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18 personal narratives selected and edited from material recorded during an oral history project conducted by the author between 2002-2012

• Pt. 1. La terre de Kampong Svay sous le règne personnel du roi Norodom
• 1. Une marche du royaume
• Modèle théorique de l'administration des provinces appliqué à Kampong Svay
• Le temps de Ey : le pouvoir dans la terre de Kampong Svay et l'affirmation de Norodom
• L'uk na tejo Ey, un dignitaire proche du Siam à la fidélité douteuse
• Ey, les habitants de Kampong Svay et Poukombo
• L'éviction de Ey par le haut
• Le temps de Si Votha : une marche au cœur des révoltes
• Kampong Svay dans la révolte de 1875-1877
• Kampong Svay dans la Grande Insurrection de 1885
• Si Votha, improbable souverain des terres du Nord
• Les malheurs des temps
• Après la tempête
• Créer les conditions d'un retour au calme
• La violence ne disparaît pas
• La terre de Kampong Svay, la sécurité des habitants et l'État
• 2. Des rizières entre forêts et lacs
• Une agriculture diversifiée
• Les productions agricoles
• Le calendrier des activités agricoles à la fin du XIXe siècle
• Le paysan, la terre et le roi
• Des forêts sources de richesse
• Le bois
• L'importance des produits forestiers non ligneux
• Les prélèvements sur les produits forestiers
• La pêche
• La petite pêche
• La grande pêche
• Taxation et contrôle de la pêche
• Mines et artisanat
• Les mines de fer de Kampong Svay
• L'artisanat local
• Une marche connectée
• Les modalités de l'échange
• Le commerce des produits forestiers
• Le commerce du poisson
• Les produits importés à Kampong Thom
• Prospérité économique dans les premières décennies du règne de Norodom
• 3. Une société rurale hiérarchisée aux réseaux imbriqués
• Individus et communautés en situation de dépendance extrême
• Les khnum bnan, esclaves de particuliers
• Les anak nar : au service du roi, des dignitaires et des pagodes
• Les engagés pour dettes ou khnum ge
• Hommes et femmes de bien : anak jà
• Un statut personnel lié à des capacités économiques
• L'intégration dans le système des kamlamn
• Étrangers et minorités
• Ceux qui encadrent les villageois
• Les bonzes
• Les dignitaires
• Devenir dignitaire
• Richesse et influence
• Sociabilités villageoises
• La pagode et le village
• Hommes et femmes dans les campagnes cambodgiennes
• La communauté villageoise ?
• Pt. 2. Kampong Thom sous administration française
• 4. Pouvoir de l'État colonial et maintien de l'ordre
• L'administration de la province par l'État colonial
• L'encadrement administratif
• L'administration des villages
• Une présence encore limitée de l'État
• Les forces de sécurité
• 1897-1941 : panorama d'un demi-siècle de violence au village
• 1897-1914 : La "Paix française" ?
• La criminalité
• Les révoltes
• 1915-1919 : Kampong Thom et la Grande Guerre
• 1920-1929 : "l'âge d'or du protectorat" ?
• 1930-1939 : crise économique et criminalité
• Sociologie de la criminalité et de la violence, 1897-1939
• Les victimes
• Victimes d'homicide
• Les victimes d'attaques à main armée
• Vivre de la violence
• Kampong Thom dans la Seconde Guerre mondiale et les crises de la décolonisation : un îlot épargné ?
• Kampong Thom dans la Seconde Guerre mondiale
• Kampong Thom dans les luttes de libération des peuples indochinois
• L'introduction de la démocratie dans les campagnes cambodgiennes
• La guérilla des Khmaer issara
• L'État à Kampong Thom et la sécurité des habitants
• 5. La mise en valeur de Kampong Thom
• Produire de manière plus "moderne" ?
• Une agriculture rétive à l'innovation imposée
• Essarteurs et forestiers face à l'État
• Kampong Thom et les concessions
• Faire de Kampong Thom une grande région d'élevage
• Le boom du caoutchouc à Kampong Thom
• Une pêche déjà très productive
• Une industrie minière sur le déclin qui reste aux mains des Kuoy
• Désenclavement de Kampong Thom et interrelations avec l'économie-monde
• Le développement d'un réseau routier "automobilable"
• Les réseaux chinois et les liens avec l'économie-monde
• Développement du salariat et monétarisation des échanges structurellement insuffisante
• L'impact de la Grande Crise
• Les errements de l'action publique
• La Seconde Guerre mondiale : Kampong Thom en lien avec un Cambodge isolé
• Les campagnes de Kampong Thom dans les études de Jean Delvert
• La propriété foncière et ses évolutions
• "L'acquisition par la charrue"
• ... Et ses limites
• Évolutions des paysages
• Kampong Thom : du marché au centre urbain
• Baray, un exemple d'évolution des paysages ruraux
• La "modernisation" esquissée de l'économie rurale
• 6. Une société rurale "modernisée" ?
• Les campagnes de Kampong Thom face à l'action dite sociale de la France
• De "l'esclave" au déclassé
• L'abolition de l'esclavage et la réforme de l'engagement pour dettes
• Un processus inachevé
• La condition des engagés et des salariés ruraux
• L'école française à la campagne
• Accès aux soins et évolution démographique
• La condition des paysans khmers
• Un renouvellement des élites ?
• Anciens et nouveaux dignitaires à Kampong Thom
• Les élites de l'argent
• L'importance des réseaux
• Modes de vie du groupe élitaire
• Les nouvelles notabilités villageoises
• Sociabilités villageoises en évolution
• Le monastère et le village à l'heure de la "modernité"
• Réformistes et traditionnalistes à la pagode
• La pagode centre de la communauté villageoise ?
• L'écrit, la pagode et le lien entre le village et l'extérieur
• De la place des femmes
• L'ordre social dans les campagnes sous protectorat
• Conclusion
• Mise en communication et modifications de l'ordre social
• Une mise en communication des campagnes cambodgiennes
• Permanences et adaptations des économies provinciales et villageoises
• Contrôler les campagnes de Kampong Thom : les liens avec le centre
• Un ordre social bouleversé.

"Dans le cadre de son protectorat sur le Cambodge, la France entreprend de modifier l'organisation politique, sociale, économique du royaume khmer afin de le "moderniser." Elle s'appuie alors sur les concepts de "mission civilisatrice" et de "mise en valeur". Inscrite à l'échelle de la province cambodgienne de Kampong Thom, cette étude cherche en quoi près d'un siècle de présence française a changé la vie de la masse des Cambodgiens, les habitants des campagnes, et fait évoluer les structures de la société entre le milieu du x lx' siècle et l'indépendance en 1953. Elle s'appuie sur les abondantes sources coloniales françaises, confrontées aux sources khmères, afin que le point de vue des Cambodgiens soit pleinement pris en compte. Les problèmes traités couvrent la relation des habitants à leur roi et à l'État, le renforcement de l'intégration du Cambodge à l'économie-monde, l'évolution des productions agricoles et artisanales, les conséquences environnementales de la colonisation, l'abolition de l'esclavage et ses conséquences, les relations entre hommes et femmes, les réformes du bouddhisme theravada, l'introduction de la médecine et de l'école occidentales, les stratégies des élites rurales pour perdurer, la vie quotidienne... Sur le temps long, la terre de Kampong Svay devenue province de Kampong Thom est traversée par des changements profonds et des permanences que Mathieu Guérin parvient à mettre en lumière."--Page 4 of cover.

• Exergue
• Préface
• Introduction
• De l'article d'Arié Guilbloum
• "Les Juifs marocains de l'oubli"
• Le trafic d'enfants
• L'émigration clandestine
• Wadi Salib
• Le film Mipaatey Maarav
• La fin du peuple juif, livre de G. Friedmann
• Les enfants du Yémen
• Oded, mouvement estudiantin juif marocain
• Les Panthères noires d'Israël
• Le Festival culturel des Juifs du Maroc
• L'exposition La vie juive au Maroc au Musée d'Israël
• Réhabilitation : Sauvegarde de la culture sépharade
• Le séminaire d'intégration de la culture sépharade
• La télévision éducative
• "Les protocoles des vieux racistes de Sion"
• Image du juif marocain dans le cinéma israélien
• Cazablan
• Mariages mixtes
• Les évictions
• Malkate hakvich
• Egoz
• La revue sioniste "Images"
• Regards sur la société israélienne
• De la victime à l'oppresseur
• Pour une réhabilitation des Juifs du Maroc en Israël
• Michael Inbar : Intégration ethnique en Israël.

"L'histoire contemporaine des Juifs du Maroc est étroitement liée à l'existence de l'Etat d'Israël. Leur condition déplorable aussi. L'image discriminante du juif marocain dans la propagande sioniste devait masquer le régime d'exploitation à outrance des pauvres émigrants juifs marocains qui ont connu en Israël le confinement concentrationnaire dans les déserts où ils furent déposés à la merci de leurs nouveaux maîtres. Ce ne sont pas les Arabes du Maroc qui les ont empêchés de progresser, bien au contraire ils leur avaient offert l'accès aux études supérieures avec des bourses d'études. La principale fonction de toutes les fausses accusations formulées et enseignées contre les Juifs du Maroc s'est opérée au niveau de la stimulation d'attitudes défavorables à l'égard des juifs marocains aussi bien en Israël que dans la diaspora. On se pose la question de savoir si le matériel de propagande toxique contre les Juifs du Maroc par les Ashkénazes ne relève pas des préoccupations de la ligue contre les diffamations. Après toutes leurs souffrances sous la botte ashkénaze, ils sont les seuls autorisés à leur déclarer qu'ils ont fait de leur rêve un cauchemar."--Page 4 of cover.

"16 août 1942 : non loin de la ligne de démarcation, deux enfants ont été cachés, Robert Créange et sa sœur Françoise, alors âgés de 11 et 13 ans. Désespérés d'attendre le retour de leurs parents, ils les voient disparaître dans une voiture allemande. Internés au camp de Drancy, ils seront déportés et assassinés à Auschwitz. Comment survivre à des questions sans réponse ? Comment mener une vie si tôt chargée d'un tel héritage ? Que dire ? Que raconter ? Et pourquoi, pour qui, le faire ? Robert a fait du témoignage de cette douloureuse expérience sa raison de vivre. À tous les moments de sa longue carrière dans l'enseignement et l'éducation, la politique ou l'activité associative, il s'est montré un infatigable partisan de la mémoire. En 2015, il a accepté de confier le récit de sa vie à la sociologue Claire Lévy-Vroelant. Une parenté éloignée mais bien présente rapproche les deux protagonistes. Rompant un long silence intérieur, la situation d'enquête leur a permis d'inventer un espace de parole. Parole courtisée, déclamée ou murmurée dans le trouble et les larmes, parole traçante, glaçante, hilare, pudique, mutine, suivant le fil des souvenirs perdus, retrouvés et reprisés. À travers le récit de Robert, disparu en 2021, nous voyons les linéaments d'une mémoire au travail avec ses ruses et ses revirements, ses tyrannies et ses délices que continûment l'auteure se risque à susciter et révéler."--Page 4 of cover.

Many histories of Ancient Greece center their stories on Athens, but what would that history look like if they didn't? There is another way to tell this story, one that situates Greek history in terms of the relationships between smaller Greek cities and in contact with the wider Mediterranean. In this book, author Joshua P. Nudell offers a new history of the period from the Persian wars to wars that followed the death of Alexander the Great, from the perspective of Ionia. While recent scholarship has increasingly treated Greece through the lenses of regional, polis, and local interaction, there has not yet been a dedicated study of Classical Ionia. This book fills this clear gap in the literature while offering Ionia as a prism through which to better understand Classical Greece. This book offers a clear and accessible narrative of the period between the Persian Wars and the wars of the early Hellenistic period, two nominal liberations of the region. The volume complements existing histories of Classical Greece. Close inspection reveals that the Ionians were active partners in the imperial endeavor, even as imperial competition constrained local decision-making and exacerbated local and regional tensions. At the same time, the book offers interventions on critical issues related to Ionia such as the Athenian conquest of Samos, rhetoric about the freedom of the Greeks, the relationship between Ionian temple construction and economic activity, the status of the Panionion, Ionian poleis and their relationship with local communities beyond the circle of the dodecapolis, and the importance of historical memory to our understanding of ancient Greece. The result is a picture of an Aegean world that is more complex and less beholden narratives that give primacy to the imperial actors at the expense of local developments

• Introduction
• Indian prophet or father of Arabian Paganism? : the Buddha and the Buddhists in the History of India
• Perfect souls, imperfect bodies : refuting reincarnation at the Mongol court
• Converting fortune : from Buddhist Cakravartins to lords of auspicious conjunction
• King of Kalam : Öljeitü's theological domestication
• From ancestor worship to shrine-centered kingship : Ilkhanid confessional politics and the debate over shrine visitation
• Epilogue : kingship and the court debate after the Mongols

"The US Navy charged Black sailors with rioting and assaults on White sailors in an incident referred to as a race riot, while totally ignoring violent unprovoked assaults committed by White sailors and Marines. Author Marv Truhe was a Navy JAG defense lawyer seeking justice for the accused Black sailors. Truhe possesses one of the most complete collections, personal or institutional, of original source documents of the Kitty Hawk incident and its legal aftermath--trial transcripts, investigation reports, hundreds of sworn statements and medical reports, federal court pleadings, and case files and witness interviews. How could virtually all official and unofficial accounts of the incident have placed blame for the incident solely on twenty-three Black sailors? How could they have been subjected to blatant racial injustices without their story being told until now?"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction
• 1. 1908
• 2. Charles Crane, Abraham Rihbany and Ameen Rihani: On the Path to Arab Nationalism
• 3. "America Save the Near East": World War I, The Arab Revolt and the Growth of Arab Nationalism
• 4. American Arab Nationalists In Paris
• 5. The Disillusionment of Abraham Rihbany: The King-Crane Commission
• 6. Three Trips: 1920-1925
• 7. Charles Crane's Revolution and Ameen Rihani's Wahhabism
• 8. America's Arab Nationalists, Zionism and Hitler
• 9. Epilogue.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

