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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Order, Contestation and Ontological Security-Seeking in the South China Sea
Book SynopsisThis book examines the South China Sea territorial disputes from the perspective of international order. The authors argue that both China and the US are attempting to impose their respective preferred orders to the region and that the observed disputes are due to the clash of two competing order-building projects. Ordering the maritime space is essential for these two countries to validate their national identities and to achieve ontological security. Because both are ontological security-seeking states, this imperative gives them little room for striking a grand bargain between them. The book focuses on how China and the US engage in practices and discourses that build, contest, and legitimise the two major ordering projects they promote in the region. It concludes that China must act in its legitimation strategy in accordance with contemporary publicly accepted norms and rules to create a legitimate maritime order, while the US should support ASEAN in devising a multilateral resolution of the disputes.Trade Review“This book is a useful addition to the OST literature, supplementing the many such case studies on Poland, the EU, Russian order building, even the British role in the American Civil War. It is masterfully researched with comprehensive bibliographies and analytical footnotes on both OST and SCS.” (James L Huskey, Governance, Issue (1-3), 2020)Table of Contents1. Introduction2. Theoretical Framework: International Order-Building, Ontological Security and Legitimation3. American Construction of Regional Order in the Asia-Pacific, 1945-19554. Developments in Regional Maritime Order from the 1970s: UNCLOS and the US Principle of Freedom of Navigation5. China's Contestation of US Order-Building6. Regional Contestation of China's Order-Building Project7. Conclusions: A Sino-American Grand Bargain to Settle the Disputes?
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Adaptive Mediation and Conflict Resolution: Peace-making in Colombia, Mozambique, the Philippines, and Syria
Book SynopsisThis open access book introduces adaptive mediation as an alternative approach that enables mediators to go beyond liberal peace mediation, or other determined-design models of mediation, in the context of contemporary conflict resolution and peace-making initiatives. Adaptive mediation is grounded in complexity theory, and is specifically designed to cope with highly dynamic conflict situations characterized by uncertainty and a lack of predictability. It is also a facilitated mediation process whereby the content of agreements emerges from the parties to the conflict themselves, informed by the context within which the conflict is situated. This book presents the core principles and practices of adaptive mediation in conjunction with empirical evidence from four diverse case studies – Colombia, Mozambique, The Philippines, and Syria – with a view to generate recommendations for how mediators can apply adaptive mediation approaches to resolve and transform contemporary and future armed conflicts.Trade Review“A long-awaited work in peace and conflict studies. … This book provides an excellent understanding of the concept of adaptive mediation that can be used to create sustainable peace. This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers in the field of peace and conflict studies as well as mediation practitioners who work for the United Nations, national governments, or non-governmental organizations.” (Sa'odah Sa'odah, Bunyamin Maftuh, Sapriya Sapriya, International Peacekeeping, June 19, 2023)Table of Contents1. Adaptive Mediation and Conflict Resolution in Contemporary and Future Armed Conflicts.2. Adaptive Mediation.3. Adaptive Mediation in Colombia: Toward Institutional Capacity Building Amidst Complexity and Uncertainty.4. Peacemaking from Within: Adaptive Mediation of Direct Dialogue in Mozambique’s New Peace Process (2013-2019).5. Adapting from Outsider to Insider Mediation in the Bangsamoro Peace Process, Southern Philippines. 6. Exploring Mediation Efforts Amidst Systemic and Domestic Constraints: The Case of the Syrian Conflict. 7. Adapting to Uncertainty: What Have We Learned from Mediation and Conflict Resolution in Colombia, Mozambique, the Philippines, and Syria.
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Springer International Publishing AG Model United Nations: A Practical Guide
Book SynopsisThis textbook presents a detailed insight into the structures and processes of preparing students for Model United Nations (MUN) conferences and for attending Model United Nations conferences, subsequently. It serves as a handbook and practical guide for the implementation of MUN into courses and classes in educational institutions.Written by a Faculty Advisor, and offering additional insights from an experienced award-winning MUN delegate, the book provides a particularly exceptional insightful, and well-rounded approach. The author explains how a MUN course can be taught, presents exercises to prepare students for the conference, and discusses how the MUN delegation and trip to the conference can be organized. This comprehensive guide offers insights into a broad range of topics, including debates with peers, diplomacy to solve international crises, and learning about the system of the United Nations (UN) organization through simulation. Further, it covers the development of soft skills and communication at the conferences and building international friendships, while it additionally allows learning more about the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the process.With tips, tricks, and bonus material this book will serve as an anchor throughout the students' first MUN experience, as well as provide valuable help for more advanced participants. The book, therefore, is a must-read for both academic staff teaching MUN, as well as students attending MUN courses and planning to attend MUN conferences.Table of ContentsIntroduction to Model United Nations.- Model United Nations Conferences: Organisational Peculiarities.- Model United Nations Conferences: Roles and Responsibilities of Actors.- Model United Nations: (Didactic) Module Content.- Implementing a Model United Nations Program at your Institution.- Example of Model United Nations lecture schedule and some words on preparing lectures and engaging students successfully.- Model United Nations – beneficial/positive impact on students.
£41.24
Pentagon Press Bharat in Tones Anew
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Pentagon Press Strategic Rebalancing
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HarperCollins India After Tiananmen: The Rise of China
Book SynopsisOn a snowy day in January 1998 Xu Zengping, a Chinese businessman based out of Hong Kong, stood on the deck of the Varyag, a partially constructed aircraft carrier that was being built by the Soviet Union at a shipyard on the Black Sea. Six years later, Xu had apparently bought it for US$ 20 million. It was reported that his firm had no licence, no real address and assets of only US$ 125,000, so it is unclear how it could afford to buy the ship. The report concluded that the Varyag had been bought by the PLA Navy for copying its technology. After the end of the Cold War, China was faced with fundamental challenges - and had to make some critical choices. After Tiananmen: The Rise of China is the story of how it handled its complex domestic and external environment while silently ascending the hierarchy of world power. The book traces the developments in contemporary China from 1989 to 2010, delving into the country''s initial political and economic experiments. It examines the adeptness with which challenges like the ''Malacca Dilemma'' and the resources crunch shaped Chinese policies; how, in the process, the very character of the Chinese Communist Party was fundamentally transformed; and the twists and turns in India''s relationship with China. The sequel to Tiananmen Square: The Making of a Protest, this is an essential primer for those who wish to understand China''s behaviour today.
£999.99
ISEAS How Will Shifts in American Foreign Policy Affect
Book SynopsisA new phase in US foreign policy, in which China is viewed as a major threat to American economic and security interests, has begun under the Trump administration. The strong anti-China sentiment is accompanied by efforts to “decouple” from China. If carried too far, they will alienate allies and friends whose cooperation the US will need in order to compete with China. In the broader American foreign policy community, there is an intense ongoing debate on how strong the push-back against China should be. Both moderates and hawks agree on the need for a “tougher” approach but differ on the degree and method of toughness. No coherent strategy has been possible partly because President Trump’s thinking does not always accord with that of his own administration and partly because it is still too early in the day to come out with well-thought-out policies to support such a major change in foreign policy direction. The ongoing adjustments to global policy and strategy will therefore continue as the security focus shifts to the Indo-Pacific region. The “Free and Open Indo-Pacific” concept provides some signs of the broad direction policy may take but its vital economic dimension is still missing. There is greater recognition in Washington of the importance of Southeast Asia. Located in the middle of Indo-Pacific, it will be a contested zone between China and the US and its allies. The US will step up its public diplomacy to better promote its own narrative in Southeast Asia. Under the Trump administration, the importance of the South China Sea to the US has risen. The US will remain a powerful factor in Asia despite Trump and problems at home. China is not on an inevitable path of dominance given its own significant domestic challenges.
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ISEAS The Free and Open Indo-Pacific Beyond 2020:
Book SynopsisAmerican Indo-Pacific policy will be driven by its China policy, regardless of whether there is a second-term Donald Trump administration or a first-term Joe Biden administration.The Republicans will continue to frame the major challenge as “balancing” against Chinese power and “countering” the worst aspects of Beijing’s policies. Establishment or moderate Democrats under Biden will choose the softer language of seeking a favourable “competitive coexistence” in the military, economic, political and global governance realms, and the reassertion of American leadership and moral standing.In advancing the FOIP, the current administration argues that disruptiveness and unpredictability are necessary to reverse what they see as the “normalization” of Chinese assertiveness, coercion and revisionism. They also point to the closeness of US cooperation with Japan, Australia and India and bourgeoning strategic relationships with Vietnam. A second-term Trump administration will continue to seek out “fit-for-purpose” existing institutions and relationships, or prioritize new ones.Establishment Democrats believe that the “America First” unilateralist approach is unsettling for allies and partners. In advancing a favourable “competitive coexistence” with China, Democrats will seek to expand the tools of statecraft and achieve a better balance between military/economic/political/governance approaches.Prima facie, a Biden administration might position America as a more consultative guarantor of a preferred order. However, there will be greater pressure on Southeast Asians to accept more collective responsibility to advance common objectives. This means hedging in a manner more suitable to American rather than Chinese preferences. Failing that, more emphasis might be placed on greater institutionalization of the Quad and ad hoc groupings.A Bernie Sanders administration, now an unlikely prospect, would be a disaster for US standing and power in the region, and therefore for Southeast Asia.
£8.94
Palgrave Macmillan Navigating IndiaTaiwan Relations in the Digital
Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: India-Taiwan Relations: Exploring Science and Technology Diplomacy as a Tool for Foreign Policy in the Twenty-first century.- Chapter 3: Science and Technology Diplomacy for India-Taiwan Relations in the Twenty-first century: Case Studies.- Chapter 4: Taiwan's Role in the Global 5G Technology Landscape in the Indo-Pacific Region: Adoption, Competition and Diplomacy.- Chapter 5: Conclusion: Policy Recommendations.
