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Book SynopsisIn the Cold War era, the confrontation between capitalism and communism played out not only in military, diplomatic, and political contexts, but also in the realm of culture—and perhaps nowhere more so than the cultural phenomenon of sports, where the symbolic capital of athletic endeavor held up a mirror to the global contest for the sympathies of citizens worldwide. The Whole World Was Watching examines Cold War rivalries through the lens of sporting activities and competitions across Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the U.S. The essays in this volume consider sport as a vital sphere for understanding the complex geopolitics and cultural politics of the time, not just in terms of commerce and celebrity, but also with respect to shifting notions of race, class, and gender. Including contributions from an international lineup of historians, this volume suggests that the analysis of sport provides a valuable lens for understanding both how individuals experienced the Cold War in their daily lives, and how sports culture in turn influenced politics and diplomatic relations.Trade Review"This insightful collection of essays shows how the Cold War was fought out on ice, on the football and baseball fields, in boxing rings, and in Olympic stadiums. A fantastic contribution to both the history of sport and the history of the Cold War."—Sergey Radchenko, Cardiff University"This superb collection of essays should lay to rest any doubts about sport's place as a uniquely significant and powerful force in the cultural Cold War. The editors' scope is ambitious, and contributors bring nuance to the complex issues of global politics at play in every sprint, shot, and stroke."—Rita Liberti, Cal State East Bay"The Cold War wends its way through almost every aspect of post-WWII sports history but is so rarely considered as a whole. It is a great pleasure, then, to see the many disparate strands of the sporting front of the conflict brought together in this book with such acuity."—David Goldblatt, author of The Games: A Global History of the Olympics"Providing a more comprehensive analysis than the standard considerations of the US-USSR rivalry or the Olympics, this book fills the gap for a "go-to" text on the role of sports in the Cold War....highly recommended for anyone interested in the history, sport history, or culture of the Cold War."—A. Curtis, CHOICE"The Whole World Was Watching is a multifaceted analysis of sport as an instrument of soft power. It is not only about the impact states make in international contests. It is also about how actions of sportswomen and sportsmen made sense in the ideological dimension of the Cold War."—Kristian Gerner, idrottsforum.org"This compilation is well worth the time of Cold War scholars and anyone with a passing interest in international sports. Each essay is concise, yet well-sourced and informative. Taken as a whole, the authors present a clear case as to why and how sports factored into the cultural Cold War; in other words, why the whole world was watching."—Erin Redihan, The New England Journal of HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction: Explaining Cold War Sport —Robert Edelman and Christopher Young 1. The State-Private Network: Overt and Covert US Intervention in Early Cold War Sport —Toby C. Rider 2. "No Quarrel with Them Vietcong": Muhammad Ali's Cold War —Elliott J. Gorn 3. Breaking the Ice: Alexei Kosygin and the Secret Background of the 1972 Hockey Summit Series —James Hershberg 4. Action in the Era of Stagnation: Leonid Brezhnev and the Soviet Olympic Dream —Mikhail Prozumenshikov 5. Soccer Artistry and the Secret Police: Georgian Football in the Multiethnic Soviet Empire —Erik R. Scott 6. Russian Fever Pitch: Global Fandom, Youth Culture, and the Public Sphere in the Late Soviet Union —Manfred Zeller 7. Eulogy to Theft: Berliner FC Dynamo, East German Football, and the End of Communism —Alan McDougall 8. Sports, Politics, and "Wild Doping" in the East German Sporting "Miracle" —Mike Dennis 9. "The Most Beautiful Face of Socialism": Katarina Witt and the Sexual Politics of Sport in the Cold War —Annette F. Timm 10. Learning from the Soviet Big Brother: The Early Years of Sport in the People's Republic of China —Amanda Shuman 11. "The Communist Bandits Have Been Repudiated": Cold War–Era Sport in Taiwan —Andrew D. Morris 12. New Regional Order: Sport, Cold War Culture, and the Making of Southeast Asia —Simon Creak 13. Negotiating Colonial Repression: African Footballers in Salazar's Portugal —Todd Cleveland 14. Deflected Confrontations: Cold War Baseball in the Caribbean —Rob Ruck 15. Ambivalent Solidarities: Cultural Diplomacy, Women, and South-South Cooperation at the 1950s Pan American Games —Brenda Elsey

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Book SynopsisCanada is a key member of the world's most important international intelligence-sharing partnership, the Five Eyes, along with the US, the UK, New Zealand, and Australia. Until now, few scholars have looked beyond the US to study how effectively intelligence analysts support policy makers, who rely on timely, forward-thinking insights to shape high-level foreign, national security, and defense policy. Intelligence Analysis and Policy Making provides the first in-depth look at the relationship between intelligence and policy in Canada. Thomas Juneau and Stephanie Carvin, both former analysts in the Canadian national security sector, conducted seventy in-depth interviews with serving and retired policy and intelligence practitioners, at a time when Canada's intelligence community underwent sweeping institutional changes. Juneau and Carvin provide critical recommendations for improving intelligence performance in supporting policy—with implications for other countries that, like Canada, are not superpowers but small or mid-sized countries in need of intelligence that supports their unique interests. Trade Review"Intelligence Analysis and Policy Making is much more than a wire diagram of Canadian intelligence organizations. Carvin and Juneau reveal what analysts think about their work and how they interact with policy makers. Their answers are fascinating for students of intelligence, international relations, and Canadian national security policy."—Joshua Rovner, American University"Thomas Juneau and Stephanie Carvin offer an excellent and comprehensive assessment of the intelligence function in Canada and how it can continue to mature to guide sound policy making. A much-needed publication at a time when intelligence is at a premium to help guide the country in a challenging world."—Daniel Jean, former National Security and Intelligence Advisor to the Prime Minister of Canada

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Book SynopsisNations have powerful reasons to get their military alliances right. When security pacts go well, they underpin regional and global order; when they fail, they spread wars across continents as states are dragged into conflict. We would, therefore, expect states to carefully tailor their military partnerships to specific conditions. This expectation, Raymond C. Kuo argues, is wrong. Following the Leader argues that most countries ignore their individual security interests in military pacts, instead converging on a single, dominant alliance strategy. The book introduces a new social theory of strategic diffusion and emulation, using case studies and advanced statistical analysis of alliances from 1815 to 2003. In the wake of each major war that shatters the international system, a new hegemon creates a core military partnership to target its greatest enemy. Secondary and peripheral countries rush to emulate this alliance, illustrating their credibility and prestige by mimicking the dominant form. Be it the NATO model that seems so commonsense today, or the realpolitik that reigned in Europe of the late nineteenth century, a lone alliance strategy has defined broad swaths of diplomatic history. It is not states' own security interests driving this phenomenon, Kuo shows, but their jockeying for status in a world periodically remade by great powers.Trade Review"Following the Leader is an exceptionally timely contribution to the scholarship on international order, and one with important policy observations for today. This is top notch scholarship: the research and analysis are deep and incisive, and conveyed with clear, crisp prose." -- Timothy Andrews Sayle * University of Toronto, author of Enduring Alliance: A History of NATO and the Postwar Global Order *"In Following the Leader, Raymond Kuo implodes the conventional wisdom that states design their alliances to meet their strategic needs. Drawing from cutting-edge network and status theories, Kuo builds a compelling argument about states' social position and alliance strategies, which he tests in cases that span geographical regions and centuries." -- Stacie E. Goddard * Wellesley College *"In this groundbreaking book, Raymond Kuo probes the deep logic and diverse patterns of alliance cooperation. Theoretically innovative, methodologically sophisticated, and rich in historical case studies, Following the Leader illuminates the complex and shifting ways in which states seek security and build alliances." -- G. John Ikenberry * Princeton University *Table of ContentsContents and Abstracts1Transhistorical Patterns in Alliance Strategy chapter abstractGiven the dangers of war, states should carefully tailor their alliances to specific threats and constraints. We expect wide variety in security strategies and pact designs. This expectation is wrong. In any year, 75 percent of states pursue identical alliance strategies. Why do countries ignore their individuated conditions and converge on a single dominant alliance strategy? This chapter presents the book's puzzle, describing patterns in alliance design from 1715–2003. 2The Theory of Strategic Alliance Diffusion chapter abstractThis chapter offers a social theory of diffusion to explain the dominant alliance strategy. Major wars shatter the international system. Into this breach, a new hegemon creates a core pact targeting its central security challenge. This partnership becomes the standard for credible and legitimate security policy in the postwar environment. Secondary countries copy its strategy to demonstrate the credibility of their own alliances. Peripheral nations emulate to acquire international status and prestige. 3The Diffusion of Alliance Strategy: Systemic Patterns and Evidence chapter abstractThis chapter uses quantitative analysis to determine that the core alliance systematically produces the dominant strategy. Seven statistical tests probe the theory's causal foundations and mechanisms, providing reinforcing support for the book's argument. The dominant strategy is statistically linked to social proof and validation, credibility concerns, international norms, and legitimacy. 4Great Powers and Strategic Constraints: The Bismarckian Era, 1873–1890 chapter abstractThe book's first case study demonstrates how the dominant strategy constrains even the great powers' alliance choices. It explores the core European pacts between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia from 1873–1890. These countries repeatedly established alliances to solidify their security relations, and they repeatedly failed. Austria-Hungary prevented Germany from displacing it from the heart of Berlin's alliance strategy. Consequently, these three conservative empires were unable to manage deep, intra-allied disputes. Network constraints prevented the fluid, transactional balancing strategies, contributing to World War I's onset. 5Cold War Credibility: NATO, SEATO, and CENTO, 1949–1965 chapter abstractThe second case highlights how Middle East and Southeast Asian countries pushed the United States to create NATO-like security institutions in their regions early in the Cold War. These countries evaluated American reliability based on alliance emulation: only strategies matching NATO's design signaled commitment. Washington's refusal to adopt the Atlantic Alliance's strategy in other alliances undermined efforts to demonstrate resolve and consolidate power against the Soviet Union. 6Diffusion to the Periphery: Security Cooperation in Southern Africa, 1992–2004 chapter abstractThe final case details the role of alliance construction in southern Africa's status-building policy following the Cold War. Suddenly bereft of superpower patronage, these countries viewed NATO and Europe more broadly as the most effective strategy to foster military security and economic development in their region. But southern Africa was politically unsuited to such a strategy, leading states to seize alliance leadership to advance their own unilateral policies. These countries nevertheless continued to model NATO to legitimate their security strategy and foreign policy goals. 7The Dominant Strategy and Alliance Failure chapter abstractCopying the dominant strategy reduces the risk of alliance failure by one-third. This chapter leverages statistical methods to link emulation to security behavior. Military partnerships are more reliable and cohesive when they converge on a single, socially accepted standard of credible and legitimate cooperation. Scholars often assume that institutionalization enhances reliability. This chapter demonstrates that such assumption is only true when the core alliance is itself institutionalized. If not, formal coordination can increase the risk of alliance failure by 26.46 percent. 8The Dominant Alliance Strategy: Policy Implications and Theoretical Extensions chapter abstractThis concluding chapter calls for a "NATO in Asia" as the only credible demonstration of American commitment to the region against an assertive China. It draws out policy implications from the theory for international order, the feasibility and drawbacks of transactional foreign policies, and major war.

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Book SynopsisThe Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) had many opponents when, in 1995, it came up for extension. The majority of parties opposed extension, and experts expected a limited extension as countries sought alternative means to manage nuclear weapons. But against all predictions, the treaty was extended indefinitely, and without a vote. Networked Nonproliferation offers a social network theory explanation of how the NPT was extended, giving new insight into why international treaties succeed or fail. The United States was the NPT's main proponent, but even a global superpower cannot get its way through coercion or persuasion alone. Michal Onderco draws on unique in-depth interviews and newly declassified documents to analyze the networked power at play. Onderco not only gives the richest account yet of the conference, looking at key actors like South Africa, Egypt, and the EU, but also challenges us to reconsider how we think about American power in international relations. With Networked Nonproliferation, Onderco provides new insight into multilateral diplomacy in general and nuclear nonproliferation in particular, with consequences for understanding a changing global system as the US, the chief advocate of nonproliferation and a central node in the diplomatic networks around it, declines in material power. Trade Review"With Networked Nonproliferation, Michal Onderco has written the best existing study of a crucial event in arms control history: the 1995 indefinite extension of the NPT. He also makes important theoretical contributions identifying sources of success in international treaty management. Scholars and practitioners alike will benefit from his insights."—Scott D. Sagan, Stanford University"Michal Onderco breaks new ground in his masterful analysis of the negotiation of the NPT's indefinite extension, Networked Nonproliferation. Drawing on an impressive array of interviews with actual participants in the negotiation, previously untapped archival information, and the large body of scholarship on the subject, he has produced by far the most detailed account of events leading to the historic 1995 NPT Review and Extension Conference outcome. If, as is often asserted, conference president Jayantha Dhanapala was the magician who produced the unexpected product, Onderco has revealed many of the secrets behind the magic."—William Potter, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey"With Networked Nonproliferation, Michal Onderco provides a fresh and compelling account of how the NPT was made permanent in 1995. Through engaging writing and rigorous analysis of new evidence, this original study provides important insights into a decision with implications for the contentious politics of the nuclear nonproliferation regime today."—Nina Tannenwald, Brown University"[Networked Nonproliferation] provides many insights into the agency of states such as Egypt and South Africa, insights that might not be gleaned from a cursory view. What emerges is a well-rounded and balanced account most likely to become the authoritative work on the 1995 NPT Review Conference. I have no doubt that this contribution will become a hallmark in the study of nuclear non-proliferation and that scholars, students and practitioners alike will benefit from the book. Finally, Onderco's treatise serves as a timely reminder of what is possible in arms control diplomacy."—Robin E. Möser, South African Journal of International Affairs"Onderco superbly explains how the United States managed to create a winning coalition of states favoring indefinite extension, which was in its own national interest....Highly recommended."—M. E. Carranza, CHOICE"In Networked Nonproliferation, Michal Onderco sheds new light onto the evolution of the regime by offering an original take on the politics behind the 1995 indefinite expansion of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (npt). Through this deeply researched case study, he finds that the United States managed to nudge, cajole, and sometimes arm-twist third parties to pass indefinite extension at a time when so many opposed it, and at a time when stakeholders worldwide and inside the United States itself thought it impossible."—Matias Spektor, European Review of International StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Why Indefinite Extension? 2. Networked Power 3. "Friends with Benefits": US-European Cooperation 4. "Babes in the Woods": South Africa and the Extension 5. "This Is What Happens When You Become Greedy": Egypt's Intervention 6. Postextension Politics of the NPT

