Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: ramesh thakur

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  • RESHAPING REGIONAL RELATIONS
    RAMESH THAKUR / CARLYLE A. THAYER
    Reshaping Regional Relations summarizes the cause and consequences of changes in Asia-Pacific region. It introduces the lead player in regional change and outlines strategic, military, political and economical issues that constitute the regional agenda in the 1990s. ...

    $1,120.00

  • THE SOVIET UNION AS AN ASIANPACIFIC POWER
    RAMESH THAKUR / CARLYLE A. THAYER / G J GILL / AMIN SAIKAL
    This volume provides a useful analysis of the domestic dimension of Soviet foreign policy in Asia/Pacific. It considers the implications of Gorbachev's 1986 Vladivostok Initiative on Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and the South Pacific. ...

    $820.00

  • INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION
    RAMESH THAKUR
    This book presents papers on different perspectives in tackling the economic, racial and other injustices which generate conflict. The papers infer that the nuclear threat provides the most urgent manifestation of the inadequacy of war as a means of resolving differences between nations. ...

    $1,200.00

  • INTERNATIONAL PEACEKEEPING IN LEBANON
    RAMESH THAKUR
    Examining the efficacy of U.N. peace efforts, Dr. Ramesh Thakur compares limited peacekeeping through U.N. authority with more coercive means such as the Multinational Force (MNF) in Lebanon. He finds that the role of the U.S.-led MNF coalition cannot be justified in terms of great-power responsibility for ensuring a stable international order, since the coalition has attempted...

    $1,200.00

  • IN DEFENCE OF NEW ZEALAND
    RAMESH THAKUR
    Nuclear-free zones, neutrality, and nonalignment are catchwords that recently have earned unprecedented international publicity for New Zealand's foreign policy. That country's defence policy has also been subjected to its most searching scrutiny since World War II. In this book, Dr. Ramesh Thakur addresses in depth the issues underlying worldwide ...

    $1,200.00

  • REVIEWING THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT
    RAMESH THAKUR
    This volume is a collection of some of the key essays by Ramesh Thakur on the origins, implementation and future prospects of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) norm. The book offers a comprehensive yet accessible review of the origins, evolution, advances and shortcomings of the R2P principle. A literature review is followed by an overview of the background, meaning and devel...

    $1,200.00

  • RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT AND SOVEREIGNTY
    RAMESH THAKUR
    The responsibility to protect ('R2P') principle articulates the obligations of the international community to prevent conflict occurring, to intervene in conflicts, and to assist in rebuilding after conflicts. The doctrine is about protecting civilians in armed conflicts from four mass atrocity crimes: genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing. This b...

    $1,460.00

  • NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
    RAMESH THAKUR
    This volume brings together more than three decades of research and writings by Professor Ramesh Thakur on the challenges posed by nuclear weapons. Following an introduction to the current nuclear state of play, the book addresses the challenge of nuclear weapons in three parts. Part I describes the scholar-practitioner interface in trying to come to grips with this challenge, ...

    $1,280.00

  • THE GROUP OF TWENTY (G20)
    ANDREW F. COOPER / RAMESH THAKUR
    This work offers a concise examination of the purpose, function and practice of the Group of Twenty (G20) summit. Providing a comprehensive historical account of the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors process, the text then moves on to outline the conditions, events and debates that led to the formation of the permanent, expanded leaders’ level forum. The historic...

    $1,100.00

  • GLOBAL GOVERNANCE AND THE UN
    THOMAS G. WEISS / RAMESH THAKUR
    In the 21st century, the world is faced with threats of global scale that cannot be confronted without collective action. Although global government as such does not exist, formal and informal institutions, practices, and initiatives—together forming "global governance"—bring a greater measure of predictability, stability, and order to trans-border issues than might be expected...

    $251.00