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The early 1980s brought dramatic changes in East-West relations.
The decade began with the death of Yugoslavia's Tito, the birth of
Poland's Solidarity trade union, and the U.S. election of Ronald
Reagan as president. These key developments, together with the
growing financial insolvency of the Soviet bloc and shifts in power
in the Kremlin culminating in the election of Mikhail Gorbachev as
general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in
1985 signalled the end of an era. Since then, U.S. relations with
Europe have charted a new course, influenced especially by the
dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, the expansion of NATO, and the
growing strength of the European Union. This volume analyzes U.S.
relations with Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Russia, Poland, and
Ukraine, and examines the new role for NATO in the post-Cold War
world and the evolving dynamics in the U.S.-EU partnership. Through
their assessment of mutual perceptions, evolving interests, and
clashing agendas, the contributors offer a fresh and thoughtful
exploration of the relationship between the United States and the
major European states.
In the last century, competition among the global powers has relied
heavily upon the concept of war threat assessment. However, the
ways in which these powers define security have differed among
them, leading in some instances to miscommunication, conflict, and
even war. In Without Warning , accomplished scholar Mikhail
Alexseev compares the intelligence priorities of principal decision
makers in such various parts of the world as the Mongol Empire and
Sung China (1206-1220), Great Britain and France (1783-1800), and
the USA and the Soviet Union (1975-1991). In his analysis Alexseev
reveals that while the leading powers see security primarily in
military and economic terms, their challengers focus primarily on
political vulnerabilities. As a result, Alexseev asserts, the world
powers have consistently failed to detect or deter aggressive
challenges. A sharp, deciphering look at the interactions among the
major global players, Without Warning makes a crucial contribution
to the study of international relations.
Immigration phobia is a paradoxical global phenomenon: neither
theories that link conflict to symbolic and realistic threats, nor
the 'contact hypothesis' can systematically explain intense
anti-migrant alarmism and exclusionism toward marginally small
migrant minorities. Through a careful comparative study of
immigration attitudes in the Russian Far East, the EU, and the
United States, this book is the first to demonstrate that concerns
about national identity and economic interests associated with
migration are themselves ignited by a unique perceptual logic of
the security dilemma. Regression analysis and case studies trace
support for expulsion of migrants to human yearning for pre-emptive
self-defense under uncertainty. Alarmism and hostility arise from
ambiguities about immigration consequences and migrants'
motivations. Framing migration as a national security problem is
therefore logical, but counterproductive. The book instead
recommends managing migration through economic incentives and new
institutions at the global, national, and local level.
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