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Who really rules Iran today? Are the men in official positions merely puppets activated by hidden hands? How are decisions made in a system that appears so chaotic at first glance? Is the current political structure doomed to conflict? These are some of the questions that Amir Taheri addresses in this riveting and timely book. An anatomy of one of the most secretive regimes in the contemporary world, The Persian Night traces the historical, religious,...
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Angela E. Stent is Professor of Government at Georgetown University. Her previous books include From Embargo to Ostpolitik and Areas of Challenge for Soviet Foreign Policy in the 1980s.
The relationship between Russia and Germany has been pivotal in some of the most fateful events of the twentieth century: the two World Wars, the Cold War, and the emergence of a new Europe from the ashes of communism. This is the first book to examine the recent...
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Regardless of how rich our nations have become, we can't have everything-either as individuals or as societies-but we still do not know what we cannot have. Is it impossible, for example, to have the best, most technologically advanced health care rapidly available to all citizens without bankrupting the average taxpayer? Is it possible to have both a premier national defense and a world-class health system for the entire population? Will a multicultural...
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Contrary to an optimistic vision of a world "flattened" by the virtues of globalization, the sustainability and positive outcomes of economic and political homogenization are far from guaranteed. For better and for worse, globalization has become the most powerful force shaping the world's geopolitical landscape, whether it has meant integration or fragmentation, peace or war. The future partly depends on how new economic giants such as China, India,...
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International relations are generally understood as a realm of anarchy in which countries lack any superior authority and interact within a Hobbesian state of nature. In Hierarchy in International Relations, David A. Lake challenges this traditional view, demonstrating that states exercise authority over one another in international hierarchies that vary historically but are still pervasive today.
Revisiting the concepts of authority and sovereignty,...
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Esta obra, dirigida a estudiantes de Derecho, Ciencia Política y Relaciones Internacionales, describe el proceso de integración vivido en Europa desde el punto de visto jurídico, analiza cuál ha sido el desarrollo intergubernamental y supranacional en dicho contexto de integración y revisa la jurisprudencia del Tribunal de Justicia de la comunidades europeas y su incidencia en la formación del derecho comunitario. Estos temas cobran vital importancia...
87) Global Challenges and Solutions: A Comprehensive Overview Global Priorities: Addressing Critical
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The purpose of this book is to facilitate meaningful dialogue and inspire tangible actions regarding the topics discussed within its pages. My aim is to provide a comprehensive resource that not only enlightens but also encourages readers to engage in thoughtful consideration and proactive steps towards addressing the issues presented.To the Global Community:This book, "Global Priorities: Addressing Critical Challenges for a Better World," is dedicated...
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Although India and China have very different experiences of colonialism, they respond to that history in a similar way-by treating it as a collective trauma. As a result they have a strong sense of victimization that affects their foreign policy decisions even today. Wronged by Empire breaks new ground by blending this historical phenomenon, colonialism, with mixed methods-including archival research, newspaper data mining, and a new statistical method...
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The expert contributors examine the end of détente and the beginning of the new phase of the cold war in the early 1980s, Reagan's radical new strategies aimed at changing Soviet behavior, the peaceful democratic revolutions in Poland and Hungary, the events that brought about the reunification of Germany, the role of events in Third World countries, the critical contributions of Gorbachev and Yeltsin, and more.
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Advocates within the human rights movement have had remarkable success establishing new international laws, securing concrete changes in human rights policies and practices, and transforming the terms of public debate. Yet too often, the strategies these advocates have employed are not broadly shared or known. Campaigning for Justice addresses this gap to explain the "how" of the human rights movement. Written from a practitioner's perspective, this...
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The chapter headings are listed below to present the book structure clearly, which mirrors its thesis, namely that a world war is still possible brought about by a theoretically likely crisis whereupon a dictator will arise with a consequent world war, which may terminate the world, though we can avoid this future. 2 The World War 3 Problem 3 The Crisis Route 4 Systemic Crisis Causer: Communistish Russia is Metastable 5 Nationalistic Crisis Causer:...
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Abraham D. Sofaer argues that US policy toward Iran cannot safely be restricted to a strategy that considers only the two high-risk, costly, and potentially infeasible options of a preventive attack on Iran's nuclear facilities or containing a nuclear-armed Iran. Instead, the United States should respond forcefully to Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) aggression, enhancing its credibility and increasing the likelihood that Iran will negotiate...
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Perspectives in a Pandemic is a series of enlightening essays written by Kevin M. Cahill, M.D., providing a unique insight into the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Cahill draws on his extensive experiences in earlier epidemics, natural disasters, and armed conflicts to offer lessons, wisdom, guidance and support to frontline workers. While he wrote the essays as weekly reflections in the early months of the pandemic for the thousands of...
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A passionate personal journey through two cultures in conflict.
Shortly after militant Islamic terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center, Tamim Ansary of San Francisco sent an e-mail to twenty friends, telling how the threatened U.S. reprisals against Afghanistan looked to him as an Afghan American. The message spread, and in a few days it had reached, and affected, millions of people-Afghans and Americans, soldiers and pacifists, conservative...
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El presente libro constituye el primer producto conjunto entre el Centro de Estudios de Relaciones Internacionales -CERI, de la Universidad del Desarrollo -UDD de Santiago de Chile, y el Centro de Estudios sobre Globalización e Integración -CEGLI, del Colegio de Estudios Superiores de Administración -CESA de Bogotá. Se trata del quinto tomo de la colección sobre globalización e integración publicada por la Editorial CESA, en la cual se exploran...
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This collection critically examines "tolerance," "secularism," and respect for religious "diversity" within a social and political system dominated by Sufi brotherhoods. Through a detailed analysis of Senegal's political economy, essays trace the genealogy and dynamic exchange among these concepts while investigating public spaces and political processes and their reciprocal engagement with the state, Sunni reformist and radical groups, and non-religious...
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Today religious concerns stand at the center of international politics, yet key paradigms in international relations, namely realism, liberalism, and constructivism, barely consider religion in their analysis of political subjects. Whether the issue is Islamic terrorism, the Christian Right's foreign policy predilections toward Israel and Southern Sudan, the complications of faith-based Western activism abroad, the potential destabilization of atheist...
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David A. Lake is Research Director for International Relations at the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Entangling Relations (Princeton). Robert Powell is Robson Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He has written widely on the application of game theory to issues in strategic studies and international...
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Las guerras han motivado y forjado ciertos cambios sistémicos del orden internacional al punto de establecer reglas de juego para el combate y llevar a la creación de los Estados modernos. En ese sentido, el autor plantea que el terrorismo puede fungir también como motor de cambio en la arquitectura internacional. En últimas, el terrorismo es un fenómeno que, debido a su volatilidad, asimetría y naturaleza mutable no tiende a desaparecer, al...
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Bruce Berkowitz and Allan Goodman draw on historical analysis, interviews, and their own professional experience in the intelligence community to provide an evaluation of U.S. strategic intelligence. "While covert operations grab the headlines, intelligence analysis, carried out by CIA officers and their colleagues who are more professorial than conspiratorial, is more important to America's security. This is a primer to that analytic function." "Berkowitz...
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