BOOKS IN ENGLISH ON POLITICAL SCIENCE
AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Art, Robert J. International politics. Enduring concepts and Contemporary Issues
/ Robert J. Art, Robert Jervis. - 9th ed. - Pearson Longman, 2009. - 586, [17] p. (U.S.).
Art, Robert J.
International politics. Enduring concepts and Contemporary
Issues.
ISBN: 0205642721
ISBN: 9780205642724
Edited by two of the most respected international relations
scholars, International Politics places contemporary essays
alongside classics to survey the field’s diverse voices, concepts,
and issues. Challenging students to use original scholarship to
recognize and analyze patterns in world politics, this bestselling
reader considers how to effectively understand politics under
governments and beyond. Carefully edited selections cover the
most essential topics and are put into conversation with each
other to illustrate fundamental debates and differing points of
view. Comprehensive and engaging, International Politics offers
the best overview of the discipline as well as the forces shaping
the world today.
Barston, R.P Modern Diplomacy / R.P. Barston. - 3rd ed. - Pearson, 2006. - 387,
[20] p. - (U.S.).
Barston, R.P
Modern Diplomacy.
ISBN: 140581201X
ISBN: 9781405812016
This text comprehensively introduces the concept and history of
diplomacy and explores the many developments which have
shaped its conduct.
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Berridge, G.R. Diplomacy. Theory and Practice / G.R. Berridge. - 3rd ed. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. - 242, [17] p. - (U.S.).
Berridge, G.R.
Diplomacy. Theory and Practice.
ISBN: 1403993114
ISBN: 9781403993113
This completely revised and updated edition includes
comprehensive coverage of the main issues, from the value of
the resident mission to international negotiation and chapters on
telecommunications and the ministry of foreign affairs.
Diplomacy offers the most up-to-date information about the
real-world practice of international relations.
Blaker, Michael Case Studies in Japanese Negotiating Behavior / Michael
Blaker, Paul Giarra, Ezra F. Vogel. - United States Institute of Peace, 2002. - 171,
[5] p. - (U.S.).
Blaker, Michael
Case Studies in Japanese Negotiating Behavior.
ISBN: 1929223102
ISBN: 9781929223107
Japanese representatives bring to the negotiating table a
distinctive mind-set and behavioral style, one that?s largely free
of gamesmanship and histrionics but that?s nonetheless
frequently exasperating.
This volume explores four recent U.S.?Japanese
negotiations?two over trade, two over security-related
issues?looking for patterns in Japan?s approach and behavior. In
the first three cases, veteran Japanologist Michael Blaker finds
the same fundamental style?coping. ?Coping captures the gowith-the-flow essence of the Japanese bargaining approach?:
cautious, methodical, low key, resistant, apprehensive, and
above all defensive. In the fourth case, Ezra Vogel and Paul
Giarra recount how the United States and Japan fashioned a new
security framework for their relationship in the 1990s. Vogel and
Giarra show that close personal relationships, mutual trust, and a
common purpose can foster flexible, fast, and fruitful
negotiations.
Each case study explains the cultural as well as political,
institutional, and personal factors and assesses their influence. A
concluding chapter draws out common threads from the four
studies, suggests how U.S. negotiators can maximize negotiating
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efficacy, and points the way toward a new and clearer
understanding of Japanese bargaining behavior.
Bomberg, Elizabeth The European Union. How Does it Work? / Elizabeth
Bomberg, John Peterson, Alexander Stubb; series editors John Peterson, Helen
Wallace. - 2nd ed. - OXFORD University Press, 2008. - 269, [25] p. - (The New
European Union Series).
Bomberg, Elizabeth
The European Union. How Does it Work?
ISBN: 0199206392
ISBN: 9780199206391
The new edition of this concise introductory text demystifies the
European Union's structures and operation, providing an engaging
and accessible introduction to how the EU works and why it
matters. Featuring an exceptional collection of work by esteemed
contributors, it offers students a unique blend of scholarly
expertise and practitioners' experience.
The European Union, Second Edition, answers the fundamental
questions of how the EU works, who its main actors are, and what
processes and dynamics are involved. Taking a "real-life" view of
the EU's structures and operation--as opposed to the more formal
approach generally adopted by other textbooks--it provides a vivid
account that brings the EU to life. This second edition features two
new chapters; one on security in Europe and another on
constitutionalism and democracy. It also includes Eastward
expansion in the chapter on enlargement.
Brett, Jeanne M. Negotiating Globally. How to Negotiate Deals, Resolve
Disputes, and Make Decisions Across Cultural Boundaries / Jeanne M. Brett. - 2nd
ed. - Jossey-Bass, 2007. - 350, [25] p. - (U.S.). + CD
Brett, Jeanne M.
Negotiating Globally. How to Negotiate Deals, Resolve
Disputes, and Make Decisions Across Cultural Boundaries.
ISBN: 0787988367
ISBN: 9780787988364
When it was first published in 2001, Negotiating Globally quickly
became the basic reference for managers who needed to learn how
to negotiate successfully across boundaries of national culture.