£33.24
Palgrave Macmillan The Baltics in a Changing Europe
Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Impact of the Ukraine War on Security in the Baltic region.- Chapter 3: Small States in a Transforming World: The Baltic Response to the War in Ukraine.- Chapter 4: Ukraine and Beyond: Understanding the Foreign Policy of the Baltic States.- Chapter 5: The Baltic States as Members: Accord and Discord in the EU and NATO.- Chapter 6: Beyond Asymmetry: The Ukraine War and the Baltics' Role in Redefining EU-Russia Relations.- Chapter 7: Ukraine Crisis: Re-defining the Nordic-Baltic Security Outlook.- Chapter 8: Small States' Agency in Preserving Liberal International Order: The Case of Lithuania's Values-Based Foreign Policy towards the Indo-Pacific.- Chapter 9: The Baltics and China: Changing Equations.- Chapter 10: Regional identity at the critical juncture - how the Baltic Sea Region manages the punctuation of the post-Cold War equilibrium?.- Chapter 11: The Baltic Sea Region: Education, Research, Innovation and Training Policy in a Changing Europe.- Chapter 12: Changing Energy Dynamics in the Baltic Sea Region.- Chapter 13: India-Baltic Relations: From Reluctance to Evolving Engagement.- Chapter 14: India Baltic Cultural Linkages.- Chapter 15: Gender Equality and Status of Women in the Baltics: A Work in Progress.- Chapter 16: The Lingering Question of Russian minorities in Baltic Nation-states.
£104.49
Penguin Random House India The Long Game
Book SynopsisBook delves into India-China relations, analyzing historical events to uncover China's negotiation tactics. Offers insights for India's future dealings with a powerful China. Recommended for understanding strategic challenges.
£20.24
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Among the Wolves of Court
Book SynopsisThe tragic story of Anne Boleyn has been retold over the centuries, yet two key figures in Anne's lifeher father Thomas and brother George are often relegated to the margins of the history of Henry VIII's turbulent reign. Well before Anne's coronation in 1533, Thomas was regarded as one of Henry's most skilled and experienced ambassadors, and George was a talented young courtier on the rise. But Anne''s downfall was to have a devastating effect on her family ultimately costing her and her brother their lives. A family whose success and prestige had been shaped over generations was destroyed in a violent and brutal episode as the king sought a new wife and a male heir. In this first biography devoted to the Boleyn men, Lauren Mackay takes us beyond the stereotypes of Thomas and George to present a story that has almost been lost to history. This book follows the Boleyn men as they negotiated their way through the ruthless game of politics among the wolves of the court, and esTrade ReviewDr Mackay’s combined biography of the men seeks to dispel these notions through a committed act of scholarship – and I have to say, she entirely succeeds. Thomas the diplomat, the negotiator, the councillor, even Thomas the jouster, are explored in detail ... This work adds greatly to our understanding of the Boleyn family before Anne’s rise, and the important diplomatic and foreign affairs that they were involved in. * Tudor Times *[U]tterly fascinating and indispensable … [Makes] for exuberant reading. * Open Letters Review *The presentation of the beautifully designed and illustrated book shows that it appeals to a wider readership. * Zeitschrift fur Historische Forschung (Bloomsbury Translation) *Table of ContentsList of Plates Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Men of Mark 2. Fortune Ruleth our Helme 3. A Courtier to his Fingertips 4. Fortune, Infortune 5. The Picklock of Princes 6. Betwixt Two Princes 7. The Balance of Power 8. Declare, I Dare Not 9. Treasonous Waters 10. The Boleyn Enterprise 11. Ainsi sera, groigne, qui groigne 12. Nowe Thus 13. Turning Tides 14. Trying a Queen 15. Aftermath AppendixI Appendix II Notes Select Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Boundless Winds of Empire
Book SynopsisSixiang Wang demonstrates how Chosŏn political actors strategically deployed cultural practices, values, and narratives to carve out a place for Korea within the Ming imperial order.Trade ReviewThis is a book I have been waiting for. Wang argues that historically Korea was not the compliant vassal that Chinese imagined it to be, but a canny role-player manipulating China’s imperial myth so as to constrain its capacity to dominate. An eloquent revision of what we thought we knew. -- Timothy Brook, coeditor of Sacred Mandates: Asian International Relations Since Chinggis KhanSixiang Wang’s Boundless Winds of Empire is destined to be a classic. Wang provides a new lens to study the historical relations between Ming and Chosŏn. His emphasis on ritual and rhetoric as frames of reference and the extensive use of Chinese and Korean sources make a tremendous contribution to numerous fields. -- David C. Kang, author of American Grand Strategy and East Asian Security in the Twenty-First CenturyGenerations of scholars have stripped down the relationship of Chosŏn Korea and Ming China into an abstract model of the ‘tribute system.’ With sensitive readings of poetry, apocryphal inscriptions, and other sources rarely considered by the model builders, Sixiang Wang brilliantly restores the idiosyncratic texture of Korean-Ming relations. -- Christopher P. Atwood, author of The Rise of the Mongols: Five Chinese SourcesBoundless Winds of Empire sets a new standard for Anglophone scholarship on Chosŏn Korea. -- Eugene Y. Park, author of Korea: A HistoryAn exceptional work. Wang’s stimulating and highly illuminating account should be read by anyone interested in Korea–China relations, the workings of empire, rhetorical strategies, or the history of diplomacy. -- Felix Kuhn * Journal of Chinese History *Table of ContentsPrefaceChronologyMapsIntroduction: Korea and the Imperial TraditionPart I: The Shared Past1. Serving the Great2. Terms of AuthorityPart II: The Practice of Diplomacy3. Beneath the Veneer4. In Empire’s NamePart III: Ecumenical Boundaries5. Cajoling Empire6. Representing Korea7. Contests of RitualPart IV: An Empire of Letters8. The Brilliant Flowers9. The Envoy’s Virtue10. The East Does Not SubmitConclusion: The Myth of Moral EmpireNotesBibliographyIndex
£27.00
Harvard University Press We Shall Be Masters
Book SynopsisGenerations of Russians have pursued wealth and power in the East, colonizing Pacific regions and spreading political influence into Asia. Why have these efforts largely failed? Chris Miller argues that Russian citizens and leaders, concentrated in the European borderlands, have always struggled to maintain faith and interest in eastward expansion.Trade ReviewAs much of the world now turns more attention and resources to Asia, partly in response to China’s emergence as a global power, Miller’s terrific book reminds that Russia made moves toward the East five hundred years ago, and explains why ignoring the Russian factor in Asian geopolitics today would be a big mistake for strategists in Tokyo, Delhi, Brussels, or Washington. His masterful history shows why Russia has been an Asian power for centuries and will remain a central player in balance-of-power politics in Asia for decades to come. -- Michael McFaul, author of From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s RussiaIn a panoramic account of three hundred years of Russian history, Miller presents a Russia little known in the West: a Eurasian power that treats its eastern calling as seriously as it does its western one. Exceptionally well written and argued, We Shall Be Masters helps us understand Russia on its own terms and offers historical insight into the future of its relations with China, its main rival and occasional ally in the region and the world. -- Serhii Plokhy, author of Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile CrisisA sweeping overview of Russia’s long-running pattern of aspiring to yet often falling short of securing lasting influence over Asian affairs. Engaging and impressively researched, Miller’s book offers an insightful historical perspective on contemporary Russian–Asian relations. -- Willard Sunderland, author of The Baron’s Cloak: A History of the Russian Empire in War and RevolutionFew historians have probed as deeply into the complex history of Russia’s imperial engagements in East Asia as Miller has done here. He weaves a subtle theme through a sweep of events, as Russian tsars, officials, diplomats, and explorers are lured east in various ‘spasms of enthusiasm,’ only for these various pivots to peter out owing to military failure, excessive cost, or simple exhaustion. A supple, well-written, and important work. -- Sean McMeekin, author of Stalin’s War: A New History of World War IIMiller’s broad historical overview of Russian foreign policy in Asia challenges the conventional view that the country has enduring interests in the Far East…For Russia, Miller argues, Asia has been a land of unfulfilled promises. -- Maria Lipman * Foreign Affairs *A rich and well-informed chronicle of Russia’s engagement with Asia over the past three centuries…Captures the immensity, complexity, and importance of Russia’s eastern borderlands through the eyes of its explorers…A comprehensive and fluidly written survey that will be welcomed by students of international history. * Publishers Weekly *A sweeping and fast-paced tour through the last three hundred years of Russian foreign policy…It is, therefore, a welcome addition to the literature on Imperial Russian and Soviet foreign policy toward Asia. -- Paul Behringer * H-Net Reviews *[A] highly readable history…The over-ambitious, over-committed and over-confident policies of modern Russia through the globalization period and the rise of Asia in the 21st century mimics the hubris of Petersburg’s historical Pacific Ocean ambitions. -- Tristan Kenderdine * Global Asia *[A] comprehensive and informative account of Russia’s historical outreach to Asia…Vladimir Putin became the latest Russian leader to pursue a pivot to Asia from 2014. Yet, argues Miller, there are limits to this strategy. -- Angela Stent * Survival *
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Princeton University Press States and Power in Africa
Book SynopsisOriginally published: A2000. With new preface and revised chapter nine by the author.Trade ReviewCo-Winner of the 2001 Gregory Luebbert Best Book Award, Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association "This ambitious and original book turns a comparative historical lens on state-building in Africa... A brave effort to rethink some outdated approaches to fundamental problems."--Foreign AffairsTable of ContentsPreface to the New Paperback Edition xi Introduction 3 PART ONE: THE CHALLENGE OF STATE-BUILDING IN AFRICA 9 1 The Challenge of State-Building in Africa 11 PART TWO: THE CONSTRUCTION OF STATES IN AFRICA 33 2 Power and Space in Precolonial Africa 35 3 The Europeans and the African Problem 58 4 The Political Kingdom in Independent Africa 97 PART THREE: NATIONAL DESIGN AND DOMESTIC POLITICS 137 5 National Design and the Broadcasting of Power 139 6 Chiefs, States, and the Land 173 PART FOUR: BOUNDARIES AND POWER 199 7 The Coin of the African Realm 201 8 The Politics of Migration and Citizenship 227 PART FIVE: CONCLUSION 249 9 The Past and the Future of State Power in Africa, Revised for the New Paperback Edition 251 Index 273
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Princeton University Press Empire of Salons
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Pfeifer’s painstaking analysis of the personalities and careers of her protagonists brings to life the power brokers, the holy men and the social climbers. . . . Backed up by a persuasive bibliography of published and unpublished sources, Empire of Salons presents a definitive picture of this age."---David Chaffetz, Asian Review of Books"This book . . . offers a focused perspective on an institution that, until this time, has been well-known but has not seen a dedicated work that outlines and explains it to this standard."---Gemma Masson, World History Encyclopedia"Highly recommended."---I. Blumi, Choice
£34.20
The University of North Carolina Press Catastrophic Diplomacy US Foreign Disaster
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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Bristol University Press Feminist Conversations on Peace
