The increasing complexity of the world's problems has escalated both the need for international policy coordination. With that in mind, the contributors to this volume assess what happens to the distribution of power when policymakers rely on the counsel of technical experts to make decisions of international importance. Because the way states identify and respond to problems depends not only on how policymakers understand of the issues but also on how the issues are represented by their advisers, the contributors examine the growing role that epistemic communities play in several areas:...
The increasing complexity of the world's problems has escalated both the need for international policy coordination. With that in mind, the contributo...
This text seeks to fulfil the promise made in The Elusive Quest to offer an alternative way of thinking about relations among polities. It attempts to shift the discipline's traditional focus from a world of territorially bounded sovereign states to an ever-changing variety of overlapping, layered, and politically functioning collectives.
This text seeks to fulfil the promise made in The Elusive Quest to offer an alternative way of thinking about relations among polities. It attempts to...
Rivalries are one of the most important and most misunderstood elements in world politics. While studies of wars, crises, and disputes are common in the international arena, scholars have been slow to appreciate that these violent events tend to be the outcomes of protracted conflict relationships. Rather than focus solely on the dramatic outbursts of interstate feuds, studies are beginning to examine their antecedents and view rivalries as ongoing processes.
Great Power Rivalries edited by William R. Thompson concentrates on major interstate rivalries of the past 500 years, ranging from...
Rivalries are one of the most important and most misunderstood elements in world politics. While studies of wars, crises, and disputes are common in t...
Five Swiss and one American scholar of international relations and political science question whether or not it is sensible to buy cooperation in arms control from critical states by offering them money, technology, know-how, or other goodies. Combining social science theory with empirical studies, they examine seven explicit deals, analyzing in detail the transfer of two light water reactors and oil to North Korea and of considerable resources to Ukraine.
Five Swiss and one American scholar of international relations and political science question whether or not it is sensible to buy cooperation in arms...
After providing an overview of the various postmodern and poststructuralist theories that have infiltrated the field of international relations, Jarvis (government and international relations, U. of Sydney, Australia) argues that because of the "Third Debate", theory in this discipline has become too abstract and unrelated to the subject matter, leaving international relations' theoretical understanding of global political relations weak and disconnected with reality.
After providing an overview of the various postmodern and poststructuralist theories that have infiltrated the field of international relations, Jarvi...
Almost since the founding of the discipline of international relations, scholars have debated about appropriate ways to describe, study, and explain the realm of human behavior that has to do with relations among states and peoples. Such scholarly discussion, however enlightening, has in recent years also led to polarizations of views, fragmentations of interests and attention, and bouts of intolerance within the field. In this collection of essays by eight prominent scholars, each of whom presents a divergent ontological, epistemological, or methodolodical view on the study of international...
Almost since the founding of the discipline of international relations, scholars have debated about appropriate ways to describe, study, and explain t...
This book is a study of Jimmy Carter s career, his approach to human rights, his formulation of goals, and his practices before, during, and after his presidency, with a focus on the extent to which the promotion and protection of human rights influenced his actions at home and abroad. Historians underestimate the uniqueness of the juncture in the 1970s when Carter missed an opportunity to change priorities in American diplomacy, a misreading that might be explained by the disparity between Carter s agenda and the reality created by his administration s record. This book identifies and...
This book is a study of Jimmy Carter s career, his approach to human rights, his formulation of goals, and his practices before, during, and after his...
This book aims to take the reader on a journey along the intricate web of Turkish-American relations. It critically examines the process, during which the relations evolved from those of strangers into an occasionally troubled, yet resilient alliance. Through the extensive use of Turkish, American and British archival documents and numerous private paper and manuscript collections, the book examines Turkish-American relations from 1800 to 1952, starting with the earliest contacts and ending with the institutionalization of the alliance after Turkey's entry into NATO. Its purpose is to...
This book aims to take the reader on a journey along the intricate web of Turkish-American relations. It critically examines the process, during wh...
This examination of the 1991 uprisings in Iraq demonstrates how external intervention by the UN and other actors in ethnic conflicts has contributed to the problems with democratization experienced in the post-Saddam era.
This examination of the 1991 uprisings in Iraq demonstrates how external intervention by the UN and other actors in ethnic conflicts has contribute...
In Democracy and International Conflict, James Lee Ray defends the idea, so optimistically advanced by diplomats in the wake of the Soviet Union's demise and so hotly debated by international relations scholars, that democratic states do not initiate war against one another and therefore offer an avenue to universal peace. Ray acknowledges that despite persuasive theoretical arguments and empirical evidence in favor of this idea, the democratic peace proposition is susceptible to attack on three points: the statistical rarity of both international wars and democracies; the difficulty in...
In Democracy and International Conflict, James Lee Ray defends the idea, so optimistically advanced by diplomats in the wake of the Soviet Union's dem...
