This book offers a comprehensive introduction to China-South Korea relations. It integrates recent theoretical advances in international relations with conventional wisdom in the study of East Asia. ...The analysis reveals a complicated and dynamic process that defines the bilateral relationship in the new century.
In Frontiers for Peace in the Medieval North. The Norwegian-Scottish Frontier c. 1260-1470, Ian Peter Grohse offers an account of social and political relations in the frontier community of Orkney in ...the late Middle Ages.
This book contains state of the field discussion about the nature of revolt and resistance in the ancient world. While it doesn't cover the entire ancient world, it does focus in on the key revolts ...of the pre-Roman imperial world.
In contemporary discourse on China-Africa relations, there are, on the one hand, the Sino-pessimists who see China as a giant vacuum-cleaner, sucking up Africa's resources in order to fuel its own ...rapid industrialization, and destroying Africa's development potential in the process. On the other hand, the Sino-optimists see China as the ultimate savior of Africa, capable of or willing to 'develop' the continent. Between the two divergent schools of thought are those sitting on the fence for the time being, the Sino-pragmatists, who are less sanguine for sure about what Africa would gain from China-Africa relations, but are nevertheless willing to reserve judgment until the dust settles. This book is innovative in two ways: it introduces a regional approach to the study of China-Africa relations by focusing on Eastern and Southern Africa; and it puts forward a disciplinary framework- disciplinary in both senses of that term- for interrogating the burgeoning literature about China-Africa relations by conceptualizing the three schools of thought mentioned above.
This study examines how China has developed a diplomatic mechanism to expand its international influence through the establishment of strategic partnerships. These strategic partnerships have sparked ...a debate among analysts. On the one hand, some optimistic studies applaud the win-win objective of China’s foreign policy and portray China as a successful model for developing countries. On the other hand, more skeptical studies depict China as a rising imperial power that represents a competitive threat to Latin America. This book focuses on China’s strategic partnerships with Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela within the oil sector. It stresses how Chinese strategic partnerships with each of these four countries have diverged across cases over time (1991–2015). The study finds that the strategic partnerships are asymmetrical in which China benefits more than four Latin American countries in a variety of aspects. I suggest Latin American countries to push for greater diversification of export agenda toward China, to develop new productive partnerships beyond traditional sectors and to increase the competitiveness of firms. Meanwhile, China’s diplomatic actions toward Latin America are more than likely to result in forms of change, particularly across my four country cases, and where strategic partnerships are concerned.
Diplomacy does not take place simply between states but wherever people live in different groups. Paul Sharp argues that the demand for diplomacy, and the need for the insights of diplomatic theory, ...are on the rise. In contrast to conventional texts which use international relations theories to make sense of what diplomacy and diplomats do, this book explores what diplomacy and diplomats can contribute to the big theoretical and practical debates in international relations today. Sharp identifies a diplomatic tradition of international thought premised on the way people live in groups, the differences between intra- and inter-group relations, and the perspectives which those who handle inter-group relations develop about the sorts of international disputes which occur. He argues that the lessons of diplomacy are that we should be reluctant to judge, ready to appease, and alert to the partial grounds on which most universal claims about human beings are made.
This volume reviews research conducted surrounding the German Foreign Office and its past. What do we actually know about the function of the Foreign Office during the Nazi era, what gaps exist in ...the research, what is settled and what is under dispute? The authors seek to add additional context to the debate by discussing developments in research and changing views of historiography.
Basert på et antropologisk feltarbeid av Norges rolle i FNs sikkerhetsråd, argumenterer denne artikkelen for at man ikke kan forstå hvordan FNs sikkerhetsråd fungerer uten at man studerer dets ...interne dynamikk og Sikkerhetsrådets plastisitet. Konsensusfokuset skaper et handlingsrom for delegasjonene og diplomatene i FNs sikkerhetsråd. Dette betyr at diplomatene spiller en nøkkelrolle i utformingen av Sikkerhetsrådets vedtak – og at viktige beslutninger nødvendigvis skjer via uformelle kanaler. I forlengelsen av dette argumenteres det for at Sikkerhetsrådet ser som diplomater. Det forsøker å finne løsninger på politiske floker. Fokuset på politikk og relasjoner stater imellom blir viktigere enn hensynet til de som faktisk skal være mottagere av planene og resolusjonene. På den måten har Sikkerhetsrådet et innadvendt blikk, men en vidtrekkende politikk, og sjansen for at det oppstår et gap mellom planene som produseres og utfordringene som skal løses øker. Nøkkelord: sosialantropologi | internasjonal politikk | internasjonale organisasjoner | diplomati | makt | praksis | FN | Sikkerhetsrådet | norsk utenrikspolitikk
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