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Book SynopsisA perennial debate in the field of global ethics revolves around the possibility of a universalist ethics as well as arguments over the nature, and significance, of difference for moral deliberation. Decolonial literature, in particular, increasingly signifies a pluriverse – one with radical ontological and epistemological differences. This book examines the concept of the pluriverse alongside global ethics and the ethics of care in order to contemplate new ethical horizons for engaging across difference. Offering a challenge to the current state of the field, this book argues for a rethinking of global ethics as it has been conceived thus far.Table of Contents1. The Pluriversal Challenge to Global Ethics 2. The Problem of Modernity and the Decolonial Project 3. Mapping Global Ethics in the Pluriverse 4. A Critical, Political Ethics of Care 5. Partial Connections: The Pluriverse, Ethics, and Care 6. Vulnerable and Precarious Worlds: A Meta-Theoretical Orientation 7. The Political and the Pluriverse: A (Dis)Associative Theory of Care 8. Building the Pluriverse with Care 9. Rethinking Global Ethics with Care and the Pluriverse

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Book SynopsisFelix Anderl’s book is a stimulating analysis of the decline of social movements against the World Bank and the rise of a new form of transnational rule. Reflecting on the transnational mobilizations of the 1990s, the book examines activists’ struggles to sustain their momentum. It shows how the opening up of world economic institutions contributed to complex rule in global governance, creating access for some while weakening their critique and fragmenting the overall movement. The book bridges international relations and social movement studies to observe international organizations and social movements in their interaction, demonstrating how social movements are divided and ruled in the absence of a ruler.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Social Movements and International Relations 2. Transnational Rule and Resistance 3. Complex Rule in Global Governance 4. Mechanisms of Fragmentation 5. A History of Interaction: The World Bank Group and Its Early Critics 6. When a Contentious Process Opens Up: Extractive Industries Review 7. Fragmentation in Contestation: The Movement during the EIR Process 8. Uncontentious Politics? The Civil Society Policy Forum 9. Fragmentation in Cooperation: Observing the Changing Practices of Critique Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe defeat of Donald Trump in November 2020 followed by the attack on the US Congress on 6th January 2021 represented a tipping point moment in the history of the American republic. Divided at home and facing a world sceptical of American claims to be the ‘indispensable nation’ in world politics, it is clear that the next few years will be decisive ones for the United States. But how did the US, which was riding high only 30 years ago, arrive at this critical point? And will it lead to the fall of what many would claim has been one of the most successful empires of modern times? In this volume, Michael Cox, a leading scholar of American foreign policy, outlines the ways in which five very different American Presidents – Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump and now Biden – have addressed the complex legacies left them by their predecessors while dealing with the longer-term problems of running an empire under increasing stress. In so doing, he sets out a framework for thinking critically about US foreign policy since the end of the Cold War without ever losing sight of the biggest question of all: can America continue to shape world affairs or is it now facing long-term decline?Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Rise of an Empire Part I – Clinton: Liberal Leviathan 1. From Geopolitics to Geo-Economics 2. The Wilsonian Moment? Promoting Democracy 3. Failed Crusade? The United States and Post-Communist Russia Part II – Bush Jnr: Empire in an Age of Terror 4. American Power after the Towers 5. Empire, Imperialism and the Bush Doctrine Part III – Obama: Towards a Post-American World? 6. Navigating the Rapids 7. Stresses across the Atlantic 8. Axis of Opposition: China, Russia and the West Part IV – Trump: Turbulence in the Age of Populism 9. Populism, Trump and the Crisis of Globalization 10. Trump’s World: The Legacy Part V – Biden: Is America Back? 11. After the Deluge or Whither the Empire?

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Book SynopsisAfrica's unique position as an international diplomatic actor has not always been given the attention it deserves. This volume bridges this gap by offering a fresh, comprehensive and realistic overview of African diplomacy.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores civil–military relations in Asia. With chapters on individual countries in the region, it provides a comprehensive account of the range of contemporary Asian practices under conditions of abridged democracy, soft authoritarianism or complete totalitarianism. Through its analysis, the book argues that civil–military relations in Asia ought to be examined under the concept of ‘Asian military evolutions’. It demonstrates that while Asian militaries have tried to incorporate standard, Western-derived frameworks of civil–military relations, it has been necessary to adapt such frameworks to suit local circumstances. The book reveals how this has in turn led to creative fusions and novel changes in making civil–military relations an asset to furthering national security objectives.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Asian Military Evolutions – Entrenching Varieties of Civil–Military Relations and Their Security Initiatives in Asia - Alan Chong and Nicole Jenne Part 1: Southeast Asia 2. Fostering Developmental Guardianship: The Case of Myanmar’s Tatmadaw - Adhi Priamarizki 3. Business as Usual despite Reform: The Indonesian Military under Jokowi - Dahlia Gratia Setiyawan 4. Militarizing Governance: Informal Civil–Military Relations and Democratic Erosion in the Philippines - Aries A. Arugay 5. Mind the Gap: The Curious Case of Everyday Civil–Military Relations in Singapore - Jun Yan Chang and Shu Huang Ho 6. The Role of the Malaysian Armed Forces in Defence Diplomacy: A Foreign Policy Outworking of Civil–Military Relations in Malaysia - David Han 7. The Architecture and Evolution of Civil–Military Relations in Vietnam - Alexander L. Vuving 8. The Stubborn Illiberalism and Trialectical Dynamics of Thailand’s Civil–Military Relations - Gregory V. Raymond 9. Peacekeeping: An Emerging Area of Southeast Asia’s Defence and Security Cooperation? - Nicole Jenne Part 2: Northeast Asia 10. Subjective Conditional Control: Return of the Strongman in China’s Party–Army Relations - James Char 11. Military and Politics in Patrimonial North Korea - Jongseok Woo 12. Curing National Insecurity through Developmental Authoritarianism in South Korea’s Civil–Military Relations - Il Woo Lee and Alan Chong 13. Image Makeover: The Military Evolution of Japan’s Self-Defense Forces - Yee- Kuang Heng Part 3: South Asia 14. The Deficient Evolution of Civil–Military Relations in India - Harsh V. Pant and Tuneer Mukherjee 15. Defence Diplomacy and Civil–Military Relations: The Case of Bangladesh - Rashed Uz Zaman 16. Conclusion: Asian Military Evolutions as a Contribution to Civil–Military Relations Thought - Alan Chong and Nicole Jenne

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Book SynopsisThis book examines Japan’s relationship with Myanmar from the passage of its constitution in May 2008 to the February 2021 coup d’état that finished its transition to a ‘disciplined democracy.’ It explores the nexus between security and political economy in the context of changing regional dynamics characterized by ‘Great Power’ competition and cooperation. Focusing on the impact of Japan’s relations with Myanmar on people in Myanmar and beyond, the author argues that the Japanese government and businesses side lined ‘universal values’ for profit at the expense of human security. This text develops a unique Area Studies approach that critiques how Japan’s foreign policy elites perceive Japan’s role in the liberal international order.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Evolution of New Area Studies 2. ‘Asia’s Liberal Leader’ and Human Insecurity 3. Japan as a ‘Bridge’: Facilitating Myanmar’s Transition to a ‘Disciplined Democracy’ 4. Japan and Special Economic Zones in Myanmar 5. Meddling for Profit: Japan’s Peace-Building Role in Myanmar 6. Dereliction of Responsibility: Japan’s ‘Liberal Leadership’ in the 2016–20 Rakhine Crisis Conclusion: The Chimera of Progress

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Book SynopsisThe Moralist International analyzes the role of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian state in the global culture wars over gender and reproductive rights and religious freedom. It shows how the Russian Orthodox Church in the past thirty years first acquired knowledge about the dynamics, issues, and strategies of Right- Wing Christian groups; how the Moscow Patriarchate has shaped its traditionalist agenda accordingly; and how the close alliance between church and state has turned Russia into a norm entrepreneur for international moral conservativism. Including detailed case studies of the World Congress of Families, anti-abortion activism, and the global homeschooling movement, the book identifies the key factors, causes, and actors of this process. Kristina Stoeckl and Dmitry Uzlaner then develop the concept of conservative aggiornamento to describe Russian traditionalism as the result of conservative religious modernization and the globalization of Christian social conservatism. The Moralist International continues a line of research on the globalization of the culture wars that challenges the widespread perception that it is only progressive actors who use the international human rights regime to achieve their goals by demonstrating that conservative actors do the same. The book offers a new, original perspective that firmly embeds the conservative turn of post-Soviet Russia in the transnational dynamics of the global culture wars. The Moralist International is available from the publisher on an open-access basis.Table of ContentsPreface | vii Introduction | 1 PART I: LEARNING THE CULTURE WARS 1 Religion: Conservative Aggiornamento and the Globalization of the Culture Wars | 17 2 History: The Sources of Russia’s Traditional-Values Conservatism | 29 3 Intellectual Roots: The Shared Legacy of Pitirim Sorokin | 50 4 Context: The Rise of Traditional-Values Conservatism inside Russia | 66 PART II: DOING THE CULTURE WARS 5 Ambitions: The Russian Orthodox Church and Its Transnational Conservative Alliances | 87 6 Networks: Civil Society and the Rise of the Russian Christian Right | 103 7 Strategies: The Russian Orthodox Anti-Abortion Discourse in a Transnational Context | 126 8 Leadership: Russian Traditional-Values Conservatism and State Diplomacy | 136 Epilogue | 153 Acknowledgments | 157 Bibliography | 159 Index | 193

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Book SynopsisThis leading text provides a comprehensive and balanced introduction to Chinese foreign relations. Robert G. Sutter assesses China’s growing international political and economic assertiveness and considers the causes and grave consequences of tensions with the United States.

