Diplomacy

Two years before T E Lawrence received orders to travel to the Hejaz to liaise with the leader of the Arab Revolt, other British officers had alrea...

Just Hugh is a portrait of Hugh Leach, an end-of-era soldier, diplomat, traveller and, above all, charismatic enthusiast. The title reflects his pa...

The Red Sea is one of the worlds most important trade routes, a theater of power struggle among local, regional and global powers. Military and pol...

George Kennan for Our Time examines the work and thought of the most distinguished American diplomat of the twentieth century and extracts lessons ...

The American pivot or rebalancing to Asia is a central tenant of U.S. President Barack Obama's national security strategy. It envisions shifting Am...

How nonstate military strategies overturn traditional perspectives on warfareSince September 11th, 2001, armed nonstate actors have received increa...

The Peoples Republic of China (PRC) diplomatic engagement with the Middle East spans multiple dimensions, including trade and investment, the energ...

The Rise of the Military Entrepreneur explores how a new kind of international military figure emerged from, and exploited, the seventeenth century...

At a moment when the nuclear nonproliferation regime is under duress, Rebecca Davis Gibbons provides a trenchant analysis of the international syst...

In Civilizational Imperatives, Oliver Charbonneau reveals the little-known history of the United States' colonization of the Philippines' Muslim So...

The riveting story of many of the most dramatic international crises and conflicts of recent years, including everyone from presidents, warlords an...

Carne Ross was a diplomat on the front line of todays most pressing issues, from Israel/Palestine to Afghanistan and Iraq, over which he resigned f...

In The Anatomy of Deception, Abele reconstructs the public dialogue that led to the United States collectively making the decision to invade and oc...

Nearly fifty years since the European Community's Foreign Ministers issued their first declaration on the conflict between Israel and her neighbour...

President Obamas former United States chief of protocol looks at why diplomacy and etiquette matterfrom the international stage to everyday life.Hi...

For over twenty-five years John Dickson served the United States as a Foreign Service officer in North America, South America, the Caribbean, and A...

Over the last decade, expensive and unpopular wars, recession, ballooning debt, and the rise of China and other regional powers have brought the li...

An enthralling, behind-the-scenes account of how the United States forged its wartime alliance with Britain. Citizens of London brings out of hist...

'An honorary consul should be a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you look forward to the trip' - Anon. In these illuminatin...

The United States is a nation in crisis. While Washington's ability to address our most pressing challenges has been rendered nearly impotent by on...

Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2016Frederick Hamiton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, enjoyed a...