ilość książek w kategorii: 8733
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A Concise Encyclopedia of the United Nations: Second Revised Edition
ISBN: 9789004180048 / Angielski / Twarda / 980 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How can we approach the complex United Nations system, a 'family'of principal organs, subsidiary organs and specialized agencies? Where do we get summarizing information on the large number of reform concepts developed and implemented since the late 1990s, in particular in connection with the UN World Summit 2005? The present book provides orientation and information: It is the second updated English edition of the German "Lexikon der Vereinten Nationen". The book provides in addition to concise and comprehensive information on the UN system insight into recent UN developments and...
How can we approach the complex United Nations system, a 'family'of principal organs, subsidiary organs and specialized agencies? Where do we get summ...
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The European Minority Rights Regime: Towards a Theory of Regime Effectiveness
ISBN: 9780230236462 / Angielski / Twarda / 213 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Evaluates the nature of the international governance of minority rights in the context of the enlargement of the European Union. This book examines the origin and development of the European Minority Rights Regime paying particular attention to the institutions, policies and actions of European organisations.
Evaluates the nature of the international governance of minority rights in the context of the enlargement of the European Union. This book examines th...
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Chinese Perceptions of the U.S.: An Exploration of China's Foreign Policy Motivations
ISBN: 9780739170854 / Angielski / Twarda / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "China threat" has been one of hotly debated topics since the early 1990s, and this book is an effort to test the China threat thesis. The author argues that a test of the China threat thesis requires addressing two fundamental questions: whether China has the capabilities to challenge the international system and whether China has the motivations to do so. This book will offer a systematic study of China's foreign policy motivations by resorting to an image approach. The conclusion as to whether China is a status quo or a revisionist country will be reached by exploring how consideration of...
"China threat" has been one of hotly debated topics since the early 1990s, and this book is an effort to test the China threat thesis. The author argu...
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499,57 |
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Conference Diplomacy: An Introductory Analysis
ISBN: 9780333646359 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How can a delegation to a conference get its initiative adopted, or another delegation's proposal rejected? How is a conference delegation composed? What is a permanent mission? What effect can an inefficient conference president have? In which way can secretariats of international organizations influence the results of international conferences? The answers to these questions can be found in Johan Kaufmann's path-breaking Conference Diplomacy, originally published in 1968. Conference Diplomacy will be useful to junior and senior diplomats, and to international civil servants. It has found,...
How can a delegation to a conference get its initiative adopted, or another delegation's proposal rejected? How is a conference delegation composed? W...
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181,11 |
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The Rhetoric of Soft Power: Public Diplomacy in Global Contexts
ISBN: 9780739142585 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Rhetoric of Soft Power: Public Diplomacy in Global Contexts provides a comparative assessment of public diplomacy and strategic communication initiatives in order to portray how Joseph Nye's notion of "soft power" has translated into context-specific strategies of international influence. The book examines four cases--Japan, Venezuela, China, and the United States--to illuminate the particular significance of culture, foreign publics, and communication technologies for the foreign policy ambitions of each country. This study explores the notion of soft power as a set of theoretical...
The Rhetoric of Soft Power: Public Diplomacy in Global Contexts provides a comparative assessment of public diplomacy and strategic communication init...
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533,85 |
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Unsilencing the Past: Track-Two Diplomacy and Turkish-Armenian Reconciliation
ISBN: 9781845450076 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Phillips's firsthand information and analysis are extremely useful...an indispensable source...a profound, interesting, and challenging book." - Peace, Conflict and Development: An Interdisciplinary Journal
The Turkish-Armenian conflict has lasted for nearly a century and still continues in attenuated forms to poison the relationship between these two peoples. The author, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations and previously advisor to the United Nations, undertook, as head of the Turkish-Armenian Reconciliation... "Phillips's firsthand information and analysis are extremely useful...an indispensable source...a profound, interesting, and challenging book." - Peac...
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To Stay and Deliver: Good Practice for Humanitarians in Complex Security Environments
ISBN: 9789211320312 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Providing humanitarian assistance amid conflict has always been a dangerous and difficult endeavour. However, over the past decade, violent attacks against aid workers - resulting in killing, kidnapping and serious injury - have tripled, reaching over 100 assaults per year. From 2005 onwards, the largest numbers of security incidents on humanitarian personnel have been concentrated in a limited number of countries representing the most difficult and volatile operating environments. Even as aid workers come under increasing attack, however, they find ways to continue delivering life-saving...
Providing humanitarian assistance amid conflict has always been a dangerous and difficult endeavour. However, over the past decade, violent attacks ag...
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58,73 |
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The United Nations in the Congo from 1960-64: Critical Assessment of a Tragic Intervention
ISBN: 9783640604906 / Angielski / Miękka / 20 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Africa, language: English, abstract: The role of the United Nations and the West in the Congo between 1960 and 1964 can only be characterised as a tragedy. We are still witnessing the consequences of the myopic and misguided policies that were pursued by UN officials and western leaders at the time. This paper elucidates the story of how Lumumba was first betrayed and then murdered. It analyses how historians and political scientists have treated the conflict and suggests ways in which scholars from the two...
Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Africa, language: English, abstract: The role of the United Nation...
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141,21 |
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Conflicts and Wars: Their Fallout and Prevention
ISBN: 9781137020949 / Angielski / Twarda / 201 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explaining how the price of aggression is low enough that governments do not avoid conflicts, this book uses examples drawn from recent conflicts in the Persian Gulf to examine many dimensions of costs incurred by warfare and proposes a private sector solution to warfare's low cost.
