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Intro -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgment -- 1 Introduction:Why study international relations and other basic questions -- 2 International theory, Realism, and power politics -- 3 Liberalism and building world orders -- 4 Post-positivist theories of international relations -- 5 Foreign policy -- 6 International conflict and competition -- 7 Military power and war -- 8 International law, international organization, and human rights -- 9 International trade and international production -- 10 International and global finance -- 11 International and regional integration and disintegration -- 12 Natural resources, population, and the environment -- 13 North-South gaps and old-new gaps -- 14 Economic, human, and political development -- 15 Conclusions -- Index

"Revolutionary Diplomacy" published on by Oxford University Press.

Is diplomacy important and can diplomats make a difference? This article examines these questions in the context of American foreign policy during the first two years of the Obama administration. The policy of George W. Bush's administration in Iraq and Iraq, unilateral in form and controversial in substance, ensured that foreign policy was a major issue in the election campaign, with all of the major candidates agreeing that American diplomacy needed to be restored. Candidate Obama went beyond the consensus about restoring the status and influence of the State Department, however, to argue that the United States should talk without preconditions, even with regimes of which it did not approve. In office, Obama and his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, rhetorically elevated diplomacy to an equal standing with defence and development, provided resources for greatly expanding the Foreign Service, and stressed the importance of taking advantage of developments in information technology to strengthen public and 'digital' diplomacy in the service of civilian power. They also 'reset' certain key bilateral relationships and 'reengaged' multilateralism. However, American diplomacy under Obama remains framed by the increasingly questionable assumption that its renewed openness to talking, its continued military superiority and its claim to embody universal values will continue to confer upon it the mantle of global leadership. If US administrations continue to assume that this is so, then American diplomacy will face the challenge of trying to bridge the increasingly widening gap between their aspirations and the means available to sustain them.

"Diplomacy" published on by Oxford University Press.

It is often assumed that Britain's colonies followed the British doctrine of free trade in the second half of the nineteenth century. Malta, which became a British colony in 1814, did indeed become an early free trader. However, she failed to liberalize the grain trade, even when the mother country famously repealed the Corn Laws. This paper documents that although institutions changed over the years, the ad valorem equivalents of the duties on wheat did not. The reason for this seems to be that administrators were convinced that is was not possible to fund government spending in any other way. The duties on grain in Malta were therefore not protectionist, but rather for revenue purposes, in contrast to the UK Corn Laws. Taxing an inelastic demand for foreign wheat by Maltese, who were unable to grow enough food to support themselves, was certainly an effective way of raising revenue, but probably not the fairest one, as contemporaries were well aware. ; peer-reviewed