America's Arab Nationalists focuses in on the relationship between Arab nationalists and Americans in the struggle for independence in an era when idealistic Americans could see the Arab nationalist struggle as an expression of their own values. In the first three decades of the twentieth century (from the 1908 Ottoman revolution to the rise of Hitler), important and influential Americans, including members of the small Arab-American community, intellectually, politically and financially participated in the construction of Arab nationalism. This book tells the story of a diverse group of people whose contributions are largely unknown to the American public. The role Americans played in the development of Arab nationalism has been largely unexplored by historians, making this an important and original contribution to scholarship. This volume is of great interest to students and academics in the field, though the narrative style is accessible to anoyone interested in Arab nationalism, the conflict between Zionists and Palestinians, and the United States' relationship with the Arab world.
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• An Introduction to the Ancient Israelite World: The State of the Field and Future Directions / Kyle H. Keimer and George A. Pierce
• Part I: Backgrounds and Methodological Considerations
• The Historical Geography of Ancient Israel: The Amalekite Spoil List (1 Sam 30:27-31) as a Case Study / Chris McKinny
• Competing Chronologies, Competing Histories: Ancient Israel and the Chronology of the Southern Levant ca. 1200-587 BCE / Koert van Bekkum
• The Historian and the Assemblage: On the Interpretation of Texts and Artifacts for the History of Ancient Israel / Daniel Pioske
• Between the Biblical Story and History: Writing an Archaeological History of Ancient Israel / Avraham Faust
• Texts, Archaeology, and Ethnicity: Identifying Ancient Israel / William G. Dever
• Part II: Material Culture
• A Technological and Sociological Perspective on Ancient Israelite Pottery / Nava Panitz-Cohen 8. Domestic Architecture, the Household, and Daily Life in Iron Age Israel
• Jeffrey R. Zorn
• Monuments, Monumental Architecture, and Monumentality in Ancient Israel / Kyle H. Keimer
• Stone Volutes: United by a Common Motif not by a Common Function / Norma Franklin
• From Urban Centers into Mounds of Ruins: The Destruction of Cities During the Iron Age / Igor Kreimerman
• Regional Continuity and Change in Ancient Israel: An Analysis of Iron Age Settlement Patterns and Systems / George A. Pierce
• Part III: Society and Economy
• Ancient Israel's Social Structure(s) / Gunnar Lehmann
• Tribal Kingdoms and the Tribal Element in Southern Levantine Iron Age Polities / Øystein S. LaBianca and Jeffrey P. Hudon
• Israel's Political and Administrative Structures in the Pre-Monarchic and Monarchic Periods / Zachary Thomas
• The Judahite Economy in First Temple Times: Remodeling the House of David-A Case Study from Tell en-Naṣbeh / Aaron Brody
• The Socioeconomics of Food and Feasting in Pre-Exilic Israel and Judah / Rebekah Welton
• Gender in Ancient Israel / Jennie Ebeling
• Children in Ancient Israel / Kristine Henriksen Garroway
• Social Issues in the Establishment of Biblical Law in the Iron Age / Eckart Otto
• Warfare and Intelligence Gathering in Ancient Israel / Charlie Trimm
• Part IV: Language
• Literacy and Scribalism in Israel during the Iron Age (ca. 1200/1150-586 BCE) / Matthieu Richelle
• More than the Sum of their Parts: Multimodality and the Study of Iron Age Inscriptions / Alice Mandell
• Sociopolitical Gleanings from Northwest Semitic Paleography: The Inscriptions from Tel Reḥov as a Test Case / Nathaniel E. Greene
• Language in Israel and Judah: A Sociolinguistic Reappraisal / Timothy Hogue
• The Composition of the Hebrew Bible: Processes in the Production of Israelite Literature / Joel S. Baden
• Part V: Religion
• Religion in the House in Ancient Israel / Jeremy D. Smoak
• Visual Culture and Religion in Ancient Israel and Judah / Christoph Uehlinger
• The Archaeology of Israelite Cult: Yahwisms across Space and Time / George A. Pierce and Kyle H. Keimer
• The Role of Ritual in Biblical Narrative / Dan Belnap
• Israelite Prophecy from its Origins to the Exile / Shawn Zelig Aster
• Death and Afterlife / Christopher B. Hays
• Part VI: Israel Amongst the Nations
• Amorites and Canaanites: Memory, Tradition, and Legacy in Ancient Israel and Judah / Aaron A. Burke
• New Kingdom Egypt and Early Israel: Entangled Identities / Aaron A. Burke
• Philistines and Israelites/Judahites: Antagonism and Interaction / Aren M. Maeir
• Early Interactions between the Arameans and Israelites / Scott W. Booth
• Phoenicians and Ancient Israel / Ilan Sharon
• Ammonites in the World of Israel / Randall W. Younker
• The Invention of Ancient Moab / Benjamin W. Porter
• Edom and Southern Jordan in the Iron Age / Juan Manuel Tebes
• Egypt and the Levant in the Third Intermediate Period (Iron IB-IIC): Fragmentation, Foreignness, and Fungibility / Krystal V. L. Pierce
• Reconstructing the Kushite Royal House: The Chronology of Egypt's 25th Dynasty and its Relation to Judah / Jeremy Pope
• Israel and Assyria, Judah and Assyria / Ido Koch
• Babylon and Israel: Cultural Contact and Cultural Impact / Laurie E. Pearce
• Part VII: The Legacy and Future of Ancient Israel
• The Future of Studying Ancient Israel: Insights from the Archaeological Sciences, with a Focus on Food and Society / Lidar Sapir-Hen
• Cyber-Archaeology and the Study of Ancient Edom and Israel / Matthew D. Howland and Thomas E. Levy
• Israel, Ancient and Modern: Representations and Misrepresentations of the Past in Dialogue with the Present / Rachel Hallote

"This volume presents a collection of studies by international experts on various aspects of ancient Israel's society, economy, religion, language, culture, and history, synthesising archaeological remains and integrating them with discussions of ancient Near Eastern and biblical texts. Driven by theoretically and methodologically informed discussions of the archaeology of the Iron Age Levant, the 47 chapters in The Ancient Israelite World provide foundational, accessible, and detailed studies in their respective topics. The volume considers the history of interpretation of ancient Israel, studies on various aspects of ancient Israel's society and history, and avenues for present and future approaches to the ancient Israelite world. Accompanied by over 150 maps and figures, it allows the reader to gain an understanding of key issues that archaeologists, historians, and biblical scholars have faced and are currently facing as they attempt to better understand ancient Israelite society. The Ancient Israelite World is an essential reference work for students and scholars of ancient Israel and its history, culture, and society, whether they are historians, archaeologists or biblical scholars"-- Provided by publisher

• Pt. 1. Le roi Khmer, clef de voûte du système socio-politique angkorien
• La genèse de l'État angkorien
• Pt. 1. La place du roi dans l'ordre cosmique, le Dharma
• L'empreinte "civilisatrice" de l'Inde
• Le dharma, le roi et les dharmagàstra
• Les principes de gouvernement dans les traités du droit (dharmagastra)
• Le bon gouvernement. Devoir royal et râjadharma
• Le taureau, image du dharma
• La politique du châtiment ou l'usage du dançla
• Le souverain ou l'homme parfait
• L'être prédestiné, primus inter parens
• L'éducation du prince
• Le roi dans la société
• Histoires de famille
• La transmission héréditaire
• Les dynasties légendaires de la lune et du soleil
• Les lignées royales
• Le rituel magico-religieux du sacre. La légitimation de l'être prédestiné
• La consécration, premier des grands sacrifices royaux
• La conquête de la terre, le digvijaya
• Les cérémonies du couronnement
• Les préparatifs du sacre
• Le rituel du couronnement
• Les fêtes populaires du couronnement
• La clôture du rite. Les honoraires des prêtres
• La métamorphose du souverain
• La figure royale, sacrée mais pas défiée
• Le monarque universel, le cakravartin
• Les regalia
• Les titulatures royales
• Le souverain khmer, homme de tous les pouvoirs
• Pt. 2. Les activités régaliennes
• L'agenda royal
• Le gouvernement du royaume
• L'entourage politique et administratif
• Les instances supérieures du royaume
• Les hauts dignitaires : purohita, râjaguru et RAjakulamahâmantri
• Les ministres, mantrin
• Les agents royaux
• Le roi au travail
• Le souverain, roi de la Loi
• L'administration de la justice
• Les obligations religieuses du souverain
• Les grandes célébrations royales
• La gestion des affaires religieuses
• Le roi en guerre
• La guerre, instrument nécessaire du cakravartin
• L'armée
• Campements et champs de bataille
• Pt. 3. Les lieux du roi
• Le royaume
• Le roi, ordonnateur de l'espace
• Le souverain, maître de l'eau
• Le souverain, maître du sol
• L'architecture religieuse monumentale
• Le contrôle du territoire, géopolitique et intérêts économiques
• Configuration géographique et voies de communication
• Les enjeux économiques
• La capitale
• La capitale khmère, un fait politique dans un espace sacralisé
• La capitale conceptualisée dans les traités techniques relatifs à l'architecture
• La fondation de la capitale, le grand-œuvre du roi khmer
• Angkor Thom, la cité idéale angkorienne
• La vie commerciale de la ville
• Riz et poisson, les deux richesses nutritives de la population
• L'or du Lac
• Le palais
• Les aménagements du palais
• La topographie des lieux, du texte à la réalité
• La configuration spatiale du Palais d'Angkor Thom
• Les appartements royaux
• Le premier cercle du roi
• La Maison royale. Les reines et la place de la femme dans la société
• Les dignitaires de la cour
• L'irrésistible ascension des familles mandarinales et sacerdotales
• Les compagnons d'armes du roi. La catégorie des anak sahjak
• L'étiquette à la cour
• Les insignes de dignité
• Le service personnel du roi
• Les pages
• L'entourage féminin du roi
• Les courtisanes
• De la vie publique à la vie privée
• Dans le privé du roi
• La toilette
• Les vêtements et parures
• À la table du roi
• La vie culturelle et artistique au palais royal
• Musique, danse et chant
• Les divertissements royaux
• Conclusion
• Le roi est mort, vive le roi.

"Angkor fascine : ce nom évoque une ville superbe aux temples impressionnants, enfouie au cœur d'une forêt dense, impénétrable, dévorée par la sylve et révélée à l'Occident au cours de la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle. De nombreuses capitales se sont succédé là du ixe au mue siècle. Œuvres royales par excellence, intrinsèquement liées à l'exercice du pouvoir, elles illustrent le prestige des souverains, artisans de la grandeur de l'empire khmer. Mais ces vestiges majestueux revêtus de leur gangue végétale, ornés des délicates sculptures des apsaras, gardiennes hiératiques des sanctuaires, conservent une grande part de leur mystère. Que sait-on de leurs bâtisseurs, rois et dignitaires, et de la vie qu'ils menaient dans les villes et les habitations édifiées autour de ces temples ? Comment se déroulaient les journées du roi ? Nous ignorons beaucoup de ses obligations, de ses divertissements. À quoi ressemblaient son palais, les objets du quotidien, les détails ordinaires de la vie courante ? Autant de questions auxquelles cet ouvrage apporte des réponses documentées au terme d'une longue et minutieuse enquête au cours de laquelle l'auteur a scruté les bas-reliefs, décortiqué les inscriptions et interrogé les monuments et les statues. Le roi, ses proches et son peuple reprennent vie et retrouvent désormais leur place à Angkor dans leur environnement familier."--Page 4 of cover.

• 0. Introduction: 1583-1840, from cultural diplomacy to gunboat diplomacy,
• 1. Where the tale of the two empires began,
• 2. The Tributary System and the first Anglo-British encounters,
• 3. The earliest Chinese travellers to the Far West,
• 4. Chinoiserie vs. Euroiserie: Mutual reflections of material culture and perception gaps,
• 5. When the lion meets the dragon: Lost in translation or beyond translation?,
• 6. The Amherst Embassy to China, an insurmountable generation gap between the two empires,
• 7. From the Tea War to the Opium War,
• 8. Conclusion: The two great reversals - Historical implications on the modern-day interactions between a post-Brexit UK and a globalising China.
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Anglo-Chinese Encounters Before the Opium War: A Tale of Two Empires Over Two Centuries studies the fascinating encounters between the two historic empires from Queen Elizabeth I's first letter to the Ming Emperor Wanli in 1583, to Lord Palmerston's letter to the Minister of China in 1840. Starting with Queen Elizabeth I's letter to the Chinese Emperor and ending with the letter from Lord Palmerston to the Minister of China just before the Opium War, this book explores the long journey in between from cultural diplomacy to gunboat diplomacy. It interweaves the most known diplomatic efforts at the official level with the much unknown intellectual interactions at the people-to-people level, from missionaries to scholars, from merchants to travelers and from artists to scientists. This book adopts a novel "mirror" approach by pairing and comparing people, texts, commodities, artworks, architecture, ideologies, operating systems and world views of the two empires. Using letters, gifts and traded goods as fulcrums, and by adopting these unique lenses, it puts China into the world history narratives to contextualise Anglo-Chinese relations, thus providing a fresh analysis of the surviving evidence. Xin Liu casts a new light on understanding the Sino-centric and Anglo-centric world views in driving the complex relations between the two empires, and the reversals of power shifts that are still unfolding today. The book is not intended for specialists in history, but a general audience wishing to learn more about China's historical engagement with the world.
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• Introduction
• ʻAbdul ʻAziz bin ʻAbul Rahman
• Political responsibilities
• A rich legacy
• A short biography
• Methodological approach
• Syria under Ottoman rule: conditions in the Levant
• From Latakiyyah to Riyadh
• 'Abdul 'Aziz and Sa'udi Arabia: the Arabian Peninsula between 1918 and 1932
• 'Abdul 'Aziz and Yusuf Yassin: Anglo-American rivalries
• Sa'ud bin 'Abdul 'Aaziz and Yusuf Yassin: core Arab concerns
• Faysal bin 'Abdul 'Aziz and Yusuf Yassin: a memorable encounter
• Conclusion: a premature death

• Preface
• How to use this book
• Introduction: what was the world of the ancient Silk Road?
• Alphabetical entries
• Amazons
• Animal style
• Banqueting
• City planning
• Coinage
• Domestication of the horse
• Funerary practices
• Indus Valley civilization
• Linguistic and genetic studies
• Monasticism
• Nomad kingdoms and empires
• Persepolis' Apadana
• Persistence of Classicism
• Shamanism, ancient Central Asian
• Silk
• Texts and archaeology
• Texts and translations
• Travelers, Early
• Wool working and carpet making
• Zoroastrianism
• Artifacts

"Summary: Artifacts from the Ancient Silk Road explores the interconnectivity of the Eurasian continent from 4000 BCE to 1000 CE and focuses on the role played by Central Asia through which passed the major trade routes, the Silk Roads"-- Provided by publisher

• The Nazi Invasion: Violence, Displacement, and Expropriation
• Jewish Leadership
• The Supply and Distribution of Food: Strategies and Priorities
• The Physical, Mental, and Social Effects of Hunger
• Hunger and Everyday Life in the Ghetto
• Socioeconomic Status and Food Access
• Relief Systems and Charity
• Illicit Food Access: Smuggling, Theft, and the Black Market
• Labor and Food in the Ghettos
• Deportations and the End of the Ghettos

"This book focuses on the Jews in the Łódź, Warsaw, and Kraków ghettos as they struggled to survive the deadly Nazi ghetto and in particular, the genocidal famine conditions. Jews had no control over Nazi food policy but they could-and did-attempt to survive the deadly conditions of Nazi ghettoization through a range of coping mechanisms and survival strategies. This book tells their story"-- Provided by publisher

"Un matin brumeux de janvier 2011, Samuel Forey, journaliste indépendant à la recherche du grand soir, quitte Paris et se précipite vers l'Égypte : Le Caire s'est embrasé et des milliers de révoltés sont descendus dans la rue. S'ensuit une odyssée de six années au Moyen-Orient, au cœur du Caire tumultueux, traquant des rebelles dans le labyrinthe de roche et de sable du Sinaï, s'initiant au reportage de guerre à Alep ou Gaza, partageant le quotidien des combattants kurdes en Syrie ou des soldats irakiens dans le chaudron de Mossoul, la plus importante bataille urbaine depuis la Seconde Guerre mondiale - au contact de l'humanité dans son extrême, pour le pire comme pour le meilleur. Mais ce périple est aussi un cheminement intérieur. Profondément marqué par la perte précoce de ses parents, Samuel Forey fait l'apprentissage du deuil et de la mort. Quête du père, quête de soi, quête de sens, jusqu'au bout, là où le voyage se termine et le voile se déchire, quelque part dans l'explosion d'une mine, lors de la bataille de Mossoul. Tout à la fois carnet de route, journal de guerre et récit initiatique, magnifiquement écrit, Les Aurores incertaines nous emmènent au cœur des tourments de ce début de siècle."--Page 4 of cover.

