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Peace of Utrecht
Linda Frey, Marsha Frey
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Peace of Utrecht Introduction The agreements that concluded the War of the Spanish Succession, often collectively referred to as the Peace of ...
Peacebuilding, Post-Conflict
Ben Boulton, John Heathershaw
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Postconflict Peace Building Introduction In the contemporary post-9/11 era, in which the implications of the terms security and threat have be...
Peacekeeping
Erik K. Rundquist
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Peacekeeping Introduction Although the term “peacekeeping” is not defined in the original 1945 United Nations (UN) Charter, the act of using civi...
Power Transition Theory
Ronald L. Tammen, Jacek Kugler, Doug Lemke
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2012-07-24
Power Transition Theory Introduction Power transition theory is a structural and dynamic approach to world politics. Although it is sometimes ...
Preventive War and Preemption
Scott A. Silverstone
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Preventive War and Preemption Introduction Preventive war is a persistent theme in the history of international politics and in theoretical expla...
Proliferation
Carol Turner
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Proliferation Introduction Proliferation describes growth by the rapid multiplication of parts. In science this is the process by which an orga...
Realism
Jonathan Cristol
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Realism Introduction There are many different types of realist theory. “Classical realism” was developed in the 1940s in response to the utop...
Reconciliation
Kora Andrieu
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Reconciliation Introduction “Reconciliation = closure + healing” wrote Johan Galtung. If reconciliation could indeed be reduced to an equation...
Russian Revolutions and Civil War, 1917-1921
Michael Kort
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Russian Revolutions and Civil War, 1917–1921 Introduction The Russian Revolution has not permitted Western historians the comfort of neutralit...
Sanctions
Adrian Ang
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Sanctions Introduction The study of sanctions is topical but also contentious and inconclusive in international relations. On the one hand, scholars...
Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), The
Steve Phillips
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) Introduction The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945), what the Chinese often refer to as the Eight Y...
Securitization
Rens van Munster
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Securitization Introduction The concept of securitization is generally associated with the Copenhagen school of security studies, which is gen...
Self-Determination
Hurst Hannum
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Self-Determination Introduction Self-determination implies the right of a particular group of people to determine for themselves how and by wh...
Sovereignty
Peter Hägel
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Sovereignty Introduction The concept of sovereignty designates a form of rule that is intrinsically entwined with the emergence and existence of ...
Space Strategy, Policy, and Power
Eligar Sadeh
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2012-07-24
Space Strategy, Policy, and Power Introduction The development of strategy by states serves and fulfills policy and links power to purpose. Po...
Spanish Succession (1701-1714), War of the
Jamel Ostwald
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714) Introduction Of Louis XIV’s many wars, his last, the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714), rema...
State Theory in International Relations
Lucas G. Freire, Marjo Koivisto
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
State Theory in International Relations Introduction The state is one of the most used terms in international relations (IR) theory, and yet I...
Statehood
Bridget L. Coggins
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Statehood Introduction States are the principal and most fundamental actors in world politics. Although supranational organizations and nonstate ...
Strategic Air Power
Robert Gerald Hughes
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Strategic Air Power Introduction Strategic air power is one of the means by which a military strategy employs aerial platforms to bypass the batt...
Strategic and Net Assessments
Joseph Cerami
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Strategic and Net Assessments Introduction The role of strategic and net assessment has evolved since its inception during the Cold War and now m...
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