge
• Number Of Pages: 214
• Publication Date: 2007-07-10
• ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0415311845
• ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780415311847
• Binding: Hardcover

• explains key issues including humanitarian intervention and economic justice
• features illustrative and familiar case studies from around the world
• examines topical debates on globalization and terrorism
• provides an overview of the discipline to situate the new reader at the heart of the study of global politics

Covering all the basics and more, this is the ideal book for anyone who wants to understand contemporary international relations.

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Internationalism and the State in the Twentieth Century (New International Relations)
By Cornelia Navari

• Publisher: Routledge
• Number Of Pages: 384
• Publication Date: 2000-03-07
• ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0415097479
• ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780415097475
• Binding: Hardcover

Book Description:
During the twentieth century, formal links between governments have become much more intense, reflecting a growing emphasis on internationalism and the world community. There has been a multi-layered transformation in the relations between states, at both a social and a diplomatic level. This has resulted in, amongst other changes, an increase in the number of international organisations and collective security arrangements and an expansion in international law. This text examines closely the developmentof this phenomenon, from its roots before the founding of the League of Nations in 1919 to its present day forms.

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International Relations and the Problem of Difference (Global Horizons)

By Naeem Inayatullah, David L. Blaney

• Publisher: Routledge
• Number Of Pages: 288
• Publication Date: 2004-12-30
• ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0415946387
• ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780415946384
• Binding: Paperback

Book Description:
This work developed out of the growing sense that International Relations as a discipline does not assess the quality of cultural interactions that shape, and are shaped by, the changing structures and processes of the international system. IR has long had little to say about the motivations of individuals, about the interactions of communities, or about the role of identity. Inayatullah and Blaney re-imagine IR as a uniquely placed site for the study of differences. They suggest that IR might be organized explicitly around the exploration of the relation of wholes and parts and sameness and difference.

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Human Rights in International Relations (Themes in International Relations)

By David P. Forsythe

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Number Of Pages: 298
• Publication Date: 2006-05-01
• ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0521865603
• ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780521865609
• Binding: Hardcover

Book Description:
This new edition of David Forsythe's successful textbook provides an authoritative overview of the place of human rights in international politics in an age of terrorism. The book focuses on four central themes: the resilience of human rights norms, the importance of 'soft' law, the key role of non-governmental organizations, and the changing nature of state sovereignty. Human rights standards are examined according to global, regional, and national levels of analysis with a separate chapter dedicated to transnational corporations. This second edition has been updated to reflect recent events, notably the creation of the ICC and events in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, and new sections have been added on subjects such as the correlation between world conditions and the fate of universal human rights. Containing chapter-by-chapter guides to further reading and discussion questions, this book will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students of human rights, and their teachers. David Forsythe received the Distinguished Scholar Award for 2007 from the Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association.

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Theories of International Relations
By Scott Burchill, Matthew Paterson, Christian Reus-Smit, Andrew Linklater, Richard Devetak, Jacqui True, Jack Donnelly

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Number Of Pages: 321
• Publication Date: 2005-09-03
• ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1403948658
• ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781403948656
• Binding: Hardcover

The fully updated and revised third edition of this widely used text provides a comprehensive survey of leading perspectives in the field including an entirely new chapter on Realism by Jack Donnelly. The introduction explains the nature of theory and the reasons for studying international relations in a theoretically informed way. The nine chapters which follow--written by leading scholars in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand--provide thorough examinations of each of the major approaches currently prevailing in the discipline.

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• Publisher: Routledge
• Number Of Pages: 400
• Publication Date: 1997-03-11
• ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0415144086
• ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780415144087
• Binding: Paperback

In a departure from tradition, The Future of International Relations presents the state of the art of international relations theory through an analysis of the work of twelve key contemporary thinkers. Many of these authors are often considered hard to understand and so this book provides an alternative and more accessible analysis of contemporary international relations theory. Students of international relations will find this an invaluable introduction to and analysis of the key theories they will need to understand.

The theorists covered are: John Vincent, Kenneth Waltz, Robert O. Keohane, Robert Gilpin, Bertrand Badie, John Ruggie, Hayward Alker, Nicholas G. Onuf, Alexander Wendt, Jean Bethke Elshtain, R. B. J. Walker and James Der Derian.

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Fifty Key Thinkers in International Relations (Fifty Key Thinkers)
By M. Griffiths

• Publisher: Routledge
• Number Of Pages: 296
• Publication Date: 1999-12-02
• ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0415162270
• ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780415162272
• Binding: Library Binding

This unique reference offers a quick and convenient overview of the key thinkers in international relations in the twentieth century.

The inclusive coverage ranges from politicians such as Lenin and Kissinger, to the most influential figures in feminism, nationalist studies and even historical sociology. Each entry describes the main elements of each thinker's contribution to the study of international relations, provides relevant information on his or her life and career, and lists valuable suggestions for further reading and critical analysis. Political science and journalism students, media professionals and anyone with an interest in modern international relations will want this useful work.

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International Relations Theory: A Critical Introduction
By Cynthia Weber

• Publisher: Routledge
• Number Of Pages: 199
• Publication Date: 2005-02-02
• ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0415342082
• ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780415342087
• Binding: Paperback

This breakthrough textbook has been designed to unravel the complexities of international relations theory in a way that allows students a clearer idea of how the theories work and the myths that are associated with them.

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Ideology and International Relations in the Modern World (New International History Series)
By Alan Cassels

• Publisher: Routledge
• Number Of Pages: 302
• Publication Date: 1996-11-15
• ISBN-10 / ASIN: 041511926X
• ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780415119269
• Binding: Hardcover

Book Description:
Alan Cassels traces the part played by ideology in international relations over the past two centuries. Starting with the French Revolution's injection of ideology into interstate politics, Cassels concludes by addressing present day preoccupations with the legacy of nationalist discontent left by the collapse of communism and the resurgence of religious fundamentalism in world politics.

Cassels includes discussion of Marxism-Leninism, Fascism and Nazism but, eschewing exclusive focus on totalitarianism, he also shows how less rigid belief systems impact on international affairs.

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