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Book SynopsisThe Battle for Pakistan showcases a marriage of convenience between unequal partners. The relationship between Pakistan and the United States since the early 1950s has been nothing less than a whiplash-inducing rollercoaster ride. Today, surrounded by hostile neighbors, with Afghanistan increasingly under Indian influence, Pakistan does not wish to break ties with the United States. Nor does it want to become a vassal of China and get caught in the vice of a US-China rivalry, or in the Arab-Iran conflict.Internally, massive economic and demographic challenges as well as the existential threat of armed militancy pose huge obstacles to Pakistan's development and growth. Could its short-run political miscalculations in the Obama years prove too costly? Can the erratic Trump administration help salvage this relationship?Based on detailed interviews with key US and South Asian leaders, access to secret documents and operations, and the author’s personal relationships and deep knowledge of the region, this book untangles the complex web of the US-Pakistani relationship and identifies a clear path forward, showing how the United States can build better partnerships in troubled corners of the world.Trade ReviewNawaz has produced a book essential to anyone’s South Asia library. . . . [In] writing with serious intent, Nawaz has created, perhaps, inadvertently, another dark, tragic comedy of duplicity, chaos, misunderstanding, miscommunication, backstabbing, and betrayal. . . . [As] his book illustrates, Pakistan has yet to make [the right] choices and is today as was once described of late 19th century Prussia—not a country with an army but an army with a country. * South Asia Journal *This book should stimulate a much-needed debate among policy circles in Washington and Islamabad. It is a must-read for policy makers, top military officers, diplomats, academics and scholars, not just in the two countries that are its focus, but throughout the globe. * Naya Daur *In this seminal work . . . Shuja Nawaz explores what Pakistan’s war against itself means for the new version of the Great Game now being played in Central Asia, for Pakistan, the US, and the alliance between them. . . . It is a remarkable work by an acclaimed writer on the Pakistani military. . . . It also sheds light on the deep involvement of the US and UK in Pakistan’s internal political battles. The horizontal and vertical fragmentation of the society along political, religious and ethnic lines, which has intensified since 9/11, poses the most serious problem for Pakistan. . . . What makes The Battle For Pakistan substantive and authoritative is that it is based on interviews with senior Pakistani and US military officials directly involved in policymaking during that period. The author has unique access to the centres of power in the US and Pakistan, both of which he considers home. That makes the book extremely objective, covering all sides and dimensions of a roller-coaster relationship. * Dawn *A must read for anyone who seeks to understand the complexities of forming and executing foreign policy any place, but especially in South Asia. Written with insight, detailed knowledge, keen analysis, and true conviction. -- Amitai Etztoni, The George Washington University, author of Reclaiming PatriotismShuja Nawaz's important book is as timely as tomorrow's headlines. He's delivering vital guidance to US policy makers―surprisingly misinformed about ties with Pakistan―while, for general readers, he's telling a suspenseful story of diplomacy and intrigue in the toughest of neighborhoods. No one is more authoritative than Mr. Nawaz on the US–Pakistani political-military relationship, and that makes the choices he lays out vital for all of us to understand. -- Derek Leebaert, author of Grand Improvisation: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945–1957Packed with inside information from the ruling circles in both Pakistan and the United States, this book is essential reading for everyone trying to understand the international community’s most tortuous bilateral relationship. -- Owen Bennett-Jones, journalist and author of The Bhutto Dynasty

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Book SynopsisThis deeply knowledgeable book provides a concise introduction to North Korea. Two leading experts, Kongdan Oh and Ralph Hassig, trace the country’s history from its founding in 1948 and describe the many facets of its political, economic, social, and cultural life.The authors illuminate a hidden nation dominated by three generations of the secretive Kim regime, a family dynasty more suited to the Middle Ages than the contemporary era. North Korea has a robust if outmoded military force, including a growing arsenal of weapons of mass destruction, to deter and defend against foreign attacks and to maintain independence and isolation from the rest of the world. The struggling economy, disconnected from the global marketplace, operates under harsh international sanctions. All North Koreans, from the highest party cadres to the youngest children living in prison camps, are essentially servants of the leader. Despite Kim Jong-un’s despotic control, the authors argue that North Korea cannot continue on its current path indefinitely. Kim treats even his closest associates harshly, and the gap is widening between his elite supporters, numbering a million or so, and the other twenty-four million North Koreans. The economic and technological gap between South Korea and North Korea is increasing as well, and younger people are becoming disenchanted as they gradually learn more about the outside world.

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Book SynopsisAmerican Foreign Policy since World War II has long set the standard in guiding students through the complexities of the field. This twenty-first edition features three new chapters that examine the aftershocks of the Arab Spring and the revival of power politics and discuss the implications of a changing American policy under the Trump presidency. Providing the historical context students need, this book helps them to grasp the functions and frequent dysfunctions of the nation’s foreign policy agenda with historical insight into modern policy context.Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1 The American Approach to Foreign Policy Learning from Experience The Roots of American Primacy Destiny and Moral Mission A Skeptical View of Power Politics U.S. Exceptionalism and Exceptions Part I: The Cold War Chapter 2 From World War to Cold War American Wartime Illusions The Russo-Soviet Approach to Foreign Policy Soviet Expansion after World War II The Strategy of Containment Declaring Cold War: The Truman Doctrine Chapter 3 Containment: From Theory to Practice New Economic and Military Structures Reviving the Western European Allies Confronting Revolution in East Asia Domestic Pressures for a Global Crusade Eisenhower’s “New Look” in Foreign Policy Chapter 4 North-South Tensions and the Vietnam War Developing Countries in the Crossfire Regional Conflicts in Latin America Vietnam: The Limits of Containment Chapter 5 Détente and World-Order Politics Managing the Superpower Rivalry Carter’s Quest for World Order War and Peace in the Middle East Blowback and the Soviet Power Play Chapter 6 Breakthroughs in the Superpower Struggle Reagan’s Rhetorical Offensive Expanding U.S. Military Forces “Rollback” in Developing Countries Alliance Politics in the Late Cold War From Confrontation to Conciliation Chapter 7 The End of the Cold War Bush’s Management of the Soviet Collapse Endgame: The Collapse of the Core Reasons for the Soviet Collapse A Final Appraisal Part II: The New World “Disorder” Chapter 8 Old Tensions in a New Order Great Expectations after the Cold War Clinton’s Embrace of “Geoeconomics” Sources of Global Fragmentation War and Peace in the Middle East The Plight of “Failed States” Lessons from the Regional Crises Chapter 9 The Shifting European Landscape Western Europe: From Community to Union Jump-Starting Democracy in Eastern Europe NATO’s Search for a New Mission “Ethnic Cleansing” in the Balkans U.S.-Russian Relations under Stress Chapter 10 America under Fire Strains in the Unipolar Order The Growing Threat of “Sacred Terror” Terror in the Morning Sky Elements of Counterterrorism A Grand Strategy of Primacy and Preemption Chapter 11 Hot Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq The Afghanistan Campaign Renewed Hostilities against Iraq Flashbacks to Vietnam Chapter 12 Aftershocks of the Arab Spring Obama’s Call for Renewal Mass Demands for Democracy Iraq’s Collapse and the ISIS Challenge The Afghan Muddle Chapter 13 The Revival of Power Politics Cold War II with Russia The Powers and their Calculations China’s Pacific Challenge Israel’s Shadow in the Middle East Ongoing Threats of Nuclear Proliferation Chapter 14 The End of the American Century? Internal Threats to Democracy Trump and Turmoil Rethinking American Power Appendixes

