This book presents a new mode of analyzing how and why states negotiate, in which focused comparison of specific types of cases yields empirically grounded generalizations about diplomatic variability. Designed to encourage inductive case comparison, it introduces that method an…
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Since World War II, separatist conflicts have been the most common and deadly types of war in international politics. Such wars result from a simple incongruity: ethno-nationalist groups desire a homeland, but on territory that is controlled by states unwilling to give it up. Th…
Since World War II, separatist conflicts have been the most common and deadly types of war in international politics. Such wars result from a simple incongruity: ethno-nationalist groups desire a homeland, but on territory that is controlled by states unwilling to give it up. Th…
Since World War II, separatist conflicts have been the most common and deadly types of war in international politics. Such wars result from a simple incongruity: ethno-nationalist groups desire a homeland, but on territory that is controlled by states unwilling to give it up. Th…
French political and theorist Aron (1905-83) published Paixe guerre entre les nations in 1962 in Paris to clarify and transcend the debate between rational schematics and sociological perspectives in the discipline of international relations, by arguing that the two are not cont…
"This edited volume will collect a number of essays which propose and examines different though related critical responses to modern cultures of war among other cultural practices of statecraft. Taken together, these essays present a space of creative engagement with the politic…
"Who will be in power in the 21st century? Governments? Big business? Internet titans? And how do we influence the future? Digital technology is changing power at a faster rate than any time in history. Distrust is fuelling political uncertainty; inequality is fuelling economic …
In next century we will need to deal with equivalent in social development of last 43 centuries: like the change from cave paintings to the atom bomb. We will see the arrival of the digital native; the rebirth of the city state; the battle for new energy; disappearing borders; d…
Preface : the diplomat who arrived too late -- Introduction : here lies diplomacy, RIP? -- Early diplomacy : from cavemen to consuls -- Diplomacy by sea : from Columbus to copyboys -- Diplomacy's finest century -- From telephone to television -- From e-mail to e-nvoys -- What ma…
The case for paring diplomacy back to its essential elements. Stripped of the paraphernalia, what is it really about, and why does it still matter? The essential attributes are now thick skin, an open mind and a smart phone. In next century we will need to deal with equivalent i…
"On October 4, 1957, in the midst of the Cold War, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, the first artificial Earth satellite. For the West, and especially the United States, it was a shattering blow to national morale and pride. It led to a deep-seated fear that the Soviet Union…