This thoroughly revised and expanded second edition preserves
the structure of the acclaimed first edition and improves upon it,
making it even easier to learn how to navigate national culture
when negotiating deals, resolving disputes, and making decisions
in teams. Rather than offering country-specific protocol and
customs, Negotiating Globally provides a general framework to
help negotiators anticipate and manage cultural differences. This
new edition incorporates the lessons of the latest research with
new emphasis on executing a negotiation strategy and negotiating
conflict in multicultural teams. The well-received chapter on
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?Government At and Around the Table? has been expanded and
updated with new examples that span the globe.
In this comprehensive resource, Jeanne M. Brett describes how to
develop a negotiation planning document and shows how to
execute the plan. She provides a model that explains how the
cultural environment affects negotiators? interests, priorities, and
strategies. She provides benchmarks for distinguishing good deals
from poor ones and good negotiators from poor ones. The book
explains how resolving disputes is different from making deals
and how negotiation strategy can be used in multicultural teams.
Negotiating Globally challenges negotiators to expand their
repertoire of strategies so that they will be able to close deals,
resolve disputes, and get teams to make decisions.
Burchill, Scott Theories of International Relations / Scott Burchill, Andrew
Linklater, Richard Devetak… [et.al.]. - 4th ed. - Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. - 382,
[9] p. - (U.S.).
Burchill, Scott
Theories of International Relations.
ISBN: 0230219233
ISBN: 9780230219236
The stand-out advanced textbook in the field Burchill et als.
Theories of International Relations is far and away the stand-out
textbook in the field for advanced graduate and postgraduate
students. Informative and critically engaged, each chapter is a
sympathetic analysis of the particular theory in question, of
which it covers all of the mainstream. There is no better text for
students with some knowledge of the field than this text.
The only criticism of this text that could be mentioned is not so
much a criticism of this book in particular but of this type of IR
theory textbook. The problem with these sorts of paradigmatic
approaches to IR theory is the perception mainly on the part of
students, but also academics, that there is to some extent a
coherent ''realist IR theory'', or ''liberal international theory''.
Unfortunately, even when the authors are at pains to stress the
problems of perceiving, for example, English School IR theory,
as coherent, the very nature of the ''textbook'', and the masstaught IR Theory undergraduate module for that matter, is the
perception of coherency and also of conflict between theories,
rather than the vast intellectual overlap which they share.
Thus, while this textbook is unquestionably the leader in the
advanced IR theory field, readers should be greatly encouraged
to broaden their understanding of the debates (not just ''Great''
ones) ongoing in the discipline (Postivism and beyond by Smith,
Booth and Zalewski in particular) and knowledge of the
discipline''s history through reading the original texts themselves
discussed in the books. No greater understanding of a tradition
of thought can be gained than reading the original texts that are
discussed in such depth in this book.
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Cini, Michelle European Union Politics / Michelle Cini, Nieves Perez-Solorzano
Borragan. - 3rd ed. - Oxford University Press, 2010. - 485 p. - (Copy).
Cogan, Charles French Negotiating Behavior. Dealing with La Grande Nation /
Charles Cogan. - United States Institute of Peace Press, 2005. - 344, [18] p. (U.S.).
Cogan, Charles
French Negotiating Behavior. Dealing with La Grande Nation.
ISBN: 1929223528
ISBN: 9781929223527
Even before it led opposition to the recent war on Iraq, France was
considered the most difficult of the United States’ major European
allies. Each side tends to irritate the other, not least at the
negotiating table, where Americans complain of French
pretensions and arrogance, and the French fulminate against U.S.
hegemonisme and egoisme. But, whether they like it or not, the
two nations are going to have to deal with one another for a long
time to come.
Charles Cogan’s timely and insightful study can’t guarantee to
make those encounters more fruitful, but it will help France’s
negotiating counterparts understand how and why French officials
behave as they do. With impressive objectivity and authority,
Cogan first explores the cultural and historical factors that have
shaped the French approach and then dissects its key elements.
Mixing rationalism and nationalism, rhetoric and brio, selfimportance and embattled vulnerability, French negotiators often
seem more interested in asserting their country’s "universal"
mission than in reaching agreement. Three recent case studies
illustrate this distinctively French mélange.
Yet agreement is by no means always elusive. Cogan offers
practical suggestions for making negotiations more cooperative
and productive—although he also emphasizes the long-term
damage inflicted by the crisis over Iraq.
Drawing on candid interviews with many of today’s leading
players on the French, American, British, and German sides, this
engaging volume will inform and stimulate both seasoned
practitioners and academics as well as students of France and the
negotiating process.
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Cohen, Raymond Negotiating Across Cultures. International Communication in
an Interdependent World / Raymond Cohen. - rev. ed. - United States Institute of
Peace Press, 2007. - 269, [16] p. - (U.S.).
Cohen, Raymond
Negotiating Across Cultures. International Communication in
an Interdependent World.