Book SynopsisEPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. What is feminist peace? How can we advocate for peace from patriarchy? What do women, globally, advocate for when they use the term 'peace'? This edited collection brings together conversations across borders and boundaries to explore plural, intersectional and interdisciplinary concepts of feminist peace. The book includes contributions from a geographically diverse range of scholars, judges, practitioners and activists, and the chapters cut across themes of movement building and resistance and explore the limits of institutionalized peacebuilding. The chapters deal with a range of issues, such as environmental degradation, militarization, online violence and arms spending. Offering a resource to advance theoretical development and to advocate for policy change, this book transcends traditional approaches to the study of peace and security and embraces diverse voices and perspectives which are absent in both academic and policy spaces.Table of Contents1 Introduction: Conversations on Feminist Peace Sarah Smith and Keina Yoshida Part I Beyond Boundaries 2 Feminist Peace Interrupted: A Critical Conversation on Conflict, Violence, and Accountability Mahdis Azarmandi, Nour Abu-Assab and Sara Shroff 3 ‘Peace’ Across Spaces: Discussing Feminist (and) Decolonial Visions of Peace Elena B. Stavrevska, Sofia Zaragocin Carvajal and Nita Luci 4 Unfinished Activism: Genealogies of Women’s Movements and the Re-Imagining of Feminist Peace and Resistance Itziar Mujika Chao and Linda Gusia Part II Movement Building for Feminist Peace 5 Feminist Peace for Digital Movement Building in Kenya and Ethiopia: Reflections, Lessons, Hopes and Dreams Sheena Gimase Magenya and Tigist Shewarega Hussen 6 No Peace Without Security: Shoring the Gains of the #MeToo Movement Giti Chandra, Cynthia Enloe and Irma Erlingsdottir 7 Feminists Visioning Genuine Security and a Culture of Peace: International Women’s Network Against Militarism Kozue Akibayashi, Corazon Valdez Fabros, Gwyn Kirk, Lisa Linda Natividad and Margo Okazawa-Rey Part III Institutional Peacebuilding and Feminist Peace 8 Building and Conceptualising Feminist Peace: Feminist Strategies and Approaches Helen Kezie-Nwoha, Nela Porobić Isaković, Madeleine Rees and Sarah Smith 9 Perils of Peacebuilding: Gender-Blindness, Climate Change and Ceasefire Capitalism in Colombia and Myanmar Henri Myrttinen and Diana López Castañeda 10 Women, Weapons and Disarmament Louise Arimatsu, Rasha Obaid and Anna De Courcy Wheeler Part IV Feminist Peace in the Academy 11 International Law as a Vehicle for Peace: Feminist Engagements Hilary Charlesworth, Christine Chinkin and Shelley Wright 12 Why Aren’t We Talking to Each Other? Thinking Gender, Conflict and Disaster as a Continuum Punam Yadav and Maureen Fordham 13 Teaching Feminist Peace Through Encounters With Female Violence Gina Heathcote, Elisabeth Koduthore and Sheri Labenski
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Princeton University Press The Last Embassy
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Fortune Best Book of the Year""The Last Embassy is rare in the field of academic history, in that it works just as well as a story as it does as a work of significant historical investigation. The story of the Dutch embassy to Beijing—the last to the Imperial Chinese court—has everything: competing protagonists, trials and tribulations, and imperial pomp and circumstance. Andrade’s work is a wonderfully written work about a neglected event in diplomatic history."---Nicholas Gordon, Fortune"One of the best academic studies in terms of both scholarship and writing-style I have read in ten years or more. . . . [A]n accessible, exciting, and illuminating book, written with consummate verve and enthusiasm."---John Butler, Asian Review of Books"An animated account."---Peter Neville-Hadley, South China Morning Post Magazine"Its lively writing, quick chapters, and the descriptions of the various parts of the empire that the embassy travels through, give readers a panoramic view of the empire at its height."---Reid Wyatt, World History Connected"An excellent entry point for readers seeking a nuanced understanding of China’s global presence in the eighteenth century, and a useful corrective to those specialists who still tend to regard Qing relations with Britain as the totality of Qing relations with the ‘West.’"---Pamela Kyle Crossley, Journal of Early Modern History
£28.50
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers The Power of the Past History and Statecraft
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University of Arkansas Press The Arrogance of Power
Book Synopsis“Fulbright was erudite and eloquent in all the books he wrote, but this one is his masterpiece. Within its pages lie his now historic remonstrations against a great nation’s overreach, his powerful argument for dissent, and his thoughtful propositions for a new way forward . . . lessons and cautions that resonate just as strongly today.” — From the foreword by Bill ClintonJ. William Fulbright (1905–1995), a Rhodes scholar and lawyer, began his long career in public service when he was elected to serve Arkansas's Third District in Congress in 1942. He quickly became a prominent member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, where he introduced the Fulbright Resolution calling for participation in an organization that became the United Nations. Elected to the Senate in 1944, he promoted the passage of legislation establishing the Fulbright exchange program, and he served as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1959 to 1974, longer than any senator in American history.Fulbright drew on his extensive experience in international relations to write The Arrogance of Power, a sweeping critique of American foreign policy, in particular the justification for the Vietnam War, Congress's failure to set limits on it, and the impulses that gave rise to it. The book—with its solid underpinning the idea that “the most valuable public servant, like the true patriot, is one who gives a higher loyalty to his country's ideals than to its current policy”—was published in 1966 and sold 400,000 copies. The New York Times called it “an invaluable antidote to the official rhetoric of government.”Enhanced by a new forward by President Bill Clinton, this eloquent treatise will resonate with today's readers pondering, as Francis O. Wilcox wrote in the original preface, the peril of nations whose leaders lack ""the wisdom and the good judgment to use their power wisely and well.
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The University of Chicago Press A Violent Peace
Book SynopsisThe newly born League of Nations confronted the post-WWI worldfrom growing stateless populations to the resurgence of right-wing movementsby aiming to create a transnational, cosmopolitan dialogue on justice. As part of these efforts, a veritable army of League personnel set out to shape global public opinion, in favor of the postwar liberal international order. Combining the tools of global intellectual history and cultural history, A Violent Peace reopens the archives of the League to reveal surprising links between the political use of modern information systems and the rise of mass violence in the interwar world. Historian Carolyn N. Biltoft shows how conflicts over truth and power that played out at the League of Nations offer broad insights into the nature of totalitarian regimes and their use of media flows to demonize a whole range of others. An exploration of instability in information systems, the allure of fascism, and the contradictions at the heart of a global modernity, Trade Review"Historians usually remember the League of Nations—if at all—for its failure to prevent World War II. Historian Biltoft has a different, far more interesting story to tell. She examines the League as a creator of the news—even 'truth'—and a restless promotor of liberalism in the increasing illiberal interwar world. In this short but illuminating work, Biltoft argues that the League attempted to 'rebrand the world' to encourage discussion rather than war, provide a forum for the exchange of ideas, and ultimately create a new, healthier—and less violent—international order. . . . For an age still plagued by 'fake news' from Moscow to Florida, this book is required reading. . . . Highly recommended." * Choice *"This book is short, but its length belies the complexity and range of its ambition. A Violent Peace tackles the technological and cultural ruptures of the interwar era in truly original fashion, making a valuable addition to the growing literature assessing the League in its own right as an experiment in international order." * International Affairs *"Carolyn Biltoft's A Violent Peace provides a useful, timely, and poetic overview of interwar preoccupations with truth and reality, and of their consequences for people's lives then and now. . . . This book offers a compelling picture of the period and the issues under examination and will inspire others to pursue the vital avenues of historical inquiry it undertook. . . . Truly, any reader interested in such debates would find this book useful and likely be impressed by its erudition, clarity, and flair." * Canadian Journal of History *“With bold originality and a keen eye for the telling detail, Biltoft recasts the history of the League of Nations, dedicated to elevating the word over the sword, as a quest for symbolic capital in the chaotic interwar world. Focusing on questions of language, money, and the control of information flows, she shows how the challenges faced by the League continue to bedevil us today.” * Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley *“Fascinating and utterly original, A Violent Peace is an impressive study of superior scholarship. Biltoft offers a fresh perspective on this topic by shifting the lens from an investigation into the geopolitical coordinates of the League of Nations to the more ephemeral but equally important role of media and communication strategies that underlay the project. Accessible to both specialists and generalists, this exciting book will find a wide cross-section of readers in history, critical theory, government, and beyond.” * Ethan Kleinberg, Wesleyan University *Table of ContentsPreface: Truth, Lies, and Violence, Then and Now 1. As Seen at the League of Nations: Global Media, Competing Truths, and the Allure of Fascism 2. Rebranding the World (Picture) 3. On True and False Tongues 4. Fabricating Currencies: Paper, Gold, and Other Facsimiles 5. Fiat Lux? False News and Hidden Flesh 6. The Word and the Sword Revisited Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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Biteback Publishing Not Quite A Diplomat: A Memoir
Book SynopsisDescribed as Mrs Thatcher's favourite diplomat, Robin Renwick was at the centre of events in the negotiations to end the Rhodesian War. As Ambassador in South Africa, he played a bridging role between the government and the ANC, having become a trusted personal friend of Nelson Mandela and of F. W. de Klerk. In the Foreign Office, he played an integral part in forging the agreement that returned two thirds of our contribution to the European budget back to Britain. In Washington, where he became a confidant of George Bush Sr, then of Bill Clinton, he was deemed an exceptionally influential British Ambassador whose efforts were devoted to getting the US and its allies to take the actions needed to end the Bosnian War. Not Quite A Diplomat looks back over an illustrious career in the foreign service and paints vivid and revealing first-hand portraits of some of the giants of international politics over the past forty years, from Mandela and Mugabe to George Bush Sr, the Clintons and Margaret Thatcher. In this entertaining memoir, Renwick examines why diplomacy too often consists of ineffective posturing, and explores the likely effects of Brexit, Trump and, potentially, Jeremy Corbyn on Britain's standing in the world.Trade ReviewSuch an insightful read. Henry Kissinger; The book was a joy to read, not because of any particular opinions, but because of the clear-sighted realism of his analysis. The Sunday Times; A riveting and entertaining memoir. The Daily Telegraph; Full of amusing anecdotes! Iain Dale, LBC
£18.00
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers The Art of Diplomacy
Book SynopsisIn one readable volume, diplomat and negotiator Stuart E. Eizenstat covers every major contemporary international agreement, from the treaty to end the Vietnam War to the Kyoto Protocols and the Iranian Nuclear Accord. Written from the perspective that only a participant in top level negotiations can bring, Eizenstat recounts the events that led up to the negotiation, the drama that took place around the table, and draws lessons from successful and unsuccessful strategies and tactics. Based on interviews with over 60 key figures in American diplomacy, including former presidents and secretaries of state, and major political figures abroad, Eizenstat provides an intimate view of diplomacy as today's history. The Art of Diplomacy will be an indispensable volume to understand American foreign policy and provide invaluable insights on the art of negotiation for anyone involved in government or business negotiations.
