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The region encompassing Afghanistan and Pakistan (Af/Pak region) is
undergoing a fundamental strategic change. This book analyses the
nature of this strategic change, in ordre to seek possible future
scenarios and to examine policy options. It also undertakes a
critical review of the basic elements of the Western strategic
approach towards dealing with regional conflicts in all parts of
the world, with special emphasis on the Af/Pak region. Dealing with
the political developments i one of the most volatile regions in
the world - Afghanistan and Pakistan - the volume focuses on
Western strategic concerns. The withdrawal of ISAF by 2014 will
change the overall political setting and the work addresses the
challenges that will result for Western policymakers thereafter. It
examines the cases of Afghanistan and Pakistan separately, and also
looks at the broader region and tries to identify different
outcomes. This book will be of much interest to students of Central
and South Asian politics, strategic studies, foreign policy and
security studies generally.
The region encompassing Afghanistan and Pakistan (Af/Pak region) is
undergoing a fundamental strategic change. This book analyses the
nature of this strategic change, in ordre to seek possible future
scenarios and to examine policy options. It also undertakes a
critical review of the basic elements of the Western strategic
approach towards dealing with regional conflicts in all parts of
the world, with special emphasis on the Af/Pak region. Dealing with
the political developments i one of the most volatile regions in
the world - Afghanistan and Pakistan - the volume focuses on
Western strategic concerns. The withdrawal of ISAF by 2014 will
change the overall political setting and the work addresses the
challenges that will result for Western policymakers thereafter. It
examines the cases of Afghanistan and Pakistan separately, and also
looks at the broader region and tries to identify different
outcomes. This book will be of much interest to students of Central
and South Asian politics, strategic studies, foreign policy and
security studies generally.
In Odessa, the greatest port on the Black Sea, a dream of
cosmopolitan freedom inspired geniuses and innovators, from the
writers Alexander Pushkin and Isaac Babel to Zionist activist
Vladimir Jabotinsky and immunologist Ilya Mechnikov. Yet here too
was death on a staggering scale, as World War II brought the mass
murder of Jews carried out by the city s Romanian occupiers. Odessa
is an elegy for the vibrant, multicultural tapestry of which a
thriving Jewish population formed an essential part, as well as a
celebration of the survival of Odessa s dream in a diaspora
reaching all the way to Brighton Beach."
Based on new field research by an international team of post-Soviet
specialists, this is the first comparative study to examine the
complexities of trans-border ethnic groups and state-building in
the former Soviet Union.The collapse of the Soviet state
transformed internal administrative boundaries into international
frontiers. Russians, Ukrainian
When the Ottoman Empire collapsed, so many spies mingled in the
lobby of Istanbul's Pera Palace Hotel that the manager put up a
sign asking them to relinquish seats to paying guests. As the
multi-ethnic empire became a Turkish republic, Russian emigres sold
family heirlooms, an African American impresario founded a jazz
club and Miss Turkey became the first Muslim beauty queen. Turkey's
president Kemal Ataturk, Muslim feminist Halide Edip, the exiled
Leon Trotsky and the future Pope John XXIII fought for new visions
of human freedom. During the Second World War, German intellectuals
ran from the Nazis while Jewish activists spirited refugees out of
occupied Europe. This pioneering portrait of urban reinvention
re-creates an era when an ancient city became a global crossroads-a
moment when Europe's closest Muslim metropolis became its vital
port of refuge.
Based on new field research by an international team of post-Soviet
specialists, this is the first comparative study to examine the
complexities of trans-border ethnic groups and state-building in
the former Soviet Union.The collapse of the Soviet state
transformed internal administrative boundaries into international
frontiers. Russians, Ukrainians, and other ethnic groups overnight
became "nations abroad," communities separated from their
ostensible homelands by shifting interstate borders. Since 1991,
these new diasporas have had a powerful impact on minorities policy
within the Soviet successor states, as well as on relations between
the newly independent republics.Focusing on seven key cases--Jews,
Armenians, Russians, Ukrainians, Kazakhs, Poles, and Volga
Tatars--this book offers unique insights into the power of diaspora
politics within and between the new states of Eurasia. Political
scientists, sociologists, and international relations experts will
find this an indispensable guide to the complex interaction of
nations and states in the post-Soviet world.
*THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH
ACADEMY NAYEF AL-RODHAN PRIZE 2020* The riveting story of the
pioneers who redefined conceptions of 'normality' in the early
twentieth century. Under the guiding eye of cultural anthropologist
Franz Boas, these scientist-explorers - most of them women - made
intrepid journeys into far-flung communities all over the world,
where they documented radically different social approaches that
overturned Western assumptions about human diversity and challenged
the era's scientific consensus. Here, the boundary-breaking lives
and achievements of Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Ella Deloria and
Zora Neale Hurston are brought fully into light for the first time,
showing how their trailblazing discoveries helped shape the moral
universe we inhabit today. *WINNER OF THE FRANCIS PARKMAN PRIZE
2020* *FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2019*
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