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Book SynopsisChina is unique in modern world history. No other rising power has experienced China's turbulent history in its relations with neighbors and Western countries. Its sheer size dominates the region. With leader Xi Jinping's political authority unmatched, Xi's sense of mission to restore what he believes is China's natural position as a great power drives the current course of the nation's foreign policy. When China was weak, it was subordinated to others. Now, China is strong, and it wants others to subordinate, at least on the issues involving what it regards as core national interests. What are the primary forces and how have these forces driven China's reemergence to global power? This book weaves together complex events, processes, and players to provide a historically in-depth, conceptually comprehensive, and up-to-date analysis of Chinese foreign policy transition since the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC), arguing that transformational leaders with new visions and political wisdom to make their visions prevail are the game changers. Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and Xi Jinping are transformational leaders who have charted unique courses of Chinese foreign policy in the quest for security, prosperity, and power. With the ultimate decision-making authority on national security and strategic policies, these leaders have made political use of ideational forces, tailoring bureaucratic institutions, exploiting the international power distribution, and responding strategically to the international norms and rules to advance their foreign policy agendas in the path of China's ascendance. Trade Review"Suisheng Zhao has written the authoritative account of how Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and Xi Jinping each conceived and executed three radically different eras of Chinese foreign policy. The Dragon Roars Back shows exactly how Xi is problematic for America and the West, in his harboring grievances, holding grandiose visions for the future, and negligence of the dangers his quest entails."—David M. Lampton, Johns Hopkins—SAIS"The Dragon Roars Back is a masterful exploration into the inner dynamics that have driven China's international interactions since 1949. Suisheng Zhao places China's leaders at the center of his analysis—and perceptively reveals the ideational, cultural, bureaucratic, and contextual factors shaping each leaders' policy preferences. A pathbreaking study."—David Shambaugh, the George Washington University, and author of China's Leaders"Suisheng Zhao has made an enormous contribution to the literature on Chinese foreign policy. China is indeed roaring back, and the issue of how the West responds will shape the policy landscape for decades to come. We need to understand China's policy history far better than we do, and Zhao's scholarship puts all who read this on a far better course to do so."—Christopher R. Hill, Former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia/Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State"China's foreign policy over the seventy-plus years of the People's Republic has gone through transformations so remarkable that structural theories cannot explain them. In this deeply informed yet readable study, Suisheng Zhao shows that the twists and turns in China's relationship to the world were imposed by the powerful visions of three transformational leaders - Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and Xi Jinping. Understanding how these leaders saw the world and how they tried to change it is essential if we are to understand where Xi Jinping intends to lead China."—Andrew J. Nathan, Columbia University"By offering a fresh perspective on Chinese foreign policy, Zhao's framework moves beyond the overemphasis on structural factors in realism, the attribution of behaviour solely to authoritarianism in the regime-type theory, and the focus on bureaucratic politics in institutionalism."—Chi Zhang, The China Quarterly"Zhao's overview of Chinese foreign policy serves as a useful introduction to that history for readers otherwise unacquainted with it. Recommended."—P. Lorge, CHOICETable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Mao Zedong's Revolutionary Diplomacy: Keeping the Wolves from the Door 2. Deng Xiaoping's Developmental Diplomacy: Biding for China's Time 3. Xi Jinping's Big Power Diplomacy: Showing China's Sword 4. Power of the Past over the Present: The Imperial Glory versus the Century of Humiliation 5. Defining National Interests: State versus Popular Nationalism 6. The Party-State Hierarchy: Paramount Leaders versus Institutions 7. Searching for China's Place in the Sun: International Distribution of Power 8. From Revolutionary State to Revisionist Stakeholder: The World Order and Globalization 9. Conclusion: The Mandate of Heaven? China's Quest and Peril

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Book SynopsisCanada is a key member of the world's most important international intelligence-sharing partnership, the Five Eyes, along with the US, the UK, New Zealand, and Australia. Until now, few scholars have looked beyond the US to study how effectively intelligence analysts support policy makers, who rely on timely, forward-thinking insights to shape high-level foreign, national security, and defense policy. Intelligence Analysis and Policy Making provides the first in-depth look at the relationship between intelligence and policy in Canada. Thomas Juneau and Stephanie Carvin, both former analysts in the Canadian national security sector, conducted seventy in-depth interviews with serving and retired policy and intelligence practitioners, at a time when Canada's intelligence community underwent sweeping institutional changes. Juneau and Carvin provide critical recommendations for improving intelligence performance in supporting policy—with implications for other countries that, like Canada, are not superpowers but small or mid-sized countries in need of intelligence that supports their unique interests. Trade Review"Intelligence Analysis and Policy Making is much more than a wire diagram of Canadian intelligence organizations. Carvin and Juneau reveal what analysts think about their work and how they interact with policy makers. Their answers are fascinating for students of intelligence, international relations, and Canadian national security policy."—Joshua Rovner, American University"Thomas Juneau and Stephanie Carvin offer an excellent and comprehensive assessment of the intelligence function in Canada and how it can continue to mature to guide sound policy making. A much-needed publication at a time when intelligence is at a premium to help guide the country in a challenging world."—Daniel Jean, former National Security and Intelligence Advisor to the Prime Minister of Canada

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Book SynopsisNever before has diplomacy evolved at such a rapid pace. It is being transformed into a global participatory process by new media tools and newly empowered publics. ‘Public diplomacy’ has taken center-stage as diplomats strive to reach and influence audiences that are better informed and more assertive than any in the past.In this crisp and insightful analysis, Philip Seib, one of the world’s top experts on media and foreign policy, explores the future of diplomacy in our hyper-connected world. He shows how the focus of diplomatic practice has shifted away from the closed-door, top-level negotiations of the past. Today’s diplomats are obliged to respond instantly to the latest crisis fueled by a YouTube video or Facebook post. This has given rise to a more open and reactive approach to global problem-solving with consequences that are difficult to predict. Drawing on examples from the Iran nuclear negotiations to the humanitarian crisis in Syria, Seib argues persuasively for this new versatile and flexible public-facing diplomacy; one that makes strategic use of both new media and traditional diplomatic processes to manage the increasingly complex relations between states and new non-state political actors in the 21st CenturyTrade Review"An extremely well-written book" The Foreign Service Journal "Seib delivers a stimulating and exciting book that invites dialogue about diplomacy, social media, and the public square. His new work reverberates with the same energy as the information revolution described in it. A must-read for those interested in the intersection of media and diplomacy." Tara Sonenshine, former under secretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs "What a stimulating and illuminating theme–that the once insular world of secret diplomacy has been utterly transformed by new media, with consequences huge and uncertain. Thanks to Seib's insights and graceful writing, we discover and learn about the pluses and minuses of the new world of diplomacy." Marvin Kalb, senior adviser to the Pulitzer Center, and Harvard Professor Emeritus"In a world of the fastest evolution ever, Philip Seib contributes to the ongoing debate in diplomatic studies with a short yet very accurate and interesting title that mixes the current points of view on both the communications' and international relations' epistemic communities."The Hague Journal of Diplomacy'A comprehensive analysis of the changes social media is prompting in how governments manage foreign policy.'The SAIS Review of International AffairsTable of Contents Preface Introduction Chapter 1 Open Diplomacy Chapter 2 The Rise of Public Diplomacy Chapter 3 States and Non-States Chapter 4 Staying on Track Chapter 5 Shaping Diplomacy’s Future Index

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Book SynopsisNever before has diplomacy evolved at such a rapid pace. It is being transformed into a global participatory process by new media tools and newly empowered publics. ‘Public diplomacy’ has taken center-stage as diplomats strive to reach and influence audiences that are better informed and more assertive than any in the past.In this crisp and insightful analysis, Philip Seib, one of the world’s top experts on media and foreign policy, explores the future of diplomacy in our hyper-connected world. He shows how the focus of diplomatic practice has shifted away from the closed-door, top-level negotiations of the past. Today’s diplomats are obliged to respond instantly to the latest crisis fueled by a YouTube video or Facebook post. This has given rise to a more open and reactive approach to global problem-solving with consequences that are difficult to predict. Drawing on examples from the Iran nuclear negotiations to the humanitarian crisis in Syria, Seib argues persuasively for this new versatile and flexible public-facing diplomacy; one that makes strategic use of both new media and traditional diplomatic processes to manage the increasingly complex relations between states and new non-state political actors in the 21st CenturyTrade Review"An extremely well-written book" The Foreign Service Journal "Seib delivers a stimulating and exciting book that invites dialogue about diplomacy, social media, and the public square. His new work reverberates with the same energy as the information revolution described in it. A must-read for those interested in the intersection of media and diplomacy." Tara Sonenshine, former under secretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs "What a stimulating and illuminating theme–that the once insular world of secret diplomacy has been utterly transformed by new media, with consequences huge and uncertain. Thanks to Seib's insights and graceful writing, we discover and learn about the pluses and minuses of the new world of diplomacy." Marvin Kalb, senior adviser to the Pulitzer Center, and Harvard Professor Emeritus "In a world of the fastest evolution ever, Philip Seib contributes to the ongoing debate in diplomatic studies with a short yet very accurate and interesting title that mixes the current points of view on both the communications' and international relations' epistemic communities."The Hague Journal of Diplomacy 'A comprehensive analysis of the changes social media is prompting in how governments manage foreign policy.'The SAIS Review of International Affairs Table of Contents Preface Introduction Chapter 1 Open Diplomacy Chapter 2 The Rise of Public Diplomacy Chapter 3 States and Non-States Chapter 4 Staying on Track Chapter 5 Shaping Diplomacy’s Future Index

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Book SynopsisNarendra Modi’s energetic personal diplomacy and promise to make India a ‘leading power’ surprised many analysts. Most had predicted that his government would concentrate on domestic issues, on the growth and development demanded by Indian voters, and that he lacked necessary experience in international relations. Instead, Modi’s first term saw a concerted attempt to reinvent Indian foreign policy by replacing inherited understandings of its place in the world with one drawn largely from Hindu nationalist ideology. Following Modi’s re-election in 2019, this book explores the drivers of this reinvention, arguing it arose from a combination of elite conviction and electoral calculation, and the impact it has had on India’s international relations.Trade Review"This is essential reading. Ian Hall brilliantly links the domestic imperatives driving current Indian foreign policy to the challenges India faces in a rapidly changing world." Katharine Adeney, University of Nottingham“Hall tells the story of an ambitious leader’s efforts to reinvent himself as much as his country’s foreign policy and demonstrates that this project of reinvention has clear constraints and costs for India both at home and abroad.” Kate Sullivan de Estrada, University of Oxford.“This insightful book, in charting Modi’s endeavour to transform Indian foreign policy and politics in his own image, underlines the perennial dialectic between ideational and structural forces in international politics.” Rajesh Basrur, University of Oxford and Nanyang Technological UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction; Nonalignment to Multialignment; Hindu Nationalism and Foreign Policy; Modi and Moditva; World Guru India; Prosperity and Connectivity; National Power and Regional Security; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThrough a range of case studies spanning the post-Cold War period in Iraq, Moldova and Serbia, this innovative book breaks new ground in its study of asymmetric conflicts where warring sides exhibit vast power differentials. It uses multiple theories to examine the different pathways that encourage minor powers to engage in both offensive and defensive wars that they are likely to lose, analysing domestic crisis as a key catalyst and considering ways to mitigate conditions that drive conflict. The author provides an important framework that can be applied to contemporary conflicts elsewhere.Trade Review“For too long, scholars have ignored the motivations of minor powers. Bobic uses elite interviews and a multi-method approach to identify pathways that lead small states to challenge great powers.” J. Tyson Chatagnier, University of HoustonTable of ContentsIntroduction; In Search of a Theory of Minor Powers in Interstate Asymmetric Conflict; Pathways to Conflict Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA); Iraq: Military Confrontation with the United States and its Thirty-Three Allies; Moldova: Military Confrontation with Russian Forces; Serbia: Military Confrontation with NATO; Conclusion: Dealing with Complexity, Defeat and Beliefs.

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Book SynopsisInternational Organizations (IOs) are vital institutions in world politics in which cross-border issues can be discussed and global problems managed. This path-breaking book shows the efforts that small states have made to participate more fully in IO activities. It draws attention to the challenges created by widened participation in IOs and develops an original model of the dilemmas that both IOs and small states face as the norms of sovereign equality and the right to develop coincide. Drawing on extensive qualitative data, including more than 80 interviews conducted for this book, the authors find that the strategies which both IOs and small states adopt to balance their respective dilemmas can explain both continuity and change in their interactions with institutions ranging from UN agencies to the World Trade Organization.Table of Contents1. Introduction Part I: Actors 2. Why Do IOs Encourage the Participation of Small States? 3. Why Do Small States Engage with IOs? Part II: Interactions 4. Differentiated Vulnerabilities, Climate Change and the UN Agencies 5. Differentiated Development in the IMF, the WBG, and the WTO 6. Expanding the Agenda at the WHO and the WIPO 7. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking international collection engages vexed and vexing questions about the future of the Women, Peace and Security agenda, from the legacies of coloniality to the prospects of international law, and from the implications of the global arms trade to the impact of climate change. The collection balances analysis of emerging trends with specially-commissioned reflections from those at the forefront of policy and practice.Table of ContentsSoumita Basu, Paul Kirby and Laura J. Shepherd, ‘Women, Peace and Security: A Critical Cartography’; Part One: Encounters; Rita Manchanda, ‘Difficult Encounters with the WPS Agenda in South Asia: Re-scripting Globalised Norms and Policy Frameworks for a Feminist Peace’; Rita M. Lopidia and Lucy Hall, ‘South Sudanese Women on the Move: An Account of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda’; Nicole George, ‘The Price of Peace? Frictional Encounters on Gender, Security and the “Economic Peace Paradigm”’; Sam cook and Louise Allen, ‘Holding Feminist Space’; Minna Lyytikäinen and Marjaana Jauhola, ‘Best Practice Diplomacy and Feminist Killjoys in the Strategic State: Exploring the Affective Politics of Women, Peace and Security’; Elizabeth Pearson, ‘Between Protection and Participation: Affect, Countering Violent Extremism and the Possibility of Agency’; Patricia Visuer Sellers and Louise Chappell, ‘Lessons Lived in Gender and International Criminal Law: A Conversation Between Patricia Visuer Sellers and Louise Chappell’; Part Two: Horizons; Toni Haastrup and Jamie J. Hagen, ‘Global Racial Hierarchies and the Limits of Localisation via National Action Plans’; Anna Stavrianakis, ‘Towards a Postcolonial and Anti-Racist Feminist Mode of Weapons Control’; Marta Bautista Forcada and Cristina Hernández Lázaro, ‘The Privatisation of War: A New Challenge for the Women, Peace and Security Agenda’; Gema Fernández and Christine Chinkin, ‘Human Trafficking, Human Rights, and Women, Peace and Security’; Briana Mawby and Anna Applebaum, ‘Addressing Future Fragility: Women, Climate, and Migration’; Joy Onyesoh, Madeleine Rees, and Catia C. Confortini, ‘Feminist Challenges to the Co-Optation of WPS: A Conversation with Joy Onyesoh and Madeleine Rees’.