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Scribner The Age of Walls
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Harvard University Press Zbigniew Brzezinski
Book SynopsisZbigniew Brzezinski's impact on America's role in the world extends far beyond his years in the Carter White House. Justin Vaisse offers the first biography of the Polish immigrant and grand strategist whose geopolitical vision, scholarly writings, and policy advice to many presidents brought lasting changes to America's conduct of foreign policy.Trade ReviewReading Justin Vaïsse’s impressive new book, Zbigniew Brzezinski: America’s Grand Strategist, it is difficult to miss the echoes of our own times in the early 1970s…If the publication of Brzezinski could hardly be timelier, the author could not be more apt…The book’s achievement is in part corrective. Brzezinski rehabilitates a thinker and actor whom other writers have too often underestimated…Vaïsse’s broad panorama achieves important perspective on the Carter years…Readers will encounter in Brzezinski an eloquent introduction to a major strategic thinker and a thoughtful meditation upon the useful work that ideas and intellectuals can perform in the policy arena. -- Daniel J. Sargent * Washington Post *Vaïsse gives Brzezinski high marks. Apart from Kissinger, no adviser so dominated a president’s agenda. His intellect was as sharp as his tongue. -- Edward Luce * Financial Times *Will probably stand for some time as the definitive portrayal of a sharp mind and sometimes sharp tongue that attracted critics and opponents, as well as admirers and such famous proteges and colleagues as Madeleine Albright and Robert Gates… What separates the Vaïsse book from the pack is a detailed and perceptive study of the rise of an academic complex in the making of U.S. foreign policy. -- Michael D. Mosettig * PBS NewsHour *Vaïsse’s biography of U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, reminds readers just what an extraordinary phenomenon this Polish outsider was… Vaïsse’s evenhanded appraisal of Brzezinski’s contributions to U.S. foreign policy will…introduce a new generation of readers to a great American strategist. -- Walter Russell Mead * Foreign Affairs *In his compelling biography of Brzezinski, Justin Vaïsse places [him] squarely in the fourth generation of decision-makers who helped turn the United States into a world power. -- Christopher Coker * Literary Review *Brzezinski must have been pleased by what he knew of the work (first published in French shortly before his death). The readers, too, will be pleased. This is a solid account of Brzezinski’s absorbing journey. -- Simon Serfaty * National Interest *This man with the unpronounceable name was one of the most influential in the world, but also one of the hardest to categorize… A foremost authority on U.S. foreign relations, Justin Vaïsse enthusiastically traces the extraordinary career of this son of a Polish consul. A captivating account of a decisive figure who navigated through deep political crosscurrents in order to extend American influence across the globe. * L’Express *Justin Vaïsse’s life of Zbigniew Brzezinski is remarkable in every way. More than a simple biography, this serious study is an original and meticulous account of the American diplomatic machine. * LeLitteraire.com *A specialist in American foreign relations, Vaïsse offers a voluminous biography of a man he considers one of the most consequential figures of the past century. * Le Point *This first-rate intellectual biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski fills a longstanding gap in existing work on one of America’s most visible yet undervalued scholar-policymakers of the past fifty years. Nuanced and on the whole convincing, this book provides an excellent overview of the impact Brzezinski had after his relatively brief time in high office. -- Jussi Hanhimäki, author of The Flawed Architect: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign PolicyVaïsse profiles one of the few men who transformed American foreign policy in the second half of the twentieth century. He offers a compelling account of how immigration, education, and technology changed American power and ideals. He also reminds us how important the intellectual debates about power and ideals were during the Cold War, and how important they remain today. -- Jeremi Suri, author of The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America’s Highest Office
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
Book SynopsisIn a provocative new study, the authors describe how the remarkable level of material and diplomatic support that the United States provides to Israel is due to the influence of the Israel lobby, which has a far-reaching impact on America''s foreign policy decisions throughout the Middle East. Reprint.
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MH - Indiana University Press The Alabama British Neutrality and the American
Book SynopsisA study of the Confederacy's inept attempts to win foreign support for its causeTrade ReviewMerli's ability to engage his reader in the tale and history of the CSS Alabama is amazing; it truly is a page-turner and I would wager would be such a page-turner for those not already predisposed to reading about such history. 1/11/2010 * blogbook-reviews.blogspot.com *Table of ContentsContentsList of IllustrationsFrank J. Merli (1929–2000)1. The International Dimension of the American Civil War2. Toward the CSS Alabama3. The Law of the Alabama4. E. D. Adams, Roundell Palmer, and the Escape of the Alabama5. Captain Butcher's Memoir of the Alabama's Escape Edited with Renata Eley Long 6. Raphael Semmes and the Challenge at Cherbourg7. The Confederacy's Chinese Fleet, 1861–1867Appendix: Publications of Frank J. MerliNotesWorks CitedIndex
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Cambridge University Press The New Atlantic Order
Book SynopsisThis magisterial new history elucidates a momentous transformation process that changed the world: the struggle to create, for the first time, a modern Atlantic order in the long twentieth century (18602020). Placing it in a broader historical and global context, Patrick O. Cohrs reinterprets the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 as the original attempt to supersede the Eurocentric ''world order'' of the age of imperialism and found a more legitimate peace system a system that could not yet be global but had to be essentially transatlantic. Yet he also sheds new light on why, despite remarkable learning-processes, it proved impossible to forge a durable Atlantic peace after a First World War that became the long twentieth century''s cathartic catastrophe. In a broader perspective this ground-breaking study shows what a decisive impact this epochal struggle has had not only for modern conceptions of peace, collective security and an integrative, rule-based international order but also for formative ideas of self-determination, liberal-democratic government and the West.Trade Review'In this opus magnum Patrick Cohrs presents an original and thought-provoking re-appraisal of the transformation of world politics between the era of global imperialism and the aftermath of the First World War. This is a compelling book that should be of interest to anyone who wants to understand how challenging it was to create a stable international order after the 20th century's crucial cataclysm, how the key actors struggled to build a durable peace, and how the consequences of what they thought and did still shape the world of the 21st century.' Paul W. Schroeder, author of The Transformation of European Politics, 1763–1848'This ground-breaking work offers a challenging and original interpretation of how and why the international order was transformed at the dawn of a "long" twentieth century. What drove these changes was a struggle, involving an unprecedented number of transnational actors and ideas, to forge rules, norms and institutions of a new Atlantic order among democratic states. The system-building efforts of the post-World War I era were to resonate throughout the entire century.' Jürgen Osterhammel, author of The Transformation of the World'An important book that recasts debates about European and global disorder after the First World War in a longer history of Atlantic world-order making since 1860. Advancing the case that the Paris Peace Conference produced an international 'system' that sought to address the question of German power and its place in the world, this new history also offers insights for contemporary debates on the question of China and the prospects for regional and global order in the present disorderly context of the 21st Century.' Patricia Clavin, author of Securing the World Economy: The Reinvention of the League of Nations, 1920–1946'Patrick Cohrs's new grand narrative reappraises great-power relations from the late nineteenth century across World War I and the postwar treaties to argue that durably bringing peace to Europe would ultimately require an “Atlantic” system that both reconciled Germany and durably engaged the United States. The reader will find a major reassessment of the peace that might have been and a challenging diagnosis of what sadly prevented it.' Charles S. Maier, author of Among Empires - American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors'This is a work of international history par excellence. Patrick Cohrs ambitiously merges an in-depth analysis of international politics with structuralist methods to capture the transformation of global order between 1860 and 1933. The New Atlantic Order offers a convincing structuralist approach to the coming of the Great War, showing that European leaders certainly did not sleepwalk into the abyss. The book's reappraisal of 1914–1918 diplomacy and the Paris Peace Conference, which draws on a massive array of new archival sources, is particularly strong, indeed admirable. Here is an international historian bringing the fruits of his work.' Paul M. Kennedy, author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers'This magisterial work focuses on the failure to prevent World War II. Cohrs advances [the] argument … [that] any European order [after World War I] based solely on military containment was doomed unless it addressed the deeper sources of all European conflicts from 1850 to the present: diverging claims of national self-determination, opposing economic and financial interests, and intense ideological strife between the political right, left, and center. [The book's] sweeping synthesis and grounding in primary sources makes an impressive thousand-page read.' Andrew Moravcsik, Foreign Affairs'The goal of [Cohrs'] impressive erudition is … to