Perspectives on Nigerian Foreign Policy at Sixty and Beyond
Since its emergence in 1960 as an independent state, Nigeria has stood out as the most populous Black country in the world. In Africa's International Relations in a Globalising World: Perspectives on Nigerian Foreign Policy at Sixty and Beyond, edited by Usman A. Tar and Sharkdam Wapmuk, contributors examine Nigeria's role within Africa as well as ......
How Emerging Technologies Reshape Intelligence Communities
The Future of National Intelligence: How Emerging Technologies Reshape Intelligence Communities provides a blueprint for the future of national intelligence agencies by exploring emerging technologies and collaborative strategies for intelligence gathering and managing data. Essential reading for students of national security and professionals.
This book examines the trends and dynamics associated with Cameroon-Nigeria relations. It offers rich perspectives for understanding the objectives and drivers of diplomatic relations between both countries.
In Engaging China, Gurtov identifies and details the many facets of China that worry critics. But he also argues for a strategy of coexistence that allows for economic and technological competition while managing frictions over issues so diverse as human rights and access to the South China Sea. This book is wide-ranging but compact; realistic but ......
The Life and Trials of Ambassador Sato Naotake, 1882-1971
This book examines Sato Naotake's remarkable and long career at the crossroads of Imperial Japan, emphasizing his role in maintaining the Neutrality Pact with the Soviet Union and in promoting the United Nations.
Change and Continuity in the U.S.-Kurdish Relationship
Thriving in the context of political vacuums created by state weakness, the armed non-state actors in the Middle East, such as Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Kurds increasingly demonstrate features of both state and non-state actors and act autonomously in their foreign policy. Rethinking State-Non-State Alliances: Change and Continuity in the ......
Constructive Conflicts provides a powerful analytical and empirical framework for analyzing and intervening in large-scale social and political conflicts. Readers follow conflicts as they emerge, escalate, de-escalate, become settled, and sometimes re-emerge, learning how destructive cycles of contention can be disrupted and even reversed.
A Critical Evaluation of "Territorial Separation" as a Method of Addressing Ethnic Conflicts addresses the question of how to address ethnic conflicts in Kirkuk as a diverse multi-ethnic city. It analyzes territorial separation as a new untested method to address ethnic conflicts in Kirkuk.
This book provides an insightful analysis from complementary perspectives of the seven-decades-long contest and contestation between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China for diplomatic recognition on the Africa continent. It examines China and Taiwan's presence and active involvement in African affairs.
Constructive Conflicts provides a powerful analytical and empirical framework for analyzing and intervening in large-scale social and political conflicts. Readers follow conflicts as they emerge, escalate, de-escalate, become settled, and sometimes re-emerge, learning how destructive cycles of contention can be disrupted and even reversed.
This book offers an approach to internet diplomacy that extends to foreign affairs and international relations, and with regard to all emerging international tensions clustered around digital environments, including cybersecurity and internet governance.
Told from the perspective of a US diplomat in Kiev, this book is the true story of Ukraine's anti-corruption revolution in 2013-14, Russia's intervention and invasion of that nation, and the limited role played by the United States.
Offers an up-to-date and comprehensive examination of foreign policy of the EU. The globe-spanning contributions to the book include a look at relations between Brussels and its regional neighbours; the tensions that have arisen with the US during the Trump administration; and the burgeoning relationship with China.
The profession of intelligence and those delivering intelligence education share a common aim of developing intelligence as a discipline. However, this shared interest must also navigate the existence of an academic-practitioner divide. This book provides a range of international approaches to navigate the academic-practitioner divide.
Offers a behind-the-scenes account of American foreign policymaking in the late twentieth century. Through the eyes, diary, and notes of a key participant, the book provides a contemporaneous perspective on such major events as the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban missile crisis, Vietnam, and the elections of the 1960s.
This book examines Vatican diplomacy from the fall of the Papal States in 1870 to the present day. The contributors focus on the concept of permanent neutrality and trace the Vatican's political transformation into a modern international institution in conjunction with its use of neutrality as a tool of diplomacy and statecraft.
A revealing memoir by the Israeli leader who almost made peace with the Palestinians. Written almost entirely from inside a prison cell, this is the compelling memoir of former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert. It offers a riveting political story and an unparalleled window into Israeli history, peacemaking, and politics.
Ariel Sharon, Yasser Arafat, and Three Fateful Days in March
This book traces the dynamics in the current fraught relationship between Israel and Palestine to the dramatic events of March 27-29, 2002--from a bloody suicide bombing to the Arab Peace Initiative to the invasion and reoccupation of the West Bank, where Israeli soldiers won a bloody military battle but Israel lost the media battle of public ......