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Book SynopsisGreat Powers and World Order encourages critical thinking about the nature of world order by presenting the historical information and theoretical concepts needed to make projections about the global future. Charles W. Kegley and Gregory Raymond ask students to compare retrospective cases and formulate their own hypotheses about not only the causes of war, but also the consequences of peace settlements. Historical case studies open a window to see what strategies for constructing world order were tried before, why one course of action was chosen over another, and how things turned out. By moving back and forth in each case study between history and theory, rather than treating them as separate topics, the authors hope to situate the assumptions, causal claims, and policy prescriptions of different schools of thought within the temporal domains in which they took root, giving the reader a better sense of why policy makers embraced a particular view of world order instead of an alternative vision. Trade ReviewThis book highlights the complexities within the international arena, and forces students to critically think by putting them in the You Decide driver’s seat." -- Nicholas P. Giordano"Great Powers and World Order is a timely re-introduction to power politics in the international system. In an era when great power conflict of one type or another seems an ever-present threat, this text will help students to understand the origins and such conflicts, and ground their knowledge through thorough case-studies." "Consistent analytical approach. Easy for students to grasp." -- Geoff Allen"[The text’s] writing style makes it accessible to students, and that indicates a great potential for the book to engage students and encourage them to actually read it. The authors focus on the essential knowledge and there was no fluff material that can overwhelm students. I really like the section where it presents the notion that international relations really hinges on two things – maintaining international norms and preventing aggression. Such an important understanding and presented really clearly and succinctly." -- Kyeonghi Baek"This historically grounded textbook will introduce students to the difficulty of establishing a stable world order. [An] historical based book that presents how realism and liberalism inform how world orders are constructed." -- Charles J. Fagan"This new textbook by Charles W. Kegley, Jr. and Gregory Raymond brings an innovative approach to the teaching of International Relations, by interweaving historical facts with the theoretical concepts needed for their interpretations. This book can be an excellent supplemental book for undergraduate students, and a great introductory book for graduate students. As the authors stated, it can solve the problem of thinking critically and theoretically about the world order, by interweaving the presentation of ‘historical information and theoretical concepts needed to investigate its features.’" -- Adrien M. Ratsimbaharison"A reader for students so they have pertinent information at their fingertips regarding the conflicts that have forged our world." -- Richard Arnold"[Great Powers and World Order] provides a clear chronological history of the events that led to contemporary opportunities and challenges for the world. A comprehensive text that provides students conceptual tools to make sense of the genesis and the shaping of the current global order." -- Benn L. Bongang"It′s a good, solid introduction to the study of IR on the college level. It provides all the necessary basic information students need to begin their IR study, and to allow them to concentrate their future studies in areas of greatest interest to them. It is a good springboard into a lot of different directions." -- Charles M. Swinford"The fragile foundations of our liberal world order that is based on rules and institutions are being shaken by the great powers’ rivalries. This book is must reading for all serious students of contemporary world affairs." -- Olli Rehn "The Great Powers and World Order provides an authoritative account of the nor- mative underpinnings of international security. The rules of the road founded on the liberal world order are now under attack, and normative and institu- tional restraints are crumbling. This book presents a cogent and instructive interpretation of the prevailing problems darkening contemporary international realities." -- Joel Rosenthal "Combining history and theory, Kegley and Raymond have composed a clear and insightful primer for understanding great-power politics and interna- tional relations, past and present. Their lucid descriptions of the challenges faced by officials after World War I, World War II, and the Cold War are seamlessly linked to an illumination of the policy choices that lay ahead. This is a terrific text for beginning students studying international relations." -- Melvyn Leffler "Citizens, and particularly future military officers, cannot begin to think about and study big questions and strategic issues too early. The Great Powers and World Order is an excellent introduction to these questions and issues and should be required reading for both civilian students and military officers in training." -- Dan Caldwell"Informed and informative, The Great Powers and World Order provides an engaging introduction to international politics. This is the best available text addressing what is arguably the most important set of issues on the global agenda." -- M. Leann Brown"In this important book, Kegley and Raymond reexamine the pillars of world order at a turbulent time when global conditions are nearing a turn- ing point of potentially epic proportions. The Great Powers and World Order brings historical perspective and theoretical analysis to bear on the impact of momentous changes—for example, climate change, cyberwarfare, the weap- onization of outer space, and, critically, a global arena that is no longer dom- inated by Western liberal values." -- William Bain"A penetrating and timely analysis of the collision course on which the great powers are heading, which uncovers the basic tenets of international relations in the context of the eroding world order." -- Alpo Rusi"Prolific scholars and creative educators, Kegley and Raymond have published many innovative textbooks with original pedagogical features about American foreign policy and world affairs. The Great Powers and World Order goes beyond provoking students to think for themselves about the important questions regarding contemporary threats to sustainable international security. It also advances important concepts that reframe theories about great-power relations in particular, and international politics generally." -- Llewellyn D. Howell"For an insightful interpretation of the threats to world order fomented by the great powers’ return to cut-throat competition and rejection of multilateral cooperation, this evocative, compelling and accessible text provides pedagogical medicine. Highly recommended for all global citizens investigating inter- national politics." -- Roger A. Coate"This book illuminates the timeless obstacles to world order whenever the great powers ruthlessly compete for hegemony, as they presently are doing as they head into perilous confrontations. Highly recommended reading for all policymakers and students of world affairs." -- Pierre Gehlen"Case studies of great-power rivalries since the twentieth century are deployed to exceptional pedagogical advantage to instruct students about enduring questions in today’s turbulent times. The innovative format forces students to think for themselves. This textbook is highly recommended for university courses focusing on this troubling topic on the contemporary global agenda." -- Shannon Lindsey Blanton"This is an outstanding book, covering critically important global issues which makes a significant and original contribution to the storehouse of available textbooks dealing with contemporary world affairs." -- Ole R. Holsti"The global political transformation underway will impact everyone. Study this compelling text to understand the form and consequences of past power rivalries and the critical choices before us now." -- Charles F. HermannTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments About the Authors PART I: THE VIOLENT ORIGINS OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD ORDER Chapter 1 Great-Power Struggles for Primacy in the Modern Era The Westphalian Foundations of the Modern State System What Are Great Powers? Regularities in Great-Power Behavior Contending Approaches to World Order Building World Order in the Aftermath of Hegemonic War Key Terms Chapter 2 World War I and the Versailles Settlement The Origins of the First World War The Armistice and Arrangements for a Peace Conference Balance-of-Power Theory and World Order Woodrow Wilson and The Liberal Tradition in World Politics National Self-Interest Confronts Wilsonian Idealism The Versailles Settlement A World in Disarray Key Terms Chapter 3 World War II and the Birth of the Liberal Order The Origins of the Second World War Planning for a Postwar World Order Spheres-of-Influence versus Universalist Models of World Order The Political Economy of World Order A World Divided Key Terms PART II: THE FITFUL EVOLUTION OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD ORDER Chapter 4 The Cold War and Its Consequences The Origins of the Cold War The Course of the Cold War The Characteristics of the Cold War The Cold War World Order Beyond the Cold War Key Terms Chapter 5 America’s Unipolar Moment American Primacy Primacy and World Order Democratic Peace Theory and American Foreign Policy Rethinking State Sovereignty in an Era of Globalization Anticipatory Self Defense and Preventive War The Twilight of Unipolarity Key Terms Chapter 6 Unraveling the Liberal Order Donald Trump and Conservative Thought on Foreign Policy The Jacksonian Turn in American Foreign Policy Power Without Principle Key Terms PART III: FORGING A NEW WORLD ORDER Chapter 7 The Range of Great-Power Choice Viewing System Transformation in Historical Context Great-Power Options for Shaping World Order Coordinated Consultation and World Order Legitimacy and World Order Key Terms Chapter 8 Rethinking World Order Change and Continuity in Contemporary World Politics Critical Questions for World Order in the Twenty-First Century The Quest for World Order Key Terms Suggested Readings Glossary Notes Index

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Book SynopsisWritten by award-winning CQ Researcher journalists, this collection of non-partisan reports offers an in-depth examination of today’s most pressing global issues. With reports ranging from preparation for global pandemics, protest movements around the world, and environmental degradation, the 2021 Edition of Global Issues promotes in-depth discussion, facilitates further research, and helps readers formulate their own positions on crucial global issues. And because it’s CQ Researcher, the reports are expertly researched and written, presenting readers with all sides of an issue. Key Features Chapters follow a consistent organization, beginning with a summary of the issue, then exploring a number of key questions around the issue, next offering background to put the issue into current context, and concluding with a look ahead. A pro/con debate box in every chapter offers readers the opportunity to critically analyze and discuss the issues by exploring a debate between two experts in the field. All issues include a chronology, a bibliography, photos, charts, and figures to offer readers a more complete picture of the issue at hand. Table of ContentsAnnotated Contents Preface Contributors CONFLICT, SECURITY, AND TERRORISM 1. U.S.-Iran Relations 2. Measles Resurgence 3. The New Arms Race 4. Cyberwarfare 5. Zoonotic Diseases INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY 6. European Union at a Crossroads 7. U.S. Foreign Policy in Transition 8. China’s Belt and Road Initiative 9. Hidden Money 10. Supply Chains at Risk RELIGIOUS AND HUMAN RIGHTS 11. Global Migration 12. Global Protest Movements 13. Christians in the Mideast ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES 14. Extreme Weather 15. Climate Change and Health 16. Fuel Efficiency Standards

