International category: 36838 books
War, Ethics and Justice
New Perspectives on a Post-9/11 World
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
This edited volume addresses the key issues of ethics, war and international relations in the post-9/11 world.
There is a lively debate in contemporary international relations concerning the relationship between statist obligations to one’s own political community and cosmopolitan duties...
Principles of international biolaw
Seeking common ground at the intersection of bioethics and human rights
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Rapid advances in genetics and medicine present both opportunities and threats to the advancement of human rights and public health in this era of globalization. While such advances contribute significantly to progress against disease, they may also pose profound global public policy concerns in that...
by Ingvild Bode, Aleksandra Fernandes da Costa, Thomas Diez
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
International relations is a vibrant field of significant growth and change. This book guides students through the complexities of the major theories of international relations and the debates that surround them, the core theoretical concepts, and the key contemporary issues. Introduced by an overview...
by Craig Forrest
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
The world’s cultural heritage is under threat from war, illicit trafficking, social and economic upheaval, unregulated excavation and neglect. Over a period of almost fifty years, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation has adopted five international conventions that...
The International Ambitions of Mao and Nehru
National Efficacy Beliefs and the Making of Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011
Why do leaders sometimes challenge, rather than accept, the international structures that surround their states? In The International Ambitions of Mao and Nehru, Andrew Kennedy answers this question through in-depth studies of Chinese foreign policy under Mao Zedong and Indian foreign policy under...
Justice Belied
The Unbalanced Scales of International Criminal Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
For the first time in a book, defence counsel, investigators, journalists, and academics pool their knowledge and experience to answer the burning questions. What has happened to the fundamental principles of the sovereign equality of nations and the right of self-determination? Why do international...
International Business
Environments & Operations
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
This book is about international businessinternational firms, their business activities across borders, the environment in which they operate, and management. The book produces a clear and concise introduction to international business, setting a global standard for studying and understanding of international...
Chinese Security Policy
Structure, Power and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2009
This volume provides a coherent and comprehensive understanding of Chinese security policy, comprising essays written by one of America's leading scholars.
Chinese Security Policy covers such fundamental areas as the role of international structure in state behavior, the use of force in international...
by Archit Pandey
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Law - European and International Law, Intellectual Properties, grade: 1,3, University of Mannheim, language: English, abstract: This paper focuses on mass surveillance and its legality under the national laws of a few countries and international law...
US International Lawyers in the Interwar Years
A Forgotten Crusade
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
In the interwar years, a group of reform-minded American scholars of international law, such as Quincy Wright and Manley Hudson, challenged traditional international law and strove to establish a 'new' international law in which outlawry of war was institutionalized. They highly valued the Covenant...
The Political Economy of International Trade
U.S. Trade Laws, Policy, and Social Cost
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2006
American trade policy is a crucial subject to not only the United States but also foreign countries. Free trade has been a long-standing U.S. policy position, playing the lead role in the international free trade framework and contributing to this framework through multilateral trade negotiations....
by Rachel Stohl, Suzette Grillot
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
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 guns, tanks, and missiles. These weapons have the potential to cause a deadly and current threat...
International Military Operations in the 21st Century
Global Trends and the Future of Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
This book examines the challenges that military forces will face in multinational operations in the 21st century.
Expanding on Rupert Smith’s The Utility of Force, the volume assesses the changing parameters within which force as a political instrument is ultimately carried out. By analysing...
Economic Growth, the Environment and International Relations
The Growth Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2010
The ubiquity of the commitment to economic growth, which Purdey refers to as the growth paradigm, is extraordinary. National governments around the world are seized of the same objective. Major international institutions such as the UN, the WTO, the World Bank, IMF and OECD, powerful international...