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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Protecting diplomats and other embassy personnel has become increasingly important and difficult. Eugenio Cusumano and Christopher Kinsey and their contributors offer the first conceptually sophisticated and comparative study of this problem. This is a must-read for every foreign ministry and for scholars interested in the ways diplomats and their immunity are threatened."—Richard Ned Lebow, King's College London"Diplomats have never been in more danger. Embassies are now fortresses and battlegrounds with their own private armies, as this impressively researched global analysis demonstrates. Definitive reading for serious diplomacy watchers and all terrorism and security experts, this remarkable book is nevertheless fascinating and highly accessible to the general reader."—Richard J. Aldrich, University of WarwickTable of ContentsIntroduction: What Is Diplomatic Security? 1. A Century of US Diplomatic Security: An Evolutionary Response to a Changing Threat Environment 2. Chinese Diplomatic Security: Meeting and Managing New Challenges 3. Diplomatic Security in the United Kingdom: An Informal Approach? 4. A Policy in Progress: France's Diplomatic Security 5. German Diplomatic Security Policy: A Federal Police Response 6. Russia's Militarized Approach to Diplomatic Security 7. Diplomatic Security in Times of Austerity: The Case of Italy 8. Diplomatic Security as Counterterrorism: Protecting Israel's Diplomatic Missions 9. Turkish Diplomatic Security: Lessons Not Learned 10. Risk Management in US Diplomatic Security 11. Securing Diplomacy in the War on Terrorism: A Critical Perspective Conclusion: Conclusion: The History, Effectiveness, and Implications of Diplomatic Security

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Squandered Opportunity is a valuable work that offers interesting theoretical advancement and important insights into Iranian foreign policy . . . [T]his work is an important contribution to the foreign policy decision-making literature and should be widely read." -- W.A. Rivera * Middle East Journal *"[T]he author's 'neo-classicalism' theory adequately addresses nuances by advancing four 'intervening' variables - ideas, individuals, identity, and institutions. Juneau analyzes three case studies of Iranian foreign policies to test his argument: Iran's policies in Iraq, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and Iran's nuclear program . . . In short, Iran provides little threat to the US, Europe, or even to Middle Eastern countries such as Israel and Saudi Arabia. This is an important book . . . Highly recommended." -- R. W. Olson * CHOICE *"Sophisticated and theoretically-informed analysis of Iranian foreign policy is rare. Thomas Juneau remedies this, developing an explanation of Iran's behavior in the international environment that takes account of power politics, those features unique to Iran's domestic politics, and the interaction of the two." -- Brian Rathbun, School of International Relations * University of Southern California *"Squandered Opportunity is a rare book that synthesizes advanced theoretical analysis with detailed case study and regional expertise. Its rich theoretical framework has the potential to illuminate a path for scholars who wish to pursue case studies and engage modern-day foreign policy puzzles without giving up on strong theoretical insights....Overall, Squandered Opportunity offers an outstanding analysis that will be of great interest to scholars of IR theory, foreign policy analysis, realism, Iran, and the Middle East." -- Özgür Özdamar * Perspectives on Politics *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction chapter abstractThe introduction sets the stage by explaining how the book offers an original reading of Iran's foreign policy: why and how Tehran failed to seize the opportunities it faced after 2001. It starts by briefly demonstrating that various international relations theories fail to explain the underwhelming nature of Iran's foreign policy. It then outlines a unique variant of neoclassical realism, both in general terms and in terms of its specific application to the Iranian case. It then introduces the book's research objectives and working hypotheses, followed by a brief methodological discussion. 1Neoclassical Realism chapter abstractThis chapter reviews the literature on neoclassical realism, and explains its evolution as well as its strengths and weaknesses. Neoclassical realists agree with other realists that power is the chief determinant of foreign policy. Yet a reliance solely on structural factors – a state's position in the international distribution of power – cannot account for underwhelming performances, structure explains the context in which a state operates but says little about the content of foreign policy. Neoclassical realists thus posit that domestic factors act as intervening variables or 'transmission belts' converting systemic pressures into choices. In addition, neoclassical realism is a theory of mistakes differentiating ideal or optimal foreign policy (responding solely to structural pressures) from actual, sub-optimal choices, which arise as a result of the filtering effect of domestic pathologies. 2From Power to Foreign Policy: The Causal Chain chapter abstractThis chapter proposes modifications to neoclassical realism, labeling the result the strategic analysis variant. It is possible to view this variant in terms of its position on a continuum built around a tenet of realism, that capabilities shape intentions. At one end, structural realism predicts that states faced with a power vacuum seek to expand their interests abroad. At the other end, the strategic analysis variant increases accuracy while remaining within the confines of realism: it fragments power to understand how shifts in its components affect foreign policy, it increases the number and specificity of intervening variables to reflect their filtering role, it conceptualizes foreign policy more precisely by separating it into four components (power/security/influence-maximization, national interests, strategies, and consequences), and it systematizes the concepts of actual and ideal foreign policy and clarifies how states suffer consequences as a result of gaps between ideal and actual versions. 3Power chapter abstractThis chapter introduces the structural context driving Iranian foreign policy. Iran, to begin, benefits from a strong pool of potential power assets, by dint of its geography, natural resources, and population. In addition, Iran faced a window of opportunity after 2001, a power advantage which primarily arose with the collapse of rival regimes in Afghanistan and Iraq. Other factors including the rise in oil prices and the success of allies such as Hamas and Hezbollah also helped create favourable conditions. Yet this advantage was brittle and unsustainable. A large proportion of the growth in Iran's power was accounted for by unconventional elements: asymmetric military capabilities, the attractiveness of its rejectionist model and alliances with non-state actors, while hard aspects – wealth and conventional military assets – grew in absolute terms but stagnated in relative terms. 4Domestic Pathologies chapter abstractSystemic pressures are filtered through domestic processes, explaining the conversion from possible – the range of feasible outcomes shaped by power – to actual choices. Three intervening variables matter: status, identity and factional politics. There is a discrepancy, first, between Iran's aspiration to regional power status and its perception that the status ascribed to it is unbecoming of what it believes is its rightful place in the regional order, it suffers from a status discrepancy. This is a source of revisionism, but remains indeterminate. To achieve greater specificity, the second variable consists of the Iranian regime's rejectionist identity, which specifies Iran's interests by ranking alternatives and shaping decisions. The balance of power among regime factions – the third intervening variable – constantly evolves but remains within the parameters of the Islamic Republic's identity. That is, power, aspirations and identity shape an increasingly precise set of options, bargaining among factions subsequently determines which are selected. 5Iran's Policy in Iraq chapter abstractIran has major interests in Iraq: geography ensures that the security of each is partly dependent on the power and ambitions of the other. In Iraq, Iran's power was less constrained than in the Arab-Israeli conflict, with conventional elements of power playing a salient role. Iran had genuine security concerns emanating from the presence of US troops and instability in Iraq. There was thus less scope for agency as structural pressures pushed and shoved Iran more compellingly. Tehran partly accomplished its objectives: it positioned itself as an indispensable player in Iraq and was instrumental in the establishment of a stable but weak Iraqi government devoid of anti-Iranian biases. Nonetheless, Iran's performance has been sub-optimal, though less than in other issue-areas. This smaller discrepancy was due to the limited role of domestic pathologies in shaping policies: there was therefore less deviation from optimal, structurally-induced outcomes. 6Iran and the Arab-Israeli Conflict chapter abstractIran's rising power pushes it towards greater assertiveness in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Yet solely on the basis of structural pressures, there is limited security for Iran to maximize: it does not share a border with Israel and economic ties are limited. Structure thus provided strong but ambiguous signals, leaving scope for domestic pathologies to distort policy. The combination of rising power and status discrepancy tells us that Iran will be an assertive and revisionist power, while regime identity specifies the rejectionist nature of this revisionism. As the factional balance increasingly favoured hard-liners, policy further tilted towards rejectionism. Yet Iran only has a narrow set of tools, especially the appeal of its rejectionism and its ties to like-minded actors. This limits the breadth of the impact it can have on the conflict, and is insufficient to shape the regional order in the revisionist direction it envisions. 7Iran's Nuclear Program chapter abstractDriven by its rising power, an assertive Iran progressed along the nuclear path. Structural pressures were strong but indeterminate, however, failing to push Iran as compellingly as in Iraq. This allowed domestic pathologies to influence policy. Iran suffers from a status discrepancy: it wants to reap the benefits associated with joining the nuclear club but is denied the opportunity. It is thus dissatisfied with the nuclear order. The regime's identity and the evolution of the factional balance in favour of conservatives and hard-liners specify how revisionist options were narrowed towards rejectionism. Tehran has been able to gain influence thanks to its nuclear program, more than in the Arab-Israeli conflict but less than in Iraq. Most importantly, the program promises future benefits. Paradoxically, Iran also suffers significant consequences because of its choices: its economy is increasingly suffocated by sanctions, while the country suffers from growing isolation. Conclusion chapter abstractThe Conclusion synthesizes the results by discussing how Iran's power, security and influence, despite some successes, remain well below their potential. The situation, moreover, is likely to get worse: Iran's power will face growing constraints in coming years. Next, the conclusion argues that the analysis validates the view of structural realism as a normative theory – accounting for how states should behave – and of neoclassical realism as a theory of mistakes, accounting for the gap between ideal and actual policies through its integration of domestic processes. This arises in part because of the distinction between rationality and optimality: neoclassical realism provides a framework explaining why choices are rational but not necessarily optimal. After reflecting on the relevance of other pillars of the framework – complexity, eclecticism, dynamism, path-dependency and foreign policy strategies – the conclusion offers prescriptions for Iran to maximize its power, security and influence.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In short, Track Two Diplomacy is a highly accessible book, full of insights, and useful for academics, practitioners and officials alike. The book is one of its kind in its ability to bridge disciplinary barriers and differing views about the utility of political theory, and its willingness to challenge conventional methods of social science research." -- Happymon Jacob * St. Anthony's International Review *"This valuable work presents a unique and contemporary treatment of Track Two Diplomacy that will serve the important function of increasing understanding about this essential method of interactive conflict resolution. Written in an accessible and honest style, the book will appeal to scholars, professionals and students as an introductory and yet comprehensive overview." -- Ronald J. Fisher, Professor of International Peace and Conflict Resolution, School of International Service * American University *"Although impervious to standard metrics of program evaluation, Track II Diplomacy remains an important, if poorly understood, complement to official governmental negotiations. From the perspective of an experienced Track II practitioner, Peter Jones provides a nuanced perspective on both the promise and limits of this unheralded form of unofficial diplomacy." -- Stephen J. Del Rosso, Director, International Peace and Security * Carnegie Corporation of New York *"This book will be a classic that defines the field of Track Two diplomacy. It successfully bridges several different worlds: the experience of a Track Two practitioner and fine academic scholarship; the worlds of interactive conflict resolution and regional security oriented Track Two; and the worlds of security studies and peace studies. It is an exemplary work." -- Esra Cuhadar * Bilkent University *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction chapter abstractThis chapter summarizes the key aims of the book and its intended audiences. The aims include the "demystifying" of the field of Track Two, and the systematic review of the field and its place in international relations. The intended audiences are officials who must interact with Track Two, and scholars and practitioners who study it. 1What is Track Two Diplomacy chapter abstractThis chapter reviews the many definitions which have been developed for the field of Track Two and analyzes the contribution each has made to the development of our understanding of it. The chapter explores the development of Track Two within the broader field of conflict resolution, and also outlines the history of the development of Track Two itself. Based upon this, the chapter outlines some recurring themes which are common to the various definitions and historical experiences of Track Two and then advances its own definition of the field. The chapter also notes that, while most Track Two has been intended for the resolution of conflicts, other models have arisen, such as Track Two in the service of regional security. 2Theoretical Foundations of Track Two chapter abstractThis chapter looks at the major paradigms in the field of International Relations and asks where Track Two fits in terms of its relationship to them. It finds that none of the paradigms completely explains Track Two, and argues that an eclectic approach must be taken to understanding where and how Track Two fits into IR theory. The chapter then identifies and explores attempts which have been made by previous scholars and practitioners of Track Two to explain and define what they are doing in relation to adapted forms of IR and other social science theories. 3Where Theory Meets Practice chapter abstractThis chapter explores the interplay between practice and attempts to develop theoretical explanations for Track Two. While much of Track Two theory is not well-received by mainstream theories of international affairs, this does not mean that it lacks theoretical foundation. Several practitioners and students of the field have developed theoretical frameworks. Other practitioners have developed or borrowed concepts from other constructs and applied them eclectically to their activities. In keeping with Track Two's action-oriented approach, much of this activity tries to help practitioners answer critical questions about how to make their efforts more effective. Four particularly important aspects of this are: the question of the 'theories of change' which practitioners take into their cases, the way they conceive the conflict, the question of when it is best to launch a Track Two process, and the ethical and cultural issues which arise when practicing Track Two. 4On People: The Characteristics and Role of the Third Party chapter abstractThis chapter explores the role of the 'third party,' the individual who facilitates a Track Two process. It explores questions like: why do most Track Two dialogues have a third party? Who are these people and what do they do? How are they prepared for the role? There is no single, all-encompassing definition, nor are there agreed standards to prepare people for this role. Instead, the idea of the third party has evolved through trial and error, and most who undertake it are prepared through study and a long apprenticeship of assisting others. Moreover, there are differing perceptions of what the third party does, often based on different conceptions of the primary purpose of Track Two. Some embrace an eclectic approach which stresses personal skills and indefinable qualities, while others believe that the field needs standards and professionalization. Finally, the chapter explores what "power" the third party has. 5On Method: The Problem Solving Workshop chapter abstractThis chapter examines what is arguably the main process used in Track Two dialogues, Problem Solving Workshops (PSW). It begins by identifying the evolution of the "problem solving" idea in the social sciences and its application to conflicts. It then looks at how PSWs are organized. The conditions PSWs aim to create are: equality among participants, regardless of asymmetries within the conflict; a sense of common purpose; cooperative interdependence; and a set of rules which are employed by a facilitator to guide the conversation towards cooperative and reflective analysis. As to objectives, PSW processes aim to create an environment within which people who have been involved in a conflict are able to step back from their long-held positions and examine its underlying causes. After this, the PSW participants ideally move on to developing possible ways forward. The chapter also looks at the question of how Track Two is funded. 6On Impact: Transfer and the Evaluation of Track Two chapter abstractTrack Two dialogues are meant to influence events in some way. This chapter considers how the results of such discussions reach their intended target and what practitioners and participants in Track Two can do to make such a transfer of ideas more effective. The chapter traces the evolution of the idea of transfer. It then identifies and assesses some of the key considerations and practical questions which surround the field. The chapter then asks how Track Two processes are evaluated and measured. This is a particularly difficult area for the field. The chapter traces the evolution of thinking about to measure the results of Track Two and identifies the key issues. Conclusion chapter abstractThe Conclusion explores the issue of how theory and practice can come together to help the reader understand Track Two more fully. It rejects the notion that the two must be in opposition to each other, which is in vogue in some social science circles, and argues that each can inform the other. The Conclusions note that many social science academics have tended to be dismissive of Track Two, and the field of conflict resolution generally, as not being sufficiently 'theory-based,' and it takes issue with this assertion. However, ultimately, the Conclusion argues that Track Two is more about practice than it is about theory-building because it is ultimately about working with people, who are idiosyncratic. Finally, the Conclusion advances a set of propositions about Track Two which are presented as the main findings of the book.

