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Book SynopsisAmid fears of terrorism, rising tides of xenophobia, and loose talk of 'anti-globalisation', John Keane mounts a defence of global civil society, stressing the need for new democratic ways of living. Keane's provocative reflections draw upon a variety of scholarly sources to breathe new life into contemporary political thinking.Trade ReviewThe most learned, erudite, and encompassing book on the global civil society of this century.' Amitai Etzioni, author of The New Golden Rule'John Keane's book is an imaginative and productive experiment in contemporary democratic thinking. It is challenging and provocative, and it provides structured orientation in a wide, confusing and unsettled field.' Hans-Jürgen Puhle, University of Frankfurt'John Keane has applied his sharp intellect and moral commitments to a topic of political importance but persistent conceptual confusion to produce a book of forceful clarity and coherence. A sparkling contribution to contemporary political thought.' Bryan Turner, University of Cambridge'… really thought-provoking in addressing a number of issues that we confront in a contemporary world that is becoming more interdependent and volatile than ever … the book is genuinely stimulating and enjoyable in many respects. The space here is too short to summarise its rich arguments, and readers are invited to take their own look.' Development Policy ReviewTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Unfamiliar words; 2. Catalysts; 3. Cosmocracy; 4. Paradise on Earth?; 5. Ethics across borders; 6. Further reading.

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Book SynopsisTerritorial borders, identity borders, and many other kinds of social and cultural borders are constantly questioned in the Israel-Palestine debate. In Reapproaching Borders, a new generation of scholars explore the concept of borders and how they are imagined and actualized in this deeply contested land.Trade ReviewThis collection brings together exciting new work by a group of innovative younger scholars who are at the cutting edge of research on the modern history of Palestine, Israel and Zionism. Their explorations of how territorial and ethnic as well as intellectual boundaries in a variety of domains have been constructed and maintained—but also frequently crossed—help open up promising new ways of thinking about Arab-Jewish relations and interactions. -- Zachary Lockman, Professor of Modern Middle East history, New York UniversityAn intreguing reading of the memoirs of an Arabic-speaking Jewish businessman....This book should be of interest to anyone interested in the history and politics of Israel-Palestine, as well as broader audiences concerned with sociology of law and medicine, space, architecture and conflict, states, and gender. * Journal of Palestine Studies *This is an exciting cross-disciplinary look at the intersecting Israeli-Palestinian communities over time. The organizing metaphor of shifting and porous borders is an excellent way to unify this new research. -- Michelle Mart, associate professor of history, Pennsylvania State UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: Investigating Borders in the case of Palestine/Israel Part 2 Narrating the Past Chapter 3 Filling a Gap in the Chronology: What Archaeology is Revealing about the Ottoman Past in Israel Chapter 4 Remembering Jewish-Arab Contact and Conflict Chapter 5 Re-Approaching the Borders of Nazareth (1948-1956): Israel's Control of an all-Arab City Part 6 Constructing Healthy Identities and Landscapes Chapter 7 Defining National Medical Borders: Medical Terminology and the Making of Hebrew Medicine Chapter 8 Contested Bodies: Medicine, Public Health, and the Mass Immigration to Israel Chapter 9 Seeing the "Holy Land" with New Eyes: Undocumented Labor Migration, Reproductive Health, and the Fluctuating Borders of the Israeli National Body Chapter 10 Masculinity as a Relational Mode: Palestinian Working-class Gender Ideologies and Categorical Boundaries in a Jewish-Palestinian Mixed Town Chapter 11 From Water Abundance to Water Scarcity (1936-1959): A 'fluid' history of Jewish subjectivity in Historic Palestine and Israel Part 12 Shaping Citizens and Space in Palestine/Israel Chapter 13 Seizing Locality in Jerusalem Chapter 14 Present and Absent: Historical Invention and the Politics of Place in Contemporary Jerusalem Chapter 15 Framing the Borders of Justice: Shari'a Courts in Israel and the Conflict Between Secular Ideology and Islamic Law Chapter 16 Modernity and its Mirror: Three Views of Jewish-Palestinian Interaction in Jaffa and Tel Aviv Chapter 17 Concluding Remarks

