Diplomacy

In 1997, the smooth handover of Hong Kong between China and the United Kingdom defied pessimistic predictions about Hong Kong's future. The success...

Germany's unification in October 1990 was one of the most momentous events in modern European history and world politics since the end of World War...

Since the turn of the century bilateral trade between China and Latin America has increased by more than a factor of ten. In 2000, two-way trade st...

This book analyzes major human security threats in the MENA region, including food, water, energy, climate, and health security. It also examines s...

This series of original case studies, focusing on the proceedings and wider diplomatic significance of lavish banquets held across the period at ic...

Steven Hurst traces the development of the Iranian nuclear weapon crisis across its historical context: from the conception of Iran's nuclear progr...

Now in its tenth year, the US-led military campaign in Afghanistan continues with no foreseeable end in sight. Ending Obama's War is intended to he...

A fresh reappraisal of Japans relationship with the United States, which reveals how the Cold War shaped Japan and transformed Americas understandi...

With China's global ascendancy, Chinese foreign policy has become a popular area of studies for scholars around the world. Rather than simply contr...

In the first edition (2010), Zhiqun Zhu examined the rationale and strategies of Chinas new multi-directional diplomacy since the early 1990s and a...

This book is about the European health spas of the nineteenth century: what they were, how they operated, what life was like there and how their fu...

The collection brings together scholars from Public Policy and Foreign Policy to address the theme of policy fiascos. So far research on failure an...

This volume discusses the entry of Greece and Turkey to NATO in 1952 from the perspective of history and international relations. The chapters were...

Steamship Nationalism is a cultural, social, and political history of the S.S. Imperator, Vaterland, and Bismarck. Transatlantic passenger steamshi...

This book is only a preliminary study of the question of democratic control, which is now being eagerly discussed in all parts of the country. The ...

This comprehensive collection offers a concise introduction to the institutional framework of the Holy See, conceptualizing papal agency and positi...

If the growing demand for global governance breathed new life into the established G7/8 and the more recent G20, it raised questions about the evol...

This is the first introduction to the United Nation's activities during the Cold War period. It combines a history of the UN with a broader account...

If the growing demand for global governance breathed new life into the established G7/8 and the more recent G20, it raised questions about the evol...

Decolonisation and Regional Geopolitics argues that as much as the Congo crisis (1960-1965) was a Cold War battleground, so too was it a battlegrou...

The question of why countries give aid and assistance to other countries has long been a topic of debate- is it altruism, or selfishness? The assum...

This comprehensive collection offers a concise introduction to the institutional framework of the Holy See, conceptualizing papal agency and positi...

The importance of the Prime Minister in British foreign policy decision-making has long been noted by historians. However, while much attention has...

For historians centennial commemorations furnish an excellent heuristic tool for gauging late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century attitudes tow...

This volume is the first detailed study of the emergence of regular and frequent heads of government meetings (summits), covering the period from t...

This volume is the first detailed study of the emergence of regular and frequent heads of government meetings (summits), covering the period from t...

This book tells the dramatic story of the recruitment and training of a group of German communist exiles by the London office of the Office of Stra...

In light of the growing number of African summits and a new awareness of international interdependence during the COVID-19 pandemic, this book prov...

Based on research conducted in archives in six countries, An International History of South America in the Era of Military Rule: Geared for War off...

Sweden is separated from Israel and the Palestinian territories not only by 3,000 kilometers but by nearly polar political differences. While the M...

From the conflict between the United States and the Iranian-backed militias in Iraq and Syria to the recent Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip, eve...

After four decades from the 1982 war between Britain and Argentina over possession of the Falklands/Malvinas islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, t...

Drawing on insights from differentiation theory, this book examines the participation of middle powers in multilateralism. Taking Australia, Indon...

This book presents pieces of evidence, which - taken together - lead to an argument that goes against the grain of the established Cold War narrati...

The purpose of U.S. foreign policy is, at least theoretically, to keep Americans safe. Yet as we confront a radically changed world, it has become ...

Irony in International Politics investigates ironic language in international politics, focusing on how political leaders use irony to articulate f...

Argo meets Spotlight, as journalist Craig Unger, New York Times bestselling author of American Kompromat and House of Bush, House of Saud, reveals ...

At least since Athenian trade sanctions helped to spark the Peloponnesian War, economic coercion has been a prominent tool of foreign policy. In th...

In November 2008, Hillary Clinton agreed to work for her former rival. As President Barack Obama's secretary of state, she set out to repair Americ...