Cultural Factors in International Relations

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Despite the fact that our newly emerging worldwide community of states has become increasingly inter-dependent in the present thermo-nuclear age, the world today is seriously divided by ideology and aspirations. Understanding culture in a wider sense as reflecting the values, habits, and accumulated mores of a society, there can be little doubt that peoples and countries are affected by their cultural differences which reflect their values, outlooks, intentions, interests, habits and historical hopes and fears. Unless these cultural and other differences are understood and appreciated, there is a possibility of misconceptions, misinterpretations, and erroneous judgment on all sides, which can be extremely dangerous in this age. This book seeks to understand some aspects of these cultural differences of various countries in their dealings with each other. Specifically, it examines in one part the cultural problems in treaty negotiations because it is through treaties or agreements, formal or informal, that independent sovereign states interact with each other and try to protect their interests and rights in the international society. Several eminent scholars and practitioners of international law and relations from several countries study and evaluate the impact of cultural differences on international relations with special reference to the negotiation of treaties.  In the second part, the book examines how similar or diverse cultural factors affect the relations amongst states in a limited region of Southeast Asia. ASEAN has been taken up as a subject of study by several scholars not only because of its importance as an area lying on the crossroads of the East and the West, but also because it provides a rich and fertile ground for the study of the impact of diverse cultural factors on the lives and behaviour of these ancient societies in an entirely new age.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR R P Anand

DR. RAM PRAKASH ANAND (b.1933) graduated from the University of Delhi in 1951, passed his LL.B. with a first division in 1953, and received his LL.M. in 1957 with International Law as his specialized subject in which he got distinction. He was awarded the Baboo Pearey Lal Memorial Prize by the University of Delhi for being the best student to pass the LL.M. Examination that year. In 1970, Dr. Anand was recipient of a fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., and went to the United States for fifteen months and wrote a book entitled Legal Regime of the Sea-bed and the Developing Countries. In 1978, he again went to the United States to join the Culture Learning Institute of the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he is now working as a Research Associate. Besides seven books, Dr. Anand has published numerous articles on subjects of international law in Indian, European and American professional journals. 

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Cultural Factors in International Relations
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Edition
1st ed.
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8170171342
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291p.
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