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  • Bargaining in the UN Security Council

    Setting the Global Agenda

    by Susan Allen, Amy Yuen ...
    Even after seventy-five years, the UN Security Council meets nearly every day. They respond to a range of threats to international peace and security, but not all threats. Why does the Security Council take up some issues for discussion and not others? What factors shape the Council's actions, if they take any action at all? Adapting insights from legislative bargaining, this book demonstrates ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Deleuze and the Humanities

    East and West

    Edited by Rosi Braidotti, Kin Yuen Wong, Amy K. S. Chan ...
    Series series
    The volume is inspired by Gilles Deleuze’s philosophical project, which builds on the critique of European Humanism and opens up inspiring new perspectives for the renewal of the field. The book gathers leading scholars in the field of Deleuze, while also bringing together scholars from Europe and North America (the West), as well from Asia (the East), in order to create a lively academic debate, ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • New Directions for International Relations

    Confronting the Method-of-Analysis Problem

    by Bruce Russett, Karl DeRouen Jr, Hazem Adam Ghobarah, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, Shaun Goldfinch, William Howell, Paul Huth, Ranan D. Kuperman, Brett Ashley Leeds0, Zeev Maoz1, Jon Pevehouse2, Alastair Smith3, Allan C. Stam4, Ilan Talmud5, Lesley G. Terris6, Michael D. Ward7, Suzanne Werner8, Amy Yuen9 ...
    Series series Innovations in the Study of World Politics
    Why does the academic study of international relations have limited impact on the policy community? When research results are inconsistent, inconclusive, and contradictory, a lack of scholarly consensus discourages policy makers, the business community, and other citizens from trusting findings and conclusions from IR research. In New Directions for International Relations, Alex Mintz and Bruce ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

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    A Practical Guide to Research Methods

    by Christopher Howard ...
    Series series Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
    "A compelling case for transforming how research methods are taught to undergraduate students of political science." — London School of Economics Review of BooksEach year, tens of thousands of students who are interested in politics go through a rite of passage: they take a course in research methods. Many find the subject to be boring or confusing, and with good reason. Most of the standard books ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Negotiation and Conflict Management

    Essays on Theory and Practice

    by I. William Zartman ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Security and Conflict Management
    This book presents a series of essays by I. William Zartman outlining the evolution of the key concepts required for the study of negotiation and conflict management, such as formula, ripeness, pre-negotiation, mediation, power, process, intractability, escalation, and order.Responding to a lack of useful conceptualization for the analysis of international negotiation, Zartman has developed an ... Read more

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  • When States Fail

    Causes and Consequences

    Edited by Robert I. Rotberg ...
    Since 1990, more than 10 million people have been killed in the civil wars of failed states, and hundreds of millions more have been deprived of fundamental rights. The threat of terrorism has only heightened the problem posed by failed states. When States Fail is the first book to examine how and why states decay and what, if anything, can be done to prevent them from collapsing. It defines and ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • International Conflict Mediation

    New Approaches and Findings

    Edited by Jacob Bercovitch, Scott Sigmund Gartner ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Security and Conflict Management
    This book examines how new empirical approaches to mediation can shed fresh light on the effectiveness of different patterns of conflict management, and offers guidelines on the process of international mediation.International conflict mediation has become one of, if not the most prominent and important conflict resolution methods of the early 21st century. This book argues that traditional ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion

    by John R. Zaller ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology
    In this 1992 book John Zaller develops a comprehensive theory to explain how people acquire political information from elites and the mass media and convert it into political preferences. Using numerous specific examples, Zaller applies this theory to the dynamics of public opinion on a broad range of subjects, including domestic and foreign policy, trust in government, racial equality, and ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Veto Players

    How Political Institutions Work

    by George Tsebelis ...
    Political scientists have long classified systems of government as parliamentary or presidential, two-party or multiparty, and so on. But such distinctions often fail to provide useful insights. For example, how are we to compare the United States, a presidential bicameral regime with two weak parties, to Denmark, a parliamentary unicameral regime with many strong parties? Veto Players advances an ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Foreign Affairs Strategy

    Logic for American Statecraft

    by Terry L. Deibel ...
    This is a book on how to think - strategically - about foreign policy. Focusing on American foreign policy, this book discusses the national interest as a concept in strategic logic and describes how to select objectives that will take advantage of opportunities to promote interests, while protecting them against threats. It also discusses national power and influence, as well as the political, ... Read more

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  • All International Politics Is Local

    The Diffusion of Conflict, Integration, and Democratization

    by Kristian Skrede Gleditsch ...
    How does regional interdependence influence the prospects for conflict, integration, and democratization? Some researchers look at the international system at large and disregard the enormous regional variations. Others take the concept of sovereignty literally and treat each nation-state as fully independent. Kristian Skrede Gleditsch looks at disparate zones in the international system to see ... Read more

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  • Making War and Building Peace

    United Nations Peace Operations

    by Nicholas Sambanis, Michael W. Doyle ...
    Making War and Building Peace examines how well United Nations peacekeeping missions work after civil war. Statistically analyzing all civil wars since 1945, the book compares peace processes that had UN involvement to those that didn't. Michael Doyle and Nicholas Sambanis argue that each mission must be designed to fit the conflict, with the right authority and adequate resources. UN missions can ... Read more

    $74.99 CAD