Explaining how the price of aggression is low enough that governments do not avoid conflicts, this book uses examples drawn from recent conflicts in t...
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201,24 |
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Canada/US and Other Unfriendly Relations: Before and After 9/11
ISBN: 9781137023407 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Molloy depicts a relationship between Canada and the US based on envy, rivalry, and misunderstanding. Drawing on a range of disciplines including sociology, international relations, and cultural studies, she examines contentious events in Canada/US relations and their connections to each country's political identity.
Molloy depicts a relationship between Canada and the US based on envy, rivalry, and misunderstanding. Drawing on a range of disciplines including soci...
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201,24 |
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Saudi Arabia in the New Middle East
ISBN: 9780876095164 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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U.S-Turkey Relations: A New Partnership
ISBN: 9780876095256 / Angielski / Miękka / 83 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Council on Foreign Relations-sponsored Independent Task Force report examines the various trends in Turkey and assesses their consequences for U.S. policy toward the country and the region more broadly. The report begins by taking stock of the modern U.S.-Turkey relationship, noting strains over the past decade stemming from differences over policy toward Iraq. The Task Force then considers the political, social, and economic reforms Ankara has made in recent years along with threats to further progress. The report also includes a discussion of Turkey's potential role as a regional...
This Council on Foreign Relations-sponsored Independent Task Force report examines the various trends in Turkey and assesses their consequences for U....
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In the Name of Pauk-Phaw: Myanmar's China Policy Since 1948
ISBN: 9789814345170 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since its independence in January 1948, Myanmar has tried to find a way to deal with (at one time) ideologically hostile and traditionally chauvinistic China which has pursued a foreign policy aimed at restoring its perceived influence in Myanmar. To counter China's attempts to influence Myanmar's foreign policy options has always been a challenge for the Myanmar government. Since the 1950s, successive Myanmar governments have realized that Myanmar's bilateral relations with the People's Republic of China should best be conducted in the context of promoting the Five Principles of Peaceful...
Since its independence in January 1948, Myanmar has tried to find a way to deal with (at one time) ideologically hostile and traditionally chauvinisti...
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186,11 |
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United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, 1982
ISBN: 9789024731459 / Angielski / Twarda / 470 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These commentaries are based almost entirely on the formal and informal documentation of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS III, 1973-1982), coupled, where necessary, with the personal knowledge of editors, contributors, or reviewers, many of whom were principal negotiators or UN personnel who participated in the Conference.
These commentaries are based almost entirely on the formal and informal documentation of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UN...
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MDG Gap Task Force Report 2011 : The Global Partnership for Development - Time to Deliver
ISBN: 9789211012453 / Angielski / Miękka / 70 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Significant gaps remain in delivering on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the areas of aid, trade, debt relief, access to new technologies and affordable essential medicines. This Report monitors the progress made in achieving the targets of MDG 8, including continued attention to the impact of the global crisis on meeting the targets set under MDG 8 and embedding any new commitments resulting from the High-level Plenary Meeting of the 65th session of the General Assembly on the MDGs into the monitoring process. Policy coherence is a central theme of the 2011 issue of the Report,...
Significant gaps remain in delivering on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the areas of aid, trade, debt relief, access to new technologies a...
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Second Assessment of Transboundary Rivers, Lakes and Groundwaters
ISBN: 9789211170528 / Angielski / Miękka / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The key goal of the second Assessment of Transboundary Rivers, Lakes and Groundwaters is to keep the state of shared water resources in Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia under scrutiny. It aims to facilitate informed decision-making on their management, provide the basis for continuous bilateral and multilateral cooperation under the Water Convention, and support all actors involved at the national, transboundary and regional levels. More than 150 transboundary rivers, 40 lakes and some 200 transboundary groundwater occurrences have been assessed in close cooperation with the national...
The key goal of the second Assessment of Transboundary Rivers, Lakes and Groundwaters is to keep the state of shared water resources in Europe, Caucas...
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308,55 |
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The Middle Power Project: Canada and the Founding of the United Nations
ISBN: 9780774812474 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Middle Power Project describes a defining period of Canadian and international history. During the Second World War, Canada transformed itself from British dominion to self-proclaimed middle power. It became an active, enthusiastic, and idealistic participant in the creation of one of the longest lasting global institutions of recent times -- the United Nations. This was, in many historians? opinions, the beginning of a golden age in Canadian diplomacy. Chapnick suggests that the golden age may not have been so lustrous. During the UN negotiations, Canadian policymakers... The Middle Power Project describes a defining period of Canadian and international history. During the Second World War, Canada transformed ... |
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426,10 |
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Treaty Series 2420 I: 43650-43680
ISBN: 9789219003989 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Treaty Series 2419 2007 I: 43644-43649
ISBN: 9789219003972 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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From Yalta to Panmunjom
ISBN: 9780939657643 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hua's riveting account of Truman's eight years from 1945 to 1953. Hua is a born storyteller. . . . He confers depth and sharpness on his writing by placing events within historical context. --China Review InternationalDemonstrates a deep understanding of the conflicts and divisions within the 'big four' . . . a thoroughly researched account that acknowledges the complexities of the issues . . . Hua's study challenges many assumptions about the postwar period. . . . A good springboard for further research. --American Historical Review Hua's riveting account of Truman's eight years from 1945 to 1953. Hua is a born storyteller. . . . He confers depth and sharpness on his writing by... |
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