|
Showing 1 - 7 of
7 matches in All Departments
Since it first appeared, Power and Prejudice has been hailed as a
bold, pioneering work dealing with one of the central and most
controversial issues of our time?the relationship between racial
prejudice and global conflict. Powerfully written and based on
documents from archives on several continents, this award-winning
book convincingly demonstrates that the racial issue, or what
W.E.B. Du Bois called ?the problem of the twentieth century,? has
profoundly influenced most major developments in international
politics and diplomacy.Lauren begins with a thought-provoking
discussion of the heavy burden of history's pattern of conquest and
slavery wherin skin color identified master and slave, conqueror
and conquered. He then examines bitter twentieth-century conflicts
over race, including immigration exclusion and the ?Yellow Peril,?
the ?Final Solution? of the Holocaust, decolonization, the impact
of the Cold War on the civil rights movement, and the global
struggle against racial prejudice. In this new edition, Lauren adds
dimensions about Asia, Latin America, and the Pacific, exploring
the racial dimensions of immigration exclusion and warfare. He
contributes significant new material about international issues
regarding indigenous peoples around the world, including
self-determination, sovereignty, and discrimination. And finally,
he examines the dramatic events surrounding the end of apartheid in
South Africa.Eloquent, provocative, and informed by first-rate
scholarship, the insights of this highly original work will appeal
to general readers as well as to students and scholars from a broad
range of disciplines.
As we approach what is often called the Age of the Pacific one fact
is clearly before us: The next century will see the United States
and Japan standing together at the dynamic center of a new global
economic structure. Together, along with the other advanced
nations, we will share-even more than we do today-Bearing the
responsibility for shaping m
A group of American Foreign Service officers and journalists in
China during and after World War II-collectively known as "the
China Hands"-were accused of disloyalty, and in some cases treason,
for reporting on events as they saw them. Faced with the ethical
dilemma of what a public official's responsibility is when one
believes one's government's
As we approach what is often called the Age of the Pacific one fact
is clearly before us: The next century will see the United States
and Japan standing together at the dynamic center of a new global
economic structure. Together, along with the other advanced
nations, we will share-even more than we do today-Bearing the
responsibility for shaping much of the world's economic structure
is not new to the United States; it is what the Marshall Plan and
much post-World War II U.S. history is all about. But sharing this
responsibility is new, and here we have the challenge. The author
insists we must learn to see things in new ways, to understand the
nature of America's interdependence with Japan, and to reconceive
the national interest in light of what we understand of this
relationship.
Force and Statecraft: Diplomatic Challenges of Our Time, Sixth
Edition, is a stimulating, highly readable, and insightful analysis
of humanity's quest for peace and security. Its unique
interdisciplinary approach combines history, political science,
international law, and philosophy in order to explore the rich
experience of the past and consider how it can be brought to bear
on the diplomatic challenges that we confront in our world today.
This new edition makes a classic even better. It provides an
up-to-date treatment of the most recent and significant
international developments, including: - the profound impact of the
foreign policies of three individuals: Donald Trump of the United
States, Xi Jinping of China, and Vladimir Putin of Russia - growing
fears of nuclear proliferation in North Korea and Iran, "Brexit"
and divisions within the European Union and NATO, the civil war in
Syria, the Islamic State (ISIS), and other terrorist groups -
updated and thought-provoking coverage of the instruments of
statecraft, the multiple dimensions of power, the nature of
security (including "the security dilemma" and the "indivisibility
of security"), the changing features of sovereignty, and the role
of normative values as seen in ethical restraints, concepts of
legitimacy, international law, and norms of human rights - evolving
challenges for force and statecraft presented by weapons of mass
destruction, the diplomatic revolution, the "digital revolution,"
cyberattacks, climate change, and the global pandemic of COVID-19
Since it first appeared, Power and Prejudice has been hailed as a
bold, pioneering work dealing with one of the central and most
controversial issues of our time?the relationship between racial
prejudice and global conflict. Powerfully written and based on
documents from archives on several continents, this award-winning
book convincingly demonstrates that the racial issue, or what
W.E.B. Du Bois called ?the problem of the twentieth century,? has
profoundly influenced most major developments in international
politics and diplomacy.Lauren begins with a thought-provoking
discussion of the heavy burden of history's pattern of conquest and
slavery wherin skin color identified master and slave, conqueror
and conquered. He then examines bitter twentieth-century conflicts
over race, including immigration exclusion and the ?Yellow Peril,?
the ?Final Solution? of the Holocaust, decolonization, the impact
of the Cold War on the civil rights movement, and the global
struggle against racial prejudice. In this new edition, Lauren adds
dimensions about Asia, Latin America, and the Pacific, exploring
the racial dimensions of immigration exclusion and warfare. He
contributes significant new material about international issues
regarding indigenous peoples around the world, including
self-determination, sovereignty, and discrimination. And finally,
he examines the dramatic events surrounding the end of apartheid in
South Africa.Eloquent, provocative, and informed by first-rate
scholarship, the insights of this highly original work will appeal
to general readers as well as to students and scholars from a broad
range of disciplines.
This widely acclaimed and highly regarded book, used extensively
by students, scholars, policymakers, and activists, now appears in
a new third edition. Focusing on the theme of visions seen by those
who dreamed of what might be, Lauren explores the dramatic
transformation of a world patterned by centuries of human rights
abuses into a global community that now boldly proclaims that the
way governments treat their own people is a matter of international
concern--and sets the goal of human rights "for all peoples and all
nations." He reveals the truly universal nature of this movement,
places contemporary events within their broader historical
contexts, and explains the relationship between individual cases
and larger issues of human rights with insight.This new edition
incorporates material from recently declassified documents and the
most recent scholarship relating to the creation of the new Human
Rights Council and its Universal Periodic Review, the International
Criminal Court, the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), terrorism and
torture, the impact of globalization and modern technology, and
activists in NGOs devoted to human rights. It provides perceptive
assessments of the process of change, the power of visions and
visionaries, politics and political will, and the evolving meanings
of sovereignty, security, and human rights themselves.
|
|