reconceptualize the entire process of peacemaking [after the First World War] … He sees [it] within three broader contexts, located in temporally ever larger concentric circles. The smallest … involves understanding peacemaking as an attempt to create a 'new Atlantic order', a transatlantic security and economic architecture linking the United States with western and central Europe … [that anticipated] the more successful transatlantic creations after 1945. Surrounding this circle is the broader notion of a 'long twentieth century', running from 1860 to 2020 … The widest circle is a consideration of … international relations from the Congress of Vienna until the present, emphasizing the idea of … a system of co-operation among sovereign states … under the supervision of a power or powers that act as benevolent hegemons. This combination of detailed empirical research and large-scale reconceptualization creates a complex structure with lots of moving parts, impressive to observe in action …' Jonathan Sperber, Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsContents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; List of maps; Introduction; Part I. Inevitable Descent into the Abyss?: The Wider Pre-History of the Great War. The Involution of International Politics at the Dawn of the “Long” 20th Century: 1. Peace through equilibrium. The 19th century's Vienna system – and its disintegration; 2. Transformation and corrosion. The turn towards power politics and global imperialist competition in the formative decades of the “long” 20th century; 3. The “ascent” of an exceptionalist world power. The American special path and ephemeral aspirations for an Atlantic order of empires; 4. Counterforces – and first visions of a novel transatlantic peace. Internationalist aspirations to overcome imperialist power politics before 1914; 5. The unavoidable war? Long and short roads to the catastrophe of 1914; Part II. The Greatest War – and No Peace Without Victory: The Impact of the First World War, Competing Visions of Peace and the Struggle over the Shape of a New – Atlantic – World Order: 6. Tectonic changes. The consequences of the war and the transformation of the transatlantic constellation; 7. The political and ideological “war within the war”. The transatlantic competition over the shape of the postwar order; 8. No “peace without victory” – and the making of the frail Atlantic armistice of November 1918; 9. No prospects for a lasting peace? The urgent and the systemic challenges of peacemaking and the need for a new Atlantic order; Part III. Reorientations and Incipient Learning Processes: The Dominant – Atlantic – Approaches to Peace and Order after the Great War: 10. Towards a progressive Atlantic peace of the victors. The reorientation of American approaches to peace and international order; 11. The search for a new equilibrium – and an Atlantic concert. The reorientation of British approaches to peace and international order; 12. The search for security and an Atlantic alliance of the victors. The reorientation of French approaches to peace and international order; 13. A new beginning? German pursuits of a Wilsonian “peace of justice” and first steps towards an Atlanticist foreign policy; Part IV. No “Pax Atlantica”: The First Attempt to Found a Modern Atlantic Order – and its Frustration: 14. An impossible peace? The incomplete transatlantic peacemaking process of 1919; 15. Novel superstructure of a new Atlantic order? The struggle to found the League of Nations and the limitations of the covenant of 1919; 16. No just peace without security. The pivotal German settlement and the struggle to found a new Atlantic security system; 17. The eastern frontiers – and limits – of the new order. Self-determination, the critical Polish-German question and the wider challenges of “reorganising” Eastern Europe; 18. A formative threat? The Western powers and the Bolshevik challenge; 19. The political and moral stakes of reparations – and the limited advances towards a new Atlantic economic order; 20. The imposed peace. The missed opportunity of a negotiated settlement with Germany?; 21. The truncated Atlantic peace order of 1919 – a re-appraisal; Part V. Epilogue: The Political Consequences of the Peace: The Challenges after Versailles and the Making of the Unfinished Atlantic Peace of the 1920s: 22. Peace undermined. The divergent outlooks of the victors, the consequences of Wilson's defeat and the escalation of Europe's postwar crisis; 23. Towards a new order. Constructive learning processes and the construction of an Atlantic peace beyond Versailles; 24. The remarkable consolidation of the nascent Pax Atlantica of the 1920s – and its dissolution under the impact of the world economic crisis; Part VI. Final Perspectives – the Cadmeian Peace: 25. The eventual creation of the “long” 20th century's Atlantic order after 1945 and the crucial lessons of the era of the First World War; Bibliography.
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Palgrave MacMillan UK The State Visits of Edward VII Reinventing Royal Diplomacy for the Twentieth Century Palgrave Studies in Modern Monarchy
Book SynopsisThis book explores the revival under Edward VII of the ceremonial state visit by British monarchs, showing the impact and importance of active royal diplomacy during his reign. Using the Royal Archives, memoirs and newspapers, it reveals the contribution made by the use of ceremony and public display to popular appreciation of the monarchy.Trade Review“This absorbing book reveals much of a lesser-appreciated facet of the public life of King Edward VII … . This book confirms the relevance of this area of scholarship to those interested in British diplomacy and royal visits, and invites further comparative research into overseas journeys undertaken by subsequent monarchs.” (Laura Cook, Royal Studies Journal, Vol. 3 (2), 2016) Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Modern Revival of Royal Diplomacy 2. The First Royal Visits 3. A Difficult Host: Edward VII's Visit to Italy 4. Edward's Gift to Diplomacy? 1903 Visit to Paris 5. A Virtual Royal Occasion: Edward VII's 1907 Visit to Spain 6. The Diplomatic Margins: State Visits to Scandinavia 7. Dealing with the Great Bear: Edward VII's Visit to Russia 8. 'The Most Powerful and Influential Diplomat of his Day': Edward VII's Final State Visits Epilogue
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Brill Japanese Envoys in Britain, 1862-1964
Book SynopsisCommissioned by the Japan Society as the companion volume to British Envoys in Japan, 1959-1972 (2004), this collection of essays on a century of official Japanese representation in the United Kingdom completes the history of bilateral diplomatic relations up to the mid-1960s, concluding with Ambassador Ohno Katsumi’s highly successful six-year assignment in 1964. In all, twelve authors, half of whom are Japanese , contribute to the work. In addition to the nineteen biographies, there are essays on the history of the Japanese Embassy buildings in London, an overview of Japanese envoys in Britain between 1862 and 1872 by Sir Hugh Cortazzi, as well as aspects of embassy life which illuminate some of the factors impacting on the life-style of residents in London in former times, including an entertaining personal memoir by Ayako Ishizaka of ‘A Diplomat’s Daughter in the 1930s’. By way of appendix, the volume concludes with a short history of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Gaimusho) up to the present day.Table of ContentsList of Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations/Order of Names; 1 The Japanese Embassy in London and its Buildings; 2. Japanese Envoys in Britain, 1862-72; 3. TERASHIMA MUNENORI (1832-93). Master of Early Meiji Diplomacy; 4. UENO KAGENORI (1845-1888). A Most Influental Diplomat; 5. MORI ARINORI (1847-89). From Diplomat to Statesman; 6. KAWASE MASATAKA (1840-1919). The Longest-serving Envoy; 7. AOKI SHUÅ ZOÅ (1844-1914). Brief Encounter; 8. KATO Å TAKAAKI (1860-1926). A Remarkable Diplomat and Statesman; 9. HAYASHI TADASU, (1850-1913). Working for the Alliance; 10. INTERLUDE: Life in the Legation/Embassy, 1884-1913; 11. KOMURA JUTAROÅ (1855-1911). Great Statesman; Struggling Diplomat; 12. INOUYE KATSUNOSUKE (1861-1929). A Highly-respected Envoy; 13. CHINDA SUTEMI (1857-1929). Ambassador in Peace and War; 14. HAYASHI GONSUKE (1860-1939). Leading the Way to the Washington Conference; 15. MATSUI KEISHIROÅ (1868-1946). An Efficient Public Servant; 16. MATSUDAIRA TSUNEO (1877-1949). Diplomat and Courtier; 17. YOSHIDA SHIGERU (1878-1967). Difficult Years for Anglo-Japanese Relations; 18. SHIGEMITSU MAMORU (1887-1957). Critical Times in a Long, Ambivalent Career; 19. INTERLUDE: Snapshots of the London Embassy in the 1930s; 20. INTERLUDE: A Diplomat's Daughter in the 1930s; 21. ASAKAI KOÅ ICHIROÅ (1906-1995). High-ranking Envoy Reconnects with Britain; 22. MATSUMOTO SHUNICHI (1897-1988). First Post-war Ambassador; 23. NISHI HARUHIKO (1893-1986). Conscientious and Patriotic Bureaucrat; 24. OHNO KATSUMI (1905-2006). A Mission to Renew Anglo-Japanese Relations; APPENDIXES: I List of Ministers/Ambassadors with Dates; II A Concise History of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Index
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Basic Books The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power and the
Book Synopsis"Speak softly and carry a big stick" Theodore Roosevelt famously said in 1901, when the United States was emerging as a great power. It was the right sentiment, perhaps, in an age of imperial rivalry but today many Americans doubt the utility of their global military presence, thinking it outdated, unnecessary or even dangerous. In The Big Stick, Eliot A. Cohen-a scholar and practitioner of international relations-disagrees. He argues that hard power remains essential for American foreign policy. While acknowledging that the US must be careful about why, when, and how it uses force, he insists that its international role is as critical as ever, and armed force is vital to that role. Cohen explains that American leaders must learn to use hard power in new ways and for new circumstances. The rise of a well-armed China, Russia''s conquest of Crimea and eastern Ukraine, nuclear threats from North Korea and Iran, and the spread of radical Islamist movements like ISIS are some of the key threats to global peace. If the United States relinquishes its position as a strong but prudent military power, and fails to accept its role as the guardian of a stable world order we run the risk of unleashing disorder, violence and tyranny on a scale not seen since the 1930s. The US is still, as Madeleine Albright once dubbed it, "the indispensable nation."
