SPOTLIGHT: On Geopolitics: Space, Place, and International Relations

Harvey Starr

Paradigm Publishers

From the publisher: This book shows how the “new geopolitics” links to the way in which geography and international relations have intertwined in the past. Using recent developments in GIS technology as well as traditional theories and methods, Starr explores themes of spatiality and territoriality as they connect to international affairs. He also examines geopolitical dynamics beyond borders in a world now buffeted by nonstate actors and subject to intergovernmental institutions and norms. On Geopolitics is a brilliant synthesis of Starr's long work on conflict and cooperation, alliances, opportunity, and willingness, all within a geographic framework. At the same time, Starr points the way toward new tools and techniques for the study of globalization and world politics.

Harvey Starr is the Dag Hammarskjold Professor in International Affairs at the University of South Carolina.

SPOTLIGHT: The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy

Andrew F. Cooper, Jorge Heine, and Ramesh Thakur

This handbook is an authoritative reference tool for those studying and practicing modern diplomacy. It provides an up-to-date compendium of the latest developments in the field. Written by practitioners and scholars, this Handbook describes the elements of constancy and continuity and the changes that are affecting diplomacy. The Handbook goes further and gives insight to where the profession is headed in the future. Co-edited by three distinguished academics and former practitioners, this volume provides a comprehensive analysis and description of the state of diplomacy in the 21st Century and is an essential resource for diplomats, practitioners and academics.

Andrew F. Cooper, is Professor, Balsillie School of International Affairs and Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo, Jorge Heine, is CIGI Chair in Global Governance, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Distinguished Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation, and Professor of Political Science, Wilfrid Laurier University, and Ramesh Thakur is Director, Centre for Nuclear Nonproliferation & Disarmament, ANU Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy.

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