International Relations
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Pop Culture, Politics, and the News: Entertainment Journalism in the Polarized Media LandscapeIn Pop Culture, Politics, and the News, Joel Penney explores how pop culture news has taken on an important role in contemporary political discourse. Through coverage of topics like Hollywood diversity, celebrity controversy, and cancel culture backlash, entertainment journalism has emerged as a key...
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Improbable DiplomatsIn 1971, Americans made two historic visits to China that would transform relations between the two countries. One was by US official Henry Kissinger; the other, earlier, visit was by the US table tennis team. Historians have mulled over the transcripts of Kissinger's negotiations...
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China in the Eyes of the JapaneseThe relation between China and Japan is one of the most important bilateral relationships in the world but how did the Japanese view China in ancient times? How did views change throughout the course of history? How could China's image be improved in Japanese...
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Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates: Foreign Policy and Strategic Alliances in an Uncertain WorldThe year 1973 is usually considered the great equaliser among major oil producers. But the 'Visions' strategies of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, a so-called middle power and small state in the Middle East regional system, point to broadening economic relations as...
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Subcontinent Adrift: Strategic Futures of South AsiaWhile several books have examined the security challenges faced by India and Pakistan in isolation as well as the strategies they have each adopted in response, Subcontinent Adrift places the two sets of clashing outlooks, policies, and strategies together and analyzes the causes and...
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Global International Relations: Origins and EvolutionInternational relations deals with the relationships between political bodies and the wider world-systems created by their interactions. These entities include sovereign states, inter-governmental organizations, international non-governmental organizations, other multinational corporations. International relations is both an academic and a public policy field and studies politics,...
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International Relations from the Global South: Worlds of DifferenceThis exciting new textbook challenges the implicit notions inherent in most existing International Relations (IR) scholarship and instead presents the subject as seen from different vantage points in the global South. Divided into four sections, (1) the IR discipline, (2) key concepts and categories,...
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Atlantic Lives: A Comparative Approach to Early AmericaAtlantic Lives offers insight into the lived experiences of a range of actors in the early modern Atlantic World. Organized thematically, each chapter features primary source selections from a variety of non-traditional sources, including travel narratives from West Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America....
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Leaders and International ConflictChiozza and Goemans seek to explain why and when political leaders decide to initiate international crises and wars. They argue that the fate of leaders and the way leadership changes shapes leaders' decisions to initiate international conflict. Leaders who anticipate regular removal from office,...
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PeacelandThis book suggests a new explanation for why international peace interventions often fail to reach their full potential. Based on several years of ethnographic research in conflict zones around the world, it demonstrates that everyday elements - such as the expatriates' social habits and...
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The Outbreak of the First World War: Structure, Politics, and Decision-MakingThe First World War had profound consequences both for the evolution of the international system and for domestic political systems. How and why did the war start? Offering a unique interdisciplinary perspective, this volume brings together a distinguished group of diplomatic historians and international...
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Patterns of Empire: The British and American Empires, 1688 to the PresentPatterns of Empire comprehensively examines the two most powerful empires in modern history: the United States and Britain. Challenging the popular theory that the American empire is unique, Patterns of Empire shows how the policies, practices, forms, and historical dynamics of the American empire...
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The Making of International Human RightsThis book fundamentally reinterprets the history of international human rights in the post-1945 era by documenting how pivotal the Global South was for their breakthrough. In stark contrast to other contemporary human rights historians who have focused almost exclusively on the 1940s and the...
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Judgment in Moscow: Soviet Crimes and Western Complicity"The movers and shakers of today have little interest in digging for the truth. Who knows what one may come up with? You may start out with the Communists and end up with yourself." --Vladimir BukovskyBukovsky's Judgment in Moscow, called "stunning" by Richard Pipes...
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Destroying Libya and World Order: The Three-Decade U.S. Campaign to Terminate the Qaddafi RevolutionIt took three decades for the United States government-spanning and working assiduously over five different presidential administrations (Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II, and Obama)-to overthrow and reverse the 1969 Qaddafi Revolution in order to resubjugate Libya, seize control over its oil fields, and...
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Bedtime and Other Stories from the President's Guest HouseBenedicte Valentiner invites the reader behind the scenes of one of the world's most prestigious official guest houses: the historic, charming, and beautiful Blair House, across from the White House. For more than thirteen years Mrs. V hosted Chiefs of State and Heads of...
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Samudra Manthan: Sino-Indian Rivalry in the Indo-PacificRising China and emerging India are becoming major maritime powers. As they build large navies to secure their growing interests, both nations are roiling the waters of the Indo-Pacific--the vast littoral stretching from Africa to Australasia. Invoking a tale from Hindu mythology-- Samudra Manthan...
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Arab MediaEver since the events of 9/11, great attention has been paid to Arab mass media by politicians, experts and journalists around the world. Many have argued that Arab media has been the catalyst for various political and social developments ranging from democracy to political...
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Beyond NATO: A New Security Architecture for Eastern EuropeIn this new Brookings Marshall Paper, Michael O'Hanlon argues that now is the time for Western nations to negotiate a new security architecture for neutral countries in eastern Europe to stabilize the region and reduce the risks of war with Russia. He believes NATO...
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Massive Entanglement, Marginal Influence: Carter and Korea in Crisis" Using extensive documentation, this book examines how President Jimmy Carter's troop withdrawal and human rights policies--conceived in abstraction from East Asian realities--contributed to the demise of Korean President Park Chung Hee. The author suggests that some lessons are relevant beyond Korea, for example,...
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