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Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be secure in the 21st century? Mark Beeson argues that some of the most influential ideas about national and even global security reflect untenable, anachronistic strategic views that are simply no longer appropriate for contemporary international circumstances. At a time when climate change poses an existential threat to the continuation of life itself, Beeson argues that there is an urgent need to rethink security priorities while we still can. Providing an explanation of the failures and dangers of the conventional wisdom, he outlines the case for a new approach that takes issues like environmental and human security seriously.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Getting Real: The Way the World Works? 2. Hope Springs? Peace, Progress and Pluralism 3. Environmental Security 4. The Psychological and Cultural Dimensions of Security 5. (Not So?) Grand Strategy 6. Unequal Security Conclusion

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Book SynopsisDrawing on insights from differentiation theory, this book examines the participation of middle powers in multilateralism. Taking Australia, Indonesia and South Korea as examples, the book examines these countries’ roles in regional organizations, and particularly during the creation of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and East Asia Summit. Through its analysis, the book argues that middle powers pursue dilution of major power stratificatory forces, as well as functionally differentiated roles for themselves in multilateral diplomacy. The book sets out a valuable new framework to explain and understand the behaviour of middle powers in multilateralism.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. The Study of Middle Powers and Their Behaviour 3. Towards a Differential Framework for Middle Power Behaviour 4. Formation of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation 5. Shaping the East Asia Summit 6. The Differentiation of Middle Power Behaviour in Asia Pacific Multilateralism 7. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisV.S. Srinivasa Sastri was a celebrated Indian politician and diplomat in the early twentieth century. Despite being hailed as the ‘very voice of international conscience’, he is now a largely forgotten figure. This book rehabilitates Sastri and offers a diplomatic biography of his years as India’s roving ambassador in the 1920s. It examines his involvement in key conferences and agreements, as well as his achievements in advocating for racial equality and securing the rights of Indians both at home and abroad. It also illuminates the darker side of being a native diplomat, including the risk of legitimizing the colonial project and the contradictions of being treated as an equal on the world stage while lacking equality at home. In retrieving the legacy of Sastri, the book shows that liberal internationalism is not the preserve of western powers and actors – where it too often represents imperialism by other means – but a commitment to social progress fought at multiple sites and by many protagonists.Trade Review“By bringing out critiques of Sastri from within his contemporaries – Congress statesmen and India’s leading political thinkers – the book succeeds in decolonising pre-independence Indian diplomacy, thus far, a field too deeply entrenched in India’s colonial past.” H-Soz-Kult "[A] most enjoyable treasure box of a book… [this] well-researched and elegantly written monograph covers everything in terms of Sastri's political life" - Amit Das Gupta, Sehepunkte"Dr Vineet Thakur’s latest book is an important and exciting contribution to our understanding of race and the global colour line in the British imperial world of the 1920s." LSE Review of Books“Vineet Thakur’s biographical study of Sastri, India’s First Diplomat, is therefore a refreshing correction to such historiography. While acknowledging the shrinking domestic political space in which liberals operated in the interwar period, Thakur highlights the very real contributions they made in the diplomatic sphere.” The India ForumTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Native Diplomat Shirtless Srinivasan A Worthy Successor to Gokhale The Silver-Tongued Orator The Most Picturesque Figure A Rather Dangerous Ambassador Like the Anger of Rudra An Honourable Compromise A Trustee of India’s Honour We Have No Sastri Conclusion: An Amiable Usurper

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Book SynopsisEPUB and EPDF versions available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND license. In this enlightening analysis, Julia Gurol unpicks the complex security relations between the European Union (EU) and China. She investigates the principles, rationales and shifting dynamics of collaboration on a range of security issues, and their consequences for China, the EU and other regions. She pays particular attention to EU–China relations in the realm of anti-terrorism, anti-piracy and energy security, and disentangles their cooperation efforts in the context of increasing political and economic tensions. Systematic and accessible, this is an essential guide to the past, present and future of one of the world’s most important, yet most complicated, security relationships.Table of Contents1. The EU and China in a Changing International Environment 2. Analytical Framework: Towards Multidimensionality 3. The EU’s and China’s Foreign and Security Policy Principles 4. The EU and China on the Global Stage: Interests and Interdependence 5. Framing and Perceptions in EU-China Security Relations 6. EU-China Relations on Anti-Terrorism 7. EU-China Relations on Maritime Security and Anti-Piracy 8. EU-China Relations on Climate and Energy Security 9. The US: An Elephant in the Room for EU-China Security Relations 10. Conclusion and Outlook: The EU and China at a Crossroads

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Book SynopsisThe European Union (EU) is often portrayed as sacrificing national diversity for European unity. This book explores the alternative of a flexible EU based on differentiated rather than uniform integration. The authors combine normative theory with empirical research on political party actors to assess the desirability and political acceptability of differentiated integration as a means of accommodating heterogeneity in the EU. They examine the circumstances and institutional design needed for flexibility to promote rather than undermine fairness and democracy within and between member states. Clear, balanced, and accessible, the book provides fresh thinking on the future of the EU.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Normative Perspectives on Differentiated Integration 1. Differentiated Integration as a Fair Scheme of Cooperation 2. Democracy, Domination, and Differentiated Integration 3. Democratic Backsliding and the Limits to Differentiated Integration Part 2: Political Party Perspectives on Differentiated Integration 4. Party Views on Differentiated Integration 5. Party Views on the Substantive Fairness of Differentiated Integration 6. Party Views on the Democratic Dilemmas of Differentiated Integration 7. Party Views on Democratic Backsliding and Differentiated Integration Conclusion

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Book SynopsisOver the last two decades, China has emerged as one of the most powerful state actors in the post-Cold War international system. This book provides a multifaceted and spatially oriented analysis of how China’s re-emergence as a global power impacts the dominance of the United States as well as domestic state and non-state actors in various world-regions, including the Asia-Pacific, Africa, South America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, Europe and the Arctic. Chapters reflect on how and under which conditions competition (and cooperation) between the United States and China vary across these regions and what such variations mean for the prospects of war and peace, universal human dignity and global cooperation.Trade Review“This book presents a timely and much-needed analysis of the spatial implications of China's rise. Collectively, the authors explore the effects of China's rise in a number of different geographies, highlighting the need for nuance in respect of the global transformation taking place between China and the United States.” Catherine Jones, University of St AndrewsTable of ContentsPart 1: Introduction, Theory, and the Transnational Sites of Contestations 1. Spatial Imaginaries and Geopolitics in US–China Rivalry - Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr 2. The US, China, and the Implications of Uneven and Combined Development - James Parisot and Jake Lin Part 2: Geographies of Rivalry: Spatializing US–China Relations 3. Southeast Asia and the Militarization of South China Sea - Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr 4. South Asian Contestations and India’s Strategic Role: An Advaita Account - Deepshikha Shahi 5. Northeast Asia and China’s Pursuit of Greatness - Jing Sun 6. Africa and US–China Rivalry: Between Webs and Bases - Lina Benabdallah 7. Latin America and the Caribbean: How the Belt and Road Initiative Diminished US Influence - Juan E. Serrano-Moreno 8. The Middle East and Changing Superpower Relations - Chien-Kai Chen and Ceren Ergenc 9. Arctic Interests: How China is Challenging the US - Cameron Carlson and Linda Kiltz 10. Europe’s Role in US–China Strategic Competition - Richard Maher and Till Schöfer Part 3: Conclusions 11. Conclusions: Reframing the Puzzle of US-China Rivalry - Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr

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Book SynopsisLike in many other states worldwide, democracy is in trouble in South Korea, entering a state of regressionin the past decade, barely thirty years after its emergence in 1987. The society that had ordinary citizensleading “candlelight protests” demanding the impeachment of Park Geun-Hye in 2016–17 has becomepolarized amid an upsurge of populism, driven by persistent structural inequalities, globalization, and therise of the information society.The symptoms of democratic decline have been increasingly hard to miss: the demonization of politicalopponents, erosion of democratic norms, and the whittling away of the courts’ independence. Perhapsmost disturbing is that this all took place under a government dominated by former pro-democracyactivists. Will the election victory of opposition leader Yoon Suk-Yeol end this democratic erosion, or willthe rift between South Korea’s progressives and conservatives only deepen with the next administration?The contributors to this volume trace the sources of illiberalism in today’s Korea; examine how politicalpolarization is plaguing its party system; discuss how civil society and the courts have become politicized;look at the roles of inequality, education, and social media in the country’s democratic decline; andconsider how illiberalism has affected Korea’s foreign policy.

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Book SynopsisChina's Arctic Ambitions and What They Mean for Canada is an in-depth studies of China's increasing interest in the Arctic. It offers a holistic approach to understanding Chinese motivations and the potential impacts of greater Chinese presence in the circumpolar region, exploring resource development, shipping, scientific research, governance, and security. Drawing on extensive research in Chinese government documentation, business and media reports, and current academic literature, this timely volume eschews the traditional assumption that Chinese actions are unified and monolithic in their approach to Arctic affairs. Instead, it offers a careful analysis of the different, and often competing, interests and priorities of Chinese government and industry. Analyzing Chinese interests and activities from a Canadian perspective, the book provides an unparalleled point of reference to discuss the implications for the Canadian and broader circumpolar North.Trade Review"Although one can fairly wonder whether the authors are a trifle too rosyabout the reconcilability of Canadas and Chinas Arctic agendas, they haveproduced a solidly researched and thought-provoking volume". John McCannon, Pacific Affairs, Vol 91 No 4Lackenbauer et al. effectively counter the most overheated rhetoric about China's Arctic interests...a solidly researched and through-provoking volume. - John McCannon, Pacific AffairsThis book captures the multifaceted nature of the Arctic as scientific and security frontier and recognizes the complex dilemmas this region faces with sovereignty, security, and stewardship. -- Ellen A. Ahlness, American Review of Canadian StudiesTable of Contents illustrations Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Situating the Arctic in China's Strategy 2. The Snow Dragon: China, Polar Science, and the Environment 3. Sovereignty and Shipping 4. Arctic Resources and China's Rising Demand 5. China and Arctic Governance: Uncertainty and Potential Friction 6. The Way Ahead Notes Bibliography Index Biographies

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Book SynopsisAppealing to dialogue is often just a safe way of referring to something negative, or at best blandly neutral: the avoidance of conflict, the denial of similarity, not stirring deep-seated disagreement, etc. When Bernard o’Connor says pope Benedict XVI facilitated dialogue, however, he means something quite positive, very much tangible and certainly transformative. In providing an account of the pope’s interactions with various groups of the international community, O’Connor attempts to convey Benedict XVI’s diplomacy as encounter, where even in the sphere of international relations exhortations to “dialogue” are invitations to see more clearly and be moved as much as move. To dialogue is to embrace, revise perception such that our approaches to the great questions of our day are not simply shared but correct. As O’Connor writes, “Pope Benedict attempts to promote the outlook that a renewed emphasis upon objective, critical and structured philosophical reasoning positions practice, diplomatic and otherwise, to regain its lost foundation and framework. the quest for integrity, if nothing else, should motivate our fidelity to academic pursuit, to intellectual investigation, and to rigorous interdisciplinary inquiry. so influenced, practice will then reject what is arbitrary and be guided by what is time-tested and enduring.”O’Connor illustrates true dialogue emerging from the encounter, and in turn provides scores of characteristics of this encounter as it unfolds in papal diplomacy. In providing scores of addresses and speeches to various bodies, O’Connor presents pope Benedict XVI as an example of effective diplomacy that treats the meetings on the world stage as engaging in true dialogue. encounter is the true basis of dialogue and one that allows it to open to what is truly a catalyst for change toward cooperation––witness, both personal and collective. As o’Connor shows, “where there is authentic encounter, as meeting in mutual trust, what arises is context for witness.” If authentic even the diplomatic encounter has the means to deepen and transform one’s being.Witness Through Encounter intends to fulfill multiple needs. the diplomatic approach exemplified herein is singular and worthy of study among political scientists, sociologists, philosophers and diplomats eager to embrace a worldview that is more personal than simply humanistic. this work will also be useful in inter-religious settings. An additional advantage of O’Connor’s presentation of Benedict XVI’s diplomatic approach, his witness through encounter, is that it contains insight valuable to the scholar alongside the resources used.

