Since World War I, the United States has pursued the defense of Western civilization as a critical element of its own national interest. In his provocative reconsideration of that goal, Robert Strausz-Hupe asks whether the American people can still agree upon and adopt foreign policies consistently devoted to that end. He specifically examines popular and paradoxical attitudes that often undermine Washington's ability to defend American and Western interests, attitudes towards society and the state, politics and government, instruments of foreign policy and the people who wield them. As the backdrop for his analysis, Strausz-Hupe employs the wisdom of Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, reiterating Tocqueville's finding that the driving force of American life is its passion for equality and democracy. To this insight, Strausz-Hupe adds another: When one realizes that domestic politics is the driving force behind foreign policy, one understands why "the foreign policy of the United States cannot be other than the defense of democracy everywhere." Unlike some analysts, however, Strausz-Hupe believes that this proposition states only the problem for American statesmen not the answer. The answer, Strausz-Hupe concludes, lies in a universal federation of democratic states. In an appreciative foreword that examines the evolution of Strausz-Hupe thought, Walter A. McDougall demonstrates that this idealistic vision of a democratic world-state has been the unifying thread in Strausz-Hupe's intellectual career, not the calculating Realpolitik so often attributed to him. Democracy and American Foreign Policy will be of central importance to international relations specialists, policymakers, political scientists, and students of political philosophy. Its chapters include "Tocqueville and Nationalism"; "Tocqueville and Marx"; "The Hypocrisies of Egalitarianism"; "Foreign Policy and Interest Groups"; and "Isolationism and the New World Order."

In My Time is a vivid account of the fascinating life of Robert Strausz-Hupe, who served American presidents for twenty years in a variety of diplomatic posts. It is a life filled with both excitement and tragedy. In this autobiography, Strausz-Hupe covers a wide range of topics, including his youth in Vienna, his familial background, and his schooling. The author also discusses his emigration to the United States, describing his initial impressions of the country as well as how he viewed the changes that were occurring in American society and culture. Strausz-Hupe has written a poignant introduction for the republication of this volume. He explains how he reaches out to history for an explanation of who he is as an individual. Just as entire nations should learn from history, so should individuals, as Strausz-Hupe has attempted to do in his autobiography. Robert Strausz-Hupe is one of those increasingly rare, universally educated men whose minds conform only to their own beliefs and findings. His views of events such as the rise of German Nazism, or Chinese Communism, or the world of the theater in Europe between the two world wars are always fresh, exciting, and informed. In My Time will be enjoyed by all who read it, especially historians, political theorists, and policymakers.

European integration is focused on improving economic performance and increasing income levels in nations across the European Union. Political leaders and the media often use income trends to measure this progress, with inequality moving more and more to the forefront of these conversations. In this book, contributing authors focus on the economies within the EU, its member countries, and other European countries closely associated with the EU. The book includes an overview of economic and social trends, using long-term processes of European integration as a way to frame the discussions. Georg Fischer, Robert Strauss, and their contributors focus on explaining how policy makers and the media focus on national trends to measure progress among the nations in Europe. They make a specific point to look at the EU as an economic and political entity whose parts are closely interlinked rather than as a conglomerate of individual countries. The contributors consider the commonalities and differences between various institutions and policies, explaining how a decision in one country might impact another. Europe's Income, Wealth, Consumption, and Inequality offers a novel approach to the analysis of social and economic trends, and the resulting book identifies major policy challenges applicable in the EU and beyond.

Additional Contributor Is Charles Malik. Foreword By Paul R. Anderson.

A book for anyone concerned with living disease and allergy free in our modern world of toxic man-made chemicals and food additives. This groundbreaking, practical guide formerly titled "Resolve ALL Your Allergies, Sensitivities, and Intolerances Without Drugs"] is the culmination of the author's 12 year search to finally resolve his own laundry list of lifelong allergies and afflictions. During the process, he discovered a series of startling revelations: 1. Allergenic symptoms are caused by far more than pets, pollen, dust, molds and foods. 2. Chronic exposure to man-made food additives, plastics, and process chemicals greatly affects our susceptibility to allergies, illnesses, and other health disorders. 3. In addressing toxins in foods and household items, the author inadvertently resolved a number of his other lifelong afflictions and disorders, far beyond allergies, ones he'd always chalked up as "just part of living." 4. The remedies he uncovered were far simpler, cheaper, and less drastic than expected. If you regularly endure persistent flu-like symptoms, or are depressed, anxious, bloated, foggy, tired, sickly, achy -- if you worry about cancer, diabetes, heart disease, or any disease, for that matter -- then this timely book IS for you. Easy-to-use and read, this book contains a wealth of information not found anywhere else: - Action Items - 58 specific solutions, categorized by value in addressing specific allergies and ailments, along with their cost and ease of implementation. - The Maverick Allergy Map - A first-of-its-kind map, available only in this book, of the U.S. displaying the best and worst regions for chronic allergy sufferers (and Arizona is not tops). - Cost-Saving Healthy/Organic Foods Shopping Guide - Strategies for eating healthier, natural and organic foods on a tight budget. Among the over 100 allergens, irritants, and chemical toxins addressed are GMOs, VOCs, plastics, aspartame, coal-tar derived food additives, nanotech, cosmetics/drug/vaccine additives, pesticides, growth hormones, phytoestrogens, food process chemicals, MSG, aborted fetal tissue used in vaccines, mercury/thimoseral, and other toxic heavy metals. This book was written to spur you into improving your own life and health. Topics covered include the medical challenges, biology, technology, business, corruption, and politics behind our modern and unprecedented allergy/illness/disease epidemic. Issues discussed include how companies can legally claim their chemicals, individually, are not harmful, yet in combination they do create allergenic and health problems, and how even traces of heavy metals, when both found in the body, generate 100x+ multiplier disease effects. If you eat, drink, touch, wear, inject, or inhale it -- it is likely somewhere in this book. Equal parts practical guide, passionate polemic, and exciting call to action -- this book is a wake up call for you to take the health of both you and your loved ones more seriously. With its down-to-earth attitude and offbeat humor, this book will inform, entertain, and inspire. Make your life GREAT -- Dare to become more healthy and allergy-free than you'd ever imagined possible. It all begins with YOU, wanting to be the hero of your own life. The author has produced the toolkit, now GET TO IT

Additional Authors Include E. C. Ropes, Bryce Wood, Ellis O. Briggs, Galo Plaza, And Robert Henry Hadow. Preface By Nicholas Murray Butler. Introduction By Arthur P. Whitaker.

Foreword Reviews' INDIEFAB Book of the Year Winner in Biography "The Funniest. Presidential. Biographer. Ever." -Kai Bird, Pulitzer-prize winning historian Now in paperback, W.P.E. flips the great presidential biography on its head, offering an enlightening-and highly entertaining!-account of poor James Buchanan's presidency. This book proves once and for all that, well, few leaders could have done worse. But author Robert Strauss also explores with insight and humor the entire notion of ranking our presidents. He guides us through the POTUS rating game played by historians and others, the world of presidential history buffs, presidential sites, the presidency itself, and how and why the White House can often take the best measures out of even the most dedicated men.

GPS-Techniques Applied to Geodesy and Surveying contains the proceedings of an international workshop held in April 1988 at the Technical University in Darmstadt, Germany. It presents a state-of-the-art description of GPS techniques applied to geodesy and surveying with emphasis on monitoring time dependent phenomena. Theoretical, numerical, instrumental and rather general aspects of modern satellite positioning are treated. The articles are easy to read; the book addresses newcomers to the field as well as experts.

Un manual para instructores, entrenadores y estudiantes de educaci-n f'sica.