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International law

June 2017

The Acquisition of Territory in International Law with a New Introduction by Marcelo G. Kohen

by R.Y. Jennings (deceased). Series edited by Jean D'Aspremont, Iain Scobbie

Originally published by Manchester University Press in 1963, this book is now regarded as a classic of international law literature. Jennings examines the major issues relating to the acquisition of territory in a stimulating and elegant manner, providing a sense of the critical relationship between law and politics on the international scene - vital if law is to be practiced and interpreted correctly. This reissue features a new introduction by Marcelo G. Kohen of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, contextualising the work and discussing its continued relevance to students of international law and international lawyers themselves. He is one of the leading experts on questions of acquisition of territory, having been involved in numerous territorial disputes before the International Court of Justice.

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Military administration

October 2016

Defense of the West

NATO, the European Union and the transatlantic bargain

by Stanley R. Sloan

This book delivers a clear and balanced interpretive history of transatlantic security relations from the late-1940s to the present day. The author writes in the authoritative and highly readable style that has made his work required reading for policy makers as well as academic experts on and students of International Relations on both sides of the Atlantic. The lively text is also highly accessible for the citizen who wants to develop an understanding of how the United States and Europe came to their current, complex security relationship. The analysis suggests that the democratic principles and shared interests on which NATO and the European Union are based serve as the foundation for 'the West', a term that originated in the Cold War conflict between western democracies and the Soviet Union, but which continues to have meaning today in light of new challenges to Western security.

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Military administration

October 2016

Defense of the West

NATO, the European Union and the transatlantic bargain

by Stanley R. Sloan

This book delivers a clear and balanced interpretive history of transatlantic security relations from the late-1940s to the present day. The author writes in the authoritative and highly readable style that has made his work required reading for policy makers as well as academic experts on and students of International Relations on both sides of the Atlantic. The lively text is also highly accessible for the citizen who wants to develop an understanding of how the United States and Europe came to their current, complex security relationship. The analysis suggests that the democratic principles and shared interests on which NATO and the European Union are based serve as the foundation for 'the West', a term that originated in the Cold War conflict between western democracies and the Soviet Union, but which continues to have meaning today in light of new challenges to Western security.

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Teaching, Language & Reference

November 2015

Violence and the state

by Matt Killingsworth, Peter Lawler, Matthew Sussex, Emmanuel Pierre Guittet, Jan Pakulski

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Humanities & Social Sciences

March 2016

Human rights and humanitarian diplomacy

Negotiating for human rights protection and humanitarian access

by Kelly-Kate Pease

Human rights and humanitarian diplomacy provides an up to date and accessible overview of the field, and serves as a practical guide to those seeking to engage in human rights work. Pease argues that while human rights are internationally recognised, important disagreements exist on definition, priority and implementation. With the help of human rights diplomacy, these differences can be bridged, and a new generation of human rights professionals will build better relationships. ;

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Teaching, Language & Reference

November 2015

Violence and the state

by Matt Killingsworth, Peter Lawler, Matthew Sussex, Emmanuel Pierre Guittet, Jan Pakulski

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Diplomacy

May 2013

The evolving role of nation-building in US foreign policy

Lessons learned, lessons lost

by Thomas R. Seitz

How and why did the United States get involved in nation-building overseas, and how have these policies evolved? How has Washington understood the relationship between development abroad and security at home, and how has this translated into policy? What is the relationship between security, order and development in nation-building and stabilisation efforts? This book explores the processes through which nation-building approaches originated and developed over the last seven decades as well as the concepts and motivations that shaped them. Weaving together International Relations theory and a rich history drawing mainly on declassified documents, interviews and other primary sources, this book contributes to theoretical discussions of nation-building while offering a critique of Realist and Critical Security School analyses of US policy in the developing world. Ultimately, the book illuminates lessons relevant to today's nation-building, crisis management, stability, 'good governance' and reconstruction missions.

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Teaching, Language & Reference

November 2015

Violence and the state

by Matt Killingsworth, Peter Lawler, Matthew Sussex, Emmanuel Pierre Guittet, Jan Pakulski

In providing a counterweight to the notion that political violence has irrevocably changed in a globalised world, Violence and the state offers an original and innovative way in which to understand political violence across a range of discipline areas. It explores the complex relationship between the state and its continued use of violence through a variety of historical and contemporary case studies, including the Napoleonic Wars, Nazi and Soviet 'eliticide', the consolidation of authority in modern China, post-Soviet Russia, and international criminal tribunals. It also looks at humanitarian intervention in cases of organised violence, and the willingness of elites to alter their attitude to violence if it is an instrument to achieve their own ends. The interdisciplinary approach, which spans history, sociology, international law and international relations, ensures that this book will be invaluable to a broad cross-section of scholars and politically engaged readers alike. ;

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Humanities & Social Sciences

