Cambridge University Press, 1981. — 282 p. — ISBN: 0-52123968-0 hardback ; ISBN: 0-521-52643-4 paperback This book presents a balanced account not only of the theoretical framework and legal complexities of the law of treason in later medieval France, but also of the extent and political context of that law's enforcement. By shedding some light on a larger issue - the interplay...
Brill, 2011. — 467 p. — (Medieval Law and Its Practice 11). — ISBN: 978-90-04-20476-8. This book offers a comprehensive examination of how the Fourth Lateran Councils prohibition against trial by ordeal was implemented in Danish secular law and how it required both a fundamental restructuring of legal procedure and an entirely different approach to jurisprudence in practice. It...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 358 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-12227-7. By presenting original research into British legal history, this volume emphasises the historical shaping of the law by ideas of authority. The essays offer perspectives upon the way that ideas of authority underpinned the conceptualisation and interpretation of legal sources over time and became embedded in...
Brill, 2009. — 505 p. — (Medieval Law and Its Practice 5). — ISBN 978-90-04-17466-5. This book offers a fundamental reassessment of the origins of a central court in Scotland. It examines the early judicial role of Parliament, the development of 'the Session' in the fifteenth century as a judicial sitting of the King's Council, and its reconstitution as the College of Justice...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 533 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-00343-9. This important study examines the market trade of medieval England by providing a wide-ranging critique of the moral and legal imperatives that underpinned retail trade. James Davis shows how market-goers were influenced not only by practical and economic considerations of price, quality, supply and demand,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1989. — 575 p. — ISBN: 978-1-349-20032-0 ; ISBN: 978-1-349-20030-6. The purpose of this history is to survey the actions taken by the United Nations in seeking to maintain world peace over the years; and to consider whether there are any conclusions that can be drawn about the way it might be made more effective in performing that role. Like its predecessor,...
Macmillan, 1982. — 411 p. — ISBN: 978-1-349-16759-3 ; ISBN: 978-1-349-16757-9. This study does not purport to be a comprehensive, still less a definitive, history of the United Nations. It is not comprehensive since it is concerned almost exclusively with the central responsibility of the organization, the maintenance of international peace and security, and deals only briefly,...
Mamillan, 1994. — 224 p. — ISBN: 978-0-333-59363-9; ISBN: 978-1-349-23227-7. This book is an attempt to take a fresh look at the United Nations and the role which it plays in the modem international political system: to describe the way it operates today, and to examine the reforms needed to make it a more effective force in modem world politics. It is hoped that the book may...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. — 239 p. — ISBN: 0–333–98457–9. In Kennedy, de Gaulle and Western Europe , Mahan revises prevailing interpretations of Franco-American relations during the early 1960s that either chastise de Gaulle for anti-Americanism or Kennedy for imposing U.S. policies on Europe. Summoning a wide range of French and American archival sources, this book...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 236 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-97261-9 ; ISBN: 978-3-319-97262-6. This book analyses the foreign policy of Silvio Berlusconi, Italian media tycoon and politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy in four governments. The authors examine the Italian position in the international arena and its foreign policy tradition, as well as Berlusconi’s general...
Indiana University Press, 2005. - 278 p. - ISBN: 0-253-34669-X (cloth : alk. paper) ; ISBN: 0-253-21811-X (pbk. : alk. paper) Illicit Flows and Criminal Things offers a new perspective on illegal transnational linkages, international relations, and the transnational. The contributors argue for a nuanced approach that recognizes the difference between "organized" crime and the...
Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. — 305 p. — ISBN: 9781538107270 ; ISBN: 9781538107287. Designed to complement the main themes of any introductory course, Snow’s bestselling text presents original case studies that survey the state of the international system and look in-depth at issues of current interest. The cases are extremely timely, geopolitically diverse, accessibly written,...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009. — 349 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-7425-5681-2 ; ISBN10: 0-7425-5681-6; ISBN13: 978-0-7425-5682-9 ; ISBN10: 0-7425-5682-4. Donald Weatherbee combines an encyclopedic knowledge of Southeast Asia with a balanced and erudite style. His updated edition will be invaluable for students and scholars seeking to cross-check facts and events and for the...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 272 p. — ISBN: 978–0–19–967209–7. The legitimacy of international and regional organisations and their actions is frequently asserted and challenged by states and commentators alike. Their authorisations or conduct of military interventions, their structures of decision-making, and their involvement into what states deem to be domestic matters...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. — 255 p. — ISBN 1–4039–6951–5. With Us or Against Us is an illuminating perspective on the many different strands of contemporary anti-Americanism. Covering reactions from all the major regions of the world - Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Asia - we learn that anti-Americanism reflects the identities and interests of the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 200 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-75555-7 ISBN: 978-3-319-75556-4. The scholarly study of international relations tends to go over the same cases, issues, and themes. This book addresses this by challenging readers to think creatively about international politics. It highlights some of the strangest and rarest phenomena in diplomacy and world politics....
Cambridge University Press, 1999. — 362 p. — ISBN: 0-521-64332-5 ; ISBN: 0-521-64415-1. The conventional wisdom is that economic sanctions do not work in international affairs. If so, why do countries wield them so often? Daniel Drezner argues that, paradoxically, countries will be most eager to use sanctions under conditions where they will produce the feeblest results. States...
University College London Press, 2007. — 225 p. — ISBN13: 978–0–415–41806–5; ISBN13: 978–0–415–41807–2. Written by leading scholars, this volume challenges the recent trend in international relations scholarship – the common antipathy to sovereignty. The classical doctrine of sovereignty is widely seen as totalitarian, producing external aggression and internal repression....
Routledge, 2018. — 391 p. — ISBN: 9781138058262 ; ISBN: 9781315164380. The new and updated seventh edition of Political Geography once again shows itself fit to tackle a frequently and rapidly changing geopolitical landscape. It retains the intellectual clarity, rigour and vision of previous editions based upon its world-systems approach, and is complemented by the perspective...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 307 p. — ISBN: 978-1-349-34774-2 ; ISBN: 978-1-137-36782-2. This volume of essays focuses upon Britain's international and imperial role from the mid-Victorian era through until the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. Individual chapters by acknowledged authorities in their field deal with a variety of broad-ranging and particular issues,...
Lexington Books, 2010. — 327 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7391-4248-6; ISBN: 978-0-7391-4250-9. French President Charles de Gaulle (1958-1969) has consistently fascinated contemporaries and historians. His vision_conceived out of national interest_of uniting Europe under French leadership and overcoming the Cold War still remains relevant and appealing. De Gaulle's towering personality and...
Routledge, 2018. — 429 p. — ISBN: 978-1138-58998-8; ISBN: 978-0-8133-5086-8; ISBN: 978-0-4294-9127-6. Transforming Multilateral Diplomacy provides the inside view of the negotiations that produced the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Not only did this process mark a sea change in how the UN conducts multilateral diplomacy, it changed the way the UN does its business....
The Brookings Institution Press, 2007. — 241 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-8157-7200-2 ; ISBN10: 0-8157-7200-9. North Korea's development of nuclear weapons raises fears of nuclear war on the peninsula and the specter of terrorists gaining access to weapons of mass destruction. It also represents a dangerous and disturbing breakdown in U.S. foreign policy. Failed Diplomacy: The Tragic...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 335 p. — ISBN 978-1-108-42011-2. Calls for justice and reconciliation in response to political catastrophes are widespread in contemporary world politics. What implications do these normative strivings have in relation to colonial injustice? Examining cases of colonial war, genocide, forced sexual labor, forcible incorporation, and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 250 p. — ISBN: 978-1-137-54861-0 ; ISBN: 978-1-137-54862-7. This book uncovers how US-India relations have changed and intensified during the administrations of Bill Clinton, George Bush Jr., and Barack Obama. Throughout the Cold War, US-India relations were often distant and volatile as India mostly received attention at times of grave international...
