International Relations

Several dramatic changes in international relations at the end of the 20th century seemed to suggest that rivalries (and the conflicts that often r...

This readable book introduces students to the U.S. intelligence community, the functions of intelligence, and the mechanisms that are to provide pu...

Following periods of mass atrocity and oppression, states are faced with a question of critical importance in the transition to democracy: how to o...

The most typical treatment of international relations is to conceive it as a battle between two antagonistic states volleying back and forth. In re...

This book addresses two questions that are crucial to the human condition in the twenty-first century: does globalization promote security or fuel ...

The Sino-Russian Challenge to the World Order is the third volume in Gilbert Rozman's trilogy on national identity. The first two volumes, edited b...

Since the Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks, no state has unleashed nuclear weapons. What explains this? According to the author, the answer lies in a...

The Long Shadow is the first comprehensive, systematic examination of the roles and implications of nuclear weapons in the dramatically different p...

Alliances are characterized by an inherent struggle for power between the allies themselves to deal with a common external enemy. Yet diplomatic hi...

In My Voice Is My Weapon, David A. McDonald rethinks the conventional history of the Palestinian crisis through an ethnographic analysis of music a...

Arms control and nonproliferation treaties are among the fingers in the dike preventing the unthinkable nuclear, biological, and chemical catastrop...

This student-friendly text provides a detailed and up-to-date assessment of Japan's foreign policy since 1945, including policy options and choices...

This timely work presents cutting-edge analysis of the problems of U.S. foreign assistance programs - why these problems have not been solved in th...

There are important reasons for the distinct yet significant course adjustments in American and Western foreign policy, which currently focuses on ...

Maritime security is of vital importance to the South China Sea, a critical sea route for maritime transport of East Asian countries including Chin...

Yu Zheng challenges the idea that democracy is the prerequisite for developing countries to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) and promote eco...

Making Diplomacy Work: Intelligent Innovation for the Modern World is a critical and comprehensive survey of how diplomacy works. While most discus...

One Alliance, Two Lenses examines U.S.-Korea relations in a short but dramatic period (1992–2003) that witnessed the end of the Cold War, South Kor...

The Long Shadow is the first comprehensive, systematic examination of the roles and implications of nuclear weapons in the dramatically different p...

In My Voice Is My Weapon, David A. McDonald rethinks the conventional history of the Palestinian crisis through an ethnographic analysis of music a...