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Book SynopsisThe Beijing Olympics ensured that the world would be watching China in 2008, and the year turned out to be the most tumultuous and traumatic for the Chinese since the massive Tiananmen uprising of 1989. Crippling winter storms, riots in Tibet, the devastating Sichuan earthquake, and many other dramatic eventsincluding the PRC edging out the United States to become the country with the most Internet usersgrabbed international headlines. This innovative book, based on postings from the China Beat (the noted group blog/electronic magazine based at the University of California, Irvine) as well as works from other leading publications and completely new material, showcases the as-it-happened reports and commentaries of a mix of distinguished academics, high-profile journalists, and freelance writers, and up-and-coming young China specialists. China in 2008 takes the unique approach of bringing the timeliness of the blogosphere into book form, expanding and reflecting thoughtfully on storiTrade Review[A] compelling first draft of history. Grouped by event or theme, the essays cover most of the major news stories of 2008, but with insight and perspective that never made the broadsheets. . . . It places contemporary China in a historical context that mainstream media seldom has the space to do, and offers a diverse and often very personal snapshot of China in one of its most turbulent years. * Far Eastern Economic Review *Sane, well-informed, and rich in insights. * Asian Review Of Books *Required reading for anyone trying to make sense of China's tumultuous year. This is the literary equivalent of a rowdy dinner party attended by some of the best and brightest China journalists, scholars, and thinkers. It offers a breadth of opinion and depth of context available only to those with a well-thumbed Rolodex of China specialists. But the book is accessible to the ordinary reader, and it combines the up-to-the-minute excitement of a blog with quirky academic takes on history in the making. -- Louisa Lim, National Public Radio, Shanghai correspondentI've never been to China, but I've become a China-watcher thanks to the wonderful China Beat blog. This book is the best of that blog—and more. It's a fascinating way to get under China's skin. -- Mary Beard, University of CambridgeThere is more than enough here to keep any reader intrigued and instructed. -- Jonathan D. Spence, from the forewordTable of ContentsChapter 1: Anxieties of a Prosperous Age Chapter 2: Tibet Chapter 3: Meanwhile, Across the Straits . . . Chapter 4: Nationalism and the Torch Chapter 5: Earthquake and Recovery Chapter 6: Shanghai Images in Beijing's Year Chapter 7: Tiananmen Reconsidered Chapter 8: The Road to the Olympics Chapter 9: The Olympics as Spectacle Chapter 10: China after the Games Chapter 11: Follow the Leader Chapter 12: Things Seen and Unseen Chapter 13: Pop Culture in a Global Age Chapter 14: Reinvented Traditions Chapter 15: China and the United States

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Book SynopsisAs a concept, deterrence has launched a thousand books and articles. It has dominated Western strategic thinking for more than four decades. In this important and groundbreaking new book, Lawrence Freedman develops a distinctive approach to the evaluation of deterrence as both a state of mind and a strategic option.Table of Contents1. The rise and fall of deterrence 6 2. The meaning of deterrence 26 3. Deterrence in practice 43 4. Norms and criminality 60 5. After the Cold War 75 6. From deterrence to pre-emption 84 7. Strategic coercion 109 8. The future of deterrence 116

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Book SynopsisChristopher Phillips is Reader in International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London, U.K and associate fellow at Chatham House's Middle East and North Africa Programme. He has written for The Guardian, The Washington Post, Newsweek and CNN, among others. He has also made numerous media appearances on outlets including BBC Newsnight, Radio 4's Today Programme, BBC News, Al-Jazeera, Sky News and Channel 4 News. He is the author of The Battle for Syria: International Rivalry in the new Middle East (2016).Michael Stephens is a Senior Research Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI), and an Associate Fellow at RUSI where he previously worked as the Research Fellow for Middle East Studies. Michael was seconded to the Foreign and Commonwealth in 2017 serving as the Senior Research Analyst for Lebanon and Syria. He is a regular broadcast commentator and has written for many of the world's top news publications.Trade ReviewA timely and trusted guide - smart thinking from respected scholars who understand the past and provide impressive insight into the future of a fast-changing map of Britain and the Middle East. Here are the right questions, and the right kind of answers with rigorous analysis and advice. * Lyse Doucet, BBC Chief International Correspondent *Table of ContentsList of Contributors Map of the Middle East Acknowledgements 1. Introduction Christopher Phillips & Michael Stephens PART ONE: Still searching for a role – The UK in the Middle East from East of Suez to Brexit 2. Britain and the Middle East since 1971 Rosemary Hollis 3. Britain’s Foreign Policy Landscape in the Post-Brexit Era Michael Clarke 4. Still Special? The UK and US in the Middle East Michael Stephens PART TWO: Principles and Pragmatism – the debates over the UK's Middle East priorities 5. The third wheel? “Values” in British foreign policy in the Middle East James Lynch 6. Prosperity David Butter 7. Security Louise Kettle PART THREE: Britain and the non-Arab powers 8. Turkey Bill Park 9. Israel Ian Black 10. Iran - Bridging Opportunities and Challenges Sanam Vakil PART FOUR: Britain and the Middle Eastern Arab states 11. Syria and the Levant Christopher Phillips 12. Iraq Jack Watling 13. The Gulf Tobias Borck and Michael Stephens 14. Egypt Emma El-Badawy 15. Conclusion Christopher Phillips & Michael Stephens

