Books written by Ramon Pacheco Pardo

  • North Korea - US Relations: Kim Jong Il to Kim Jong Un

    Soft balancing is a variant of balancing that weak powers may use to bargain with great powers, and its use by North Korea to deal with the USA will be analysed in this book. Weak powers may take the decision to engage in brinkmanship ...

  • North Korea - US Relations under Kim Jong II: The Quest for Normalization?

    Soft balancing isa variant of balancing that weak powers may use to bargain with greatpowers, and itsuse byNorth Korea todeal with the USA will beanalyzed inthis book. Weak powers may takethe decision to engage inbrinkmanship or not.

  • Politics Among Nations

    both Rose and Lebow describe offers greater flexibility to capture the complex multipolarity* (that is, the more distributed power) of the post-Cold War era. In Current Scholarship Unlike classical realism or neorealism, ...

  • After Hegemony

    After Hegemony was published in a context of declining American power and questions about whether international cooperation really was possible. • Keohane's work was an important part of the debate between neorealism* and neoliberalism* ...

  • The Art of War

    ... Power and Order in East Asia Paul Kennedy's The Rise and Fall of Great Powers Robert Keohane's After Hegemony Martin Luther King Jr.'s Why We Can't Wait Henry Kissinger's World Order: Reflections on the Character of Nations and the ...

  • North Korea - US Relations under Kim Jong II: The Quest for Normalization?

    This book analyses North Korea’s foreign policy towards the United States during the Kim Jong Il era.

  • North Korea - US Relations: Kim Jong Il to Kim Jong Un

    How has North Korea sought to normalize diplomatic relations with the US? Explaining the continuities between the Kim Jong-un and Kim Jong-il governments, as well as the discontinuities, especially the decisive move towards brinkmanship ...

  • Contemporary Spanish Foreign Policy

    This book examines the evolution of Spanish foreign policy since 1975, through five different presidencies, spanning its transformation from a dictatorial political system and backward economy to a modern European state, fully democratic ...

  • Politics Among Nations

    Hans Morgenthau’s Politics Among Nations is a classic of political science, built on the firm foundation of Morgenthau’s watertight reasoning skills.

  • Politics Among Nations

    Morgenthau's classic text, published in 1948, not only introduced the concept of political realism, but also established it as the dominant approach in international relations and the guiding philosophy of US foreign policy during the Cold ...

  • The Routledge Handbook of Europe-Korea Relations

    This Handbook will be an essential reference for scholars, students, researchers and practitioners interested and working in the fields of Asian Politics/ Studies, EU Politics/Studies, European Politics/Studies, Korean Politics/Studies and ...

  • The Art of War

    The Art of War summarises his lessons on how to solve the problems raised by conflict. The work comprises a series of pithy discussions of the different strategic situations that might arise, and the best responses for each.

  • After Liberalism?: The Future of Liberalism in International Relations

    In this collection, leading international scholars provide their perspectives on the continuing role of the liberal paradigm, both as a theoretical approach to international relations, and as an ordering principle of international politics.

  • After Hegemony

    Robert O. Keohane’s After Hegemony is both a classic of international relations scholarship and an example of how creative thinking can help shed new light on the world.

  • After Hegemony

    After Hegemony has had a huge impact on policy debates over the last three decades.

  • After Hegemony

    After Hegemony has had a huge impact on policy debates over the last three decades.

  • Non-Traditional Security in East Asia: A Regime Approach

    This volume's holistic exploration of East Asian security makes it a sophisticated introduction for students, researchers and policymakers who are interested in East Asian security and international relations.

  • Contemporary Spanish Foreign Policy

    Concurrently, this edited volume seeks to provide one of the first and most comprehensive English-language introductions to contemporary Spanish foreign policy. Following the end of Francisco Franco's dictatorship, Spain reassessed its ...

  • Non-Traditional Security in East Asia: A Regime Approach

    This volume's holistic exploration of East Asian security makes it a sophisticated introduction for students, researchers and policymakers who are interested in East Asian security and international relations.

  • Shrimp to Whale: South Korea from the Forgotten War to K-Pop

    Haberman , Clyde , “ Fury and Turmoil : Days that Shook Korea ' , New York Times , 6 July 1987 , p . ... Mega - Events and Mega - Ambitions : South Korea's Rise and the Strategic Use of the Big Four Events , London : Palgrave Macmillan ...