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Analyzes the causes and impact of government secrecy and applies three possible explanations to a case study of US information policy with regard to the Congo crisis of 1960-61. Explanations are: to protect sensitive information from external enemies, result of the irrational features in any government bureaucracy, and to mislead populations of their own countries.

"This book explores religion-regime relations in contemporary Zimbabwe to identify patterns of co-operation and resistance across diverse religious institutions. Using co-operation and resistance as an analytical framework, the book shows how different religious organisations have interacted with Emmerson Mnangagwa's "Second Republic", following Robert Mugabe's departure from the political scene. In particular, through case studies on the Zimbabwe Council of Churches, Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference and Pentecostals, African Traditional Religions, Islam, and others, the book explores how different religious institutions have responded to Mnangagwa's new regime. Chapters highlight the complexities characterising the religion-regime interface, showing how the same religious organisation might co-operate and resist at the same time. Furthermore, the book compares how religious institutions co-operated or resisted Mugabe's earlier regime to identify patterns of continuity and change. Overall, the book highlights the challenges of deploying simplistic frames in efforts to understand the interface between politics and religion. A significant contribution to global scholarship on religion-regime interfaces, this book will appeal to academics and students in the field of Religious Studies, Political Science, History and African Studies"--

"This book focuses on collaborative work within the disciplines of international law and international relations, to note sample efforts to collaborate, and to assess the cultivation of an interdisciplinary outlook"--

"Les Relations internationales suscitent un intérêt croissant auprès des étudiants qui, dans leur vie professionnelle à venir, seront quotidiennement au contact du monde extérieur. La discipline se présente ainsi comme un enseignement de synthèse, destiné à intégrer la dimension extérieure des différents cursus universitaires. Cet ouvrage d'introduction aux Relations internationales se présente donc comme un instrument d'accompagnement des étudiants des instituts d'études politiques, des facultés de droit et d'économie ainsi qu'aux élèves des classes préparatoires. Afin de mieux appréhender les caractéristiques du monde contemporain, celui-ci a été abordé à partir de quatre « scènes » distinctes : - la scène de la société interétatique est le domaine privilégié des diplomaties ; - la scène des organisations internationales permet de comprendre comment la coopération intergouvernementale peut, sous certaines conditions, se transformer en intégration supranationale ; - la scène de la société transnationale analyse les conséquences de l'ouverture des sociétés internes sur le monde ; - enfin, la scène de l'économie-monde est le domaine d'expansion du marché qui organise l'interdépendance des nations. La prise en compte des dimensions historique, politique, économique, sociologique et juridique des Relations internationales vise ainsi à comprendre le rôle des multiples acteurs impliqués dans la structuration du monde contemporain, lequel oscille en permanence entre coopération et compétition."

The relevancy and the adequacy of psychology as applied to the study of international relations is set forth. Problems of generalization from the individual to the nation, laboratory experiments, and psychological reductionism are discussed. The authors, members of the Department of Psychology at the University of Miami, are firm in their belief that psychology has much to contribute to international relations on a variety of levels.

A gap is currently growing between the rich theories in International Relations (IR) and how they are presented in classrooms. Although the scholarly literature acknowledges the complexities of international relations, these notions are not fully integrated into IR courses, especially at the introductory level. I assert that teaching IR through the framework of relations between different me(s) and other(s) would address this problem. In short, I claim that international relations are almost by definition about interactions between a me and an other. Acknowledging this fact will allow us to sharpen a number of important issues and questions in world politics concerning the me(s) (for example, states, ethnic groups, IGOs, NGOs, transnational communities) and their relevant other(s). I contend that this approach helps to capture the multiplicity of actors, interactions, and practices in IR, and to better connect them to the theories in the field. I further suggest that this approach not only provides a fruitful method for teaching IR, but it also allows scholars (and students) to rethink and reflect on the field. Adapted from the source document.

The new edition of this exciting textbook introduces students to the ways in which the theories and tools of international relations and other social science disciplines can be used to analyse and address global environmental problems. Kate O'Neill develops an innovative historical and analytical framework for understanding global environmental issues, integrating insights from different disciplines, and she identifies the main actors and their roles, thereby encouraging readers to engage with the issues and equip themselves with the knowledge they need to apply their own critical insights. Revised and updated, the new edition features new figures, examples, textboxes, and a new chapter on the emergence and politics of market mechanisms as a new mode of global environmental governance. The latest developments in the field, including the December 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, along with new perspectives and recent thinking, are incorporated throughout. This will be invaluable for students of environmental issues both from political science and environmental studies perspectives.

