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When first mentioned in 1994, the concept of human security represented a significant first step in understanding that security dilemmas could no longer be seen as purely geopolitical phenomena that revolve around the nation-state. This book explains the progress made toward human security since then and the steps that remain to be taken.

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When first mentioned in 1994, the concept of human security represented a significant first step in understanding that security dilemmas could no longer be seen as purely geopolitical phenomena that revolve around the nation-state. This book explains the progress made toward human security since then and the steps that remain to be taken.

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The AWACS debate represents one of the most critical events in the history of American diplomacy. It locked the Reagan administration and opponents of the AWACS in a fierce battle over American policy in the Middle East. Nicholas Laham looks at the political lessons to be drawn from the debate.

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In early 2009, at the start of a new administration in Washington, the Brookings Institution Press published The Obama Administration and the Americas: Agenda for Change , offering a roadmap for a fresh approach to U.

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This book describes the processes of nation and state building in Slovenia. It follows the Slovenian evolution from a former Yugoslav republic to one of the most successful postcommunist countries in Central Europe.

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Soft Power examines China's soft power strategies in international politics. It attempts to analyze the domestic and international views of China's soft power, the main strengths and weaknesses in China's soft power, and the application of soft power in China's international politics.

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The book critically addresses the relationship between sport and diplomacy posing new questions of these two enduring features of global society. -- .

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The book critically addresses the relationship between sport and diplomacy posing new questions of these two enduring features of global society. -- .

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This book investigates the issue of sports diplomacy and refers to the place and role of sport within public diplomacy. Its subject includes the use of sport to shape relations with other states, to build the states international image and the diplomatic subjectivity of international sports organizations.

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This book investigates the issue of sports diplomacy and refers to the place and role of sport within public diplomacy. Its subject includes the use of sport to shape relations with other states, to build the states international image and the diplomatic subjectivity of international sports organizations.

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Since September 11, the threat of terror gives the failed state problem an immediacy and an importance that transcends its previous humanitarian dimension. With the new implications of state failure for peace and security, preventing nation states from failing, and reviving those that do fail, has become a strategic, as well as moral, imperative.

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Focusing on the Syria crisis, this book challenges the arguments in favour of the chemical weapons taboo, demonstrating how it can exacerbate a conflict. -- .

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Focusing on the Syria crisis, this book challenges the arguments in favour of the chemical weapons taboo, demonstrating how it can exacerbate a conflict. -- .

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Addresses the problems that arise not only from a politicized foreign policy process but also from excessive bureaucratization and lack of leadership in the Foreign Service itself.

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This book examines the EU public diplomacy towards China with the case of the Jean Monnet Programme. The author discusses how the EUs functional and normative knowledge has been disseminated across physical and psychological borders.

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The Asian Way is a flourishing operational code of diplomacy, which has united disparate countries in order to achieve economic and political objectives. This volume, based on 20 years of research, defines and explains the Asian Way.

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The BRICS and the Future of Global Order, Second Edition offers a definitive reference history of the BRICS as a term and as an institutiona chronological narrative and analytical account of the BRICS concept from its inception in 2001 to the political grouping it is today.

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The BRICS and the Future of Global Order, Second Edition offers a definitive reference history of the BRICS as a term and as an institutiona chronological narrative and analytical account of the BRICS concept from its inception in 2001 to the political grouping it is today.

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This book examines the political and legal challenges of regional governance in the European Union and the Council of Europe. Academics and policy makers will learn from its analysis of legal and political efforts to integrate supranational and intergovernmental agencies with national political systems.

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This book examines the political and legal challenges of regional governance in the European Union and the Council of Europe. Academics and policy makers will learn from its analysis of legal and political efforts to integrate supranational and intergovernmental agencies with national political systems.