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Book SynopsisThis encyclopedia offers authoritative coverage of the concepts, traditions, events, and individuals that shaped United States' foreign relations from the American Revolution to the present. Belligerents, Brinkmanship, and the Big Stick: A Historical Encyclopedia of American Diplomatic Concepts is the first comprehensive encyclopedic work to focus specifically on America's extraordinary history of political engagement with the world. With hundreds of alphabetically organized entries and a rich collection of primary sources, it offers a unique way of understanding the centrality of diplomacy and the role of foreign relations throughout U.S. history. The encyclopedia is divided into five chronological sections, each containing a brief introduction, topical entries, biographical portraits, and representative documents. It is designed to help readers gain a deeper understanding of both general ideas as well as specific policies like the Monroe Doctrine, the Open Door Policy, and Shuttle Diplomacy. By examining seminal events, important ideas, and individual contributions in the context of U.S. history, the encyclopedia reveals the underlying traditions and motivations of American foreign policy as it has evolved over time.Trade ReviewThis book should be in all libraries that have a historical focus and particularly those that focus on governments and foreign policy. * ARBAonline *This dictionary is suitable for all levels and libraries… * Library Journal *College-level libraries strong in political science history will find this a key acquisition, packing in excerpts from key foreign policy documents, treaties, statements and more. * Midwest Book Review *The volume will interest a variety of readers: from students and educators to politics and history enthusiasts. * Reference & Research Book News *Dobson's comprehensive work uses a chronological structure, covering the years since 1776 in five parts. Each of these sections begins with an overview of American diplomacy during that era. Bolded key concepts refer readers to the more in-depth alphabetically arranged entries that follow, each of which includes meticulous citing of footnotes and sources. Biographies of important period diplomats conclude each section. Primary sources are emphasized throughout, with excerpts from, or the full text of, speeches and important documents, such as a letter from William Seward to Abraham Lincoln on the eve of the Civil War, Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points, and the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, appearing in text boxes. Back matter includes a detailed chronology with entry titles bolded for easy access. Black-and-white photos and illustrations offer additional material. Elegant organization makes Belligerents an ideal reference work; Dobson's clear explanations of big-picture concepts and how they relate to specific situations in American history make this a readable and useful resource. * School Library Journal *Using a chronological framework, the author has produced a reference source that enables a user to comprehend how U.S. foreign policy changed over time. . . . The author's experiences at home and abroad have given him a broader perspective than many, and his teaching skills enable him to write for an audience that knows some things but would like to learn more about why Americans think and behave as they do regarding other cultures. Some aspects of U.S. foreign policy are rooted in values; others are based on pragmatism. This book helps serious readers sort that out and is recommended for academic libraries and large public library collections. Also available as an e-book. * Booklist *This reference book also could serve as a handy supplemental text for political science classes covering American foreign relations. . . . Recommended. Lower- and upper-level undergraduates; general readers. * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface, Acknowledgments, Section 1: Inventing a Foreign Policy, 1776–1830, Key Concepts, Alliance, Diplomats, Embargo, Impressment, Jay's Treaty, Legitimacy, Louisiana, Mercantilism, Monroe Doctrine, Most Favored Nation, Neutrality, Nonimportation, No-Transfer Principle, Paper Blockade, Pinckney's Treaty, Plan of 1776, Plenipotentiary, Quasi-War with France, Ratification, Recognition, Rule of 1756, Transcontinental Treaty (Florida), Treaty (Treaty of Paris, 1783), Uti Possedetus (Treaty of Ghent, 1814), War Hawks, XYZ Affair, Biographies, Deane, Silas, Franklin, Benjamin, Gallatin, Albert, Genêt, Edmond, Jay, John, Livingston, Robert, Logan, George, Rush, Richard, Symmes, John Cleve, Wilkinson, James, Section 2: Expansion and Civil War, 1830–1880, Key Concepts, Alaska, Arbitration (Alabama Claims), China Market, Filibustering, First Shot Tradition, Japan, Opening of, Joint Resolution (Texas), King Cotton Diplomacy, Manifest Destiny, Mexican War, Natural Boundaries, Oregon Claims, Oregon Fever, Ostend Manifesto (Cuba), Recognition as a Belligerent, Santo Domingo, Texas Revolution, Webster-Ashburton Treaty, Biographies, Adams, Charles Francis, Astor, John Jacob, Bidlack, Benjamin A., Burlingame, Anson, Calhoun, John Caldwell, Clayton, John Middleton, Cushing, Caleb, Gadsden, James, Harris, Townsend, Kearny, Stephen Watts, Perry, Matthew Calbraith, Scott, Winfield, Seward, William H., Slidell, John Stockton, Robert Field Trist, Nicholas Upshur,Abel, Van Buren, Martin, Walker, William, Webster, Daniel, Wilkes, Charle, Section 3: Rise of a Great Power, 1880–1914, Key Concepts, Algeciras, Anti-Imperialism, Big Stick, Boxer Rebellion, Cuban Rebellion, Dollar Diplomacy, Gunboat Diplomacy, Hawaii, Jingoism, Mediation (Russo-Japanese War), Mission, Neutralization, New Manifest Destiny, Olney Corollary, Open Door Policy, Panama, Pan-Americanism, Platt Amendment, Protectionism, Punitive Expedition, Rapprochement, Spanish-American-Cuban War, Sugar, Biographies, Adee, Alvey, Blaine, James Gillespie, Bryan, William Jennings, Dewey, George, Hay, John Milton, Olney, Richard, Root, Elihu, Shufeldt, Robert Wilson, Stevens, John Leavitt, Teller, Henry Moore, Wood, Leonard, Section 4: The World Wars, 1914–1945, Key Concepts, American Expeditionary Force, Atlantic Charter, Atomic Diplomacy, Disarmament, Four Policemen, Fourteen Points, Good Neighbor Policy, Grand Alliance, Great War, Island Hopping, Isolationism, Kellogg-Briand Pact, League of Nations, Lend-Lease, Neutrality (1914–1917), Neutrality Acts, Non-recognition, Pearl Harbor, Quarantine, Red Scare, Second Front, Siberian Expedition, Stimson Doctrine, United Nations, Unrestricted Submarine Warfare, Yalta, Biographies, Hopkins, Harry, Hughes, Charles Evans, Hull, Cordell, Kellogg, Frank B., Lodge, Henry Cabot, Nye, Gerald P., Pershing, John J., Stimson, Henry L., Section 5: The Cold War and After, 1945-, Key Concepts, Bay of Pigs, Berlin, Brinkmanship, Bush Doctrine, Cambodia, Containment, Détente, Free Trade GATT, Gulf War, Hostage Crisis Iran-Contra, Israel Land for Peace, Liberation of Eastern Europe, Limited War (Korea), Marshall Plan, Massive Retaliation, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), NSC-68, Red Scare Again, Shuttle Diplomacy, Sputnik, Tet, Tonkin Gulf Incident, Truman Doctrine, U-2, War on Terror, Biographies, Acheson, Dean, Dulles, John Foster, Kissinger, Henry, Marshall, George C., McNamara, Robert Strange, Rumsfeld, Donald, Chronology, Index, About the Author,

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Book SynopsisIn recent decades, Kenya has witnessed profound changes in its economic, cultural, and environmental landscapes resulting from its interactions with China. University students are competing for scholarships to study in China, coastal artisanal fishers are increasingly worried about Chinese-owned trawlers depleting fish stocks, fishers on Lake Victoria are grappling with the impact of frozen tilapia from China, and unemployed youth are seeking a fair shot at working on one of Kenya’s multimillion-dollar Chinese-funded infrastructure projects. Anita Plummer’s Kenya’s Engagement with China investigates the tension between official Kenyan and Chinese state narratives and individual Kenyans’ reactions to China’s presence to provide insight into how everyday Kenyans exercise their political agency. The competing discourses Plummer uncovers in person, in the news, and online reveal how Kenyans use China to question local power structures, demand policy change, and articulate different visions for their country’s future. This critical text represents the next step in research on Sino-African relations.

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Book SynopsisCan the European Union survive repeated economic crises? If it survives, will it stay as it is or take on a new form? This new edition of The European Union and the Member States, fully revised and updated, addresses these questions as it explores the complex relationship between the EU and each of its now 28 members.The country chapters follow a common format, considering: How and in what areas does EU policy affect, and how is it affected by, the member states? What mechanisms do the member states use to implement EU policy? What is each state’s compliance record? Covering the full range of political, economic, and social issues, the authors offer an insightful discussion of the interplay of EU initiatives with strong, existing national policies and traditions.Trade Review“Invaluable to all specialists, students, and academics working in the field of European studies and international relations." — Wojciech Woźniak, Journal of Contemporary European Studies"This valuable book offers an impressive 'bottom up' view of the new Europe...[It] is a coherent and accessible overview of the striking diversity of the European dimension of political life across the member states." — Munroe Eagles, IEUSS Book Reviews"A rich and timely volume...The extremely readable efforts to make sense of policy conundrums means the book may be used quite profitably in the classroom, and the very fact that all member states are covered testifies to the project’s considerable comparative breadth." — William M. Downs, The Journal of PoliticsTable of Contents Introduction - the Editors. What Is the European Union? - J. McCormick. THE ORIGINAL MEMBER STATES. Germany: Architect of Europe - C. Lankowski. France: Adjustment to the Euro System - C. Deubner. Italy: The Maze of Domestic Concerns - F. Bindi. Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg: Challenging European Integration - K.M. Anderson. THE SECOND WAVE. The United Kingdom: Reacting to Crises - J. Mather. Ireland: Cranky Rebel or Good Soldier? - R.B. Finnegan. Denmark: Its European Dilemma - M. Wind. THE 1980S. Greece: Austerity and EU Influence - N. Zahariadis. Portugal and Spain: The Limits of Convergence - S. Royo. THE 1990S. Austria: Broadly Pro-European - Z. Kudrna. Sweden: A Non-Euro Member Losing Influence - L.J. Eliasson. Finland: An End to Domestic Consensus? - T. Raunio. THE 2004 ROUND. Poland: A Skillful Player - A. Gruszczak. Hungary: Embracing Euro-Skepticism - T. Novak. The Czech Republic: Finding Its Way - E.E. Zeff, E.B. Pirro, and K. Williams. Slovenia and Slovakia: A Tale of Two States - P. Loedel. Cyprus and Malta: The Impact of Europeanization - R. Pace. Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia: Successful Adaptation - R. Buhr. THE NEWEST MEMBER STATES. Romania and Bulgaria: From Laggards to Exceptional Cases - N. Cugleşan and M. Herbel. Croatia: Challenges After EU Accession - V. Vukovic and L. Orešković. CONCLUSION. The European Union and the Member States: Concluding Thoughts - the Editors.

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Book Synopsis'What Sahel Am I Doin' Here?' is a collection of light-hearted tales that captures the exotic, bizarre, comic and even magical nature of daily life on the African continent. It is the author's tribute to the resilience, joy and adventurous spirit of the African peoples.These unusual and sometimes harrowing stories are described in rich and colorful detail, reflecting the author's experiences in Africa over three decades. In these pages the reader will encounter villagers transforming themselves into hyenas, a remote tribe in Mali whose knowledge of the universe was given to them by ancient space travelers, a horrific Al Qaeda terrorist attack, a close call with killer African bees, pygmies who communicate with the trees, a nefarious arms dealer's private retreat and a host of scoundrels and rogues, as well as numerous misadventures. The book also gives a behind-the-scenes look at two vice-presidential visits (one with disastrous consequences) and chronicles the pitfalls of hosting a congressional delegation (CODEL).Many of the earlier vignettes chronicle an Africa very different from that of life on the continent today; one largely disconnected from the outside world and heavily influenced by oral histories and story-tellers, superstitions, ancestor worship, the after-effects of colonial rule and the politics of the Cold War. The accounts in this book capture the flavor of those bygone times: laughs, tears, warts and all.

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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays comprises a series of think-pieces about the security challenges of the present, both in the realm of cyberspace and otherwise, with a particular consideration of the promise and possible negative effects of new digital technologies. French military academy instructor Gérard de Boisboissel considers the contemporary digital transformation of his country’s military and proposes ways to ensure its maximum effectiveness. Retired American senior intelligence officer Leslie Gruis takes the long historical view, examining parallels between the effects of the current technological revolution and the transformation wrought by the invention of the printing press. Columbia University research scholar Michael Klipstein and coauthor Peter Chuzie analyze the potential offered for intelligence collection by the Internet of Things. And British academic Craig Stanley-Adamson explores the lessons that may be drawn from the relationship between Israel and its neighbors in the first decade post 9/11, arguing that it was characterized by a surprising degree of cooperation in the security realm that may, given auspicious circumstances, be repeated in the future.Table of ContentsNeil Kent, University of CambridgeIrina du Quenoy, Georgetown University

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Book SynopsisIn this exciting new book, Taiwanese scholar Catherine Kai-Ping Lin examines Taiwan’s diplomatic history since the 1970s through the lens of sports in the development of nationalism in foreign relations. Since 1971, when Taiwan lost its United Nations seat to the communist People’s Republic of China, the country has gradually shifted its foreign policy. Originally following its “One-China Policy” -- conquering the mainland and reunifying China, -- Taiwan has more recently promoted its status as an independent country amid an international atmosphere in which it does not enjoy diplomatic recognition.Presenting a highly original chronological case study of the role of sports in the making of Taiwan’s foreign policy, Lin aims to enrich our understanding of Taiwan’s unique position in the world by arguing that nationalist forces within the Taiwanese government – all the way up to its top leadership — used athletic competition to promote Taiwanese nationalism and nationhood.

