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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464186503321

Titolo

Guide to international relations and diplomacy / / edited by Michael Graham Fry, Erik Goldstein and Richard Langhorne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , 2002

ISBN

1-62356-603-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (592 p.)

Disciplina

327

Soggetti

International relations

Diplomacy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Introduction; Arrangement of the Material; Part I: The International System; 1. Organization of the International System; 2. International Organizations; Introduction; Private International Humanitarian Organizations; Supervision of International Activity; Maintaining Peace; Part II: Crises and Meetings; 1. The Congress and Concert of Europe, 1814-1830; 2. Nationalism and Unification, 1830-1871; 3. The Eastern Question, 1814-1923; 4. The Coming of War, 1879-1914; 5. Crises and Conferences, 1914-1945; 6. Crises and Conferences, 1945-1990

Peace Settlements after the Second World WarThe Cold War, 1945-1989; US-USSR Summits, 1959-1989; 7. Crises and Conferences since 1990; Part III: Policies and Doctrines; General; United States; Soviet Union; France; Germany; Japan; United Kingdom; Part IV: Force and Diplomacy; 1. Intelligence; 2. War; 3. Arms Control; General; Naval Arms Control; Conventional Arms; Nuclear Arms Control; Biological and Chemical Weapons; Part V: Common International Space; Part VI: Diplomatic Relations; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

This encyclopedic-style guide to international relations and diplomacy consists of 900 entries, arranged broadly by key concepts, such as diplomatic relations; diplomatic agreements; force and diplomacy;



doctrines; policies and tactics, etc. moving from the general and structural issues of the global system to more detailed events, crises and war. The editors draw together a large quantity of background and contextual information on the evolution and functioning of the global international system in one volume. It covers the time period from the Vienna Congress in 1815 to the present.