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Book SynopsisExplores American reactions to hostile world opinion, as voiced in the United Nations by representatives of the Global South from 1970 to 1984. Sean Byrnes suggests this challenge had a significant impact on US policy and politics, shaping the rise of the New Right and neoliberal visions of the world economy.

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Book SynopsisTells the story of the unique relationship between the United States and its first ally, France. David Haglund examines the Franco-American bond through the prism of strategic culture. In doing so, he reveals the cultural factors that have contributed to the suboptimal relationship between the two nations.

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Book SynopsisAlthough the concept of credibility has been identified by the United Nations as a significant factor in successful peacekeeping operations, its role has largely been ignored in the literature on peacekeeping at the local level. In this book, Newby provides the first detailed examination of credibility's essential place in peacekeeping.

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Book SynopsisDavid Rawson draws on declassified documents and his own experiences as the initial US observer of the 1993 Rwandan peace talks at Arusha to seek out what led to the Rwandan genocide. The result is a commanding blend of diplomatic history and analysis of the crisis and of what happens generally when conflict resolution and diplomacy fall short.Trade Review“In lucid prose, Rawson weaves an informative, readable story of the complicated diplomatic efforts leading to the Arusha Accords of 1993. Drawing on vast documentation as well as his personal knowledge of the context, he provides a valuable perspective on the challenges—and ultimate failure—of the efforts to achieve peace. This thoughtful work adds important insights to our understanding of the road to ruin in Rwanda.”“Rawson puts the bottom line up front––Arusha failed because the parties to the talks were seeking power, not peace....This book is the definitive work on the Arusha talks and the most detailed and best-documented account of a diplomatic negotiation that I know of.”“In this story of frontline diplomacy David Rawson attempts to understand why negotiations failed to keep tragedy at bay in Rwanda.…[He] paints a revealing picture of struggling diplomacy and the dire consequences of failed conflict resolution.” * Foreign Service Journal *

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Book SynopsisDavid Rawson draws on declassified documents and his own experiences as the initial US observer of the 1993 Rwandan peace talks at Arusha to seek out what led to the Rwandan genocide. The result is a commanding blend of diplomatic history and analysis of the crisis and of what happens generally when conflict resolution and diplomacy fall short.Trade Review“In lucid prose, Rawson weaves an informative, readable story of the complicated diplomatic efforts leading to the Arusha Accords of 1993. Drawing on vast documentation as well as his personal knowledge of the context, he provides a valuable perspective on the challenges—and ultimate failure—of the efforts to achieve peace. This thoughtful work adds important insights to our understanding of the road to ruin in Rwanda.”“Rawson puts the bottom line up front––Arusha failed because the parties to the talks were seeking power, not peace....This book is the definitive work on the Arusha talks and the most detailed and best-documented account of a diplomatic negotiation that I know of.”“In this story of frontline diplomacy David Rawson attempts to understand why negotiations failed to keep tragedy at bay in Rwanda.…[He] paints a revealing picture of struggling diplomacy and the dire consequences of failed conflict resolution.” * Foreign Service Journal *

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Book SynopsisExplores the relation between nineteenth-century American interest in ancient Egypt in architecture, literature, and science, and the ways Egypt was deployed by advocates for slavery and by African American writers.Trade Review“Egypt Land is an exceptional interdisciplinary study of the centrality of Egyptomania to considerations of race and nation in nineteenth-century America.”—Robert S. Levine, author of Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity “A magnificent piece of scholarship, Egypt Land does justice to the complexity of the work of nation- and race-making as such work moved circularly along axes of racialized science, ideology, Biblical and political authority, songs, and images, producing social and material effects. In short, the imagining of ancient Egypt was a weapon among an array of agents that both made and resisted, as Scott Trafton puts it, the ‘iconography of empire.’”—Wahneema Lubiano, editor of The House That Race Built“Now that Scott Trafton has taught us the meaning of Egyptomania, we’ll all be seeing its register everywhere and feeling astonished that we weren’t noticing it before.”—Dana D. Nelson, author of National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White MenTable of ContentsIllustrations ix Acknowledgment xi Preface: “An Inspired Frenzy of Madness” xv Introduction: “This Egypt of the West”: Making Race and Nation along the American Nile 1 1. “A Veritable He-Nigger after All”: Egypt, Ethnology, and the Crises of History 41 2. The Egyptian Moment: Racial Ruptures and the Archaeological Imaginary 85 3. The Curse of the Mummy: Race, Reanimation, and the Egyptian Revival 121 4. Undressing Cleopatra: Race, Sex, and Bodily Interiority in Nineteenth-Century American Egyptomania 165 5. Egypt Land: Slavery, Uprising, and Signifying the Double 222 Notes 263 Works Cited 315 Index 339

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Book SynopsisIn From Washington to Moscow veteran US Foreign Service officer Louis Sell draws archival sources and memoirs—many in Russian—as well as his own experiences to trace the history of US–Soviet relations between 1972 and 1991 and to explain what caused the Soviet Union's collapse.Trade Review"A masterfully written book, From Washington to Moscow offers a comprehensive, magnificent, and primarily chronological narrative of the USSR—the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics—under the leadership of its General Secretaries—Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko, and Mikhail Gorbachev—up to its stupendous collapse, and the ascent of Boris Yeltsin, the First President of the Russian Federation." -- Sapphire Ng * Impeccable Business blog *"[A] rich and readable history.... A rare and intimate look at Gorbachev and the events leading up to his presidency...." * Kirkus Reviews *"Books on the era abound, but Sell’s account helps remind us what really happened, and in some cases fills in some important gaps. His book combines meticulous use of archival and other sources with telling personal reminiscences and nuanced observations. A particular strength is his grasp of the personalities involved." -- Edward Lucas * Center for European Policy Analysis *"Sell is obviously a talented writer who is able to simplify complicated issues without removing their important subtleties. He also breaks down Cold War arms negotiations to a point where any reader can clearly understand which games each side was playing and who really won or lost despite the final number of missiles. The fact that he was present at many of the negotiations lends a sense of clarity to his writing that is rarely seen on this issue." -- April Curtis * LSE Review of Books *"Methodologically rigorous and qualitative, Sell deploys thorough archival research aided by personal observation, which makes the book a fluid and enjoyable, but serious, read. It is also a welcome departure from contemporary political scholarship, which tends to be mostly quantitative in nature and is often devoid of the historical ‘long views.’" -- Sumantra Maitra * International Affairs *"[A] modest and sensible account of the collapse of the Soviet Union and its aftermath. . . ." -- Robert Cottrell * New York Review of Books *"[T]his is a story that is extremely vivid, lively in its detail and persuasive in its assessments, that engagingly recreates what is now a bygone era for many readers and so a world they have difficulty imagining through dry, academic analysis." -- Robert D. English * H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews *"An engaging, detailed narrative of Soviet developments and U.S.-Soviet relations that draws principally on a highly impressive range of memoir and documentary sources, especially Soviet and many unavailable in English, that have appeared since 1991.... I can testify to the meticulous care with which he has constructed his narrative, and to how successfully it weaves together data from those sources and his own lived experience." -- Thomas W. Simons, Jr * Journal of Cold War Studies *Table of ContentsPrologue. Two Treaties, Two Eras 1 1. First Visit to the USSR: Things Are Not as They Seem 5 2. Leonid Brezhnev: Power and Stagnation 9 3. Repression and Resistance 22 4. The Nixon Years 41 5. A Tale of Two Cities: Vladivostok and Helsinki 63 6. The Unhappy Presidency of Jimmy Carter 76 7. Two Crises and an Olympiad 96 8. Interregnum: Andropov in Power 114 9. Ronald Reagan's First Administration 128 10. Eagle vs. Bear: US and Soviet Approaches to Strategic Arms Control 145 11. Mikhail Gorbachev 165 12. Gorbachev Ascendant 184 13. New Kid on the Block: Gorbachev Emerges in US-Soviet Relations 196 14. "I Guess I Should Say Michael": The Turn in US-Soviet Relations 213 15. 1989: Year of Miracles or Time of Troubles? 242 16. Stumbling toward Collapse: Gorbachev's Final Eighteen Months 270 17. The August Coup 294 18. Red Star Falling 312 19. Why Did the USSR Collapse? 322 Postscript 339 Notes 351 Bibliography 383 Index 399