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Khomeini's Life and Thoughts
• 3. Theoretical Frameworks
• 4. Methodology
• 5. Khomeini and Nationalism
• 6. Khomeini and Prolonging and Normalising the Iran-Iraq War
• 7. Conclusions.

This book clarifies Khomeinis views on nationalism, sectarianism, and peace and war by putting the Iran-Iraq war at center of understanding of Khomeinis ideology. Moreover, by making comparisons between Khomeinis thoughts before and after the revolution with his words during the Iran-Iraq war, this book helps us see how his discourse during the conflict was shaped by such thoughts. Also, such a comparison helps us understand the complexities of Khomeinis doctrines and their evolvements. Additionally, by offering a unique set of methodological tools, this book introduces a new way to study political leaders in Iran and other parts of the Middle East. Meysam Tyaebipour is a researcher and human right activist. Meysams area of interests are the Middle East politics and political ideology.

• Created
• Wrecked
• Provenanced
• Contested
• Reimagined

"In 1998, the Belitung, a ninth-century western Indian Ocean-style vessel, was discovered in Indonesian waters. Onboard was a full cargo load, likely intended for the Middle Eastern market, of over 60,000 Chinese Tang-dynasty ceramics, gold, and other precious objects. It is one of the most significant shipwreck discoveries of recent times, revealing the global scale of ancient commercial endeavors and the centrality of the ocean within the Silk Road story. But this shipwreck also has a modern tale to tell, of how nation-states appropriate the remnants of the past for their own purposes, and of the international debates about who owns--and is responsible for--shared heritage. The commercial salvage of objects from the Belitung, and their subsequent sale to Singapore, contravened the principles of the 2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage and prompted international condemnation. The resulting controversy continues to reverberate in academic and curatorial circles. Major museums refused to host international traveling exhibitions of the collection, and some archaeologists announced they would rather see the objects thrown back in the sea than ever go on display. Shipwrecks are anchored in the public imagination, their stories of treasure and tragedy told in museums, cinema, and song. At the same time, they are sites of scholarly inquiry, a means by which maritime archaeologists interrogate the past through its material remains. Every shipwreck is an accidental time capsule, replete with the sunken stories of those on board, of the personal and commercial objects that went down with the vessel, and of an unfinished journey. In this moving and thought-provoking reflection of underwater cultural heritage management, Natali Pearson reveals valuable new information about the Belitung salvage, obtained firsthand from the salvagers, and the intricacies in the many conflicts and relationships that developed. In tracing the Belitung's lives and afterlives, this book shifts our thinking about shipwrecks beyond popular tropes of romance, pirates, and treasure, and toward an understanding of how the relationships between sites, objects, and people shape the stories we tell of the past in the present"-- Provided by publisher

• Post-Ottoman Dreams and Nightmares in the Mandate Middle East / Michael Provence
• The Deal of the Decade: Jewish Immigration for Arab Independence and Post-Ottomanism in 1930s Palestine / Eli Osheroff
• Cursed in Heaven: the Colonization of the Aromanians in Southern Dobruja / Nikola Minov
• Colonialism and Mobility in Libya during the Balbo Era, 1934-1940 / Brian L. McLaren
• Yuzellilikler: The League of Nations's First and Only Muslim Refugees / Ebru Boyar
• Surviving in Nazi Berlin: Husni al-Urabi's 89 Months in Exile / Peter Wien
• Regional Careers: Doctors' Mobility across the New Frontiers of the Interwar Middle East / Liat Kozma
• Strolling through Istanbul: Egyptians in 1930s Turkey / Amit Bein
• Borders of Mobility? Crime and Punishment along the Syrian-Turkish Border, 1921-1939 / Jordi Tejel and Ramazan Hakkı Öztan
• Interwar Territoriality and Soviet-Turkish Convergence across the Aras River / Onur İşçi
• Muslim Migration and Nation-Building in Interwar Yugoslavia and Turkey / Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular
• From Marjayun to Oklahoma: Translocalizing the Periphery in Interwar Lebanon / Toufoul Abou-Hodeib

"Focusing on new nation states and mandates in post-Ottoman territories, Borders, Boundaries and Belonging in Post-Ottoman Space in the Interwar Period examines how people negotiated, imagined or ignored new state borders and how they conceived of or constructed belonging. Through investigations of border crossing, population transfer, exile and emigration, this book explores the intricacies of survival within and beyond newly imposed state borders, the exploitation of opportunities and the human cost of political partition"-- Provided by publisher

• Setting the stage, part 1 : overview of the project / Daniel A. Bell
• Setting the stage, part 2 : why compare the classical political thought of China and India? / Amitav Acharya
• Mining the past to construct the present : some methodological considerations from India / Patrick Olivelle
• Some methodological reflections : in defense of philosophy of culture and thick generalizations / Roger T. Ames
• How do Xunzi and Kautilya ponder interstate politics? / Yan Xuetong
• Asoka's Dhamma as a project of expansive moral hegemony / Rajeev Bhargava
• A comparative study on the international political thought of Han Feizi and Kautilya / Xu Jin
• The spectre of 'amoral realism' in international relations : a classical Indian overview / Deepshikha Shahi
• The particularity of ancient China as an empire / Zhou Fangyin
• Ideas of empire in ancient India in a comparative frame / Upinder Singh
• The Mahabharata, Mencius, and the modern world : reflections on Dharmayuddha and Ānṛ̣śaṃsya / Kanad Sinha
• Mencius on just war : a comparison with political thought in ancient India / Daniel A. Bell
• India's diplomacy in absentia : violence, defense, offense / Deep K. Datta-Ray
• From ancient Silk Road to modern Belt and Road Initiative : a signaling approach to trust-building across narratives / Zhao Yujia
• Balancing in ancient China / Qi Haixia
• International order in ancient India / Manjeet S. Pardesi

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. The rise of China and India could be the most important political development of the twenty-first century. What will the foreign policies of China and India look like in the future? What should they look like? And what can each country learn from the other? Bridging Two Worlds gathers a coterie of experts in the field, analyzing profound political thinkers from these ancient regions whose theories of interstate relations set the terms for the debates today. This volume is the first work that systematically compares ancient thoughts and theories about international politics between China and India. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the growth of China and India and what it will mean for the rest of the world.
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• Rethinking Vietnamese Republicanism / Nu-Anh Tran and Tuong Vu
• A Republican Moment in the Study of Modern Vietnam / Peter Zinoman
• Early Republicans' Concept of the Nation: Trần Trọng Kim and Việt Nam sử lược / Nguyễn, Lương Hải Khôi
• The Self-Reliant Literary Group and Colonial Republicanism in the 1930s / Martina Thucnhi Nguyen
• Trần Văn Tùng's Vision of a New Nationalism for a New Vietnam / Yen Vu
• How Democratic Should Vietnam Be? The Constitutional Transition of 1955-1956 and the Debate on Democracy / Nu-Anh Tran
• Personalism, Liberal Capitalism, and the Strategic Hamlet Campaign / Duy Lap Nguyen
• "They Eat the Flesh of Children" : Migration, Resettlement, and Sectionalism in South Vietnam, 1954-1957 / Jason A. Picard
• Creating the National Library in Saigon : Colonial Legacies, Republican Visions, and Reading Publics, 1946-1958 / Cindy Nguyen
• Striving for the Quintessence : Building a New Identity of National Literature Based on Creative Freedom / Hoàng Phong Tuấn and Nguyễn Thị Minh
• When State Propaganda Becomes Social Knowledge / Y Thien Nguyen

"Western observers have long considered communism to be synonymous with Vietnam's modern historical experience. Eager to make sense of the North Vietnamese victory in the Vietnam War, scholars and journalists have spilled much ink on the history of Vietnamese communists. But this preoccupation has obscured the diversity of ideas and experiences that defined Vietnam in the twentieth century, in which communism represented just one of many tendencies. Building a Republican Nation in Vietnam, 1920-1963, posits that republicanism shaped modern Vietnam no less profoundly than communism. Republicans championed representative government, the universal rights of man, civil liberties, and the primacy of the nation. These ideas infused the thinking of Vietnamese reformers, dissidents, and revolutionaries from the 1900s onward, including many men and women who went on to lead the struggle for independence. Republicanism was also one of the chief inspirations for the establishment of the Republic of Vietnam (also known as South Vietnam) in 1955. This interdisciplinary volume brings together eleven essays by historians, political scientists, literary scholars, and sociologists, who make use of fresh sources to study the development of republicanism from the colonial period to the First Republic of Vietnam (1955-1963). The introduction by coeditors Nu-Anh Tran and Tuong Vu critically analyzes the existing scholarship on the First Republic, explains how the concept of republicanism can illuminate developments in the Saigon-based state, and situates the regime in a comparative context with South Korea. Collectively, the essays give voice to Vietnamese republicans, from the ideas they espoused to the institutions they built and the legacies they left behind"-- Provided by publisher

• Cambodia-China Relations at the New Heights
• Building the China-Cambodia Community with a Shared Future: China-Cambodia Relations toward a New Era
• Building the China-Cambodia Community with a Shared Future: China-Cambodia Relations toward a New Era
• Perspective on Cambodia-China Relations
• Cambodia-China toward a Community with a Shared Future: We Grow Together
• Cambodia-China Political and Security Cooperation
• Cambodia-China: Deepening Political Cooperation
• Cambodia-China Political and Security Cooperation in the BRI Era: A Neoclassical Realist Perspective
• Cambodia-China: The True Friends
• China-Cambodia Non-Traditional Security Cooperation: Opportunities, Challenges, and Prospects
• Cambodia China Relations: An Indonesian Perspective
• Tapping Potential for Cooperation and Deepening China-Cambodia Comprehensive Strategic Partnership
• Cambodia-China Economic Cooperation
• Taking China-Cambodia Economic and Trade Cooperation to a Higher Level in the New Era
• Cambodia-China Economic Relation in the Context of BRI
• Cambodia-China Economic Cooperation in the Context of BRI: Connectivity for Mutual Prosperity and Sustainable Growth
• Insight into China-Cambodia Economic and Trade Cooperation: From the Perspective of Value Chain
• Inclusive Development and Chinese Direct Investments in Cambodia
• Advantages and Disadvantages of Cambodia-Japan Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone and Sihanoukvilleville Special Economic Zone from a Comparative Perspective
• Cambodia-China Socio-Cultural Cooperation and Connectivity
• Cultural Relation between Cambodia and China
• Cambodia-China Relations: Socio-Cultural Aspects
• Developing Friendship through Lancang-Mekong Cooperation
• Cambodia-China Socio-Cultural Cooperation and Connectivity

This book focuses on the bilateral relationship between China and and Cambodia to present an though and deep cooperation of the two countries involving political, security, economic and cultural areas. It collects wisdom by the researchers and scholars attending the first China-Cambodia Cooperation Forum, which was held in Siem Reap, Cambodia, from December 6 to 8, 2019, with the theme of "Cambodia-China toward a Community with a Shared Future: We Grow Together". It aims to build an overview with balanced perspectives on China-Cambodia relationship

• Introduction / par Christophe Ayad
• 1. Pays
• Être Palestinien aujourd'hui essai par Elias Sanbar
• Territoires
• Révolte encore, révolte toujours par Roger Heacock et cartographie de Philippe Rekacewicz
• L'État unitaire : un débat encore immature par Camille Mansour
• Des paysages confisqués à l'égrégore palestinien par Léda Seurat
• De la séparation à l'annexion. Le mur d'Israël en Palestine par René Backmann et cartographie de Philippe Rekacewicz
• Atomiser pour mieux régner par Marion Lecoquierre et cartographie de Philippe Rekacewicz
• Des vies morcelées par Véronique Bontemps
• Esquisse de topographie des sanctuaires "partagés" en Terre sainte par Manoël Pénicaud
• Économies sous dépendance par Clothilde Mraffko
• Citoyennetés carcérales par Stéphanie Latte Abdallah 68
• Handala, le Calimero palestinien planche BD par Hussein Adil
• "La photographie est une quête pour réclamer ce qui est à nous" entretien avec Issam Nassar par Line Ajan
• L'open data contre l'effacement par Majd Al-Shihabi et Omar Tesdell et cartographie de Philippe Rekacewicz
• L'histoire par omission. Des archives perdues, pillées, détruites par Hana Sleiman
• Diasporas
• Démographie de l'éclatement par Youssef Courbage et cartographie de Philippe Rekacewicz
• Les camps par Nathalie Coste Trin Dinh et cartographie de Philippe Rekacewicz
• Pourquoi n'y a-t-il pas de lobby palestinien aux États-Unis ? par Zaha Hassan
• "Sans présent dans lequel se projeter, la psyché palestinienne est suspendue entre passé et futur" entretien avec Larissa Sansour par Christophe Ayad
• Och al-boulboul création littéraire de Farah Barqawi
• La Nakba planche BD par Ghadi Ghosn
• Edward Saki, la Palestine comme nouvel humanisme par Leyla Dakhli
• 2. Cause politique
• Construction de la question palestinienne par Henry Laurens
• Internationale
• Les identifications de combat : la mondialisation de la cause palestinienne par Bertrand Badie
• Un monde arabe solidaire ? par Mustapha Kamel AI-Sayyid et Chérine Chams EI-Dine
• Iran : l'invention d'une cause "islamique" par Bernard Hourcade
• Résonances en Amérique latine par Cecilia Baeza
• Mai 68 en France : une cause, des luttes par Thomas Maineult
• Black Panthers et Palestine par Derek Ide
• Le boycott, une arme à double tranchant par Christophe Ayad
• Régionale
• "Pour la première fois depuis1948, Israël a été confronté à des Palestiniens debout sur tous les fronts" entretien avec Leila Shahid, Jean-Paul Chagnollaud et Dominique Vidal par Joan Deas
• Les hauts et les bas de la cause "sacrée" des Arabes par Benjamin Barthe
• La diplomatie contre le droit par Alain Gresh
• Le régime égyptien ferme ses frontières et ouvre l'œil par Sarah Daoud
• L'école (buissonnière) de la révolution par Youssef El Chazli
• Intifada forever planche BD par Othman Selmi
• Originale
• La Palestine s'est-elle islamisée ? par Erik Skare
• Intégrisme religieux : le parallèle israélien par Sylvain Cypel
• La nature de l'apartheid israélien par Tareq Baconi traduit de l'anglais par Benjamin Guérif
• L'archéologie au service de la construction nationale par Shlomo Sand
• Nouveaux activismes palestiniens dans les territoires sous occupation par Maisan Hamdan traduit de l'arabe par Sarah Rolfo
• Purplewashing planche BD par Deena Mohamed
• Pas ! Lestine ! par Sabyl Ghoussoub
• 3. Souffle culturel
• Le keffieh, l'autre drapeau palestinien par Jean-Pierre Filiu
• Gaza : créer au défi des ruines par Marion Slitine
• "L'action culturelle n'est pas un luxe en Palestine" entretien avec Adila Laïdi-Hanieh par Christophe Ayad
• L'art pour tisser des contre-récits par Reem Shadid
• Playlist par Dorothée Engel
• Littérature d'exil et de résistance par Sadia Agsous
• La Palestine comme poétique par Abdellatif Laâbi
• La terre, et les oliviers planche BD
• Texte de Jadd Hilal, dessin de Lena Merhej
• Conclusion
• La promesse par Karim Kattan.