July 2017

The US vs China in Asia

A new Cold War?

by Jude Woodward, Radhika Desai, Alan Freeman

This book addresses the most important question in geopolitics today - the future of relations between the US and China. Concerned that the rise of China will challenge the its hegemony in world affairs, the US has decided to reassert its influence in Asia to counteract any challenge. Examining and challenging the dominant causal explanations for and professed intentions of this shift in US policy, this book uncovers the real dynamics of contemporary Sino-American relations, surveying their complex interactions in the context of their post-war history, offering the reader an accessible and informative survey of the relations between China and the US in Asia, ranging from Russia's turn to the east, the rise of Japanese nationalism, democracy in Myanmar, North Korea's nuclear programme to disputes in the South China Sea. This book is an illuminating introduction to the defining issue shaping global politics for our time.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

October 2016

Defense of the West

NATO, the European Union and the transatlantic bargain

by Stanley R. Sloan

This book delivers a clear and balanced interpretive history of transatlantic security relations from the late-1940s to the present day. The author writes in the authoritative and highly readable style that has made his work required reading for policy makers as well as academic experts on and students of International Relations on both sides of the Atlantic. The lively text is also highly accessible for the citizen who wants to develop an understanding of how the United States and Europe came to their current, complex security relationship. The analysis suggests that the democratic principles and shared interests on which NATO and the European Union are based serve as the foundation for 'the West', a term that originated in the Cold War conflict between western democracies and the Soviet Union, but which continues to have meaning today in light of new challenges to Western security.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

June 2017

Debating civilisations

Interrogating civilisational analysis in a global age

by Jeremy C. A. Smith

Contemporary civilisational analysis has emerged in the post-Cold War period as a forming but already controversial field of scholarship. Debating civilisations seeks to evaluate the main currents of the field and its principal competitors. The author draws a unique comparison of many key scholars of civilisations, comparing civilisational analysis with competing perspectives and presenting a fresh theoretical approach. Debating civilisations will appeal to academics and postgraduate and final-year undergraduate students in the fields of history, comparative and historical sociology and social theory.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

September 2016

Human rights and humanitarian diplomacy

Negotiating for human rights protection and humanitarian access

by Kelly-Kate Pease

Human rights and humanitarian diplomacy provides an up to date and accessible overview of the field, and serves as a practical guide to those seeking to engage in human rights work. Pease argues that while human rights are internationally recognised, important disagreements exist on definition, priority and implementation. With the help of human rights diplomacy, these differences can be bridged, and a new generation of human rights professionals will build better relationships. ;

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Humanities & Social Sciences

November 2017

Friendship among nations

History of a concept

by Evgeny Roshchin

This is the first book-length study of the role that friendship plays in diplomacy and international politics. Through an examination of a vast amount of sources ranging from diplomatic letters and bilateral treaties, to poems and philosophical treatises, it analyses how friendship has been talked about and practiced in pre-modern political orders and modern systems of international relations. The study highlights how instrumental friendship was for describing and legitimising a range of political and legal engagements with foreign countries and nations. It emphasises contractual and political aspects in diplomatic friendship based on the idea of utility.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

November 2017

Friendship among nations

History of a concept

by Evgeny Roshchin

This is the first book-length study of the role that friendship plays in diplomacy and international politics. Through an examination of a vast amount of sources ranging from diplomatic letters and bilateral treaties, to poems and philosophical treatises, it analyses how friendship has been talked about and practiced in pre-modern political orders and modern systems of international relations. The study highlights how instrumental friendship was for describing and legitimising a range of political and legal engagements with foreign countries and nations. It emphasises contractual and political aspects in diplomatic friendship based on the idea of utility.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

August 2017

Russian-American relations in the post-Cold War world

by James W. Peterson

Why did the Russian take-over of Crimea come as a surprise to so many observers in the academic, practitioner and global-citizen arenas? The answer presented in this textbook is a complex one, rooted in late-Cold War dualities but also in the variegated policy patterns of the two powers after 1991. The 2014 crisis was provoked by conflicting perspectives over the Balkan Wars of the 1990s, the expansion of NATO to include former communist allies of Russia as well as three of its former republics, the American decision to invade Iraq in 2003, and the Russian move to invade Georgia in 2008. This book uses a number of key theories in political science to create a framework for analysis and to outline policy options for the future. It is vital that the attentive public confront the questions raised in these pages in order to control the reflexive and knee-jerk reactions to all points of conflict that emerge on a regular basis between America and Russia.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

June 2017

Debating civilisations

Interrogating civilisational analysis in a global age

by Jeremy C. A. Smith

Contemporary civilisational analysis has emerged in the post-Cold War period as a forming but already controversial field of scholarship. Debating civilisations seeks to evaluate the main currents of the field and its principal competitors. The author draws a unique comparison of many key scholars of civilisations, comparing civilisational analysis with competing perspectives and presenting a fresh theoretical approach. Debating civilisations will appeal to academics and postgraduate and final-year undergraduate students in the fields of history, comparative and historical sociology and social theory.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

