Janus Face Of International Politics

Author : Willem H. Gravett
Publisher : Ethics International Press
ISBN 13 : 1871891922
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Janus Face of International Politics written by Willem H. Gravett and published by Ethics International Press. This book was released on 2022-03-03 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work investigates the ‘Janus face’ of international relations, refracted through the prism of the duality of Jan Christian Smuts, as it manifested in his contribution to the League of Nations and his struggle against the emerging peace treaty. A predominant characteristic of international relations is its requirement to face two different ways at the same time - its Janus face. States profess their adherence to lofty ideals for humanity alongside the pursuit of their own immediate self-interest. This phenomenon in the behaviour of states has been referred to as the distance between vision and reality, and the gap between rhetoric and reality. International relations is, and is likely to remain, suspended between these two extremes: on the one hand, the pursuit of utopian ideals for the world, and, on the other, a defence of narrow self-interest, often prompted by the dictates of the realpolitik of the moment. How, then, are the values that underlie the founding of the first cornerstone of the current international order — the League of Nations — to be understood? An under-explored case study in understanding the complex framework of international relations is that of the visionary and controversial South African, Jan Christian Smuts (1870-1950). On the one hand, Smuts was one of the principal authors of the Covenant of the League of Nations, and the person directly responsible for the recognition of human rights as a founding value of the Charter of the United Nations. On the other, the Premier of racially segregated South Africa.

Author : WILLEM H. GRAVETT
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781804412558
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book JANUS FACE OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS written by WILLEM H. GRAVETT and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stanley Hoffmann
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Janus And Minerva written by Stanley Hoffmann and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1987-01-04 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kenneth Neal Waltz
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theory of International Politics written by Kenneth Neal Waltz and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 1979 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forfatterens mål med denne bog er: 1) Analyse af de gældende teorier for international politik og hvad der heri er lagt størst vægt på. 2) Konstruktion af en teori for international politik som kan kan råde bod på de mangler, der er i de nu gældende. 3) Afprøvning af den rekonstruerede teori på faktiske hændelsesforløb.

Author : Owen Worth
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351931091
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hegemony, International Political Economy and Post-Communist Russia written by Owen Worth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illuminating book explores the neo-Gramscian school of international political economy and their conceptualization of global hegemony, and furthers these by looking at how the often fragmented society of post-Communist Russia can provide insight into the nature and workings of neo-liberal global hegemony. The volume illustrates how historically Russia has been a unique case in rejecting Western-inspired hegemonic projects. It outlines how successive governments since the fall of the Soviet Union have attempted, often unsuccessfully, to integrate Russia into the global economy, and identifies the multitude of ideological contestation within Russia. It will prove a useful addition to the literature on both post-Communist Russian studies and international political economy.

Author : James Hampshire
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745671411
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Immigration written by James Hampshire and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immigration is one of the most contested issues on the political agenda of liberal states across Europe and North America. While these states can be open and inclusive to newcomers, they are also often restrictive and exclusionary. The Politics of Immigration examines the sources of these apparently contradictory stances, locating answers in the nature of the liberal state itself. The book shows how four defining facets of the liberal state - representative democracy, constitutionalism, capitalism, and nationhood - generate conflicting imperatives for immigration policymaking, which in turn gives rise to paradoxical, even contradictory, policies. The first few chapters of the book outline this framework, setting out the various actors, institutions and ideas associated with each facet. Subsequent chapters consider its implications for different elements of the immigration policy field, including policies towards economic and humanitarian immigration, as well as citizenship and integration. Throughout, the argument is illustrated with data and examples from the major immigrant-receiving countries of Europe and North America. This book will be essential reading for students and researchers in migration studies, politics and international relations, and all those interested in understanding why immigration remains one of the most controversial and intractable policy issues in the Western world.

Author : Ole Jacob Sending
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107099269
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diplomacy and the Making of World Politics written by Ole Jacob Sending and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how changing diplomatic practices are central in explaining key dimensions of world politics, from law to war.

Author : Jianwei Wang
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137514000
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China, the European Union, and the International Politics of Global Governance written by Jianwei Wang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two major themes in contemporary international relations—Sino-European relations and global governance—are both addressed in this volume. In its focused analysis of Sino-European relations, global governance serves as both a topic for analysis and a conceptual framework to join together individual chapters. Featuring perspectives from a diverse group of established and promising young scholars from China, Europe, and elsewhere, this book has important implications for Chinese foreign policy, the European Union, the future of global governance, and international relations at large.

Author : Baker Catherine Baker
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474446213
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making War on Bodies written by Baker Catherine Baker and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vibrant collection of essays reveals the intimate politics of how people with a wide range of relationships to war identify with, and against, the military and its gendered and racialised norms. It synthesises three recent turns in the study of international politics: aesthetics, embodiment and the everyday, into a new conceptual framework. This helps us to understand how militarism permeates society and how far its practices can be re-appropriated or even turned against it.

Author : Walter Carlsnaes
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1473971195
Total Pages : 745 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of International Relations written by Walter Carlsnaes and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original Handbook of International Relations was the first authoritative and comprehensive survey of the field of international relations. In this eagerly-awaited new edition, the Editors have once again drawn together a team of the world′s leading scholars of international relations to provide a state-of-the-art review and indispensable guide to the field, ensuring its position as the pre-eminent volume of its kind. The Second Edition has been expanded to 33 chapters and fully revised, with new chapters on the following contemporary topics: - Normative Theory in IR - Critical Theories and Poststructuralism - Efforts at Theoretical Synthesis in IR: Possibilities and Limits - International Law and International Relations - Transnational Diffusion: Norms, Ideas and Policies - Comparative Regionalism - Nationalism and Ethnicity - Geopolitics in the 21st Century - Terrorism and International Relations - Religion and International Politics - International Migration A truly international undertaking, this Handbook reviews the many historical, philosophical, analytical and normative roots to the discipline and covers the key contemporary topics of research and debate today. The Handbook of International Relations remains an essential benchmark publication for all advanced undergraduates, graduate students and academics in politics and international relations.