International Relations
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Balance of Power: Theory and Practice in the 21st CenturySince the 16th century, balance of power politics have profoundly influenced international relations. But in recent years--with the sudden disappearance of the Soviet Union, growing power of the United States, and increasing prominence of international institutions--many scholars have argued that balance of power theory...
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Toward Nuclear Abolition: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1971-PresentToward Nuclear Abolition presents the inspiring, dramatic story of how citizen activists helped curb the nuclear arms race and prevent nuclear war.Author: Lawrence S. WittnerPublisher: Stanford University PressPublished: 08/06/2003Pages: 688Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 2.06lbsSize: 9.12h x 6.00w x 1.47dISBN: 9780804748629About the AuthorLawrence S. Wittner is...
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Global Transformations: Politics, Economics, and CultureIn this book, the authors set forth a new model of globalization that lays claims to supersede existing models, and then use this model to assess the way the processes of globalization have operated in different historic periods in respect to political organization, military...
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Alignment Despite Antagonism: The United States-Korea-Japan Security TriangleJapan and the Republic of Korea (ROK) have been two of the most critical pillars of peace, stability, and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region for the past thirty years. At the same time, their relationship has fluctuated markedly and unpredictably. Despite the existence of...
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Why Vietnam Invaded Cambodia: Political Culture and the Causes of WarOn December 25, 1978, the armed forces of Vietnam launched a full-scale invasion of Cambodia. That event marked a turning point in the first and only extended war fought between two communist regimes. The Vietnamese forced out Pol Pot's Khmers Rouge regime from its...
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Cultures in Conflict: Encounters Between European and Non-European Cultures, 1492-1800Focusing on the cultural encounters between European explorers and non-European peoples, the author reconstructs the experiences of both sides in case studies that span five continents.Author: Urs BitterliPublisher: Stanford University PressPublished: 06/01/1993Pages: 222Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 9.04h x 6.05w x 0.57dISBN: 9780804721769
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U.S. Intervention and Regime Change in NicaraguaAs President Carter's ambassador to Nicaragua from 1977-1979, Mauricio Solaún witnessed a critical moment in Central American history. In U.S. Intervention and Regime Change in Nicaragua, Solaún outlines the role of U.S. foreign policy during the Carter administration and explains how this policy with...
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Understanding the Arab-Israeli Conflict: What the Headlines Haven't Told YouMichael Rydelnik, professor of Jewish studies at Moody Bible Institute, goes beyond the media images for an in depth, biblically grounded look at the "crisis that never ends"--the conflict between the Israelis and the Arabs. Dr. Rydelnik explores such questions as: Will the violence...
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The Global Divergence of DemocraciesDrawn from outstanding articles published in the Journal of Democracy, The Global Divergence of Democracies follows the enthusiastically received earlier volume, The Global Resurgence of Democracy.The tremendous momentum of democratic expansion that characterized the 1980s and the first half of the 1990s has drawn...
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Unarmed ForcesThroughout the Cold War, people worldwide feared that the U.S. and Soviet governments could not prevent a nuclear showdown. Citizens from both East-bloc and Western countries, among them prominent scientists and physicians, formed networks to promote ideas and policies that would lessen this danger....
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Identity and Foreign Policy in the Middle East: A Future for the HumanitiesMost area specialists recognize the effects of national identity on the regional politics of the Middle East. However, those same specialists have proceeded as if identity matters little for understanding how nations determine their foreign policy in this volatile region. Shibley Telhami and Michael...
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Origins of Major WarOne of the most important questions of human existence is what drives nations to war--especially massive, system-threatening war. Much military history focuses on the who, when, and where of war. In this riveting book, Dale C. Copeland brings attention to bear on why governments...
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Money Unmade: Barter and the Fate of Russian CapitalismSince the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russians have seen the ruble steadily lose ground to alternative means of payment such as barter and privately issued quasi-monies. Industry now collects as much as 70 percent of its receipts in nonmonetary form, leaving many firms...
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Whose Ideas Matter?Asia is a crucial battleground for power and influence in the international system. It is also a theater of new experiments in regional cooperation that could redefine global order. Whose Ideas Matter? is the first book to explore the diffusion of ideas and norms...
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Hierarchy in International RelationsInternational relations are generally understood as a realm of anarchy in which countries lack any superior authority and interact within a Hobbesian state of nature. In Hierarchy in International Relations, David A. Lake challenges this traditional view, demonstrating that states exercise authority over one...
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A Community of Europeans?: Transnational Identities and Public SpheresIn A Community of Europeans?, a thoughtful observer of the ongoing project of European integration evaluates the state of the art about European identity and European public spheres. Thomas Risse argues that integration has had profound and long-term effects on the citizens of EU...
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Think Global, Fear LocalIn 1999, responding to international concerns about the sexual exploitation of children, the Japanese Diet voted unanimously to ban child prostitution and child pornography. Two years later, in the wake of 9/11, Junichiro Koizumi's cabinet radically shifted government counterterrorism policy toward new military solutions,...
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The Ideological Origins of Great Power Politics, 1789-1989How do leaders perceive threat levels in world politics, and what effects do those perceptions have on policy choices? Mark L. Haas focuses on how ideology shapes perception. He does not delineate the content of particular ideologies, but rather the degree of difference among...
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The Peace of Illusions: American Grand Strategy from 1940 to the PresentIn a provocative book about American hegemony, Christopher Layne outlines his belief that U.S. foreign policy has been consistent in its aims for more than sixty years and that the current Bush administration clings to mid-twentieth-century tactics--to no good effect. What should the nation's...
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The Endtimes of Human Rights"We are living through the endtimes of the civilizing mission. The ineffectual International Criminal Court and its disastrous first prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, along with the failure in Syria of the Responsibility to Protect are the latest pieces of evidence not of transient misfortunes but...
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