Diplomacy

Uno de los síntomas más claros de los tiempos de crisis y cambio estructural es la ausencia de un lenguaje para nombrar las cosas.

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'A rigorous and thoughtful study of what has happened on battlefields over the past eight decades' THE TIMES'A hugely important book .

Este libro reúne las reflexiones de destacados colombianos y venezolanos sobre la trascendencia histórica de los presidentes Carlos Lleras Restrepo y Rómulo Betancourt alrededor de tres grandes temas: primero, su figura humana e intelectual; segundo, su ideario político y su significado como estadistas, y por último, su pensamiento internacional y sus contribuciones a la amistad colombo-venezolana.

Die Geschichte des Gefangenen 01228/1 ist die kafkaeske Geschichte einer doppelten Gefangenschaft.

Aunque la caída del Muro de Berlín y la implosión soviética auguraban una etapa de paz y prosperidad, en la que los dos bloques terminarían convergiendo en torno a la democracia y al libre mercado, las cosas resultaron diferentes: casi tres décadas después, Rusia se levantó –una vez más– de sus cenizas, y hoy desafía a las potencias occidentales.

#1 New York Times BestsellerPeter Schweizer says that, in aquarter-century as an investigative journalist, this is the scariest investigation he has ever conducted.

Was macht einen Diplomaten aus?

La desigualdad de género ha sido histórica y universal.

"Wie lebt es sich als Frau in der Position einer Botschafterin in Iran?

En un mundo cada vez más dinámico y convulso, el multilateralismo y las organizaciones internacionales son una necesidad intrínseca a la escena internacional.

El eje que articula las diferentes aportaciones contenidas en este libro cruza la acción de la diplomacia y de agentes culturales americanos que se emplearon, ya fuera de manera oficial o privada, en promover o participar en iniciativas que tuvieron lugar en la coyuntura de la Dictadura de Primo de Rivera.

A bold new history showing that the fear of Communism was a major factor in the outbreak of World War IIThe Spectre of War looks at a subject we thought we knew-the roots of the Second World War-and upends our assumptions with a masterful new interpretation.

How nonstate military strategies overturn traditional perspectives on warfareSince September 11th, 2001, armed nonstate actors have received increased attention and discussion from scholars, policymakers, and the military.

A history of the Ottoman incorporation of Arab lands that shows how gentlemanly salons shaped culture, society, and governanceHistorians have typically linked Ottoman imperial cohesion in the sixteenth century to the bureaucracy or the sultan's court.

In this powerfully argued book, Ian Shapiro shows that the idea of containment offers the best hope for protecting Americans and their democracy into the future.

The first in-depth account of the historic diplomatic agreement that served as a blueprint for ending the Cold WarThe Helsinki Final Act was a watershed of the Cold War.

Against Massacre looks at the rise of humanitarian intervention in the nineteenth century, from the fall of Napoleon to the First World War.

An exciting and richly detailed new history of the Silk Road that tells how it became more important as a route for diplomacy than for tradeThe King's Road offers a new interpretation of the history of the Silk Road, emphasizing its importance as a diplomatic route, rather than a commercial one.

A new edition of the classic work on the economic tools of foreign policyToday's complex and dangerous world demands a complete understanding of all the techniques of statecraft, not just military ones.

From the acclaimed author of The Gunpowder Age, a book that casts new light on the history of China and the West at the turn of the nineteenth centuryGeorge Macartney's disastrous 1793 mission to China plays a central role in the prevailing narrative of modern Sino-European relations.

Making War and Building Peace examines how well United Nations peacekeeping missions work after civil war.

In A Necessary Engagement, the CIA's former point man on Islam makes a vigorous case for a renewal of American public diplomacy in the Muslim world.

Die große Geschichte einer kleinen InselHelgoland, ein rauer Felsen in der Nordseebrandung und zugleich seit knapp 200 Jahren Symbol und Kampfplatz deutscher wie englischer Historie.

In 1971 the United States had no diplomatic relations or established route of communications with China.

Why do some leaders and segments of the public display remarkable persistence in confrontations in international politics, while others cut and run?

A close look at the evolution of American political alliances in Asia and their futureWhile the American alliance system in Asia has been fundamental to the region's security and prosperity for seven decades, today it encounters challenges from the growth of China-based regional organizations.

On War and Democracy provides a richly nuanced examination of the moral justifications democracies often invoke to wage war.

A reexamination of America's overloaded foreign policy tradition and its importance for global politics todayDebates about U.

Theories of international relations, assumed to be universally applicable, have failed to explain the creation of states in Africa.

How presidents forged the American centuryThis book examines the foreign policy decisions of the presidents who presided over the most critical phases of America's rise to world primacy in the twentieth century, and assesses the effectiveness and ethics of their choices.

In the last six decades, one of the most striking developments in international law is the emergence of a massive body of legal norms and procedures aimed at protecting human rights.

How the Grand Alliance of World War II succeeded-and then collapsed-because of personal politicsIn the spring of 1945, as the Allied victory in Europe was approaching, the shape of the postwar world hinged on the personal politics and flawed personalities of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin.

The behind-the-scenes story of how today's war crimes tribunals came to beWithin days of Madeleine Albright's confirmation as U.

A new vision for the American world orderIn the second half of the twentieth century, the United States engaged in the most ambitious and far-reaching liberal order building the world had yet seen.

A fascinating history of the international human rights movement as seen by one of its foundersDuring the past several decades, the international human rights movement has had a crucial hand in struggles against totalitarian regimes and crimes against humanity.

A new history exploring U.

Aunque la vida moderna avanza hacia la informalidad en muchos ámbitos, el protocolo prevalece.

En este libro confluyen los aportes de autores nacionales e internacionales que ofrecen soluciones factibles para resolver conflictos como el colombiano.

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.

Esta es la primera publicación del recién fundado Instituto de Estudios Europeos (IEE) de la Universidad del Norte en Barranquilla.

"Esta obra no tiene una ambición distinta a la de estimular una reflexión sobre el alcance de la cultura en la política exterior de los Estados.

El objetivo principal de esta obra es reconstruirlos procesos migratorios que llevaron a los migrantes de la ex Unión de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas, a residir en Bucaramanga (Colombia).

El texto articula de una manera novedosa las trayectorias de vida de lideres y lideresas del pueblo Arhuaco, contrastandolas con discusiones de alto nivel desarrolladas por los autores del libro en torno a la memoria, los derechos humanos y la participacion, siendo este uno de los aportes mas importantes del libro, al visibilizar las dinamicas que en muchos casos desdibujan los supuestos teoricos y analiticos de las organizaciones sociales indigenas.

El aniversario de los 70 años del inicio de la Guerra Civil es una ocasión propicia para recordar el papel que desempeñó el presidente Lázaro Cárdenas y el régimen de la Revolución Mexicana en la defensa de los intereses de la República Española en el ámbito internacional.

En esta obra se recoge el testimonio del embajador Gustavo Iruegas, personaje que tuvo un papel protagónico en la diplomacia mexicana de la segunda mitad del siglo XX y, en particular, en la fase del conflicto centroamericano de los años setenta y ochenta.

The essential resource on military and political strategy and the making of the modern worldThe New Makers of Modern Strategy is the next generation of the definitive work on strategy and the key figures who have shaped the theory and practice of war and statecraft throughout the centuries.

The book series "e;Diplomatica"e; of the Don Juan Archiv Wien researches cultural aspects of diplomacy and diplomatic history up to the nineteenthcentury.

1940 ist Chiune "Sempo" Sugihara offiziell der japanische Vize-Konsul in Litauen.