ISBN: 1878379720
ISBN: 9781878379726
For this substantially revised edition of his 1991 book, Raymond
Cohen has added two new chapters, updated previous examples,
and added numerous recent ones, especially concerning U.S. trade
agreements. Newly added cases include the negotiations over
NAFTA, China's most-favored-nation status, the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, and the Okinawa bases. All in all, about 40
percent of the text is new. Cohen explores how cultural factors
have affected U.S. dealings with Japan, China, Egypt, India, and
Mexico. He demonstrates that there are two quite different models
of negotiation: "low context," a predominantly verbal and explicit
style typical of individualistic societies such as the United States,
and "high context," a style associated with nonverbal and implicit
communication more typical of traditionally interdependent
societies. He concludes the book with ten specific
recommendations for the intercultural negotiator.
Cohen, Yoel Media Diplomacy. The Foreign Office in the Mass Communications
Age / Yoel Cohen. - Frank Cass, 2005. - 197, [10] p. - (U.S.).
Cohen, Yoel
Media Diplomacy. The Foreign Office in the Mass
Communications Age.
ISBN: 0714632694
ISBN: 9780714632698
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Dinan, Desmond Ever Closer Union. An Introduction to European Integration /
Desmond Dinan; gen. editors Neill Nugent, William E. Paterson. - 3rd ed. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. - 665, [14] p. - (The European Union Series).
Dinan, Desmond
Ever Closer Union. An Introduction to European
Integration.
ISBN: 0333961714
ISBN: 9780333961711
Downs, Anthony An Economic Theory of Democracy / Anthony Downs. Addison Wesley, 1985. - 310, [10] p. - (U.S.).
Downs, Anthony
An Economic Theory of Democracy.
ISBN: 0060417501
ISBN: 9780060417505
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Eban, Abba Solomon Diplomacy for the Next Century / Abba Solomon Eban. Yale University Press, 1998. - 191, [8] p. - (U.S.).
Eban, Abba Solomon
Diplomacy for the Next Century.
ISBN: 0300078609
SBN: 9780300078602
With wisdom and eloquence, one of the world`s preeminent
senior statesmen offers his unique perspective on the practice of
diplomacy over the past fifty years and on the diplomatic
challenges of the post-Cold War era. Abba Eban, Israel`s much
admired former foreign minister and ambassador to the United
Nations, interweaves history with personal reminiscences to
show how the wisdom of the past can help in negotiating and
maintaining peace in the future.
Elsuwege, Peter Van From Soviet Republics to EU Member States. A Legal and
Political Assessment of the Baltic States' Accession to the EU. Volume 1 / Peter
Van Elsuwege; series editor Marc Maresceau. - Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2008.
- 304 p. - (Copy).
European Union Enlargement of 2004 and Beyond: Responding to the Political,
Legal and Socio-Economic Challenges / editor in chief Tatjana Muravska. University of Latvia, 2006. - 532 p.
European Union Enlargement of 2004 and Beyond:
Responding to the Political, Legal and Socio-Economic
Challenges.
editor in chief Tatjana Muravska
ISBN: 9984802116
SBN: 9789984802114
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European Union. Power and Policy-Making / edited by Jeremy Richardson. - 3rd
ed. - Routledge, 2006. - 406, [16] p.
European Union. Power and Policy-Making.
edited by Jeremy Richardson
ISBN: 0415358140
ISBN: 9780415358149
This best-selling book delivers a comprehensive introduction to
the policymaking processes at work in the European Union.
Written by some of the leading authorities in the field, this new
edition has been significantly improved to make it even more
accessible for second and third year undergraduates. Addressing
some of the more contentious areas in order to stimulate students
interest, this book covers also continues to cover the vital elements
of EU courses including:
* Theory
* History
* Institutions
* Policy
* Relations with member states
* External relations
* Enlargement.
A companion website also supports this edition, with a clear guide
to more technical material such as statistics, as well as regular
updates.
This book is essential reading for all students of politics and the
European Union.
Frank, Thomas What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the
Heart of America / Thomas Frank. - 1st ed. - Metropolitan Books, 2004. - 306, [12]
p. - (U.S.).
Frank, Thomas
What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the
Heart of America.
ISBN: 0805073396
ISBN: 9780805073393
The largely blue collar citizens of Kansas can be counted upon to
be a "red" state in any election, voting solidly Republican and
possessing a deep animosity toward the left. This, according to
author Thomas Frank, is a pretty self-defeating phenomenon,
given that the policies of the Republican Party benefit the wealthy
and powerful at the great expense of the average worker.
According to Frank, the conservative establishment has tricked
Kansans, playing up the emotional touchstones of conservatism
and perpetuating a sense of a vast liberal empire out to crush
traditional values while barely ever discussing the Republicans'
actual economic policies and what they mean to the working class.