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Harvard University Press Cold War Democracy
Book SynopsisDuring the occupation American policymakers identified elections and education as the wellsprings of a democratic consciousness in Japan. But as the extent of Japan’s economic recovery became clear, they placed prosperity at the core of a revised vision for their new ally’s future, as Jennifer Miller shows in this fresh appraisal of the Cold War.Trade ReviewExhaustively researched and incisively written, Miller’s book is a model of historical scholarship that will be essential reading for scholars and students of 1950s Japan and broader United States–Japan relations. -- Nick Kapur * Diplomatic History *[An] impressive book. Miller’s original thesis, her prodigious research, and her ability to connect her topic to the broader international setting and move its focus from grass roots organizing to high policy will make Cold War Democracy the standard treatment on this important but relatively neglected period in the U.S.-Japan relationship. -- Marc Gallicchio * Passport *Insightful…This most valuable book provides an innovative and significant contribution to the understanding of the democracy-building process in Japan in the postwar years and, more broadly, it can be considered a fundamental reading for scholars and students of US-Japan relations in the Cold War. -- Felice Farina * European Journal of East Asian Studies *By far one of the best books on nation building and democratization…superbly written. * Choice *Cold War Democracy may sound like a contradiction in terms. But as Miller’s nuanced, deeply researched interpretation of postwar relations between the United States and Japan shows, ‘democracy’ provided a flexible vocabulary for both architects and critics of this rapprochement. An innovative study of one of the most durable and significant relationships to have shaped the world since 1945. -- Susan L. Carruthers, author of The Good Occupation: American Soldiers and the Hazards of PeaceHow could the Cold War United States, so publicly and noisily committed to democracy, have supported repression and curbs on free speech while attacking others’ allegedly pernicious neutralism? Using U.S. relations with Japan as her case study, Miller explores this seeming paradox with great insight and deep research, including Japanese-language sources. This is a superb book with big ambitions, fully realized. -- Andrew Rotter, author of Hiroshima: The World’s BombIn this book Miller deftly examines the ideological core of the Japanese–American relationship during the Cold War and shows how it continues to shape international relations to this day. With subtlety she explores the contested and paradoxical meanings of democracy whereby order, unity, stability, spiritual renewal, economic growth, and geopolitical power often subsumed and eclipsed concerns for freedom, equality, individual rights, and peace. This is a book that inspires deep thinking about what democracy-promotion has meant and should mean. -- Melvyn P. Leffler, author of Safeguarding Democratic Capitalism: U.S. Foreign Policy and National Security, 1920–2015Cold War Democracy is a stellar book. Relying on a treasure trove of English- and Japanese-language sources, Miller elucidates the complex—and oftentimes contentious—interplay of politicians, policymakers, intellectuals, labor activists, and grassroots protestors as they shaped a new transpacific relationship after World War II. Anyone interested in diplomatic and international history will gain a lot from this fascinating study. -- Hiroshi Kitamura, author of Screening Enlightenment: Hollywood and the Cultural Reconstruction of Defeated Japan
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Harvard University Press Economic Statecraft
Book SynopsisEconomic sanctions provide an alternative to waging war or a means to advance human rights. But are they morally justifiable? Philosophers have explored the ethics of war but rarely the ethics of carrots and sticks. Cécile Fabre offers a defense of economic statecraft, laying out a normative framework for this critical tool of diplomacy.Trade ReviewA sophisticated, timely, and insightful discussion of economic sanctions from a philosophical standpoint. -- Mathias Risse, Harvard UniversityComprehensive, clear, and illuminating, Economic Statecraft is better than anything in the current literature on the use of economic sanctions and conditional offers of material help in foreign policymaking. Fabre develops a compelling and nuanced human rights–based account of when sanctions and aid conditionality can and must be employed. -- Christian Barry, Australian National UniversityEconomic Statecraft confirms Fabre’s standing as one of the outstanding political philosophers of her generation. Not only does she have great depth, clarity, and insight; she applies her exceptional philosophical talents to questions and issues that have great importance, but that have received relatively little philosophical attention. Her relentless examination of the use of economic power in international relations is unlikely to be surpassed any time soon. -- Victor Tadros, University of Warwick
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RAND Modern Political Warfare
Book SynopsisThis report analyzes political warfare as it is practiced today by both state and nonstate actors, and provides detailed recommendations regarding the most effective ways that the U.S. government, along with its allies and partners, can respond to or engage in this type of conflict to achieve U.S. ends and protect U.S. interests.
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Canbury Press Brexit What the Hell Happens Now
Book SynopsisYour blunt guide to Brexit. Journalist Ian Dunt reveals how leaving the EU will strike the law, politics and business. Based on expert advice, this fully revised 2018 edition of his pithy bestseller illuminates the UK's biggest issue, stripped of the spin of its media cheerleaders. Incisive and important, and growing more so by the day.Trade Review'Admirably brief and necessarily brutal... Whatever your position during the referendum, you ought to read Dunt because he is willing to face uncomfortable facts. The only country in the world with absolute sovereignty is North Korea. Everyone else must make compromises. The only question for us is how bad a compromise we must endure.' – NICK COHEN, THE SPECTATOR'Excellent. A must-read. Harass every MP until they read Dunt's book.' – AC GRAYLING, ACADEMIC'Dunt's compact and easily digestible book skilfully navigates the post-referendum world - giving far more detail than any Government minister has yet managed. I'd encourage anyone who is confused, fascinated or frustrated by Brexit to read this book - you'll be far wiser by the end of it.' – CAROLINE LUCAS MP'I would strongly recommend Ian Dunt's excellent guide to what happens next. Dunt has taken the extraordinary step of asking a set of experts what they think about matters of law. This is one of the few books of the set to face forwards rather than backwards and it is all the better for that. I learnt a lot, which I find often happens when I have the humility to listen to experts.' – PHILIP COLLINS, PROSPECT MAGAZINE'Dunt is a Remainer, but you wouldn’t be able to tell that from reading this book. He wastes no time on recriminations, finger-pointing or a dissection of the referendum campaign (riven as it was with misinformation, ignorance, propaganda and outright lies). Instead he looks ahead, to the enormous challenges Britain now faces, in the hope of making the best of a bad situation.' – GRUB STREET'It’s a nightmare vision, deliberately painted so, as a shock to the complacency of those who thought Brexit would be a breeze. But, as Dunt then makes clear, these are “the consequences of a chaotic, hard Brexit.' – PAUL MAGRATH, ICLRTable of ContentsMICHAEL GOVE QUOTE. 'I think the people in this country have had enough of experts from organisations with acronyms, saying they know what’s best and getting it consistently wrong.’ Michael Gove, Brexit campaigner, Sky News, 3 June 2016, when told the US, China, India, IMF, CBI etc opposed Brexit INTRODUCTION. Imagines the disruption to trade if Britain left the European Union without a deal and was forced to fall back on World Trade Organisation rules, leading to Customs and country of origin checks on British goods entering the Continent. Food starts to rot WHAT WAS THAT? Ian Dunt was laying out Britain's worst-case scenario – a chaotic heard Brexit. But there are alternatives. 'Based on extensive research and discussions with leading experts in politics, the law, markets and Europe, it maps the road ahead, with its multiple hazards and dangers' WHAT DID WE VOTE FOR? On 23 June 2016, voters in the UK were asked: ‘Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union.’ The results were: Remain 16,141,241 (48.1%), Leave 17,410,742 (51.9%). Voters could not specify which version of Brexit they wanted WHAT IS ARTICLE 50? Theresa May triggered Article 50 – the European Union rule that must be invoked by any country wishing to leave – on 29 March 2017. Unlike pretty much any other European law ever written, Article 50 is very short. And nightmarish for the UK WHAT IS THE EUROPEAN PROJECT? Britain has always been deeply ignorant of the motivation behind the European project, tracing the Coal and Steel Community (France, West Germany, Italy, Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg), European Economic Community which made a bigger common market, and European Union WHAT IS THE SINGLE MARKET? The single market had been the dream of European planners from the outset. It would not just get rid of tariffs like an ordinary free trade agreement, it would create four fundamental freedoms: • Goods • Capital • Services • People. Europe's people and firms would merge WHAT ARE THE POLITICS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION? Successive waves of enlargements have increased the EU. Chart of EU members in 2016, relative to the size of the economy. In the 1990s, the EU constructed the Eurozone, a monetary union of 19 member states using the euro. Illustration of EU members and Eurozone WHAT ABOUT FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT? Boris Johnson joked that he was ‘pro having my cake and pro eating it.’ The 27 remaining European leaders have stressed that access to the single market ‘requires acceptance of all four freedoms’, but there may still be some wriggle room. WHAT ABOUT THE ECONOMY? Britain faced a full range of options for withdrawal from the European Union, including staying in the customs union and/or staying in the single market. The EU has a full range of menu options for the single market. Norway and Switzerland are members in different ways NORWAY. When EFTA states Norway, Lichtenstein and Iceland joined the single market they became members of a wider European Economic Area (EEA), securing an arm’s length relationship with Brussels while enjoying the benefits of free trade SWITZERLAND. In 1992, Swiss voters rejected the idea of joining the other EU objectors in the European Economic Area. Instead, the Swiss eventually agreed on a series of bilateral treaties with the EU in return for access to the single market. It is a messy fudge TURKEY. Britain could leave the single market and stay in the customs union. A customs union is only about the taxation of goods. It allows goods to be moved between its members without paying tariffs and has one common tariff arrangement for goods coming from outside. CANADA. Leaving the single market and customs union means that the closest economic relationship the UK and Europe can expect to have is a free trade deal, like the one between the EU and Canada. One would allow Britain to trade with the EU while reducing tariffs and country-of-origin checks THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION. Brexit supporters have long claimed that the WTO is a safety net for the UK once it finally leaves Europe. They portray the WTO as a virile, regulation-free wonderland just waiting for Britain to take its place as one of the world’s leading trading nations. It is not. HOW CAN WE KEEP THE UK TOGETHER? Most of Britain’s difficulties are based on its desire to maintain the financial benefits of the EU while extracting itself from sharing any sovereignty. But there is an aspect to the British dilemma outside that trade-off: keeping the United Kingdom together SCOTLAND. Most Scots voted to stay in the European Union, but that does not mean that Brexit will lead to a surge in support for Scottish independence. The British single market is worth four times as much to Scotland in terms of jobs and trade than the EU single market IRELAND. The problems in Scotland look like pleasantries next to those