Political Russian; an intermediate course in Russian language for international relations, national security and socio-economics, 5th ed.
9780757534164 Political Russian; an intermediate course in Russian language for international relations, national security and socio-economics, 5th ed. Simes, Natasha and Richard M. Robin. Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co. 2006 532 pages $89.95 Paperback PG2129...

Of interest and distrust: understanding China's policy towards Japan.
Chinese relations with Japan are characterised by the contradiction of deep distrust on one hand and important interests on the other. This article elaborates upon this contradiction in an attempt to shed light on possible future developments in the bilateral relationship. It applies a perceptual approach in its analysis...

The new world order: US and Russia in the post-Soviet space--mutual squeezing or cooperation?
The world has moved into a new era since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The bipolar world in which the global sociopolitical system was a hostage of relations between Moscow and Washington--and in which stability depended on the ability of the two superpowers to reach agreements between themselves--has...

Chimeras of terror: disciplining Roma identity in Lithuania.
The article explores the proliferation of discourses on (anti) terror and the production of discursive "peripheries" that provide a rationale for social exclusion, ethnic intolerance, and governmental disciplining after 9/11. Preconditions and functionality of the vocabulary of terror in the construction of the identity of the Roma ethnic minority...

The essence of hedging: Malaysia and Singapore's response to a rising China.
What do states do when faced with an increasingly strong and/or potentially threatening Great Power? (1) For decades, mainstream International Relations (IR) theorists have offered two broad answers to this central question: states are likely to either balance against or bandwagon with that power. The "balancing" school argues that,...

From defence doctrine to national security strategy: the case of the Netherlands.
ABSTRACT In describing Dutch security policy, the military model of levels of strategy is applied to the (civil) national security environment, followed by a discussion of the Netherlands Defence Doctrine (2005) and the Netherlands National Security Strategy (2007), and by a comparison of the Dutch security documents...

Kosovo, war powers, and the multilateral future.
INTRODUCTION Aside from getting himself impeached but not removed, President William J. Clinton's most noteworthy impact on the Constitution has been in the area of war powers. In March 1999, President Clinton ordered 31,000 American servicemen and women to engage in air operations against Serbia, the largest...

Roundtable: Peter J. Katzenstein's contributions to the study of east Asian regionalism.
Peter J. Katzenstein and Takashi Shiraishi, eds. Network Power: Japan and Asia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997. Peter J. Katzenstein and Nobuo Okawara. "Japan, Asian-Pacific Security, and the Case for Analytical Eclecticism," International Security 26, no. 3 (2001-2002): 153-185. Peter J. Katzenstein. A World of...

Synthesis v. purity and large-N studies: how might we assess the gap between promise and performance?
Protecting Human Rights: A Comparative Study by Todd Landman. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2005, 231 pp. In a recent essay, Nicholas Kristoff (2006) bemoaned the fact that the type of U.S. inaction that Samantha Power (2001) documented with respect to Rwanda in the mid-1990s is again...

Terrorism: when risk meets security.
This article draws attention to the changing concepts of risk and security after 9/11 and the consequences that these changes have for political constructions of the state/market relation. By focusing on how the concept of partnership designates a certain understanding of risk and security, the article questions the construction...