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Book SynopsisThe United States has invested hundreds of billions of dollars in the idea that state-building can make the world “safe for democracy” but the return on that investment has been woeful. Witnessing this failure, many observers hold the view that investment in undemocratic countries should halt. Yet ignoring these troubled countries risks our safety. Drawing on his formidable foreign policy experience, Steve Krasner explains that eliminating corruption or holding free and fair elections is often not possible today in many parts of the world but negotiated compromises and halting large-scale theft is. Better security and some economic growth are possible everywhere. How to Make Love to a Despot defines a new and pragmatic American foreign policy vision that quells terrorism and leads to “good governance” around the globe.Trade Review"One doesn't have to agree with Krasner's conclusions to see the value in this book. It is tightly argued and thought-provoking and a must read—even for those who believe that support for democracy should remain a cornerstone of American foreign policy." -- Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice

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Book SynopsisYoung American Foreign Service officers are accustomed to being teased by friends and relatives as to what they do in the “Foreign Legion” or the “Forest Service.” In the United States, unlike in many countries, the role of a professional diplomat is little known or understood. In A Professional Foreigner Edward Marks describes his life as an American diplomat who served during the last four decades of the twentieth century, from 1959 to 2001. Serving primarily in Africa and Asia, Marks was present during the era of decolonization in Africa (but always seemed to be at the opposite end of the continent from the hottest developments), was intimately involved in the early days of the U.S. government’s antiterrorism programs, observed the unfolding of a nasty and tragic ethnic conflict in one of the most charming countries in the world, and saw the end of the Cold War at UN headquarters in New York. Along the way Marks served as the U.S. ambassador to two African nations. In this memoir Marks depicts a Foreign Service officer’s daily life, providing insight into the profession itself and what it was like to play a role in the steady stream of history, in a world of quotidian events often out of the view of the media and the attention of the world. Marks’s stories—such as rescuing an American citizen from a house of ill repute in Mexico and the attempt to recruit mongooses for drug intervention in Sri Lanka—are both entertaining and instructive on the work of diplomats and their contributions to the American story. Trade Review“Edward Marks’s highly engaging and poignant memoir is also a valuable primer on the profession and art of diplomacy and the inner workings of institutions such as the U.S. State Department, the military, and the United Nations. Marks’s memoir is a paean to the golden age of diplomacy and multilateralism. . . . [Readers] will come away with admiration for his modesty, quiet humor, and commitment to service and to creating a better world.”—Milinda Moragoda, high commissioner of Sri Lanka to India, founder of the Pathfinder Foundation, and former cabinet minister in Sri Lanka“Edward Marks’s literate memoir of four decades practicing diplomacy in Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America is highly readable—as well as fun. A sharp observer of social and political behavior, he shows how the contrasting characters of European colonizers left lasting effects on their former colonies. . . . Highly recommended.”—William Harrop, former U.S. ambassador“A relatively small corps of several thousand American Foreign Service officers . . . promote and defend U.S. interests every day of the year as diplomats based in American embassies, consulates, and missions in every country in the world. How they carry out their responsibilities, and how they meet the many challenges that arise, constitutes a fascinating story. After a long and varied career in diplomacy, Edward Marks relates that story with sharp insights and nonstop amusement.”—Herman J. Cohen, former assistant secretary of state for African Affairs“Edward Marks takes us to the diplomatic coalface––the ‘workaday life of the American Foreign Service Officer.’ His main tools are observation, listening, and putting the results into language that bosses back home can understand. This is your handbook on what diplomacy is all about. . . . In a feast of anecdotes, you can smell the atmosphere in downtown Bissau, Luanda, Lubumbashi, Lusaka, and Nairobi––‘small Foreign Service posts . . . on the periphery of mainstream diplomacy,’ much more interesting than Paris, Moscow, or Beijing.”—Robert Cox, former European Union official and occasional diplomat“A seasoned diplomat’s memoir adds to our knowledge of practice, appealing to readers across countries. . . . The hallmark of Marks’s writing is his gentle humor, cloaking his passion.”—Kishan S. Rana, former ambassador, Indian Foreign ServiceTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Taking the Oath 2. About Diplomats 3. Apprenticeship 4. Nairobi, Nuevo Laredo, Luanda 5. Zambia 6. The Belgian World 7. Guinea-Bissau 8. Guinea-Bissau Politics and Economics 9. Cape Verde 10. Fort McNair 11. Colombo 12. The Diplomatic Village 13. Ethnic Strife in the “Blessed Isle” 14. Winding Up 15. Turtle Bay 16. Washington Entr’actes 17. Three Years before the Mast Epilogue Index

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Book SynopsisIn this groundbreaking study, international relations scholar Hicham Tohme offers a critique of current academic, scholarly, and public understandings of Russia’s geostrategic outlook through the lens of the ongoing Syrian crisis. This critique is based on a reassessment of four key concepts that shape our knowledge of Russia’s foreign policy. First, the Westphalian state system is an inadequate a point of reference when applied to a country that still perceives itself and behaves as an empire. Second, justifying aggressive foreign policy as a counterweight to a perceived deficiency in the legitimacy of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s leadership oversimplifies Russian political culture and public values, which do not overlap with Western norms and institutions. Third, analysis of Russian foreign policy, as well as of Russia’s global role, remains restricted to what can be best described as a ‘post-Cold War framework’, a static image of global history for the past thirty years. Finally, most geopolitical and foreign affairs analyses focus on diplomatic and foreign policy rhetoric, rather than foreign policy praxis, as the primary data on which to draw conclusions.Offering an alternate explanation, this study examines Russia’s intervention in the Syrian crisis to reveal practices that have come to characterize its global strategy and outlook for the past decade. As such, Russian policy in Syria will be presented as part of a praxis that can describe many facets of Russian global disposition. This clearly places geopolitical practices, not rhetoric, at the heart of the analysis.Further, this book relies on the concept of habitus to explain how these practices inhere in a long tradition of Russian behavior, advancing the notion that they must be understood as part of a historical continuum of Russia’s political culture, mainly when it comes to its perception of its neighbors. By adopting a non-Westphalian framework and escaping the epistemological and methodological foundations of traditional foreign policy analysis, this book seeks to answer two key questions: How can we best describe Russia’s geostrategic predispositions? And how can we understand Russia’s involvement in the Syrian crisis in light of this analysis?

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Book SynopsisIn this engaging study of African diplomacy, Nigerian scholar Nwankwo Nwaeziegwe revisits the issue of cooperation between Arab nationalist governments and the nations of Sub-Saharan Africa. The book clinically explores the proper bases, character, and implications of Arab-Sub-Saharan relations through the lens of Arab nationalist diplomatic initiative and collective Black African development initiatives. It presents the Sub-Saharan African with the option of either continuing to regard the Arabs as a people with a common aspiration or putting them in the same neo-colonial basket as he has tended to put Europeans. The book’s main objective is to arrive at a proper understanding of the basis of Arab interest in Sub-Saharan Africa from the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, which brought the first Arab nationalist to power, and 1993, the year of the epoch-making Declaration of Principles (DOP) between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).Most importantly, the book examines the other face of the African predicament, which previous scholars of modern Africa have neglected. Ironically, the Arabs may have participated in undermining Sub-Saharan Africa’s development by promoting the institution of slavery, which was just as ruthless as the European experience of that phenomenon, if not worse. Nevertheless, due to Europe’s overwhelming dominance in the colonial era, the Arab role has often been downplayed against that of Europeans.

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Book SynopsisDavid Martin Jones, Nicholas Khoo, M. L. R. SmithTrade Review‘This thoroughly researched and clearly written book considers a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to understanding the impact and implications of China's rise, with separate chapters considering the very different dynamics of Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, and Australia. . . In all, they provide valuable information and ample food for thought for students and practitioners at all levels. Highly recommended.’ -- M.F. Farrell, Choice‘This book undertakes a sophisticated analysis of considerable nuance. The careful discussion, which makes use of multiple international relations theoretical positions, does not confuse but rather provides a thoughtful, well-balanced approach, missing in some of the more excitable “rising China” publications. . . the book offers many important insights for policymakers, academics and those deeply concerned with understanding the East Asian region.’ -- Peter Layton, RUSI JournalDavid Martin Jones, Nicholas Khoo and M. R. Smith have delivered a wonderfull neoclassical take on East Asian security and added energy to the debate surrounding China's rising influence in that region. Asian Security and the Rise of China will find an audience in universities as well as in the conference rooms where foreign and security policies are made in the Asia- Pacific. -- Dylan Kissane, CEU Political Science Journal‘Khoo, Jones, and Smith have pulled off a remarkable balancing act, crafting a well-grounded and multifaceted survey of China’s rise in the context of Asian security. In a field which is often marked more by scholarly effervescence than substance, the authors provide a refreshingly detailed portrait of the last two decades, and fair-mindedly point out evidence which might support both extremes of the debates they challenge with their own “third way”.’ -- Frank ‘Scott’ Douglas, US Naval War College, US‘Congratulations to the authors for a clearly argued and comprehensive treatment of China’s post-Cold War rise and what it means for existing and future dynamics of the Asia-Pacific region. Effectively employing realist theory in a fair-minded treatment of regional developments, the volume shows how and why power realities are more important than non-material factors in determining the region’s trajectory and thereby demonstrates that China’s ascendance in Asia remains complicated and conflicted.’ -- Robert Sutter, George Washington University, US‘Jones, Khoo, and Smith have written a very good primer to the challenges the rise of China poses for the East Asian regional order and its various constituent parts. They manage to do so while also presenting a clear, well-considered argument on how the respective actors in this drama are likely to respond. That they intersperse their analysis with humorous asides and clever metaphors is not lost on the reader; preventing the book from becoming a dry overview of the alphabet soup of meetings, agreements, frameworks, and institutions that have defined international relations in East and Southeast Asia in the past 30 years or so.’ -- East Asian Integration ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. Rocky Rise: US–China Relations in the Post-Cold War Era 2. Fear Factor: Northeast Asian Responses to China’s Rise 3. ASEAN’s Elusive Search for a Role in East Asian International Relations 4. Norms are what Strong States Make of Them: ASEAN in an Age of Volatility 5. Producing Security: State Power, Democracy and Southeast Asian Regionalism 6. Between Two Worlds: Australian Foreign Policy, the Rise of China and Middle-Power Responses to New and Old Security Dilemmas 7. The New Twenty Years’ Crisis: East Asia and the Northern Financial Crisis Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDavid Martin Jones, Nicholas Khoo, M. L. R. SmithTrade Review‘This thoroughly researched and clearly written book considers a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to understanding the impact and implications of China's rise, with separate chapters considering the very different dynamics of Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, and Australia. . . In all, they provide valuable information and ample food for thought for students and practitioners at all levels. Highly recommended.’ -- M.F. Farrell, Choice‘This book undertakes a sophisticated analysis of considerable nuance. The careful discussion, which makes use of multiple international relations theoretical positions, does not confuse but rather provides a thoughtful, well-balanced approach, missing in some of the more excitable “rising China” publications. . . the book offers many important insights for policymakers, academics and those deeply concerned with understanding the East Asian region.’ -- Peter Layton, RUSI JournalDavid Martin Jones, Nicholas Khoo and M. R. Smith have delivered a wonderfull neoclassical take on East Asian security and added energy to the debate surrounding China's rising influence in that region. Asian Security and the Rise of China will find an audience in universities as well as in the conference rooms where foreign and security policies are made in the Asia- Pacific. -- Dylan Kissane, CEU Political Science Journal‘Khoo, Jones, and Smith have pulled off a remarkable balancing act, crafting a well-grounded and multifaceted survey of China’s rise in the context of Asian security. In a field which is often marked more by scholarly effervescence than substance, the authors provide a refreshingly detailed portrait of the last two decades, and fair-mindedly point out evidence which might support both extremes of the debates they challenge with their own “third way”.’ -- Frank ‘Scott’ Douglas, US Naval War College, US‘Congratulations to the authors for a clearly argued and comprehensive treatment of China’s post-Cold War rise and what it means for existing and future dynamics of the Asia-Pacific region. Effectively employing realist theory in a fair-minded treatment of regional developments, the volume shows how and why power realities are more important than non-material factors in determining the region’s trajectory and thereby demonstrates that China’s ascendance in Asia remains complicated and conflicted.’ -- Robert Sutter, George Washington University, US‘Jones, Khoo, and Smith have written a very good primer to the challenges the rise of China poses for the East Asian regional order and its various constituent parts. They manage to do so while also presenting a clear, well-considered argument on how the respective actors in this drama are likely to respond. That they intersperse their analysis with humorous asides and clever metaphors is not lost on the reader; preventing the book from becoming a dry overview of the alphabet soup of meetings, agreements, frameworks, and institutions that have defined international relations in East and Southeast Asia in the past 30 years or so.’ -- East Asian Integration ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. Rocky Rise: US–China Relations in the Post-Cold War Era 2. Fear Factor: Northeast Asian Responses to China’s Rise 3. ASEAN’s Elusive Search for a Role in East Asian International Relations 4. Norms are what Strong States Make of Them: ASEAN in an Age of Volatility 5. Producing Security: State Power, Democracy and Southeast Asian Regionalism 6. Between Two Worlds: Australian Foreign Policy, the Rise of China and Middle-Power Responses to New and Old Security Dilemmas 7. The New Twenty Years’ Crisis: East Asia and the Northern Financial Crisis Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBilateral economic diplomacy is an increasingly popular method of ensuring both commercial and broader economic interests. In this Handbook over 30 leading experts from developed and developing countries, industrial nations and emerging economies have come together to form a global view of economic diplomacy. Representing a move away from Euro-centric books on the topic, this Handbook uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative research to explore how state visits, embassies and economic sanctions are being increasingly used as forms of diplomacy. Editors Peter van Bergeijk and Selwyn Moons have ensured that the entire research process is covered, from data collection to evidence-based policy advice. As such, the Handbook reveals how and under which conditions economic diplomacy can be most effective, proving an invaluable tool for future research.The Research Handbook for Economic Diplomacy is a key resource for academics and researchers at policy institutions who wish to understand the field in greater depth. Policy makers and other actors at domestic and international levels would also greatly benefit from this extensive international view of economy diplomacy.Trade Review‘Economic diplomacy has long been a neglected dimension in the study of international commerce. Governments around the globe actively seek to promote exports, attract investment, and protect the interests of their firms in foreign markets. They do so through a variety of instruments of foreign policy. This excellent Research Handbook brings together an outstanding set of contributions that provide a comprehensive overview of the instruments of economic diplomacy, as well as evidence and tools that can be used to assess their effectiveness. It should be required reading for foreign policy practitioners, trade promotion organizations, students of international business and scholars working on commercial policy.’ -- Bernard Hoekman, European University Institute, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to the Research Handbook on Economic Diplomacy Peter A.G. van Bergeijk and Selwyn J.V. Moons 2. (Economic) diplomacy: in need of a new paradigm? Gorazd Justinek 3. Business diplomacy: its role for sustainable value chains Désirée M. van Gorp 4. 25+ years of economic diplomacy research: how study design influences economic diplomacy coefficients Selwyn J.V. Moons 5. The use of case studies in economic diplomacy research Renata Cavalcanti Muniz PART I ECONOMIC DIPLOMATS 6. Trips and trade Volker Nitsch 7. The anatomy and the impact of export promotion agencies Marcio Cruz, Daniel Lederman and Laura Zoratto 8. Quantitative evidence on commercial diplomats’ time allocation on roles and activity areas Olivier Naray 9. Indonesian trade promotion Prahastuti Maharani 10. Embassies matter for trade, but diplomats matter most: evaluation of Dutch economic diplomacy in Latin America Phil Compernolle and Mark Vancauteren PART II IMPACTS, COSTS AND BENEFITS 11. Economic diplomacy and product characteristics Selwyn J.V. Moons and Remco de Boer 12. Passing export hurdles with a little help from my friends Arjan Lejour 13. Costs of Italian economic diplomacy: a comparative perspective Filippo Vergara Caffarelli and Giovanni Veronese 14. Social cost benefit analysis of trade missions Michiel de Nooij, Marcel van den Berg and Henri L.F. de Groot PART III POLITICS, TRADE AND SANCTIONS 15. Soft power, sanctions and exports: checking the BS in BDS Andrew K. Rose 16. Economic diplomacy and the liberal peace Syed Mansoob Murshed 17. Economic diplomacy in Iran: reorientation of trade to reduce vulnerability Sajjad F. Dizaji 18. China’s economic diplomacy and the politics-trade nexus Andreas Fuchs PART IV EMERGING MARKETS AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES 19. Economic diplomacy: a developing country perspective Kishan S. Rana 20. Economic diplomacy in Africa: the impact of regional integration versus bilateral diplomacy on bilateral trade Sylvanus Kwaku Afesorgbor 21. Impact of hard and soft infrastructure: evidence from North Africa and CEECs Hugo Lapeyronie, Mathilde Maurel and Bogdan Meunier 22. China’s foreign aid: towards a new normal? Arjan de Haan and Ward Warmerdam 23. The future of economic diplomacy research Peter A.G. van Bergeijk, Sewlyn J.V. Moons and Christian Volpe Martincus Index

