International Relations - 1.B. W. Maxwell, International Relations. Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York, 1939, x + 663 pp., $3.75. - 2.Walter R. Sharp, and Grayson Kirk, Contemporary International Relations. Farrar and Rinehart, New York, 1940, xviii + 840 pp., $4.00. - 3.H. Arthur Steiner, Principles and Problems of International Relations. Harper and Brothers, New York, 1940, xii + 835 pp., $3.75. - 4.Francis J. Brown, Charles Hodges, and Joseph S. Roucek, Contemporary World Politics. John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1940, xv + 780 pp., $4.00. - 5.William E. Rappard, The Quest for Peace. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1940, xx + 516 pp., $4.00. - 6.Arnold Wolfers, Britain and France Between Two Wars. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1940, 467 pp., $3.75. - 7.W. Ivor Jennings, A Federation for Western Europe. The MacMillan Company, New York, 1940, xi + 208 pp., $2.50.

1940 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-365
Author(s):  
Waldemar Gurian
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Contemporary World

The past, present, and future of intervention

2013 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. 1233-1253 ◽  
Author(s):  
GEORGE LAWSON ◽  
LUCA TARDELLI
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The Past ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries

AbstractDespite the prominent place of intervention in contemporary world politics, debate is limited by two weaknesses: first, an excessive presentism; and second, a focus on normative questions to the detriment of analysis of the longer-term sociological dynamics that fuel interventionary pressures. In keeping with the focus of the Special Issue on the ways in which intervention is embedded within modernity, this article examines the emergence of intervention during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, assesses its place in the contemporary world, and considers its prospects in upcoming years. The main point of the article is simple – although intervention changes in character across time and place, it is a persistent feature of modern international relations. As such, intervention is here to stay.

British Broadcasting; A Study in Monopoly. By R. H. Coase. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1950. Pp. ix, 206. $2.75.) - Canada. Edited by George W. Brown. (Berkeley: University of California Press. 1950. Pp. xxi, 621, $6.50.) - The Woman Suffrage Movement in Canada. By Catherine Lyle Cleverdon. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 1950. Pp. xiii, 324. $4.50.) - Britain's Crisis of Empire. By R. Palme Dutt. (New York: International Publishers. 1950. Pp. 168. $1.25.) - The British Approach to Politics. By Michael Stewart. (London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd.1949. Pp. viii, 336. $3.50.) - Tito. By George Bilainkin. (New York: Philosophical Library, Inc.1950. Pp. 287. $3.75.) - Israel in Crisis. By A. B. Magil. (New York: International Publishers. 1950. Pp. 224. $2.50.) - The Governments of Foreign Powers. By Philip W. Buck and John W. Maslan (New York: Henry Holt and Company. 1950. Pp. xi, 948. $4.00.) - Notes on Educational Problems in Communist China; 1941–1947. By Michael Lindsay. (New York: Institute of Pacific Relations. 1950. Pp. iii, 194. $2.50.) - The Development of Upland Areas in the Far East. By Pierre Gourou, Joseph E. Spencer and Glenn T. Trehartha. (New York: Institute of Pacific Relations. 1949. Pp. iii, 82. $1.00.) - An Encyclopedia of Modern World Politics. By Walter Theimer. (New York and Toronto: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1950. Pp. 696. $5.00.)

1950 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 785-791
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Far East ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
World Politics ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Modern World ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Communist China ◽  
Institute Of Pacific Relations

scholarly journals Sustainable International Relations. Pope Francis’ Encyclical Laudato Si’ and the Planetary Implications of “Integral Ecology”

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ferrara
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
International Relations Theory ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Development Economic ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Integral Ecology

