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Introduction: once upon a time …
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Alexander Spencer
Published: 01 August 2016
... Declaration of Independence Forsyth Frederick Gaddafi Muammar Geneva Convention Lawrence of Arabia Machiavelli Niccolò revolution Rousseau Jean Jacques Scott Sir Walter Shelley Percy Bysshe US House of Representatives humanitarians patriots Senate Narrative International Relations Discourse...
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Published: 14 March 2012
... Rivollet Georges Hitler Adolf Monnier Robert France First World War Veterans Fascism Germany International relations Following the Armistice, the return of soldiers, living and dead, presented a huge administrative challenge to the French authorities. Approximately 8 million men served during...
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The International Dimension of the Failed Algerian Transition: Democracy Betrayed?
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Francesco Cavatorta
Published online: 19 July 2012
Published in print: 01 February 2009
... the last two decades. More specifically, it examines how international variables influence the behaviour and activities of Algerian political actors. By bridging the comparative politics and international relations literature, the book offers a new understanding of the initiation, development and outcome...
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A postscript
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Casper Sylvest
Published: 01 December 2009
...This chapter summarises the arguments of the book and discusses their wider implications for, in particular, the historiography of International Relations (IR), contemporary liberal IR theory and British intellectual history of the period. Liberal internationalism enjoys a position in the current...
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Published: 19 February 2017
...The concluding chapter summarizes the major points of the chapters and identify some common themes that emerge from the analysis provided by the contributors. This chapter explains how International Relations theory is furthered by the attempt to apply the case study method to explore the causal...
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American Foreign Policy: Studies in Intellectual History
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Jean-Francois Drolet (ed.) and James Dunkerley (ed.)
Published online: 18 January 2018
Published in print: 30 September 2017
...This book brings together international relations scholars, political theorists, and historians to reflect on the intellectual history of American foreign policy since the late nineteenth century. It offers a nuanced and multifaceted collection of essays covering a wide range of concerns, concepts...
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Leaders in conflict: Bush and Rumsfeld in Iraq
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Stephen Benedict Dyson
Published online: 18 September 2014
Published in print: 31 March 2014
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A new monarchy for a new commonwealth? Monarchy and the consequences of republican India
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H. Kumarasingham
Published: 01 August 2016
... Gordon Walker Gordon republics Pearson Lester Privy Council Attlee Clement British Monarchy Commonwealth India Decolonisation British Empire Republicanism Diplomatic History Post-War International Relations Constitutional History Can crowns be returned? Clement Attlee thought so. Only two...
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Introduction
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Amikam Nachmani
Published: 31 July 2003
... and internal affairs and explores Turkey's involvement in the Gulf War, its accession to the European Union, the Kurdish problem and its international relations. Erbakan Necmettin EU European Union Gulf War 1991 Helsinki negotiation of Turkey's EU membership 1999 Korean War 1950–53 Turkish participation...
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Globalizing Democracy: Power, Legitimacy and the Interpretation of Democratic Ideas
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Katherine Fierlbeck
Published online: 19 July 2012
Published in print: 01 August 2008
... to an understanding of democracy as a means of diffusing power between political agents. This updated, new edition examines some of the philosophical and theoretical issues underlying the ‘democratic project’ that increasingly dominates the fields of comparative development and international relations. The first...
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Introduction
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Robert M. Hendershot and Steve Marsh
Published: 07 October 2020
.... The second section introduces the main ideas and benefits of the ‘cultural turn’ in diplomatic history and international relations, which has operationalized culture as a key to understanding the behavior of states in the global system and inspired diverse analytical approaches. Finally, the third section...
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Published online: 19 July 2012
Published in print: 01 May 2012
...This book offers a new way of looking at Irish foreign policy, linking its development with changes in Irish national identity. Many debates within contemporary international relations focus on the relative benefits of taking a traditional interest-based approach to the study of foreign policy...
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The International Politics of the Middle East
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Raymond Hinnebusch
Published online: 19 July 2012
Published in print: 17 April 2003
...This text aims to fill a gap in the field of Middle Eastern political studies by combining international relations theory with concrete case studies. It begins with an overview of the rules and features of the Middle East regional system—the arena in which the local states, including Egypt, Turkey...
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Conclusion
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Kevin O’Sullivan
Published: 31 January 2013
...This chapter draws the book's central themes together into an overview of how Ireland and the ‘fire brigade’ states adapted to the shifting sands of international relations in the Cold War. The principles of interdependence and interconnectedness are key. In place of a pragmatic battle of East...
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Published: 01 December 2009
... the concepts of globalisation and development into one overarching theory. It then considers Venezuela's foreign policy and international relations (with China, India, Russia, Colombia and the United States) in the light of these discussions, arguing that it has sought to expand on and safeguard its emerging...
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National Missile Defence and the Politics of US Identity: A Poststructural Critique
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Natalie Bormann
Published online: 19 July 2012
Published in print: 01 September 2008
...Why adopt a poststructural perspective when reading about the military strategy of national missile defence (NMD)? Certainly, when considering how best to defend the United States against attack by intercontinental ballistic missiles, the value of critical international relations theory may be easy...
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Published: 02 November 2010
...This introductory chapter tries to form a set of themes and a broad body of literature which could be creatively used to study the alternative accounts of contemporary violence in the study of international relations. It examines the work of scholars concerned with meaning in international...
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Published online: 19 July 2012
Published in print: 02 November 2010
...This book draws on several years of field research, as well as hermeneutic global politics and analysis of empirical source material, in order to shed light on contemporary violence. Drawing on interpretive approaches to international relations, the book argues that founding events and multiple...
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Published online: 19 July 2012
Published in print: 31 December 2006
...This is a book which aims to overturn existing understandings of the origins and futures of the War on Terror for the purposes of International Relations theory. As the book shows, this is not a war in defence of the integrity of human life against an enemy defined simply by a contradictory...
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The main political influences on the development of the Labour Party's attitudes towards international affairs
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Rhiannon Vickers
Published: 29 January 2004
... internationalism, the Fabians provided in part the rationalist underpinning of Labour's views on international relations, and the ILP provided the impulse towards common fellowship with other states. Fabians Fabian Society Social Democratic Federation SDF trade union movement British American Federation...