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Book SynopsisTime in the Shadows examines the counterinsurgencies of our time, tracing their ancestry, to offer a critical reading of the mechanisms by which today's counterinsurgents—foremost the United States and Israel—reproduce illiberal regimes of domination while noisily declaring their liberal intent to liberate and improve.Trade Review"[A] groundbreaking new book." -- Simon Kuper * Financial Times *"Laleh Khalili's magisterial volume is as welcome as it is timely, with useful discoveries and wise interpretations of the distinctive problems posed by the rise of global securitocracy. If you want to understand how things came to be as bad as they are in an era characterized by apparently endless counterinsurgency warfare, this magnificent contribution supplies the answers." -- Paul Gilroy * London School of Economics, author of After Empire *"Time in the Shadows provides a deep chronological history of the global borrowing and movement of military strategies and tactics between colonial outposts and imperial metropoles . . . While Time in the Shadows is the most concerned with US counterinsurgency tactics, it masterfully engages a global and comparative archive in order to position the United States in the context of a longer history of liberal states engaged in counterinsurgencies." -- Alex Lubin * American Quarterly *"This is a timely, highly readable, and important book that examines the method of warfare many believe will be most used in the future. It does so in a meticulously researched, scholarly fashion. . . Highly recommended." -- J. Fields * CHOICE *"Laleh Kalili's Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies is a lucid analysis of a dark history . . . Taken together, the case studies that comprise Time in the Shadows add up to a tremendously useful study that helps us to understand the violence at the heart of liberal counterinsurgency . . . Khalili provides exactly the analysis we need in order to draw transnational linkages in security and warfare tactics, logics, and expertise. As a result of her deft analysis, we can understand our proximity to seemingly distant global battlefields, as well as the violence that can be perpetuated in the name of liberal governance. Time in the Shadows is not only interesting, but is also very much needed by scholars interested in charting the global and multidirectional capillaries of liberal imperial power." -- Alex Lubin * International Journal of Middle East Studies *"Laleh Khalili's Time in the Shadows is the ghostly other of The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual. Deft and informative, the book provides a historical excavation of the imperatives of counter-insurgency doctrines—from the ideas that drove the European colonial wars in the dying days of those empires to the U.S. and Israeli states of warfare in our own times. A serious book that should be required reading." -- Vijay Prashad * Trinity College, author of The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World *"Time in the Shadows is a stunning blend of politically information analysis and vast empirical detail about U.S., Israeli, British, and French policies of war and occupation. Khalili deftly compares and contrasts a wide variety of confinement strategies—torture, detention without trial, kidnapping, civilian concentrations—and related counterinsurgency practices, drawing on histories from various settings across multiple continents, as well as the records and writings of influential counterinsurgents of the past to show how they inform the perspectives of contemporary counterinsurgency theorists and practitioners." -- Lisa Hajjar * University of California Santa Barbara *"The strength of this ambitious project lies in the depth and breadth of its historical engagement with the continuities and civilizations of the 'micro-practices' of counterinsurgency . . . When [the] oppositional spheres of unlimited mobility and confinement are considered together it opens up a rich space for temporal and spatial discussions around visibility/invisibility and other material and legal dimensions of liberal forms of violence . . . [T]his book continues to serve as an excellent resource and sounding board for understanding the ongoing Israeli counterinsurgency warfare in Gaza, and in particular the 'buffer zone' in Gaza . . . Khalili's work certainly helps to bring the compartments of confinement and lines of our contemporary comment into stark relief, making this also a valuable resource to contemplate future politics of liberation." -- Olivia Mena * Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography *

