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Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations
Titoist Yugoslavia is a particularly interesting setting to examine
the integrity of the modern nation-state, especially the viability
of distinctly multi-ethnic nation-building projects. Scholarly
literature on the brutal civil wars that destroyed Yugoslavia
during the 1990s emphasizes divisive nationalism and dysfunctional
politics to explain why the state disintegrated. But the larger
question remains unanswered-just how did Tito's state function so
successfully for the preceding forty-six years. In an attempt to
understand better what united the stable, multi-ethnic, and
globally important Yugoslavia that existed before 1991 Robert
Niebuhr argues that we should pay special attention to the dynamic
and robust foreign policy that helped shape the Cold War.
Diplomacy and the Independence of Bangladesh is unique in itself,
penned by a social scientist with extensive upbringing in studies
on diplomacy, strategic fields, peace research, modern history, and
international relations. A witness to the momentous events of
Bangladesh's struggle for emancipation, as they unfolded during
Pakistani rule in East Pakistan, the author also sets in conceptual
designs for objective appraisals of the farsighted statesmanship of
its founder, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, with added reflections on
shifting dimensions of diplomacy and their ramifications for
mankind's waning civilizational journey.
India became a Sectoral Dialogue Partner of the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 1992. In 1995, India became a
full Dialogue Partner. In 2002, ASEAN and India held their first
Summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Since then, a bilateral Summit has
been held annually.India's relations with Southeast Asia date back
a thousand years. There are many cultural, religious and
people-to-people linkages between India and the 10 ASEAN member
states. Trade and investment ties have also grown since the opening
of the Indian economy in the early 1990s. Relations are good but
not optimal.ASEAN and India: The Way Forward hopes to inspire
policymakers on both sides to understand the multifaceted
relationship and explore ways to raise the bilateral ties to a
higher peak.The book first traces the evolution of ASEAN-India
relations over the centuries. It then examines the key areas of
convergence and divergence between ASEAN and India. The final part
explores the emerging areas where ASEAN and India can deepen their
cooperation.
India became a Sectoral Dialogue Partner of the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 1992. In 1995, India became a
full Dialogue Partner. In 2002, ASEAN and India held their first
Summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Since then, a bilateral Summit has
been held annually.India's relations with Southeast Asia date back
a thousand years. There are many cultural, religious and
people-to-people linkages between India and the 10 ASEAN member
states. Trade and investment ties have also grown since the opening
of the Indian economy in the early 1990s. Relations are good but
not optimal.ASEAN and India: The Way Forward hopes to inspire
policymakers on both sides to understand the multifaceted
relationship and explore ways to raise the bilateral ties to a
higher peak.The book first traces the evolution of ASEAN-India
relations over the centuries. It then examines the key areas of
convergence and divergence between ASEAN and India. The final part
explores the emerging areas where ASEAN and India can deepen their
cooperation.
An important new cultural study of the Cold War, Guolin Yi's The
Media and Sino-American Rapprochement, 1963-1972 analyzes how the
media in both countries shaped public perceptions of the changing
relations between China and the United States in the decade prior
to Richard Nixon's visit to Beijing. This book offers the first
systematic study of Cankao Xiaoxi (Reference News), an internal
Chinese newspaper that carried relatively objective stories the
Xinhua News Agency translated from world news media for circulation
among Communist cadres. As the main channel for the cadres to learn
about the outside world, this newspaper provides a window into
China's evolving foreign policy, including the reception of signals
from the Nixon administration. Yi compares this internal
communications channel with the public accounts contained in the
more widely circulated newspaper People's Daily, a chief propaganda
outlet of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) directed at its own
people and China watchers all over the world. A third level of
communication emerges in classified CCP instructions and government
documents. By approaching the Chinese communication system on three
levels - internal, public, and classified - Yi's analysis
demonstrates how people at different positions in the political
hierarchy accessed varying types of information, allowing him to
chart the development of Beijing's approach to the U.S. government.
In a corresponding analysis of the defining features of American
reporting on China, Yi considers the impact of government-media
relationships in the United States during the Cold War. Alongside
prominent magazines and newspapers, particularly the New York Times
and the Washington Post in their differing coverage of key events,
Yi discusses television networks, which proved vital for promoting
the success of Ping-Pong Diplomacy and the impact of Nixon's visit
in 1972. With its comparative study of news outlets in the two
countries, The Media and Sino-American Rapprochement, 1963-1972
presents a thorough and comprehensive perspective on the role of
the media in influencing domestic Chinese and American public
opinion during a critical decade.
Providing a detailed account of Israel's foreign policy towards the
Cyprus question between 1946 and the declaration of Cypriot
independence in August 1960, Gabriel Haritos examines the
international and regional factors which shaped Israel's approach
to diplomatic relations with the independent Republic of Cyprus.
