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"Boundaries of Discord" delves into the longstanding territorial disputes that have shaped global geopolitics and continue to influence contemporary international relations. Drawing from historical records, diplomatic correspondence, and firsthand accounts, the book offers an in-depth exploration of unresolved territorial conflicts that span continents and centuries.Key components of the book include:Historical Background: A comprehensive introduction...
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Randall L. Schweller is Associate Professor of Political Science at The Ohio State University. Schweller's research focuses on theories of world politics, international security, and strategic studies. He is the author of Deadly Imbalances: Tripolarity and Hitler's Strategy of World Conquest, as well as many articles in journals such as World Politics, International Studies Quarterly, International Security, American Political Science Review, American...
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This in-depth analysis goes behind the headlines to understand why crucial negotiations fail. The author argues that diplomats often enter negotiations with flawed assumptions about human behavior, sovereignty, and power. Essentially, the international community is using a model of European diplomacy dating back to the 18th century to solve the complex problems of the 21st century. Through numerous examples, the author shows that the key failure in...
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Yasser Arafat's incremental conquest of Israel was learned at the feet of the North Vietnamese in 1970. The Vietnamese told the Arab leadership that they accepted the fact that victory in Vietnam would take many years, during which it would be necessary to temporarily accept the division of the country into two states, while they worked for a shift in the balance of power. In this, the Vietnamese were smart enough to permit the Americans to save...
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The Cuban Revolution was a catalyst in shaping American foreign policy over the past generation. Welch's study is the first detailed evaluation of U.S. policy toward Cuba in the early years of the Castro regime and the first effort to analyze public sentiment during that crucial period. Our response to Cuba was a mirror of our Cold War assumptions and frustrations--and of our apprehensions concerning revolutionary movements abroad.
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Concentrating on U.S. concerns for credibility abroad, Stueck uses recently declassified documents and many interviews to analyze the origins of the Sino-American confrontation in Korea in late 1950. He demonstrates how personalities (Secretary of State Marshall and General MacArthur) and bureaucracies (the State Department and the Joint Chiefs of Staff) influenced policy development and how congressional penny-pinching reduced prospects for a prudent...
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Este libro es representante de una corriente paulatinamente vigente en la realidad mundial y, por tanto, en los estudios de las relaciones internacionales; se convierte también en pionero de tales temas en la academia de Jalisco.
Lo que propone Actores locales, impactos globales: aportes académicos en paradiplomacia, es imaginar que los estudios hechos desde las relaciones internacionales puedan tocar tierra inmediata. La tradición de análisis...
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"Brothers at War" provides a detailed and nuanced examination of the bitter and complex rivalry between India and Pakistan, two nations that emerged from the British colonial yoke in 1947. Born out of a turbulent partition, these South Asian neighbors have been embroiled in a series of conflicts and tensions that have had significant implications for regional and global peace.Key facets of the book include:Roots of Partition: An exploration of the...
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Con la transformación del sistema internacional, las fronteras deben dejar de ser vistas como límites o líneas estáticas. Esta obra, resultado del diálogo transdisciplinar que por más de tres años sostuvieron investigadores latinoamericanos en coordinación con la Fundación Friedrich Ever Stiftung (FESCOL), constituye un valioso aporte a la literatura sobre el estado de las relaciones fronterizas y la política vecinal. Se abordan aquí los...
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We are living in times of unprecedented globalisation. Instead of making the world multipolar, history is being repeated as corporates blur the sovereign boundaries and indulge in the cartelization of resources. The world has always been at war over resources behind the façade of trade, politics, religion and ideology. Though the global order has evolved, the key has always been geography for "he who controls the geography, controls the resources...
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Russia is the world's other nuclear superpower — the only country that has the ability to wipe the United States off the map within 30 minutes.
With Russia and the U.S. currently having 1,700 nuclear weapons pointed at each other on hair trigger alert, our relationship with Russia is one of the most critical, requiring a rational policy.
In order to conduct a rational foreign policy, we must understand the other country's point of view. That doesn't...
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"Diplomatic Ties" offers an in-depth exploration of Mongolia's intricate and multifaceted relationships with its neighboring countries. Nestled between two global giants, Russia and China, Mongolia has historically navigated a complex geopolitical landscape, balancing its national interests with the often competing agendas of its larger neighbors. Beyond these two powers, Mongolia's interactions with other Asian nations provide further layers of intrigue...
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Después de su jubilación del servicio diplomático colombiano, Enrique Arrieta Lara se dedicó a conversar con sus allegados, quienes ven en él a su mejor maestro. Sus constantes charlas con sus estudiantes sobre lo divino y lo humano lo motivaron a escribir algunas de las historias que les contó, y de las cátedras que les dio, para que queden como recuerdo indeleble, sobre todo a las futuras generaciones magdalenenses. Una parte de estos documentos...
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In "The Arab Dictatorships - The Unfinished Work of the Arab Spring," he author meticulously examines the intricate dynamics that led to the rise, resilience, and in some cases, fall of autocratic regimes across the Arab world. With a blend of rigorous research and personal narratives, the author presents an unparalleled analysis of the region's political landscape before, during, and after the historic wave of uprisings known as the Arab Spring.The...
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El gobierno de cada país es, sin duda, un actor importante en la competitividad internacional y su rol, en este sentido, es impulsar una robusta identidad en el escenario global, sostenida a largo plazo, con el objetivo final del crecimiento económico que estimule el crecimiento social y el bienestar de los ciudadanos. Este libro analiza casos y hace luz sobre las posibilidades reales de Argentina en el mundo.
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With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States emerged as the world's sole superpower, which was the dawn of an international order known as unipolarity. The ramifications of imbalanced power extend around the globe-including the country at the center. What has the sudden realization that it stands alone atop the international hierarchy done to the United States? In Psychology of a Superpower, Christopher J. Fettweis examines how unipolarity...
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"The U.S. government has essentially two choices when dealing with adversarial states: isolate them or engage them. Isolate or Engage systematically examines the challenges to and opportunities for U.S. diplomatic relations with nine intensely adversarial states-China, Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, U.S.S.R./Russia, Syria, Venezuela, and Vietnam: states where the situation is short of conventional war and where the U.S. maintains limited or no formal...
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Las consecuencias del coronavirus son de distinto orden. En este libro se consideran algunas de las que afectan el orden mundial, el cual tendrá diversos impactos en la pospandemia. La pandemia de covid-19 no ha sido la primera ni tampoco será la última, en un mundo en el que la humanidad no ha sabido guardar la debida relación con la naturaleza y con el planeta. Se ha reaccionado con interpretaciones variadas sobre el coronavirus, algunas racionales...
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Il existe peu d'ouvrages sur l'analyse de la politique étrangère en langue française et la plupart d'entre eux découpent l'objet d'étude de manière soit thématique, soit géographique, soit théorique (théories de l'analyse de la politique étrangère et des relations internationales). Ce livre se démarque clairement de ces travaux. Son ambition est de réaliser un tour d'horizon des grands questionnements, des théories, des concepts et...
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