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Book SynopsisIn 2011, the United States launched its third regime-change attempt in a decade. Like earlier targets, Libya's Muammar Qaddafi had little hope of defeating the forces stacked against him. He seemed to recognize this when calling for a cease-fire just after the intervention began. But by then, the United States had determined it was better to oust him than negotiate and thus backed his opposition. The history of foreign-imposed regime change is replete with leaders like Qaddafi, overthrown after wars they seemed unlikely to win. From the British ouster of Afghanistan's Sher Ali in 1878 to the Soviet overthrow of Hungary's Imre Nagy in 1956, regime change has been imposed on the weak and the friendless. In Toppling Foreign Governments, Melissa Willard-Foster explores the question of why stronger nations overthrow governments when they could attain their aims at the bargaining table. She identifies a central cause-the targeted leader's domestic political vulnerability-that not only giveTrade Review"Melissa Willard-Foster presents new and innovative theories that not only describe the causes but also predict the likelihood and nature of foreign-imposed regime change. Her book is a key work on an understudied yet vitally important topic, especially in the policy arena." * Dan Reiter, author of How Wars End *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Why the Strong Impose Regime Change on the Weak Chapter 2. How States Impose Regime Change Chapter 3. Testing the Logic of Foreign-Imposed Regime Change Chapter 4. The Cold War: American Policy Toward Bolivia and Guatemala, 1952-54 Chapter 5. The Cold War: Soviet Policy Toward Poland and Hungary, 1956 Chapter 6. The Post-9/11 Era: Regime Change and Rogues, Iraq 2003, Libya 2003, and Libya 2011 Conclusion Appendices 1. Foreign-Imposed Regime Change, 1816-2007 2. A Game Theoretic Model of Regime Change Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisThe term collaboration is widely used but not clearly understood or operationalized. However, collaboration is playing an increasingly important role between and across public, nonprofit, and for-profit sectors. Collaboration has become a hallmark in both intragovernmental and intergovernmental relationships. As collaboration scholarship rapidly emerges, it diverges into several directions, resulting in confusion about what collaboration is and what it can be used to accomplish. This book provides much needed insight into existing ideas and theories of collaboration, advancing a revised theoretical model and accompanying typologies that further our understanding of collaborative processes within the public sector.Organized into three parts, each chapter presents a different theoretical approach to public problems, valuing the collective insights that result from honoring many individual perspectives. Case studies in collaboration, split across three levels of government, offeTrade Review"In recent years, collaboration has emerged as a central component of public administration and nonprofit organization management in practice as well as in theory. Yet, it is way too tempting to simply assume that when two organizations are linked within or across sectors, they will work together – collaboratively and effectively for the public good. With Advancing Collaboration Theory, Morris and Miller-Stevens offer us a thoughtful and interesting re-examination of the what’s and how’s of collaboration. This is a "must read." We are indebted to them."—J. Steven Ott, University of Utah"At a time when research on collaboration in the public service has significantly grown but not yet coalesced into a clear and coherent knowledge base, Morris and Miller-Stevens’ Advancing Collaboration Theory is a welcome addition that fills a critical gap in the current study of collaboration. Deeply rooted in the scholarship, this work charts the major unanswered dilemmas in collaboration research and provides five themes that structure their understanding and exploration of collaboration in the public service. This work contains conceptual and empirical chapters that explore collaboration from multiple perspectives and in multiple settings, shining a bright light on these dilemmas and capturing perspectives on both the process of collaboration and the structures that arise from collaborative endeavors. I have little doubt this book will quickly become required reading for those interested in the study and practice of collaboration in the public service." —Jessica E. Sowa, University of Colorado Denver"In recent years, collaboration has emerged as a central component of public administration and nonprofit organization management in practice as well as in theory. Yet, it is way too tempting to simply assume that when two organizations are linked within or across sectors, they will work together – collaboratively and effectively for the public good. With Advancing Collaboration Theory, Morris and Miller-Stevens offer us a thoughtful and interesting re-examination of the what’s and how’s of collaboration. This is a "must read." We are indebted to them."—J. Steven Ott, University of Utah"At a time when research on collaboration in the public service has significantly grown but not yet coalesced into a clear and coherent knowledge base, Morris and Miller-Stevens’ Advancing Collaboration Theory is a welcome addition that fills a critical gap in the current study of collaboration. Deeply rooted in the scholarship, this work charts the major unanswered dilemmas in collaboration research and provides five themes that structure their understanding and exploration of collaboration in the public service. This work contains conceptual and empirical chapters that explore collaboration from multiple perspectives and in multiple settings, shining a bright light on these dilemmas and capturing perspectives on both the process of collaboration and the structures that arise from collaborative endeavors. I have little doubt this book will quickly become required reading for those interested in the study and practice of collaboration in the public service." —Jessica E. Sowa, University of Colorado DenverTable of ContentsPart 1: Framing and Definition 1. The State of Knowledge in Collaboration [John C. Morris and Katrina Miller-Stevens]2. The Development of Collaboration Theory: Typologies and Systems Approaches [Andrew P. Williams] 3. The Prevailing Elements of Public-Sector Collaboration [Martin Mayer and Robert Kenter] 4.Unraveling the Characteristics of Mandated Collaboration [Madeleine W. McNamara] Part 2: Advancing Theory 5. Applying Cooperative Biological Theory to Nonprofit Collaboration [Nathan J. Grasse and Kevin D. Ward] 6. Collaborative Management and Leadership: A Skill Set for the Entrepreneur [Madeleine W. McNamara] 7. Conflict in Collaborations: To Resolve or Transform? [Stephanie Joannou Menefee] 8. A New Model of Collaborative Federalism From a Governance Perspective [Katrina Miller-Stevens, Tiffany Henley, and Luisa Diaz-Kope] 9. A Life-Cycle Model of Collaboration [Christopher Williams, Connie Merriman, and John C. Morris] Part 3: Collaboration in Action 10. Nonprofit Collaborative Advocacy: An Exploratory Study of State Nonprofit Associations [Jason S. Machado, Katrina Miller-Stevens, and Stephanie Joannou Menefee] 11. Collaborating for Accountability: Implications for the Judiciary [Amy M. McDowell] 12. Collective Action, Social Capital, and Collaboration [Christine Reed and Deniz Leuenberger] 13. Exploring Interagency Collaboration in the National Security Domain: A Distinct Form of Collaboration? [Brian Martinez] 14. Conclusion: Future Trends in Collaboration Research [Katrina Miller-Stevens and John C. Morris]

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Book SynopsisThe first book to place American privateers and their experiences during the War for Independence front and centre. Kylie Hulbert tells the story of privateers at home and abroad while chronicling their experiences, engagements, cruises, and court cases.

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Book SynopsisExamining the evolution of the Confucian doctrine of tianxia (all under heaven), which aspires to a unitary worldview that cherishes global justice and transcends social divides, the contributors show how it has shaped China's political organization, foreign policy, and worldview from the Han dynasty to the present.Trade Review“Chinese Visions of World Order is the best kind of edited volume; it gives the impression that its diverse array of contributions have been curated rather than commissioned.” -- Salvatore Babones * MCLC Resource Center *"Compiles a fascinating multiplicity of philosophical thoughts and historiographic accounts of the Chinese tianxia . . . . A good read for anyone interested in Chinese intellectual history and philosophy." -- Nele Noesselt * The China Quarterly *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Ban Wang 1 Part I. Tianxia, Confucianism, and Empire 1. Tianxia and the Invention of Empire in East Asia / Mark Edward Lewis and Hsieh Mei-yu 25 2. From Empire to State: Kang Youwei, Confucian Universalism, and Unity / Wang Hui 49 3. The Chinese World Order and Planetary Sustainability / Prasenjit Duara 65 Part II. Tianxia, Cross-Cultural Learning, and Cosmopolitanism 4. The Moral Vision in Kang Youwei's Book of the Great Community / Ban Wang 87 5. Greek Antiquity, Chinese Modernity, and the Changing World Order / Yiquan Zhou 106 6. Realizing Tianxia: Traditional Values and China's Foreign Policy / Daniel A. Bell 129 Part III. Tianxia and Socialist Internationalism 7. Tianxia and Postwar Japanese Sinologists' Vision of the Chinese Revolution: The Cases of Nishi Junzō and Mizoguchi Yūzō / Viren Murthy 149 8. China's Lost World of Internationalism / Lin Chun 177 9. China's Tianxia Worldlings: Socialist and Postsocialist Cosmopolitanisms / Lisa Rofel 212 Part IV. Tianxia and Its Discontents 10. The Soft Power of the Constant Soldier: or, Why We Should Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the PLA / Haiyan Lee 237 11. Tracking Tianxia: On Intellectual Self-Positioning / Chishen Chang and Kuan-Hsing Chen 267 Bibliography 293 Contributors 319 Index 323