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Book SynopsisIn From Washington to Moscow veteran US Foreign Service officer Louis Sell draws archival sources and memoirs—many in Russian—as well as his own experiences to trace the history of US–Soviet relations between 1972 and 1991 and to explain what caused the Soviet Union's collapse.Trade Review"A masterfully written book, From Washington to Moscow offers a comprehensive, magnificent, and primarily chronological narrative of the USSR—the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics—under the leadership of its General Secretaries—Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko, and Mikhail Gorbachev—up to its stupendous collapse, and the ascent of Boris Yeltsin, the First President of the Russian Federation." -- Sapphire Ng * Impeccable Business blog *"[A] rich and readable history.... A rare and intimate look at Gorbachev and the events leading up to his presidency...." * Kirkus Reviews *"Books on the era abound, but Sell’s account helps remind us what really happened, and in some cases fills in some important gaps. His book combines meticulous use of archival and other sources with telling personal reminiscences and nuanced observations. A particular strength is his grasp of the personalities involved." -- Edward Lucas * Center for European Policy Analysis *"Sell is obviously a talented writer who is able to simplify complicated issues without removing their important subtleties. He also breaks down Cold War arms negotiations to a point where any reader can clearly understand which games each side was playing and who really won or lost despite the final number of missiles. The fact that he was present at many of the negotiations lends a sense of clarity to his writing that is rarely seen on this issue." -- April Curtis * LSE Review of Books *"Methodologically rigorous and qualitative, Sell deploys thorough archival research aided by personal observation, which makes the book a fluid and enjoyable, but serious, read. It is also a welcome departure from contemporary political scholarship, which tends to be mostly quantitative in nature and is often devoid of the historical ‘long views.’" -- Sumantra Maitra * International Affairs *"[A] modest and sensible account of the collapse of the Soviet Union and its aftermath. . . ." -- Robert Cottrell * New York Review of Books *"[T]his is a story that is extremely vivid, lively in its detail and persuasive in its assessments, that engagingly recreates what is now a bygone era for many readers and so a world they have difficulty imagining through dry, academic analysis." -- Robert D. English * H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews *"An engaging, detailed narrative of Soviet developments and U.S.-Soviet relations that draws principally on a highly impressive range of memoir and documentary sources, especially Soviet and many unavailable in English, that have appeared since 1991.... I can testify to the meticulous care with which he has constructed his narrative, and to how successfully it weaves together data from those sources and his own lived experience." -- Thomas W. Simons, Jr * Journal of Cold War Studies *Table of ContentsPrologue. Two Treaties, Two Eras 1 1. First Visit to the USSR: Things Are Not as They Seem 5 2. Leonid Brezhnev: Power and Stagnation 9 3. Repression and Resistance 22 4. The Nixon Years 41 5. A Tale of Two Cities: Vladivostok and Helsinki 63 6. The Unhappy Presidency of Jimmy Carter 76 7. Two Crises and an Olympiad 96 8. Interregnum: Andropov in Power 114 9. Ronald Reagan's First Administration 128 10. Eagle vs. Bear: US and Soviet Approaches to Strategic Arms Control 145 11. Mikhail Gorbachev 165 12. Gorbachev Ascendant 184 13. New Kid on the Block: Gorbachev Emerges in US-Soviet Relations 196 14. "I Guess I Should Say Michael": The Turn in US-Soviet Relations 213 15. 1989: Year of Miracles or Time of Troubles? 242 16. Stumbling toward Collapse: Gorbachev's Final Eighteen Months 270 17. The August Coup 294 18. Red Star Falling 312 19. Why Did the USSR Collapse? 322 Postscript 339 Notes 351 Bibliography 383 Index 399

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface Prologue Chapter One: City Rebuffed Chapter Two: Suburbia Unnerved Chapter Three: Cosmopolitan Charm Chapter Four: Rockefellers to the Rescue Chapter Five: Rise of a Cityscape Icon Chapter Six: Smoothing Out the Wrinkles Chapter Seven: Learning to Live Side by Side Chapter Eight: Autumn in New York Chapter Nine: Tussle over Tickets Chapter Ten: Trio Created Chapter Eleven: Making a Mark Chapter Twelve: Quandary over Age Chapter Thirteen: Renewal of a Cityscape Icon Epilogue Endnotes Sources Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume offers a profile of Japan's pre-war foreign ministry, especially the Chinese specialists within the ministry, who advocated that Japan must adopt policies in harmony with China's rising nationalism and national interests. It examines a range of primary sources.

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Book SynopsisExplores how successful Korean neutralization could have radically transformed the balance of power equation in East Asia. The book offers a groundbreaking view of Korean diplomatic history from a more regional geography paradigm.

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Book SynopsisWell-deployed primary sources and brisk writing by Wayne H. Bowen make this an excellent framework for understanding the evolution of US policy toward Spain, and thus how a nation facing a global threat develops strategic relationships over time.Trade ReviewA balanced, behind-the-scenes account of the struggle of these two nations to find common ground."" - Larry W. Blomstedt, Galveston College, author of Truman, Congress, and Korea

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Book SynopsisThe iconic American banana man of the early twentieth century - the white ""banana cowboy"" pushing the edges of a tropical frontier - was the product of the corporate colonialism embodied by the United Fruit Company. This study of the United Fruit Company shows how the business depended on these complicated employees, especially on acclimatizing them to life as tropical Americans.Trade ReviewMartin’s readable and well-documented study reveals that the United Fruit Company was a major actor in the process of internationalization a century ago. . . . A special variant of cowboy mythology and the reassertion of the frontier mentality are prominent in the author’s explanation of this crucial phase in United States expansion in Central America and the Caribbean."" - John Britton, author of Cables, Crises, and the Press: The Geopolitics of the New International Information System in the Americas, 1866-1903

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Book SynopsisThe diplomatic dispatches included in this volume offer an insight into contemporary Anglo-American relations. The period covered witnessed the election of Abraham Lincoln, the secession crisis, the formation of the Confederacy and the first military confrontations of the war.

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Book SynopsisThis text examines President Woodrow Wilson's policies regarding the future of the Danubian basin. It reveals that American attitudes and policies toward Hungarian participation in the Dual Monarchy were influenced by propaganda, the domestic American press and the demands of diplomacy.

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Book SynopsisAn Owl in a Hawk's World: Top diplomat Llewellyn E Thompson was everywhere the Cold War was. Winner of the New Mexico/Arizona Book Award for Best BiographyWinner of the New Mexico/Arizona Book Award for Best BiographyAgainst the sprawling backdrop of the Cold War, The Kremlinologist revisits some of the twentieth century's greatest conflicts as seen through the eyes of its hardest working diplomat, Llewellyn E Thompson. From the wilds of the American West to the inner sanctums of the White House and the Kremlin, Thompson became an important advisor to presidents and a key participant in major global events, including the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War. Yet unlike his contemporaries Robert S. McNamara and Dean Rusk, who considered Thompson one of the most crucial Cold War actors and the unsung hero of the Cuban Missile Crisis, he has not been the subject of a major biographyuntil now. Thompson's daughters Jenny and Sherry Thompson skillfully and thoroughly document his life Trade ReviewThe Kremlinologist is part biography, part Cold War history, and a fitting tribute by his daughters to a consequential American diplomat.—New York Journal of BooksThompson’s is an archetypal American story that took him from the wilds of the American West at the beginning of the 20th century to inside the halls of the White House and behind the walls of the Kremlin . . . Thompson’s story also confirms the power of personal diplomacy, patience and cultivation of deep understanding of and empathy for the other.—History News NetworkNeither Jenny nor Sherry Thompson, his daughters, is a professional historian, but they have closely researched official records and secondary sources and interviewed experts and eyewitnesses, and they draw on personal anecdotes that illuminate the family life of this formidable diplomat. The result is a readable portrait of a man whose behind-the-scenes role in major events is easy to overlook.—Wall Street JournalLlewellyn Thompson served eight U.S. presidents as a diplomat, including two stints as U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union. This rigorously documented book by his two daughters recounts his four decades as a Foreign Service officer . . . a valuable addition to the history of the first half of the Cold War, as well as a compelling biography of their father.—Robert Legvold, Foreign AffairsAmbassador Thompson would have been proud of the skill, thoroughness and evenhandedness with which his daughters compiled this biography.—Jonathan B. Rickert, Retired Senior Foreign Service Officer, The Foreign Service JournalIn vigorous prose, Thompson's daughters Jenny and Sherry Thompson document his life as an accomplished career diplomat. They describe how Thompson joined the Foreign Service both to feed his desire for adventure and from a deep sense of duty.—The Foreign Service Journal, "In Their Own Write" Annual FeatureThis magnificent book, handsomely produced by the publisher, is a pleasure to read. Jenny Thompson and Sherry Thompson have skillfully interwoven memories from their childhood experiences in Russia, their mother's unpublished memoirs, other family papers, interviews with American diplomats, extensive research in published and unpublished documents, and wide range of scholarly studies to create a thorough and insightful examination of the long diplomatic career of their extraordinarily discreet and self-effacing father.—David S. Foglesong, Rutgers University, H-Net ReviewsTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I1. The Beginning2. Into the World3. To Moscow4. The Siege of Moscow5. The Germans in Retreat6. Conferences7. The Hot War Ends and the Cold War Begins8. The Truman Doctrine9. The Birth of Covert Operations10. Overseas AgainPart II11. Chief of Mission12. The Trieste Negotiations13. The Austrian State Treaty Negotiations14. Open Skies, Closed BordersPart III15. Khrushchev's Decade (1953–1964)16. Moscow 217. Khrushchev's First Gamble: Berlin Poker18. Dueling Exhibitions19. The Russian Is Coming20. U-2: The End of Détente21. Picking Up the Pieces22. Working for the New President23. Meeting in Vienna24. The Twenty-Second Congress of the Communist Party25. Up the Down Escalator26. Goodbye Moscow, Hello Washington27. Thirteen Days in October28. Limited Test BanPart IV29. The Lyndon Johnson Years30. Strand One31. Thompson's Vietnam32. Strand Two33. Strand Three34. Moscow 335. The Six-Day War36. Glassboro37. 196838. "Retirement," So to SpeakNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1967. The Changing Status of German Reunification in Western Diplomacy, 1955-1966 reviews the course of NATO policy on German reunification from the perspective of West German preferences and Bonn's endeavors to have them respected in the diplomatic efforts of the major allies. With its accession to NATO, the West German government under Adenauer continued its policy of rehabilitating the German people in the eyes of the Western political community by playing a willing and sometimes leading role in joint ventures whose purpose was said to transcend the nation-state.Table of ContentsI. Introduction II. NATO and the German Reunification Problem III. The United States and German Reunification after 1961 IV. De Gaulle's "European" Initiative, 1964-66V. Remarks on the Present Juncture