Based on newly available archival material from the Israeli
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, declassified at the author's request,
and on archival material collected from both sides of the Cypriot
divide, Haritos highlights previously unknown events, and the key
personalities involved in Israel's political and diplomatic
interactions over the Cyprus question. In doing so, he offers key
insights into the Middle Eastern aspect of the unresolved Cyprus
conflict.
The Franklin Book Programs (FBP) was a private not-for-profit U.S.
organization founded in 1952 during the Cold War and was subsidized
by the United States' government agencies as well as private
corporations. The FBP was initially intended to promote U.S.
liberal values, combat Soviet influence and to create appropriate
markets for U.S. books in 'Third World' of which the Middle East
was an important part, but evolved into an international
educational program publishing university textbooks, schoolbooks,
and supplementary readings. In Iran, working closely with the
Pahlavi regime, its activities included the development of
printing, publishing, book distribution, and bookselling
institutions. This book uses archival sources from the FBP, US
intelligence agencies and in Iran, to piece together this
relationship. Put in the context of wider cultural diplomacy
projects operated by the US, it reveals the extent to which the
programme shaped Iran's educational system. Together the history of
the FBP, its complex network of state and private sector, the role
of U.S. librarians, publishers, and academics, and the joint
projects the FBP organized in several countries with the help of
national ministries of education, financed by U.S. Department of
State and U.S. foundations, sheds new light on the long history of
education in imperialist social orders, in the context here of the
ongoing struggle for influence in the Cold War.
Composed of original articles from academics and policy notes from
practitioners, this book attempts to draw up the state of
multilateralism through the UN model and identify potential ways to
address its challenges and shortcomings. The contributors question
the role of multilateralism, sometimes accused of being fragmented,
inefficient and unrepresentative, and its impact on global
governance, democracy, trade and investment, the environment, and
human rights. Since most of the authors are not from the UN system,
the content of the contributions provides an external and more
neutral assessment of the UN's ability to continue to function
today as a serious actor within a global movement in favor of a
renewed form of multilateralism.
The disastrous Buffalo Creek Treaty of 1838 called for the Senecas'
removal to Kansas (then part of the Indian Territory). From this
low point, the Seneca Nation of Indians, which today occupies three
reservations in western New York, sought to rebound. Beginning with
events leading to the Seneca Revolution in 1848, which transformed
the nation's government from a council of chiefs to an elected
system, Laurence M. Hauptman traces Seneca history through the New
Deal. Based on the author's nearly fifty years of archival
research, interviews, and applied work, Coming Full Circle shows
that Seneca leaders in these years learned valuable lessons and
adapted to change, thereby preparing the nation to meet the
challenges it would face in the post-World War II era, including
major land loss and threats of termination. Instead of emphasizing
American Indian decline, Hauptman stresses that the Senecas were
actors in their own history and demonstrated cultural and political
resilience. Both Native belief, in the form of the Good Message of
Handsome Lake, and Christianity were major forces in Seneca life;
women continued to play important social and economic roles despite
the demise of clan matrons' right to nominate the chiefs; and
Senecas became involved in national and international competition
in long-distance running and in lacrosse. The Seneca Nation also
achieved noteworthy political successes in this period. The Senecas
resisted allotment, and thus saved their reservations from breakup
and sale. They recruited powerful allies, including attorneys,
congressmen, journalists, and religious leaders. They saved their
Oil Spring Reservation, winning a U.S. Supreme Court case against
New York State on the issue of taxation and won remuneration in
their Kansas Claims case. These efforts laid the groundwork for the
Senecas' postwar endeavor to seek compensation before the Indian
Claims Commission and pursuit of a series of land claims and tax
lawsuits against New York State.
This edited volume brings together a selected group of talented
emerging leaders drawn from academia, policy and professional
backgrounds from across the Euro-Atlantic space. The book reflects
the various trends and implications of emerging technologies and
their different - positive and negative - effects on the security,
societies and economies in the Euro-Atlantic region. It
tremendously benefits from the broad range of views and divergent
professional as well as cultural backgrounds of the contributors.
Qarakhanid Roads to China reconsiders the diplomacy, trade and
geography of transcontinental networks between Central Asia and
China from the 10th to the 12th centuries and challenges the
concept of "the Silk Road crisis" in the period between the fall of
the Tang Dynasty and the rise of the Mongols. Utilizing a broad
range of Islamic and Chinese primary sources together with
archaeological data, Dilnoza Duturaeva demonstrates the complexity
of interaction along the Silk Roads and beyond that, revolutionizes
our understanding of the Qarakhanid world and Song-era China's
relations with neighboring regions.