in Ireland. At stake is nothing less than a reversal of two decades of careful progress since the Troubles. And yet government ministers have seemed largely uninterested in the impact of Brexit across the Irish Sea WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO? Brexit cannot satisfy the dreams, but we can ask the following questions: what do the leading Brexiters want, how talented are they, what tools do they have at their disposal and in which context do they operate? The answer to those questions grounds our expectations WHAT DO THE BREXIT MINISTERS WANT? Since the Brexit referendum and the June 2017 general election British politics has been volatile and unpredictable, so it’s impossible to know if the Brexit ministers in place (Boris Johnson, David Davis, Liam Fox) will be in place for long HOW TALENTED ARE THEY? Both Liam Fox and David Davis often seemed unable to grasp the rudiments of the European Union and international trade. In July 2016, Dr Fox told The Sunday Times that ‘about a dozen free trade deals outside the EU’ would be ‘ready for when we leave’ WHAT TOOLS DO THEY HAVE? The reliance of European businesses on the UK has prompted some people to suggest ‘they need us more than we need them’. As with all alluring nonsense, it is based on a grain of truth. But the Brexiters have drastically underestimated the lopsidedness of the relationship WHAT IS THE CONTEXT? Ministers are operating in a complicated and restrictive environment. They are being forced into an impossible timetable by an overmighty negotiating partner while trying to establish a society-wide regulatory framework and facing a volatile Parliament with no majority THE ECONOMY. After the referendum vote, the pound fell to a 31-year low on currency markets. While there have been occasional bounces, the trend has been downwards and there is no sign of sterling reaching its pre-referendum level. The confidence of foreign investors in Britain's economy is waning THE CITY OF LONDON. Britain’s financial services will weaken as banks move part of their operations and staff to EU jurisdictions in Ireland or mainland Europe. This will not be a rout, but a small and steady leak. The City of London will survive Brexit IMMIGRATION. Immigration to the UK fell after the referendum vote and continued to do so thereafter. Although most members of the public don’t know it due to decades of tabloid misinformation, this will lower the standard of living. The reason is that immigration is good for the economy THE PARLIAMENTARY BATTLE. Whoever occupies Downing Street will have a difficult time trying to pass the legislation needed to deliver Brexit unless they have a large working majority. As things stand, there is no support in the Commons for any position, whether hard Brexit, soft Brexit or Remain MAKING A NEW COUNTRY. Britain’s membership of the European Union will also kill off lots of other laws important to everyday life. Britain’s membership of the EU is a legal agreement, enshrined in domestic law by the European Communities Act 1972 THE TIME PROBLEM. Two years might just have been enough to complete the administrative element of Article 50. It is not enough to recreate the EU’s regulatory infrastructure or to negotiate, agree and ratify a good trade deal. Anyone trying to finish these tasks competently probably needs 10 years WHAT HAPPENS AFTER BREXIT? Exiting the European Union is so complicated it would be impossible to achieve without statutory instruments. But it is also incredibly dangerous. Ministers suddenly have the power to tinker with nearly half a century of law and industrial standards POSTSCRIPT. There is a need for patience and good sense... Absolute sovereignty is a fantasy. The only absolute sovereignty available in the world is North Korea’s model of total isolation. Outside of that, we must make compromises in order to cooperate with other countries for our mutual advantage LIST OF EXPERTS. Including James Chalmers, Larry Elliott, Sir Lawrence Freedman, Carl Gardner, Holger Hestermeyer, Markus W. Gehring, Dominic Grieve, Sir Paul Jenkins, Sabine Jenni, Steve Keen, Guy Lougher, Anand Menon, Giles Merritt, Laurent Pech, Steve Peers, Gavin Phillipson, Keith Rockwell ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. I thank Martin Hickman, my publisher... who came to me after my first post-referendum blog, Everything You Need To Know About Theresa May’s Brexit Nightmare In Five Minutes, despite the fact that it didn’t tell the reader everything they needed and couldn't be read in 5 minutes REFERENCES. Full list of references and sources for important facts about Britain's withdrawal from the European Union
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PublicAffairs,U.S. Backstabbing for Beginners (Media tie-in): My
Book SynopsisA Wall Street Journal best book of the year"What made this episode in our collective history possible was not so much the lies we told one another, but the lies we told ourselves."A recent Brown University graduate, Michael Soussan was elated when he landed a position as a program coordinator for the United Nations' Iraq Program. Little did he know that he would end up a whistleblower in what PBS NewsHour described as the "largest financial scandal in UN history."Breaking a conspiracy of silence that had prevailed for years, Soussan sparked an unprecedented corruption probe into the Oil-for-Food program that exposed a worldwide system of bribes, kickbacks, and blackmail involving ruthless power-players from around the globe.At the crossroads of pressing humanitarian concerns, crisis diplomacy, and multibillion-dollar business interests, Soussan's story highlights core flaws of our international system and exposes the frightening, corrupting power of the black elixir that fuels our world's economy.
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PublicAffairs,U.S. Reckless: Henry Kissinger and the Tragedy of
Book SynopsisThe American war in Vietnam was concluded in 1973 under the terms of a truce that were effectively identical to what was offered to the Nixon administration four years earlier. Those four years cost America billions of dollars and over 35,000 war deaths and casualties, and resulted in the deaths of over 300,000 Vietnamese. And those years were the direct result of the supposed master plan of the most important voice in the Nixon White House on American foreign policy: Henry Kissinger.Using newly available archival material from the Nixon Presidential Library and Kissinger's personal papers, Robert K. Brigham shows how Kissinger's approach to Vietnam was driven by personal political rivalries and strategic confusion, while domestic politics played an outsized influence on Kissinger's so-called strategy. There was no great master plan or Bismarckian theory that supported how the US continued the war or conducted peace negotiations. As a result, a distant tragedy was perpetuated, forever changing both countries. Now, perhaps for the first time, we can see the full scale of that tragedy and the machinations that fed it.
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Bridger House Publications Inc. Diplomacy by Deception An Account of the Treasonous Conduct by the Governments of Britain and the United States Hoaxes Deceptions
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Princeton University Press Economic Statecraft
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A masterpiece he has recently updated. . . . Baldwin’s (1985) work laid a solid foundation for subsequent studies related to economic statescraft."---Falin Zhang, China International Strategy Review
£38.25
Columbia University Press Days of Opportunity The United States and
Book SynopsisRobert B. Rakove sheds new light on the little-known and often surprising history of U.S. engagement in Afghanistan from the 1920s to the 1979 Soviet invasion, tracing its evolution and exploring its lasting consequences.Trade ReviewThrough expansive multinational archival research, Robert B. Rakove weaves together local, national, and international threads that shaped the history of modern Afghanistan and its engagement with the world. Days of Opportunity is a compelling account of how the nation came to be embroiled in U.S.-Soviet Cold War conflict and the terrible costs to the Afghan people. -- Mary L. Dudziak, author of War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its ConsequencesIn a narrative built on rich detail about individual diplomatic actors and their alliances, rivalries, and networks, Rakove offers tremendous insight on the extent, complexities, and contingencies of the Afghan-American bilateral relationship during the interwar and Cold War eras. -- Shah Mahmoud Hanifi, author of Connecting Histories in AfghanistanIn Days of Opportunity, Rakove uncovers the largely overlooked history of U.S.-Afghanistan relations across the twentieth century. Through expert storytelling and meticulous archival research, he details the two countries’ long, promising, yet frustrating relationship during the decades preceding the Soviet invasion. Rakove gives Afghanistan the attention it deserves as a critical player in twentieth-century international politics. -- Elisabeth Leake, author of Afghan Crucible: The Soviet Invasion and the Making of Modern AfghanistanThis outstanding study offers the most comprehensive exposition and analysis to date of the Afghan-American relationship through the end of the 1970s. Based on extensive archival research, it provides essential context for anyone who seeks to understand the complex historical roots of America's failures in Afghanistan. -- Robert McMahon, author of Dean Acheson and the Creation of an American World OrderTable of ContentsNotes for the ReaderIntroduction: “A Day of Opportunity”1. A Game of Hide-and-Seek: The Afghan Pursuit of Diplomatic Relations, 1921–19382. “We Have a Rare Opportunity”: U.S.-Afghan Relations Amid the World Crisis, 1938–19453. Preeminence and Peril: The American Influx and the Coming of the Afghan Cold War, 1945–19524. “We Might Be Willing to Take a Chance”: The Choice to Contest Afghanistan, 1953–19565. Anxious Coexistence: The Aid Contest, 1956–19596. The Crisis Era, 1959–19637. Reform and Retrenchment, 1963–19688. The Fall of the Monarchy, 1968–19739. Return to Engagement, 1973–197610. The End of Diplomacy, 1977–1979Conclusion: “Into the Jaws of Catastrophe”AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsNotesList of ArchivesIndex
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Cambridge University Press When Democracy Died
Book SynopsisIn an innovative, comprehensive account of the Lausanne Conference, Hans-Lukas Kieser recounts how the Conference concluded more than ten years of war and genocide in the late Ottoman Empire and explores the Treaty of Lausanne's resounding impact in the Middle East. Kieser shows how the Treaty excluded minority groups and shaped modern states.Trade Review'Rather than viewing the Treaty of Lausanne from the perspective of the victorious founders of the Turkish Republic, this critical study examines the Treaty from that of its losers. Kieser convincingly argues that the Treaty legalized and rewarded ethnic cleansing; sounded the death-knell for democratic self-determination; and ushered in extreme nationalist, authoritarian rule in Turkey.' Marc Baer, London School of Economics'This study gives an original interpretation of the Lausanne Treaty. It allows us to understand the emergence of the two new regimes of the post-Great War period: fascism in Italy and Kemalism in Turkey, which, together with the Bolshevik Soviet Union, considered themselves to be the pillars of an antidemocratic age to come.' Hamit Bozarslan, EHESS, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris'Kieser offers an important corrective to histories of modern Turkey. He shows that 'colonialism' is not the only process to blame for the Middle East's anti-democratic tradition, and that Europe owes some of its interwar fascism and ultranationalism to the Lausanne Conference. The Lausanne Treaty, the book shows, reads like a manual on how to get away with genocide. Germany was watching.' Lerna Ekmekcioglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology'In this brilliant study, Kieser shows how the Lausanne Treaty proved both a crucial endpoint of the Paris system and the basis for the rise of authoritarianism. Carefully researched and cogently argued, it finetunes understandings of fascism by revealing the family resemblances between Turkey and other regimes that sought to eliminate minorities.' Michelle Tusan, University of Nevada, Las VegasTable of ContentsIntroduction. The historic near east peace of Lausanne; 1. A century's pivotal 'peace'; 2. Against the Paris-Geneva peace: Bolsheviks, Turkists, Islamists; 3. A protracted conference: redefining Turkey, western realpolitik.