Thus the pro-life Kansas factory worker who listens to Rush
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Limbaugh will repeatedly vote for the party that is less likely to
protect his safety, less likely to protect his job, and less likely to
benefit him economically. To much of America, Kansas is an
abstract, "where Dorothy wants to return. Where Superman grew
up." But Frank, a native Kansan, separates reality from myth in
What's the Matter with Kansas and tells the state's socio-political
history from its early days as a hotbed of leftist activism to a state
so entrenched in conservatism that the only political division
remaining is between the moderate and more-extreme right wings
of the same party. Frank, the founding editor of The Baffler and a
contributor to Harper's and The Nation, knows the state and its
people. He even includes his own history as a young conservative
idealist turned disenchanted college Republican, and his first-hand
experience, combined with a sharp wit and thorough reasoning,
makes his book more credible than the elites of either the left and
right who claim to understand Kansas.
Freeman, Charles W. Arts of Power. Statecraft and Diplomacy / Charles W.
Freeman. - United States Institute of Peace Press, 2007. - 159, [15] p. - (U.S.).
Freeman, Charles W.
Arts of Power. Statecraft and Diplomacy.
ISBN: 1878379658
ISBN: 9781878379658
In this comprehensive treatment, distinguished diplomat Chas
Freeman describes the fundamental principles of the art of
statecraft and the craft of diplomacy. The book draws on the
author's years of experience as a practicing diplomat but also his
extensive reading of the histories of ancient India, China,
Greece, Rome, Byzantium, and the Islamic world as well as
modern Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Among numerous other
subjects, the book addresses the role of intelligence, political
actions, cultural influence, economic measures, and military
power, as well as diplomatic strategy and tactics, negotiation,
and the tasks and skills of diplomacy.
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Freeman, Charles W. The Diplomat's Dictionary / Charles W. Freeman. - rev. ed.
- United States Institute of Peace Press, 2006. - 451, [10] p. - (U.S.).
Freeman, Charles W.
The Diplomat's Dictionary.
ISBN: 1878379666
ISBN: 9781878379665
In this entertaining and informative collection, career diplomat
Chas Freeman brings together keen observations, witty insights,
shrewd advice, and classic words of wisdom on the art and
practice of diplomacy. In so doing, this wide-ranging
compendium draws on many cultures, ancient and modern. This
revised edition adds about eighty new entries to the text. Like
the first edition, it should be useful to "anyone who may be
called upon to deal with complex and challenging situations in
cross-cultural circumstances.
Gelm, Richard J. How American Politics Works. Philosophy, Pragmatism,
Personality and Profit / Downs Gelm. - Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. 232, [12] p. - (U.S.).
Gelm, Richard J.
How American Politics Works. Philosophy, Pragmatism,
Personality and Profit.
ISBN: 1443800066
ISBN: 9781443800068
American politics is criticized and belittled by media critics and
the public, yet the system is held out as a model for the world.
The paradox of this simultaneous cynicism and adulation is
rooted in the conflict between the human motives that drive
politics.Crisply and clearly written with numerous historical
examples, 'How American Politics Works' explains the complex
and sometimes confusing American political system in a vibrant
and accessible light. Documented with recent and historical
scholarship presented clearly in laymen's terms, 'How American
Politics Works'explores the multiple dimensions of politics and
the source of Americans' disillusionment with their government
through the 'four Ps': Philosophy, Pragmatism, Personality and
Profit.Philosophical and moral principles underpin the key
political institutions in America, but values are challenged in the
quest to achieve workable political solutions. Policy is rarely
made to conform to lofty principles alone. It often results from
short-term incremental compromise, driven by people in pursuit
of the public good and their own personal self-interest and profit.
'How American Politics Works' explains the inner workings of
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the American political system, including the power of ideas,
political compromise, powerful personalities and the preeminent
position of money.While Americans' high ideals are often
illusive in the rough and tumble of political battles, and the
public's trust is bruised with every political scandal, balancing
idealism and individual virtue with ambition and self-interest is
the dynamic and safeguard of American politics. 'How American
Politics Works' offers a comprehensive presentation of the
realities, challenges and possibilities of the American political
system to bring an understanding, fascination and dedication to
the wider public.
Inalcik, Halil
- 204 p.
Turkey and Europe in History / Halil Inalcik. - EREN Press, 2006.
Inalcik, Halil
Turkey and Europe in History.
ISBN: 9799756372240
From the midst of the fifteenth century on the
Ottoman-Turkish Empire played a crucial role in
shaping European history. This factor has not been
weaved into Western historiography to its detriment,
because explaining concepts such as raison d'etat,
realpolitik, balance of power or even European identity
remain somewhat shortchanged without according the
Ottoman-Turkish Empire a role in the evolution as well
as functioning of these concepts. Mutual systemic
influences are a foregone conclusion however
overlooked. This volume comprises nine research
articles on the basic characteristics of the Ottoman
Empire and its political/economic relations with
Europe, published previously, but updated with further
evidence.
The Ottoman Empire is generally depicted and
perceived as the adversary and anti¬thesis of Europe
and Europeanness in Western historiography because
of certain historic reasons such as the Christian
crusading tradition, public hostility due to long lasting
warfare, cultural estrangement and perhaps because the
Ottomans remained outside the Enlightenment process.