This paper analyzes the theoretical and pragmatic implications for international relations and world politics of the new holistic approach to climate change articulated by Pope Francis in the Encyclical Laudato Si’, particularly through the notion of “integral ecology”. It is not my intention to offer an exegesis of the Papal document. I will rather try to illustrate and discuss its planetary hermeneutics. I emphasize that the Encyclical’s perspective is not exclusively normative, and that, within the dynamic interplay between social structure and human agency, it can also be considered as a call to action. In this context, I suggest that both International Relations Theory and global politics have much to learn from the fundamental claims of contemporary religions in relation to climate disruption. In particular, Pope Francis’ document, far from being just a new chapter in the unfolding process of the “greening” of religions, raises the issue of the sustainability of the present world system. Therefore, I contend that the perspective of the Encyclical calls for a radical transformation of international relations, since it emphasizes the deep implications of environmental issues on the entire spectrum of security, development, economic and ethical challenges of contemporary world politics. Against this backdrop, my objective is to connect the main tenets of the Encyclical to the environmental turn in International Relations Theory and to the new epistemological challenges related to the paradigm shift induced by the new planetary condition of the Anthropocene and the relevant questions arising for a justice encompassing the humanity-earth system. The Encyclical seems to suggest that practicing sustainable international relations means exiting the logic of power or hegemony, while simultaneously operationalizing the concept of care.

Military Assistance for Pakistan

1954 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 738-751 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. Spain
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
American Foreign Policy ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Military Assistance ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Military Alliance ◽  
Specific Implementation

On November 1, 1953 the Karachi correspondent of the New York Times filed a dispatch reporting that discussions of a military alliance between Pakistan and the United States were about to begin. On February 25,1954 President Eisenhower announced that the United States had decided to give military assistance to Pakistan for the purpose of “strengthening the defensive capabilities of the Middle East.” With the President's statement a new and powerful force entered the international politics of South Asia and another landmark of American foreign policy was set up. In the four months which intervened between the newspaper report and the official announcement, most of the important trends and issues in contemporary world politics had touched on or been touched by the U. S.-Pakistan proposal. Internal and external affairs of a dozen countries were affected. Most of the instruments of diplomacy and propaganda were employed to support or oppose agreement. Of primary importance to the United States was the clear and specific implementation of our established policy of supporting regional alliances of free nations to “contain” Soviet aggression and to prevent further expansion. Because of the novelty of the area into which the policy was extended, the speed with which it was implemented, and the precision of the reactions of all parties, American military assistance for Pakistan constitutes an almost ideal case study of international relations in a world in which the movement of events has been greatly accelerated.

scholarly journals Sustainable International Relations. Pope Francis’ Encyclical Laudato si’ and the Planetary Implications of the “Integral Ecology”

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pasquale Ferrara
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Development Economic ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Present World ◽  
Radical Transformation ◽  
Integral Ecology

This paper analyzes the theoretical and pragmatic implications, for international relations and world politics, of the new holistic approach to climate change articulated by Pope Francis in the Encyclical Laudato si’, particularly through the notion “integral ecology”. Far for being just a new chapter in the unfolding process of the “greening” of religions, the document raises in radical terms the issue of the sustainability of the present world system. I contend that the perspective of the Encyclical calls for a radical transformation of international relations, since it puts emphasis on the deep implications of environmental issues on the entire spectrum of security, development, economic and ethical challenges of contemporary world politics. Against this backdrop, I connect the main tenets of the Encyclical to the environmental turn in International Relations Theory and to the new epistemological challenges related to paradigm shift induced by the new planetary condition of the Anthropocene and the questions arising for a justice encompassing the humanity-earth system. Practicing sustainable international relations means exiting the logic of power or hegemony, operationalizing the concept of care.

The State of the Japanese State

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gavan McCormack
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
World Politics ◽  
The State ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Modern Japan ◽  
Client State ◽  
Constitutional Revision

In this his latest work, Gavan McCormack argues that Abe Shinzo’s efforts to re-engineer the Japanese state may fail, but his radicalism continues to shake the country and will have consequences not easy now to predict. The significance of this book will be widely recognized, particularly by those researching contemporary world politics, international relations and the history of modern Japan. McCormack here revisits and reassesses his previous formulations of Japan as construction state (doken kokka), client state (zokkoku), constitutional pacifist state, and colonial state (especially in its relationship to Okinawa). He adds a further chapter on what he calls the ‘rampant state’, that outlines the increasingly authoritarian or ikkyo (one strong) turn of the Abe government in the fifth year of its second term. And he critically addresses the Abe agenda for constitutional revision.

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