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  • New Directions for International Relations

    Confronting the Method-of-Analysis Problem

    Series series Innovations in the Study of World Politics
    Why does the academic study of international relations have limited impact on the policy community? When research results are inconsistent, inconclusive, and contradictory, a lack of scholarly consensus discourages policy makers, the business community, and other citizens from trusting findings and conclusions from IR research. In New Directions for International Relations, Alex Mintz and Bruce ... Read more

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  • Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai

    Maritime East Asia in Global History, 1550–1700

    Series series Perspectives on the Global Past
    Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai traces the roots of modern global East Asia by focusing on the fascinating history of its seaways. The East Asian maritime realm, from the Straits of Malacca to the Sea of Japan, has been a core region of international trade for millennia, but during the long seventeenth century (1550 to 1700), the velocity and scale of commerce increased dramatically. Chinese, ... Read more

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  • Thermal and Mineral Waters

    Origin, Properties and Applications

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This is a compilation of manuscripts on mineral and thermal waters of different areas of the world. This special volume is devoted to the 41st Meeting of the Commission on Mineral and Thermal Waters of International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH-CMTW) held in Cairo, Egypt, in October 2009. The presentations collected and presented in this volume show the variety of aspects of mineral and ... Read more

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    A Practical Guide to Research Methods

    Series series Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
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  • Negotiation and Conflict Management

    Essays on Theory and Practice

    Series series Routledge Studies in Security and Conflict Management
    This book presents a series of essays by I. William Zartman outlining the evolution of the key concepts required for the study of negotiation and conflict management, such as formula, ripeness, pre-negotiation, mediation, power, process, intractability, escalation, and order.Responding to a lack of useful conceptualization for the analysis of international negotiation, Zartman has developed an ... Read more

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  • International Conflict Mediation

    New Approaches and Findings

    Series series Routledge Studies in Security and Conflict Management
    This book examines how new empirical approaches to mediation can shed fresh light on the effectiveness of different patterns of conflict management, and offers guidelines on the process of international mediation.International conflict mediation has become one of, if not the most prominent and important conflict resolution methods of the early 21st century. This book argues that traditional ... Read more

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  • The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion

    Series series Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology
    In this 1992 book John Zaller develops a comprehensive theory to explain how people acquire political information from elites and the mass media and convert it into political preferences. Using numerous specific examples, Zaller applies this theory to the dynamics of public opinion on a broad range of subjects, including domestic and foreign policy, trust in government, racial equality, and ... Read more

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  • All International Politics Is Local

    The Diffusion of Conflict, Integration, and Democratization

    How does regional interdependence influence the prospects for conflict, integration, and democratization? Some researchers look at the international system at large and disregard the enormous regional variations. Others take the concept of sovereignty literally and treat each nation-state as fully independent. Kristian Skrede Gleditsch looks at disparate zones in the international system to see ... Read more

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  • The Liberal Illusion

    Does Trade Promote Peace?

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  • War and Peace in International Rivalry

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  • Neither Liberal nor Conservative

    Ideological Innocence in the American Public

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