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International relations

Here are entered theoretical works on the relations among the nations of the world. Works on general political history and historical accounts of relations among nations are entered under World politics. Works on the foreign relations of an individual country are entered under the name of the country with the subdivision Foreign relations.

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• The Emergence of Noopolitik: Towards an American Information Strategy (1999), by John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt (PDF files at rand.org)
• Nuclear Reactions: How Nuclear-Armed States Behave (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, c2021), by Mark Bell
  • HTML at Project MUSE
  • PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell University Press
• National Negotiating Styles (Washington: Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Dept. of State, 1987), ed. by Hans Binnendijk (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Foreign Policy of Freedom: "Peace, Commerce, and Honest Friendship" (Lake Jackson, TX: Foundation for Rational Economics and Education, c2007), by Ron Paul (PDF and Epub with commentary at mises.org)
• The Behavioral Origins of War (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), by D. Scott Bennett and Allan C. Stam (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbook of War Studies II (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), ed. by Manus I. Midlarsky (page images at HathiTrust)
• Human Security and Mutual Vulnerability: The Global Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment (second edition, 1999), by Jorge Nef (PDF and HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)
• Footnotes to History: Selected Speeches And Writings Of Edmund A. Walsh, S.J., Founder of The School of Foreign Service (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1990), by Edmund A. Walsh, ed. by Anna Watkins (PDF at Georgetown)
• International Relations: The World Community in Transition (second edition; Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1957), by Norman D. Palmer and Howard Cecil Perkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• U.S. Commitment to International Population Planning (address to 1984 International Conference on Population, published as U.S. Dept. of State Current Policy #604; 1984), by James Lane Buckley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Compound Containment: A Reigning Power's Military-Economic Countermeasures Against a Challenging Power (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2022), by Dong Jung Kim (PDF and Epub with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• A Hard Look at Hard Power: Assessing the Defense Capabilities of Key U.S. Allies and Security Partners (second edition; Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute and U.S. Army War College Press, 2020), ed. by Gary James Schmitt (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)
• World of Walls: The Structure, Roles and Effectiveness of Separation Barriers (Cambridge, UK et al.: Open Book Publishers, c2017), by Said Saddiki (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Franklin D. Roosevelt's World Order (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1959), by Willard Range (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rising China: Power and Reassurance (2009), ed. by Ronald Huisken (PDF and HTML with commentary at ANU E Press)
• Breakthrough: Emerging New Thinking: Soviet and Western Scholars Issue a Challenge to Build a World Beyond War (1988), ed. by Anatoly Gromyko and Martin Hellman (HTML and PDF with commentary at Stanford)
• Our Global Neighbourhood, by Commission on Global Governance (HTML with commentary at cgg.ch)
• Understanding Conflict and War, by R. J. Rummel
  • volume 1: HTML at Hawaii
  • volume 2: HTML at Hawaii
  • volume 3: HTML at Hawaii
  • volume 4: HTML at Hawaii
  • volume 5: HTML at Hawaii
• The Value of Knowledge in International Relations (London: International Federation of University Women, 1920), by Viscount Edward Grey of Fallodon (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Arms and Industry: A Study of the Foundations of International Polity (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1914), by Norman Angell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Die Einheit des Rechtlichen Weltbildes auf Grundlage der Völkerrechtsverfassung (in German; Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1923), by Alfred Verdross (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Foundations of International Polity (London: W. Heinemann, c1914), by Norman Angell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Völkerrecht (in German; Freiburg et al.: J.C.B. Mohr (P. Siebeck), 1898), by Emanuel Ullmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Völkerrecht (in German; Tubingen: J.C.B. Mohr (P. Siebeck), 1898), by Emanuel Ullmann
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• What is "National Honor"? The Challenge of the Reconstruction (New York: Macmillan, 1918), by Leo Perla, contrib. by Norman Angell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Drafting of the Covenant (2 volumes; New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1928), by David Hunter Miller, contrib. by Nicholas Murray Butler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Approaches to the Great Settlement (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1918), by Emily Greene Balch, contrib. by Norman Angell and Pauline Knickerbocker Angell
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Essays Upon Peace at Home and War Abroad ("in two parts", but no more apparently published; London: Printed for J. Knapton, 1704), by Charles Davenant (page images at Gallica)
• La Loi Territoriale et les Traités Diplomatiques Devant les Juridictions des États Contractants: Essai sur l'I̕nterprétation des Traités (doctoral thesis in French; Paris: E. Pichon et Durand-Auzias, 1910), by Auguste Prudhomme
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War (1944), by Ludwig Von Mises (PDF and Epub at mises.org)
• A Grammar of Politics (4th edition, 8th impression, 1941), by Harold J. Laski (page images in India; NO US ACCESS)
• Treitschke, His Doctrine of German Destiny and of International Relations, Together With a Study of His Life and Work (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1914), by Heinrich von Treitschke and Adolf Hausrath, contrib. by George Haven Putnam (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Healer of the Nations: Biblical Blueprints for International Relations (Fort Worth, TX: Dominion Press, c1987), by Gary North (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)

• Who Intervenes? Ethnic Conflict and Interstate Crisis (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by David Carment, Patrick James, and Zeynep Taydas (PDF at Ohio State)

• International Relations Dictionary (1978), by United States Department of State Library, contrib. by Carol A. Becker (page images at HathiTrust)

• U.S. Trade Strategy: Free Versus Fair (2006), by Daniel W. Drezner (PDF with commentary at cfr.org)

• The Foresters, An American Tale: Being a Sequel To The History of John Bull, The Clothier, in a Series of Letters To a Friend (Boston: I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews, 1792), by Jeremy Belknap (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Foresters, An American Tale: Being a Sequel To The History of John Bull, The Clothier, in a Series of Letters To a Friend (second edition; Boston: I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews, 1796), by Jeremy Belknap
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML at Evans TCP

• An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and its Implications for United States National Security (2003; released 2004), by Peter Schwartz and Doug Randall (PDF at dtic.mil)

• History of International Relations: A Non-European Perspective (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), by Erik Ringmar (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Arguing About Justice: Essays for Philippe Van Parijs (Louvain: Presses Universitaires de Louvain, c2011), ed. by Axel Gosseries and Yannick Vanderborght (PDF with commentary at UC Louvain)

• Conjuntura Austral: Journal of the Global South (in Portuguese, English, and Spanish; 2010-) (full serial archives)
• Perspectives on Global Issues (academic journal of New York University's Center for Global Affairs; selected content online 2008-) (partial serial archives)
• World Affairs (partial serial archives)
• Harvard International Law Journal (partial serial archives)
• Naval War College Review (partial serial archives)
• The Turkish Yearbook of International Relations (partial serial archives)
• Peace and Conflict Studies (partial serial archives)
• Advocate of Peace (partial serial archives)
• Foreign Affairs (partial serial archives)
• The Journal of International Relations (full serial archives)
• Foreign Policy Reports (full serial archives)
• Information Service (full serial archives)
• The American Journal of International Law (partial serial archives)
• Journal of the British Institute of International Affairs (partial serial archives)
• The Journal of Race Development (full serial archives)
• Triangle Papers (task force report series from the Trilateral Commission; most older issues downloadable) (partial serial archives)

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