Country Studies: Reference Sources

"Thematic coverage ranges across diplomacy, military affairs, international political economy, and IR theory." - H. H. Ives emerita, American University, Choice Review.

- provides a comprehensive guide to the UN's institutions, procedures, policies, agencies, historical personalities, initiatives, and involvement in world affairs.

George C. Herring uses foreign relations as the lens through which to tell the story of America's dramatic rise from thirteen disparate colonies huddled along the Atlantic coast to the world's greatest superpower. A sweeping account of United States foreign relations and diplomacy, this volume of the Oxford History of the United States collection documents America's interaction with other peoples and nations of the world.

-entries include political and military leaders; existing and extinct nations from across the globe; and the accompanying economic, political, and religious diplomatic issues that ensue when peoples interact.