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Book SynopsisAs the editor of the Saturday Review for more than thirty years, Norman Cousins had a powerful platform from which to help shape American public debate during the height of the Cold War. Under Cousins's leadership, the magazine was considered one of the most influential in the literary world. Cousins's progressive, nonpartisan editorials in the Review earned him the respect of the public and US government officials. But his deep impact on postwar international humanitarian aid, anti-nuclear advocacy, and Cold War diplomacy has been largely unexplored. In this book, Allen Pietrobon presents the first true biography of Norman Cousins. Cousins was much more important than we realize: he was involved in several secret citizen diplomacy missions during the height of the Cold War and, acting as a private citizen, played a major role in getting the Limited Test Ban Treaty signed. He also wrote JFK's famous 1963 American University commencement speech (not merely peace in our time but peace foTrade ReviewThis eye-opening biography is a primer for the lost art of gentle statecraft.—Wall Street JournalNorman Cousins: Peacemaker in the Atomic Age will not only be of keen interest to readers seeking to know more about Cousins's career, or those looking for additional insight and perspective into some of the most important moments of the Cold War, but it may also spark important conversations about processes of social and political change today.—Diplomatic HistoryAs a sympathetic biographer, Pietrobon does a good job of describing how Cousins's combination of deep moral convictions and political pragmatism managed to make such an impact.—Lawrence Freedman, Foreign AffairsAllen Pietrobon's Norman Cousins: Peacemaker in the Atomic Age casts new and important light on one of the most significant movers and shakers in the modern American peace movement. It is an important addition to historical understanding of peace activism and its intersection with public policy during the Cold War.—Peace and ChangeNorman Cousins: Peacemaker in the Atomic Age by scholar Allen Pietrobon confirms the immensity of his humanitarian spirit and influence as a self-appointed secular anti-nuclear prophet—The ForwardTable of ContentsPrologueIntroductionChapter 1. Educator for an Atomic AgeChapter 2. The Formation of a VisionChapter 3. World War IIChapter 4. An Anti-Nuclear CrusadeChapter 5. 1946: A New Year in the Atomic AgeChapter 6. Witness to a CatastropheChapter 7. An Educational Field Trip to GermanyChapter 8. From Editor's Desk to World StageChapter 9. In Search of Peace, Cousins Rallies for WarChapter 10. Candidate of the Intellectuals: Adlai Stevenson, 1952Chapter 11. From Advocate to DiplomatChapter 12. Eisenhower's New LookChapter 13. A New ProjectChapter 14. The Hiroshima MaidensChapter 15. The Anti-Nuclear AgendaChapter 16. 1956: The Anti-Nuclear Election CampaignChapter 17. SANE and the Anti-Testing CampaignChapter 18. The Ravensbrück Lapins and the Communist Connection Chapter 19. A Cultural Exchange of His OwnChapter 20. The Dawn of the Kennedy AdministrationChapter 21. Flashpoints: Berlin and the CongoChapter 22. Cousins, the Vatican, and the Cuban Missile CrisisChapter 23. The Crisis Abates but Contacts ContinueChapter 24. The Breakthrough to the Limited Nuclear Test Ban TreatyChapter 25. A Sojourn with KhrushchevChapter 26. The Fight to RatifyChapter 27. 1964: Near Death and RebirthChapter 28. Crusade against Dirty AirChapter 29. Days of Apprehension and ConfusionChapter 30. The "Humphrey Mission"Chapter 31. The Scramble to Prevent a BombingChapter 32. Campaigning against (and during) a WarChapter 33. The Biafran WarChapter 34. The Saturday Review's Final CrisisChapter 35. The Third ActConclusionNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisOffers a sweeping history of US foreign disaster assistance, highlighting its centrality to twentieth-century US foreign relations. Spanning over seventy years, the book examines how the US government, US military, and their partners in the American voluntary sector responded to major catastrophes around the world.

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Book SynopsisLeading scholars examine China's global strategic plans, from Hong Kong to military power, to economic dominanceOver the past few decades, China has increasingly challenged the global influence of the United States. In China's Grand Strategy, David B. H. Denoon brings together a group of eminent scholars to explain China's rapid ascendance on the world stage, as well as its future implications for global politics. Contributors address the military, economic, diplomatic, and internal political factors shaping China's strategy, in addition to highlighting Beijing's objectives in different parts of the world, such as Central Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Ultimately, they explore the promise and perils of China's rapidly changing political ambitions, showing how the country has made its mark on the twenty-first century. China's Grand Strategy provides insight into China's quest to become a global leader, particularly at a time when the future of both China and the US remain uncertain Trade Review"David B. H. Denoon has assembled seasoned scholars who provide a fascinating and wide-ranging set of assessments on different dimensions and global regions in China's increasingly assertive, and frequently fraught, encounter with the world. A thorough and superb synopsis." -- David Shambaugh, author of Where Great Powers Meet: America and China in Southeast Asia"As the United States prepares to recalibrate relations with China, China's Grand Strategy offers a nuanced and intelligent roadmap for the Biden administration. These highly qualified contributors give priority to the most challenging issues involved in the process: new technologies, diplomacy, and strategic regional issues in Northeast Asia, South Asia, Eurasia, and North America. This book avoids ideological demagoguery and deals with the emerging realities as China consolidates its place as a major player in world affairs." -- Riordan Roett, co-editor of China's Expansion into the Western Hemisphere: Implications for Latin America and the United States"This book is essential reading for observers seeking a better understanding of Chinese actions. It also serves as an excellent primer for national security professionals and undergraduate students." -- Gerald Krieger * International Affairs *

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Book SynopsisLeading scholars examine China's global strategic plans, from Hong Kong to military power, to economic dominanceOver the past few decades, China has increasingly challenged the global influence of the United States. In China's Grand Strategy, David B. H. Denoon brings together a group of eminent scholars to explain China's rapid ascendance on the world stage, as well as its future implications for global politics. Contributors address the military, economic, diplomatic, and internal political factors shaping China's strategy, in addition to highlighting Beijing's objectives in different parts of the world, such as Central Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Ultimately, they explore the promise and perils of China's rapidly changing political ambitions, showing how the country has made its mark on the twenty-first century. China's Grand Strategy provides insight into China's quest to become a global leader, particularly at a time when the future of both China and the US remain uncertain Trade Review"David B. H. Denoon has assembled seasoned scholars who provide a fascinating and wide-ranging set of assessments on different dimensions and global regions in China's increasingly assertive, and frequently fraught, encounter with the world. A thorough and superb synopsis." -- David Shambaugh, author of Where Great Powers Meet: America and China in Southeast Asia"As the United States prepares to recalibrate relations with China, China's Grand Strategy offers a nuanced and intelligent roadmap for the Biden administration. These highly qualified contributors give priority to the most challenging issues involved in the process: new technologies, diplomacy, and strategic regional issues in Northeast Asia, South Asia, Eurasia, and North America. This book avoids ideological demagoguery and deals with the emerging realities as China consolidates its place as a major player in world affairs." -- Riordan Roett, co-editor of China's Expansion into the Western Hemisphere: Implications for Latin America and the United States"This book is essential reading for observers seeking a better understanding of Chinese actions. It also serves as an excellent primer for national security professionals and undergraduate students." -- Gerald Krieger * International Affairs *

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Book SynopsisFour Days in Hitler's Germany tells the engaging story of Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King's failed diplomatic mission to Nazi Germany.Trade Review"Brimming with rigorous, original research and startling detail." -- Peter Black * Canada’s History *"[Four Days in Hitler’s Germany] is focused on providing relevant context for, and description of, the brief meetings that Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King had with Hitler and a number of his associates in late June 1937, particularly as revealed in King’s now famous Diaries. The book is much more than that, however, for the author gives us valuable side excursions into the architectural history of Berlin, the uses and abuses of heritage commemoration in the 1930s and after the war, the nature of the new ecological thought in Germany, and the social and racial values in Canada which helped shape much of King’s outlook." -- Graham A. MacDonald * Prairie History *"This book is a valuable addition to the small subfield of Canadian international history, in which there is sadly little debate (in part because the pickings are so slim). […] Four Days in Hitler’s Germany should prompt some important reappraisals of Canada’s longest serving prime minister but also of Canadian history during this period, one where Nazism was not yet widely reviled." -- Asa McKercher, Royal Military College of Canada * H-Transnational German Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Glossary Crerar's Map of Berlin, 1937 Prologue: Values, Interests, and Foreign Relations 1. Of Lions and Lyons 2. Arrival 3. Beholding the Nazi Miracle 4. Shrugging Off the British Yoke 5. The Holy Errand 6. Sympathy for the Devil 7. Haunted Berlin 8. Arbeit Macht Frei 9. Whither the Jews? 10. The Uses and Abuses of Mackenzie King 11. Canada Makes Headlines! 12. Atavistic Beasts: Der Dicke and His Bison 13. Baiting Godwin’s Law 14. The Interview 15. Savouring the Triumph, with an Assist from Verdi 16. Taking Leave 17. Home 18. Failure of a Mission, or The War That Harry Crerar Foretold 19. Aftermath Epilogue: Perspectives Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhy have so many diplomats been writers? Why have so many writers served as diplomats? This book provides some fascinating insights into the connections between literature and diplomacy.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments The Mission of Literature: Modern Novels and Diplomacy Allan Hepburn, McGill University Part One: Diplomatic Experience 1. Making a Song and Dance of It: Staging Diplomacy in William Gerhardi’s Early Novels Claire Davison, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle 2. The League of Nations as Seen by Albert Cohen: A User’s Guide to Social Magic Maxime Decout, Université de Lille 3. Modern Negotiations: Harold Nicolson’s Peacemaking 1919 and Public Faces Caroline Z. Krzakowski, Northern Michigan University Part Two: Novels and Diplomacy 4. Diplomatic Dispatch Style: Towards a New Aesthetic of the Novel Isabelle Daunais, McGill University 5. Conrad’s Politics of Idealism: Diplomacy without Diplomats Stephen Ross, University of Victoria 6. André Gide and the Art of Evasion Michel Biron, McGill University Part Three: Documents 7. Proust’s Epistolary Diplomacy: Antoine Bibesco, René Peter, and “Salaïsme” François Proulx, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 8. The Art of Conversation: Nancy Mitford, France, and Cultural Diplomacy Allan Hepburn, McGill University Part Four: Foreign Affairs 9. Action, Diplomacy, Art: André Malraux and Graham Greene Robert L. Caserio, Pennsylvania State University 10. Mythography and Diplomacy in Works by Ian Fleming and John le Carré Maxime Prévost, University of Ottawa 11. Lawrence Durrell: Diplomacy as Farce Maria DiBattista, Princeton University Works Cited Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisO.D. Skelton is the definitive biography of the most influential public servant in Canada's history, written by one the most prolific Canadian historians of international affairs and the editor of Skelton's voluminous papers.Trade Review'Hillmer's masterful biography of Skelton helps us to see Skelton who he was... This is the work of a senior scholar who knows what he is doing and knows his subject.' -- Christopher Dummitt Acadiensis vol 65:01:2016 'Hillmer's biography will be indispensable to future students of Canadian government and politics.' -- Kenneth C. Dewar Canadian Historical Review vol 97:02:2016 'Norman Hillmer's 2015 masterful biography of Skelton helps us to see Skelton for who he was... This is the work of a senior scholar who knows what he is doing, and knows his subject.' -- Christopher Dummitt Acadiensis, vol 45:01:2016 'The greatest compliment one may pay to this book is that it is worthy of its subject.' -- Hector MacKenzie British Journal of Canadian Studies vol 29:02:2016Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Going Away and Coming Home. 1878-1908 2. Citizen Entrepreneur, 1908-14 3. War and Sir Wilfrid, 1914-19 4. Courting Mr King, 1919-22 5. Amen, Downing Street, 1923 6. The Decision, 1924-5 7. You Ought to be Prime Minister, 1925-6 8. Inching towards Independence, 1927-9 9. Life with RB, 1930-3 10. The Moderate Leaguer, 1933-5 11. Fortune in Our Neighbours, 1935-6 12. Pretty Well Used Up, 1937-8 13. Together and Apart, 1938-9 14. Half-Day's Work Nearly Done, 1939-41 Conclusion

