Museum Diplomacy makes the case for the significance of museums' activities in the global sphere by bringing together contributions from leading practitioners and scholars who critically assess the sector's global engagement, providing insights into the import and nature of current practices of museum diplomacy.
Pope Francis, Vatican Diplomacy, and America's Armageddon
Using inside sources and extensive field reporting about the secretive, high-stakes world of international diplomacy, Vatican reporter Victor Gaetan takes readers to the Holy See to explicate Pope Franciss diplomacy, show why it works, and to offer readers a startling contrast to the dangerous inadequacies of recent U.S. international ......
Over the years, the 1986 assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme has attracted considerable international attention. Yet, far more interesting than Palme's death is his opposition to the Vietnam War. Neutral Sweden had the independence to challenge the Nixon administration that members of NATO did not have.
Jean-Pierre Cabestan, a China specialist based in Hong Kong, provides an overview of "Thucydides' Trap," as coined by political scientist Graham Allison to describe the inescapable conflict between Beijing and Washington. Is China's growing power a threat to the United States? Could it lead to war between the two nations? Economically and ......
The foreign policy behavior of small states, which in today's world comprise some sixty countries, is not prominently represented in academia. Studies associated with these states' foreign policy tend to focus on their behavior in the international arena with a clear dominance of realist thoughts. Small states are often seen from a closed-box ......
Jean-Pierre Cabestan, a China specialist based in Hong Kong, provides an overview of "Thucydides' Trap," as coined by political scientist Graham Allison to describe the inescapable conflict between Beijing and Washington. Is China's growing power a threat to the United States? Could it lead to war between the two nations? Economically and ......
This book examines North Korea's foreign relations under Kim Jong-un. It focuses on how the North Korean regime manages the relations to meet its survival needs.
As the Caribbean and Latin America confront the significant socio- economic and political challenges of the twenty- first century, the contributors to this book present a timely and relevant assessment of these issues, from a fresh small-states perspective. The collection of articles by academics and practitioners in international relations offer ......
The Threats of Illiberalism, Populism, and Polarization
Like in many other states worldwide, democracy is in trouble in South Korea, entering a state of regression in the past decade, barely thirty years after its emergence in 1987. The contributors to this volume trace the sources of illiberalism in today's Korea.
