International Relations

Several published reports indicate that top Israeli decision-makers now are seriously considering whether to order a military strike on Iran''''s n...

What is the peacekeeper's role in the 21st century? Peacekeeping, peace enforcement and 'stability operations' ask soldiers to use violence to crea...

This book represents research conducted over a two-year period on the politico-diplomatic relations between Italy and the United States in the mid-...

Why has the relationship between the state and the Islamic revivalist movement known commonly as 'Wahhabism' persisted under Saudi rule since 1744?...

At the port of Yokohama in 1907, Okina Ky?in boarded the steamship Kaga Maru, bound for America. For this ambitious young man, Japanese-American ne...

For most Americans, Cambodia was a sideshow to the war in Vietnam, but by the time of the Vietnam invasion of Democratic Kampuchea in 1978 and the ...

World War I plays a central role in many of the theoretical debates among scholars of international politics. Taking advantage of recent advances i...

Despite its fascinating history, the attention paid by North American historians to Uruguay, a nation nestled in the corner of South America betwee...

Responding to the changes that have swept across North Africa since the first edition of this book was published, Erik Jensen sheds new light on th...

In recent years, the Euro-American powers have made multiple armed incursions into Africa. The election of President Obama, greeted by Africans as ...

The first of a three-volume series on the interaction of the US and China in different regions of the world, China, the United States, and the Futu...

During the Cold War, the United States was forced to establish means of massive long-range attack in response to Soviet Union advancements in weapo...

Why did the Truman administration reject a pragmatic approach to the Taiwan Strait conflict-recognizing Beijing and severing ties with Taipei-and i...

The roots of isolationism in the United States can be traced back to the American Revolution. As a young nation, the United States limited its invo...

Because Chavez is breaking all of the rules, we are all struggling to be better informed about what he is up to and how to interpret his actions at...

This book offers a unique analysis that deepens our understanding of U.S.-East Asian relations. In the period between the Sino-Japanese War in the ...

After the end of the Cold War and a failed mission in Somalia, the US decided to wash its hands of major military operations in Africa. Within the ...

Academic exchange is one of the cornerstones of public diplomacy. Receiving foreign academics is one way of influencing foreign elites in an attemp...