A common theme of all the books under review is the neglect of change by scholars in the social sciences generally, and especially in the study of international relations. A number of reasons are offered in explanation of this. One is that change is hard whereas continuity is comparatively easy. What stays the same over time is simpler to map than that which changes. In any young science static comes before dynamic analysis. (Gilpin, p. 4) Another reason for the neglect of change is the dead weight of tradition. The argument in the volume is that established theoretical approaches to the field have over-emphasized continuity at the expense of change.' (Buzan and Jones, p. 2; see also Holsti et al., p. xvii) A third reason is the decline in grand theory. (Gilpin, p. 4) We are reluctant to ask big questions about society any more and are concentrating on small and middle-sized ones. Fourthly, of course, there is the now well-known western bias in the study of international relations, and a parochialism which allows no purchase on the non-western systems whose study would be important for a theory of international political change. (Gilpin, p. 5) A fifth reason for the failure to do justice to change is anti-intellectualism. The search for laws of change is futile because of the uniqueness, and complexity of historical events. (Gilpin, pp. 4–5) No order can be imposed on the empire of circumstance. Finally, there is the idea that the conservatism of the western practitioner of political science conditions his or her treatment of the subject. (Gilpin, pp. 6–7) A preference for stability, or for, at most, orderly social change, makes it difficult to give a proper account of the radical change that would make the life of the observer uncomfortable. It is not surprising, says Chris Farrands, that one looks in vain to conservative thinkers for 'an account, still less a theory, of international social change'. (Buzan and Jones, p. 87)

"Are social practices actions, or institutional frameworks of interaction structured by common rules? How do social practices such as signing a cheque differ from international practices such as signing a peace treaty? Traversing the fields of International Relations (IR) and philosophy, this book defends an institutionalist conception of practices as part of a general practice theory indebted to Oakeshott, Wittgenstein and Hegel. The proposed practice theory has two core aspects: practice internalism and normative descriptivism. In developing a philosophical analysis of social practices that has a special relevance for international relations, Silviya Lechner and Mervyn Frost depart from Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of practice that dominates the current 'practice turn' in IR. The authors show that the contemporary global realm is constituted by two distinct macro practices- the practice of sovereign states and that of global rights"--

Intro -- Contents -- Editor and Contributors -- About the Editor -- Contributors -- 1 Rethinking the Religious Factor in Foreign Policy: An Introduction -- References -- Teil I Strategies of Implementing Religious Influence on Foreign Policy -- 2 Religious Soft Power and the Foreign Policy of Donald Trump -- 1 Religious Resurgence and Post-Secularism -- 2 States, Soft Power and International Relations -- 3 Evolution of the Politics Of International Religious Freedom in the USA -- 3.1 Clinton, Bush, Obama and the Politics of International Religious Freedom -- 3.2 Trump and the Politics of International Religious Freedom -- 4 The Commission on Unalienable Rights: Enhancing Human Rights? -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- 3 The Role of Religion in the Evolution of Turkey's Foreign Policy -- 1 Foreign Policy Role Concepts -- 1.1 The Conception of Foreign Policy Role Concepts -- 1.2 Civilian Power as a Foreign Power Role Concept -- 1.3 Regional Power as a Foreign Power Role Concept -- 2 The Rise of the AKP and of a New Foreign Policy Role Concept -- 2.1 Turkey's Traditional Foreign Policy Role Concept: Defensive Nationalism -- 2.2 Religious-Secular Conflict in Turkey -- 2.3 Towards a New Foreign Policy Role Concept: Religion as a Base for a Civilizational Dialogue -- 2.4 The Limitations of the Quest for the Recognition of Religion -- 3 The Regional Power Role Concept -- 3.1 Turkey and the Arab Spring -- 3.2 The Domestic Usage of "Regional Power": Religion as Divisive Identity -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- 4 Constructing Russian Foreign Policy: Interdependencies Between the State and the Russian Orthodox Church -- 1 From Church Revival to Church Reboot: The Evolution of the Russian Orthodox Church in Post-Soviet Russia -- 1.1 Finding a National Idea: Russian Collective Identity as a Source of the Post-Soviet Repositioning.