Anglo-French Relations in the Twentieth Century
by Alan Sharp, Glyn Stone, and Professor Glyn A Stone
Anglo-French Relations in the Twentieth Century is a collection of studies on the key episodes of the difficult and often discordant Anglo-French exchange over the past century. The authors critically re-evaluate: * the role of Spain in Anglo-French relations up to 1918 * the missed opportunity of the 1920s with the failure of France and Britain to find sufficient common ground and co-operation * the short-lived Anglo-French alliance and the Second World War * the degree of Anglo-French Impe...
International Sanctions (Cass Series on Peacekeeping)
The main theme of the book is that the new types of sanctions constitute a challenge to the international system. First, there are more of the targeted sanctions, including financial, travel, aviation, special commodity and arms sanctions. Furthermore, there are considerable but varied practices in implementation. Also there are now sanctions by new actors (regional bodies, international organizations). These all put new strains on international bodies in carrying out sanctions or getting member...
Fundament der Demokratie. Das Wahlrecht auf der zentralen staatlichen Ebene in Deutschland seit 1871
by Regina Pahling
Japanese-German Relations, 1895 1945: War, Diplomacy and Public Opinion (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia)
United States and Britain (United States in the World: Foreign Perspectives)
by H.G. Nicholas
"The writers represented are somewhat more diverse than is usual in collections of this sort (they include Dante, Erasmus, Kant, Lorenz, and Rawls). Kainz has helpfully arranged the selections in six categories, each emphasizing a different means of achieving peace (ranging from world government to psychological mechanisms to considerations of justice). The brevity and accessibility of most of the excerpts, together with the fact that each is placed in context by a brief introductory note, would...
A full history of the Tunisian revolution, from its roots decades ago to the ongoing process of becoming a democracy GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748691036', 'ISBN:9780748691043', 'ISBN:9780748691050', 'ISBN:9780748691067']); From late 2010 to the present day, the Arab world has been shot through with insurrection and revolt. As a result, Tunisia is now seen as the unlikely birthplace and exemplar of the process of democratisation long overdue in the Arab world. Mixing political, hist...
Climatic Cataclysm
Global climate change poses not only environmental hazards but profound risks to planetary peace and stability as well. Climatic Cataclysm gathers experts on climate science, oceanography, history, political science, foreign policy, and national security to take the measure of these risks. The contributors have developed three scenarios of what the future may hold. The expected scenario relies on current scientific models to project the effects of climate change over the next 30 years. The sever...
In this age of information technology, the media's role in international, bilateral, and diplomatic relations is increasingly important. It plays a crucial part in keeping countries connected and updated about actual and ground-level realities. Media Diplomacy and Its Evolving Role in the Current Geopolitical Climate provides emerging research on the changing practices in diplomacy, new media, and the connections between media and policy. It highlights how the media is changing countries' appro...
It's the most arresting political story of the past decade: the reckless trampling of Australia's interests in one sector after another by a government that vigorously promotes itself as the guardian of national security. Pulled together for the first time in this meticulously researched book, this story is little known and scarcely believable.Seeking to tie its own political fortunes to its great and powerful friend, the Howard Government has contracted to transfer the farm, and much, much more...
Governing a Common Sea: Environmental Policies in the Baltic Sea Region
Longman Handbook of the Modern World (Longman Handbooks To History)
by Chris Cook and John Stevenson
This new Handbook is a comprehensive reference guide on international relations, politics and modern world history. Starting with the concluding stages of the Second World War (including Yalta, the defeat of Germany and Japan and the birth of the United Nations) the book goes through to major events in the new post-Cold War world (such as the Serbo-Croat wars, the South Africa and the end of the Deng era in China). Throughout attention is paid to international themes such as decolonization, Afri...
The Chechens: A Handbook (Caucasus World: Peoples of the Caucasus)
by Amjad Jaimoukha
The European Union is facing the worst existential crisis in its history. At the same time, it is confronted with old and new challenges in its environment that call for joint action. But how do matters stand with the EU's capacity to act? Does the EU manage to effectively combine the different components of its external relations -- such as trade, development aid, and security policy -- better than it did in the past? How is the EU's external action determined by the internal socio-economic and...
Fund of the United Nations Environment Programme (Official records, Session 70: supplement 5G (A/70/5/Add.7))
Official Records of the Financial Report and Audited Financial Statements for the year Ended 31 December 2014 and Report of the Board of Auditors: Fund of the United Nations Environment Programme.
Politics in Contemporary Vietnam (Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific)
Vietnam's political development has entered an extraordinary, if indeterminate, phase. Comprising contributions from leading Vietnam scholars, this volume comprehensively explores the core aspects of Vietnam's politics, providing a cutting-edge analysis of politics in one of East Asia's least understood countries.
Titles, Decorations and Forms or International Vanities
by Frederic Marshall