India and Pakistan started the Composite Dialogue Process (CDP) in 1997 when at Male, the capital of the Maldives, the then Indian Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif proposed the idea of a structured dialogue. Initially the dialogue process became the casualty of the 1999 Kargil war and the subsequent attack on the Indian Parliament in 2001. However, since April 2003 it has progressed steadily till the November...

Over twenty years after the 1989 UN General Assembly vote to open the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) for signature and ratification by UN member states, the United States remains one of only two UN members not to have ratified it. The other is Somalia. Child Rights: The Movement, International Law, and Opposition explores the reasons for this resistance. It details the objections that have arisen to accepting this legally binding international...

A new edition of the seminal text by the father of modern economics. First published in 1919, John Maynard Keynes's The Economic Consequences of the Peace created immediate controversy. Keynes was a firsthand witness to the negotiations of the Paris Peace Conference, as an official representative of the British Treasury, and he simultaneously sat as deputy for the chancellor of the Exchequer on the Supreme Economic Council. In these roles, he was...

It has been said many times that the human future is clouded by multiple and mutually interacting problems. While in the 19th century we had the luxury of believing in almost automatic progress - an "onward and upward" assumption - that belief has been shattered by two world wars, more than 150 smaller ones, the invention of weapons of mass destruction, increasing degradation of the environment, both by pollution and resource exhaustion (i.e. adding...

This is a careful examination of the historical formation of Britain and of key moments in its relations with the European powers. The author looks at the governing discourses of politicians, the mass media, and the British people. The rhetoric of sovereignty among political elites and the population at large is found to conceive of Britain's engagement with Europe as a zero-sum game. A second theme is the power of geographical images – island Britain...

Dans moins d'une génération, l'ordre géopolitique et géoéconomique mondial sera manifestement différent de celui que nous connaissons aujourd'hui, ces dynamiques à l'oeuvre étant le résultat de la puissance décomplexée de la Chine et des « nouvelles routes de la soie ». Amorcé en 2013, le mégaprojet Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), avec pour objectif le déploiement à partir de la Chine d'un ensemble multiforme d'initiatives économiques,...

The Napoleonic Wars had torn Europe apart, and the peace conference of 1814 was to be held in the continent's grandest city: Vienna. Everyone had an agenda in the postwar world, and spy networks, bitter hatreds, illicit affairs, and tangled alliances ensued.Despite the gravity of the situation, the Hapsburg Emperor of Austria, in opening his splendid rococo palace to the European royals and providing elaborate banquets and lavish entertainments, set...

À l'approche des cent ans de l'armistice entre les Alliés et l'Allemagne, un historien, un philosophe et des témoins de massacres de masse abordent les questions de la violence, de la vengeance et de la réconciliation. Dans sa préface, l'historien Maurice Vaïsse dresse un panorama des différentes tentatives des nations, au cours du XXe siècle, pour établir un monde un peu plus pacifique. Et constate que la plus aboutie, malgré ses imperfections...

"Winner of the 2014 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize, Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Foundation" "Winner of the 2013 International Law Best Book Award, International Law Section of the International Studies Association" "Co-Winner of the 2013 Chadwick F. Alger Prize, International Studies Association" Christina L. Davis is associate professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University. She is the author of Food Fights over Free Trade: How...