New Explorations Into International Relations

Author : Seung-Whan Choi
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820349070
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Explorations Into International Relations written by Seung-Whan Choi and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses a range of issues surrounding the search for scientific truths in the study of international conflict and international political economy. Unlike empirical studies in other disciplines, says Seung-Whan Choi, many political studies seem more competent at presenting theoretical conjecture and hypotheses than they are at performing rigorous empirical analyses. When we study global issues like democratic institutions, flows of foreign direct investment, international terrorism, civil wars, and international conflict, we often uncritically adopt established theoretical frameworks and research designs. The natural assumption is that well-known and widely cited studies, once ingrained within the tradition of the discipline, should not be challenged or refuted. However, do such noted research areas reflect scientific truth? Choi looks closely at ten widely cited empirical studies that represent well-known research programs in international relations. His discussions address such statistical and theoretical issues as endogeneity bias, model specification error, fixed effects, theoretical predictability, outliers, normality of regression residuals, and choice of estimation techniques. In addition, scientific progress made by remarkable discoveries usually results from finding a new way of thinking about long-held scientific truths, therefore Choi also demonstrates how one may search for novel ideas at minimal cost by developing new research designs with original data. Here is a valuable resource for students, scholars, and policy makers who want to quickly grasp the evolutionary pattern of scientific research on democracy, foreign investment, terrorism, and conflict; build their research designs and choose appropriate statistical techniques; and identify their own agendas for the production of cutting-edge research.

Author : John Michael Quinn V
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Review of 'New Explorations Into International Relations: Democracy, Foreign Investment Terrorism and Conflict'. written by John Michael Quinn V and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nicholas A Sims
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317360494
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Explorations in Ethics and International Relations written by Nicholas A Sims and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the interaction between the realms of ethics and international relations. The essays discuss such issues as the responsibilities of defence scientists; theological reflections on compromise; the ethics of risk-taking; the international legal protection of human rights and the collaboration of non-governmental organisations in giving individuals greater influence through international institutions. Sydney D. Bailey made a distinguished contribution over many years in bringing ethical concerns to bear on international affairs. These essays, exploring some of the many areas in which he achieved recognition as a writer and policy adviser, were offered in his honour at 65 by his friends and colleagues. .

Author : Alex Mintz
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739108499
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Directions for International Relations written by Alex Mintz and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does the academic study of international relations have limited impact on the policy community? In New Directions for International Relations, Mintz and Russett identify differences in methods of analysis as one cause of problematic, unreliable results. They discuss the problem and set the stage for nine chapters by diverse scholars to demonstrate innovative new developments in IR theory and creative new methods that can lay the basis for greater consensus.

Author : J. Melissen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230554938
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Public Diplomacy written by J. Melissen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-11-22 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After 9/11, which triggered a global debate on public diplomacy, 'PD' has become an issue in most countries. This book joins the debate. Experts from different countries and from a variety of fields analyze the theory and practice of public diplomacy. They also evaluate how public diplomacy can be successfully used to support foreign policy.

Author : Joseph Grieco
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350933732
Total Pages : 649 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction to International Relations written by Joseph Grieco and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-24 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bestselling introductory textbook provides a truly comprehensive and approachable guide to international affairs. Bringing together decades of combined experience in researching and teaching global politics from three acclaimed scholars, this book introduces you to the key concepts in international relations while equipping you with the tools to successfully analyse the rapidly changing world in which we live. Carefully and pedagogically structured, the book is driven by nuanced enduring questions to support active engagement with the subject matter. It covers everything from war and its causes to the pursuit of peace, the role of non-state actors on the world stage and transnational concerns such as climate change. Thought-provoking boxed features throughout highlight disparities between theory and practice, provide overviews of key research and make use of the influential levels-of-analysis framework. This third edition is completely updated throughout, including extensive coverage of the latest advances in international relations scholarship and supported by a wealth of contemporary case examples. The text is supported by a rich companion website with study guides, instructor resources and interactive exercises to allow you to consider complicated political decisions for yourself. Introduction to International Relations is the ultimate companion for undergraduate students of politics and international relations in need of an exciting and rigorous introduction to the subject.

Author : Peter Mangold
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135046786
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book National Security and International Relations (Routledge Revivals) written by Peter Mangold and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1990, National Security and International Relations provides a concise analysis of the problem of national security in the twentieth century. It examines the criteria by which states decide what level of security they want to seek in an uncertain and essentially Hobbesian world, and why some states tend to underinsure, while obsessively insecure states overinsure, frequently making others more insecure in the process. In the wake of two world wars and the threat of nuclear destruction, Peter Mangold argues that war was becoming as much a source of insecurity as the intentions of other states. It then explores the different approaches attempted during the twentieth century to ameliorate or ideally escape from the security dilemma. These range from international regimes, to the restructuring of the international politics of Western Europe so as to substitute cooperation for conflict, and U.S. and Soviet attempts to render nuclear competition safer through arms control and confidence building measures. Of special value to students of International Relations and Strategic Studies, this book will also interest those keen to understand the challenges embodied in Gorbachev’s ‘new thinking’ in foreign policy.

Author : Doctor Erika Cudworth
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1780322216
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Posthuman International Relations written by Doctor Erika Cudworth and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this bold intervention, Cudworth and Hobden draw on recent advances in thinking about complexity theory to call for a profound re-envisioning of the study of international relations. As a discipline, IR is wedded to the enlightenment project of overcoming the 'hazards' of nature, and thus remains constrained by its blinkered 'human-centred' approach. Furthermore, as a means of predicting major global-political events and trends, it has failed consistently. Instead, the authors argue, it is essential we develop a much more nuanced and sophisticated analysis of global political systems, taking into account broader environmental circumstances, as well as social relations, economic practices and formations of political power. Essentially, the book reveals how the study of international politics is transformed by the understanding that we have never been exclusively human. An original work that is sure to provoke heated debate within the discipline, Posthuman International Relations combines insights from complexity theory and ecological thinking to provide a radical new agenda for a progressive, twenty-first century, International Relations.

Author : Arlene B. Tickner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317629558
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Relations from the Global South written by Arlene B. Tickner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting new textbook challenges the implicit notions inherent in most existing International Relations (IR) scholarship and instead presents the subject as seen from different vantage points in the global South. Divided into four sections, (1) the IR discipline, (2) key concepts and categories, (3) global issues and (4) IR futures, it examines the ways in which world politics have been addressed by traditional core approaches and explores the limitations of these treatments for understanding both Southern and Northern experiences of the "international." The book encourages readers to consider how key ideas have been developed in the discipline, and through systematic interventions by contributors from around the globe, aims at both transforming and enriching the dominant terms of scholarly debate. This empowering, critical and reflexive tool for thinking about the diversity of experiences of international relations and for placing them front and center in the classroom will help professors and students in both the global North and the global South envision the world differently. In addition to general, introductory IR courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels it will appeal to courses on sociology and historiography of knowledge, globalization, neoliberalism, security, the state, imperialism and international political economy.

Author : Marie-Claude Smouts
Publisher : C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS
ISBN 13 : 9781850654339
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New International Relations written by Marie-Claude Smouts and published by C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS. This book was released on 2001 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprises 15 papers which explore the prospects for international relations as a result of the combined impact of globalization and the end of the cold war. Includes discussions of nationalism, decision-making in foreign policy analysis, the development of the European Union, the international political economy, issues in war and peace and the role of international networks.