""À l'heure où la Palestine semble abandonnée de tous, à commencer par les États arabes, nous avons choisi d'y retourner, comme une évidence. Pour raconter son peuple dispersé par l'histoire et les frontières. Nous avons voulu arpenter son territoire, divisé entre Gaza et la Cisjordanie avec Jérusalem pour centre introuvable, annexé par la colonisation israélienne et grignoté par le Mur de séparation. Devenue le symbole de la colonisation dans un monde en train de se décoloniser dans la deuxième moitié du XXe siècle, la Palestine ne s'appartient pas. Elle est une cause, une source d'inspiration pour le monde entier. Le keffieh est le drapeau des révoltés. Palestinien n'est plus seulement une nationalité sans pays, c'est une condition et le refus de s'y plier, c'est une résistance obstinée de chaque instant et de chaque geste. C'est du monde tel qu'il va mal dont la Palestine nous parle. La Palestine vit déjà à l'heure d'un monde aliéné, surveillé, encagé, ensauvagé, néolibéralisé. Les Palestiniens savent ce que c'est d'être un exilé sur sa propre terre. Apprenons d'eux !" Extrait de l'introduction de Christophe Ayad."--Page 4 of cover.

• Conceiving the relationship between China and small neighbors
• Asymmetrical economic relationships and vulnerability to coercion
• Vietnam : perception of duality and mixed hedging
• Cambodia : neutrality in principle, alignment in practice
• Myanmar : hedging amid internal-external security linkage
• Uzbekistan : hedging with balanced, multi-vector diplomacy
• Mongolia : multidimensional hedging
• North Korea : alignment tinged with distrust.

"Analyzes the nature, processes, and political consequences of the asymmetrical relationships between China and its six small neighbors in Asia"-- Provided by publisher.

• Chapter 1: The Middle Kingdom: China's Aspirations and the Importance of History
• Chapter 2: The Belt and Road Initiative
• Chapter 3: Sri Lanka: China's Increasing Influence in Sri Lanka
• Chapter 4: Maldives: China's Wider Ambitions in the Maldives
• Chapter 5: Bangladesh: China's Balanced and Cautious Engagement with Bangladesh --Chapter 6: Myanmar: China's Multi-Faceted Relations with Myanmar
• Conclusion
• Endnotes
• Index

• Chapter 1. Introduction (Alessandro Teixeira and Aaron Schneider). - Part I. Sectoral and Historical Issues.
• Chapter 2. History: The Long Trajectory of a Relationship Yet to be Fulfilled (Rafael R. Ioris and Marco Cepik). -
• Chapter 3. Chinese Economic Policy: Internationalization in LAC and Future Perspectives (Mathilde Closset, Cecilia Plottier and Zebulun Kreiter). -
• Chapter 4. Chinese Economic Development: Impact on LAC countries (Menghuai Xiang and Mingyuan Li). -
• Chapter 5. Chinese Foreign Policy: Context, Decision, and Implementation (Marco Cepik and Cui Shoujun). -
• Chapter 6. Infrastructure: The Belt and Road Initiative in Latin America (Alessandro Teixeira and Nicolas Azocar). -
• Chapter 7. Trade: Competition or Complementarity? (Alessandro Teixeira, Wenying Chen, and Zhengyu Jiang). -
• Chapter 8. Geopolitics: China, US, and Latin America - Conflict, Competition, or Collaboration? (Louis W. Goodman and Aaron Schneider). - Part II. Regional and National Questions. -
• Chapter 9. Central America (Aaron Schneider and Henrique Estides Delgado). -
• Chapter 10. The Mexico-Queretaro Train, Dragon Mart, and the Ups and Downs of the Mexico-China Trade Relation (Luz Maria Gallardo Castro and Juan Carlos Morales Marcucci). - Chapter11. Sino-Brazilian Relations (Jorge Arbache and Gabriel Condi). -
• Chapter 12. A Comparative View of Chinese Relations with Peru (Alvin Camba and Victoria Chonn Ching).
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This book seeks offers accounts of the ways in which Chinese engagement with Latin America will shape the regional and global order with impacts for development, peace, and equity. It also pays close attention to the traditional role played by the USA in the region, how China differs, and the increasingly triangular relationship between the USA, China, and Latin American countries. The contributors analyze various economic dimensions, including trade, infrastructure, and finance, and the historical, sectoral, regional, and national stories seek to change the narrative on China-Latin American relations. In particular, the book argues that there are opportunities for international cooperation to secure gains in the region, but only if the US and China alter their behavior and Latin American countries work collectively and in more coordinated fashion. Together, the chapters offer coherent social science analysis, policy frameworks, and empirical detail to understand and navigate increased Chinese engagement with Latin America.
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• Political governance : people's dictatorship and the party-state
• Economic record : socialism with Chinese characteristics
• Social life : bitterness, happiness, and resistance
• Spirit and ecology : culture, ethics, and the environment
• Epilogue : from the record.

"Detailed assessment of the People's Republic of China as an alternative mode of political system and as a distinctive model of socioeconomic development"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• 1 Centrality of China and Foreign Contacts
• 2 Barbarians at the Gate
• 3 Opening Pandora's Box
• 4 Japan's China Wars
• 5 The Turn of the Century
• 6 The War of Resistance Against Japan
• 7 A New Power Under Test
• 8 Security Priorities
• 9 Boundary Settlements
• 10 Ups and Downs with the Superpowers
• 11 Refocusing on Asia
• 12 Africa and the Middle East
• 13 Trade Negotiations
• 14 Regional Diplomacy
• 15 Statecraft and Crisis Management Conclusion: China's Place in the World Bibliography.
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This book is one of the first wide-ranging surveys of China's foreign policy and practice from the 16th century to the present day from a Chinese perspective. A modern history of China's interaction with major powers, it throws new light on the events and issues of major interest, clarifies possible points of ambiguity and misunderstanding, and brings the reader up to date about some of the current issues of contention in China's international relations. China' Foreign Policy and Practice: *Presents a unique account of Chinese statecraft and foreign policy from the vantage point of an insider who has spent years participating in the decisionmaking process at the national level; *Paints a larger picture of China's interaction with the world, connecting wars, negotiations, treaties, and boundary settlements with its neighbours; *Focuses on policy evolution in specific areas, such as trade, regional diplomacy, dispute settlement, crisis management, and engagement with major powers; *Draws on Chinese records and publications that may not be readily accessible, as well as the latest memoirs and declassified documents; *Is a nuanced, comprehensive and accessible guide for students of international politics as well as general readers interested in China. A unique history of China in world affairs, this book will be essential reading for students of politics and international relations, history, foreign policy, diplomacy, China studies, and Asian studies.
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This book discusses the nature of China's current international reassertion of itself, and the thinking and attitudes which lie behind it. It argues that the Chinese leadership has a strongly held view of its own high moral authority, which emphasises inclusion, equality and mutual benefits, and that this sense of morality underpins the driving forces for China's foreign policies, the geo-strategic reasoning for outward expansion, China's strategic culture, the idealistic rationalization of China's overseas activities, the overall Chinese worldview, and China's vision of the Chinese world order. Based on original research into both writings for policy-making purposes, which indicate realistic assessments of world politics and of China's international capacity, and also narratives for public consumption, which have less emphasis on self-interest and realpolitik, the book approaches the subject empirically, and not through the lens of any international relations theory. It highlights how China's outward expansion has been characterized mainly by spreading influence through non-use of force, and strategies of "inclusiveness", "co-operation" and "winning without fighting". The book concludes however that Beijing's self-privileging high morality may have the unfortunate consequence of reinforcing its own behaviour which defies international order and which others disapprove of, thereby increasing the likelihood of non-armed and armed conflicts

• List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors
• 1 Reglobalization, Nationalism, and Regionalism: Chinese Choices JARED MORGAN MCKINNEY AND HOO TIANG BOON
• 2 The State of Asian Regionalism and Current Developments in the Context of U.S.-China Competition ANDREW YEO
• 3 Chinese Thinking on Regional Governance: Open Regionalism and Moral Leadership CAI YUQIAN
• 4 Weathering the Storm? RCEP, Chinese Regionalism, and Great Power Competition XUE GONG
• 5 China's Eurasian Forums: Initiatives Before and Beyond the Belt-and-Road CHUNG CHIEN-PENG
• 6 Establishment of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: Is China Taking a Leadership Role in Regionalism in Asia? YU HONG
• 7 Going Continental: China's New Agenda for Asian Regionalism and the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia NICOLA P. CONTESSI
• 8 China's Regionalism through Cooperation in Non-Traditional Security: A Study of the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation LINA GONG
• 9 An Indo-Pacific Concert of Powers and China PANG ZHONGYING Index.
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With globalization on the wane in a world fractured by growing great power competition, Hoo and McKinney argue that regionalism is likely to re-emerge as a focal area of significance and interest in the coming years. In Asia, how regionalism evolves is inescapably linked to China's part in this story. Hoo, McKinney and their contributors will help readers better understand regionalism as it is approached, conceived and practiced by China. Looking past the conventional attention on the Belt-Road Initiative, the contributors examine the evolving perspectives on regionalism within China, the forms which this regionalism has taken and the implications for the strategic order in Asia. This includes a focus on newer architecture such as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB); lesser-known mechanisms such as the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA) and the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC); and more traditional ones such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). A valuable resource for scholars and students of China's foreign relations, and of Asian regionalism and strategic order.
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• Introduction: Introduction
• 1. Figuring History through Architecture: An Urban Synesthesia
• 2. Ritual, History, Memory: Photographing Kojong's Funeral of 1919
• 3. Signage and Language: Reading Hanja/Kanji
• 4. Oral/Aural Community: Sin Pul-ch'ul's Language Play and Deception
• 5. The City on the Move: The Ordinary and the Infraordinary
• 6. Nightly Reports: Playing under Surveillance Epilogue: A Time of Rehearsal.
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Once the capital of the five-hundred-year Choson dynasty (1392-1897) and the Taehan Empire (1897-1910), the city of Seoul posed unique challenges to urban reform and modernization under Japanese colonial rule in the early twentieth century, constrained by the labyrinthian built environment of the old Korean capital. Colonial authorities attempted to employ a strategy of "erasure"-monumental Japanese architecture was, for instance, superimposed upon existing palace structures-to articulate to colonized Korean subjects the transition from the pre-modern to the modern, and the naturalization of colonial rule as inevitable historical change. Drawing from and analyzing a wide range of materials, from architecture and photography to print media and sound recordings, City of Sediments shows how Seoul became a site to articulate a new mode of time-modernity-that defined the place of the colonized in accordance with the progression of history, and how the underbelly of the city, latent places of darkness filled with chatters of the alleyway, challenged this visual language of power. To do so, Se-Mi Oh builds an inventive new model of history where discrete events do not unfold one after the other, but rather one in which histories layer atop each other like sediment, allowing a new map of colonial Seoul to emerge, a map where the material traces of the city are overlapping, with vibrant residues of earlier times defiantly visible among the superimposed signs of modernity and colonial domination.
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• Figuring history through architecture : an urban synesthesia
• Ritual, history, memory : photographing Kojong's funeral of 1919
• Signage and language : reading hanja/kanji
• Oral/aural community : Sin Pul-ch'ul's language play and deception
• The city on the move : the ordinary and the infraordinary
• Nightly reports : playing under surveillance

"Once the capital of the five-hundred-year Chosŏn dynasty (1392-1897) and the Taehan Empire (1897-1910), the city of Seoul posed unique challenges to urban reform and modernization under Japanese colonial rule in the early twentieth century, constrained by the labyrinthian built environment of the old Korean capital. Colonial authorities attempted to employ a strategy of "erasure" - monumental Japanese architecture was, for instance, superimposed upon existing palace structures - to articulate to colonized Korean subjects the transition from the pre-modern to the modern, and the naturalization of colonial rule as inevitable historical change. Drawing from and analyzing a wide range of materials, from architecture and photography to print media and sound recordings, City of Sediments shows how Seoul became a site to articulate a new mode of time - modernity - that defined the place of the colonized in accordance with the progression of history, and how the underbelly of the city, latent places of darkness filled with chatters of the alleyway, challenged this visual language of power. To do so, Se-Mi Oh builds an inventive new model of history where discrete events do not unfold one after the other, but rather one in which histories layer atop each other like sediment, allowing a new map of colonial Seoul to emerge, a map where the material traces of the city are overlapping, with vibrant residues of earlier times defiantly visible among the superimposed signs of modernity and colonial domination"-- Provided by publisher

• Prologue
• Puzzles
• Origins
• Spread
• Stalemate
• Escalation
• Suppression
• Narratives
• Analysis
• Epilogue

• Puzzles
• Origins
• Spread
• Stalemate
• Escalation
• Suppression
• Narratives
• Analysis