However, there is much more to it than confrontation.
Our research findings presented in this compilation
point to the impact of the Ottoman -Turkish Empire in
shaping modern Europe, specifically as of the 16th
century and socio-cultural exchanges between the two
realms through five hundred years of encounter.
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International Negotiation. Analysis, Approaches, Issues / edited by A. Kremenyuk.
- Jossey Bass, 2002. - 556, [29] p. - (U.S.).
International Negotiation. Analysis, Approaches, Issues.
edited by A. Kremenyuk
ISBN: 0787958867
ISBN: 9780787958862
The first edition of International Negotiation became a best-selling
classic in the field of global conflict resolution. This second
edition has been substantially revised and updated to meet the
challenges of today's complex international community.
Developed under the direction of the International Institute for
Applied Systems Analysis, this important resource contains
contributions from some of the world's leading experts in
international negotiation, representing a wide range of nations and
disciplines. They offer a synthesis of contemporary negotiation
theory, perspectives for understanding negotiation dynamics, and
strategies for producing mutually satisfactory and enduring
agreements that is particularly relevant in these times.
This book delivers.
This book gives you what it says it offers: insights in international
negotiation. It is not a book you read in one greedy gulp, but in
exciting chapters about as diverse subjects as international
diplomacy, scientific analyses of processes of negotiation,
multicultiural aspects of conflict resolution etc.
This book has recently been updated and that makes it a valuable
contribution to that small stack of true, as in rich and
multifacetted, handbooks.
Introduction to Comparative Politics. Political Challenges and Changing Agendas /
edited by Mark Kesselman, Joel Krieger, William A. Joseph. - 5th ed. - Wadsworth
Cengage Learing, 2010. - 744, [17] p. - (U.S.).
Introduction to Comparative Politics. Political Challenges and
Changing Agendas.
edited by Mark Kesselman, Joel Krieger, William A. Joseph
ISBN: 0495797413
ISBN: 9780495797418
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Latvia's View of the Future of the European Union / editor-in-chief Žaneta
Ozoliņa. - Rīga: Zinātne, 2007. - 310 lpp. - (Commission of Strategic Analysis).
Lewy, Guenter The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey. A Disputed
Genocide / Guenter Lewy. - The University of Utah Press, 2005. - 370, [13] p
Lewy, Guenter
The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey. A Disputed
Genocide.
ISBN: 0874808901
ISBN: 9780874808902
Lichbach, Mark Irving Comparative Politics. Rationality, Culture, and Structure
/ Mark Irving Lichbach, Alan S. Zuckerman; general editor Peter Lange. Cambridge University Press, 2002. - 322 p. - (Copy).
Lim, Timothy C. Doing Comparative Politics. An Introduction to Approaches
and Issues / Timothy C. Lim. - Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006. - 336, [14] p. (U.S.).
Lim, Timothy C.
Doing Comparative Politics. An Introduction to Approaches
and Issues.
ISBN: 1588263452
ISBN: 9781588263452
Systematic, coherent, and user friendly, this decidedly
nontraditional introduction to comparative politics is designed to
teach students how to think comparatively and theoretically about
the world they live in.
The core of the book is organized around a set of critical
questions—why are poor countries poor? why is East Asia rich?
what makes a democracy? what makes a terrorist? what makes a
social movement?—each the topic of a full chapter. These issue
chapters are based on the solid methodological and theoretical
foundation laid out in the first part of the book. Graphics and
definition boxes enhance the text.
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Doing Comparative Politics will stimulate your students to
critically engage with both the content and the methods of the
field.
Great Introduction to Comparative Politics
This was the textbook in my first comparative politics class. My
experiecne can tell you that Doing Comparative Politics is
definitely one of the best introductory textbooks in the field of
comparative politics in terms of theories, methods, and their
application.
Encompassing all three major traditions of comparative politics,
i.e., rational choice theory, structuralism, and culturalism, Lim
offers us tools enough to begin comparative analysis on our own.
He further explains how to use standard comparative methods,
such as the most similar systems design and the most different
systems design. This allows us to control for confounding factors.
All these theories and methods make much more sense in his
application to particular issues, like democratization, terrorism,
and others. You can actually see how to use all these theories and
methods in analyzing on-going political issues!! This allowed me
to produce a 40-page research paper on democratization, which I
used as a writing sample in applying to Ph.D programs in political
science.
Lithuania's Road to the European Union. Unification of Europe and Lithuania's EU
Accession Negotiation / edited by Klaudijus Maniokas, Ramūnas Vilpišauskas,
Darius Žeruolis; translated by Aldona Matulyte. - Vilnius: Eugrimas, 2005. - 578
p. - (Copy).
Lund, Michael S. Preventing Violent Conflicts. A Strategy for Preventive
Diplomacy / Michael S. Lund. - United States Institute of Peace Press, 2001. - 221,
[16] p. - (U.S.).
Lund, Michael S.
Preventing Violent Conflicts. A Strategy for Preventive
Diplomacy.
