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The Iwakura Mission to America and Europe
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 200.00Driven by the need to identify, classify and assess western technology and culture together with a desire to advance a dialogue for reviewing the so-called 'unequal treaties' - the new Meiji government of 1868 despatched a top-level ministerial team to the west which, in 1872, arrived in the United States. In all, they spent 205 days in America, 122... more...
Japanese Foreign Policy in the Interwar Period
ABC-CLIO 2002; US$ 140.00This comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of Japanese policy between the two world wars utilizes both English and Japanese sources to present Japan as an independent agent, not a state whose policy was determined by the actions of other countries. Beginning with Japan's disappointment with the Versailles Peace Treaty in 1919, Nish examines the roots... more...
The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations Vol 2
Palgrave Macmillan 2000; US$ 152.00Volume II in this series of five volumes deals with relations between Japan and Britain in the poetical-diplomatic sphere from 1931 to the present day. From the political-diplomatic standpoint, it discusses the deteriorating relationship of the 1930s and leads on to the development of increasingly healthy postwar relations. The book consists of parallel... more...
The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1600-2000
Palgrave Macmillan 2000; US$ 176.00The Political-Diplomatic Dimension, 1600-1930 , consists of parallel essays by Japanese and British academic specialists covering comprehensively the history of relations between Japan and Britain from the first contacts in the seventeenth century to the present. This study, and its companion, Volume 2, demonstrates that, in the political-diplomatic... more...
Beyond the Anarchical Society
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 37.00It is commonly argued that the system of state sovereignty is currently in a situation of upheaval. Keene's book questions this assumption, arguing that sovereignty has never existed globally in any case, as international relations beyond the West have been influenced by the norms of colonialism rather than international law. more...
Democracy by Force
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 36.00Since the end of the Cold War, the United States has intervened militarily in a number of civil conflicts. This book examines four US-sponsored interventions (Panama, Somalia, Haiti and Bosnia) seeking to provide an insight into the conditions under which intervention and the nation-building which follows are likely to succeed. more...
Ethics and Foreign Policy
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 36.00The complex dilemmas facing governments regarding the promotion of human rights are considered here. Contributors explore what an 'ethical foreign policy' means, then look at potential or actual instruments of ethical foreign policy-making; three case studies assess the difficulties raised by the incorporation of ethical considerations into foreign... more...
Asset Tracing & Recovery
Erich Schmidt Verlag 2010; US$ 150.93Hauptbeschreibung "Crime does not pay". What sounds so easy in theory is hard to keep in practice. Globalization has given criminals an unlimited number of possibilities especially in offshore areas to hide deprived assets. Bernd Klose and the international experts of FraudNet deliver necessary knowledge for tracing & recovering assets worldwide.... more...
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