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Angela E. Stent is Professor of Government at Georgetown University. Her previous books include From Embargo to Ostpolitik and Areas of Challenge for Soviet Foreign Policy in the 1980s.
The relationship between Russia and Germany has been pivotal in some of the most fateful events of the twentieth century: the two World Wars, the Cold War, and the emergence of a new Europe from the ashes of communism. This is the first book to examine the recent...
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La presente obra ofrece un recorrido por las declaraciones de más de 70 periodistas que trabajan para diarios de América Latina y España responsables de crear los estereotipos existentes sobre el Gobierno venezolano. Redactores, editores, columnistas y editorialistas nos relatan cómo cubren la información generada en dicho país, el funcionamiento interno de sus redacciones, los secretos y vicios de la profesión periodística. Las confesiones...
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A blue ribbon collection of major articles and position papers on the concept of globalization. By bringing together a number of major thinkers and different perspectives, this book provides a broad introduction to the topic and lays the groundwork for an interdisciplinary collaborative dialogue. Contributors include Kofi Annan, Benjamin Barber, Francis Fukuyama, Samuel Huntington, Robert Kaplan, Paul Kennedy, Walter Lacqueur, Bill McKibben, Lester...
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Aspen Policy Books is a series of annual publications that address the United States' most formidable and pressing national security and foreign policy challenges. This edition is a collection of papers commissioned for the 2018 Aspen Strategy Group Summer Workshop, a bipartisan meeting of national security experts, academics, private sector leaders, and technologists. The introduction by Nicholas Burns, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., and Condoleezza Rice provides...
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Explaining how the U.S. withdrawal from the Middle East could have long-term consequences as other forces come forward to fill the gap, Russell A. Berman details how the retreat began and how the reduction of the U.S. commitment has, in turn, set off a wave of repercussions. He analyzes what motivates such a retreat, how much it is a choice of the Obama administration, and how much it is rooted in U.S. cultural leanings that could outlast the administration....
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Joanne Gowa is Professor of World Politics of Peace and War at Princeton University. She is the author of Allies, Adversaries, and International Trade (Princeton) and Closing the Gold Window: Domestic Politics and the End of Bretton Woods.
There is a widespread belief, among both political scientists and government policymakers, that "democracies don't fight each other." Here Joanne Gowa challenges that belief. In a thorough, systematic critique,...
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The book is based on the findings, the study recommends the following to the policymakers. Firstly, the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE) has to rethink the vision and mission of the ministries and develop their capacities accordingly. Secondly, new strategies should be designed and introduced at different levels coupling with efficient follow-up system. Besides, practice-oriented training has to be organized on systems thinking and boundary...
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La historia que explica la fuerza del TEA PARTY y por qué la izquierda ya no entiende la furia de la gente común.
"El enigmático espectáculo de un suicidio colectivo a gran escala siempre resulta fascinante. Pensemos en los cientos de seguidores de la secta de Jim Jones que ingirieron, obedientes, veneno en su campamento de la Guyana. En el terreno económico, eso mismo está sucediendo hoy en Kansas. Ése es el objeto de este excelente libro...
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Con el auge de los partidos nacionalistas de extrema derecha en todo el continente y las negociaciones para el Brexit, la Unión Europea está más desorganizada y llena de dudas que nunca. El reconocido intelectual Ivan Krastev reflexiona en este provocativo libro sobre el futuro de la Unión Europea y los desafíos a los que se enfrenta. Según el autor, si la UE se derrumba, la lógica de su fragmentación será más la del pánico bancario que...
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Contrary to an optimistic vision of a world "flattened" by the virtues of globalization, the sustainability and positive outcomes of economic and political homogenization are far from guaranteed. For better and for worse, globalization has become the most powerful force shaping the world's geopolitical landscape, whether it has meant integration or fragmentation, peace or war. The future partly depends on how new economic giants such as China, India,...
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International 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 another in international hierarchies that vary historically but are still pervasive today.
Revisiting the concepts of authority and sovereignty,...
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Through the use of logic, simulation, and empirical data, Benjamin A. Most and Harvey Starr develop and demonstrate a nuanced and more appropriate conceptualization of explanation in international relations and foreign policy in Inquiry, Logic, and International Politics. They demonstrate that a concern with the logical underpinnings of research raises a series of theoretical, conceptual, and epistemological issues that must be addressed if theory...
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In this book, Fouad Ajami analyzes the struggle for influence along the Fertile Crescent-the stretch of land that runs from Iran's border with Iraq to the Mediterranean-among three of the regional powers who have stepped into the vacuum left by the West: Iran, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia. He explains that, of the three powers competing for influence, Saudi Arabia and Iran are in it for the long haul. Each of those powers has a sense of mission and constituencies...
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William Zimmerman is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Open Borders, Nonalignment, and the Political Evolution of Yugoslavia and Soviet Perspectives on International Relations (both Princeton), and Culture and Politics in Yugoslavia. He is also the editor or coeditor of three volumes, including Behavior, Culture, and...
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Transition to Peace, Burundi 1993-2008, is an original and in-depth examination of the involvement of the international community in Burundi's transition from the ravages of the civil war from 1993 to the achievement of peace in 2008. Having lived and worked in Burundi during those years of conflict, and subsequent doctoral research, Dr. Penklis offers a unique insight into the complex and dynamic implementation of the peacemaking and peacebuilding...
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Uneasy Partnerships presents the analysis and insights of practitioners and scholars who have shaped and examined China's interactions with key Northeast Asian partners. Using the same empirical approach employed in the companion volume, The New Great Game (Stanford, 2016), this new text analyzes the perceptions, priorities, and policies of China and its partners to explain why dyadic relationships evolved as they have during China's "rise." Synthesizing...
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T. V. Paul, Professor of Political Science at McGill University, has published six books including India in the World Order. G. John Ikenberry, Peter F. Krogh Professor of Geopolitics and Global Justice at Georgetown University, is the author of After Victory (Princeton), which received the Robert L. Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder Prize for 2002 from the American Political Science Association as the best book in the area of international history and...
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Thomas Risse-Kappen is Professor of International Relations at the University of Konstanz, Germany, and International Relations Chair at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He is the editor of Bringing Transnational Relations Back In.
In exploring the special nature of alliances among democracies, Thomas Risse-Kappen argues that the West European and Canadian allies exerted greater influence on American foreign policy during the...
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At the conclusion of World War II, Asia was hardly more than a geographic expression. Yet today we recognize Asia as a vibrant and assertive region, fully transformed from the vulnerable nation-states that emerged following the Second World War. The transformation was by no means an inevitable one, but the product of two key themes that have dominated Asia's international relations since 1945: the competition between the United States and the Soviet...
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China: The Stealth Empire asks why it is that China despite its size and once advanced culture and technology did not become a world power centuries ago? Burman traces the answer through Chinese innate sense of superiority which made foreign conquest and trade an irrelevance. This is about to change with the evolution of what is termed the Stealth Empire characterised by world dominance in the production of consumer goods, a growing share of world...
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