ISBN: 1878379526
ISBN: 9781878379528
In this balanced and comprehensive analysis--the first of its kind-Michael Lund defines early warning and preventive diplomacy;
assesses, after reviewing several recent preventive efforts, who
does it, what methods work, and why; and suggests how
multilateral and national entities (especially the U.S. government)
can overcome operational challenges to effective preventive
action. The book concludes by sketching the outlines of a more
systematic, global preventive regime, one that draws on the
strengths of individual states, the United Nations, regional
organizations, and NGOs.
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Martens, Wilfried Europe: I struggle, I Overcome / Wilfried Martens; foreword
by Angela Merkel. - Springer, 2008. - 276, [15] p.: ph.
Martens, Wilfried
Europe: I struggle, I Overcome.
ISBN: 3540892885
SBN: 9783540892885
Wilfried Martens has devoted his entire life to politics: as student
leader, youth activist, President of the Flemish Christian
Democrats, Prime Minister of Belgium, President of the European
People's Party and European statesman. In his autobiography
Martens offers the inside story on running a complex country like
Belgium, fighting for European integration and unification, and
transforming the European People's Party into a strong, united
centre-right movement and leading European political family.
Above all, this is a book about the intricacies of European politics
and its guiding ideas, values and principles.
O'Connor, Karen American Government. Continuity and Change / Karen
O'Connor, Larry J. Sabato. - Pearson Longman, 2008. - 794, [33] p. - (U.S.).
O'Connor, Karen
American Government. Continuity and Change.
ISBN: 0205511414
ISBN: 9780205511419
Guided by the belief that students must first understand how
American government developed to fully understand the issues
facing the United States in the 21st century, O'Connor/Sabato
offers the strongest coverage of both history and current events
of any college textbook devoted to American politics. This bestselling book provides the historical context students need to
understand our government and the most crucial and
controversial issues affecting the nation. American Government:
Continuity and Change, has been extensively revised to provide
the most in-depth and current coverage of the 2006 midterm
elections, the second George W. Bush administration, the Iraq
War, and increasing controversies related to the conduct of the
war on terrorism, including renewed calls for additional
congressional oversight of the Executive Branch. The new
edition also emphasizes the extent to which shared American
values shape and affect policy and influence key political
conflicts.
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Policy-Making in the European Union / edited by Helen Wallace, William
Wallace, Mark A. Pollack. - 5th ed. - Oxford University Press, 2005. - 570, [40] p.
- (The New European Union Series).
Policy-Making in the European Union.
edited by Helen Wallace, William Wallace, Mark A. Pollack
ISBN: 0199276129
ISBN: 9780199276127
In recent years the European Union's membership has increased
from 15 to 25 countries, it has adopted the Lisbon strategy for
achieving greater economic competitiveness, taken steps
towards a more purposive common foreign and defence policy,
and significantly increased its efforts to deal with challenges to
internal security. The new edition of this highly successful
textbook brings the reader up-to-date with the range of core
policy challenges facing the European Union and the ways in
which they are being addressed. It includes a new chapter which
lays out the primary questions of the book against the
background of new research and a new chapter on employment
policy which covers the major developments in this area.
Political Theory / edited by Johns S. Dryzek, Bonnie Honig, Anne Phillips. OXFORD University Press, 2008. - 883, [15] p. - (U.S.).
Political Theory.
edited by Johns S. Dryzek, Bonnie Honig, Anne Phillips
ISBN: 0199548439
ISBN: 9780199548439
Long recognized as one of the main branches of political
science, political theory has in recent years burgeoned in many
different directions. Close textual analysis of historical texts
sits alongside more analytical work on the nature and
normative grounds of political values. Continental and postmodern influences jostle with ones from economics, history,
sociology, and the law. Feminist concerns with embodiment
make us look at old problems in new ways, and challenges of
new technologies open whole new vistas for political theory.
This Handbook provides comprehensive and critical coverage
of the lively and contested field of political theory, and will
help set the agenda for the field for years to come. Forty-five
chapters by distinguished political theorists look at the state of
the field, where it has been in the recent past, and where it is
likely to go in future. They examine political theory's edges as
well as its core, the globalizing context of the field, and the
challenges presented by social, economic, and technological
changes.
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Pollock, Philip H. The Essentials of Political Analysis / Philip H. Pollock III,
Rhoda A. Pollock. - 3rd ed. - Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2009. - 256 p. - (U.S.).
Pollock, Philip H.
The Essentials of Political Analysis.
ISBN: 0872896064
ISBN: 9780872896062
Student anxiety runs high given the seemingly intimidating nature
of the methods course. Philip Pollock's first order of business is to
get math-phobic students comfortable learning and using the tools
of political analysis. Brief and accessible, his text walks students
through the basics-- measuring concepts, formulating and testing
hypotheses, describing variables-- and uses key terms, chapteropening objectives, more than eighty tables and figures, and classtested chapter exercises to promote skill application and aid
student review.
