Great power war is unthinkable due to the extreme destructiveness of modern weaponry. The book explores the specter of unrestricted warfare in light of Cold War historical precedents. Unless political and economic destabilization are understood as a mode of warfare, the West is at risk of succumbing to pernicious foreign influences.
Why is there so much conflict in the Balkans, the Middle East, and other parts of the world? Is there something innate in human nature that makes it next to impossible to achieve peaceful coexistence? This book says that answers must be sought in the prehistoric past when intergroup hostility became ingrained as a pattern of cultural evolution.
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 ......
U.S. Embassy Prague, the Fall of Communism in Czechoslovakia, and its Af
Offers a behind-the-scenes account of the little-known role played by the US embassy in Prague in the collapse of communism in what was then Czechoslovakia. Featuring fifty-two newly declassified diplomatic cables, the book shows how the staff of the embassy worked with dissident groups and negotiated with the communist government.
Diplomatic Gifts of Arms and Armour Between Europe and Asia
The papers presented in this book represent the latest research on a wide variety of arms and armour given as diplomatic gifts between Asia and Europe, or within Europe, between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. The research originated at a conference that celebrated the 400th anniversary of Anglo-Japanese relations.
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.
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 ......
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 ......
In this revised edition of the highly praised Engaging India, Strobe Talbott updates his bestselling diplomatic account of America's parallel negotiations with India and Pakistan over nuclear proliferation in the late 1990s.
"America First" is "America Alone". Federiga Bindi's new book assesses the consequences of this retreat for transatlantic relations and Europe, showing how the current path of US foreign policy is leading to isolation and a sharp decrease of US influence in international relations.
Jean-Pierre Cabestan, a China specialist based in Hong Kong, provides an overview of "Thucydides' Trap," as coined by political scientist Graham Allison to describe the inescapable conflict between Beijing and Washington. Is China's growing power a threat to the United States? Could it lead to war between the two nations? Economically and ......
Jean-Pierre Cabestan, a China specialist based in Hong Kong, provides an overview of "Thucydides' Trap," as coined by political scientist Graham Allison to describe the inescapable conflict between Beijing and Washington. Is China's growing power a threat to the United States? Could it lead to war between the two nations? Economically and ......
A Study on the Geopolitical Area's Tribal, Imaginal, and Contextual Poli
This book elucidates the socio-political and symbolic-cultural aspects of football as a "different form of politics" in Central-Eastern and Eastern Europe, drawing on both contemporary and historical aspects and including insights from different disciplines.
The United States has used military force short of war as an instrument of diplomacy on many occasions and in many areas of the world in the years since the Second World War. This book describes and analyzes the circumstances accompanying 215 shows of force and examines how effective these actions were in helping to attain US foreign policy ......
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.
The foreign policy behavior of small states, which in today's world comprise some sixty countries, is not prominently represented in academia. Studies associated with these states' foreign policy tend to focus on their behavior in the international arena with a clear dominance of realist thoughts. Small states are often seen from a closed-box ......
In a relatively short time, the EU has become one of the important actors on the world stage. This book explores the goals and effectiveness of the EU's external actions after adoption of the Lisbon Treaty. It brings together scholars and policymakers who provide a view of the EU's foreign policy merits and challenges.
Presents a behind the scenes look at 50 years of US diplomacy. From Vietnam in the 1960s to the Afghanistan of this decade, James Dobbins takes the reader behind the scenes at the Vietnam peace talks, the darkest dates of the Cold War, the reunification of Germany, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the US military interventions in Afghanistan, ......
How Trump Made America's Broken Foreign Policy Even Worse (and How We Ca
As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump broke not only from the Republican Party but also from the bipartisan consensus on the direction of recent U.S. foreign policy. Calling the Iraq war a terrible mistake and lamenting America's nation building expeditions, Trump evinced little interest in maintaining the traditional form of American ......
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.
The Life and Trials of Ambassador Sato Naotake, 1882-1971
This book examines Naotako Sato'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.
For over four years, Washington responded to war in Bosnia by handing the problem to the Europeans to resolve and substituting high-minded rhetoric for concerted action.
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.
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.
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 Franciss diplomacy, show why it works, and to offer readers a startling contrast to the dangerous inadequacies of recent U.S. international ......
Chinese, Russian, and American Force Posture in the 21st Century
What challenges and risks do Chinese and Russian bases pose to the United States' military strategy? How do the military postures of great powers interact and with what consequences for regional and global security? This book examines the emerging dynamics of geostrategic competition for overseas military bases and base access. The comparative ......
Chinese, Russian, and American Force Posture in the 21st Century
What challenges and risks do Chinese and Russian bases pose to the United States' military strategy? How do the military postures of great powers interact and with what consequences for regional and global security? This book examines the emerging dynamics of geostrategic competition for overseas military bases and base access. The comparative ......
The Reshaping of International Security Institutions
Shows security-related diplomacy and international cooperation works, yet it remains an understudied and poorly understood phenomenon. This title provides an assessment of their relative effectiveness, compatibility, and their impact on international security institutions.
The Reshaping of International Security Institutions
Shows security-related diplomacy and international cooperation works, yet it remains an understudied and poorly understood phenomenon. This title provides an assessment of their relative effectiveness, compatibility, and their impact on international security institutions.
Imperfect Partners is a unique hybrid - part memoir, part foreign policy study of U.S. relations with Southeast Asia, a critically important region that has become the central arena in the global U.S.-China competition. From the People Power revolt in the Philippines to the opening of diplomatic relations with Vietnam, from building a ......
Imperfect Partners is a unique hybrid - part memoir, part foreign policy study of U.S. relations with Southeast Asia, a critically important region that has become the central arena in the global U.S.-China competition. From the People Power revolt in the Philippines to the opening of diplomatic relations with Vietnam, from building a partnership ......
One of Indias most distinguished foreign policy thinkers addresses the many questions facing India as it seeks to find its way in the complex world of Asian geopolitics. A former Indian foreign secretary and national security adviser, Shivshankar Menon traces Indias approach to the shifting regional landscape since its independence in 1947.
The Quest for Regional Primacy and Strategic Autonomy
In recent decades, India has grown as a global power, and has been able to pursue its own goals in its own way. Negotiating for India's Global Role gives an insightful and integrated analysis of India's ability to manage its evolving role. Former ambassadors Teresita and Howard Schaffer shine a light on the country's strategic vision, foreign ......
The governance of the internet has gained a central role in global politics. International cooperation is increasingly mobilized to ensure that the expansion of connectivity infrastructure, digital services and their usages also safeguards security, human rights, and economic benefits. The field is truly transnational, including a vibrant ......
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.