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Book SynopsisIn Spheres of Intervention, James R. Stocker examines the history of diplomatic relations between the United States and Lebanon during a transformational period for Lebanon and a time of dynamic changes in US policy toward the Middle East. Drawing on tens of thousands of pages of declassified materials from US archives and a variety of Arabic and other non-English sources, Stocker provides a new interpretation of Lebanon''s slide into civil war, as well as insight into the strategy behind US diplomatic initiatives toward the Arab-Israeli conflict. During this period, Stocker argues, Lebanon was often a pawn in the games of larger powers. The stability of Lebanon was an aim of US policy at a time when Israel's borders with Egypt and Jordan were in active contention. Following the June 1967 Arab-Israeli War, the internal political situation in Lebanon became increasingly unstable due to the regional military and political stalemate, the radicalization of the country's domestic Trade ReviewThis valuable work provides a highly detailed review of the American diplomatic record and lays important groundwork for future scholars to expand upon, especially those who will put Stocker's revelations into greater conversation with Middle Eastern sources. Additionally, Stocker's assessment that perceptions about American action, even when not exercised, influenced decision making provides a useful framework for scholars of U.S. international relations. -- Laila Ballout, Northwestern University * The Journal of American History *Stocker weaves in leading policy-makers’ discussions and decisions with regional and international dynamics to shed light on how the United States viewed events in Lebanon in general, and the Lebanese government in particular.... Clearly uncovers what has been argued all along by Lebanese academics and policymakers, namely, that Lebanon has never been left alone to make its own decisions freely. * PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICS *Table of ContentsIntroduction: "This Is the American Policy" US Interests in Lebanon Causes of the Lebanese Civil War The Course of the Conflict, 1975–76 1. Sparks in the Tinderbox: The United States, the June War, and the Remaking of the Lebanese Crisis Lebanese Domestic Tensions on the Eve of the June War The United States and Lebanon in the 1960s Lebanon's Six Day War Pepsi-Cola Hits the Spot The Beirut Airport Raid 2. Compromise in Cairo: The Nixon Administration and the Cairo Agreement "Trying to Be Helpful" The August Attacks and the Rogers Plan October Crisis and the Cairo Agreement 3. From Cairo to Amman: The United States and Lebanese Internal Security Post-Cairo US Assistance to Lebanon Implementing the Cairo Agreement The Kahhale Ambush and the Exodus from the South Causes of the Calm 4. Plus ça change: International Terrorism, Détente, and the May 1973 Crisis The New International Terrorism A New Request for Support The Israeli Raid on Beirut and the May Crisis The Aftermath 5. Reckoning Postponed: From the October War to the Civil War The October War and the Start of Negotiations Lebanese Domestic Politics after the October War Diplomacy on the Rocks 6. Disturbing Potential: The United States and the Renewed Conflict The Outbreak of Conflict The Military Cabinet and Syrian Mediation Sinai II and the Resumption of Violence in Lebanon The January Cease-Fire 7. Reluctant Interveners: The Red Line Agreement and Brown’s Mediation The Constitutional Document and Shifting Alignments The Non-Negotiation of the Red Line The Brown Mission and the PLO From Election to Intervention 8. Taking Its Course: The Syrian Intervention and Its Limits Reacting to the Syrian Intervention Assassinations and Evacuations The New US-Syrian Dialogue The Second Syrian Military Offensive and the End of the Conflict Red Line Redux? Epilogue: The Cycle Continues

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Book SynopsisHow do established powers react to growing competitors? The United States currently faces a dilemma with regard to China and others over whether to embrace competition and thus substantial present-day costs or collaborate with its rivals to garner short-term gains while letting them become more powerful. This problem lends considerable urgency to the lessons to be learned from Over the Horizon. David M. Edelstein analyzes past rising powers in his search for answers that point the way forward for the United States as it strives to maintain control over its competitors.Edelstein focuses on the time horizons of political leaders and the effects of long-term uncertainty on decision-making. He notes how state leaders tend to procrastinate when dealing with long-term threats, hoping instead to profit from short-term cooperation, and are reluctant to act precipitously in an uncertain environment. To test his novel theory, Edelstein uses lessons learned from history's great pTrade ReviewOver the Horizon asks important questions, provides clear arguments, and delivers an elegant theory that pushes Realist scholarship in new directions. * H-War *Edelstein (Georgetown) provides a timely analysis of the relations between established and rising great powers in order to determine why variations between cooperation and competition occur between them. * Choice *There is much to like about this volume. The writing is crisp, and the case studies—evaluating the impact of time horizons visàvis the rise of Germany and the United States, Germany's interwar resurgence, and the origins of the Cold War—are a model for qualitative research. More substantively, Edelstein has issued a clarion call for scholars to directly study states' temporal calculations and how these calculations affect foreign policy. Even if one does not accept the argument, future work will need to address the importance of time horizons. * Political Science Quarterly *David Edelstein's book makes significant and novel theoretical contributions toward studying great and rising powers. * International Studies Review *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. Time Horizons and International Politics 2. The Arrival of Imperial Germany 3. The Rise of the United States 4. The Resurgence of Interwar Germany 5. The Origins of the Cold War 6. Conclusion and the Contemporary Rise of China Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe Renaissance jurist Alberico Gentili once quipped that, just like comedies, all wars end in a marriage. In medieval and early modern Europe, marriage treaties were a perennial feature of the diplomatic landscape. When one ruler decided to make peace with his enemy, the two parties often sealed their settlement with marriages between their respective families. In After Lavinia, John Watkins traces the history of the practice, focusing on the unusually close relationship between diplomacy and literary production in Western Europe from antiquity through the seventeenth century, when marriage began to lose its effectiveness and prestige as a tool of diplomacy.Watkins begins with Virgil''s foundational myth of the marriage between the Trojan hero Aeneas and the Latin princess, an account that formed the basis for numerous medieval and Renaissance celebrations of dynastic marriages by courtly poets and propagandists. In the book''s second half, he follows the slow decline of dipTrade ReviewWatkins’s study of marriage diplomacy is a compelling work which proves an indispensable reference for readers of all creeds: from the literary analyst, to the specialist in diplomacy, gender studies or conflict studies, and to the lay reader trying to understand a volatile zeitgeist.... Dismissing the place of literature in the political episteme of a time and of all time has never been better argued as being a major error. Watkins’s opus is not only a major and fresh contribution to the field, it is an enlightening commentary on contemporary politics and on the necessity of a literary view of history. * Cahiers Élisabéthains *Embarks upon an impressive tour of literary history to show how marriage acts served transnational diplomacy.... Historians will benefit from reading John Watkins' intellectually engaging literary history. * H-FRANCE *Watkins's book makes many insightful claims and raises a lot of intriguing questions about premodern mariage diplomacy. * Sixteenth Century Journal *Watkins's work offers a fresh perspective on interdynastic marriage and on diplomacy. As he makes clear throughout the text, Watkins wants to uncover the woman's voice in diplomatic history. Throughout the text, he does just that, creating a strong scholarly analysis that foregrounds gender and affirms the importance of the domestic, the maternal, and the reproductive.... Overall, Watkins's fascinating and ambitious work offers a positive contribution to academic conversations on queenship, marriage, international diplomacy, and literary celebrations and critiques of dynastic marriage. * Clio *Watkins raises authentically interesting questions about politics, gender, and religion, and demonstrates the value of literary sources and literary analysis for this topic. It is especially valuable for assembling a range of texts on interdynastic marriage, including Jordanes, Gregory of Tours, the Venerable Bede, Paul the Deacon, Dudo, William of Apulia, Wace, William of Malmsbury, and others, theological works as well as twelfth- and thirteenth-century vernacular romances and their treatments of royal marriages.... The broad sweep of this study is impressive, displaying the range of possible practices for monarch, marrying in or out, up or down, lateral—or... choosing not to marry at all. * Speculum *After Lavinia... provocatively aims at fostering a discussion about the nature of war and peacemaking in the premodern and modern worlds, and how the intertwined roles of gender, the passions, and, more generally, the irrational played a significant role in pre-Westphalian diplomatic society, and were later dangerously confined to the literary realm. In this sense, After Lavinia is a wonderful and thought-provoking book: it should be essential reading in and beyond the community of scholars working on these topics. * Diplomatica *A powerful, wide-ranging study.... A triumphant, fruitful marriage of critical methodologies and fields. It encompasses literary and cultural history, diplomatic history, international relations, gender studies, and other approaches. Its comparatist focus has much to teach specialists in English literature.... Magisterial. * Modern Language Quarterly *A fascinating interdisciplinary study of marriage diplomacy from the post-Roman period through the seventeenth century.... Watkins draws upon chronicle histories, medieval romances, diplomatic records, international society theory, pastoral verse, political pamphlets, and early modern drama to develop an ambitious and nuanced argument about the changing ideology of political marriages.... Watkins's book is both concise and elegantly structured given its very broad scope. It offers an important contribution to the study of diplomatic cultures, especially by articulating ideological positions that shaped the political roles of women, and scholars of any part of the European Middle Ages and early modern periods will learn a great deal from its longue durée narrative. -- Amanda Walling * Comparative Literature Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Voice of LaviniaPart I. Origins1. After Rome: Interdynastic Marriage during the First Christian Centuries2. Interdynastic Marriage, Religious Conversion, and the Expansion of Diplomatic Society3. From Chronicle to Romance: Interdynastic Marriage in the High Middle AgesPart II. Wanings4. Marriage Diplomacy, Print, and the Reformation5. Shakespeare's Adumbrations of State-Based Diplomacy6. Divas and Diplomacy in Seventeenth-Century FranceConclusion