"Guangxi, a region on China's southern border with Vietnam, has a large population of ethnic minorities and a history of rebellion and intergroup conflict. In the summer of 1968, during the high tide of the Cultural Revolution, it became notorious as the site of the most severe and extensive violence observed anywhere in China during that period of upheaval. Several cities saw urban combat resembling civil war, while waves of mass killings in rural communities generated enormous death tolls. More than one hundred thousand died in a few short months. These events have been chronicled in sensational accounts that include horrific descriptions of gruesome murders, sexual violence, and even cannibalism. Only recently have scholars tried to explain why Guangxi was so much more violent than other regions. With evidence from a vast collection of classified materials compiled during an investigation by the Chinese government in the 1980s, this book reconsiders explanations that draw parallels with ethnic cleansing in Rwanda, Bosnia, and other settings. It reveals mass killings as the byproduct of an intense top-down mobilization of rural militia against a stubborn factional insurgency, resembling brutal counterinsurgency campaigns in a variety of settings. Moving methodically through the evidence, Andy Walder provides a groundbreaking new analysis of one the most shocking chapters of the Cultural Revolution"-- Provided by publisher

• List of Figures List of Tables Preface and Acknowledgments PART ONE "Oriental Despotism"
• 1 "Oriental Despotism" and Its Problems in China Studies
• 2 "Oriental Despotism" and Its Origins: Europe and Imperial China
• 3 "Oriental Despotism" From the Ancient Greeks to the Enlightenment
• 4 "Oriental Despotism" Since the 19th Century PART TWO The Chinese Body Politic: Its Formation and Evolution
• 5 Secularism and Political Order
• 6 "Social Natural Law"
• 7 The Emperorship
• 8 Institutional Differentiation and "Internal Pluralism"
• 9 Imperial Politics and Its Constraints
• 10 Meritocracy and State-Society Connections
• 11 Education, Social Distinction, and Equality
• 12 Meritocratic Institutions and Their Evolution
• 13 Inequality, Representation, and Responsibilities
• 14 Bureaucrats and "Civil Society" PART THREE Modern Transformation
• 15 Modern Revolution and Political Power
• 16 Nationalism, Sovereignty, and Modern Party Power
• 17 "Organizational Emperorship" PART FOUR Contemporary Institutions
• 18 Structuring Politics
• 19 The "New" Paradigm
• 20 Bringing Back the Power of Supervision
• 21 Party-Society Linkages
• 22 A "Party in Society"
• 23 Society and Interest Representation
• 24 A Theory of Moral Loyalty
• 25 The Chinese State and Western State Products
• 26 Political Reforms: Grand Discourse and Little Truth
• 27 Forms of Political Reform PART FIVE The Future of the Chinese Body Politic
• 28 A Tocquevillian Dilemma
• 29 Scenarios of Political Change Bibliography Index.
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In this important and hugely ambitious book, one of the world's leading political scientists working on China demonstrates how Western views of China are flawed because the long tradition of Western scholarship studying China views China from the Western philosophical and intellectual perspective rather than viewing China on its own terms through the lens of China's own long-established and reputable philosophical and intellectual tradition. Providing a deep analysis of Western scholarship on China, including work from Leibniz to Marx to Weber and then to Wittfogel, and a thorough account of the evolution of China's own thinking about governance as expressed in the practices of successive Chinese dynasties, the book goes on to examine how the current Chinese body politic fits with and is the natural outcome of China's own long, well-thought-through and well-practiced intellectual consideration of what the nature of civilized governance should be. By focusing on philosophical and intellectual approaches rather than on theoretical or methodological ones, the book shows how the huge and increasing disconnect between non-Chinese views of China and Chinese ones has come about.
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• Ichigo and its aftermath
• Hyperinflation and the rivalry between T.V. Soong and H.H. Kong
• Sudden surrender and botched liberation
• 1946
• failure to revive the economy in the aftermath of war
• 1947
• speeding towards disaster
• 1948
• The collapse of fabi and the gold yuan disaster.

"This is a ground-breaking new interpretation of the collapse of Nationalist China, an event which fundamentally changed the course of twentieth-century history. Using newly available archival sources, Parks Coble reveals why, despite the financial backing of the US, Chiang Kai-shek's government lost the civil war against the communists in 1949"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• Racines anciennes
• Histoire
• Périodes d'Uruk et de Jemdet Nasr
• Émergence gréco-romaine
• Moyen-Âge
• L'Empire ottoman
• La Grande Syrie
• La syrianité moderne
• Une tour de Babel
• Les juifs
• Les Kurdes
• Les chrétiens
• Les sunnites
• Les chiites
• Les soufis
• Les ismaéliens
• Les alaouites
• Les druzes
• Les wahhabites
• Les salafistes
• Les Tcherkesses
• Du mandat au baathisme
• Occupation française
• Le mandat de la Société des Nations
• Tentative indépendantiste de 1925
• Une lente négociation vers l'indépendance
• L'indépendance précipitée par l'enjeu stratégique
• Des premières années instables
• Création d'Israël
• La valse des militaires
• Suez et l'impossible troisième voie
• L'épisode de la République Arabe Unie (1958-1961)
• Échec du RAU et retour des nationalismes
• Prise du pouvoir du parti Baath
• Le tandem Jedid-Atassi et l'expérience marxiste
• La guerre des Six Jours entraîne la transition
• Septembre noir déclenche le changement
• Les freres musulmans
• Fondation
• Premières alliances politiques et militaires
• L'après al-Banna
• Sayyid Qotb
• Saïd Ramadan
• Changements stratégiques
• Tariq Ramadan
• Financements et influences
• Le Hamas
• Au pouvoir
• Stabilisation avec le Baath
• Hafez el-Assad
• Nouvelles directions et recherche d'apaisement
• Guerre du Kippour et renversement stratégique
• La guerre du Liban
• Palestiniens contre chrétiens
• Contre-attaque phalangiste
• Paix en Galilée
• Guerre de la montagne
• Pression sur les occidentaux et Accord Tripartite
• La guerre des chiites et la campagne du général Aoun
• Sanctions économiques américaines
• Les conflits se multiplient
• La guerre Iran-Irak
• Le soulèvement de Hama
• La problématique palestinienne
• Les succès des rigoristes musulmans en 1989
• Tournant de la guerre du Koweït
• Détente avec la France et avec les Frères
• L'héritage
• Al-Qaïda (La base)
• Dans les montagnes afghanes
• Période soudanaise
• Stratégies et idéologies
• Déroute et postérité
• Une page se tourne
• Espoirs du nouveau siècle
• Le dauphin Bachar
• Le "Printemps syrien"
• Laïcité
• L'islam au cœur d'une société laïque et socialiste
• La pax syriana intercommunautaire
• Institutions, Droit politique et économique
• Évolution du parti Baath
• Le débat public
• Démographie et statut personnel
• Un nationalisme suspect 9
• Économie
• Nouveau siècle, nouveaux enjeux
• L'après 11 septembre
• Menaces chimériques et menaces réelles
• Le WAM, les Blood borders et le Kurdistan indépendant
• La liste des sept
• Invasion de l'Irak de 2003
• Les "poulets" envoyés à Bagdad
• Sanctions américaines contre la Syrie et brouille avec Chirac
• Guerre du Liban de l'été 2006
• Assassinats politiques au Liban : l'affaire Hariri
• L'enquête sur l'assassinat de Rafic Hariri
• Les velléités nucléaires syriennes
• Un gaz naturel très disputé
• Rencontres diplomatiques secrètes
• Le Conseiller du Secrétaire d'État pour le Proche-Orient
• L'ancien ambassadeur saoudien aux USA
• L'Iran dénonce un complot américano-saoudien
• L'embrasement
• Le printemps arabe
• Tunisie - 17 décembre
• Soudan - décembre 2010
• Jordanie - 14 janvier
• Égypte - 25 janvier
• Yémen - 27 janvier
• Algérie - fin janvier
• Djibouti - 28 janvier
• Bahreïn - 14 février
• Arabie Saoudite - mi-février
• Libye - 15 février
• Maroc - 20 février
• Oman - 27 février
• Koweït - septembre
• Émirats arabes unis
• Qatar
• Somalie
• Mali - 12 janvier 2012
• Conclusion
• La Syrie touchée à son tour
• Le graffiti de Deraa
• Manifestations près de Damas
• Montée en puissance des manifestations
• L'armée atteinte
• Le plan Annan, Genève 1 et 2
• Prise de Homs
• La révolution a tout prix
• Une opposition multiforme
• L'opposition politique "historique"
• L'opposition pacifique "spontanée"
• L'opposition étrangère et "militarisée"
• Durcissement des sanctions économiques
• La guerre de la communication
• Des faits cachés
• Des faits transformés
• Des faits complètement fictifs
• Nouveaux médias : les réseaux numériques
• Le rôle des ONG
• Réactions du gouvernement syrien
• La mission de la Ligue Arabe
• La nouvelle Constitution
• De la guérilla à la guerre totale
• Nouvelle phase dans le mode opératoire rebelle
• Renversement de tendance et État islamique.

"L'histoire de la Syrie part du plus loin de l'histoire antique. La construction de cette nation s'est faite autour d'une communion d'ethnies, de langues et de religions ayant appris à vivre ensemble sous le joug des différentes occupations. Son territoire fut défini par les siècles, mais malgré des décennies d'indépendance ses frontières demeurent contestées, floutées par des contingences politiques opposées, intérieures comme extérieures. Différents acteurs politiques entrent en lutte pour le pouvoir lorsque Français et Anglais partent enfin en 1946, mais ce n'est que pour mieux revenir par la petite porte de la lutte d'influence postcoloniale. Le pouvoir se dispute avec de nouveaux acteurs : la gauche panarabe et nassérienne, les généraux sunnites et les laïques, les Frères musulmans enfin, s'imposant peu à peu comme les opposants principaux à un pouvoir qui se rapproche de plus en plus de Moscou. La prise du pouvoir par le parti Baath à partir de 1963 stabilise le pays, mais les oppositions se cristallisent. La guerre du Liban ensuite se révèle comme le déclenchement des rivalités politiques en jeu. C'est le moment assumé d'entrée dans le jeu des États-Unis, mais c'est pourtant Damas qui remporte cette guerre interminable, aboutissant à quinze ans d'occupation de ce pays revendiqué comme partie intégrante de la Grande Syrie. À la passation du pouvoir au dauphin Bachar, alors qu'elle a perdu son allié soviétique, Damas se redécouvre un temps une amie avec la France de Chirac. Mais de nouveaux ennemis se profilent : al-Qaïda d'un côté et Washington de l'autre. Plus que jamais courtisée ou menacée par les puissances étrangères ou religieuses, les problèmes auxquels la Syrie doit faire face sont indissociables de cette situation géopolitique complexe. Ce livre vous invite à la comprendre."--Page 4 of cover.

• Preface Acknowledgments
• 1. Saddam Hussein
• 2. George W. Bush
• 3. 9/11 and the Global War on Terror
• 4. Iraq
• 5. Coercive Diplomacy
• 6. A Special Relationship
• 7. Deciding
• 8. Resolve
• 9. Mission Awry
• 10. Conclusion: Fear, Power, Hubris Notes Bibliography Index.
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A vivid portrayal of what drove George W. Bush to invade Iraq in 2003-an outcome that was in no way predetermined. America's decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003 is arguably the most important foreign policy choice of the entire post-Cold War era. Nearly two decades after the event, it remains central to understanding current international politics and US foreign relations. In Confronting Saddam Hussein, the eminent historian of US foreign policy Melvyn P. Leffler analyzes why the US chose war and who was most responsible for the decision. Employing a unique set of personal interviews with dozens of top officials and declassified American and British documents, Leffler vividly portrays the emotions and anxieties that shaped the thinking of the president after the shocking events of 9/11. He shows how fear, hubris, and power influenced Bush's approach to Saddam Hussein's Iraq. At the core of Leffler's account is his compelling portrait of Saddam Hussein. Rather than stressing Bush's preoccupation with promoting freedom or democracy, Leffler emphasizes Hussein's brutality, opportunism, and unpredictability and illuminates how the Iraqi dictator's record of aggression and intransigence haunted the president and influenced his calculations. Bush was not eager for war, and the decision to invade Iraq was not a fait accompli. Yet the president was convinced that only by practicing coercive diplomacy and threatening force could he alter Hussein's defiance, a view shared by British Prime Minister Tony Blair and other leaders around the world, including Hans Blix, the chief UN inspector. Throughout, Leffler highlights the harrowing anxieties surrounding the decision-making process after the devastating attack on 9/11 and explains the roles of contingency, agency, rationality, and emotion. As the book unfolds, Bush's centrality becomes more and more evident, as does the bureaucratic dysfunctionality that contributed to the disastrous occupation of Iraq. A compelling reassessment of George W. Bush's intervention in Iraq, Confronting Saddam Hussein provides a provocative reinterpretation of the most important international event of the 21st century.
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• Saddam Hussein
• George W. Bush
• 9/11
• Iraq
• Coercive diplomacy
• A special relationship
• Deciding
• Resolve
• Mission awry
• Conclusion: Fear, power, hubris

"Based on a unique set of interviews and British and American documents, this book examines the motives for the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, examines the decision-making inside the Bush administration, and assesses the reasons for the chaotic, bloody, and costly occupation. The attack on America on 9/11 by al Qaeda terrorists transformed the thinking and actions of Bush and his top advisers. Bush conceived the administration's response. Fear, power, and hubris shaped his approach - fear of another attack; pride in American values; and confidence in America's ability to effectuate change. Worried about another attack on American soil - this time with biological or chemical weapons - Bush turned his attention to Iraq because of Saddam Hussein's history with weapons of mass destruction and because of his record of aggression, brutality, and duplicity. To achieve his goals, the American president embraced a strategy of coercive diplomacy. If Iraq faced a military threat, Bush hoped Hussein would open his country to inspections, relinquish his alleged weapons of mass destruction, flee, or be toppled. When Hussein admitted inspectors yet remained obstructive, Bush denounced the dictator's defiance and believed America's credibility was at stake. Without resolving the ambiguities and inconsistencies in his strategy of coercive diplomacy and failing to assess the consequences of an invasion or to plan effectively for its many contingencies, Bush ordered U.S. troops to invade Iraq. Friction and acrimony within the administration turned the occupation into a tragedy, the consequences of which we are still living with"-- Provided by publisher

• Saddam Hussein
• George W. Bush
• 9/11
• Iraq
• Coercive diplomacy
• A special relationship
• Deciding
• Resolve
• Mission awry
• Conclusion: Fear, power, hubris

