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The expert contributors examine the end of détente and the beginning of the new phase of the cold war in the early 1980s, Reagan's radical new strategies aimed at changing Soviet behavior, the peaceful democratic revolutions in Poland and Hungary, the events that brought about the reunification of Germany, the role of events in Third World countries, the critical contributions of Gorbachev and Yeltsin, and more.
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America is at war and the stakes are huge. The fight isn't just in Iraq and Afghanistan; it's a global contest between the United States, radical Islam, a resurgent Russia, and a virulent New Left coming to power in Latin America and stalking the corridors of power around the world. These three enemies of America are separate, but still cooperate - and in his stunning new book, Shadow World, Robert Chandler shows how.
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El mundo es cada vez menos pobre en general: la verdadera crisis radica en unos 50 "estados fallidos", que suman unos mil millones de personas: esos mil millones que siempre están en la parte baja de todas las tablas.
Con este libro, Collier arroja nueva luz sobre ese grupo de pequeñas naciones, a las que el mundo occidental deja "por imposibles" y que se enfrentan, en muchos casos, a una situación límite. Señala las trampas que les impiden...
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"Training for the High-End Fight" highlights the essential strategic shift for the US and allied militaries from land wars in the Middle East to the return of great power competition. The primary challenge of this strategic shift will be the need to operate a full spectrum crisis management force. That means training a force capable of delivering the desired combat and crisis management effect in dealing with 21st century authoritarian powers.
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Japan and Nepal have emerged as nations of considerable importance in the politics of Asia. Nepal being a buffer state is playing a crucial role in foreign policy of both the neighbors India and China. Recently due to the Mao's insurgency, it has become the center of terrorist activities as such it has, become all-the-more, necessary especially for India to pay attention to the problem. Besides, Nepal is also plying significant role in the South Asian...
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Racism after Apartheid, volume four of the Democratic Marxism series, brings together leading scholars and activists from around the world studying and challenging racism.
In eleven thematically rich and conceptually informed chapters, the contributors interrogate the complex nexus of questions surrounding race and relations of oppression as they are played out in the global South and global North. Their work challenges Marxism and anti-racism to...
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In The Consequences of Syria, Lee Smith analyzes the current U.S. administration's stance on Syria, questioning whether it will build the foundations of a new Middle East or usher in an era of instability that will affect the entire world. The author contends that the many apparent shifts in the administration's Syria policy were part of a messaging campaign intended to camouflage President Obama's determination to stay out of the Syrian conflict....
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While American national security policy grew more interventionist after the Cold War, Washington hoped to shape the world on the cheap. Misled by the stunning success against Iraq in 1991, administrations of both parties pursued ambitious aims with limited force, committing the military frequently but often hesitantly, with inconsistent justification. These ventures produced strategic confusion, unplanned entanglements, and indecisive results. This...
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Northeast Asia, where the interests of three major nuclear powers and the world's two largest economies converge around the unstable pivot of the Korean peninsula, is a region rife with political-economic paradox. It ranks today among the most dangerous areas on earth, plagued by security problems of global importance, including nuclear and missile proliferation. Yet, despite its insecurity, the region has continued to be the most rapidly growing...
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Brady examines the role that politics has played in the success or failure of negotiations between the United States and other countries during the 1970s and 1980s. Drawing on her experience as a negotiator with the U.S. State and Defense Departments, she argues that security talks cannot be conducted in isolation from political influences. Originally published in 1991.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital...
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Aspen Policy Books is a series of annual publications on the United States' most pressing foreign policy and national security issues. In 2017, the Aspen Strategy Group examined the future of the liberal world order. The papers in this volume outline the history and importance the system of institutions and normative values that have underpinned the international system since the end of WWII. They also highlight some of the key threats to this order...
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"Winner of the 2008 Chadwick F. Alger Prize, International Studies Association" Ian Hurd is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University.
The politics of legitimacy is central to international relations. When states perceive an international organization as legitimate, they defer to it, associate themselves with it, and invoke its symbols. Examining the United Nations Security Council, Ian Hurd demonstrates how legitimacy...
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Despite its avowed commitment to liberalism and democracy internationally, the United States has frequently chosen to back repressive or authoritarian regimes in parts of the world. In this comprehensive examination of American support of right-wing dictatorships, David Schmitz challenges the contention that the democratic impulse has consistently motivated U.S. foreign policy.Compelled by a persistent concern for order and influenced by a paternalistic...
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Algunos lugares del mundo brillan por su poder, y proporcionan a sus soberanos un marco monumental y una legitimidad. Otros, frecuentados por mercaderes, soldados y bandoleros, son encrucijadas de caminos de un mundo en evolución. Y algunos, cargados de historia y pasión, pertenecen a pueblos dispuestos a luchar para proteger su herencia. La geopolítica no solo se escribe con palabras, sino con lugares. De Nueva York a La Meca, de Suez a Malaca,...
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Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink examine a type of pressure group that has been largely ignored by political analysts: networks of activists that coalesce and operate across national frontiers. Their targets may be international organizations or the policies of particular states. Historical examples of such transborder alliances include anti-slavery and woman suffrage campaigns. In the past two decades, transnational activism has had a significant...
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Simon Reich is professor of global affairs and political science at Rutgers University, Newark. Richard Ned Lebow is professor of international political theory at King's College London and the James O. Freedman Presidential Professor of Government Emeritus at Dartmouth College.
Many policymakers, journalists, and scholars insist that U.S. hegemony is essential for warding off global chaos. Good-Bye Hegemony! argues that hegemony is a fiction propagated...
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In Hard Interests, Soft Illusions, Natasha Hamilton-Hart explores the belief held by foreign policy elites in much of Southeast Asia-Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, and Vietnam-that the United States is a relatively benign power. She argues that this belief is an important factor underpinning U.S. preeminence in the region, because beliefs inform specific foreign policy decisions and form the basis for broad orientations...
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La relación entre Perú, Bolivia y Chile ha sido históricamente complicada. Si bien existieron espacios de cooperación a nivel bilateral y multilateral, el vínculo también presenta dinámicas que alejaron a los tres países. Por ello, la presente investigación busca contribuir en el desarrollo de una mayor cooperación entre Perú, Bolivia y Chile, al identificar la existencia de una agenda de carácter trinacional en el siglo XXI que permita...
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When President Barack Obama demanded formally in the summer of 2011 that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad step down, it was not the first time Washington had sought regime change in Damascus. The United States had waged a long war against Syria from the very moment the country's fiercely independent Arab nationalist movement came to power in 1963. Assad and his father Hafez al-Assad were committed to that movement.
Washington sought to purge Arab...
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