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Book SynopsisInternational History: A Cultural Approach offers an innovative history of modern international relations that stresses cultural themes. In place of the usual focus on great-power rivalries, diplomatic negotiations, military conflict, and other phenomena in which sovereign nations are the key players, this book focuses on intercultural relations as individuals, races, religions, and non-state actors interact across national boundaries, to provide a fresh perspective on modern international history. Among the themes covered are: - Nationalism and cosmopolitanism - Migration - Cross-cultural encounters - Consumerism and youth cultures - Environmental transformations - Economic and technological globalization Akira Iriye and Petra Goedde's approach offers a deeper understanding of international history, focusing on people and their cultures rather than just state level interactions.Trade ReviewA brilliantly conceived book that reshapes the field of international history. Incisively illuminating a breathtaking array of international developments across the world over two centuries, this tour-de-force decisively demonstrates that culture is not an adjunct to international relations but is always constituent of it. * Barbara Keys, Author of Reclaiming American Virtue: The Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s *This is an excellent overview of the cultural dimensions of international history. Exploring the emergence of transnationalism as a key feature of the modern world, Goedde and Iriye demonstrate that understanding culture is vital if we are to explain how that world came to be. * Andrew Priest, Senior Lecturer, University of Essex, UK *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Acronyms List of Illustrations Introduction Part I The Rise of the Modern 1. Dialectics of Nationalism and Internationalism 2. Cross-Cultural Encounter 3. Imagined Communities 4. Modern Consciousness Part II Movement and Empire 5. Movements 6. Imperial cultures 7. Racial Formations 8. Cultural Internationalism Part III Global Cultures 9. Visions of Modernity 10. Modernity in Crisis 11. Cold War Cultures 12. Challenging the Cold War Consensus Part IV Transnational Connections 13. Cultural Globalization, 1970-1990 14. The Growth of Non-State Actors 15. The Post-Cold War World 16. The World Today Conclusion Further Readings Notes Index

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Book SynopsisOver the last three decades, a considerable amount of work has been conducted in the field of peace studies, conflict management, peace science in economics, sociology, anthropology and management. This volume presents up-to-date, cutting-edge research by respected scholars with an emphasis on theoretical and mathematical constructs in the area of peace economics and peace science.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. Foreword. The Global Peace Index and the Structure of Peace. The European Expansion Toward Middle East Conflicts and Economic Convergence (2000–2010). A Foundational Mathematical Account of a Specific Complex Social Reality: Conflict in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Language as a Tool of Reconciliation and Ethnic Harmony: A Case Study of Sri Lanka. The Alchemy of Global Emissions Trading Scheme (GETS): Speculation and Regulation. Decentralization and Military Coups. Conflict of Civil-Military Approach in Pakistan: Its Regional Implications. Knowledge Creation and Innovation in Medium Technology Clusters. The Terrain of War: How Using the Word “Mountain” Biases Conflict Research. Peace-Building and Geopolitical Fantasies. Satyagraha: Gandhi's Approach to Conflict Resolution. International Economic and Financial Crisis: Relevance of a Gandhian Approach. Perspectives on Democracy and Civil Society in India. Cooperation for a Peaceful and Sustainable World Part 1. Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development. Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development. Copyright page. List of Contributors.

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Book SynopsisThe international intervention after the 2011 Libyan uprising against Muammar Gaddafi was initially considered a remarkable success: the UN Security Council's first application of the 'responsibility to protect' doctrine; an impending civilian massacre prevented; and an opportunity for democratic forces to lead Libya out of a forty-year dictatorship. But such optimism was soon dashed. Successive governments failed to establish authority over the ever-proliferating armed groups; divisions among regions and cities, Islamists and others, split the country into rival administrations and exploded into civil war; external intervention escalated. Ian Martin gives his first-hand view of the questions raised by the international engagement. Was it a justified response to the threat against civilians? What brought about the Security Council resolutions, including authorising military action? How did NATO act upon that authorisation? What role did Special Forces operations play in the rebels' victory? Was a peaceful political settlement ever possible? What post-conflict planning was undertaken, and should or could there have been a major peacekeeping or stabilisation mission during the transition? Was the first election held too soon? As Western interventions are reassessed and Libya continues to struggle for stability, this is a unique account of a critical period, by a senior international official who was close to the events.Trade Review‘A judicious, thoughtful analysis.’ -- Foreign Affairs'Martin's book sheds light on the thinking of key international players in the 2011-2 intervention in Libya and holds important lessons for similar situations in the future.' -- International Affairs'The value of this work is that it explains all the intricate challenges of working in a post-dictatorial conflict zone. It shows contrary to tabloid-style journalism that few decisions were easy or obvious, a warning to sofa critics who have never had to face such tasks.' -- The New Arab'[A]n excellent analysis of the key issues during the war and in the post-Gaddafi period, when the main proponents of military intervention, Britain and France, were accused of abandoning Libya and allowing militias to subvert the process of trying to unify the country under democratic rule.' -- Middle East Eye'Although Martin focuses on an intervention that took place over a decade ago, his masterful explanation of what the international community got right and especially what it got wrong transcends Libya and will remain relevant for years to come. 'All Necessary Measures?' should be required reading at war colleges, diplomatic academies, humanitarian NGOs, and the U.N.' -- Just Security'[A] sober judge of events in Libya... [Martin] provides timely and carefully considered context for understanding what happened in 2011 and beyond.' -- Declassified UK'Ian Martin's book is aimed at academics and policy makers. It will be invaluable to the former, and it contains valuable lessons for the latter.' -- British Association of Former United Nations Civil Servants'Ushering the reader to a front-row seat in closed-door decision-making, Martin punches through myths and politicization obscuring the realities of Libya's 2011 uprising. His exciting but cautionary account provides essential lessons that transcend the international role in Libya.' -- Jeffrey Feltman, former US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, and former UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs'Martin was "in the room where it happened." He makes an important addition to the literature on Libya not only because of his acute analysis of the international response to the 2011 revolution, but also because he was a key player in the months that followed.' -- Lindsey Hilsum, International Editor, Channel 4 News, and author of Sandstorm: Libya from Gaddafi to Revolution'In this lucid overview of the crucial first year of post-Gaddafi Libya, Martin reflects on the legacy of the international intervention that facilitated it. An honest and urgent read for all those still working on the "day after" in Libya.' -- Elham Saudi, co-founder and Director of Lawyers for Justice in Libya'Judicious, tempered and with the sophistication that only a seasoned international practitioner can bring, this far surpasses any previous evaluation of events in Libya. Drawing valuable lessons from the Libyan intervention for the international community and the UN, this is a must-read for anyone trying to gauge the possibilities and limits of similar future ventures.' -- Dirk J. Vandewalle, Associate Professor of Government, Dartmouth College, and author of A History of Modern Libya'The book we have been waiting for: a balanced, fair and critical assessment of the origins and early trajectory of the international intervention and engagement in Libya in 2011–12. Essential reading for anyone interested in the challenges and dilemmas of military intervention in response to humanitarian emergencies and the defence of human rights.' -- Mats Berdal, Professor of Security and Development, King's College London

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Book SynopsisWhy Europe Intervenes in Africa analyses the underlying causes of all European decisions for and against military interventions in conflicts in African states since the late 1980s. It focuses on the main European actors who have deployed troops in Africa: France, the United Kingdom and the European Union. When conflict occurs in Africa, the response of European actors is generally inaction. This can be explained in several ways: the absence of strategic and economic interests, the unwillingness of European leaders to become involved in conflicts in former colonies of other European states, and sometimes the Eurocentric assumption that conflict in Africa is a normal event which does not require intervention. When European actors do decide to intervene, it is primarily for motives of security and prestige, and not primarily for economic or humanitarian reasons. The weight of past relations with Africa can also be a driver for European military intervention, but the impact of that past is changing. This book offers a theory of European intervention based mainly on realist and post-colonial approaches. It refutes the assumptions of liberals and constructivists who posit that states and organisations intervene primarily in order to respect the principle of the 'responsibility to protect'.Trade Review'An amazingly comprehensive study . . . fascinating.’‘Gegout’s book constitutes a solid and extremely comprehensive overview of interventionism in Africa . . . a welcome contribution.’ '[An] ambitious and prodigiously researched book . . . Gegout's work is compelling and should be of significant interest to scholars and practitioners.'‘A great contribution to the conceptualization of security, prestige, intervention, humanitarianism, conflict, and economic motivation . . . a provocative, critical and insightful reading about the real motives of interventions and their long-lasting impacts.' 'This volume fills a significant gap in the literature on the foreign and security policies of the EU and its member states by providing an understanding of military interventions in Africa. In its combination of new conceptualisation and extended empirical work Why Europe Intervenes in Africa provides stimulating analysis alongside food for thought on the future basis for interventions.' -- Richard G. Whitman, Professor of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent'Anyone who wishes to know more about why European states and the European Union intervene in Africa should start with this book. Gegout provides a masterfully comprehensive account of European interventions in Africa in the post-Cold War era, and constructs an innovative theoretical framework to explain both interventions and non-interventions. Economic and security interests predominate but humanitarianism does not, while concerns about prestige are perhaps surprisingly relevant in numerous cases. Highly recommended reading.' -- Karen E. Smith, Professor International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science'Catherine Gegout has provided us with a deeply researched and incisive treatment of Europe’s post-colonial military interventions in Africa -- a subject which too often flies beneath the radar. In so doing she establishes herself as the most authoritative voice in the field. Her book is essential reading for Africanists and Europeanists alike.' -- Christopher Hill, Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor of International Relations, SAIS Europe, Johns Hopkins University