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Book SynopsisThe story of Celso Cesare Moreno who traveled the world lying, scheming, and building an extensive patron/client network to expand western trade and imperialism in Asia, traffick migrant workers and children in the Atlantic, influence the fate of Hawaii, and meddle in international affairs during a critical era of imperial expansion.Table of ContentsPreface Rudolph J. Vecoli vii Prologue Francesco Durante ix Introduction to the English-Language Edition: “Was Moreno a Sociopath?” Donna R. Gabaccia xi Translator’s Note xix 1. The Traveler’s Spirit 1 2. The Treasures of Asia 15 3. The Challenge of the Pacific 43 4. The Little Italian Slaves 63 5. The Enchanter of Hawaii 79 6. Celso’s Vendetta 95 7. Electoral Intermezzo 110 8. The New Italian America 123 9. The Destiny of Hawaii 155 10. The Sunset Road 172 Notes 187 Bibliography 215 Index 223

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Book SynopsisIn this anthology of contemporary eco-literature, the editors have gathered an ensemble of a hundred emerging, mid-career, and established Indigenous writers from Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and the global Pacific diaspora. This book itself is an ecological form with rhizomatic roots and blossoming branches.

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Book SynopsisThis book will be of interest to international lawyers, UN officials, policymakers, and scholars. It urges a critical examination of the UN's handling of the question of Palestine and how the organization can discharge its functions more effectively, in line with international law and justice.

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Book SynopsisThis new edition provides a comprehensive account of the law of treaties from the viewpoint of two experienced practitioners. It provides a wealth of examples of issues encountered when dealing with treaties and is essential reading for officials, practitioners, and teachers and students of law, international relations and political science.Trade Review'This fourth edition of Aust's Modern Treaty Law and Practice is thoroughly updated and revised in light of developments over the last ten years, including Brexit. It has much that is new and illuminating, including on 'nonbinding instruments', reservations, provisional application and jus cogens. The new author, Jeremy Hill, has retained the 'Aust-spirit'; the book remains as accessible as ever.' Sir Michael Wood, KCMG, KC'Jeremy Hill's deep expertise and safe hands guide us through a much needed refresh to an essential desk guide for anyone involved or interested in the treaty drafting and making process. At a time of growing nationalism, this book is a timely reminder of how interconnected and interdependent our world is, and the role of treaties to help address global challenges that transcend boundaries.' Rashmin Sagoo, Director of the International Law Programme, Chatham HouseTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Vienna convention on the law of treaties 1969; 2. What is a treaty?; 3. Non-binding instruments; 4. Capacity to conclude treaties; 5. Full powers; 6. Adoption and authentication; 7. Consent to be bound; 8. Reservations; 9. Entry into force; 10. Treaties and domestic law; 11. Territorial application; 12. Successive treaties; 13. Interpretation; 14. Third states; 15. Amendment; 16. Duration and termination; 17. Invalidity; 18. The depositary; 19. Registration and publication; 20. Dispute settlement and remedies; 21. Succession to treaties; 22. International organisations; 23. Drafting and final clauses; Appendices; Index.

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Book SynopsisWas Churchill correct when he claimed the Second World War could easily have been prevented if Chamberlain had not appeased Hitler? How far did Churchill and Chamberlain differ on defence and foreign policy? To what extent was Chamberlain responsible for military defeats in 1940? In this new account of appeasement, G. C. Peden addresses these questions and provides a comparative analysis of Chamberlain and Churchill''s views on foreign policy and strategic priorities, explores what deterrence and appeasement meant in the military, economic and political context of the 1930s and where Chamberlain and Churchill agreed and disagreed on how best to deter Germany. Beginning in 1931 when Chamberlain became Chancellor of the Exchequer, this book explores the evolution of British policy towards Germany through to the Munich Agreement and its aftermath within the context of Britain''s power to influence international affairs in the 1930s and of contemporary intelligence.Trade Review'A masterly analysis that takes a fresh approach to appeasement, based on the author's expert knowledge and understanding of both policies and personalities.' Gill Bennett, Former FCO Chief Historian'A rigorous and compelling new look at one of the most important episodes in twentieth-century British and European History.' Richard Toye, University of ExeterTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Churchill, Chamberlain and historians; 2. Personalities and policymaking; 3. Britain and the balance of power; 4. The darkening scene; 5. The Ethiopian and Rhineland crises ; 6. Chamberlain takes charge; 7. From the Anschluss to Munich; 8. From Munich to Prague; 9. Deterrence by guarantee; 10. The test of war; 11. Counterfactuals and conclusions.