Public Diplomacy in a Changing World / special editors of this Volume Geoffrey
Cowan, Nicholas J. Cull. - The Annals of the American Academy of Political and
Social Science. Vol. 616, march 2008. - SAGE, 2008. - 317, [3]. - (U.S.).
Public Diplomacy in a Changing World.
special editors of this Volume Geoffrey Cowan, Nicholas J.
Cull
ISBN: 1412966876
ISBN: 9781412966870
Although the concept of public diplomacy has been part of
America?s wartime strategy as far back as the Revolutionary
War, the term itself is relatively new. In the wake of the events
of September 11 and the ensuing War on Terror, there has
been an increasing awareness of the negative global image of
the United States and intense concern over how
communication may be used to improve that image. Within
that context, the concept and term public diplomacy have
become more notable among practitioners and the American
public.
Yet public diplomacy has mostly been neglected by scholars
and only recently begun to attract academic attention. This
volume of The ANNALS commences the first collection of
scholarly articles focusing on public diplomacy--the practice
through which international actors attempt to advance the ends
of policy by engaging with foreign publics--and examines it as
an international phenomenon and an important component of
statecraft.
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Promoting Democratic Values in the Enlarging Europe. The Changing Role of the
Baltic States from Importers to Exporters / edited by Andres Kasekamp, Heiko
Paabo; translated by Marina Grišakova. - Tartu University Press, 2006. - 184 p. (Copy).
Ross, Carne Independent Diplomat. Dispatches from an Unaccountable Elite /
Carne Ross. - Cornell University Press, 2007. - 243, [10] p. - (U.S.).
Ross, Carne
Independent Diplomat. Dispatches from an Unaccountable
Elite.
ISBN: 0801445574
ISBN: 9780801445576
Although diplomats negotiate more and more aspects of world
affairs--from trade and security issues to health, human rights,
and the environment--we have little idea of, and even less
control over, what they are doing in our name. In Independent
Diplomat, Carne Ross provides a compelling account of
what's wrong with contemporary diplomacy and offers a bold
new vision of how it might be put right.
For more than fifteen years, Ross was a British diplomat on
the frontlines of numerous international crises, including the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the war in Afghanistan, and the
buildup to the invasion of Iraq, over which he eventually
resigned from the British civil service. In 2005, he founded
Independent Diplomat, a nonprofit advisory firm that offers
diplomatic advice and assistance to poor, politically
marginalized or inexperienced governments and political
groups, including Kosovo, Somaliland, and the Polisario
movement in the Western Sahara, as well as to NGOs and
other international institutions.
Drawing on vivid episodes from his career in Oslo, Bonn,
Kabul, and at the UN Security Council, Ross reveals that
many of the assumptions that laypersons and even government
officials hold about the diplomatic corps are wrong. He argues
passionately and persuasively that the institutions of
contemporary diplomacy--foreign ministries, the UN, the EU,
and the like--often exclude those they most affect. He exposes
the very limited range of evidence upon which diplomats base
their reports, and the profoundly closed and undemocratic
nature of the world's diplomatic forums.
As a diplomat, Ross was encouraged to see the world in a
narrow way in which the power of states and interests
overwhelmed or excluded more complex, sophisticated ways
of understanding. As Ross demonstrates, however, the reality
of diplomatic negotiations, whether at the UN or among the
warlords of Afghanistan, shows different forces at play,
factors ignored in reductionist descriptions and academic
theories of "international relations." To cope with the
complexities of today's world, diplomats must open their
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doors--and minds--to a far wider range of individuals and
groups, concerns and ideas, than the current and increasingly
dysfunctional system allows.
Schecter, Jerrold L. Russian Negotiating Behavior. Continuity and Transition /
Jerrold L. Schecter. - United States Institute of Peace Press, 1998. - 225, [13] p. (U.S.).
Schecter, Jerrold L.
Russian Negotiating Behavior. Continuity and Transition.
ISBN: 187837978X
ISBN: 9781878379788
Whether bargaining for strategic arms reductions, rights to drill
Siberian oil fields, or an apartment in Moscow, Americans are
faced across the table by a distinct Russian negotiating style.
What are its chief characteristics, and how can U.S. diplomats
and businesspeople best deal with it as they pursue their own
objectives?
Jerrold Schecter explores these questions with a wealth of
personal experience as a former government official, journalist,
and corporate executive. His insights, deepened by his working
knowledge of the Russian language, also draw on the testimony
of U.S. and former Soviet diplomats and negotiators. As he
examines the historical and cultural underpinnings of
contemporary Russian negotiating behavior, Schecter finds that
the Bolshevik legacy remains largely intact despite the Soviet
Union's demise. A step-by-step examination of the negotiating
process, based on unique inside accounts from retired Soviet
officials, exposes the areas of greatest continuity in Russian
interests and style, as well as areas of change.
Russian Negotiating Behavior also identifies counterstrategies
that western negotiators can use to protect their interests, and it
outlines the requirements for doing business in Russia's nascent
market economy.
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Solomon, Richard H. Chinese Political Negotiating Behavior, 1967-1984 /
Richard H. Solomon. - RAND, 1995. - 168, [18] p. - (U.S.).
