Basic Books, 2018. — 1432 p. — ISBN: 978-0-465-05063-5 Within a single generation, between 1945 and 1970, America replaced Britain as the dominant power in the Middle East. By any standard, it was an extraordinary role reversal and it was one that came with very little warning. Starting in the nineteenth century, Britain had first established themselves as protector of the...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 408 p. — ISBN-10: 0199331936; ISBN-13: 978-0199331932. Since its coinage in mid-19th century Germany, Realpolitik has proven both elusive and protean. To some, it represents the best approach to meaningful change and political stability in a world buffeted by uncertainty and rapid transformation. To others, it encapsulates an attitude of...
Big Sky Publishing, 2022. — 678 p. — ISBN 978-0995-36774-6 This book is the first account of a post-Cold War peace enforcement operation in the Campaign series. 2021 marks the 28th anniversary of the four and a half months’ service of the Australian Force Somalia (AFS) in 1993. Operation Solace was Australia’s first overseas land force projection since the end of Australian...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 768 p. Historical approaches to the study of world politics have always been a major part of the academic discipline of International Relations, and there has recently been a resurgence of scholarly interest in this area. This Oxford Handbook examines the past and present of the intersection between history and IR, and looks to the future by...
Cornell University Press, 2021. — 424 p. In Catastrophic Success, Alexander B. Downes compiles all instances of regime change around the world over the past two centuries. Drawing on this impressive data set, Downes shows that regime change increases the likelihood of civil war and violent leader removal in target states and fails to reduce the probability of conflict between...
University Press of Kentucky, 2013. — 228 p. From early zeppelins, to the Luftwaffe and the Enola Gay, to the unmanned aerial vehicles of today, air power has long been regarded as an invaluable instrument of war. However, nations have employed aircraft for many other purposes as well; they provide security and surveillance, and they are vital to myriad diplomatic and...
Routledge, 2018. — 252 p. This book seeks to launch a new research agenda for the historiography of Dutch foreign relations during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It does so in two important ways. First, it broadens the analytical perspective to include a variety of non-state actors beyond politicians and diplomats. Second, it focuses on the transnational connections...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2017. — 410 p. The Historical Dictionary of International Relations is a general guide to the theory and practice of the relations between states, and between states and other actors on the world stage. It introduces readers to the real world operations of international relations, and is thus concerned with the actual relations between states,...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2014. — 588 p. — ISBN: 0-393-02025-8 I began working on The Tragedy of Great Power Politics shortly after the Soviet Union fell apart in late 1991 and finished it almost a decade later. During those years, many Americans, including a sizable number of academics, were quite optimistic about the future of international politics. It was widely believed that...
Routledge, 2006. — 255 р. This new study brings together leading experts to show how the modern world began with the coming of the railway. They clearly explain why it had a greater impact than any other technical or industrial innovation before and completely redefined the limits of the civilized world. While the effect of railways on economic development is self-evident,...
Routledge, 2009. — 272 p. This book examines the language and the ideology of the Pax Romana, the Pax Britannica and the Pax Americana within the broader contexts of 'hegemony' and 'empire'. It addresses three main themes: a conceptual examination of the way in which hegemony has been justified; a linguistic study of how the notion of pax (usually translated as peace) has been...
Yale University Press, 2008. — 384 p. In this era of superheated rhetoric and vitriolic exchanges between the leaders of Iran and Israel, the threat of nuclear violence looms. But the real roots of the enmity between the two nations mystify Washington policymakers, and no promising pathways to peace have emerged. This book traces the shifting relations among Israel, Iran, and...
Picador, 2019. — 368 p. Meticulously researched and vividly written, Eight Days at Yalta is a remarkable work of intense historical drama. In the last winter of the Second World War, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin arrived in the Crimean resort of Yalta. Over eight days of bargaining, bombast and intermittent bonhomie they decided on the conduct of...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 176 p. Diplomatic history explores the management of relations between nation-states by the process of negotiations. From the diplomacy of the American Revolution, the diplomatic origins of the Great War and its aftermath, Versailles, and the personal summitry behind the night Stalin and Churchill Divided Europe, to George W. Bush and the Iraq...
Перевод В.В. Найденов. — М.: Центрполиграф, 2024. В настоящем издании представлены работы двух авторов о разделе Германии и Австрии на оккупационные зоны союзными войсками держав-победительниц во Второй мировой войне. Автор первой из них – историк Майкл Бальфур имеет долголетний опыт изучения Германии. В 1945—1947 гг. он занимал пост в Британском элементе Комиссии по контролю....
Киев: Кий, 2007. — 420 с. — ISBN 978-966-8825-42-2. Мир после окончания «холодной войны» оказался втянутым в полосу конфликтов и необъявленных войн. Не успела закончиться война в Югославии, как началась война в Афганистане, а затем в Ираке. В книге анализируются конфликты на постсоветском пространстве, которые до сих пор не разрешены, а находятся в «замороженном состоянии». Дан...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2022. — 429 с. В рамках новейшего направления – «новой дипломатической истории» – авторы коллективной монографии обращаются к социально-культурным аспектам деятельности дипломатов ряда стран (США, Великобритания, Италия, Латинская Америка и др.) в России и российских дипломатов в зарубежных странах в XVI-XXI вв. Наряду с освещением различных аспектов стратегии и...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 309 с. В этой книге один из самых выдающихся историков нашего времени исследует необычайный успех пяти небольших морских государств: Афины, Карфаген, Венеция, Голландская республика и Великорбитания, изучая, как их идентичность как "морских держав" определяла их дейсвия и позволяла им...
М.: Индрик, 2016. — 296 с. — ISBN 978-5-91674-419-4. В книге впервые публикуются письма российского консула И. М. Лекса выдающемуся дипломату и общественному деятелю Н. П. Игнатьеву. Письма охватывают период 1863–1879 гг., когда Лекс служил генеральным консулом в Молдавии, а затем в Египте. В его письмах нашла отражение политическая и общественная жизнь формирующегося...
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