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Free Download China’s Relations with Africa: A New Era of Strategic Engagement by Joshua Eisenman, David H. Shinn
English | August 1, 2023 | ISBN: 0231210000, 0231210019 | True PDF | 504 pages | 5.6 MB
Since Xi Jinping’s accession to power in 2012, nearly every aspect of China’s relations with Africa has grown dramatically. Beijing has increased the share of resources it devotes to African countries, expanding military cooperation, technological investment, and educational and cultural programs as well as extending its political influence.

Free Download Christopher Lord, Olga Strietska-Ilina, "Parallel Cultures: Majority/Minority Relations in the Countries of the Former Eastern Bloc"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1138726206, 1138726214 | EPUB | pages: 308 | 0.8 mb
This title was first published in 2001. This stimulating and well-written text is particularly suitable as a subsidiary text for courses in politics, sociology and ethnic studies.

Free Download Chanintira na Thalang, "International Relations as a Discipline in Thailand "
English | ISBN: 036748434X | 2020 | 288 pages | EPUB | 923 KB
There has long been considerable debate about the nature of non-Western IR theory. Most attempts to understand such a phenomenon begin by taking a top-down approach on a country by country basis. Instead, this book takes a bottom-up approach, involving specialists from a range of Thai universities, revealing the contours of the Thai IR community. It examines the state of various sub-fields under the IR rubric in Thailand such as foreign policy analysis, security studies, international political economy and area studies, and how Thai thinkers in these fields have contributed to IR as a discipline and IR theory development in Thailand. In doing so, it identifies factors unique to Thai academia which have hindered the development of an indigenous-sourced theory as well as exploring the similarities shared with other non-Western contexts that have posed an obstacle to the creation of a more general non-Western IR theory.

Free Download Brian Parkinson, "Emotion in Social Relations: Cultural, Group, and Interpersonal Processes"
English | ISBN: 1841690457 | 2004 | 312 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Within psychology, emotion is often treated as something private and personal. In contrast, this book tries to understand emotion from the ‘outside,’ by examining the everyday social settings in which it operates. Three levels of social influence are considered in decreasing order of inclusiveness, starting with the surrounding culture and subculture, moving on to the more delimited organization or group, and finally focusing on the interpersonal setting.

Free Download Chris Rumford, "New Perspectives on Turkey-EU Relations"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0415825717, 1138377740 | EPUB | pages: 94 | 0.9 mb
This book makes the case for looking afresh at Turkey-EU relations in order to appreciate the richness and complexity of a relationship which is now more than 50 years old and is still not close to reaching fulfilment. The contributors challenge conventional attempts to understand Turkey-EU relations, revealing that EU integration studies has been rather poor at understanding the global context within which Turkey-EU developments take place. More surprising perhaps, EU integration studies has also struggled to give sufficient weight to the potential of Turkey’s domestic politics to shape EU enlargement. The volume attempts to correct these imbalances by offering both a global context and new perspectives on the drivers of domestic politics. It represents a shift from a narrow EU integration/enlargement agenda. Turkey’s position vis-a-vis the EU cannot be adequately captured by simplistic notions of conditionality, harmonization, and an uncritical interpretation of Europeanization. A more rounded view of Turkey-EU relations is advanced based upon a broader context of European and global transformations. The contributions, collected here, offer an interpretation of Turkey-EU relations from a novel perspective, utilize a new framework of theory, and draw upon insights and perspectives from disciplines underrepresented in mainstream study of Turkey-EU relations.

Free Download Rivalry and Accord: International Relations, 1870-1914 By John Lowe and Robert Pearce
2001 | 130 Pages | ISBN: 0340804319 | PDF | 48 MB
A diplomatic history of the Great Powers from the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.

Free Download Edith Tilton Penrose, "New Orientations: Essays in International Relations"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0714625930, 113897711X | EPUB | pages: 148 | 0.3 mb
First Published in 1970.This is a collection of critical essays on international relations and is the first in a volume of series of publications. As the general title indicates, the essays will express forward looking, often ‘revisionist’ points of view. Their main themes will be those of contemporary international relations, broadly interpreted. But contemporary events are obviously affected by events in the past, especially the recent past, and we shall seek essays devoted to new or revised interpretations in international history. The contributors also aim at including essays on the economic as well as the political aspects of international relations.

Free Download Sungju Park-Kang, "Fictional International Relations: Gender, Pain and Truth"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0415718619 | PDF | pages: 187 | 1.4 mb
This book proposes the idea of fictional International Relations (IR) and engages with feminist IR by contextualising the case of a woman spy in Korea in the Cold War.

Free Download Cihan Dizdaroğlu, "Turkish-Greek Relations: Foreign Policy in a Securitisation Framework "
English | ISBN: 147449210X | 2023 | 208 pages | PDF | 1330 KB
The relationship with Greece has always been at the forefront in determining Turkish foreign policy. This book focuses broadly on the main issues of contention between Turkey and Greece, and analyses Turkey’s policies towards Greece, based on the securitisation framework and focusing on the discourse of elites in the post-Cold War period. It inquires how, by whom and the extent to which Turkish foreign policy has securitised and de-securitised Greece.

Free Download George Kallander, "Human-Animal Relations and the Hunt in Korea and Northeast Asia "
English | ISBN: 1399512099 | 2023 | 320 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book focuses on the transitional period in late Koryŏ and early Chosŏn dynasty Korea from the 1270s until 1506, situating the Korean peninsula in relation to the neighbouring Mongol Empire and Ming Dynasty China. During this period, Korean statesmen expanded their influence over people and the environment. Human-animal relations became increasingly significant to politics, national security, and elite identities. Animals, both wild and domestic, were used in ritual sacrifices, submitted as tax tribute, exchanged in regional trade, and most significantly, hunted. Royal proponents of the hunt, as a facet of political and military legitimacy, were contested by a small but vocal group of officials. These vocal elites attempted to circumscribe royal authority by co-opting hunting through Confucian laws and rites, either by regulating the practice to a state ritual at best, or, at worst, considering it a barbaric exercise not befitting of the royal family. While kings defied the narrow Confucian views on governance that elevated book learning over martial skills, these tensions revealed how the meaning of political power and authority were shaped. Attention to animals and hunting depicts how a multiplicity of cultural references―Sinic, Korean, Northeast Asian, and steppeland―existed in tension with each other and served as a battleground for defining politics, society, and ritual. Kallander argues that rather than mere resources, animals were a site over which power struggles were waged.