"Based on a unique set of interviews and British and American documents, this book examines the motives for the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, examines the decision-making inside the Bush administration, and assesses the reasons for the chaotic, bloody, and costly occupation. The attack on America on 9/11 by al Qaeda terrorists transformed the thinking and actions of Bush and his top advisers. Bush conceived the administration's response. Fear, power, and hubris shaped his approach - fear of another attack; pride in American values; and confidence in America's ability to effectuate change. Worried about another attack on American soil - this time with biological or chemical weapons - Bush turned his attention to Iraq because of Saddam Hussein's history with weapons of mass destruction and because of his record of aggression, brutality, and duplicity. To achieve his goals, the American president embraced a strategy of coercive diplomacy. If Iraq faced a military threat, Bush hoped Hussein would open his country to inspections, relinquish his alleged weapons of mass destruction, flee, or be toppled. When Hussein admitted inspectors yet remained obstructive, Bush denounced the dictator's defiance and believed America's credibility was at stake. Without resolving the ambiguities and inconsistencies in his strategy of coercive diplomacy and failing to assess the consequences of an invasion or to plan effectively for its many contingencies, Bush ordered U.S. troops to invade Iraq. Friction and acrimony within the administration turned the occupation into a tragedy, the consequences of which we are still living with"-- Provided by publisher

• Acknowledgments About the Contributors and the Editor List of Figures and Tables Introduction
• 1 Relations Between Seoul, ASEAN States and Pyongyang LAM PENG ER (EDITOR) PART I Triangular Relations: Three Perspectives
• 2 Seoul's New Southern Policy With the ASEAN States and Its Security Implications for Peace on the Korean Peninsula HAHNKYU PARK
• 3 ASEAN and the Two Koreas: Bilateral and Multilateral Nexus NUR SHAHADAH JAMIL
• 4 Pyongyang's Relations With the ASEAN States and Seoul: ASEAN as an Epistemic Hub for the Korean Peninsula Issue KIM SUNG CHULL PART II ASEAN States Between Pyongyang and Seoul
• 5 Vietnam's Relations With the Korean Peninsula: The Interplay Between History, Identity and National Interests HA ANH TUAN
• 6 Cambodia's Relations With North and South Korea: A Remainder From the Cold War JULIO A. JELDRES
• 7 Laos' Friendly Relations With the Socialist and Democratic Regimes in the Korean Peninsula SULATHIN THILADEJ
• 8 Singapore's Relations With North and South Korea: In Pursuit of Pragmatism and Principles SARAH TEO
• 9 The Domestic Sources of Indonesia's Relations With North and South Korea: Pragmatism, Leadership and Regime Legitimacy ARDHITYA EDUARD YEREMIA AND MUHAMAD ARIF
• 10 The Philippines-South Korea-North Korea Triangular Relationship: Between a Long-Time Security Partner and a Traditional Security Threat RENATO CRUZ DE CASTRO
• 11 A Reactive Diplomacy: Pyongyang-Bangkok-Seoul Triangular Relations PAVIN CHACHAVALPONGPUN
• 12 Myanmar and the Two Koreas: Toward New Areas of Convergence? MOE THUZAR PART III Triangular Relations: Human Security and Economics
• 13 Human Security: North Korean Refugees, Conduit of ASEAN States and South Korean Sanctuary BRENDAN HOWE
• 14 Triangular Economic Ties Between ROK, DPRK and ASEAN CHIANG MIN-HUA Index.
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This book presents a comprehensive overview of the relations between the two Koreas and the different ASEAN states, including their relations with ASEAN as an organization. It outlines a complex picture with both bilateral and multilateral relations in play at the same time. It charts for each relationship how the present situation has arisen, discusses current difficulties and strains, and assesses how the relationship may develop in future.
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• Going below the waterline : hydrocolonial methods, creolized water / Isabel Hofmeyr
• Fellowship and aversion in the South : the challenges of South-South collaboration / Elleke Boehmer
• Found in prison : the poetics of oceanic histories / Geeta Patel
• Remembering the Bengal Delta : ca. 1450-1850 / Rila Mukherjee
• "The wind sketches landscapes of words" : oceanic poetics in the Horn of Africa and western Indian Ocean / Kelsey McFaul
• Padmabati of the oceans : unfreedom and belonging in Syed Alaol's Padmabati / Swati Moitra
• Senses translated : Paṭappāṭṭus in the Indian Ocean, circulation of texts and sounds across Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit cosmopoleis / Ihsan Ul Ihthisam
• Of those on shore : the dhow trade and mobility in the Indian Ocean / Nidhi Mahajan
• Towards an architecture of the Indian Ocean : mapping the syncretic grammar of coastal cities & architecture through Ibn Battuta's water journeys (1342-1347) / Iqtedar Alam
• Through the eyes of the boat people : redefining oceans in the 21st century / Chrisalice Ela Joseph and Vinod Balakrishnan
• Literate illiterates : Arabi-Malayalam and parallel process of knowledge production among Muslims in Kerala / M.H.Ilias.
• 'Ulamā' networks across the seas : understanding the trajectory of Islam in Medieval Malabar / Mohammed Shameem K.K.
• Encountering the 'other : pilgrims at sea and accounts of journeys to Hejaz in the age of oceanic mobility / Muhamed Riyaz Chenganakkattil
• Christianity, conversion and caste : reflecting on identity in Dalit Christian Malayalam writings in post-colonial India / Steven S. George
• Rainbow waters : towards a queer coalition between India and Botswana / Kashish Dua

"When Thomas Roe arrived in India in 1616 as James I's first ambassador to the Mughal Empire, the English barely had a toehold in the subcontinent. Their understanding of South Asian trade and India was sketchy at best, and, to the Mughals, they were minor players on a very large stage. Roe represented a kingdom that was beset by financial woes and deeply conflicted about its identity as a unified 'Great Britain' under the Stuart monarchy. Meanwhile, the court he entered in India was wealthy and cultured, its dominion widely considered to be one of the greatest and richest empires of the world. In this fascinating history of Roe's four years in India, Nandini Das offers an insider's view of Britain in the making, a country whose imperial seeds were just being sown. It is a story of palace intrigue, scandal, lotteries, and wagers that unfold as global trade begins to stretch from Russia to Virginia, from West Africa to the Spice Islands of Indonesia."-- Provided by publisher.

• Crip colonial critique : reading mestizaje from the Borderlands to the Philippines
• Benevolent rehabilitation and the colonial bodymind : Filipinx American studies as disability studies
• Mad María Clara : the queer aesthetics of mestizaje and compulsory able-mindedness
• Filipino itineraries, orientalizing impairments : Chinese foot-binding and the crip coloniality of travel literature
• A colonial model of disability : running amok in the mad colonial archive of the Philippines
• A song from Subic : racial disposability and the intimacy of cultural translation.

"Crip Colony is an interdisciplinary analysis of the racial politics of disability, mestizaje, and sexuality in the Philippines. Sony Coráñez Bolton reads across language archives and overlapping Spanish and US imperialisms, drawing on colonial records, visual culture, poetry, presidential speeches, travel narratives, and political essays, in addition to the famous Spanish-language Filipino novel Noli Me Tangere. Through these texts he shows how these imperial and racial regimes were also regimes of ability. Expanding traditional engagements with mestizaje, Coráñez Bolton examines the ways that Filipinx mestizaje became a eugenic framework which identified native Filipino subjects as inherently disabled, in need of reform and rehabilitation, and mixed-race Filipinos as able to offer a form of "benevolent rehabilitation" which would prepare these deficient natives for assimilation into the US empire. Through this crip critique of coloniality, Coráñez Bolton shows how mestizaje allowed for "superior" mixed-race subjects to govern the archipelago in collusion with imperial processes of dispossession and debilitation"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction. Struggling to Remember: Memory, Representation, and Contention
• 1. Cultural Memories of State Violence: A Comparative Study of Kwangju and Hiroshima
• 2. The Making of Tiananmen Square as a Realm of Contested Memories
• 3. From Dictator to Hero: Marcos, Heroes Cemeteries, and Sites of Cultural Memory
• 4. The Praxis of Memory: The Royal Statue of King Prajadhipok
• 5. Reshuffling History: From Mengkerang to Party, Image (Film) and it's Overflowing History/Time Index System
• 6. (Un-)Representability of History and Visualisation of Memory
• 7. Exorcising Memory through Cold Confessions? Testimonial Literature and the Problems of Ethics
• 8. The Politics and Promise of Memory: The White Terror in Taiwan as Example.
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A collection of works by Asian scholars looking at different ways in which relatively recent traumas have been memorialized in their various countries, often while the traumas themselves are ongoing, or the memories of them contested. Memory studies typically focuses on the study of memorialization after traumatic incidents are overcome, in Asia, however, the past and the present remain closely intertwined. Between the legacies of the Japanese Empire, the respective suppressions by the Kuomintang and the People's Republic of China, and the ongoing protests in much of Southeast Asia against oppressive governments and laws, memorialization is occurring while the histories are still being contested. The contributors to this book are Asian scholars examining the memorializing of events in the countries of Asia, including China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Thailand and the Philippines, using local language sources. They look at a broad range of media of memorialization, encompassing statues, cemeteries, testimonial literature, and film among others. An insightful resource for scholars of memory and cultural studies, as well as those of twentieth and twenty-first century Asian history.
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• Introduction
• the Third Millennium context
• Ancient Near Eastern Context
• Syria and Palestine
• Ancient Near Eastern Context, including Syria
• Palestine/Canaan
• Ancient Near Eastern Context, including Syria and Transjordan (1200-900 BCE)
• Palestine (1200-900 BCE)
• The Origins of Israel -a holistic approach

"Lester L. Grabbe provides a comprehensive history of the main ancient Near Eastern peoples and empires, drawing on insights from archaeology, iconography and the social sciences"-- Provided by publisher

In this play-by-play account of the elite politics that led to the military crackdown during the 1989 Tiananmen protests, Su addresses the repression of the protest in the context of political leadership succession. He challenges conventional views that see the military intervention as a necessary measure against a revolutionary mobilization.

• 1. Introduction: a decision to kill
• Part I. Party-state leadership in the Deng Era : 2. The coming of the Deng Era (1976-1987)
• 3. The fate of two successors (1980-April 15, 1989)
• Part II. Elite politics and the making of the Tiananmen protest : 4. Early response and the growth of the protest (April 15-April 26, 1989)
• 5. Where was Deng Xiaoping? (April 15-May 11, 1989)
• 6. How a moderate approach failed (April 26-May 17, 1989)
• Part III. The decision for military intervention : 7. Was it a revolution? (April 15-June 3, 1989)
• 8. The martial law decision (May 13-May 19,, 1989)
• 9. Military operations as symbolic display of power (June 3-June 4, 1989)
• Part IV. The political impact : 10. Deng's long game (1989-1992)
• 11. Conclusion: Tiananmen and China's communist authoritarianism.

Three decades after 1989, historical materials are now available for understanding the Tiananmen protests in a new light. In a play-by-play account of the elite politics that led to the military crackdown, Su addresses the repression of the protest in the context of political leadership succession. He challenges conventional views that see the military intervention as a necessary measure against revolutionary mobilization. Beneath the political drama, Deadly Decision in Beijing explores the authoritarian regime's perpetual crisis of leadership transition and its impact on popular movements.

• Die deportation in die euthanasie-mordstätten 1940-1943
• Die massendeportationen 1941-1942
• Die deportationen in den jahren 1943-1945
• Anhang

This book introduces a new theoretical framework that examines Iran in relation to the theological concept of Anfal, a confiscatory regime seen in Iran since 1979 where public assets belong to the leader of Iran. Through analysing the economic impacts of Anfal, the effects of political capitalism and destructive coordination and how they lead to the economics of hoarding and the flight of capital and labour are highlighted. The economics of predation, ecological disaster, and cooperative coordination are also discussed. This book aims to highlight the economic consequences of Anfal and its role in sustaining destructive condition and shaping the Islamic political capitalism. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in the political economy, Middle Eastern and Islamic studies. Mehrdad Vahabi is Professor of Economics at University Sorbonne Paris Nord and director of the research center on Economics at North Paris (CEPN) affiliated to the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). He has published many books in English, French and Persian among them The Political Economy of Destructive Power (Edward Elgar, 2004), The Political Economy of Predation (Cambridge University Press, 2015). He has published more than a hundred articles in peer journals and is an editor of Public Choice

• Introduction
• 1. Mao Zedong's Revolutionary Diplomacy: Keeping the Wolves from the Door
• 2. Deng Xiaoping's Developmental Diplomacy: Biding for China's Time
• 3. Xi Jinping's Big Power Diplomacy: Showing China's Sword
• 4. Power of the Past over the Present: The Imperial Glory versus the Century of Humiliation
• 5. Defining National Interests: State versus Popular Nationalism
• 6. The Party-State Hierarchy: Paramount Leaders versus Institutions
• 7. Searching for China's Place in the Sun: International Distribution of Power
• 8. From Revolutionary State to Revisionist Stakeholder: The World Order and Globalization
• 9. Conclusion: The Mandate of Heaven? China's Quest and Peril.
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China is unique in modern world history. No other rising power has experienced China's turbulent history in its relations with neighbors and Western countries. Its sheer size dominates the region. With leader Xi Jinping's political authority unmatched, Xi's sense of mission to restore what he believes is China's natural position as a great power drives the current course of the nation's foreign policy. When China was weak, it was subordinated to others. Now, China is strong, and it wants others to subordinate, at least on the issues involving what it regards as core national interests. What are the primary forces and how have these forces driven China's reemergence to global power? This book weaves together complex events, processes, and players to provide a historically in-depth, conceptually comprehensive, and up-to-date analysis of Chinese foreign policy transition since the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC), arguing that transformational leaders with new visions and political wisdom to make their visions prevail are the game changers. Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and Xi Jinping are transformational leaders who have charted unique courses of Chinese foreign policy in the quest for security, prosperity, and power. With the ultimate decision-making authority on national security and strategic policies, these leaders have made political use of ideational forces, tailoring bureaucratic institutions, exploiting the international power distribution, and responding strategically to the international norms and rules to advance their foreign policy agendas in the path of China's ascendance.
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• Introduction
• 1. Mao Zedong's Revolutionary Diplomacy: Keeping the Wolves from the Door
• 2. Deng Xiaoping's Developmental Diplomacy: Biding for China's Time
• 3. Xi Jinping's Big Power Diplomacy: Showing China's Sword
• 4. Power of the Past over the Present: The Imperial Glory versus the Century of Humiliation
• 5. Defining National Interests: State versus Popular Nationalism
• 6. The Party-State Hierarchy: Paramount Leaders versus Institutions
• 7. Searching for China's Place in the Sun: International Distribution of Power
• 8. From Revolutionary State to Revisionist Stakeholder: The World Order and Globalization
• 9. Conclusion: The Mandate of Heaven? China's Quest and Peril.
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China is unique in modern world history. No other rising power has experienced China's turbulent history in its relations with neighbors and Western countries. Its sheer size dominates the region. With leader Xi Jinping's political authority unmatched, Xi's sense of mission to restore what he believes is China's natural position as a great power drives the current course of the nation's foreign policy. When China was weak, it was subordinated to others. Now, China is strong, and it wants others to subordinate, at least on the issues involving what it regards as core national interests. What are the primary forces and how have these forces driven China's reemergence to global power? This book weaves together complex events, processes, and players to provide a historically in-depth, conceptually comprehensive, and up-to-date analysis of Chinese foreign policy transition since the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC), arguing that transformational leaders with new visions and political wisdom to make their visions prevail are the game changers. Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and Xi Jinping are transformational leaders who have charted unique courses of Chinese foreign policy in the quest for security, prosperity, and power. With the ultimate decision-making authority on national security and strategic policies, these leaders have made political use of ideational forces, tailoring bureaucratic institutions, exploiting the international power distribution, and responding strategically to the international norms and rules to advance their foreign policy agendas in the path of China's ascendance.
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• Chapter 1: Introduction (Christopher R. Hughes and Hatsue Shinohara)
• Part 1: The League and Empires
• Chapter 2: "Liberal internationalism" reconsidered: Liberal inter-imperialism and the League of Nations in Asia and the Pacific (Tomoko Akami)
• Chapter 3: The League of Nations' Functional Works in the Years of Growing Nationalism (Harumi Goto-Shibata)
• Part 2: Globalism and Inter-Civilizationism
• Chapter 4: The activity and legacy of the Far East Bureau of the League of Nations: A key knot in connecting regional and international order (Kayo Takuma)
• Chapter 5: Japanese International Lawyers and the Codification of International Law in the League of Nations (Rikiya Takahashi)
• Chapter 6: Intellectual Entanglements between the League of Nations and East Asia: Modernism or Anti-Modernism? (Takashi Saikawa)
• Part 3: Member States
• Chapter 7: Attempting Neutrality: Siam's Coping with the League of Nations' Multilateralism (Teewin Suputtikun)
• Chapter 8: The Council of the League of Nations and Japan: A Challenge to Emerging International Norms (Hatsue Shinohara)
• Chapter 9: China's Policies toward the Abyssinian Question, 1935-1938 (Li Chang)
• Part 4: The Case of Manchuria
• Chapter 10: Popular Newspapers in China and the League: A Case of the Lytton Commission (Lunhai Mu)
• Chapter 11: Aborted Ideas of an Internationally Administered Manchuria: The Background to the Lytton Report (Haruo Tohmatsu)
• Chapter 12: The Diplomatic construction of Chinese sovereignty During the Manchurian Crisis (Christopher R. Hughes)
• Chapter 13: Conclusion (Madeleine Herren)