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Book SynopsisEach phase of Arab-Israeli peacemaking has been inordinately difficult in its own right, and every critical juncture and decision point in the long process has been shaped by U.S. politics and the U.S. leaders of the moment. The Peace Puzzle tracks the American determination to articulate policy, develop strategy and tactics, and see through negotiations to agreements on an issue that has been of singular importance to U.S. interests for more than forty years. In 2006, the authors of The Peace Puzzle formed the Study Group on Arab-Israeli Peacemaking, a project supported by the United States Institute of Peace, to develop a set of best practices for American diplomacy. The Study Group conducted in-depth interviews with more than 120 policymakers, diplomats, academics, and civil society figures and developed performance assessments of the various U.S. administrations of the postCold War period. This book, an objective account of the role of the United States in attempting to aTrade ReviewThe collective Middle East experience of the authors is unsurpassed. Their analysis is terse, and their portrait of U.S. efforts to broker Arab-Israeli peace is bleak.... The authors assert that American policymakers must address the core issues, transform their natural bias toward Israel into a positive factor, recapture bipartisan resolve to tackle the issue, maintain continuity across administrations, and persuade the Israelis and the Palestinians that Washington understands and respects their fundamental interests. * Foreign Affairs *The originality of this new book is to propose a distanced analysis that draws on 120 interviews with the implied decision-makers of American political involvement in the Middle East from 1989-2011...The authors take care to compare the remarks of their interviewees with available official documents, journalist investigations, as well as already-publicized testimonies. The result is a study that draws constantly on its foundational material, citing interviews that support and enrich the argument. * Politique Américaine *A must-read for anyone who desires to truly understand this critical and complex quest for Middle East peace. * Israel Book Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Decline of American Mideast Diplomacy 1. Opportunities Created, Opportunities Lost: Negotiations at Oslo and Madrid 2. Within Reach: Israeli- Syrian Negotiations of the 1990s 3. The Collapse of the Israeli- Palestinian Negotiations 4. George W. Bush Reshapes America's Role 5. The Annapolis Denouement 6. Obama: An Early Assessment Epilogue: Lessons Learned and UnlearnedNotes Index

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Book SynopsisIn this novel take on diplomatic history, Sebastián Hurtado-Torres examines the involvement of the United States in Chile during the Eduardo Frei administration (19641970) and shows how the engagement between the two nations deepened the process of political polarization in Chile. At the heart of The Gathering Storm is a description of the partnership between Frei''s government and that of Lyndon B. Johnson. Both leaders considered modernization to be integral to political and economic development, and the US Embassy in Santiago was recognized by all parties to be the center of this modernizing agenda and the practical work of the Alliance for Progress (AFP). Hurtado-Torres portrays the diplomatic and economic relationship between Chile and the United States in a manner that departs from the most militant and conservative interpretations of US foreign policy toward Latin America. By focusing on the active participation of agents of US foreign policyparticularly Trade ReviewHurtado-Torres offers a sophisticated reinterpretation of U.S.-Chilean relations in the 1960s prior to the 1970 election of the leftist Salvador Allende. * Foreign Affairs *Complete with notes, this work would be a valuable addition to academic libraries with collections on Latin America. * Choice *[T]he major contribution of Sebastián Hurtado-Torres's The Gathering Storm is to trace the very frank, aboveboard roles that US diplomats played in supporting the Christian Democratic government of Eduardo Frei Montalva and the eager collaboration of many Christian Democrats (as well as other political leaders) with US objectives. This book usefully combines traditional diplomatic history with a forensic history of Chile's political parties to make three related observations and arguments. This valuable political history is crucial reading for students of modern Chile and Latin American politics. * Hispanic American Historical Review *By shifting our chronological frame and examining a different corpus of documents, this new account challenges the readers' preconceived notions regarding Cold War-era US policy toward Chile. It is compelling reading and draws our attention to a number of events and individuals in Chilean political history who have received comparatively little attention. Even though we can discern the gathering storm on the horizon throughout this monograph, it is written with great detail and a sense of contingency, allowing developments to be analyzed on their own terms and also as precursors to the breakdown of democracy. * The Americas Journal *As a Chilean historian trained at Ohio University, Sebastian Hurtado-Torres uses his expertise to produce a well-constructed argument on the nature of Chilean politics in the Cold War. As a book that appears as part of the Cornell University series entitled the 'United States in the World', it fits well in the growing literature of US history produced beyond the borders of the United States. The Gathering Storm enlarges understandings of Cold War politics in Latin America by including the point of view of liberal anticommunism and its modernising project. Readers interested in exploring the complicated relations between the United States and its Latin American allies beyond the simplistic image of oligarchies and extreme right actors will find Hurtado-Torres' book a valuable contribution to the discussion. * Cold War history *[A]s Sebastián Hurtado-Torres explains in this fine study, [Eduardo] Frei's term is more remarkable because of his unsuccessful struggles to contain the entropy that led to the Marxist candidate Salvador Allende's 1970 electoral triumph (which then led to the 1973 coup d'état against Allende and the subsequent brutally repressive military regime). Hurtado-Torres's study is not just an exploration of Frei's political fortunes but also an analysis of the activist U.S. role in Chilean politics during this vital period. * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The United States and Chilean Politics in theCold War 1. The U.S. Embassy in Santiago and the Presidential Election of 1964 2. Time of Hope, 1964–1967 3. Time of Trouble, 1967–1969 4. Chilean Copper and U.S. Companies 5. The Presidential Candidacy of Radomiro Tomic 6. The United States and the Last Two Years of the Frei Administration 7. The United States and the Presidential Election of 1970 8. Eduardo Frei, the U.S. Embassy, and the Election of Salvador Allende Conclusion: The Influence of the United States in Chilean Politics

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Book SynopsisThe Consequences of Humiliation explores the nature of national humiliation and its impact on foreign policy. Joslyn Barnhart demonstrates that Germany''s catastrophic reaction to humiliation at the end of World War I is part of a broader pattern: states that experience humiliating events are more likely to engage in international aggression aimed at restoring the state''s image in its own eyes and in the eyes of others.Barnhart shows that these states also pursue conquest, intervene in the affairs of other states, engage in diplomatic hostility and verbal discord, and pursue advanced weaponry and other symbols of national resurgence at higher rates than non-humiliated states in similar foreign policy contexts. Her examination of how national humiliation functions at the individual level explores leaders'' domestic incentives to evoke a sense of national humiliation. As a result of humiliation on this level, the effects may persist for decades, if not centuries, followTrade ReviewBarnhart's book is an important, original contribution to international relations theory on states' reactions to humiliating events, which seemingly occur regularly, affecting numerous states. With this rigorous, well-argued book, Barnhart has shown the way for future investigations into the interaction between status, prestige, humiliation, and reputation. * H-Diplo *[T]the book is impressive. It is an ambitious and thoughtful examination on how states deal with their insecurities, emotional or otherwise. It is voluminously researched and judiciously written. What Barnhart has done better than anybody is to map out the complex emotional and political chain from mad to even. * H-Diplo *The Consequences of Humiliation substantially advances knowledge and provides sophisticated answers about a pervasive phenomenon in international politics. It sets a high bar for multi-method research and will be required reading for current and future scholars who are interested in status, political psychology, and emotions in international relations. * H-Diplo *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. National Failure and International Disregard 2. Withdrawal, Opposition, and Aggression 3. National Humiliation at the Individual Level 4. The Cross-National Consequences of Humiliating International Events 5. Soothing Wounded Vanity: French and German Expansion in Africa from 1882 to 1885 6. "Our Honeymoon with the U.S. Came to an End": Soviet Humiliation at the Height of the Cold War Conclusion: The Attenuation and Prevention of National Humiliation

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Book SynopsisWhen American evangelicals flocked to Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe in the late twentieth century to fulfill their Biblical mandate for global evangelism, their experiences abroad led them to engage more deeply in foreign policy activism at home. Lauren Frances Turek tracks these trends and illuminates the complex and significant ways in which religion shaped America''s role in the lateCold War world. In To Bring the Good News to All Nations, she examines the growth and influence of Christian foreign policy lobbying groups in the United States beginning in the 1970s, assesses the effectiveness of Christian efforts to attain foreign aid for favored regimes, and considers how those same groups promoted the imposition of economic and diplomatic sanctions on those nations that stifled evangelism.Using archival materials from both religious and government sources, To Bring the Good News to All Nations links the development of evangelical foreTrade ReviewThis work is a welcome addition to the growing literature on religion and US foreign policy. * Choice *To Bring the Good News to All Nations is a thoughtful, lucidly written study of how activist networks are built and exert influence at the nexus of international and domestic politics. The book adeptly treats conservative evangelicals and their beliefs with sensitivity even while still evaluating them critically, providing a model for other scholars interested in similar topics. * Passport *Lauren Frances Turek's 2020 study, To Bring the Good News to All Nations, provides the basis for a more complete and accurate assessment of the inspirations, aims, and achievements of the movement. * First Things *Well researched, insightful, and solidly documented, To Bring Good News to All Nations is a significant scholarly achievement. * International Journal of Frontier Missiology *[T]his volume, which is richly researched and well organized, is a timely and valuable contribution to existing studies on the American Christian Right. * Idées d'Amériques *Lauren Frances Turek's new book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on evangelical Christianity and U.S. foreing relations. * The Review of Faith & International Afffairs *Lauren Turek's To Bring the Good News to All Nations is a welcome contribution to the burgeoning subfield of the religious history of U.S. foreign relations, bringing to light the poorly understood contours of white U.S. evangelical engagement with U.S. foreign policy in the 1970s and 1980s. With impressively detailed and careful archival, textual, and other media-related research, Turek breaks clichés, unlocks impasses, and fills misleading silences in conventional narratives of the rise of the Religious Right. * Church History *Turek succeeds in demonstrating how powerful evangelical networks influenced U.S. foreign policy. The book provides an important analysis of the development of evangelical human rights that is becoming even more relevant as the inheritors of this tradition have taken charge of the State Department. Turek's analysis also suggests the ways that a globally-focused Cold War politics defined white U.S. evangelicalism. * Diplomatic History *Extensively researched and well-written, To Bring the Good News to All Nations makes a convincing case for the role of American evangelicals in international affairs. [T]he book is a wide-ranging work that greatly adds to our understanding of the role of religion in the last two decades of the Cold War. * Religion, State & Society *[The book] is a deeply researched, cogently argued, and utterly compelling study of conservative Protestant 'influence' on American foreign policy. Turek's work is an important reminder to historians of religion that state power, political economy, and international exchange are never absent from religion's work in the world. * Religion *Turek is careful to show that U.S. evangelicals were not mere promoters of American interests overseas. Neither did they always speak in one voice. Turek's book invites readers to take a critical look at the present and future of evangelical human rights advocacy. * The Review of Faith and International Affairs *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Defining and Defending Rights 1. A Global Shift in Missionary Christianity 2. The Communications Revolution And Evangelical Internationalism 3. Religious Freedom and the New Evangelical Foreign Policy Lobby 4. Fighting Religious Persecution behind the Iron Curtain 5. Supporting a "Brother in Christ" in Guatemala 6. The Challenge of South African Apartheid Conclusion: Evangelical Foreign Policy Activism Ascendant

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Book SynopsisFulfilling the Sacred Trust explores the implementation of international accountability for dependent territories under the United Nations during the early Cold War era. Although the Western nations that drafted the UN Charter saw the organization as a means of maintaining the international status quo they controlled, newly independent nations saw the UN as an instrument of decolonization and an agent of change disrupting global political norms. Mary Ann Heiss documents the unprecedented process through which these new nations came to wrest control of the United Nations from the World War II victors that founded it, allowing the UN to become a vehicle for global reform.Heiss examines the consequences of these early changes on the global political landscape in the midst of heightened international tensions playing out in Europe, the developing world, and the UN General Assembly. She puts this anti-colonial advocacy for accountability into perspective by making connectioTable of ContentsIntroduction: Toward International Accountability for All Dependent Territories 1. Laying the Groundwork: International Interest in Non-Self-Governing Territories 2. Fits and Starts: The Contours of International Accountability Emerge 3. Organizational Foundations: The Committee on Information Becomes Operational 4. Rhetoric and Routine: The Last Vestiges of Western Dominance 5. Taking Off the Gloves: New UN Activism in the Chapter XI Territories 6. Power Shifts: The Full-On Drive for Accountability 7. Crossing the Rubicon: Proponents of Accountability Take Control 8. Activism Triumphant: Achieving International Accountability for All Dependent Territories Conclusion: International Accountability Assessed

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA valuable book for educators and game designers. * The NYMAS Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. From Game to Simulation 2. Roles 3. Rules 4. Requirements 5. Room 6. The A.I. 7. Under the Hood 8. Simulations for an Afternoon 9. Can You Beat Churchill?