I.B.Tauris & Co., 2016. — 253 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78453-181-2; ISBN: 978-0-85772-929-3; ePDF 978 0 85772 725 1. The US in the 1950s and 1960s wanted to prevent a new communist regime in the Western hemisphere at any cost. Under President Eisenhower the US pursued a policy of support for dictators, the economic shoring up of regimes that impoverished their own people and sanctioned...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 313 p. — ISBN: 978-1-349-32101-8 ; ISBN: 978-0-230-34920-9. Some categorisations of US power have long governed analyses of American foreign policy - concepts such as 'empire', 'decline', 'superpower', 'the Cold War' and 'the War on Terror' - and have led to a distortion that sees US policy measured by broad labels, rather than on its own terms. This...
The Catholic University of America Press, 2008. — 457 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8132-1491-7. Gratian has long been called the Father of Canon Law. This latest volume in the ongoing History of Medieval Canon Law series covers the period from Gratian's initial teaching of canon law during the 1120s to just before the promulgation of the Decretals of Pope Gregory IX in 1234. Gratian's...
Cambridge University Press, 1975. — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-21459-9 ; ISBN: 978-0-521-29157-6. The purpose of this book is to put before the student of politics and the general reader an overall conspectus of the sources from which political ideas took their origin. The author, who is an acknowledged international authority on the subject and who over many years of intensive...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. — 327 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8122-4080-1. In the popular imagination, the Middle Ages are often associated with lawlessness. As historians have long recognized, however, medieval culture was characterized by an enormous respect for law, legal procedure, and the ideals of justice and equity. Many of our most important modern institutions and...
Ashgate, 2011. — 436 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4094-2574-8 ; ISBN: 978-1-4094-2575-5. This volume brings together papers by a group of scholars, distinguished in their own right, in honour of James Brundage. The essays are organised into four sections, each corresponding to an important focus of Brundage's scholarly work. The first section explores the connection between the development...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 247 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-537297-7. Canon Law: A Comparative Study with Anglo-American Legal Theory, by the Reverend John J. Coughlin, explores the canon law of the Roman Catholic Church from a comparative perspective. The Introduction to the book presents historical examples of antinomian and legalistic approaches to canon law (antinomianism...
Routledge, 1995. — 273 p. — ISBN: 0-582-09357-0 ; ISBN: 0-582-09356-2. It is impossible to understand how the medieval church functioned -- and in turn influenced and controlled the lay world within its care -- without understanding the development, character and impact of `canon law', its own distinctive law code. However important, this can seem a daunting subject to...
The University of Chicago, 1990. — 716 p. — ISBN: 0-226-07784-5. This monumental study of medieval law and sexual conduct explores the origin and develpment of the Christian church's sex law and the systems of belief upon which that law rested. Focusing on the Church's own legal system of canon law, James A. Brundage offers a comprehensive history of legal doctrines-covering...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 292 p. — ISBN: 0-19-826975-7. When first published in 1958, The Canons of the Council of Sardica, AD 343 at once became the standard account of the canons passed by the Western bishops assembled at Serdica in 343 and the thinking on Church matters that lay behind them. In this new edition Hamilton Hess has updated his account in the light of...
The University Press of Kentucky, 2017. — 395 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8131-6847-0; ISBN: 978-0-8131-6849-4; ISBN: 978-0-8131-6848-7. As American interests assumed global proportions after 1945, policy makers were faced with the challenge of prioritizing various regions and determining the extent to which the United States was prepared to defend and support them. Superpowers and...
Hart Publishing, 2017. — 181 p. — ISBN 978-1-78225-619-9 ; 978-1-50990-116-6 ; 978-1-50990-117-3. In international relations (IR), some states often deny the legal status of others, stigmatising their practices or even their culture. Such acts of deliberate humiliation at the diplomatic level are common occurrences in modern diplomacy. In the period following the breakup of the...
Yale University Press, 2015. — 370 p. — ISBN: 978–0–300–19567–5. Since the 1950s, China and India have been locked in a monumental battle for geopolitical supremacy. Chinese interest in the ethnic insurgencies in northeastern India, the still unresolved issue of the McMahon Line, the border established by the British imperial government, and competition for strategic access to...