This book looks at East Asian actors in the League of Nations to explore a pivotal moment in the early stage of the development of global international relations. It breaks new ground by drawing on extensive sources in East Asian languages to show how actors from the region played significant roles in shaping the emerging norms and practices that underpin the international system. The chapters cover cases from the three East Asian member states, namely China, Japan and Siam (Thailand) to address topics that involve the intersection of disciplinary fields, such as law and warfare, sovereignty and international organization, and public health and international co-operation. The research draws on new material that will be of interest to academic researchers and is presented in a style suitable for teaching at undergraduate and graduate levels, especially for courses that strive to achieve a global outlook and the decolonization of the curriculum. Christopher R. Hughes Professor Emeritus of International Relations at the LSE, where he served as Director of the Asia Research Centre from 2002 to 2005. He has published widely on Chinese foreign policy and the impact of culture, technology and power on the evolution of international society. Previous books include Taiwan and Chinese Nationalism: National Identity and Status in International Society (Routledge 1997/2014), China and the Internet: Politics of the Digital Leap Forward (ed. Wth G. Wacker) (Routledge 2003) and Chinese Nationalism in the Global Era (Routledge Curzon 2006). Hatsue Shinohara is a Professor at the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University. She specializes in the history of international organization and international law. Her major publications include American International Lawyers in the Interwar Years: A Forgotten Crusade (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and the League of Nations (in Japanese) (2010), which was translated into Chinese and published in China (2020)

"En 1960, Eli Cohen est recruté par le Mossad pour une mission spéciale : endosser le rôle d'un homme d'affaires syrien. Il devient Kamel Amin Thaabet et part en Argentine pour faire connaître son nom au sein de la communauté des expatriés syriens. Fait peu connu : pendant son séjour en Argentine il aide aussi à traquer des nazis cachés à Buenos Aires. En 1962, Kamel Amin Thaabet s'installe à Damas où pendant trois ans il réussit à fournir des renseignements très précieux au Mossad. Le 18 mai 1965, il a été pendu sur la place publique à Damas, et sa dépouille n'a jamais été rendue à Israël, malgré les demandes du gouvernement israélien. Eli Cohen, est un des agents secrets les plus connus au monde, et son histoire a été fictionnalisée à maintes reprises. Dans ce livre, la journaliste Valérie Perez-Ennouchi en conversation avec Sophie Cohen Ben-Dor, la fille de Eli Cohen, retrace l'histoire de cet espion légendaire en s'appuyant sur des documents exclusifs et inconnus du grand public. Après des études de journalisme aux États-Unis, Valérie Perez-Ennouchi rejoint France Télévisions et continue sa carrière de journaliste. Passionnée par l'histoire elle produit et présente depuis plusieurs années le magazine Histoire et Découvertes sur i24news. Eh Cohen, le héros du Mossad est son deuxième ouvrage, après Destins de Femmes (Éditions Ramsay, 2021) qui a été récompensé par le Prix Edgar Faure 2021."--Page 4 of cover.

• A Time of Trouble
• Negotiating the Disinformation Order
• Warfare and 'Wanton Provocations'
• The Price of Pageantry
• Weak Ties in a Tangled Web
• Kinship, Gender, and Dynastic Dramas.

"This book makes important contributions to the history of the East India Company and the history of indirect rule. It will be relevant for students and academics interested in India, the British empire, and European overseas empires generally"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• 1. Isaac of Norwich and the Rebuilding of the King's Jewry (1217-1222)
• 2. Of Badges and Wet-Nurses: English Bishops Attempt to Limit Contact Between Jews and Christians
• 3. Simon de Montfort and the King's Jews
• 4. Oxford Jews and Christian Hebraism
• 5. From the Statutes of the Jewry to Little Hugh of Lincoln (1253-1255)
• 6. Baronial Revolts and Anti-Jewish Violence (1258-1267)
• 7. A Curse upon Edom
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index.

"In thirteenth-century England, Jews played important roles in English society. Yet Church authorities feared the consequences of Jewish contact with Christians and tried to limit it, to little avail. Some circulated vicious rumors, accusing Jews of capturing and crucifying Christian children. All of these factors led Edward I to expel the Jews from England in 1290. Paradoxically, thirteenth-century England is both the theater of deep and fruitful economic and social exchange between Jews and Christians and one of the crucibles of European Antisemitism"-- Provided by publisher.

• Preface to the Second Edition, Paul Salem, The Middle East Institute, USA and Ross Harrison, The Middle East Institute, USA 1. Middle East Civil Wars: Definitions, Drivers, and the Record of the Recent Past, Paul Salem, The Middle East Institute, USA 2. What We Know about Ending Civil Wars, Jessica Maves, Braithwaite, University of Arizona, USA 3. The Global and Regional Geopolitics of Civil War in the Middle East, Ross Harrison, The Middle East Institute, USA 4. Yemen: The 60-Year War, Gerald Feierstein, The Middle East Institute, USA previously of U.S. Foreign Service 5. The Syrian Civil War: Bringing the Conflict to a Close, Robert S. Ford, The Middle East Institute, USA
• previously of U.S Foreign Service 6. Afghanistan's Unending Wars, Marvin G. Weinbaum, The Middle East Institute, USA
• previously of U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research
• and Ahmad Khalid Majidyar, previously of the State Department, and Congress 7. The Origins of the Libyan Conflict and Options for its Resolution, Jonathan M. Winer, The Middle East Institute, USA previously United States Special Envoy for Libya 8. Iraq: A Conflict over State Identity and Ownership, Randa Slim, The Middle East Institute, USA and Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced and International Studies, USA 9. The Diplomacy of Engagement: Ending Civil Wars in Transitional Middle Eastern States, Chester A. Crocker, Georgetown University, USA Concluding Thoughts and Policy Takeaways, Paul Salem, The Middle East Institute, USA and Ross Harrison, The Middle East Institute, USA.
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How can the current civil wars in the Middle East be resolved? This volume brings together academics, experts, and practitioners to explore this question. The book covers the history of civil wars in the region during the 20th century, and then examines the specific causes, drivers, and dynamics of the ongoing civil wars in Syria, Yemen, Libya, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Updated for a second edition, the book argues that while these are very different cases of civil war, there are patterns that are important to point out at the outset. First, while each of the conflicts appears to be a relatively recent phenomenon, each has a long historical tail. Second, each of the civil wars had deep and complex domestic drivers and dynamics over issues of governance, political identity, and resources; at the same time, all of the conflicts have had deep regional and international components. Finally, all of these civil wars have been affected by the presence or entrance of armed transnational non-state actors, which have had far greater involvement in the Middle Eastern civil wars compared to other regions. The book concludes that these conflicts will require a mixture of local, regional, and international interventions to bring them to an end, but that none of the conflicts are likely to end cleanly through either a negotiated settlement or a clear victory by one party or the other. Despite this pessimistic overall assessment, the book emphasizes that policymakers should use knowledge of civil wars in the Middle East to develop and pursue specific national, regional and global policies. These should be built around mitigating the worst effects of the conflicts and towards ultimate resolution.
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• Introduction. L'accent maternel : vous êtes polonaise!
• Y avait-il des juifs en Pologne après la guerre ?
• Pièces-Cuisine hauts de plafond : un appartement standard dans le Varsovie de l'après-guerre ?
• Où trouve-t-on du papier de toilette dans le Varsovie de l'après-guerre ?
• Émancipation de la femme : scories bourgeoises, conquête prolétarienne et le rôle du langage
• Ruines, fleurs et vers de terre : sécurité urbaine ou danger ?
• Religion à l'école publique et différences entre mots et gestes
• Qui blâmer pour ses bonnes manières ?
• Sang et drapeaux, deux tons de rouge
• Des talons aiguilles au goût de la liberté, via le goût de la matsa et celui de l'orange
• Un très gros tas de cadavres juifs
• Collier de perles et habits parisiens, une nouvelle porosité du rideau de fer
• Des imprévisibles et des inattendus
• Encore sur les privilèges et les privilégiés
• Mes "Monsieur Germain". À qui payer la dette ?
• Émigration 1968 : un sioniste, même "présumé", a-t-il le droit à la compassion ?
• Polonaise ou juive polonaise, quelle est la différence ?
• Qui est Juif et qui ne l'aime pas
• Construction d'une identité. Une migration de Pologne en France
• Une migration dans la tradition juive : retour vers un inconnu
• Sur les traces des cheminements et des transformations
• De génération en génération
• De l'art d'être Juif
• Avec ou sans la kippa
• Comme une bulle de savon
• Rester ou partir
• Leur Pologne de rêve
• Leur état d'esprit
• Rester ou partir version 1925 : débat dans la famille
• Persévérer dans son être : la vie juive dans l'immédiat après-guerre
• Vagues d'émigration : dates et chiffres
• Dans les bagages de ceux qui partaient
• Nous, Juifs polonais de Julian Tuwim
• Polonais pour nous, Juifs pour eux
• Une courte histoire d'émigrations bibliques
• La question demeure
• Éléments de généalogie
• Famille Rapoport
• Famille Szenfeld
• Famille Rubinsztejn.

"Des Juifs vivaient en Pologne après la Shoah. "Me tournant alors vers l'expérience de mes parents, je rapporte et essaie de comprendre leur choix de vie, leur décision de ne pas quitter la Pologne après la guerre, eux, rescapés de la Shoah. Mon père et ma mère sont devenus, tous deux, éditeurs et journalistes. L'un et l'autre se sont adaptés ensemble à la République populaire de Pologne ; puis mon père est resté seul là-bas, tandis que ma mère, en est partie après 1968 et s'est installée aux États-Unis." Joanna Kubar, en interrogeant la vie de ses parents, et la sienne, tente de répondre à une question universelle : quel est le sens de notre attachement à notre terre d'origine ? Elle-même se pense comme Française d'origine "Juive polonaise"."--Page 4 of cover.

• Introduction / Exploring the Evolution of Pragmatism in India One / Ambedkar and Dewey at Columbia University Two / The Genesis of Ambedkar's Reconstructive Rhetoric Three / Reconstructive Rhetoric, Appropriation, and the Strategic Use of Reference Four / Pragmatism, Reflection, and the Annihilation of Caste Five / Education, Force, and the Will to Convert Conclusion / The Vision of Ambedkar's Navayana Pragmatism Acknowledgments Notes Index.
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The story of how the Indian reformer Bhimrao Ambedkar reimagined John Dewey's pragmatism. In The Evolution of Pragmatism in India, Scott R. Stroud delivers a comprehensive exploration of the influence of John Dewey's pragmatism on Bhimrao Ambedkar, architect of the Republic of India's constitution. Stroud traces Ambedkar's development in Dewey's Columbia University classes in 1913-1916 through his final years in 1950s India when he rewrote the story of Buddhism. Stroud examines pragmatism's influence not only on the philosophical ideas underpinning Ambedkar's fight against caste oppression but also how his persuasive techniques drew on pragmatism's commitment to reconstruction and meliorism. At the same time, Stroud is careful to point out the ways that Ambedkar pushed back against Dewey's paradigm and developed his own approach to challenges in India. The result is a nuanced study of one of the most important figures in Indian history.
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• 1. The Highest Ideal of Mankind Is the Potential of the Future
• 2. Great Harmony of One World: Asian Renaissance and Prosperity of Unity in Diversities From the Perspectives of Mutual Learning of Civilizations, Renaissance, an Internal Saint Exploring External King and the One World Family
• 3. Innovate the Development Model of World and Pursue Win-win Cooperation
• 4. Towards a Culture of World Peace
• Chapter 5. Shared Futures from the International Social Work Perspective
• 6. One Destiny for Mankind in a Single Goal
• 7. Building a Community of Shared Future for Mankind: The Aspiration and the Setback
• 8. Shared Future for Mankind: Building Community Where the Lamp of Material Civilization Is Illumined by the Light of the Spirit
• 9. China and Africa Jointly Building a Community of Shared Future Communication: The Role of African Think Tanks in the Strategic Partnership between Africa and China

This book consists of global scholars views on mankinds wishes for the future, the Belt and Road Initiative, bilateral cooperation, inter-civilization exchanges, and mutual learning among Asian civilizations, which represent a critical way to boost the construction of an Asian community with a shared future and a community with a shared future for mankind. It also gives some insight into the future development of Asian civilizations. The book aims to present a diverse and balanced overview on the prospect of Asian development

Documentary filmmaker, Christine Choy, tracks down three exiled dissidents from the Tiananmen Square massacre in order to find closure on an abandoned project she began shooting in 1989

• Introduction par Laurent Joly
• Pt. 1. Les autorités allemandes et les dirigeants de vichy face à la "solution finale"
• Politique(s) antisémite(s) allemande(s) en France occupée : idéologies et pratiques
• Michael Mayer
• Naissance d'une politique antisémite : Vichy, juillet-octobre 1940
• Tal Bruttmann
• La coopération franco-allemande dans le domaine de la Judenpolitik, 1940-1942
• Michael Mayer
• Le maréchal Pétain et la "question juive"
• Bénédicte Vergez-Chaignon
• Laval, antisémite qui s'ignore et persécuteur cynique
• Renaud Meltz
• Les effets politiques d'une protestation religieuse : l'Église et Vichy en 1942
• Wolfgang Seibel
• Pt. 2. L'opinion et le sort des juifs
• Les Français et la persécution des Juifs sous l'Occupation
• Renée Poznanski
• Les Juifs dans le "contrôle technique" : un reflet de la réaction de l'opinion face aux rafles de l'été 1942 ?
• Alexandre Doulut
• Une opinion publique située. Les gérants immobiliers parisiens et la disparition des locataires juifs (1941-1944)
• Isabelle Backouche, Sarah Gensburger et Eric Le Bourhis
• Pt. 3. L'ordinaire de la persécution
• La catégorie d'"indésirable" et la politique d'internement des étrangers et étrangères en zone libre, 1938-1942. Le cas de Marseille
• Àurélie Audeval
• Prisonniers, déportés. Le poids de l'infraction pénale dans les parcours de persécution des Juifs détenus à la Santé et à Fresnes (1941-1944)
• Johanna Lehr
• L'éviction par Vichy des Juifs, des femmes et des francs-maçons du ministère de l'Agriculture
• Roger Arditi
• La cœxistence et ses limites : la jeunesse juive française et le régime de Vichy. L'exemple du chantier rural des Éclaireurs israélites de France à Lautrec (Tarn).

