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Just War Theory
Scott A. Silverstone
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Just War Theory Introduction The Just War tradition is based on the claim that only under certain conditions can war be morally defensible. Just ...
Korean War
Paul M. Edwards
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2017-09-27
Korean WarIntroductionThe Korean War (1950–1953) was isolated between the patriotic conflict of World War II and the provocative battles of Vietnam an...
Kurdistan and Kurdish Politics
Bahar Baser
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2016-01-21
Kurdistan and Kurdish PoliticsIntroductionKurds are an ethnic group in the Middle East and they constitute the biggest stateless nation in the world. ...
Law of the Sea
Corine Wood Donnelly
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Law of the Sea Introduction The law of the sea is a living component of international public law and domestic law. The historical foundations o...
Laws of War
Calin Trenkov-Wermuth
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Laws of War Introduction The laws of war are a set of rules that aim to regulate the acceptable reasons for going to war (jus ad bellum), the con...
Leadership in International Affairs
Joseph Cerami
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Leadership in International Affairs Introduction The literature on leadership in international affairs is interdisciplinary and, of course, exten...
Leadership Personality Characteristics and Foreign Policy
David G. Winter
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2019-02-27
Leadership Personality Characteristics and Foreign PolicyIntroductionWhen wars are declared or avoided, crises created or resolved, or peace and coope...
League of Nations
Christopher Seely
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
League of Nations Introduction The League of Nations was designed and authorized during the 1919 Paris Peace Conference in the aftermath of...
Lean Forward and Pull Back Options for US Grand Strategy
Gabriela Marin Thornton
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2016-10-27
Lean Forward and Pull Back Options For US Grand StrategyIntroductionShould the US grand strategy be one of leaning forward or one of pulling back? Or ...
Liberalism
Jonathan Cristol
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
LiberalismIntroductionLiberal international relations (IR) theory is related to, but distinct from, the Utopianism of the interwar period. The utopian...
Marxism
Gareth Dale
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Marxism Introduction Although Marxism has had a good deal to say about historically evolving structures that transcend national borders, the rela...
Mediation and Civil Wars
J. Michael Greig
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2017-05-24
Mediation and Civil WarsIntroductionCivil wars constitute among the most destabilizing threats in the international system. Civil wars produce grave h...
Mediation in International Conflicts
Molly M. Melin
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Mediation in International ConflictsIntroductionMediation, like conflict, spans both history and the globe. Examples range from the diplomatic efforts...
Mediation via International Organizations
Zorzeta Bakaki
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
Mediation via International OrganizationsIntroductionSeveral factors can increase the risk of war between states. But war primarily occurs when states...
Memory and World Politics
Dovilė Budrytė
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Memory and World PoliticsIntroductionAlthough the study of memory has been very popular in the social sciences since the 1980s, scholars studying worl...
Mercantilism
Kenneth A. Reinert
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2021-02-24
MercantilismIntroductionThe notion of “mercantilism” or the “mercantile system” as a formal idea was identified by Adam Smith in his The Wealth of Nat...
Middle East, The Contemporary
Sanford R. Silverburg
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2019-10-30
The Contemporary Middle EastSanford R. Silverburg updated this article on 30 October 2019. It was originally written by Sanford R. Silverburg and Davi...
Middle East, The Contemporary
Sanford R. Silverburg, David Ettinger
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2017-03-30
The Contemporary Middle EastIntroductionAs historic issues continue to fester, historical controversies resurface with renewed intensity, and new thre...
Middle Powers and Regional Powers
Şuhnaz Yilmaz
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2017-09-27
Middle Powers and Regional PowersIntroductionThe terms “middle powers” and “regional powers” are increasingly used by politicians, pundits, and schola...
Military Science
Joseph Cerami, John David Young
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Military Science Introduction Military science is a term that generally dates back to the Industrial Revolution, when many disciplines sought to ...
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