Long-time Brookings senior fellow Stephen Philip Cohen was the first American scholar to work in the field of South Asian security studies. This book of essays is an intellectual homage to Cohen. It is also an impressive overview of a number of the vital questions facing the nations of that region as well as their neighbours both near and far.
Sports in the Diplomatic Activities of States and Non-State Actors
This book investigates the issue of sports diplomacy and refers to the place and role of sport within public diplomacy. Its subject includes the use of sport to shape relations with other states, to build the state's international image and the diplomatic subjectivity of international sports organizations.
Providing a unique record of the authoritarian, centralist and ultra-nationalist nature of the Turkish state manifested in Erdogan's "New Turkey," Candar challenges stereotyped and conventional views on Turkey and details account of the encounter between Turkey and the Kurds in historical perspective with special emphasis on failed peace ......
Provides a telling history of one of the most important relationships in the Middle East. This is the first book to tell the remarkable story of the relationship between Jordan and the United States and how their leaders have navigated the dangerous waters of the most volatile region in the world.
Pope Francis, Vatican Diplomacy, and America's Armageddon
Using inside sources and extensive field reporting about the secretive, high-stakes world of international diplomacy, Vatican reporter Victor Gaetan takes readers to the Holy See to explicate Pope Francis's diplomacy, show why it works, and to offer readers a startling contrast to the dangerous inadequacies of recent U.S. international decisions.
Life and Work in the US Foreign Service, Fourth Edition
In this new and thoroughly revised edition of Career Diplomacy, Foreign Service veterans Harry W. Kopp and John K. Naland lay out what to expect in a Foreign Service career, from the entrance exam through midcareer and into the senior service-how to get in, get around, and get ahead.
Putin has re-established Russia's claim to world power by strengthening his autocratic rule at home, dominating or intimidating smaller independent neighbors and maintaining a pragmatic partnership with China. Russian policies depend on the use of oil and gas revenues, whose long-term prospects are questionable.
A Strategic Rivalry between the United States, China, and Taiwan
This book examines Taiwan's relations with Latin America and the US-China rivalry in the region. The author argues that Taiwan's future as an independent state hinges on the balance of power between the United States and China.
President Donald Trump's term in office significantly affected the way the United States is seen by other nations in the international setting. This book presents 18 case studies of the effect of Trump policies and behavior on the U.S. standing abroad, and examines the long-term consequences of these effects.
As the Caribbean and Latin America confront the significant socio- economic and political challenges of the twenty- first century, the contributors to this book present a timely and relevant assessment of these issues, from a fresh small-states perspective. The collection of articles by academics and practitioners in international relations offer ......
Argues that American policymakers must not lose sight of the expansive dynamism and diversity in present-day China. Through multifaceted empirical research, this unique study argues that America's complete decoupling approach toward China will undermine the interests of the United States.
To better address the implications of Chinas rise, Brookings scholars conducted research over the past two years, culminating in Global China: Assessing Chinas Growing Role in the World. It will furnish policy makers and the public with hard facts and deep insights for understanding Chinas ambitions.
Leading scholars examine China's global strategic plans, from Hong Kong to military power, to economic dominance Over the past few decades, China has increasingly challenged the global influence of the United States. In China's Grand Strategy, David B. H. Denoon brings together a group of eminent scholars to explain China's rapid ascendance on ......
Leading scholars examine China's global strategic plans, from Hong Kong to military power, to economic dominance Over the past few decades, China has increasingly challenged the global influence of the United States. In China's Grand Strategy, David B. H. Denoon brings together a group of eminent scholars to explain China's rapid ascendance on ......
A Successful Balancing Act of Foreign Policy and Diplomacy
In Barack Obama and the Arab Spring: A Successful Balancing Act of Foreign Policy and Diplomacy, Ahmed Zohny develops a well-blended marriage of history and political theories of U.S. foreign policy, diplomacy, public diplomacy, and national security.
Theology, Interpretation and Power in the Muslim World
The Trump administration brought major changes in how the United States relates to the Muslim World, and a growing awareness of the need to compete with radical Islamic forces in the domain of their theocratically-based ideology. This work explores the current state of the "wars of ideas" against radical Islam and identifies America's potential ......
Georgian Britain, Imperial China and the Irishman Who Introduced Them
In 1793, George Macartney became Britain's first envoy to imperial China, and set off one of the greatest power shifts in history. The impasse that resulted from Macartney's refusal to agree to kowtow to the Emperor Qianlong causes great reverberations even today, and is still a source of tension between Beijing and the West.