"Dès les années 1950, les premiers travaux scientifiques sur la persécution des Juifs sous l'Occupation, fondés sur les archives de l'État, ont réduit à néant les justifications des dirigeants de Vichy à la Libération : le "moindre mal", "sacrifier" les Juifs étrangers pour "sauver" les Juifs français, etc. Depuis, l'historiographie, qui a abouti dans les années 1970-1980 aux travaux majeurs de Robert Paxton ou de Serge Klarsfeld, n'a cessé de se développer, au point qu'il est sans doute impossible de dresser la liste exhaustive des milliers de titres parus. D'où la nécessité d'une présentation des acquis les plus récents de la recherche, française et internationale, sur la Shoah en France. Telle est l'ambition du présent ouvrage, à l'échelle des acteurs, dirigeants comme simples citoyens, qui permet de comprendre le bilan de la "solution finale" en France : 74150 déportés; plus de 200000 non-déportés. Malgré la volonté génocidaire de l'occupant et la politique des dirigeants de Vichy visant à mobiliser toute la puissance de l'État contre les Juifs apatrides et leurs enfants, les obstacles dans l'administration et la société étaient suffisamment nombreux pour que, dès les grandes rafles de l'été 1942, en dépit des dizaines de milliers d'arrestations, la majorité des victimes parviennent à s'en sortir. Une mise au point salutaire alors que le savoir scientifique sur les crimes du XXe siècle est régulièrement attaqué à des fins nationalistes."--Page 4 of cover.

• Introduction: China and the East Asian Renaissance,: Towards a New World Order
• The Return of the Native: The Fall and Rise of Confucius in Modern China
• Chinese Authoritarianism: The Role of Legalism and & Militarism in the Making of Modern China
• The Daoist Cycle of Life and & The Way of Returning to the Fundamental: Millenarian Prophecy and the Environmental Movement in Contemporary China
• The Return of the Non-Nonnative: The Buddhist Revival in Contemporary China
• Back to the Future? Prospects for Confucianism and Chinese Traditions in Contemporary China

"Addresses the question of China's rise and what it portends for the future"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction
• Selling and consuming total war
• Aviation and Japan's aerial imaginary
• Gas mask parade
• Bombs away!
• Wondrous weapons and future war
• Exhibiting air defense
• Epilogue : afterimages

"Gas Mask Nation explores Japanese daily life during the widespread culture of civil defense that emerged through fifteen years of war, beginning with Japan's invasion of Manchuria in 1931 and only ending with Japan's decisive defeat in WWII. This fifteen-year period involved intense social mobilization and the militarization of citizens. As in nearly every war since the invention of the airplane, surveillance, secrecy, and physical safety became visual symbols of national preparedness and anxiety. Everybody was vulnerable, always. And everybody had a role to play. Prevailing scholarship tends to portray the war years in Japan as a landscape of privation where consumer and popular culture were suppressed under the massive censorship of the war machine. Weisenfeld claims otherwise: while not denying the horrors of war, she shows that pleasure, desire, wonder, creativity, and humor were all still abundantly present. Even amidst the fear, tasty caramels were sold to children with paper gas masks as promotional giveaways, and popular magazines featured everything from attractive models in the latest civil defense fashions to futuristic wartime weapons. Gas Mask Nation examines the multilayered construction of an anxious yet perversely pleasurable culture of civil air defense through a diverse range of art works and media including experimental and documentary photographs, newsreels, popular magazine illustrations, advertising, cartoons, and state propaganda"-- Provided by publisher

• Debunking the myth of Northeast Asia / Yong-Chool Ha and Akihiro Iwashita
• The transformation of China in Northeast Asia since 1990 : from regional power to global power / Yoshifumi Nakai
• The impact of the Donald Trump presidency on Northeast Asia / Yasuhiro Izumikawa
• Crises for North Korea and its neighbors / Mitsuhiro Mimura
• Maritime challenges to the Northeast Asian region / Yuji Fukuhara
• Chinese land deals and migration in the Russian far east : positionality changes in the borderlands / Norio Horie
• Exorcising phantoms : developments at border islands in Northeast Asia / Naoki Amano
• Competing sovereignty regimes within Northeast Asia / Mihoko Kato
• Economic integration in Northeast Asia from the 1990s / Shinichiro Tabata
• In search of Northeast Asia's least common denominator : regional issues through the lens of political culture / David Wolff
• The politics of (mis)trust in Northeast Asia : social inclusion, empathy and reconciliation / Naomi Chi
• Conclusion : reflecting on regional community in Northeast Asia / Akihiro Iwashita and Edward Boyle

"Geo-Politics in Northeast Asia focuses on the dynamics of Northeast Asia as a region. The chapters in this book offer a nuanced approach for understanding the geo-politics of this strategically critical area of the world. Focussing on China, Japan, Russia and the Koreas, as well as the involvement of the United States, the contributors to the volume offer a timely and critical analysis of Northeast Asia. They collectively emphasize the different scales at which the region holds significance, and particularly note how the region is often granted significance by local political forces as well as national interests. Borderlands and sub-regions are especially important in this perspective, and the contributors show both how regionalism influences the people living in these areas, and how they in turn shape the political priorities of states. At the same time, the worsening of relations between Japan and the Koreas and the increasing assertiveness of both China and Russia make it essential to understand the dynamics of the region, as well as how they have changed during and following the Trump era. Essential reading for Political Geography, International Relations and Strategic Studies scholars with a focus on Northeast Asia, or the wider Asia-Pacific and Indo-Pacific regions"-- Provided by publisher

• A tabernacle in the desert : the loving marriage in Imperial Germany
• A society of two? : partnerships in the interwar democracies
• "They stuck together like iron ore" : Jewish and mixed marriages in the Third Reich
• A golden cage? : Jewish families in West Germany

This book explores the dynamic role of love in German-Jewish lives, from the birth of the German Empire in the 1870s, to the 1970s, a generation after the Shoah. During a remarkably turbulent hundred-year period when German Jews experienced five political regimes, rapid urbanization, transformations in gender relations, and war and genocide, the romantic ideals of falling in love and marrying for love helped German Jews to develop a new sense of self. Appeals to romantic love were also significant in justifying relationships between Jews and non-Jews, even when those unions created conflict within and between communities. By incorporating novel approaches from the history of emotions and life-cycle history, Christian Bailey moves beyond existing research into the sexual and racial politics of modern Germany and approaches a new frontier in the study of subjectivity and the self. German Jews in Love draws on a rich array of sources, from newspapers and love letters to state and other official records. Calling on this evidence, Bailey shows the ways German Jews' romantic relationships reveal an aspect of acculturation that has been overlooked: how deeply cultural scripts worked their way into emotions; those most intimate and seemingly pre-political aspects of German-Jewish subjectivity.
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• A tabernacle in the desert : the loving marriage in Imperial Germany
• A society of two? : partnerships in the interwar democracies
• "They stuck together like iron ore" : Jewish and mixed marriages in the Third Reich
• A golden cage? : Jewish families in West Germany

This book explores the dynamic role of love in German-Jewish lives, from the birth of the German Empire in the 1870s, to the 1970s, a generation after the Shoah. During a remarkably turbulent hundred-year period when German Jews experienced five political regimes, rapid urbanization, transformations in gender relations, and war and genocide, the romantic ideals of falling in love and marrying for love helped German Jews to develop a new sense of self. Appeals to romantic love were also significant in justifying relationships between Jews and non-Jews, even when those unions created conflict within and between communities. By incorporating novel approaches from the history of emotions and life-cycle history, Christian Bailey moves beyond existing research into the sexual and racial politics of modern Germany and approaches a new frontier in the study of subjectivity and the self. German Jews in Love draws on a rich array of sources, from newspapers and love letters to state and other official records. Calling on this evidence, Bailey shows the ways German Jews' romantic relationships reveal an aspect of acculturation that has been overlooked: how deeply cultural scripts worked their way into emotions; those most intimate and seemingly pre-political aspects of German-Jewish subjectivity.
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• Contents Illustrations v Introduction 1 Author's note 4
• The context of travel writing 5
• Baghdad and the Ottoman Empire 9 One name and multiple locations 9 A unique city with a mysterious history 11 The Ottoman Empire 15 The perception of Ottoman cities in historiography 16 The Mamluk's ruling of Baghdad 20
• Travelogues and history Representation 29 Travelogues methods and attitudes 29 Travelogues and Orientalism 33 Travelogues and Islamic studies 36 Travelogues and heritage understanding 43
• Diverse travelers before the 18th Century 46 Regional travelers 46 European travelers 50
• Europeans Involvement in the 18th Century 53 Mapping Efforts of Carsten Niebuhr 54 The Novels of Guillaume Antoine Olivier 60
• British Intervention Intensifies 66 The Arabian Nights 67 Political focus of Claudius Rich 69
• Lifestyle conditions by Mary Rich 73 City descriptions by James Silk Buckingham 76 Colonial interests in Heude's writings 88
• Summary 94 Endnotes 98 Bibliography Index.
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This is the first book of its kind to include extensive analysis of the travelogues of Baghdad in relation to historiography. This book contains analysis of the stages of travel writing in general and the objectives of the writers, which makes it appealing for people who are keen to learn about the travelogues worldwide. The research in this book encompasses a number of disciplines, including urban history, architecture, literature, travel writing, history of Baghdad, Islamic studies, heritage and conservation. Because of this variety it would appeal to many academics from different backgrounds. Apart from academics, this book would appeal to other people who are interested in history, literature, Arabic, Islamic cities, and learning in general. Some photos and diagrams that are used in this book are taken from original sources that have been rarely published before.
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• Place, History, and People
• The Battle of Zhenjiang
• The Invader and the Invaded
• The Nineteenth-Century Transformation
• Brokering Multiple Commercial Networks
• The Shanghai Commercial Network
• Steam Navigation as Means of Dominance
• The Role of the Steamboat
• Foreign Technology and Local Society

The story of globalization in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as experienced by ordinary people in the Chinese river town of Zhenjiang. Fear swept Zhenjiang as British soldiers gathered outside the city walls in the summer of 1842. Already suspicious of foreigners, locals had also heard of the suffering the British inflicted two months earlier, in Zhapu. A wave of suicides and mercy killings ensued: rather than leave their families to the invaders, hundreds of women killed themselves and their children or died at the hands of male family members. British observers decried an "Asian culture" of ritual suicide. In reality, the event was sui generis-a tragic result of colliding local and global forces in nineteenth-century China. Xin Zhang's groundbreaking history examines the intense negotiations between local societies and global changes that created modern China. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, world-historic political, economic, and technological developments transformed the textures of everyday life in places like Zhenjiang, a midsize river town in China's prosperous Lower Yangzi region. Drawing on rare primary sources, including handwritten diaries and other personal writings, Zhang offers a ground-level view of globalization in the city. We see civilians coping with the traumatic international encounters of the Opium War; Zhenjiang brokers bankrolling Shanghai's ascendance as a cosmopolitan commercial hub; and merchants shipping goods to market, for the first time, on steamships. Far from passive recipients, the Chinese leveraged, resisted, and made change for themselves. Indeed, The Global in the Local argues that globalization is inevitably refracted through local particularities.
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• Place, History, and People
• The Battle of Zhenjiang
• The Invader and the Invaded
• The Nineteenth-Century Transformation
• Brokering Multiple Commercial Networks
• The Shanghai Commercial Network
• Steam Navigation as Means of Dominance
• The Role of the Steamboat
• Foreign Technology and Local Society

"Using as a case study the Chinese city of Zhenjiang, Xin Zhang examines three arenas from the 1830s to the 1930s-the Opium War, commerce, and technology (specifically steamship navigation)-to understand how global dynamics played out in China over the course of the century. A story of local Chinese sifting through external influences to determine what works for their society and what doesn't, a dynamic that runs right through to the present, The Global in the Local also illuminates the broader story of globalization and its impacts on ordinary people at the local level"-- Provided by publisher

• Global Shifts and Challenges to the Liberal International Order
• Changing Demographics, Nationhood, and Peoplehood : Migration, Diversity and Inclusion
• Globalization, Pluralism, Governance, and Civil Society

"This book critically examines the impact of globalization, changing power dynamics, migration, and evolving rights regimes on regional order, discourse of national governance, state and society relations, and the development of civil society in East Asia. Providing a textured, critical reading of East Asia as an economically, socially, and politically dynamic region, the book also presents the region as one shaped simultaneously by progressive as well as regressive pulls. Attentive to prevailing issues as well as to states' and civil societies' responses to them, it focuses on changing societies and politics in East Asia, particularly on shifting notions of citizenship, nationhood, and peoplehood. The contributions feature new and timely conclusions drawn from multidisciplinary fields including law, public policy, sociology, Asian Studies, gender, sexuality and ethnic studies, and includes direct testimonies from citizens of East and Southeast Asian. Globalization and Civil Society in East Asian Space will appeal to students and scholars of sociology, political science and Asian studies more broadly"-- Provided by publisher