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Book Synopsis'In a period marked by nationalism and populism, the relevance of the roles played by parliaments is sometimes underestimated and rather deserves greater attention. The book edited by Raube, Wouters and Muftuler-Bac gathers a group of leading scholars in the field of parliamentary studies and contributes to bridge a gap in a very sensitive policy field, that is to say the external relations of the European Union. A wide list of approaches and theoretical and empirical investigations demonstrates that, despite the dominant influence of the executive branches of government, not only networking of parliaments has enlarged, but also traditional and innovative roles, i.e. control and conflict mediation, have been amplifled and diversified. Therefore, parliaments are far from being put aside.'- Daniela Irrera, EuropeNow This insightful companion examines the role of parliaments in the external relations of the EU, a relatively under-explored topic of research in an increasingly complex international relations environment. In fact, this volume challenges the dominant perspective, demonstrating the increased networking of parliaments both within the EU and with external actors, shedding light on the growing role of parliamentary scrutiny, control and conflict mediation. Providing a comparative overview of parliamentary action in EU external relations, this book considers both the conceptual basis of these actions and examines key case studies for empirical analysis. It situates the EU's internal and external dimension of parliamentary cooperation in a wider context, engaging in a debate that goes beyond the EU into relationships with neighbouring regions as well as parliamentary institutions from other areas of the globe. Advanced students and researchers of EU external relations and global governance will greatly benefit from reading this timely book. At the same time, international relations and political science scholars will also appreciate this thorough and comprehensive volume.Contributors include: M.A. Afke Groen, M.A.H.K. Belley, K. Biedenkopf, T. Christiansen, A. Cianciara, I. Cooper, R. Cutler, M.A.F. De Vrieze, S. Delputte, I. Demirsu, M.A.D. Fonck, J.E. Fossum, D. Fromage, M. Gianniou, M. Góra, M.A.C. Glahn, S. Gürkan, D. Jan i , T. Lenz, C. Lord, M. Müftüler-Baç, G.G. Müller, X. Nuttin, L. Oehman, D. Peters, M.A.I. Petrova, K. Raube, L. Redei, G. Rosén, Z. Selden, M.A. Shaohua Yan, S. Stavridis, A. von Lingen, W. Wagner, J. Wódka, J. WoutersTrade Review'If you believe that external relations constitutes the next frontier of democratic assertion in the EU; if you are a sceptic and ask what difference can parliaments at all levels make to the EU's external policy; if you are intrigued by the connection between transnational parliamentary cooperation within Europe and democratisation outside Europe; if you want to explore the many motivations, opportunities and paths for such developments under the Lisbon Treaty, and to do so in many disciplinary languages, this book is for you. An essential guide indeed.' --Kalypso Nicolaidis, University of Oxford, UK'This volume provides a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the role of parliaments in EU external relations, one of the most topical issues in parliamentary studies and international relations today. Overall the chapters offer normatively and empirically well-informed contributions on parliamentary cooperation and diplomacy in a variety of international and regional settings and policy areas vis-à-vis the EU. The book is a must-read for scholars and professionals working at the intersection between EU law, international law, constitutional law and political science.' --Cristina Fasone, LUISS Guido Carli, Rome, Italy'An impressive collection of chapters, gathering authors from all over Europe and beyond. All of them offer different perspectives on a phenomenon that has significantly developed during the last 30 years. The many ways through which parliaments have become one of the main actors of EU external relations and have established inter-parliamentary networks are carefully analysed and critically discussed according to both legal and political science approaches.' --Nicola Lupo, LUISS University, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: A world of parliamentary relations? Parliamentary cooperation and diplomacy in EU external relations Kolja Raube, Jan Wouters and Meltem Müftüler-Baç PART I PARLIAMENTARY COOPERATION AND DIPLOMACY IN EU EXTERNAL RELATIONS: CONCEPTIONS AND THEORETICAL APPROACHES 1. Off or on field? – The multilevel parliamentary field of EU external relations John Erik Fossum and Guri Rosén 2. Inter-parliamentary cooperation in the European Union: Towards institutionalization? Thomas Christiansen and Afke Groen 3. Bringing transnationalism (once again) back in: Insights for the parliamentary dimension of European foreign policy Daan Fonck and Kolja Raube 4. EU entrepreneurship, norm diffusion and the parliamentarization of regional economic organizations Tobias Lenz 5. Rationales of inter-parliamentary cooperation in European security politics: From the Inter-Parliamentary Union to the IPC-CFSP Wolfgang Wagner PART II INTER-PARLIAMENTARY COOPERATION AND DIPLOMACY ARENAS IN EU EXTERNAL RELATIONS 6. How can inter-parliamentary cooperation contribute to the legitimacy of the EU as an international actor? Christopher Lord 7. Emerging interregional parliamentarism: The case of the Baltic Assembly Robert M. Cutler and Alexander von Lingen 8. The inter-parliamentary conferences of the European Union: Discussion forums or oversight bodies? Ian Cooper 9. Actor, network, symbol: The Inter-parliamentary Conference on CFSP/CSDP Dirk Peters 10. The European Parliament in inter-parliamentary cooperation and diplomacy Diane Fromage 11. The parliamentary dimension of the EU rotating presidency: Bringing back national concerns through the “backdoor”? Stelios Stavridis and Maria Gianniou 12. The NATO Parliamentary Assembly in parliamentary diplomacy Zachary Selden and Linda Oehman PART III INTER-PARLIAMENTARY COOPERATION AND DIPLOMACY IN THE EU’s NEIGHBOURHOOD 13. The Role of the European Parliament in the Enlargement Process: Insights from Inter-Parliamentary Relations with Turkey Seda Gürkan 14. External Europeanization through parliamentary cooperation: The EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Association Committee and EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee in comparative perspective Jakub Wódka and Agnieszka Cianciara 15. The Turkish-EU Cooperation on the Refugee Crisis: The Turkish Perceptions in the Parliamentary Debates Ipek Demirsu and Meltem Müftüler-Baç 16. The European Parliament as a ‘normative actor’ in inter-parliamentary cooperation? Cosima Glahn 17. The European Parliament as an agenda setter of EU policy toward its neighbourhood Magdalena Góra 18. Servants or rivals? Uncovering the drivers and logics of the European Parliament’s diplomacy during the Ukrainian crisis Daan Fonck PART IV MULTILATERAL PARLIAMENTARY COOPERATION AND DIPLOMACY IN EU EXTERNAL RELATIONS AND BEYOND 19. The Euro-Latin America Parliamentary Assembly (EuroLat): Constructing a common bi-regional agenda Gustavo G. Müller 20. Cooperation between the European Parliament and the Parliament of Mercosur: Strategic partnership towards effective interregionalism and effective multilateralism Ana María Moure 21. Asia and the EU: How to add a regional dimension to the parliamentary relationship Xavier Nuttin 22. Parliamentary deliberation in inter-regional relations: Insights from the ACP-EU JPA Sarah Delputte and Yentyl Wiliiams 23. Parliamentary cooperation within the Economic Community of West African States Harrison Kofi Belley 24. Assessing the institutional capability of international parliamentary institutions and parliamentary networks in the Western Balkans and South East Europe Franklin De Vrieze 25. Inter-parliamentary cooperation in post-Soviet space: Exploring blind spots of regional dynamics Irina Petrova PART V PARLIAMENTARY DIPLOMACY ISSUE AREAS: TRADE, ENVIRONMENT AND INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT 26. The European Parliament in EU trade relations with China: A norm and policy advocate? Shaohua Yan 27. The European Parliament and International Climate Negotiations Katja Biedenkopf 28. EU-Canada Relations and CETA: A Tale of Legislative Trade Diplomacy Davor Jančić 29. MEPs as Mediators: An Emerging Trend of Parliamentary Diplomacy? Lorinc Redei 30. Inter-parliamentary cooperation and parliamentary diplomatic activities in an unorderly word: Concluding remarks Kolja Raube, Meltem Müftüler-Baç and Jan Wouters Index

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Book SynopsisThe first of its kind, this book critically and systematically addresses questions about China?'s high-speed rail diplomacy and ?'one belt, one road?' initiative. Gerald Chan argues that ?'geo-developmentalism?' is currently being formed in China, and explores its international impact.Understanding China?'s New Diplomacy offers an in-depth examination of how China has risen so quickly to become a high-speed rail superpower, and how this has impacted positively and negatively on other countries, particularly its neighbours in Asia. Chan also highlights the challenges the initiative poses to the state, particularly in balancing these projects to maintain China?'s status as both a land and maritime power. By reviewing the country?'s unique style of state capitalism and its success of absorbing foreign train technology, new developmental methods exclusive to China are revealed. Government officials, foreign policy makers and students with a keen desire to discover more about Chinese foreign policy and international relations would greatly benefit from the expert insight into China?'s geopolitical future.Trade Review'This is an excellent much needed book.' --Kingsley E. Haynes, George Mason University, US'Professor Gerald Chan is a perceptive and thorough scholar, with a highly inventive mind. In this book he brilliantly analyzes China's high-speed railway system and the Belt and Road Initiative, likely to transform all kinds of interactions across the great Eurasian Continent in coming decades. Professor Chan's sober and insightful analysis will also serve as a basis for future research.' --Colin Mackerras, Griffith University, Australia'This is a timely but very original contribution to the field of international political economy and development studies and the study of China's relations with the world. Professor Chan takes the case of the rapid development and internationalization of China's high-speed rail industry to show how Chinese industrial development is organized in the context of the evolving world political economic structure. Theoretically sharp, empirically rich, and policy implications far-reaching.' --Xiaoming Huang, Victoria University of Wellington, New ZealandTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. The New Silk Road 3. China’s high-speed rail diplomacy 4. Explaining China’s high-speed rail ‘miracle’ 5. Financing infrastructure projects 6. Assessing Asian responses to ‘one belt, one road’ 7. Theorising ‘one belt, one road’ 8. Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisOver three-quarters of a century, the UN has been impacted by major changes in the balance of powers among its member states. This unique and insightful book offers detailed commentary on its historic effectiveness and reviews the capacity of the UN to reform and adapt to global challenges. This book constitutes a judgement on the overwhelming importance as well as the vulnerability of multilateralism at a time when the UN has never been more indispensable This book describes: How autocracy in the US, China and Russia constrains the UN Why North-South politics has been a constant feature of intergovernmental debate How the UN development system became an extended patronage system What the UN learnt from its peacekeeping failures, and how it continues to adapt Four areas of needed and feasible reform to restore UN credibility. This impressive book will be vital to the staff of permanent missions of member governments to the UN, as well as UN secretariat staff. It will also benefit researchers exploring international organizations and the staff of development NGOs, as well as a broader audience of those interested in UN and global politics.Trade Review'Stephen Browne, himself a veteran who toiled in the UN trenches, has written an important account of the struggles within the UN to change and reinvent itself.' --Lord Mark Malloch Brown, Former UN Deputy Secretary-General'Stephen Browne has analyzed why the UN is so necessary yet such a relic. ''Reform'' has been under way since the ink dried on the Charter, yet the results are demonstrably inadequate for the problems of the second decade of the twenty-first century. Remarkable for its breadth and depth, this book could not be more timely, a compelling read for practitioners and scholars.' --Thomas G. Weiss, The CUNY Graduate Center, USTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction: What’s Wrong with the UN? 1. The Growing UN Edifice 2. Peace Operations: prevention better than cure 3. Human Rights and Justice: from back to front 4. The Humanitarian Record 5. The UN in Development 6. Reviving the UN through Achievable Reform Index