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Book SynopsisA compelling story of how ordinary Ukrainians saved their nation. With Russian shells raining on Kyiv and tanks closing in, American forces prepared to evacuate Ukraine’s leader. Just three years earlier, his apparent main qualification had been playing a president on TV. But Volodymyr Zelensky reportedly retorted, ‘I need ammunition, not a ride.’ Ukrainian forces won the battle for Kyiv, ensuring their country’s independence even as a longer war began for the southeast. You cannot understand the historic events of 2022 without understanding Zelensky. But the Zelensky effect is less about the man himself than about the civic nation he embodies: what makes Zelensky most extraordinary in war is his very ordinariness as a Ukrainian. The Zelensky Effect explains this paradox, exploring Ukraine’s national history to show how its now-iconic president reflects the hopes and frustrations of the country’s first ‘independence generation’. Interweaving social and political background with compelling episodes from Zelensky’s life and career, this is the story of Ukraine told through the journey of one man who has come to symbolise his country.Trade Review'[Ukraine] is now led by men and women like Zelensky in their thirties and forties, whom Olga Onuch and Henry E. Hale describe in The Zelensky Effect as the Independence Generation—those for whom the achievement of Ukrainian independence was a formative political experience.' * Timothy Garton Ash, New York Review of Books *'[A] deeply researched and well-argued book [that] locate[s] the roots of Zelensky's ability to captivate and mobilize the imagination of his fellow citizens in the rise of Ukrainian civic identity.' -- Serhii Plokhy, The Washington Post‘Refreshingly data-driven and convincing on why [Zelensky's] brand of Ukrainian-ness – emphasising “civic duty, the importance of Ukraine’s diversity, and the common quotidian experiences that bound Ukrainians together” – has such appeal.’ -- Times Literary Supplement‘A definitive portrait not of a man but of a nation.’ -- The Moscow Times'Onuch and Hale artfully combine Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's biography and a chronicle of Ukraine's post communist development, rich with empirical data and rigorous research.' -- Foreign Affairs‘Enlightening.’ -- Survival''The Zelensky Effect' is a truly enlightening book about Ukrainian national identity and resilience. The West is rightly in awe of the country's ability to stand-up to naked aggression and unrestrained violence, but reading Onuch and Hale's book provides a deeper understanding of from where that reserve of strength originates, and the man that has come to embody Ukraine.' -- Diplomatic Courier'Packed with statistical analysis of polling data, social media posts, articles, and speeches, this book answers many questions about how unified resistance on the ground has repelled the mightier Russian military.' -- Foreword Reviews‘Smoothly written and engaging enough for anyone who wants to better understand the past year in Ukraine.’ -- The Russian Review‘Written with… flair and personality.’ -- New Eastern Europe‘Thought-provoking … Offers a superb blueprint of the foundational processes that, along with the actions of individuals like Zelensky, will continue to shape Ukraine in the years ahead.’ -- Nationalities Papers'The go-to book for grasping Ukrainians' morale in the face of Russian aggression, and the determination of their president, who has demonstrated atmospheric levels of heroism and leadership--perhaps unlike any other in the world in recent decades.' -- Marc Berenson, Senior Lecturer at King's Russia Institute, King's College London'This wonderfully written and engaging book documents the emergence of Ukrainian civic national identity, best exemplified by Zelensky. A must-read for anyone wishing to understand contemporary Ukraine and what Ukrainians believe, value and fight for.' -- Eugene Finkel, Kenneth H. Keller Associate Professor of International Affairs, Johns Hopkins University -- Eugene Finkel, Kenneth H. Keller Associate Professor of International Affairs, Johns Hopkins University'Drawing on years of research on Ukrainian politics and society, this timely study paints a fuller picture of Zelensky and the conditions that made him who he is today, and deserves a wide readership at this critical moment in European history.' -- Gwendolyn Sasse, Director of the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS)'An essential book for understanding how a critical mass of Ukrainians converged around a vision of Ukraine grounded in democratic ideals, a European future and sovereign statehood.' -- Oxana Shevel, Associate Professor of Political Science, Tufts University, and an associate of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University'Furnishing significant insight into Russia's invasion of Ukraine, this sheds light as well on one of the most important (and improbable) leaders of the twenty-first century.' -- Michael Kimmage, Professor of History, Catholic University of America, and Visiting Fellow, German Marshall Fund

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Armen Sarkissian, former president of Armenia, argues that small states can navigate the complex challenges of the twenty-first century in smarter ways than 'greater' powers. For smallness — often regarded as a weakness — can be a strength. It may induce insecurity in states, but also endows them with an instinct for survival. Large states are ponderous; small states can be agile and adaptive. Drawing on his deep experience as a scientist, businessman, diplomat and head of state, Sarkissian offers captivating portraits of small states, from Africa to Europe to Asia, that have overcome seemingly insuperable odds to establish themselves as oases of political stability, cultural tolerance, technological innovation, financial prudence and scientific research. Sarkissian returns to the uncertain beginnings of these small states to demystify their improbable rise. Along the way, he introduces us to a cast of tenacious leaders with a knack for converting crisis into opportunity. Widely regarded as the most respected Armenian leader on the world stage, Sarkissian ends with a poignant homage to his motherland. Part memoir, part manifesto, it is a stirring insight into the world's oldest Christian country, which is at once an ancient civilisation, a small state and a global nation.Trade ReviewSelected as the Independent’s Book of the Month (December)Selected as one of the Diplomatic Courier’s '15 Books to Look Forward to in 2023''A fascinating and timely analysis of the agility and adaptability of small states.' -- Financial Times, ‘The Best New Books on Economics’'Armen Sarkissian is intrigued by small states … and the lessons they may hold for the rest of the world. His portraits of several of these countries, peppered with personal anecdotes, are compelling case studies.' -- The Economist‘In a world drowning in doom and gloom, Armen Sarkissian has lit ten candles, profiling ten small and smart states which have succeeded ingeniously. They can guide us out of our current darkness. A timely and much needed book.’ -- Kishore Mahbubani, Founding Dean, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore, and author of The Asian 21st Century.‘What President Sarkissian presents — using extraordinary storytelling and personal insights — is a book about hope. This is a great manifesto to learn what mistakes to avoid and what steps to take to become a small, successful state.’ -- Faisal J. Abbas, Editor-in-Chief of Arab News'[The book] clarifies the important role small states play in upholding world order.' -- Dr Henry Kissinger‘Drawing from the annals of history and his own leadership experience, Sarkissian elucidates how certain small states have not only survived but thrived on the global stage despite their diminutive size.’ -- BNN Breaking'A fascinating contribution to the current discourse on strategic partnerships. Brimming with insight gathered over years of statesmanship, Sarkissian makes a convincing case for an alliance of small states to propel stronger multilateral cooperation in an evolving global order — a thought-provoking read.' -- Dr Shashi Tharoor

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Book SynopsisMatters of ideology and security have become deeply entwined in China’s economic and business environment. The context is more politicized, more uncertain. At the heart of Xiconomics is the Dual Circulation Strategy, which marks out clear dividing lines between China’s domestic economy and the rest of the world. It sets out how China seeks to manage the links between the two just when western countries are also focusing on decoupling and "friendshoring". In order to prosper, business leaders and policy-makers need to understand these new international dynamics. In this concise and incisive analysis, Andrew Cainey and Christiane Prange explain what is happening in China and how this affects its relations with other countries. They identify what foreign companies need to do, how strategies need to change, and what this all means for managing the China business as part of a global portfolio, under a range of geopolitical scenarios.Trade ReviewThe authors provide a succinct picture of what it means to do business in China today. They provide an in-depth analysis of the intertwined historical, political and economic environment that managers must face up to and highlight the strategy options open to multinational companies. A must-read for everyone who seeks a nuanced understanding of China’s multifaceted business landscape beyond simplistic business headlines. -- Joerg Storm, Global Head IT Infrastructure, Mercedes Benz Mobility, StuttgartThis book is an essential immediate read for all senior business leaders with a responsibility for doing business inside China, or with the potential to encounter Chinese influenced businesses elsewhere. The authors deconstruct Xiconomics and their inside track enables them to decode and make Xiconomics accessible to those with a business interest in the potentially enormous benefits and significant risks associated with engaging with China. -- Wilf Blackburn, former CEO, Allianz China LifeAn invaluable guide for business people and policy makers facing the challenge of mapping out strategies for productive engagement with China going forward. -- Peter Williamson, Judge Business School, University of CambridgeXiconomics should be essential reading for anyone grappling with understanding, and adjusting to, the profound changes that have occurred to China’s business environment in Xi’s era. -- Xin Sun, King’s College LondonNow more than ever, business success in China means both understanding the broader social, political and historical context, and dealing with uncertainty. Drawing on their extensive experience, the authors describe how China is evolving and then lay out the strategic options and capabilities that companies need to succeed. This book is a must. -- Catherine Bradley CBE, non-executive director, Kingfisher plcCainey and Prange have pulled off a rare feat with this book: being incisive and detailed while remaining accessible and succinct. Anyone interested in the wider politics of international business in China will gain much from reading Xiconomics. -- William Hurst, Chong Hua Professor of Chinese Development, University of CambridgeTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I Dual circulation strategy and Xiconomics 1. What is dual circulation strategy? 2. Dual circulation: more continuity than change 3. Xiconomics and the China Policy puzzle 4. Putting the Xi into Xiconomics Part II Three questions for global business 5. How will China’s internal business environment develop? 6. What role will China play in the world of external circulation? 7. Internal and external: separate or connected? Part III Implications for global business 8. Multinationals and China 9. How dual circulation changes the game 10. Ambidexterity and connectivity 11 Resilience and agility in the face of uncertainty 12. Conclusion: navigating the contradictions in China’s ambitions