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Stanford University Press How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of
Book SynopsisSanctions have enormous consequences. Especially when imposed by a country with the economic influence of the United States, sanctions induce clear shockwaves in both the economy and political culture of the targeted state, and in the everyday lives of citizens. But do economic sanctions induce the behavioral changes intended? Do sanctions work in the way they should? To answer these questions, the authors of How Sanctions Work highlight Iran, the most sanctioned country in the world. Comprehensive sanctions are meant to induce uprisings or pressures to change the behavior of the ruling establishment, or to weaken its hold on power. But, after four decades, the case of Iran shows the opposite to be true: sanctions strengthened the Iranian state, impoverished its population, increased state repression, and escalated Iran's military posture toward the U.S. and its allies in the region. Instead of offering an 'alternative to war,' sanctions have become a cause of war. Consequently, How Sanctions Work reveals how necessary it is to understand how sanctions really work.Trade Review"There is no shortage of publications on the Iran sanctions, but it is rare to see such detailed, serious work on this topic by highly knowledgeable scholars. How Sanctions Work introduces a wealth of information and perspectives not generally found in the existing Western academic literature."—Joy Gordon, author of Invisible War: The United States and the Iraq Sanctions"A vital study of the most tragic case in the recent history of economic sanctions. Bajoghli, Nasr, Salehi-Isfahani, and Vaez powerfully demonstrate how large the gap between the severe material effects and the limited political efficacy of sanctions against Iran has grown."—Nicholas Mulder, author of The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War"An indispensable book on sanctions' impacts in Iran, How Sanctions Work, opens a window into the fraught, little-understood, but ubiquitous and hugely consequential practice that seems to have supplanted diplomacy in current foreign policy and international relations. This volume shifts our understandings of what sanctions do—in Iran and beyond."—Arzoo Osanloo, author of Forgiveness Work: Mercy, Law, and Victims' Rights in Iran"For the analysts in Washington and Tehran newly evaluating sanctions and their effects, How Sanctions Work is a valuable resource. By centering the targeted country in the discussion of sanctions efficacy, Bajoghli, Nasr, Salehi-Isfahani, and Vaez demonstrate what a case study on sanctions should look like."—Esfandyar Batmanghelidj, Responsible StatecraftTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Invisible War 1. When Society Is Sanctioned 2. When Politics Is Sanctioned 3. When Iran Was Sanctioned 4. When an Economy Is Sanctioned 5. What Sanctions Cost the United States 6. What Sanctions Cost Iran—and the World Conclusion: Permanent Siege
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Rowman & Littlefield Imperfect Partners: The United States and
Book SynopsisImperfect Partners is a unique hybrid – part memoir, part foreign policy study of U.S. relations with Southeast Asia, a critically important region that has become the central arena in the global U.S.-China competition. From the People Power revolt in the Philippines to the opening of diplomatic relations with Vietnam, from building a partnership with newly democratic Indonesia to responding to genocide in Myanmar and coups in Thailand, Scot Marciel was present and involved. His direct involvement and deep knowledge of the region, along with his extensive policymaking work in Washington, allows him to bring to life the complexities and realities of key events and U.S. responses, along with rare insights into U.S. foreign policy decisionmaking and the work of American diplomats in the field. Trade ReviewFor the United States, Southeast Asia is one of the most important and least understood parts of the world. Scot Marciel draws on his vast diplomatic experience to bring a wealth of illuminating stories, hard-earned insights, and wise analysis to bear on a region that will help determine our capacity to deal with the most pressing issues of the 21st century. . . . Imperfect Partners is an indispensable resource for anyone seeking to understand Southeast Asia and America’s relationship with its countries and people. -- Ben Rhodes, former deputy national security advisor and author of After the FallDrawing on his 35 years of diplomatic experience, Scot Marciel has written an illuminating survey of the United States’ relations with Southeast Asia. . . . This is an excellent primer on a part of the world whose significance has grown substantially in recent years with the rise of neighboring China. -- John Negroponte, career diplomat, former U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, and the first director of national intelligenceAmbassador Scot Marciel has written a gem of a book. His thoughtfully researched account is brought to life with fascinating insights and captivating, on-the-scene anecdotes. . . . Imperfect Partners is a must-read for U.S. policymakers, business leaders, academics, humanitarians, and everyday Americans engaging with the nations of Southeast Asia. -- Kristie Kenney, former State Department counselor and U.S. ambassador to Thailand, the Philippines, and EcuadorA master practitioner has provided us with a ringside view of how our diplomats pursue American interests in Southeast Asia. This is must reading for aspiring Southeast Asia hands who want to familiarize themselves with American regional diplomacy. It’s also indispensable reading for American strategists, who will ignore Ambassador Marciel’s policy prescriptions at their peril. -- Dave Shear, former assistant secretary of defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs and U.S. ambassador to Vietnam
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Rowman & Littlefield HandOff The Foreign Policy George W. Bush Passed
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Penguin Random House India Open Embrace
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PublicAffairs,U.S. The Dissent Channel: American Diplomacy in a
Book SynopsisIn 2017, the State Department lost 60% of its career ambassadors. Hiring has been cut and the budget slashed. The idealistic women and men who chose to enter government service are leaving in record numbers, jeopardizing operations both domestically and internationally, and eroding the U.S. standing on the world stage.In There Are No Good Guys, former State Department official Lizzy Shackelford shows this erosion first-hand through her experience within the precarious rise and devastating fall of the world's newest country, South Sudan. Shackleford's excitement about the possibility of encouraging democracy from the ground up quickly turns to questioning, then to shock at the under-resourced American embassy in the capitol and at the miscommunication and willful ignorance perpetuated within the State Department itself. She argues that the decline in diplomacy didn't begin with the current administration, and illustrates the damaging effects of an American foreign policy approach that gives short shrift to the values of democracy, accountability, and human rights that we have long feigned to promote in our overseas engagements.Policy and politics come alive through Shackleford's sense of storytelling and suspense, as she weaves extraordinary tales of life as a young female diplomat with a wry sense of humor and a skeptic's thirst for understanding. And in navigating both American bureaucracy and the fraught history and present of South Sudan, she conveys an urgent message about the evolving (and devolving) state of U.S. foreign policy.
£22.50
Indiana University Press Women Development and the UN
Book SynopsisTraces the ways in which women have enriched the work of the United Nations from the time of its founding in 1945. This book reviews the evolution of the UN's programs aimed at benefiting the women of developing nations and the impact of women's ideas about rights, equality, and social justice on UN thinking and practice regarding development.Trade Review"This is the 7th of a 14-volume comprehensive history of the United Nations (UN). The book begins with the UN's founding in 1945, when only 4 of the 160 signatories were women, from the Dominican Republic, Brazil, China, and the US. For gender scholars, political scientists, and academics, this is a detailed account of how women used their social capital, power, and networks to measure and highlight women's status around the world. Many familiar concepts and measures of gender inequality are traced to the UN's Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), a subcommittee established within the UN's first year. Equality, political suffrage, child marriage, widow rights, and all aspects ofwomen's visible and invisible work are a few of the measures and studies stemming from the commission. The book details the four global women's conferences (Mexico, Copenhagen, Nairobi, and Beijing). Surely, the impact on women's lives-particularly those of the south-is one of the UN's greatest accomplishments. Summing Up:Recommended. Most levels/librarie" -A. S. Hunter, Idaho State UniversityTable of ContentsContentsList of Boxes and TablesSeries Editors' Foreword Louis Emmerij, Richard Jolly, and Thomas G. WeissForeword Amartya SenAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Women, Development, and Equality: History as Inconclusive Dialogue1. Setting the Stage for Equality, 1945–19652. Inscribing Development into Rights, 1966–19753. Questioning Development Paradigms, 1976–19854. Development as if Women Mattered, 1986–19955. Lessons from the UN's Sixth Decade, 1996–2005NotesBibliographyIndexAbout the AuthorAbout the United Nations Intellectual History Project
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