Solomon, Richard H.
Chinese Political Negotiating Behavior, 1967-1984.
ISBN: 0833023373
ISBN: 9780833023377
An assessment of the patterns and practices in the ways officials
of the People's Republic of China (PRC) managed high-level
political negotiations with the United States during the
"normalization" phase of relations between the two countries.
This study is designed to provide guidance for senior American
officials prior to their negotiating encounters with PRC
counterparts and to establish control over the documentary
record of U.S.-PRC political exchanges between 1967 and 1984.
A basic finding of the study is that Chinese officials conduct
negotiations in a distinctive, but not unique, manner consisting
of a meticulously managed progression of well-defined stages.
The approach is influenced by both Western diplomatic practice
and the Marxist-Leninist tradition acquired from the Soviet
Union, but its most distinctive qualities are based on China's
own cultural tradition and political practices.
The European Union. Economics and Policies / edited by Ali M. El-Agraa. Cambridge University Press, 2007. - 603, [28] p.
The European Union. Economics and Policies.
edited by Ali M. El-Agraa
ISBN: 0521697271
ISBN: 9780521697279
The European Union has established itself as a leading text that
provides readers from all disciplines with a sound understanding
of the economics and policies of the EU. Its wealth of
information, detail and analysis has ensured that previous
editions have been read by students, researchers and professional
policy makers alike. This new edition: ? Covers all recent
developments affecting the EU such as enlargement, the
ratification of the Nice Treaty and the Convention for the Future
of Europe ? Has been thoroughly updated and includes new
contributors for the chapters on social policy, the single market,
EU competition policy, and the legal dimension of the EU ? Is
written in a clear and engaging style by a team of internationally
renowned academics.
The European Union is designed for readers from all disciplines
studying the EU, its economics and policies, and the effects of
economic integration. This edition contains updated chapters
from new contributors on social policy, the single market, EU
competition policy, and the legal dimension of the EU.
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The European Union. Readings on the Theory and Practice of European
Integration / edited by Brent F. Nelsen, Alexander Stubb; gen. editors Neill
Nugent...[act.] - 3rd ed. - Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. - 379, [12] p. - (The European
Union Series).
The European Union. Readings on the Theory and Practice
of European Integration.
gen. editors Neill Nugent
ISBN: 1403904227
ISBN: 9781403904225
This short introductory text de-mystifies the European Union's
structures and operation. Blending scholarly expertise and
practitioners' experience, the authors introduce and analyse the
EU's key actors, processes and developments. Amongst the
book's distinctive features are exhibits contrasting how the EU
appears on paper (its treaties and formal rules) with how it works
in practice. The book also features exhibits comparing the EU
with other international bodies and systems of government. This
will help students to better understand the EU by underlining
how it is like other systems of governance and in what ways it is
unique. The book's overall aim is to provide an accessible, lively
introduction to how the EU works and why it matters.
The Idea of Europe. From Antiquity to the European Union / edited by Anthony
Pagden. - Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Cambridge University Press, 2005. 377, [12] p. - (Woodrow Wilson Center Series).
The Idea of Europe. From Antiquity to the European Union.
edited by Anthony Pagden
ISBN: 0521795524
ISBN: 9780521795524
This book addresses the question of what it means, and has
meant, to be "European," covering the period from Antiquity to
the end of the twentieth century. The essays discuss questions of
politics, law, religion, culture, literature, and even affectivity in a
broad account of how a distinctive European identity has grown
over the centuries and its place in the future evolution of the
European Union. In the massive literature of European
integration, no other book takes such a long historical
perspective, and none other deals directly with the question of
identity.
This book addresses the question of what it means, and has
meant, to be "European," covering the period from Antiquity to
the end of the twentieth century. The essays discuss questions of
politics, law, religion, culture, literature, and even affectivity in a
broad account of how a distinctive European identity has grown
over the centuries and its place in the future evolution of the
European Union. In the massive literature of European
integration, no other book takes such a long historical
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perspective, and none other deals directly with the question of
identity.
Viotti, Paul R. International Relations Theory. Realism, Pluralism, Globalism /
Paul R. Viotti, Mark V. Kauppi; editors R. Miller, B. Nichols. - 2nd ed. Macmillan Publishing Company, 1993. - 606 p. - (Copy).
Yearbook of Politics. Latvia 2006 / editor-in-chief Žaneta Ozoliņa. - Rīga: Zinātne,
2007. - 300 lpp. - (Commission of Strategic Analysis).
Yearbook of Politics. Latvia 2006.
editor-in-chief Žaneta Ozoliņa
ISBN: 978-9984-767-97-0
The regal year of 2006 abounds both in the numerous visits of
representatives of European monarchies to Latvia, and with the
highest possible confirmations of international recognition:
NATO Rīga Summit, the speech given by the President of the
Republic of Latvia Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga at the US Congress.
The policy of "expanding borders" started by the state has been
continued in full scope, continuusly setting new goals both for
the politicians and the public.
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