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Book Synopsis As US imperialism continues to dictate foreign policy, Deadly Contradictions is a compelling account of the American empire. Stephen P. Reyna argues that contemporary forms of violence exercised by American elites in the colonies, client state, and regions of interest have deferred imperial problems, but not without raising their own set of deadly contradictions. This book can be read many ways: as a polemic against geopolitics, as a classic social anthropological text, or as a seminal analysis of twenty-four US global wars during the Cold War and post-Cold War eras. Trade Review “This is an amazing book, a page-turner, a true game-changer, one of those grand oeuvres that an academic discipline produces once a decade at best.” • Patrick Neveling, Cultural Anthropology, Utrecht University “This book is certainly a tour de force … it [offers] a fresh theoretical approach that is rigorously tested in terms of evidence and against alternative interpretations … a profoundly critical work.” • John Gledhill, Social Anthropology, University of ManchesterTable of Contents Preface Acknowledgements Glossary Introduction PART I: THEORY Chapter 1. Global Warring Theory: A Critical Structural Realist Approach Chapter 2. Imperialism: ‘A Monster of Energy’ PART II: PLAUSIBILITY 1: NEW AMERICAN EMPIRE Chapter 3. A Real Shape Shifter: American Empire 1783-1944 Chapter 4. ‘Present at the Creation’: Constituting the New American Empire 1945-1950 PART III: PLAUSIBILITY 2: CONTRADICTION AND REPRODUCTION Chapter 5. Burdens of Empire: Contradictions and Reproductive Vulnerabilities PART IV: PLAUSIBILITY 3: GLOBAL WARRING Chapter 6. After the Sunset Came the Night: Global Warring, 1950-1974 Chapter 7. ‘The Times They Are A-Changin’: Global Warring, 1975-1989 Chapter 8. The Perfect Storm: A Tale of Two Elites Chapter 9. World Warring 1990-2014: The Middle Eastern Theater Chapter 10. World Warring 1990-2014: The Other Theaters Chapter 11. Journey’s End References Index

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Book SynopsisJohn F. Kennedy carried on a lifelong love affair with England and the English. From his speaking style to his tastes in art, architecture, theatre, music and clothes, his personality reflected his deep affinity for a certain kind of idealised Englishness.Setting his work against a backdrop of some of the twentieth century’s most profound events – the Great Depression, the Second World War, the Cold War and its arms race – noted biographer Christopher Sandford tracks Kennedy’s exploits in Great Britain between 1935 and 1963, and looks in depth at the unique way Britain shaped JFK throughout his adult life and how he in turn charmed British society.Trade ReviewAn amazing story discovered and entertainingly told, it gives whole new meaning to [the US’s] Special Relationship with Great Britain. -- James W. Graham, author of Victura: The Kennedys, a Sailboat and the SeaUnion Jack is a fresh and richly researched addition to the body of literature about John F. Kennedy. -- Curtis Wilkie, co-author of The Road to Camelot

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Book SynopsisThe Irish Yearbook of International Law is intended to stimulate further research into Ireland's practice in international affairs and foreign policy, filling a gap in existing legal scholarship and assisting in the dissemination of Irish thinking and practice on matters of international law. On an annual basis, the Yearbook presents peer-reviewed academic articles and book reviews on general issues of international law. Designated correspondents provide reports on international law developments in Ireland, Irish practice in international fora and the European Union, and the practice of joint North-South implementation bodies in Ireland. In addition, the Yearbook reproduces documents that reflect Irish practice on contemporary issues of international law. Publication of the Irish Yearbook of International Law makes Irish practice and opinio juris more readily available to Governments, academics and international bodies when determining the content of international law. In providing a forum for the documentation and analysis of North-South relations the Yearbook also make an important contribution to post-conflict and transitional justice studies internationally. As a matter of editorial policy, the Yearbook seeks to promote a multilateral approach to international affairs, reflecting and reinforcing Ireland's long-standing commitment to multilateralism as a core element of foreign policy. Further details of the IYIL can be seen at: www.hartjournals.co.uk/iyil/.

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Book SynopsisAuthoritative overview of the effects of imprisonment Contributors are leading experts in their field Increasing concern at devastating effects of imprisonment.Trade Review'An incredibly powerful and robust text on imprisonment. It is, without doubt, a tour de force.' − Peter Hamerton in British Society of Criminology Newsletter'This book deserves to become the standard text on the subject for some years to come.' − Maurice Vanstone in Vista Vol. 10 no. 3'Is most timely and well-crafted in its fresh handling of this critical and enduring issue.' − Michael Weinrath, University of Winnipeg in The Canadian Journal of Criminology'Extraordinarily important compendium because it looks at its subject in so many different contexts. By doing so, it provides clues and generates hypotheses about the nuances of the consequence of incarceration under varying circumstance.' − Gilbert Geis, University of California, Irvine, USTable of ContentsForeword 1. Introduction: the effects of imprisonment revisited Part 1: The Harms of Imprisonment - Thawing Out The 'Deep Freeze' Paradigm 2. Release and adjustment: perspectives from studies of wrongly convicted and politically motivated prisoners 3. The contextual revolution in psychology and the question of prison effects 4. Harm and the contemporary prison 5. The effects of supermax custody 6. The politics of confi nement: women's imprisonment in California and the UK Part 2: Revisiting the Society of Captives 7. Codes and conventions: the terms and conditions of contemporary inmate values 8. Revisiting prison suicide: the role of fairness and distress 9. Crossing the boundary: the transition of young adults into prisons 10. Brave new prisons: the growing social isolation of modern penal institutions by Robert Johnson 1.1 'Soldiers', 'sausages' and 'deep sea diving': language, culture and coping in Israeli prisons 12. Forms of violence and regimes in prison: report of research in Belgian prisons Part 3: Coping Among Ageing Prisoners 13. Older men in prison: survival, coping and identity 14. Loss, liminality and the life sentence: managing identity through a disrupted lifecourse Part 4: Expanding the Prison Effects Debate Beyond the Prisoner 15. The effects of prison work 16. Imprisonment and the penal body politic: the cancer of disciplinary governance 17. The effects of imprisonment on families and children of prisoners 18. Reinventing prisons

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the UK''s relationship with the European Union, together with a scrutiny of global strategic prospects. It covers topics such as economy, military and demographic developments.

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Book Synopsis Despite the consensus that economic diplomacy played a crucial role in ending the Cold War, very little research has been done on the economic diplomacy during the crucial decades of the 1970s and 1980s. This book fills the gap by exploring the complex interweaving of East–West political and economic diplomacies in the pursuit of détente. The focus on German chancellor Willy Brandt’s Ostpolitik reveals how its success was rooted in the usage of energy trade and high tech exchanges with the Soviet Union. His policies and visions are contrasted with those of U.S. President Richard Nixon and the Realpolitik of Henry Kissinger. The ultimate failure to coordinate these rivaling détente policies, and the resulting divide on how to deal with the Soviet Union, left NATO with an energy dilemma between American and European partners—one that has resurfaced in the 21st century with Russia’s politicization of energy trade. This book is essential for anyone interested in exploring the interface of international diplomacy, economic interest, and alliance cohesion.Trade Review “In both narrative and interpretation Lippert offers a persuasive story… it is a solid contribution to our understanding of a crucial part of Cold War history.” · Journal of Cold War Studies “Economic relations between Western countries and the Soviet Union during the 1970s are hardly researched. Werner Lippert has to be credited for tackling this deficit and writing a well researched and readable book that challenges conventional wisdoms and raises provocative points. Whereas East–West trade and economics have so far been at the far margins of most historiography of Ostpolitik, Lippert places it front and centre.” · European History Quarterly “The book addresses an important subject (‘détente’) and one in which there is considerable interest…It balances well politics, economics, and the personalities/mindsets of the principal figures (Brandt, Nixon, and Kissinger).” · Robert Mark Spaulding, University of North CarolinaTable of Contents Prelude Chapter 1. Détente, Trade, and the Alliance in the 1960s. Pro-American Ostpolitik – nothing but East-West trade Kennedy’s Use of East-West trade as a Political Tool The Busted Pipeline Deal of 1962 Johnson’s Ambivalence to East-West trade Brandt’s Ostpolitik is forming Chapter 2. Of Honeymoons and Idealism (1968-1970) Nixon’s Vision of a Responsible Europe Exploring Osthandel in 1968/9 Domestic and International Dissent to a new Osthandel Nixon’s concepts on East-West trade Initial Ostpolitik: Brandt’s Honeymoon Period The first Gas-Pipeline Deal The Inter–German Summit Meeting: The Rude Awakening The German-American Summit on >Ostpolitik in April 1970 Eastern Dilemmas with Détente Chapter 3. Westhandel and the Alliance (1970-1972) The Need for Soviet Westhandel Western Imports: The Kama River Plant Soviet Exports: Energy Resources The German Paradigm Shift of the Soviet Union towards a “Normal” State Using Westhandel as a Wedge in NATO Clashes within the Alliance over East-West Trade West Berlin, Trade, and the Eastern Treaties An Independent West-German Diplomacy? Chapter 4. The Origins of NATO’s Energy Dilemma (1972-1974) Superpower Détente Systemic Shifts in the Soviet Union Ostpolitik in the Crossfire The Brezhnev Summits in Germany and the U.S. Cementing Superpower Detente and the Middle East Crisis The Transatlantic Rift Emerges Reviving West European-Soviet Trade Chapter 5. Helsinki and the Fall of Détente (1975-1982) The Blessing and the Curse West Germany as the Villain Ford’s Lack of Direction Jimmy Carter’s Human Rights Campaign Afghanistan Crisis and Carter’s Embargo Reagan’s Push for Alliance Solidarity Conclusion: A Permanent Energy Dilemma for the West? Bibliography Notes