June 2017

Debating civilisations

Interrogating civilisational analysis in a global age

by Jeremy C. A. Smith

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Humanities & Social Sciences

February 2018

The diplomacy of decolonisation

America, Britain and the United Nations during the Congo crisis 1960-64

by Alanna O'Malley, J Simon Rofe, Giles Scott-Smith

The book reinterprets the role of the UN during the Congo crisis from 1960-1964 by presenting a multidimensional view of the organisation. Through an examination of the Anglo-American relationship, the book reveals how the UN helped position this event as a lightning rod in debates about how decolonisation interacted with the Cold War. By examining the ways in which the various dimensions of the UN came into play in Anglo-American considerations of how to handle the Congo crisis, the book reveals how the Congo debate reverberated in wider ideological struggles about how decolonisation evolved and what the role of the UN would be in managing this process. The UN became a central battle ground for ideas and visions of world order; as the newly-independent African and Asian states sought to redress the inequalities created by colonialism, the US and UK sought to maintain the status quo, while the Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld tried to reconcile these two contrasting views.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

February 2018

The diplomacy of decolonisation

America, Britain and the United Nations during the Congo crisis 1960-64

by Alanna O'Malley, J Simon Rofe, Giles Scott-Smith

The book reinterprets the role of the UN during the Congo crisis from 1960-1964 by presenting a multidimensional view of the organisation. Through an examination of the Anglo-American relationship, the book reveals how the UN helped position this event as a lightning rod in debates about how decolonisation interacted with the Cold War. By examining the ways in which the various dimensions of the UN came into play in Anglo-American considerations of how to handle the Congo crisis, the book reveals how the Congo debate reverberated in wider ideological struggles about how decolonisation evolved and what the role of the UN would be in managing this process. The UN became a central battle ground for ideas and visions of world order; as the newly-independent African and Asian states sought to redress the inequalities created by colonialism, the US and UK sought to maintain the status quo, while the Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld tried to reconcile these two contrasting views.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

February 2018

The diplomacy of decolonisation

America, Britain and the United Nations during the Congo crisis 1960-64

by Alanna O'Malley, J Simon Rofe, Giles Scott-Smith

The book reinterprets the role of the UN during the Congo crisis from 1960-1964 by presenting a multidimensional view of the organisation. Through an examination of the Anglo-American relationship, the book reveals how the UN helped position this event as a lightning rod in debates about how decolonisation interacted with the Cold War. By examining the ways in which the various dimensions of the UN came into play in Anglo-American considerations of how to handle the Congo crisis, the book reveals how the Congo debate reverberated in wider ideological struggles about how decolonisation evolved and what the role of the UN would be in managing this process. The UN became a central battle ground for ideas and visions of world order; as the newly-independent African and Asian states sought to redress the inequalities created by colonialism, the US and UK sought to maintain the status quo, while the Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld tried to reconcile these two contrasting views.

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by R.Y. Jennings (deceased). Series edited by Jean D'Aspremont, Iain Scobbie

NATO, the European Union and the transatlantic bargain

by Stanley R. Sloan

NATO, the European Union and the transatlantic bargain

by Stanley R. Sloan

by Matt Killingsworth, Peter Lawler, Matthew Sussex, Emmanuel Pierre Guittet, Jan Pakulski

Negotiating for human rights protection and humanitarian access

by Kelly-Kate Pease

by Matt Killingsworth, Peter Lawler, Matthew Sussex, Emmanuel Pierre Guittet, Jan Pakulski

Lessons learned, lessons lost

by Thomas R. Seitz

by Matt Killingsworth, Peter Lawler, Matthew Sussex, Emmanuel Pierre Guittet, Jan Pakulski

A new Cold War?

by Jude Woodward, Radhika Desai, Alan Freeman

NATO, the European Union and the transatlantic bargain

by Stanley R. Sloan

Interrogating civilisational analysis in a global age

by Jeremy C. A. Smith

Negotiating for human rights protection and humanitarian access

by Kelly-Kate Pease

History of a concept

by Evgeny Roshchin

History of a concept

by Evgeny Roshchin

by James W. Peterson

Interrogating civilisational analysis in a global age

by Jeremy C. A. Smith

Interrogating civilisational analysis in a global age

by Jeremy C. A. Smith

America, Britain and the United Nations during the Congo crisis 1960-64

by Alanna O'Malley, J Simon Rofe, Giles Scott-Smith

America, Britain and the United Nations during the Congo crisis 1960-64

by Alanna O'Malley, J Simon Rofe, Giles Scott-Smith

America, Britain and the United Nations during the Congo crisis 1960-64

by Alanna O'Malley, J Simon Rofe, Giles Scott-Smith

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