Michael Shafer argues that American policymakers have fundamentally misperceived the political context of revolutionary wars directed against American clients and that because American attempts at counterinsurgency were based on faulty premises, these efforts have failed in virtually every instance.
This book makes clear how, and why, after World War II American diplomats tried to make the atom bomb a winning weapon,"e; an absolute advantage in negotiations with the Soviet Union.
The Berlin crisis, the Suez intervention, the Cyprus problem, and other differences among the NATO powers have tended to weaken the alliance in the face of constant Soviet pressure.
This book evaluates the Simulated International Processer (SIPER) model of the international political system, which was derived from the Inter-Nation Simulation model created at Northwestern University.
A systematic and thorough analysis of a small, determined and comparatively wealthy "e;new"e; state's attempts to enlarge its influence and augment its power.
A comprehensive and often controversial account of Japan's foreign and security policy before the Second World War based on War Crimes Trials materials, original Japanese sources, and detailed accounts by Japanese historians.
Our preoccupation with the role of the United States in Latin American affairs has obscured the important part played by Canada and the nonhemispheric nations, e.
Australia, confronted by the rise of Communist China, the pressures of United States policy, and articulate interest groups within its own boundaries is attempting to adjust to its role as a "e;Middle Power"e; among major powers.
This is a comprehensive study of one of the most startling examples of dollar diplomacy--the effort of the United States and the United Kingdom to monopolize the free world's supply of uranium and thorium during and immediately following World War II.
Examining the Berlin crises of 1948-49 and 1961, the Taiwan Strait crisis of 1958, and the Cuban crisis of 1962, the author elucidates various intermediate and highly politicized forms of international coercion.
Wilfred Kohl analyzes the development of France's atomic force, focusing on the role of nuclear weapons in de Gaulle's policies and its impact on French relations with NATO, her key alliance partners (the United States, Great Britain, and West Germany), and the U.
As this study traces the history of the dramatic intra-scientific conflict over nuclear weapons which has developed since World War II, it analyzes the politically relevant ideas, attitudes, and behavior of those scientists who have been influential in the formulation of American policy toward nuclear weapons.
This work draws on insights from the experimental and theoretical literature on bargaining to provide a much-needed comprehensive treatment of the neglected subject of how wars end.
Although France, Poland, and Czechoslovakia were in jeopardy from a recovery of German power after World War I and from a potential German hegemony in Europe, France failed in her efforts to maintain a system of alliances with her two imperiled neighbors.
This book explores the ambitious policies and strategies implemented by Yunnan’s provincial government to establish transnational linkages with neighboring countries in South and Southeast Asia.
This book explores the ambitious policies and strategies implemented by Yunnan’s provincial government to establish transnational linkages with neighboring countries in South and Southeast Asia.
If international cooperation was difficult to achieve and to sustain during the Cold War, why then were two rival superpowers able to cooperate in placing limits on their central strategic weapons systems?
This two-volume set provides a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) and its growing importance in the Indo-Pacific’s strategic landscape.
This two-volume set provides a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) and its growing importance in the Indo-Pacific’s strategic landscape.
After the Spanish-American War the United States, both by design and by accident, became involved in the Caribbean and the Far East on a scale that would have seemed highly improbable before 1898.
Fachbuch aus dem Jahr 2026 im Fachbereich Politik - Internationale Politik und Länderanalysen, Note: 1,0, Universität Bielefeld (Soziologie Fakultät), Veranstaltung: Deutsche Sozialpolitik in vergleichender Perspektive, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Migration stellt seit vielen Jahren ein zentrales Thema in den politischen Diskussionen Europas dar.
Why did nuclear energy policies in France, Sweden, and the United States, very similar at the time of the oil crisis of 1973 and 1974, diverge so greatly in the following years?
An urgent call-to-action outlining how we can prevent a global conflict in the near-future from Tobias Ellwood, former Defence Minister and Chair of the House of Commons Defence Committee.
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2025 in the subject Politics - Region: Africa, grade: 8,5, , language: English, abstract: This thesis investigates the extent to which national menstrual health management (MHM) policies in Kenya and South Africa reduce educational inequality for menstruating pupils.
Soon after nuclear weapons devastated the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Bernard Brodie and several colleagues wrote The Absolute Weapon, which predicted that the atomic bomb would revolutionize international politics.
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2024 in the subject Politics - Region: Africa, , language: English, abstract: Ghana, the pioneering nation of African independence, now stands at a historic crossroads.
Between 1921 and 1933, the United States moved from a policy of active intervention to a policy of noninterference in the internal political affairs of the Caribbean states.
Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Politik - Thema: Internationale Beziehungen, Note: 1,6, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die europäische Reaktion auf den russischen Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine 2022 gilt als außenpolitischer Meilenstein: In seltener Einigkeit verhängte die Europäische Union massive Sanktionen gegen Russland – trotz tiefgreifender ökonomischer Verflechtungen, asymmetrischer Abhängigkeiten und politischer Uneinigkeit unter den Mitgliedstaaten.