Cornell University Press, 2014. — 253 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8014-5258-1. The United States, Barry R. Posen argues in Restraint, has grown incapable of moderating its ambitions in international politics. Since the collapse of Soviet power, it has pursued a grand strategy that he calls "liberal hegemony," one that Posen sees as unnecessary, counterproductive, costly, and wasteful....
Macmillan Press, 1987. — 334 p. — ISBN: 978-0-333-36506-9 ; ISBN: 978-1-349-18796-6. An Introduction to Strategic Studies addresses some of the major questions that govern both international relations and human survival. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the core concepts of contemporary strategic thinking. It argues that strategic studies is about the impact...
Polity Press, 2014. — 242 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-7456-5314-3 ; ISBN13: 978-0-7456-5315-0. This outstanding book is the first comprehensive introduction to the English School of International Relations. Written by leading ES scholar Barry Buzan, it expertly guides readers through the English School’s formative ideas, intellectual and historical roots, current controversies and...
Routledge, 2017. — 246 p. — ISBN: 978-1-138-80000-7 ; ISBN: 978-1-138-80001-4 ; ISBN: 978-1-315-19952-8. Britain, America and the Special Relationship since 1941 examines the Anglo-American strategic and military relationship that developed during the Second World War and continued until recent years. Forged on a common ground of social, cultural, and ideological values as well...
Pearson, 2017. — 596 p. — ISBN10: 0-13-448201-8 ; ISBN13: 978-0-13-448201-9. Understanding International Politics with Scholarly Articles International Politics: Enduring Concepts and Contemporary Issues has been helping readers effectively understand politics under governments and beyond for over 40 years. Scholarly articles on essential topics illustrate fundamental debates...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 240 p. — ISBN: 978–0–230–22896–2 ; 978–0–230–22897–9. Michael Arndt analyses regional multilateralism focusing extensively on India’s foreign policy and its position in several regional multilateral associations. It will be beneficial for scholars and analysts of South Asia and beyond, and especially useful for those interested in the future course...
Kumarian Press, 2009. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-1-56549-287-5 ; ISBN: 978-1-56549-288-2. International development is big business. Official global aid flows from North to South are over $100 billion annually. China and India, former aid recipients, are rapidly entering the field as aid providers themselves, and international charity is being redefined with the resources of private...
Springer, 2009. — 224 p. — ISBN: 978-90-481-2690-3 e-ISBN: 978-90-481-2691-0. Substate nationalism, especially in the past fifteen years, has noticeably affected the political and territorial stability of many countries, both democratic and democratizing. Norms exist to limit the behavior of collective agents in relation to individuals; the set of universally accepted human...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 390 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-07649-5. This book analyses the laws that shaped modern European empires from medieval times to the twentieth century. Its geographical scope is global, including the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and the Poles. Andrew Fitzmaurice focuses upon the use of the law of occupation to justify and critique the...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 231 p. — ISBN 978-1-107-17071-1 ; ISBN 978-1-316-62178-3. For a long time, international relations scholars have adopted a narrow view of what is global order, who are its makers and managers, and what means they employ to realize their goals. Amitav Acharya argues that the nature and scope of agency in the global order - who creates it and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. — 197 p. — ISBN13: 978–1–4039–4654–6 ; ISBN10: 1–4039–4654–X. This book outlines an idea of world politics as an activity of thinking and speaking about the conditions of world order. World order is understood not as an arrangement of entities but a complex of variously situated activities conducted by individuals as members of diverse associations of...
Routledge, 2000. — 368 p. — ISBN: 0-415-17292-6 ; ISBN: 0-203-00304-7 ; ISBN: 0-203-20048-9. Anglo-French Relations in the Twentieth Century is a collection of studies on the key episodes of the difficult and often discordant Anglo-French exchange over the past century. The authors critically re-evaluate: the role of Spain in Anglo-French relations up to 1918 the missed...