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Book SynopsisThe Ends of Modernization studies the relations between Nicaragua and the United States in the crucial years during and after the Cold War. David Johnson Lee charts the transformation of the ideals of modernization, national autonomy, and planned development as they gave way to human rights protection, neoliberalism, and sustainability. Using archival material, newspapers, literature, and interviews with historical actors in countries across Latin America, the United States, and Europe, Lee demonstrates how conflict between the United States and Nicaragua shaped larger international development policy and transformed the Cold War. In Nicaragua, the backlash to modernization took the form of the Sandinista Revolution which ousted President Anastasio Somoza Debayle in July 1979. In the wake of the earlier reconstruction of Managua after the devastating 1972 earthquake and instigated by the revolutionary shift of power in the city, the Sandinista RevoTrade Review[Lee] focuses on internal Nicaraguan affairs, contextualizing American involvement without letting the US dominate his convincing analysis. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Development, Ideology, and Catastrophe in the Americas The Alliance for Progress on the Doubtful Strait Decentering Managua Dis-integrating Rural Development Pluralism, Development, and the Nicaraguan Revolution Retracing Imperial Paths on the Mosquito Coast Institutionalized Precarity in Postwar Nicaragua Epilogue: Repetition, Alliance, and Protest in Contemporary Nicaragua

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Book SynopsisIn Developing Mission, Joseph W. Ho offers a transnational cultural history of US and Chinese communities framed by missionary lenses through time and spacetracing the lives and afterlives of images, cameras, and visual imaginations from before the Second Sino-Japanese War through the first years of the People''s Republic of China. When American Protestant and Catholic missionaries entered interwar China, they did so with cameras in hand. Missions principally aimed at the conversion of souls and the modernization of East Asia, became, by virtue of the still and moving images recorded, quasi-anthropological ventures that shaped popular understandings of and formal foreign policy toward China. Portable photographic technologies changed the very nature of missionary experience, while images that missionaries circulated between China and the United States affected cross-cultural encounters in times of peace and war. Ho illuminates the centralityTrade ReviewThis book is an accomplishment deserving scholarly attention. It is well researched with a plethora of sources in both English and Chinese and does a marvelous job in helping us understand the centrality of image-making in missionary experiences. * Church History *Joseph W. Ho provides a cross-cultural history of American missionary visual practices. Focusing on the American missionaries' images and image making in China from the 1920s to the early 1950s, the book explores how missionaries employed the camera as an agent that facilitated the translations of missionary experiences and the shaping of cross-cultural identities. * Journal of Asian Studies *Ho's examinations of missionary photographs offer a compelling perspective on noncombatant photography during times of war. [He] succeeds in making missionaries and their photographs visible once more and showing how they continue to connect some of their members across the communities they imaged. * Los Angeles Review of Books *Developing Mission is a nuanced study of a deserving topic. Ho's prose is well crafted and his analysis reflects depth and engagement with a number of fields. The book should attract interest from scholars of modern Chinese history, global Christianity and missions, and historians of technology. * Fides et Historia *Developing Mission is a groundbreaking contribution to the historiography of Chinese Christianity. Joseph Ho not only offers us a new and exciting methodology to incorporate photographic evidence into the study of mission history but also preserves the ever-receding memory of China's missionary era. * International Bulletin of Mission Research *Developing Mission is an extremely well-written, lyrical book that speaks to multiple disciplines. Ho draws upon film theory in meaningful and clear terms and without recourse to much jargon. He frames his story within a historical context that is accessible, and he has a penchant for including anecdotes that are moving and meaningful. This book should be extremely popular among a wide range of audiences inside and outside the academy. * Review of Religion and Chinese Society *The book's distinguishing characteristics include its ingenious, informative title[.] It is of great value to graduate students and historians of Chinese Christianity, Sino-US cultural interactions, and photography and film. * Christian Study Centre on Chinese Religion and Culture *Ho's multi-faceted analysis effectively underscores the seminal historic relationship of missionaries as photographers. This is accomplished with rich prose alongside well-researched biographical narratives that enliven the many Protestant, Catholic, and Chinese actors; pertinent references that combine Chinese and American religious and secular history; and finally, precise—yet inviting—technical writing about cameras. All aspects engage the reader to be both positively surprised and challenged as to unpack the interdisciplinary components, stories and theoretical content, in each chapter. * American Catholic Studies *Ho offers a rich, layered, and inspiring history of missionary visual practices. With a diverse range of subjects and a wealth of detail, the vernacular photographs and films offer a provocative alternative to modern visualizations of China. * Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: All Things Visible and Invisible 1. New Lives, New Optics: Missionary Modernity and Visual Practices in Interwar Republican China 2. Converting Visions: Photographic Mediations of Catholic Identity in West Hunan, 1921–1929 3. The Movie Camera and the Mission: Vernacular Filmmaking as China-US Bridge, 1931–1936 4. Chaos in Three Frames: Fragmented Imaging and the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1945 5. Memento Mori: Loss, Nostalgia, and the Future in Postwar Missionary Visuality Epilogue: Latent Images

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Book SynopsisIn Developing Mission, Joseph W. Ho offers a transnational cultural history of US and Chinese communities framed by missionary lenses through time and spacetracing the lives and afterlives of images, cameras, and visual imaginations from before the Second Sino-Japanese War through the first years of the People''s Republic of China. When American Protestant and Catholic missionaries entered interwar China, they did so with cameras in hand. Missions principally aimed at the conversion of souls and the modernization of East Asia, became, by virtue of the still and moving images recorded, quasi-anthropological ventures that shaped popular understandings of and formal foreign policy toward China. Portable photographic technologies changed the very nature of missionary experience, while images that missionaries circulated between China and the United States affected cross-cultural encounters in times of peace and war. Ho illuminates the centralityTrade ReviewThis book is an accomplishment deserving scholarly attention. It is well researched with a plethora of sources in both English and Chinese and does a marvelous job in helping us understand the centrality of image-making in missionary experiences. * Church History *Joseph W. Ho provides a cross-cultural history of American missionary visual practices. Focusing on the American missionaries' images and image making in China from the 1920s to the early 1950s, the book explores how missionaries employed the camera as an agent that facilitated the translations of missionary experiences and the shaping of cross-cultural identities. * Journal of Asian Studies *Ho's examinations of missionary photographs offer a compelling perspective on noncombatant photography during times of war. [He] succeeds in making missionaries and their photographs visible once more and showing how they continue to connect some of their members across the communities they imaged. * Los Angeles Review of Books *Developing Mission is a nuanced study of a deserving topic. Ho's prose is well crafted and his analysis reflects depth and engagement with a number of fields. The book should attract interest from scholars of modern Chinese history, global Christianity and missions, and historians of technology. * Fides et Historia *Developing Mission is a groundbreaking contribution to the historiography of Chinese Christianity. Joseph Ho not only offers us a new and exciting methodology to incorporate photographic evidence into the study of mission history but also preserves the ever-receding memory of China's missionary era. * International Bulletin of Mission Research *Developing Mission is an extremely well-written, lyrical book that speaks to multiple disciplines. Ho draws upon film theory in meaningful and clear terms and without recourse to much jargon. He frames his story within a historical context that is accessible, and he has a penchant for including anecdotes that are moving and meaningful. This book should be extremely popular among a wide range of audiences inside and outside the academy. * Review of Religion and Chinese Society *The book's distinguishing characteristics include its ingenious, informative title[.] It is of great value to graduate students and historians of Chinese Christianity, Sino-US cultural interactions, and photography and film. * Christian Study Centre on Chinese Religion and Culture *Ho's multi-faceted analysis effectively underscores the seminal historic relationship of missionaries as photographers. This is accomplished with rich prose alongside well-researched biographical narratives that enliven the many Protestant, Catholic, and Chinese actors; pertinent references that combine Chinese and American religious and secular history; and finally, precise—yet inviting—technical writing about cameras. All aspects engage the reader to be both positively surprised and challenged as to unpack the interdisciplinary components, stories and theoretical content, in each chapter. * American Catholic Studies *Ho offers a rich, layered, and inspiring history of missionary visual practices. With a diverse range of subjects and a wealth of detail, the vernacular photographs and films offer a provocative alternative to modern visualizations of China. * Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: All Things Visible and Invisible 1. New Lives, New Optics: Missionary Modernity and Visual Practices in Interwar Republican China 2. Converting Visions: Photographic Mediations of Catholic Identity in West Hunan, 1921–1929 3. The Movie Camera and the Mission: Vernacular Filmmaking as China-US Bridge, 1931–1936 4. Chaos in Three Frames: Fragmented Imaging and the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1945 5. Memento Mori: Loss, Nostalgia, and the Future in Postwar Missionary Visuality Epilogue: Latent Images

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Book SynopsisIn Euromissiles, Susan Colbourn tells the story of the height of nuclear crisis and the remarkable waning of the fear that gripped the globe. In the Cold War conflict that pitted nuclear superpowers against one another, Europe was the principal battleground. Washington and Moscow had troops on the ground and missiles in the fields of their respective allies, the NATO nations and the states of the Warsaw Pact. Euromissilesintermediate-range nuclear weapons to be used exclusively in the regional theater of warhighlighted how the peoples of Europe were dangerously placed between hammer and anvil. That made European leaders uncomfortable and pushed fearful masses into the streets demanding peace in their time. At the center of the story is NATO. Colbourn highlights the weakness of the alliance seen by many as the most effective bulwark against Soviet aggression. Divided among themselves and uncertain about the depth of US support, thTrade ReviewSusan Colbourn has written a truly international history of what has become known as "the Euromissile crisis" to explain why NATO did not collapse under the weight of these events. Colbourn's book is an exemplary study of contemporary history. Reading Colbourn's book offers a useful analytical antidote. * Current History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Security and Survival Part One: Decide 1. The Sixties Stalemate 2. Parity's Problem 3. Shades of Gray 4. Fiasco! 5. It Takes Two Part Two: Deploy 6. End the Arms Race, Not the Human Race 7. Moons and Green Cheese 8. First Principles 9. The Year of the Missile Part Three: Destroy 10. The Empty Chair 11. Who's Afraid of Gorbachev? 12. Blast from the Past Conclusion: Time and Chance Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Ideological Scramble for Africa, Frank Gerits examines how African leaders in the 1950s and 1960s crafted an anticolonial modernization project. Rather than choose Cold War sides between East and West, anticolonial nationalists worked to reverse the psychological and cultural destruction of colonialism.Kwame Nkrumah''s African Union was envisioned as a federation of liberation to challenge the extant imperial forces: the US empire of liberty, the Soviet empire of equality, and the European empires of exploitation. In the 1950s, the goal of proving the potency of a pan-African ideology shaped the agenda of the Bandung Conference and Ghana''s support for African liberation, while also determining what was at stake in the Congo crisis and in the fight against white minority rule in southern and eastern Africa. In the 1960s, the attempt to remake African psychology was abandoned, and socioeconomic development came into focus. Anticolonial nationTable of ContentsIntroduction:: How African Liberation Shaped the International System 1. A Foreign Policy of the Mind, 1945–1954 2. Offering Hungry Minds a Better Development Project, 1955–1956 3. The Pan-African Path to Modernity, 1957–1958 4. Redefining Decolonization in the Sahara, 1959–1960 5. The Congo Crisis as the Litmus Test for Psychological Modernization, 1960–1961 6. Managing the Effects of Modernization, 1961–1963 7. The Struggle to Defeat Racial Modernity in South Africa and Rhodesia, 1963–1966 8. The Collapse of Anticolonial Modernization, 1963–1966 Conclusion:: How Decolonization Made Our Times

