A reference for researchers studying the military dimension of international relations. Introduces strategic studies, its history and scope, organizations, channels of communication, literature, and changes; provides an annotated bibliography of material relating to the Cold War period and after; and lists selected organizations in 59 countries that are continuing sources or nodes of information. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

This revised and updated edition provides an integrated guide to the documentation, reference aids and key organizational sources of information about museums and museum studies worldwide. Part One provides an overview of museums and the literature about them. Part Two is an annotated bibliography, and Part Three is an international directory of organizations. A detailed index completes the work.

Addresses the central problem of international relations - security - and constructs a novel framework for its analysis.

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the role of military power in today's world. It explores both the enduring and historical issues which have shaped the study of strategy and the contemporary issues that dominate today's headlines.

Designed to assist those who need information on the subject in making the best use possible of the various available books, journals, abstracting services, and databases. Begins with a concise survey of aquaculture and its literature. There follows a select annotated bibliography of major reference sources, among them: dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, primary and review journals, and directories. Concludes with a directory of organizations worldwide that are actively involved in aquaculture, marine science, fisheries, and similar fields. This is particularly useful for the details it gives concerning these organizations' library facilities: subjects covered, size of the collection, whether interlibrary loans are offered, publications. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

International Relations continues to come under fire for its relative absence of international perspectives. In this exciting new volume, Pinar Bilgin encourages readers to consider both why and how ‘non-core’ geocultural sites allow us to think differently about key aspects of global politics. Seeking to further debates surrounding thinking beyond the 'West/non-West' divide, this book analyzes how scholarship on, and conceptions of, the international outside core contexts are tied up with peripheral actors’ search for security. Accordingly, Bilgin looks at core/periphery dynamics not only in terms of the production of knowledge in the production of IR scholarship, or material threats, but also peripheral actors' conceptions of the international in terms of 'standard of civilization' and their more contemporary guises, which she terms as ‘hierarchy in anarchical society’. The first three chapters provide a critical overview of the limits of ‘our’ theorizing about IR and security, as well as a discussion on the track record of critical approaches to IR and security in addressing those limits. The following three chapters offer one way of addressing the limits of ‘our’ theorizing about IR and security: by inquiring into the international in security, security in the international. Each of these chapters makes a theoretical point and illustrates this further in a spotlight section that further illustrates the point to aid student learning. A genuinely innovative contribution to this rapidly emerging field within IR, this book is essential reading for students and scholars of critical security, international relations theory and Global IR.

What is real? What can we know? How might we act? This book sets out to answer these fundamental philosophical questions in a radical and original theory of security for our times. Arguing that the concept of security in world politics has long been imprisoned by conservative thinking, Ken Booth explores security as a precious instrumental value which gives individuals and groups the opportunity to pursue the invention of humanity rather than live determined and diminished lives. Booth suggests that human society globally is facing a set of converging historical crises. He looks to critical social theory and radical international theory to develop a comprehensive framework for understanding the historical challenges facing global business-as-usual and for planning to reconstruct a more cosmopolitan future. Theory of World Security is a challenge both to well-established ways of thinking about security and alternative approaches within critical security studies.

Selected worldwide sources of information for the academic, professional, commercial, and industrial facets of pharamcy. Part 1 reviews the history of pharmacy, and discusses generally libraries (including conferences and online databases). Part two is an annotated bibliography of literature. Part three is a directory of organizations. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

International factors have had a great effect upon the process of democratisation in Eastern Europe according to the contributors to this book. Furthermore they maintain that the international dimension has not always been a favourable one.