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Book SynopsisThere is a deep and multifaceted relationship between international law and history - political events have legal implications, and international norms and institutions may influence the course of history. This incisive book unveils and illuminates this nexus, providing examples from a wide range of domains of global governance. Analysing this intertwined relationship with particular reference to international human rights, humanitarian and criminal law, this timely book features contributions from leading scholars and practitioners in international law, history and diplomacy. History and International Law, with a foreword by ICJ Judge Giorgio Gaja, covers topics ranging from the connections between current and historical events and human rights protection in the EU, to the ways in which ICC investigations and prosecutions continue to affect political developments in Africa. The authors offer examples of original analysis, establishing innovative paradigms of interdisciplinary research in the field. International lawyers and academics will find this book both useful and insightful. It will also prove valuable to scholars and students of the history of international law, diplomacy and international relations. Contributors include: O. Bekou, G. Ben-Nun, A. Ciampi, E. de Wet, S. Douglas-Scott, R.E. Fife, K. Ristic, S. Troebst Trade Review'This book, edited by Annalisa Ciampi, aptly recalls the centrality of historicization in international legal thought and practice. The chapters in this volume, each in its particular and refreshing way, simultaneously demonstrate the impossibility for international lawyers to refrain from an explicit engagement with history. A welcome publication.' --Jean d'Aspremont, Sciences Po Law School, France and University of Manchester, UKTable of ContentsContents: Forward Giorgio Gaja Part I History AND INTERNATIONAL LAW: an INTRODUCTION 1. Creative Forces and Institution Building in International Law Rolf Einar Fife 2. Eastern Europe’s Imprint on Modern International Law Stefan Troebst Part II History AND INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW 3. History, Isolation and Effectiveness of International Human Rights Law Annalisa Ciampi 4. EU Human Rights Law and History: A Tale of Three Narratives Sionaidh Douglas-Scott Part III History, International Humanitarian LAW AND INTERNATIONAL Criminal Law 5. ‘Treaty after Trauma’: ‘Protection for All’ in the Fourth Geneva Convention Gilad Ben-Nun 6. History and Core International Crimes: Friends or Foes? Olympia Bekou 7. ‘Imaginary Trials’: The Legacy of the ICTY in Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia Katarina Ristic 8. The Rise and Demise of the ICC Relationship with African States and the AU Erika de Wet, Gilad Ben-Nun, Olympia Bekou, Annalisa Ciampi, Sionaidh Douglas-Scott, Rolf Einar Fife, Katarina Ristic, Stefan Troebst, Erika de Wet Index

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Book SynopsisThis handbook is for journalists, researchers and policy makers that are interested in working on science communication for water peace and cooperation and that are searching for ideas and inspiration. It features descriptions and reflections of the activities (action research, training modules, joint workshops, reporting grants, podcast, online photo campaign...) implemented by Open Water Diplomacy project in the Nile basin, and in the new international basins identified under the top-up activities on capacity development, as well as activities in the field of media and water diplomacy implemented by other actors. It will be an online open access repository of case studies and best practices in the field of journalism and science communication for water peace and cooperation.

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Book SynopsisThe Peoples Republic of China (PRC) diplomatic engagement with the Middle East spans multiple dimensions, including trade and investment, the energy sector, and military cooperation. Connecting China through the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean and Europe, the Middle East is a unique geostrategic location for Beijing, a critical source of energy resources, and an area of expanding economic ties. The Middle East geographical and political area is subject to different country inclusion interpretations that have changed over time and reflect complex and multifaceted circumstances involving conflict, religion, ethnicity, and language. China considers most Arab League member countries (as well as Israel, Turkey, and Iran) as representing the Middle East. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and official Chinese publications refer to this region as Xiya beifei (West Asia and North Africa). China sees the Middle East as an intrinsic part of its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), and has ramped up investment in the region accordingly, focusing on energy (including nuclear power), infrastructure construction, agriculture, and finance. This book uses the BRI as a framework for analyzing ChinaMiddle East relations, with special emphasis on the PRCs strategic partnerships via regional mutual interdependency in various sectors such as energy, infrastructure building, political ties, trade and investment, financial integration, people to people bonding, and defense. A stable Middle East region is vital for Chinas sustainable growth and continued prosperity. As the worlds largest oil consumer with an ambition to expand its economic and political influence, the Middle Easts geostrategic location and holder of most of the worlds known energy resources make it indispensable to the success of the Belt and Road Initiative.

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Book SynopsisThis innovative book examines the maritime component of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), focusing on three key trade routes and addressing the question of how China protects its overseas assets. Gerald Chan explores China's rising maritime power, using geo-developmentalism as a theoretical framework to analyse the country's development of port facilities and infrastructure along important trade routes. Through developing these sea routes, he argues that a new global order is in the making. The book also offers an in-depth and balanced review of two major criticisms of China's BRI: the first being so-called 'debt trap diplomacy', and the second being security concerns surrounding China's IT industry, the resolution of which Chan suggests will pave the way towards developing a 'digital Silk Road'. Following on from Chan's previous work on high-speed rail and other land networks, this book offers a comprehensive and up-to-date account on infrastructure building in this context. It will prove a stimulating read for scholars and students of Chinese foreign policy and international relations, as well as policy makers, government officials and businesses seeking to better understand China's foreign trade and development policies.Trade Review'This new book by Professor Gerald Chan provides some fascinating perspectives in response to the current tense debate on China's role in global development. It also challenges many pessimistic views on the fate of globalization. This book should be interesting to anyone who is keen to develop a deeper understanding of the impact of China's rise on our future global order.' --Mingjiang Li, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore'Expanding on the concept of geo-developmentalism from his previous volume - Understanding China's New Diplomacy - Professor Gerald Chan casts a keen eye over the complex linkages of multiple arenas and issue areas, as well as the actions and reactions of state and non-state actors in the expanding Chinese Maritime Silk Road. Accessible, timely, and comprehensive, China's Maritime Silk Road provides a compelling primer for anyone seeking an overall strategic guide to China's recent impact on the global order.' --Kun-Chin Lin, University of Cambridge, UK'Professor Gerald Chan provides a penetrating and comprehensive analysis of China's Maritime Silk Road through an analytical framework of geo-developmentalism. This is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding China's Belt and Road Initiative, China's maritime strategy, and China's interaction with global order more broadly.' --Xiaoyu Pu, University of Nevada, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1 Introduction 2 Whither the maritime Silk Road? 3 Geo-developmentalism: a new framework for analysis 4 Journey to the west: Europe and Africa through the Indian Ocean 5 Path to the south: Oceania and the South Pacific through Southeast Asia 6 Venture to the north: Europe and North America through the ‘Polar Silk Road 7 How does China protect its maritime Silk Road? 8 Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely Research Handbook examines the dynamic and interdependent relationship between law and diplomacy in the contemporary international system. Through accounts of the actual practice of international law and diplomacy, it provides insights into how international law and relations operate and examines the complex relationship.An impressive selection of contributors provides analyses of bilateral and multilateral diplomacy in international law making, interpretation, and adjudication. These accounts include examinations of legal diplomacy, reforms within international organisations, judicial diplomacy, and the role of non-state actors – including NGOs and corporations – in the international system. Chapters consist of case studies of treaty negotiations, multilateral legal reform, and the resolution of disputes under formal and informal international legal mechanisms. This Handbook also assesses the relative roles of lawyers, diplomats and lawyer-diplomats within the international system, and the ethical framework for their professional conduct.This Handbook will be helpful to advanced undergraduate, graduate, and law students, as well as researchers, practitioners, and policy makers interested in multilateralism, diplomacy, international law, international organisations, civil society, and the ethics of law and diplomacy.Trade Review‘A distinguished roster of scholars and diplomats tells the story of how law and diplomacy lace together to create contemporary international affairs. This book is the ideal place to see behind the scenes where professionals in foreign offices, international institutions, and academia draw together legal and diplomatic resources. It is an exemplary collection for scholars of international law and politics.’ -- Ian Hurd, Northwestern University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface xiv 1 The interdependence of law and diplomacy: introduction to the Research Handbook on Law and Diplomacy 1 Margaret E. McGuinness and David P. Stewart PART I HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES AND CASE STUDIES IN LAW AND DIPLOMACY 2 Law, diplomacy and German unification 23 Jeremy Hill and Michael Wood 3 Law and diplomacy in the compulsory conciliation between Australia and Timor-Leste 41 Katrina Cooper 4 Lawyering and the use of force in Libya and Syria operations 61 Mary B. DeRosa PART II LAW, DIPLOMACY, AND INTERNATIONAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION 5 At the intersection of diplomacy and international law: the ISDS reform process 84 Chiara Giorgetti 6 Disequilibrium in the multilateral trading system and the (necessary) return of diplomacy 103 Robert McDougall PART III LAW AND DIPLOMACY AT INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS 7 The IMF and the evolution of international monetary and financial law 123 Sean Hagan 8 Law and diplomacy at the World Health Organization 138 Steven A. Solomon and Kenneth Piercy PART IV LAW, DIPLOMACY, AND CIVIL SOCIETY 9 Judicial diplomacy and the global community of law: the federal judiciary advancing the rule of law abroad 156 The Honorable Sidney H. Stein and Omar Badawi 10 Diplomacy of legal reform at the OAS 174 Luis Humberto Toro Utillano 11 Non-governmental organizations as international law’s diplomats 192 Elizabeth Andersen PART V LAW AND MULTILATERAL DIPLOMACY: GLOBAL CHALLENGES 12 Environmental diplomacy: “the elements” 209 Makane Moïse Mbengue and Elena Cima 13 Space law and diplomacy 227 Christopher J. Borgen 14 Law and diplomacy in the business and human rights treaty negotiations 248 Humberto Cantú Rivera and Danielle Anne Pamplona PART VI DIPLOMACY AND INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW 15 Diplomacy and compliance at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights 263 Joel Hernández 16 Human rights treaty bodies: law, diplomacy, either or neither 282 Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov PART VII LAWYERS, DIPLOMATS, AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS 17 Lawyer or diplomat? 300 Miguel de Serpa Soares 18 Legal advisers’ professional duties in the diplomatic context 320 Harry Aitken 19 Law as power: advising the state and the practice of diplomacy 340 Mohamed Helal Index 358

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Book SynopsisThis timely Research Handbook investigates the radically transformative impact of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), addressing key questions regarding its economic, political and strategic consequences: What does the Chinese government hope to achieve with the BRI? How have recipient states responded? And what are its potential opportunities and risks?Bringing together prominent international scholars and analysts, this Research Handbook arrives at a critical time in the infrastructural development of the BRI, shedding light on its influence in the future of global politics and economics. Chapters unpack the role of the BRI in Chinese foreign policy, placing infrastructural development at the centre of regional affairs, great power dynamics and economic and investment trends. Employing geopolitical and diplomatic modes of investigation, it offers critical and holistic views of the progress and challenges of the BRI’s implementation and its implications on the world stage.Providing an innovative global viewpoint on the BRI, this Research Handbook offers cutting-edge perspectives for scholars and students of political science, particularly those investigating the latest developments in Chinese domestic and foreign policy. Its practical insights and broad empirical analysis will also benefit policymakers and think tank analysts working in the field.Huiyao Wang, Center for China and Globalization (CCG)Trade Review‘The book offers a timely series of studies on the BRI edited by three Singapore-based political scientists. The collection presents a solid read for students, scholars, policymakers, and other professionals interested in recent developments concerning the BRI. Practically, the editors aim to raise the Chinese government’s attention to the significance of adapting to multilateralism, which China has claimed it supports. Theoretically, through the lens of the BRI, the book explores the implications of a rising China on global governance across diverse fields. Finally, and specifically for geographers, the book should inspire greater exploration into the spatiality of BRI projects.’ -- Xiaofeng Liu, Eurasian Geography and Economics‘In this Research Handbook, the researchers shed an analytical light on both the thematic and functional aspects of the BRI through exhaustive interdisciplinary quantitative and qualitative analysis. Meanwhile, the diverse nationalities represented among the contributors also enable the book to look at the BRI from the perspective of both China and host countries, highlighting the strong repercussions in policymaking among the states along the route as well as the impact on both domestic and international spheres.’ -- Founder and President of the Center for China and Globalization (CCG)Table of ContentsContents: Preface and acknowledgements xix Introduction to the Research Handbook on the Belt and Road Initiative xx Joseph Chinyong Liow, Hong Liu and Gong Xue PART I CONCEPTUAL AND THEMATIC ISSUES 1 China and the Maritime Silk Road: from passive to active participant 2 John N. Miksic 2 The domestic politics of the Belt and Road Initiative and its implications 14 Baogang He 3 China’s railway diplomacy under the Belt and Road Initiative 28 Shang-su Wu 4 The Belt and Road Initiative’s evolving security dimension 43 Alessandro Arduino 5 Looking into energy security through the lens of the Belt and Road Initiative: can China achieve a more secure energy future? 54 Lixia Yao 6 China’s global quest for food and the Belt and Road Initiative 65 Hongzhou Zhang 7 BRI and global development praxis: is a paradigm shift eminent? 76 Ana Cristina D. Alves 8 The Digital Silk Road: understanding China’s technological rise and the implications for global governance 88 Clayton T. Cheney 9 The strategic rationale of China’s Belt and Road Initiative 102 Joseph Chinyong Liow 10 The Belt and Road Initiative as a diplomatic discourse 114 Dylan M.H. Loh PART II THE MARITIME DOMAIN 11 Soaring Garuda meets rising dragon: the political economy of the Belt and Road Initiative in Indonesia 123 Guanie Lim and Hong Liu 12 Explaining the Belt and Road in the Philippines: elite consolidation, construction contracts, and online gambling capital 137 Alvin Camba, Jerik Cruz, Janica Magat and Angela Tritto 13 Malaysia and the Belt and Road Initiative: maritime, rail, and digital connectivity 150 Chow-Bing Ngeow 14 China’s first cross-border high-speed railway project and Laos’s relational power 161 Gabriele Giovannini 15 Cambodian perspective on the Belt and Road Initiative 175 Vannarith Chheang and Pheakdey Heng 16 Belt and Road Initiative in Myanmar: adapting to the slippery road 190 Gong Xue 17 The BRI in the new normal of COVID-19: the case of Thailand 202 Zhimin Tang and Orrasa Rattana-amornpirom 18 Singapore in China’s Belt and Road Initiative 214 Sarah Y. Tong and Tuan Yuen Kong 19 Pakistan and the BRI: is there a shift from euphoria to pragmatism? 227 Khuram Iqbal 20 China, Sri Lanka and the BRI 239 Chulanee Attanayake and Yuanzhe Ren PART III THE OVERLAND BELT 21 China’s Belt and Road in the Pacific: implementation, motives and prospects 253 Denghua Zhang 22 Russia and the overland Belt and Road 264 Ekaterina Koldunova 23 Poland’s relation to the Belt and Road Initiative: political, economic, infrastructural, and socio-cultural dimensions 274 Patrycja Pendrakowska 24 BRI in Kazakhstan: pursuing economic partnership amidst rising concerns 286 Bhavna Dave 25 Uzbekistan and Central Asia in space–time coordinates of the modern Silk Road 299 Farkhod Tolipov 26 Tajikistan: China’s security gatekeeper in Central Asia 311 Yau Tsz Yan 27 China’s engagements with Central and Eastern Europe: costs and benefits in the era of the Belt and Road Initiative 322 Alica Kizeková 28 China in Nepal: on the politics of the Belt and Road Initiative development in South Asia 331 Galen Murton and Nadine Plachta 29 Southeast Europe in current Chinese foreign economic policy 341 Jens Bastian PART IV THE OVERLAND BELT 30 The BRI in Africa: change or continuity in China–Africa relations? 353 Linda Calabrese 31 China and the Middle East: venturing into the maelstrom 368 James M. Dorsey 32 Western Europe in the BRI 378 Jing Men 33 The Indo-Pacific as pushback against the BRI 390 Kaewkamol Pitakdumrongkit 34 ‘Not being absent’: China’s Polar Silk Road and the politics of identity 402 Marc Lanteigne 35 The BRI: fuelling strategic rivalry between China and the United States 414 Mingjiang Li 36 India, BRI and the emerging post-Galwan China outlook 424 Jagannath Panda 37 Conclusion: BRI, COVID-19 and the future 437 Joseph Chinyong Liow, Hong Liu and Gong Xue Index

