Kategoria BISAC: Political Science >> International Relations - General

International Peacebuilding offers a concise, practical and accessible introduction to the growing field of peacebuilding for students and practitioners.

This new textbook comprises three parts, each dealing with a key aspect of peacebuilding:

• Part I defines the core concepts and theoretical discussions that provide the philosophical grounds for contemporary peacebuilding activities.
• Part II divides the procedures of peacebuilding into three phases and examines some of the important features of each phase.
• Part III examines the key areas of the...

This revealing book illustrates how the passion for war was fostered and promoted. The author provides detailed evidence of how and why an image of Germany as a nation determined upon world hegemony was deliberately promoted by a group of British newspaper editors, proprietors and journalists. This book examines the role of these 'scaremongers'. Were they as influential as their critics claimed? Did they influence the minds of their readers and shape events? Were they guilty of creating a climate of opinion that ensured that their prophecies of inevitable Anglo-German war became fact in...

The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations first edition was winner of the ISA-Northeast s Yale H. Ferguson Award, and the ISA Theory Section s Best Book of the Year award.

The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations provides an introduction to the philosophy of science issues and their implications for the study of global politics. The author draws attention to the problems caused by the misleading notion of a single unified scientific method, and proposes a framework that clarifies the variety of ways that IR scholars establish the authority and validity of their...

We live in a visual age. Images play an essential role in shaping international events and our understanding of them. Photographs, cinema, television and new media sources all influence how we view and approach phenomena as diverse as war, humanitarian crises, protest movements and election campaigns.

This exciting new textbook draws together the leading scholars in the field and presents the first comprehensive guide to the visual in global politics

Featuring a broad range of topics such as war, terrorism, security, foreign policy, social movements and democratization,...

Bruce Kuniholm takes a regional perspective to focus on postwar diplomacy in Iran, Turkey, and Greece and efforts in these countries to maintain their independence from the Great Powers. Drawing on a wide variety of secondary sources, government documents, private papers, unpublished memoirs, and extensive interviews with key figures, he shows how the traditional struggle for power along the Northern Tier was a major factor in the origins and development of the Cold War between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.

Originally published in 1980.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the...