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Book SynopsisThis book seeks to critically review and evaluate the changes and consistencies in how warfare is interpreted and represented by academics, mass media outlets and political actors in the 21st century. The authors suggest that it is essential to understand the evolution and transformation of contemporary warfare''s conceptualisation and practice in order to make sense of the current global geopolitical transformations that are in process, from a unipolar to multipolar global order. They therefore examine the various key actors in international relations from conceptual, theoretical and empirical perspectives through thematic chapters that demonstrate the increasingly central role played by intangible factors in the representation and management of contemporary armed conflict. The book stresses the need to reflect and rethink the potentially highly problematic trajectory of the global community within the framework of 21st century warfare''s political and informational influence and effects.

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Book SynopsisWhen and how did the modern world become an international one? Jens Bartelson, a leading scholar of the history of international thought, provides new answers to this question by analyzing how relations between polities have been conceptualized across different historical contexts from the sixteenth century to the present day. A global intellectual history of the international system, this book challenges the widespread assumption that this system emerged as a result of a transition from empires to states, instead proposing that the international realm is but a continuation of imperial relations by other means. Showing how the international system spread through the creative appropriation of European concepts of nation and state by non-Europeans, Bartelson argues that this system has taken on a life of its own, to the point of becoming an empire in its own right.Trade Review'Lucid, learned, and challenging, Becoming International is Jens Bartelson's most ambitious work to date. Its unfailingly critical perspective questions our most fundamental categories - the international and the imperial, the global and the planetary - and will productively reframe myriad pressing contemporary debates.' David Armitage, Author of Foundations of Modern International Thought'With characteristic boldness, erudition, and conceptual sophistication, Jens Bartelson traces the emergence, proliferation, and ideological functions of the idea that we live in an 'international realm' - a world divided into sovereign states - and how this belief system has framed understandings of politics and disguised the continuity of imperial forms of rule. Original, erudite, and ambitious, Becoming International is a major contribution to political theory and the history of international thought.' Duncan Bell, University of CambridgeTable of Contents1. Making sense of the international; 2. Dividing the world; 3. Empire and independence c.1776-–c.1825; 4. Empire and self-determination c. 1820–c.1919; 5. The empire of the international; 6. From the international to the global and beyond?.

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Book SynopsisInternational organizations play an important, if imperfect, role in world politics, solving collective action problems in security, economic, environmental, and global health among others. While many believe that international organisations have formed critical pillars of global governance, sceptics contend that they reflect the power politics of the day and the interests of hegemonic powers. This volume examines whether international organizations contribute to or detract from peaceful change, acting as agents of both status quo and stasis. Providing a historical overview of international organizations, from the nineteenth century to the current day, a team of leading scholars offer an overview of how major theoretical approaches ? Liberalism, Constructivism, Rationalism and Realism ? have contributed to our understanding of the role played by international organizations in peaceful change. In particular, the roles of the United Nations General Assembly, UN Peacekeeping, UN Environment Program, World Health Organization, World Trade Organization and G20 are analysed.

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Book SynopsisWhy do states exit international organizations (IOs)? How often does exit from IOs ? including voluntary withdrawal and forced suspension ? occur? What are the effects of leaving IOs for the exiting state? Despite the importance of membership in IOs, a broader understanding of exit across states, organizations, and time has been limited. Exit from International Organizations addresses these lacunae through a theoretically grounded and empirically systematic study of IO exit. Von Borzyskowski and Vabulas argue that there is a common logic to IO exit which helps explain both its causes and consequences. By examining IO exit across 198 states, 534 IOs, and over a hundred years of history, they show that exit is driven by states'' dissatisfaction, preference divergence, and is a strategy to negotiate institutional change. The book also demonstrates that exit is costly because it has reputational consequences for leaving states and significantly affects other forms of international cooperation.