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Book SynopsisThis book explores China’s policy towards the European Union, using the case study of four member states from Central Europe: Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia. Gabriela Pleschová documents China’s strategic approach to engaging with these countries bilaterally and multilaterally, through intensified diplomatic and soft-power campaigns, upgrading them to strategic partners, offering loans and promising investments. China in Central Europe outlines how this particular approach has proven to be ineffective. Despite the allocation of significant resources to the development of relations with Central Europe, Pleschová argues that there is limited enthusiasm for China outside of a narrow circle of policy makers and business people who profit from engagement with China. Instead, Chinese influence has stirred criticism and created tensions among other groups, such as between Czech politicians and the local expert community on China, or among Hungarian citizens distrustful of their own government. Pleschová further argues that China has not impacted how Central Europe’s representatives vote in the European Parliament and that support from some elites in Central Europe does not translate into wider backing for China in the EU. China can influence Central European countries’ policy to some extent; however, if a fundamental issue arises, countries harden their position towards Beijing. Utilizing social science concepts to explain the puzzles from China–Central Europe relations, this book will be a valuable resource for scholars and students of international relations, Chinese studies, EU politics, and international law, as well as political and social scientists more generally. It will also be useful for professionals engaged in foreign policy decision-making.Trade Review‘China in Central Europe is an important addition to the growing literature on relations between China and Europe. This book fills a gap by offering systematic analysis of a number of issues around China’s approach to Central and Eastern Europe, a topic which has received more attention from policy makers over recent years. Pleschová’s findings, which highlight the difficulties the Chinese government has had in pursuing its agenda, deserve a wide consideration by policy makers and scholars alike.’ -- Tim Summers, The Chinese University of Hong Kong'In her pioneering research Gabriela Pleschová investigates a complex relationship between China and Central Europe. She describes how Hungarians and other nations in Central Europe increasingly feel mistrust and fear from the collaboration with the Chinese Communist government, in part due to concerns about the authoritarian tendencies of their own regimes. Tensions between the groups that advocate profit and value-based policy (a defining feature of post-communist societies) are analyzed in this fascinating book.' -- András Bozóki, Central European University, Vienna, AustriaTable of ContentsContents: 1. China’s approach to Central Europe: Why China chose to target the four Central European states 2. China’s unconvincing soft power campaign in Central Europe 3. Identifying with someone other than the West: Hungarians’ belonging and Orbán’s unique China policy 4. Influencing Central European states through strategic partnerships: The case of Poland 5. Scholars’ distrust of China: The influence of academics on the Czech Republic’s China policy 6. Significant conversations on Slovakia’s cybersecurity: China, Huawei and the struggle for the country’s political orientation 7. China’s attempts to impact EU decision making through Central Europe: The case of the EU’s refusal to grant China Market Economy Status Eszter Simon and Gabriela Pleschová 8. China’s relations with the Visegrad Four in a broader context Index

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Book SynopsisCurrent conceptions of mediation can often fail to capture the complexity and intricacy of modern conflicts. This Research Handbook addresses this problem by presenting the leading expert opinions on international mediation, examining how international mediation practices, mechanisms and institutions should adapt to the changing characteristics of contemporary international crises. Chapters consider the challenges facing the international community when aiming to achieve lasting resolutions in intrastate and interstate conflicts during acute periods of crisis and potential or actual violence escalation. The authors also provide much-needed context for 'gray zone conflict', the actions of non-state actors, gender dynamics and biases that hinder mediation. The ever-expanding role of mediation means authors also cover human security, climate diplomacy and cyber disputes. Using extensive analysis of salient cases as well as quantitative studies of aggregate trends, this Research Handbook is the vital reference work for mediation in contemporary international politics. The concluding chapter explores the overarching themes and key policy recommendations from the leading voices in mediation. An essential reference for postgraduate researchers of international politics, this Research Handbook provides both quantitative and qualitative analysis to further case knowledge for research. In addition, the case studies and concluding chapter will be a much-needed resource for policymakers and practitioners in defence policy and peace advocacy due to their emphasis on lessons learned and best practice.Contributors include: P. Aall, Z. Bakaki, J.A. Bangerter, M. Barrett, K. Beardsley, D. Belo, T. Böhmelt, A. Boutellis, M. Brecher, D. Carment, A.B. Çelik, K. Christie, C.A. Crocker, D.E. Cunningham, K. DeRouen Jr., P.F. Diehl, Y. Duman, S.S. Gartner, M. Gelfand, S. Gent, Z. Goncz, J.M. Greig, F.O. Hampson, E. Hoffman, P.T. Hopmann, L. Hultman, L. Kemp, R.C. Maness, M.M. Melin, E.J. Menninga, M. Nikolko, P. Olander, A.P. Owsiak, D. Quinn, L. Reid, M. Sarver, N. Schreffler, J.A. Stevenson, I. Svensson, B. Valeriano, S. Vukovic, P.B. White, J. Wilkenfeld, M.-J. Zahar, I.W. ZartmanTrade Review'This is a superb collection of articles on mediating international crises, one of the best I have seen. It is thematic, with insightful, well-informed contributions from accomplished scholars and experts, which, importantly, consider critical changes in the characteristics of the international system. It includes rich policy-relevant recommendations, especially in the concluding chapter. Highly recommended for scholars and practitioners alike.' --Shibley Telhami, University of Maryland, College Park and the Brookings Institution, US'Given the sterling list of contributors, the reader is likely to have high expectations of this book - and s/he will not be disappointed! It ranges over all the key aspects of mediation and covers them well by theory, large-N empirical analysis, and case studies.' --Nils Petter Gleditsch, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), NorwayTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to Mediating International Crises Jonathan Wilkenfeld, Kyle Beardsley, and David Quinn Part I Contemporary Issues in Mediating International Crises 2. International Crises Jonathan Wilkenfeld and Michael Brecher 3. Mediating Complex Crises Kyle Beardsley, David Quinn, and Jonathan Wilkenfeld 4. Preaching What We Practice: Defining Gray Zone Challenges for Policymakers and Academics John A. Stevenson 5. Mediation in the Emerging International Environment: From Hierarchy to Improvisation Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson and Pamela Aall Part II Mediating Interstate Crises 6. Mediation and Its Compatibility with Other Conflict Management Approaches J. Michael Greig, Andrew P. Owsiak, and Paul F. Diehl 7. Cultural Ties Across Crises: The Diffusion of Mediation from Crisis to Crisis Tobias Böhmelt and Zorzeta Bakaki 8. Supply Side Incentives for Mediation: Which Actors Mediate International Crises and Why? Molly M. Melin and Paul Olander 9. Satisficing in International Mediation: Framing, Justifying and Creating Outcomes in Peacemaking Siniša Vuković and P. Terrence Hopmann 10. Gray Zone Mediation in the Ukraine Crisis: Comparing Crimea and Donbas David Carment Milana Nikolko and Dani Belo Part III Mediating Intrastate Crises 11. The Lengths and Limits of Mediation in Intrastate Crises I. William Zartman 12. Mediation Across Different Types of Conflict Karl DeRouen Jr. and Matthew Barrett 13. The United Nations Security Council and Conflict Prevention in Self-Determination Disputes Peter White, David Cunningham, and Kyle Beardsley 14. Reputation, Experience, and Crisis Mediation Stephen E. Gent 15. Mediator Identity in Intrastate African Crises Roudabeh Kishi, David Quinn, Jonathan Wilkenfeld, and Michele Gelfand 16. Multiparty Mediation in Civil War Elizabeth J. Menninga 17. Mediation, Leverage, and the Crafting of Civil War Peace Agreements Lindsay Reid 18. Managing the Crises at Home: The Role of Suu Kyi’s Mediation Efforts in Myanmar Evan Hoffman and Kenneth Christie 19. The Challenges of Mediation in Gray Zones: The Case of Mali Marie- Joëlle Zahar and J. Arthur Boutellis Part IV Emerging Norms and the Expanding Role of Mediation 20. An Experimental Study of the Role of Gender in Selecting Third-Party Mediators in Crisis Resolution Scott S. Gartner, John Bangerter, Zackary Goncz, Michelle Sarver, Natalie Schreffler 21. Mediation and the Prevention of Violence Against Civilians Lisa Hultman 22. A Human-Security Approach to the Syrian ‘Refugee Crisis’ in Turkey: Assessing Third-Party Efforts Yasin Duman and Ayşe Betül Çelik 23. Biased Mediation Isak Svensson 24. Mediation Without Measures: Conflict Resolution in Climate Diplomacy Luke Kemp 25. The Dynamics of Cyber Dispute Mediation and Resolution Brandon Valeriano and Ryan C. Maness 26. Policy Recommendations David Quinn, Kyle Beardsley, and Jonathan Wilkenfeld References Index

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Book SynopsisThis insightful and timely book considers the role of great-power competition in what has come to be known as gray zone conflict. Based on cutting-edge empirical research, it addresses the question: how can interactions between adversaries in international crises be managed in ways which avoid dangerous escalation?Drawing together diverse perspectives, an interdisciplinary team of academics and policy analysts take a data-driven approach to analyzing international crises over the past 100 years. Taking the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine as a backdrop for critical evaluation, chapters examine US and NATO approaches to the management of escalation in asymmetric conflicts. Ultimately, the book identifies areas where classical deterrence theory is incompatible with the realities of the contemporary conflict environment, and proposes innovative tools for managing crises in the future. Providing historical overviews of escalation management in international crises, this comprehensive book is essential reading for students and scholars of international politics, international relations, terrorism and security, and foreign policy, particularly those studying Chinese, Russian and US strategic decision making. It will also be beneficial to policy analysts, military leaders, and journalists focusing on contemporary international issues.Trade Review‘As great power competition moves into a gray zone between peace and war, this impressive team of experts provides state-of-the-art analysis and decision-making tools on how to prevent crisis escalation in this new era. A must-read for scholars and practitioners of international security and indeed for a public concerned with contemporary trends.’ -- Etel Solingen, University of California, Irvine, US‘Finally, we have a comprehensive assessment of escalation management in today's crises. In this ambitious volume, the contributors expose how prior understandings of deterrence and escalation by scholars and practitioners alike have proven inadequate to explain the realities of contemporary gray zone competition and proxy conflicts among the great powers. The authors excel in providing both diagnosis and prescription regarding threats to American security and influence. They do this through combining the strengths of different analytical approaches including quantitative examinations of 100-years of international crises, computational modeling, survey research, and simulations. Readers will gain a clear sense of the current state of the foreign policy toolkit available to manage tensions in places like Ukraine and the Taiwan Strait and how that toolkit needs to evolve going forward.’ -- Kyle Beardsley, Duke University, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: managing escalation in international crises 1 Jonathan Wilkenfeld and Egle E. Murauskaite 1 International crises and the gray zone: tracing crises through history 17 Egle E. Murauskaite 2 Gray zone: defining the space in between 30 Allison Astorino-Courtois 3 Conceptual framework for managing international crises, 1990–2020 52 Egle E. Murauskaite and Allison Astorino-Courtois 4 One hundred years of international crises, 1918–2018 78 Jonathan Wilkenfeld and David Quinn 5 Regime, power, state capacity, and the use of violence in gray zone international crises 110 Egle E. Murauskaite, David Quinn, Jonathan Wilkenfeld, Allison Astorino-Courtois, and Corinne S. DeFrancisci 6 Escalation management in gray zone crises: the proxy factor 143 Jonathan Wilkenfeld, Egle E. Murauskaite, David Quinn, Devin H. Ellis, Allison Astorino-Courtois, and Corinne S. DeFrancisci 7 Public opinion in the gray zone 174 Catarina P. Thomson 8 Modeling and analyzing gray zone scenarios for crises in the Aegean Sea and South China Sea 201 Alexander H. Levis 9 Exploring the role of U.S. information operations in gray zone crises 231 Devin H. Ellis 10 Toolkit for planners and operators in gray zone crisis environments 249 Robert J. Elder and Allison Astorino-Courtois Index 275