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Book SynopsisOver the last half century, sub-Saharan Africa has not had one history, but many - histories that have intertwined, converged and diverged. They have involved a continuing saga of decolonization and state-building, conflict, economic problems, but also progress. This new view of those histories looks in particular at the relationship between territorial, economic, political and societal structures and human agency in the complex and sometimes confusing development of an independent Africa. The story starts well before the granting of independence to Ghana in 1957, with an introductory chapter about pre-colonial societies, slavery and colonial occupation. But the thrust of the book looks at Africa in the closing decades of the old millennium and the beginning of the new millennium. While this book examines post-colonial conflicts within and between new states, it also considers the history of the peoples of Africa - their struggle for economic development in the context of harsh local environments and the economic straitjacket into which they were strapped by colonial rule is charted in detail. The importance of imposed or inherited structures, whether the global capitalist system, of which Africa is a subordinate part, or the artificial and often inappropriate state borders and political systems set up by colonial powers will be examined in the light of the exercise of agency by African peoples, political movements and leaders.Trade ReviewThis important book could not have come at a better time. Its nuanced approach to Africa's many histories challenges unhelpful stereotypes, which too often have been applied to the entire continent as if it is a single country. It offers a rare and engaging combination of academic rigour and thoughtful, lucid journalism. -- Mary Harper, Africa Editor, BBC NewsThis introductory overview of the region's history by a veteran BBC journalist focuses on broad political and economic trends and eschews simple takeaways. It [performs] its most trenchant analysis on civil conflicts such as the Rwandan genocide and the liberation struggles in southern Africa. -- Foreign AffairsSomerville sets about his task with energy and skill. He has worked on the subject for more than three decades and it shows. The material is handled with a sure touch, beginning by briefly sketching the pre-colonial and colonial history before tacking independence and its consequences. It then traces the key questions that have concerned the continent since then: the early days of independence leading to disillusionment, coups and dictators; revolutions and the economic crises of the 1970s and 1980s; genocide and good governance; the new millennium, China and 'Africa rising'. ... This is an authoritative, accessible account of Africa's difficult 50 years since independence written by someone who clearly has the continent's interests at heart. -- Martin Plaut, African ArgumentsThis unusually accessible study of Africa's many histories since 1970 owes its distinctiveness to the author's career. This is, thankfully, not an arid academic tome; it is a thoughtful, passionate account by a senior BBC journalist who spent three decades working on and in Africa. His intimacy with places and people give the book a grittiness that library research never provides. -- Richard Rathbone, Professor of African History, School of Oriental and African Studies, LondonThis superb book is the product of many decades of close observation of Africa's past and present by a retired senior BBC World Service journalist. It is genuinely innovative, demonstrating a fine understanding of the role of structure and agency in the continent's 'many histories'. The argument will appeal to an audience seeking a convincing and well-researched account. -- Jack Spence, OBE, Professor of Diplomacy, King's College LondonKeith Somerville has produced a wonderfully complex, compassionate and accessible introductory history of Africa. This book combines the keen eye of a front-line journalist who witnessed some of the continent's most dramatic contemporary events, with the deep analytical perspective of an academic. It works brilliantly. -- Joanna Lewis, Assistant Professor in Imperial and African History, London School of Economics and Political ScienceA provocative and well-argued book, which addresses the importance of continuities as well as change across the vast African continent. In these multiple narratives, African agency is put squarely centre stage. But this is the agency of African elites who, by exploiting inherited structures and weak institutions, have secured and entrenched their own advantage. Given these dynamics, the question remains how far and how fast can broad based socio-economic development be achieved? -- Sue Onslow, Senior Lecturer, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London

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Book SynopsisOpen-air prison, Terror, Resistance, Occupation, Siege, Trauma, Bare humanity: irrespective of when, where, and to whom the word is uttered, Gaza immediately evokes an abundance of metaphors. Similarly, a plethora of metaphors also invoke Gaza: Crisis, Exception, Refugees, Destitution, Tunnels, Persistence. With essays written by journalists, writers, doctors, academics and others, this volume uses metaphor to record and historicize Gaza, to contextualize its everyday realities, interrogate its representations and provide an understanding on Gaza's real and symbolic significance. The essays within, written both from within Gaza and outside, touch on life and survival, the making of the Gaza Strip and its increasing isolation, the discursive and visual tools that have often shackled Gaza behind misunderstandings, and what Gaza contributes to our understanding of exception; inequality; dispossession; bio-politics; necro-power and other terms which we rely on to make sense of our world. The volume reveals how Gaza is an outcome of specific historical and spatial practices, and not simply a metaphor of a far-away humanitarian disaster or place of incomprehensible violence.Gaza As Metaphor demonstrates that Gaza is a real place, an inseparable part of the past, present, and future condition of Palestinians, in particular, and of dispossession, more generally.Trade Review'Perhaps more than any place on earth, Gaza is a microcosm of our world of cruelty and barbarism, but, no less, of courage, creativity and resilience. With sympathy and deep understanding, these essays reveal the terror and sheer savagery to which the people of Gaza are subjected daily and their brave refusal to succumb to despair and hopelessness. A searing rendition of grim tragedy, and a powerful call to action.' -- Noam Chomsky'Gaza is a truth, to paraphrase Nietzsche, demanding its metaphors. In Gaza as Metaphor, Helga Tawil-Souri and Dina Matar have gathered the whirlwind momentum of a critical mass of caring intellects to dwell on the hermeneutic precipice when a piece of land in Palestine has become the fragmented site of a truth so bold and demanding that forces all our languages to defy the tyranny of their compromised grammar. You have not read a book on Palestine as an enduring testimony to defiant dignity as Gaza as Metaphor. It captures with uncanny precision a traumatic moment in a colossal catastrophe the Palestinians call Nakba and the rest of the world can now see as the mirror metaphor of their own innermost struggles for truth and justice.' -- Hamid Dabashi, Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and author of The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism and Brown Skin, White Masks'Gaza is a microcosm of global realities, "surplus humanity" fighting oppression and induced impoverishment against powerful militaries of the Global North. Through the fluid medium of metaphor, Tawil-Souri and Matar provide their contributors with a means of exploring the range of ways Gazans cope with imposed conditions of dispossession and "bare life." Ultimately, they collectively rescue Gaza from metaphor as an actual location of humanity and resistance.' -- Jeff Halper, Director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and author of War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification'This pathbreaking book takes the reader beyond the spectacle of ferocious warfare on Gaza to open up an expansive gaze onto a hermetically-sealed strip that has become both metaphor and metonymy for the Palestinian condition. The volume lucidly unpacks the metaphors by which Gazans live and die, shedding empathetic light on their creative quotidian struggles to exist. Written within diverse genres, the essays offer the reader vital conceptual tools for engaging the ongoing nakba of Palestinian history.' -- Ella Shohat, author of Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices'Gaza as Metaphor offers an impressive selection of the most recent work of some of the best specialists, Palestinian and non-Palestinian. It is a very welcome reminder, as one of the contributors puts it, that "Gaza is Palestine." Stimulating and dense, this edited volume is also fluid and absorbing.' -- Jean-Pierre Filiu, author of Gaza: A History and From Deep State to Islamic State: The Arab Counter-Revolution and its Jihadi Legacy'This carefully edited collection of essays and stories, mainly by Palestinian academics, is a rich insight into Gaza's reality of human life versus inhuman violence -- a challenge to false constructed image and narrative. These "unwanted Palestinians" come to life in vivid evocations of day-to-day struggle under Israeli military onslaught, and the tunnels' business of lions and radiant brides coming through to life in Gaza.' -- Victoria Brittain, author of Shadow Lives: The Forgotten Women of the War on Terror'Gaza as Metaphor is an exemplary collection: comprehensive despite its relatively small size, greatly readable, very stimulating, and most satisfying intellectually and aesthetically: a landmark in Gaza studies and an important addition to Palestine studies.' -- Gilbert Achcar, Journal of Palestine Studies'All [the contributors] have something unique and important to impart in this compilation of consistently excellent essays ... If widely read, Gaza as Metaphor has the potential to raise the volume and increase the resonance of Gazans' stories.' -- Sally Bland, Jordan TimesTable of Contents* Cover art by Raed Issa * Introduction by Helga Tawil-Souri and Dina Matar * Photo by Tanya Habjouqa (from Women of Gaza series) * Section 1: Living Gaza 1. Helga Tawil-Souri, Gaza as Larger Than Life 2. Haidar Eid, Diary July 20, 2014 / Signposts on the Road to Liberation 3. Said Shehadeh, Ghazeh el Sumud: Confronting Israeli Mass Torture 4. Pierre Krahenbuhl, Gaza as a Metaphor for Unsustainability 5. Mouin Rabbani, Israel Mows the Lawn6. Naim Al Khatib, On War and Shit* Photo by Jim McFarlane (from Gaza Anti-Portraits series) [* needs to be confirmed]* Section 2: Placing Gaza 1. Khaled Hroub, Tunnels: Love, Lions and ... Absurdities 2. Jehad Abusalim, From Fence to Fence: Retelling Gaza's Story 3. Ilana Feldman, Gaza: Isolation 4. Salman Abu Sitta, Gaza Strip: The Lessons of History 5. Glenn Bowman, Gaza: Encystation * Photo by Omar Al Qattaa (children in Gaza) * Section 3: Narrating Gaza 1. Selma Dabbagh, Inventing Gaza2. Ramzy Baroud, Fighting Another Day: Gaza's Unrelenting Resistance3. Atef Alshaer, In the company of Frantz Fanon: The Israeli Wars and the National Culture of Gaza4. Ilan Pappe, Can the Pen be Mightier than the Sword? Permission to Narrate Gaza5. Dina Matar, Gaza: Image Normalization * Photo by Omar Al Qattaa (Parkour photo) * Section 4: Thinking Gaza1. Darryl Li, Gaza at the Frontiers of Zionism 2. Ariella Azoulay, Concentration-Place 3. Nimer Sultany, Repetition 4. Sara Roy, Gaza: No Se Puede Mirar - One Cannot Look, A Brief Reflection 5. Sherene Seikaly, Gaza as Archive * Biographies* Index

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Book SynopsisOffender Profiling and Crime Analysis provides a highly readable account of the subject, and a picture of profiling which by no means accords with popular views and representations of what is involved. The book provides an overview of profiling techniques, offering some fascinating insights into the various approaches to profiling, and schools of thought, which have emerged − looking particularly at the work of the FBI, and of British and Dutch profilers.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Offender profiling − separating myth from reality 2. Criminal behaviour and its motivation 3. Environmental influences and patterns of offending 4. Problems and pitfalls in the gathering of data 5. Crime mapping and geographical profiling 6. Early approaches to profiling 7. Investigative psychology and the work of David Canter 8. Clinical and other approaches 9. Current developments and future prospects 10. Conclusions

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