In Diplomacy Lessons, Kiesling reminds readers that U.S. power does not rest on military might alone and that anger at America has real consequences for U.S. national interests. The security and prosperity of the American people depend on efficient cooperation with foreigners on a range of issues, not only terrorism and nuclear nonproliferation but also trade policy, environmental protection, a…
Buku ini fokus pada aspek Hubungan Internasional (HI), mempelajari strategi Unilateral Diplomasi USTR dan pendukungnya, serta menganalisis dengan pisau teori Politik Ekonomi Global. Sedikit karya tulis yang berani berpikir kritis dan berbeda dengan incumbent seperti buku ini, yang memperdulikan kepentingan konsumen atau masyarakat pengguna software proprietary, yang semestinya menjadi national …
In 1945, as the horrors of the Second World War finally came to a close, few would have guessed that less than five years later the United States would be locked into something called a Cold War with its former ally, the Soviet Union. But by 1947, that's exactly what happened. Somehow the American viewpoint had changed: now Russia was the enemy.
Semakin bertambahnya struktur multikultural dari masyarakat modern telah memunculkan berbagai konflik dan isu baru, seperti minoritas-minoritas nasional dan etnis yang menuntut pengakuan dan dukungan terhadap identitas kultural mereka. Buku ini menyajikan sebuah konsepsi tentang hak-hak dan status kultur-kultur minoritas
In what may be the best analysis of how international relations affected any domestic issue, Mary Dudziak interprets postwar civil rights as a Cold War feature. She argues that the Cold War helped facilitate key social reforms, including desegregation. Civil rights activists gained tremendous advantage as the government sought to polish its international image. But improving the nation's reputa…
Is Communism's collapse merely the passing of a particularly lethal adversarial relationship between the super powers - or an extraordinary chance to make fundamental changes in how nations resolve conflicts? In answering this query, Bruce Russett shows that the world's great nations now have an opportunity to realize the "democratic peace" envisioned by Immanuel Kant and Woodrow Wilson. These …
Contents: 1. Blowback 2. OILYgarchy 3. Drilling and killing : Chevron and Nigeria's oil dictatorship 4. Crackdown 5. Smackdown 6. Lockdown 7. Lies of our times 8. State media, American style, etc.
This book offers a comprehensive guide to identifying the means by which interrelationships of armed services and society can be explored and explained. It indicates the salient variables in these relationships, examines existing theories of civil-military relations, and sets out an overarching theory that seeks to provide both explanations for changes and a tool for prediction.
After September 11, Americans agonized over why nineteen men hated the United States enough to kill three thousand civilians in an unprovoked assault. Analysts have offered a wide variety of explanations for the attack, but the one voice missing is that of the terrorists themselves. This penetrating book is the first to present the inner logic of al-Qa’ida and like-minded extremist groups by …
In 2011, many Syrians took to the streets of Damascus to demand the overthrow of the government of Bashar al-Assad. Today, much of Syria has become a war zone where foreign journalists find it almost impossible to report on life in this devastated land. Burning Country explores the horrific and complicated reality of life in present-day Syria with unprecedented detail and sophistication, drawin…