Kategoria BISAC: Political Science >> International Relations - Treaties

This book uses the case of Northern Ireland to evaluate a number of important theoretical approaches in International Relations. Building from theory, it explores the Good Friday or Belfast Agreement, looking at the negotiation process before the signing, the difficult implementation period that followed and the continuing challenges to peace in the region.

Contributors to the collection investigate a wide range of topics, including the function of deception in promoting peace, the question of partition and how it was reimagined by nationalists such as John Hume, and how the...

This book examines India's relationship with Iran since the post-World War II period and its unique search for meaningful bilateral ties in the West Asian region in the context of the changing regional and international scenarios. The four chapters highlight the achievements and constraints on the development of Indo-Iranian relations during the Cold War era; opportunities and limitations in bilateral engagements between India and Iran in the aftermath of the Cold War; impact of the 'US factor' on the development of crucial Indo-Iranian energy ties and the limitation imposed by India's...

- Vladimir] Putin's aggression makes the possibility of a war in Europe between nuclear-armed adversaries frighteningly real, - writes Kimberly Marten in a new Council Special Report on tensions between Russia and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). She outlines how U.S. policymakers can deter Russian aggression with robust support for NATO, while reassuring Russia of NATO's defensive intentions through clear words and actions based in international law.

Marten, a professor of political science at Barnard College, Columbia University, and director of the...

With a New Introduction by Jörg Kammerhofer, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Department of Law. Parallel text in French and English. This title is one of the most important documents in the establishment of the Permanent Court of International Justice (1920–1946). Because the Statute of the Permanent Court was taken over by the International Court of Justice (since 1945) nearly unchanged, it remains of enormous practical and scholarly importance today.

In effect, this is the only documentary evidence we have of the drafters’ train of thought. More than a historical...