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Book SynopsisFor decades, the field of scholarship that studies the law and practice of international organisations -also known as ''international institutional law''- has been marked by an intellectual quietism. Most of the scholarship tends to focus narrowly on providing ''legal'' answers to ''legal'' questions. For that reason, perspectives rarely engage with the insights of critical traditions of legal thought (for instance, feminist, postcolonial, or political economy-oriented perspectives) or with interdisciplinary contributions produced outside the field. Ways of Seeing International Organisations challenges the narrow gaze of the field by bringing together authors across multiple disciplines to reflect on the need for ''new'' perspectives in international institutional law. Highlighting the limits of mainstream approaches, the authors instead interrogate international organisations as pivots in processes of world-making. To achieve this, the volume is organised around four fundamental themes: expertise; structure; performance; and capital. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Book SynopsisThis handbook presents a comprehensive, concise and accessible overview of the field of Historical International Relations (HIR). It summarizes existing contributions and central themes, approaches and methodologies that have driven the development of HIR, providing a sense of the diversity and research dynamics in the field.Trade Review"This invaluable volume provides exhaustive coverage of all the main priority areas of historical International Relations. The editors are three of the leading lights in the field, and together with the contributors they incisively review and advance the state of the art on this important topic." Jason Sharman, Sir Patrick Sheehy Professor of International Relations, University of Cambridge, UK."An epic achievement and a veritable tour de force, this book is not only a who’s who and a what’s what of historical IR that combines senior, and junior rising, stars but it is surely the go-to-compendium for this rising sub-discipline, all of which has been brilliantly brought together by three of its leading lights." John M. Hobson, University of Sheffield, UK."This wide-ranging collection is an important archive of historical international relations, a compendium of the state of a promising subfield and a hopeful indication of intellectual rejuvenation in the wider discipline of International Relations."Professor Patricia Owens, University of Oxford, UK.Table of Contents1 Introduction: Historical International Relations Part I. Traditions 2 Theories and Philosophies of History in International Relations 3 The English School and Historical International Relations 4 World-Systems Analysis: Past Trajectories and Future Prospects 5 Historical Sociology in International Relations: The Challenge of the Global 6 Liberalism between Theory and Practice 7 Realism: Excavating a Historical Tradition 8 Constructivism: History and Systemic Change 9 Poststructuralism and the Challenge of History 10 International Political Thought and Historical International Relations Part II. Thinking International Relations Historically 11 Disciplinary Traditions and Debates: The Subject Matters of International Thought 12 War and the Turn to History in International Relations 13 Capitalism and ‘the International’: A Historical Approach 14 Gender in Historical International Relations 15 Eurocentrism and Civilization 16 Disciplinary Histories of Non-Anglophone International Relations: Latin America and the Caribbean 17 Premodern Asia and International Relations Theory 18 Race and Historical International Relations 19 Political Theology and Historical International Relations 20 Time and History in International Relations Part III. Actors, Processes and Institutions 21 Sovereignty in Historical International Relations: Trajectories, Challenges, and Implications 22 State Formation and Historical International Relations 23 Nations and Nationalism in International Relations 24 States, People and Self-Determination in Historical Perspective 25 Borders and Boundaries: Making Visible What Divides 26 Reason of State: An Intellectual History 27 Balance of Power: A Key Concept in Historical Perspective 28 Diplomacy: The World of States and Beyond 29 Insurance, Trade and War 30 International Law and the Laws of War 31 International Organisations in Historical Perspective 32 Revolutions: Integrating the International 33 Imperialism: Beyond the ‘Re-turn to Empire’ in International Relations 34 Decolonization and the Erosion of the Imperial Idea 35 Understanding the Postcolonial Cold War Part IV. Situating Historical IR 36 Ancient Greece: War, Peace and Diplomacy in Antiquity 37 Rome: Republic, Monarchy and Empire 38 International Relations in/and the Middle Ages 39 Early (Modern) Empires: The Political Ideology of Conceptual Domination 40 Europe in Historical International Relations 41 Africa and International History 42 International Order in East Asia 43 Linking up the Ottoman Empire with IR’s Timeline 44 Latin America: Between Liminality and Agency in Historical International Relations Part V. Approaches 45 International Relations in the Archive: Uses of Sources and Historiography 46 History and Memory: Narratives, Micropolitics and Crises 47 How to Do the History of International Thought? 48 Global Histories: Connections and Circulations in Historical International Relations 49 Historical Practices: Recovering a Durkheimian Tradition 50 Quantitative Approaches: Towards Comparative and Trans-Regional Approaches in Historical International Relations 51 Conceptual History in International Relations: from Ideology to Social Theory? 52 Historical Periods and the Act of Periodisation Part VI. Afterword 53 Afterword

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Book SynopsisThis book argues that river basins represent a particular structural setting in international relations with the potential for generating a dynamic of cooperation among the involved countries.The volume applies the concept of regional cooperation to international river basins to highlight their relevance as a particular space in international relations, emphasizing both the inter-connectivity and transnationalism of international river basins. It addresses the challenges related to resource distribution between up- and down-stream countries, showcasing a variety of examples of cooperation and conflictual relations within various international river basins. Case studies are drawn from across the globe and include the Mekong, the Indus, the Euphrates-Tigris and the Danube international river basins. Each chapter outlines the different aspects which support or undermine cooperation in each case, taking into consideration key areas surrounding resource sharing, national development, environmental considerations and national security.This book will be of great interest to students and scholars with an interest in international river basins, regional cooperation, water resource competition, international relations and environmental politics.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores U.S.-Taiwan-China relations during both the Trump and Biden administrations, revealing how policy changes under both presidents have impacted Washington's decades-long strategic policy framework for Cross-Strait Relations.By tracing the continuities and changes of U.S. Strategic ambiguity and One-China Policy framework between the Trump and Biden administrations, the book assesses how the foreign policy prism, through which U.S. leaders view China and Taiwan, has experienced a distinct alteration and subsequently led to a policy adjustment. Utilising a wide range of documents and primary material, such as White House documents (ranging from the Clinton to the Biden administrations) in conjunction with interviews with Taiwan officials, this volume brings a detailed portrait of past, present, and potential future U.S.-Taiwan-China relations. Moreover, it provides a succinct examination of U.S. foreign policy traditions such as internationalism,Trade Review‘Professor Chen has applied his command of existing literature and proven skills in carefully crafted and clearly written scholarship to go beyond available publications in this comprehensive assessment of the actions and motives of the two most recent US presidents regarding the sensitive issues involved in US-Taiwan-China relations.’ – Professor Robert Sutter, George Washington University, USA.'Professor Chen lucidly traces the United States’s gradual movement away from a liberal internationalist foreign policy and toward a more nationalistic direction. He argues that, while America’s One China Policy has become increasingly anachronistic and untenable by changing political and security realities, it has maintained an anchoring function that, if abandoned, risks escalating into more serious Sino-American collisions.' - Professor June Teufel Dreyer, University of Miami, USA.‘Chen offers a clear and cogent analysis of changing U.S. policy toward China and Taiwan. Chen argues that U.S. Taiwan Strait policy is a result of an inward-looking "Jacksonian" nationalism and a U.S. Congress increasingly disillusioned with ‘constructive engagement’ with Beijing. His analysis of the movement away from a liberal internationalist U.S. foreign policy tradition toward a more nationalist direction finds that, as U.S.-PRC relations grow more conflictual and Washington renounces liberal engagement with China, the changing security and political realities challenge the maintenance of America’s venerable OneChina/strategic ambiguity policy.’ - Elizabeth Larus, University of Mary Washington, USA.‘Dean Chen has once again produced a theoretically rich and empirically concise treatment of US-China relations that tracks the ideational shift in US strategic interests and policy perspectives from Obama to Trump and now Biden. Few scholars have so elegantly chronicled the transition of American foreign policy from Wilsonian liberal internationalism of the Post-War era to what appears to be an emerging Jacksonian nationalism.’ - Hans Stockton, University of St. Thomas Houston, USA.Table of Contents1. U.S. Nationalism and Interests (with Michaela Zabel) 2. Deepening U.S.-PRC Competitions 3. Trump and One-China Adjustments 4. Backing Taiwan in a Free and Open Indo-Pacific 5. Biden’s Multilateralism and Democratic Resilience 6. Taiwan Strait in the Era of Fortress America