This book presents thirteen chapters which probe the "tales less
told" and "pathways less traveled" in refugee camp living. Rohingya
camps in Bangladesh since August 2017 supply these "tales" and
"pathways". They dwell upon/reflect camp violence, sexual/gender
discrimination, intersectionality, justice, the sudden COVID camp
entry, human security, children education, innovation, and
relocation plans. Built largely upon field trips, these narratives
interestingly interweave with both theoretical threads (hypotheses)
and tapestries (net-effects), feeding into the security-driven
pulls of political realism, or disseminating from
humanitarian-driven socioeconomic pushes, but mostly combining
them. Post-ethnic cleansing and post-exodus windows open up a murky
future for Rohingya and global refugees. We learn of positive
offshoots (of camp innovations exposing civil society relevance)
and negative (like human and sex trafficking beyond Bangladeshi and
Myanmar borders), as of navigating (a) local-global linkages of
every dynamic and (b) fast-moving current circumstances against
stoic historical leftovers.
Keukeleire and Delreux demonstrate the scope and diversity of the
European Union's foreign policy, showing that EU foreign policy is
broader than the Common Foreign and Security Policy and the Common
Security and Defence Policy, and that areas such as trade,
development, environment and energy are inextricable elements of
it. This book offers a comprehensive and critical account of the
EU's key foreign relations - with its neighbourhood, with the US,
China and Russia, and with emerged powers - and argues that the
EU's foreign policy needs to be understood not only as a response
to crises and conflicts, but also as a means of shaping
international structures and influencing long-term processes. This
third edition reflects recent changes and trends in EU foreign
policy as well as the international context in which it operates,
addressing issues such as the increasingly contested international
order, the conflict in Ukraine, the migration and refugee crisis,
Brexit and Covid-19. The book not only clarifies the formal
procedures in EU foreign policy-making but also elucidates how it
works in practice. The third edition includes new sections and
boxes on 'strategic autonomy', European arms exports, the EU's
external representation, the 'Brussels Effect', and decentring and
gender approaches to EU foreign policy. Up to date, jargon-free and
supported by its own website (eufp.eu), this systematic and
innovative appraisal of this key policy area is suitable for
undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as practitioners.
Conceptualizing Terrorism argues that, in the post 9/11 world, the
need for an internationally agreed definition of terrorism is more
important than it has ever been, despite the challenges that such
an endeavour presents. Indeed, in a global context, where the term
is often applied selectively and pejoratively according to where
one's interests lie, there is a real need to instill some
analytical quality into the concept of terrorism, not least in
order to prevent the term being manipulated to justify all manner
of counter-terrorism responses. Not only is this important for the
policymaking context but it is also an imperative task within
academia - in order to strengthen the theoretical foundation of
terrorism studies, for all other terrorism related theories rest on
what one means by terrorism in the first place. Written from an
academic perspective, the book explores the prospects for terrorism
as an analytical concept. Arguing that the essence of this
particular form of political violence lies in its intent to
generate a psychological impact beyond the immediate victims, it
goes on to propose the adoption of three key preliminary
assumptions that have implications for the definitional debate and
that it suggests might help to increase the analytical potential of
terrorism. The book then considers potential elements of a
definition before concluding with its own conceptualization of
terrorism.
The term the Cold War has had many meanings and interpretations
since it was originally coined and has been used to analyse
everything from comics to pro-natalist policies, and science
fiction to gender politics. This range has great value, but also
poses problems, notably by diluting the focus on war of a certain
type, and by exacerbating a lack of precision in definition and
analysis. The Cold War: A Military History is the first survey of
the period to focus on the diplomatic and military confrontation
and conflict. Jeremy Black begins his overview in 1917 and covers
the 'long Cold War', from the 7th November Revolution to the
ongoing repercussions and reverberations of the conflict today. The
book is forward-looking as well as retrospective, not least in
encouraging us to reflect on how much the character of the present
world owes to the Cold War. The result is a detailed survey that
will be invaluable to students and scholars of military and
international history.
The enormous spread of devices gives access to virtual networks and
to cyberspace areas where continuous flows of data and information
are exchanged, increasing the risk of information warfare,
cyber-espionage, cybercrime, and identity hacking. The number of
individuals and companies that suffer data breaches has increased
vertically with serious reputational and economic damage
internationally. Thus, the protection of personal data and
intellectual property has become a priority for many governments.
Political Decision-Making and Security Intelligence: Recent
Techniques and Technological Developments is an essential scholarly
publication that aims to explore perspectives and approaches to
intelligence analysis and performance and combines theoretical
underpinnings with practical relevance in order to sensitize
insights into training activities to manage uncertainty and risks
in the decision-making process. Featuring a range of topics such as
crisis management, policy making, and risk analysis, this book is
ideal for managers, analysts, politicians, IT specialists, data
scientists, policymakers, government officials, researchers,
academicians, professionals, and security experts.
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