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Book SynopsisThis incisive book provides an unparalleled insight into the ways in which international human rights law functions in a real world context across cultural, religious and geopolitical divides. Written by a professor, former ambassador and international judge, the book demonstrates how power, diplomacy, tactics and processes operate within the human rights system from the perspective of a non-Western insider with more than three decades' experience in the field. Taking a comprehensive approach, chapters cover the treatment of human rights in all major cultures, religions, ideologies and global regions and assess the competence of all relevant international institutions. The book investigates the idea of human rights relativism and allegations of hypocrisy and double standards, as well as illuminating the diplomatic methods employed by nations wishing to evade human rights obligations. It also analyses the place of the law within the United Nations and regional human rights systems, along with compliance and enforcement mechanisms, and examines two emerging dimensions of human rights: in cyberspace and at sea. Students and scholars of human rights across the fields of law, politics and international relations will find this unique book invaluable. Its concise, accessible style will also make it useful reading for government officials, those working for NGOs and members of the public with an interest in human rights.Trade Review'The West has long dominated the development and enforcement of human rights law and the practice of human rights diplomacy. Kriangsak Kittichaisaree applies his deep and broad experience in the field to provide an eminently readable and essential piece of the global puzzle: an exposition of the history and present-day practice of human rights, as well as the challenges of tomorrow, from a wider perspective.' --Gabor Rona, Columbia Law School and Cardozo School of Law, US, and former International Legal Director, Human Rights FirstTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction to International Human Rights Law 2. Human Rights Universalism: Myth or Reality? 3. United Nations Human Rights System: Clash of Politics, Idealism and Law 4. Regional Human Rights Mechanisms: Tailor-Made for the Locals? 5. International Human Rights Treaty Obligations: Is Everyone Protected? 6. Complying With and Enforcing International Human Rights Law: Can the Bad Guys Get Away With It? 7. Universalization of International Human Rights Norms: Reassessment 8. Human Rights in New Dimensions: In Cyberspace and At Sea Index

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Book SynopsisPublic diplomacy has become one of the central instruments of foreign policy and national security; this crucial Research Agenda provides a new outline for its investigation. Aiding the comprehension of the broad boundaries of the field, it proposes a clear starting point for contemporary research into important areas of public diplomacy. This enlightening Research Agenda is divided into three parts which thoroughly explore the actors, disciplines and instruments involved in the process of public diplomacy. Rich in innovative analysis, chapters offer insights from many of the most prominent scholars and practitioners in the field to cover existing research, gaps, and future directions. A Research Agenda for Public Diplomacy will be invaluable for researchers and students interested in political science, international and public relations, communication, and digital media. It will also be beneficial for practitioners and officials working in areas relevant to foreign policy and national security employed by both governmental and non-governmental organizations.Trade Review‘A major theoretical contribution to the literature on public diplomacy, a comprehensive and innovative overview of the actors, disciplines, and instruments that continue to shape and advance the field. The volume is a must-read for anyone interested in learning why, what and how the study of public diplomacy needs to advance in order to meet new global challenges.’ -- Corneliu Bjola, University of Oxford, UK‘Public diplomacy benefits from a broad and ambitious research agenda that is pursued by academics and practitioners throughout the world. For this volume, Eytan Gilboa calls upon a distinguished group of those who know public diplomacy well, and from their collective knowledge emerges an impressive array of diverse and thoughtful ideas about shaping public diplomacy’s future. This book is a valuable contribution to the field.’ -- Philip Seib, University of Southern California, US‘This multidisciplinary volume shows convincingly what has been achieved in public diplomacy research, and equally demonstrates that there's still a long way to go in building bridges between disciplines, diversification of research methods and theory building. Next generation public diplomacy researchers around the world will find in this book thoughtful pointers and important questions for further research.’ -- Jan Melissen, Editor-in-Chief, The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, Leiden University, the Netherlands and University of Antwerp, Belgium‘Capturing the boundaries and possibilities of public diplomacy in a single volume has been elusive – until now. A Research Agenda for Public Diplomacy is a definitive collection of work from the top scholars in the field that charts a path for the next decade. Gilboa has done a tremendous service to practitioners, researchers, and all who care about diplomacy’s public dimensions.’ -- Katherine Brown, President and CEO, Global Ties, US‘In this superb volume, Eytan Gilboa has brought together a multi-disciplinary and multi-regional collection of the latest research produced by the best talent in the study of public diplomacy. As a leading and, indeed, founding scholar in the field, it is fitting that he has done so, and we are in his debt.’ -- Paul Sharp, University of Minnesota, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface xix Acknowledgments xxvii 1 Moving to a new phase in public diplomacy research 1 Eytan Gilboa PART I ACTORS 2 States: public diplomacy contests in Asia 25 Caitlin Byrne 3 International organizations 43 Phillip Arceneaux 4 Corporate diplomacy 57 Candace L. White and Wilfried Bolewski 5 City diplomacy 73 Efe Sevin and Soheala Amiri 6 Citizen diplomacy 89 Paul Lachelier and Sherry L. Mueller PART II DISCIPLINES 7 History 107 Nicholas J. Cull 8 International relations 123 Craig Hayden 9 Public relations 139 Kathy R. Fitzpatrick 10 Relational and collaborative approaches 155 R.S. Zaharna and Amelia Arsenault 11 Disinformation 171 Alicia Fjällhed and James Pamment 12 Management 185 Steven L. Pike PART III INSTRUMENTS 13 Cultural diplomacy 203 Natalia Grincheva 14 Nation as brand 217 Simon Anholt 15 International broadcasting 231 Shawn Powers 16 International exchanges 249 Giles Scott-Smith 17 Digital public diplomacy 265 Ilan Manor 18 Hybrid communication 279 Jian Wang and Jack Lipei Tang Index

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Book SynopsisIn recent years, China has become a world leader in e-commerce, e-currency, 5G and artificial intelligence, cementing itself as a major competitor to established powers. Gerald Chan poses the question: How has China pulled this off? Arguing that the answer lies in the country’s Digital Silk Road, a multi- faceted programme to connect the world via digital means, the book explores how China has shaped the development of the digital order, secured a critical role in internet governance and upset the status-quo powers.Integrating empirical research with innovative theory, this forward-looking book is the first of its kind to unravel the complex web spun through China’s Digital Silk Road. Chapters offer a unique Chinese perspective on the evolution of the global digital economy and digital currencies, highlighting China’s growing influence in driving technological development and setting global industrial standards. Following on from Chan’s previous publications on the country’s high-speed rail networks and maritime infrastructure, China’s Digital Silk Road offers a timely look at China’s predominant role in shaping the global digital order.Advancing a geo-developmental framework to analyse China’s Belt and Road Initiative, the book will be of unique interest to students and scholars of Chinese politics and global development.Trade Review‘Professor Gerald Chan’s latest addition to his trio on China’s Belt and Road Initiative examines the background of China’s technological drive and assists readers to better understand the escalating tension over technology – and ultimately the contest for global hegemony – between China and the United States. Readers will find its informal writing style easy to follow, which is important for an otherwise complex subject.’ -- Linda Chelan Li, City University of Hong Kong‘China’s new Silk Road, or Belt and Road Initiative, is massive in scope, with implications reaching beyond the future of China and humanity, and into space. And this book, also huge in scope, is everywhere far-sighted, thoughtful, perceptive, analytical and interesting. A splendid read for anybody interested in humanity’s future.’ -- Colin Mackerras, Griffith University, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: Preface and acknowledgements 1. Introduction to China’s Digital Silk Road 2. The new Silk Road: land, sea, digital 3. Theorising the Belt and Road: geodevelopmentalism revisited 4. The digital Silk Road: driving the fourth Industrial Revolution? 5. The mobile Silk Road: digital economy and the e-yuan 6. The cable Silk Road: over the land and under the sea 7. The space Silk Road: reaching for the stars? 8. Digital diplomacy and internet governance 9. Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisThis Handbook provides a contemporary perspective on public diplomacy scholarship and practice, showcasing the growing diversity of the field. Expert contributing authors identify the challenges involved in implementing successful public diplomacy, and analyse how to effectively measure and evaluate programs to determine best practices.

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Book SynopsisThe launching of economic and political reforms in 1978 has transformed China's standing in world politics. A new power has emerged. Yet, after more than four decades, the question of how to understand and interpret China's foreign policy remains a source of debate and contention.Nicholas Khoo examines China's arrival as a major power in contemporary world politics, making the case for a neorealist model highlighting the operation of state interests and relative power. He illuminates the relevance of economic and military power projection, spiral dynamics, and the use of wedge strategies to split adversaries. Khoo also reviews influential alternative theories of Chinese foreign policy that emphasize the concepts of trade, identity, socialization, domestic politics, and the security dilemma.Presenting readers with an analysis of the major issues and theoretical debates on China's role in bringing the Cold War to a close in East Asia, and its relations with the US and Japan, China's Foreign Policy since 1978 will be of great interest to university students at all levels, as well as specialists on Chinese foreign policy, East Asian international relations, and international security.Trade Review‘China’s Foreign Policy since 1978: Return to Power is a necessity for the academic library and a must-read for all students and academicians interested in China’s foreign affairs.’ -- Irieda Hamzaj, Insight Turkey‘The book offers a theoretically driven and empirically rich analysis of China's foreign policy. It will be of interest to scholars and policy analysts who want to understand China's foreign policy from a realist perspective.’ -- Kai He, Contemporary Southeast Asia'Nicholas Khoo employs deep knowledge and keen insight in this masterful assessment of China's post-Cold War rise in Asia to stake out a persuasive neorealist argument viewing China's behavior as based fundamentally on state interests and relative power. With extensive research in Chinese and foreign sources, this clear and informative analysis lays down an important marker in the ongoing debate on how the world should view China's rise.' -- Robert Sutter, The George Washington University, US‘China's Foreign Policy since 1978: Return to Power provides an excellent, fast-paced review of the emerging bi-polar world created by the increasingly competitive US-China relationship. China, the United States, Japan, and the ASEAN countries must accept a new normal that will be more competitive and conflictual. Khoo's latest book can be used as a text for both graduate and undergraduate courses on the international relations of East and Southeast Asia.' -- Karl Jackson, Johns Hopkins University, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: From “Biding One’s Time” to the “China Dream” 1. Conceptualizing China as an International Actor 2. The End of China’s Cold War: Wedge Strategy and the Termination of the Soviet-Vietnamese Alliance 3. US–China Relations and the Dynamics of Power Projection 4. Sino-Japanese Relations and the Rise of Coercive Diplomacy Conclusion: China Returns to Power Index

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Book SynopsisTaiwan has become a significant player on the world stage in many areas and has developed a distinct international profile and influence. Its pro-active foreign policy firmly reminds the world of a new political entity's achievement, aspirations and unfulfilled ambitions. This pioneering book discusses Taiwan's pragmatic diplomacy as a way of seeking legitimacy, survival and development for a burgeoning nation-state, against the dynamic changes in domestic and international scenes and tumultuous relations with China. With special reference to Taiwan's relations with Southeast Asia, a key region in Taiwan's international linkages, the book investigates three major pillars sustaining Taipei's unorthodox diplomacy. These three pillars are: Taiwan's investment and trade prowess, and the global networks built by its business elite; its special relations with global ethnic Chinese communities; and transnational activism of Taiwan's political, social and religious groups, in a so-called 'total diplomacy'.Political Scientists, students and international policy makers along with anyone interested in the changing role of China and Taiwan on the world stage will find this book lively and informative.Trade Review'The title of this book does not do it justice, for the book ranges far beyond Taiwan's diplomacy in Southeast Asia. The most authoritative book published to date on Taiwan's foreign policy (1949 to 2000), it covers Taiwan's foreign relations and diplomacy with Western developed states, the states of Africa and Latin America, Japan, the People's Republic of China, and the countries of Southeast Asia. Based on Chinese and English sources as well as personal interviews and correspondence, Chen Jie presents a wide-ranging, comprehensive view of Taiwan's efforts to gain greater international recognition. . . . Combining impressive scholarship with interesting analysis, Chen Jie presents new ways of understanding why Taiwan acts the way it does and sprinkles the explanations with wry humor. . . . All in all, a tour de force. Summing Up: Essential.'<BR>- S. Ogden, ChoiceTable of ContentsContents: Foreword by J. Bruce Jacobs Introduction 1. Foreign Policy of Taiwan Since Lee Teng-hui: Debut of a New Entity 2. Taiwan’s Relations with the ASEAN Countries: An Overview 3. Taipei’s Economic Diplomacy: A Demystifying Critique 4. Qiaowu: Kuomintang’s Historical Cross as New Taiwan’s Asset 5. ‘Total Diplomacy’: Parliamentarians, Parties, and NGOs References Index

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Book SynopsisThroughout the nineteenth century British governments engaged in a global campaign against the slave trade. They sought through coercion and diplomacy to suppress the trade on the high seas and in Africa and Asia. But, despite the Royal Navy's success in eradicating the transatlantic commerce in captive Africans, the forced migration of labour and other forms of people trafficking persisted. This collection of essays by specialist international, naval and slave trade historians examines the role played by individuals and institutions in the diplomacy of suppression, particularly the personnel of the Slave Trade Department of the Foreign Office and of the Mixed Commission Courts; the changing socio-religious character and methods of anti-slavery activists and the lobbyists; and the problems faced by the navy and those who served with its so-called 'Preventive Squadron' in seeking to combat the trade. Other contributions explore the difficulties confronting British diplomats in their efforts to reconcile their moral objections to slavery and the slave trade with Britain's imperial and strategic interests in Ottoman Turkey, Persia and the Arabian Peninsula; British reactions to the continued exploitation of forced labour in Portugal's African colonies; and the apparent reluctance of the Colonial Office to attempt any systematic reform of the 'master and servant' legislation in force in Britain's Caribbean possessions. The final chapter brings the story through the twentieth century, showing how the interests of the Foreign Office sometimes diverged from those of the Colonial Office, and considering how the changing face of slavery has made it the world-wide issue that it is today.Table of ContentsForeword; Introduction; Zealots & Helots: the slave trade department of the nineteenth-century Foreign Office; Judicial Diplomacy: British officials & the mixed commission courts; Slavery, free trade & naval strategy, 1840-1860; Anti-slavery activists & officials: "influence", lobbying & the slave trade, 1807-1850; "A course of unceasing remonstrance": British diplomacy & the suppression of the slave trade in the East; The British "official mind" & nineteenth-century Islamic debates over the abolition of slavery; The "taint of slavery": the Colonial Office & the regulation of free labour; The Foreign Office & slavery & forced labour in Portuguese west Africa, 1894-1914; The anti-slavery game: Britain & the suppression of slavery in Africa & Arabia, 1890-1975; Index.

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