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George W. Bush and China
Lexington Books 2008; US$ 49.99This study analyzes United States policies regarding China during the administration of President George W. Bush. Chi Wang examines the relationship between the United States and China from its tense origins to its current stability. more...
International Relations in Southeast Asia
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2008; US$ 33.99This balanced, comprehensive guide to Southeast Asian politics offers a sensible but nondogmatic realist approach to the region's international relations. In this revised, second edition, Donald E. Weatherbee lucidly explains the dynamics of the Southeast Asian subsystem as a struggle for autonomy in pursuit of national interests. He explores three... more...
Axis of Convenience
Brookings Institution Press 2008; US$ 32.95Few relationships have been as misunderstood as the strategic partnership between Russia and China. Official rhetoric portrays it as the very model of international cooperation: Moscow and Beijing claim that ties are closer and warmer than at any time in history. In reality, however, the picture is highly ambiguous. While both sides are... more...
Alliance Curse
Brookings Institution Press 2008; US$ 29.95In Alliance Curse, Hilton Root illustrates that recent U.S. foreign policy is too often misguided, resulting in misdirected foreign aid and alliances that stunt political and economic development among partner regimes, leaving America on the wrong side of change. Many alliances with third world dictators, ostensibly of mutual benefit, reduce incentives... more...
A Calculated Risk
Clerisy Press 2008; US$ 15.95In the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust, the Truman White House led the effort to establish the state of Israel. But, was it inevitable that the U.S. would endorse the concept of a Jewish state? Was U.S. policy entirely pro-Jewish? To what extent did the State Department influence Presidents Roosevelt and Truman in regard to Palestine?... more...
EU Enlargement and Socialization
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 128.00The European Union?s enlargement has been considered a success story ? apart from Cyprus and Turkey. This book looks at the EU?s expansion and examines its effectiveness in terms of international socialization and compliance, focussing specifically on the socialization of Turkey and Cyprus into the Western community. Although NATO-member Turkey submitted... more...
The Politics of EU Accession
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 128.00The question of Turkish membership in the European Union is highly controversial and subject to many misperceptions and misunderstandings on both sides. This book examines the politics of EU accession which have evolved during the expansion of the EU, from more procedural conditions to provisions of substantive democracy. With a particular focus... more...
Peace Operations
Georgetown University Press 2008; US$ 29.95Trends in the number and scope of peace operations since 2000 evidence heightened international appreciation for their value in crisis-response and regional stabilization. Peace Operations: Trends, Progress, and Prospects addresses national and institutional capacities to undertake such operations, by going beyond what is available in previously published... more...
The Unfinished Global Revolution
Penguin Group US 2011; US$ 27.95In The Unfinished Global Revolution , former United Nations Deputy Secretary General Mark Malloch-Brown diagnoses the central global predicament of the twenty-first century?as we have become more integrated, we have also become less governed. National governments are no longer equipped to address complex global issues, from climate change to poverty,... more...
ASEAN's Cooperative Security Enterprise
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 95.00Katsumata demonstrates that something interesting is taking place inside the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF). He shows that an association of minor powers in Southeast Asia is promoting its cooperative security norm, and influencing the policies of its external partners. Thus, the ARF is one of the important pathways to regional security. more...