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Book SynopsisDid Donald Trump decisively transform and alter the course of US foreign policy? All presidents promise change, but few presidents promise changes as radical as Trump did during his presidency. The extent to which Trump delivered on that promise, however, remains hotly debated with little or no agreement. The chapters in this edited volume argue that much of this debate is a dialogue of the deaf where scholars speak past rather than to each other, where the basis for claims about change or continuity is unclear and where the argument and knowledge, consequently, fails to progress. At its heart, this is a problem of theory and methods. Employing a diverse range of theoretical and methodological perspectives, this book seeks to move the debate beyond a superficial focus on events to more fundamental questions of how change is defined, measured and explained and in doing so, attempts to advance understanding of foreign policy change and the extent to which Trump can reallTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Trump presidency: continuity and change in US foreign policy 1. The Trump foreign policy record and the concept of transformational change 2. What makes America great? Donald Trump, national identity, and U.S. foreign policy 3. When ends Trump means: continuity versus change in US counterterrorism policy 4. Security and polarization in Trump’s America: securitization and the domestic politics of threatening others 5. Low- conceptual complexity and Trump’s foreign policy 6. Why American grand strategy has changed: international constraint, generational shift, and the return of realism 7. “You think our country’s so innocent?” The Trump administration’s policy on democratic practices in Russia and the challenge to US identity 8. Crisis, narratives, and the construction of US- Middle East relations: continuity and change in world history and Trump’s America First 9. The Trump administration: continuity and change in US foreign policy

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Book SynopsisThis book examines how the United States adopted and contributed to the practices of international societythe habits and practices states use to regulate their relationsduring the nineteenth century. Expert contributors consider America's entry into international society and how independence forced it to enter into diplomatic relations with European states and start a permanent engagement with a society of states. Individual chapters focus on U.S. perceptions of the international order and its place within it, the U.S. position on international issues of that period, and how America's perceptions and positions affected or were affected by the habits, practices, and institutions of international society. This volume will serve as an invaluable text for undergraduate courses focusing on international relations theory and U.S. foreign policy. It will also appeal to established scholars in international relations, diplomacy, and international history and historical sociology.Table of Contents1. The United States in the Nineteenth Century International Society: An Introduction 2. 19th century America’s Role in Global History 3. The American Founding and the Society of States 4. America and the Other Revolutions: Neutrality and Non-engagement in Latin America and Greece 5. The United States, the Monroe Doctrine and International Society 6. Slaves, Indians, and European Legal Formalism in 19th Century America 7. The United States inside 'British International Society’: Imperial Rivalries and Compatibilities 8. The United States and the Liberal Transformation of International Society: The Institution of Sovereignty 9. Wheaton’s Elements and the Expansion of International Society 10. America and the rise of Arbitration as an Institution of International Society: American and British Treaties from 1783-1871 11. The United States as a Great Power: The Long Road to the Nineteenth-Century Acceptance of Rank 12. Constituting the Long 19th Century: the United States and the Primary Institutions of International Society

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Book SynopsisThe volume examines one of the most sensitive issues in the contemporary diplomatic history of the eastern Mediterranean, namely, the nexus between Greece, Turkey, the Cyprus problem and NATO in the crucial period between 1973 and 1988. Beginning with the emergence of the Aegean dispute in 1973 and ending with the most comprehensive attempt to date to solve the GreekTurkish conflict in the wake of the Davos rapprochement process in 1988. The analysis in this book goes back to developments that occurred in the first half of the 20th century.

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