Sciences Sociales / Politique / Relations internationales

Cool War: The Future of Global Competition

de Noah Feldman

A bold and thought-provoking look at the future of U.S.-China relations, and how their coming power struggle will reshape the competitive playing field for nations around the world

The Cold War seemingly...

Disequilibrium, Polarization, and Crisis Model: An International Relations Theory Explaining Conflict

de Isabelle Dierauer

This book adds a social psychological component to the analysis of why nations, sections, or states enter into armed conflict. The Disequilibrium, Polarization, and Crisis Model is introduced, drawing from prospect...

Development and International Relations: A Critical Introduction

de Anna Dickson

This introductory textbook examines the role of the Third World and the processes of development from the study of international politics and argues that in an increasingly globalized world development can no...

Cautious Visionary: Cordell Hull and Trade Reform, 1933-1937

de Michael A. Butler

Cordell Hull's persistence and legislative experience were determining factors at every stage in the development of the Trade Agreements Act of 1934. Rarely has such important legislation owed itself to a single...

Morgenthau

de William E. Scheuerman

The ideas of Hans Morgenthau dominated the study of international politics in the United States for many decades. He was the leading representative of Realist international relations theory in the last century...

International Ethics: A Critical Introduction

de Richard Shapcott

Is it is justifiable to make any basic moral distinction between 'insiders and outsiders'? Do we have substantive duties of 'justice' to all human beings or merely Humanitarian duties of aid and assistance?...

Gorbachev's Gamble: Soviet Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War

de Andrei Grachev

The sudden ending of the Cold War, surely the dominant feature of the second half of the 20th century, continues to be one of the most unexpected and perplexing events of our time. Explanations provided by the...

A Short History of Nuclear Folly

de Rudolph Herzog & Jefferson Chase

In the spirit of Dr. Strangelove and The Atomic Café, a blackly sardonic people’s history of atomic blunders and near-misses revealing the hushed-up and forgotten episodes in which the great powers gambled...

Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century

de Christian Caryl

Few moments in history have seen as many seismic transformations as 1979. That single year marked the emergence of revolutionary Islam as a political force on the world stage, the beginning of market revolutions...

Foreign Policy Begins at Home: The Case for Putting America's House in Order

de Richard N. Haass

America must confront an increasingly turbulent world in the near future, as the destabilizing forces of globalization, rapid technological change, demographic imbalance, and financial meltdown merge to create...

The International Arms Trade

de Rachel Stohl & Suzette Grillot

The multi-billion dollar business of the international conventional arms trade involves virtually every country in the world. Around the globe, people's lives are being irrevocably changed by the effects of...

New and Old Wars: Organised Violence in a Global Era

de Mary Kaldor

Mary Kaldor's New and Old Wars has fundamentally changed the way both scholars and policy-makers understand contemporary war and conflict. In the context of globalization, this path-breaking book has shown that...

The Causes of War

de David Sobek

Wars often spring out of nowhere with little warning. One need only look at the recent troubles at the Lebanon-Israeli border for evidence of this claim. At other points in history, such as the run-up to the...

Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the West

de T.R. Reid

Those who've heard T. R. Reid's weekly commentary on National Public Radio or read his far-flung reporting in National Geographic or  The Washington Post know him to be trenchant, funny, and cutting-edge,...

Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield

de Jeremy Scahill

From the International Bestselling author of Blackwater comes the story of America’s global killing machine.

Safirka: An American Envoy

de Peter Bridges

"This book recounts my experiences as a career office of the American Foreign Service, as ambassador to Somalia in 1984-86 and during the years before I went to Africa" .What follows does not claim to be the...

Beyond War: Reimagining American Influence in a New Middle East

de David Rohde

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author examines the cardinal failing of Washington’s war on terror

This book distills eleven years of expert reporting for The New York Times, Reuters, and The Atlantic Monthly...

The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat

de Vali Nasr

In a brilliant and revealing book destined to drive debate about the future of American power, Vali Nasr questions America’s dangerous choice to engage less and matter less in the world.

Vali Nasr, author...

The Importance of Being Civil: The Struggle for Political Decency

de John A. Hall

Civility is desirable and possible, but can this fragile ideal be guaranteed? The Importance of Being Civil offers the most comprehensive look at the nature and advantages of civility, throughout history and...

Introduction to International Relations: Theory and Practice

de Joyce P. Kaufman

This clear and concise text takes as its starting point the theoretical frameworks that are the foundation of current international relations. Kaufman explains the traditional theories, but also makes a place...