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Book SynopsisWhen American evangelicals flocked to Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe in the late twentieth century to fulfill their Biblical mandate for global evangelism, their experiences abroad led them to engage more deeply in foreign policy activism at home. Lauren Frances Turek tracks these trends and illuminates the complex and significant ways in which religion shaped America''s role in the lateCold War world. In To Bring the Good News to All Nations, she examines the growth and influence of Christian foreign policy lobbying groups in the United States beginning in the 1970s, assesses the effectiveness of Christian efforts to attain foreign aid for favored regimes, and considers how those same groups promoted the imposition of economic and diplomatic sanctions on those nations that stifled evangelism.Using archival materials from both religious and government sources, To Bring the Good News to All Nations links the development of evangelical foreTrade ReviewThis work is a welcome addition to the growing literature on religion and US foreign policy. * Choice *To Bring the Good News to All Nations is a thoughtful, lucidly written study of how activist networks are built and exert influence at the nexus of international and domestic politics. The book adeptly treats conservative evangelicals and their beliefs with sensitivity even while still evaluating them critically, providing a model for other scholars interested in similar topics. * Passport *Lauren Frances Turek's 2020 study, To Bring the Good News to All Nations, provides the basis for a more complete and accurate assessment of the inspirations, aims, and achievements of the movement. * First Things *Well researched, insightful, and solidly documented, To Bring Good News to All Nations is a significant scholarly achievement. * International Journal of Frontier Missiology *[T]his volume, which is richly researched and well organized, is a timely and valuable contribution to existing studies on the American Christian Right. * Idées d'Amériques *Lauren Frances Turek's new book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on evangelical Christianity and U.S. foreing relations. * The Review of Faith & International Afffairs *Lauren Turek's To Bring the Good News to All Nations is a welcome contribution to the burgeoning subfield of the religious history of U.S. foreign relations, bringing to light the poorly understood contours of white U.S. evangelical engagement with U.S. foreign policy in the 1970s and 1980s. With impressively detailed and careful archival, textual, and other media-related research, Turek breaks clichés, unlocks impasses, and fills misleading silences in conventional narratives of the rise of the Religious Right. * Church History *Turek succeeds in demonstrating how powerful evangelical networks influenced U.S. foreign policy. The book provides an important analysis of the development of evangelical human rights that is becoming even more relevant as the inheritors of this tradition have taken charge of the State Department. Turek's analysis also suggests the ways that a globally-focused Cold War politics defined white U.S. evangelicalism. * Diplomatic History *Extensively researched and well-written, To Bring the Good News to All Nations makes a convincing case for the role of American evangelicals in international affairs. [T]he book is a wide-ranging work that greatly adds to our understanding of the role of religion in the last two decades of the Cold War. * Religion, State & Society *[The book] is a deeply researched, cogently argued, and utterly compelling study of conservative Protestant 'influence' on American foreign policy. Turek's work is an important reminder to historians of religion that state power, political economy, and international exchange are never absent from religion's work in the world. * Religion *Turek is careful to show that U.S. evangelicals were not mere promoters of American interests overseas. Neither did they always speak in one voice. Turek's book invites readers to take a critical look at the present and future of evangelical human rights advocacy. * The Review of Faith and International Affairs *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Defining and Defending Rights 1. A Global Shift in Missionary Christianity 2. The Communications Revolution And Evangelical Internationalism 3. Religious Freedom and the New Evangelical Foreign Policy Lobby 4. Fighting Religious Persecution behind the Iron Curtain 5. Supporting a "Brother in Christ" in Guatemala 6. The Challenge of South African Apartheid Conclusion: Evangelical Foreign Policy Activism Ascendant

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Book SynopsisHolding Their Breath uncovers just how close Britain, the United States, and Canada came to crossing the red line that restrained chemical weapon use during World War II. Unlike in World War I, belligerents did not release poison gas regularly during the Second World War. Yet, the looming threat of chemical warfare significantly affected the actions and attitudes of these three nations as they prepared their populations for war, mediated their diplomatic and military alliances, and attempted to defend their national identities and sovereignty.The story of chemical weapons and World War II begins in the interwar period as politicians and citizens alike advocated to ban, to resist, and eventually to prepare for gas use in the next war. M. Girard Dorsey reveals, through extensive research in multinational archives and historical literature, that although poison gas was rarely released on the battlefield in World War II, experts as well as lay people dedicateTrade ReviewM. Girard Dorsey reminds us that this odious weapon has been around for a long time, and will always be there in the background. Still, under the planning, cooperation, and care of the international community, we can sigh in relief that the use of gassing, at least in a major war, may now reside in the dustbin of history. At least we can hope. * Metascience *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Where the Story of Chemical Warfare and World War II Began 1. Chain, Tool, Shield: The Role of an International Treaty in Chemical Weapons Arms Control before World War II 2. Is There Any Hope? Defensive Preparations against the Dreaded and Expected Gas War 3. The Sole Exception to the Rule: There Will Be No Chemical Conflicts, but Just in Case... 4. The Limits of Friendship: The Influence of Chemical Weapons on Alliances as World War II Expanded 5. Rolling the Dice: Risking Gas Warfare in Europe 6. Critical Timing: The Increasing Likelihood of Chemical Warfare in the Pacific Epilogue: "I Am Fear": Legacies of Silent Chemical Warfare

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Book SynopsisIn 1951, General Omar Bradley declared publicly that war with China would involve the United States in the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy. Despite the stated intent of the U.S. to keep the Korean conflict from spreading, the debate on extending the war was far more intense and protracted than previous accounts of this period have suggested.Concentrating on the debate over expansion, Rosemary Foot reveals the strains it caused both within the U.S. bureaucracy and between America and its North Atlantic allies. She supplies important new information on the U.S. government''s appraisal of Sino-Soviet relations between 1950 and 1953, and makes clear that a high proportion of U.S. officials came to recognize the limited nature of Soviet support for China. Explaining why the Eisenhower administration nearly unleashed nuclear weapons on China in the spring of 1953, Foot demonstrates that the Korean war would very likely have grown inTrade ReviewFoot's understated and concise style may lead some readers to miss just how extensive and wise is her use of new archival materials and just how much she does to demolish the received wisdom on the Korean War. This book will remain a standard in the literature for many years to come. * The American Historical Review *Foot deserves high marks for her careful research, clear and restrained prose, and sensitivity to the nuances of the various arguments bandied about within the Truman and Eisenhower administrations. Her study sets a high standard for scholars who intend to follow her path. * Reviews in American History *A valuable, even exciting, study of decision making in a rapidly changing and complex environment. The book offers and provokes many challenging thoughts about the conduct of international affairs in general. * History *Readers will appreciate Foot's trenchant prose. The Wrong War advances new and perceptive interpretations that shatter traditional assumptions about the way the United States fought for an acceptable outcome in Korea. * Korean Studies *Foot has wrestled with a difficult objective in trying to prove that policymakers almost took an action that never in fact occurred. She does this cautiously and produces in the process an interesting new perspective on questions that received only simple answers in the past. The Wrong War is a significant step in the new scholarly reexamination of the Korean conflict. * Pacific Historical Review *Foot has written an important volume. Among her most provocative observations is that leaders in Washington came to understand during the Korean war that the Soviets' support of their Chinese allies was considerably less forthcoming than one might have expected in view of the Sino-Soviet Pact of 1950. Foot provides a careful and thoughtful account of the discussion within the Eisenhower administration on the question of whether the United States ought to resort to such an extreme tactic. * The Journal of American History *

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Book SynopsisIn The Commander-in-Chief Test, Jeffrey A. Friedman offers a fresh explanation for why Americans are often frustrated by the cost and scope of US foreign policyand how we can fix that for the future.Americans frequently criticize US foreign policy for being overly costly and excessively militaristic. With its rising defense budgets and open-ended forever wars, US foreign policy often appears disconnected from public opinion, reflecting the views of elites and special interests rather than the attitudes of ordinary citizens.The Commander-in-Chief Test argues that this conventional wisdom underestimates the role public opinion plays in shaping foreign policy. Voters may prefer to elect leaders who share their policy views, but they prioritize selecting presidents who seem to have the right personal attributes to be an effective commander in chief. Leaders then use hawkish foreign policies as tools for showing that they are tough enough

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Book SynopsisBounds of Blackness explores the history of Black America''s intellectual and cultural engagement with the modern state of Sudan. Ancient Sudan occupies a central place in the Black American imaginary as an exemplar of Black glory, pride, and civilization, while contemporary Sudan, often categorized as part of Arab Africa rather than Black Africa, is often sidelined and overlooked. In this pathbreaking book, Christopher Tounsel unpacks the vacillating approaches of Black Americans to the Sudanese state and its multiethnic populace through periods defined by colonialism, postcolonial civil wars, genocide in Darfur, and South Sudanese independence. By exploring the work of African American intellectuals, diplomats, organizations, and media outlets, Tounsel shows how this transnational relationship reflects the robust yet capricious terms of racial consciousness in the African Diaspora.

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Book SynopsisIndia's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, left behind a legacy of both great achievements and surprising defeats. Most notably, he failed to resolve the Kashmir dispute with Pakistan and the territorial conflict with China. In the fifty years since Nehru's death, much ink has been spilled trying to understand the decisions behind these puzzling foreign policy missteps. Mahesh Shankar cuts through the surrounding debates about nationalism, idealism, power, and security with a compelling and novel answer: reputation. India's investment in its international image powerfully shaped the state's negotiation and bargaining tactics during this period. The Reputational Imperative proves that reputation is not only a significant driver in these conflicts but also that it's about more than simply looking good on the global stage. Considerations such as India's relative position of strength or weakness and the value of demonstrating resolve or generosity also influenced strategy and foreign policy. Shankar answers longstanding questions about Nehru's territorial negotiations while also providing a deeper understanding of how a state's global image works. The Reputational Imperative highlights the pivotal—yet often overlooked—role reputation can play in a broad global security context. Trade Review"Mahesh Shankar has provided a thorough and succinct analysis of Nehru's India's conduct in its territorial disputes with Pakistan and China. A must read for anyone interested in understanding the past, present, and future of the Kashmir and Sino-Indian disputes." -- T. V. Paul, James McGill Professor of International Relations * McGill University *"The Reputational Imperative makes a significant contribution to our understanding of both reputation in international politics and India's territorial disputes, providing a theoretical framework to explain both unexpected generosity and perplexing intransigence. An enlightening and unbiased read." -- Alex Weisiger * University of Pennsylvania *

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