• 1 Peacebuilding in the Balkans2 The Evolution of Peacebuilding PART I: DAYTON, OR LIBERAL IMPOSITION
• 3 Stability and the Anti-Corruption Agenda4 Addressing the Symptoms Through Civil Society Building PART II: BRUSSELS, OR THE POWER OF ATTRACTION
• 5 EUtopia and the Pull of Integration6 Western Balkan Transitions and the Role of the European Union PART III: TUZLA, OR THE LOCAL TURN
• 7 Local Views: Scepticism towards Europe and its Consequences8 Undoing International Peacebuilding from Below?
• 9 Conclusion.
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This book examines the evolution of liberal peacebuilding in the Balkans since the mid-1990s. After more than two decades of peacebuilding intervention, widespread popular disappointment by local communities is increasingly visible. Since the early 2010s, difficult conditions have spurred a wave of protest throughout the region. Citizens have variously denounced the political system, political elites, corruption and mismanagement. Rather than re-evaluating their strategy in light of mounting local discontent, international peacebuilding officials have increasingly adopted cynical calculations about stability. This book explains this evolution from the optimism of the mid-1990s to the current state through the analysis of three main phases, moving from the initial `rise', to a later condition of `stalemate' and then `fall' of peacebuilding.
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• Acknowledgements-- Introduction-- 0.1 Going global-- 0.2 The long transition and the making of transitional elites in global perspective-- 0.3 A global history of the other '1989s'-- 0.4 The end of the '1989' era?--
• 1. Globalisation-- 1.1 From socialist internationalism to capitalist globalisation-- 1.2 Debt and ideological re-orientation-- 1.3 The choice of 'neoliberal' globalisation-- 1.4 Authoritarian transformations?-- 1.5 Transformation from within-- 1.6 Conclusion--
• 2. Democratisation-- 2.1 Reforming elites-- 2.2 Opposition from the local to the global and back-- 2.3 Alternatives to '1989': authoritarianism and violence-- 2.4 Disciplining transition and democratic peace--
• 3. Europeanisation-- 3.1 The early Cold War: a divided Europe-- 3.2 Helsinki - re-bordering Europe?-- 3.3 An anti-colonial Europe: critiquing Helsinki-- 3.4 A prehistory of Fortress Europe: civilisational bordering in late socialism-- 3.5 Eastern Europe, a buffer against Islam?-- 3.6 After
• 1989: 'Fortress Europe'?-- 3.7 Conclusion--
• 4. Self-determination-- 4.1 The rise of anti-colonial self-determination-- 4.2 The Soviet withdrawal-- 4.3 Peace or violence-- 4.4 Reverberations of Eastern European self-determination-- 4.5 Conclusion--
• 5. Reverberations-- 5.1 1989 as a new global script-- 5.2 Instrumentalising
• 1989: the West and new forms of political conditionality-- 5.3 'Taming' the left-- 5.4 Interventionism and the '1989' myth-- 5.5 Eastern Europeans and the export of the revolutionary idea-- 5.6 From Cuba to China: rejecting '1989'-- 5.7 Conclusion--
• 6. A world without '1989'-- 6.1 Towards the West? Ambiguous convergence-- 6.2 Who is the true Europe? The turn to divergence-- 6.3 Beyond the EU: post-socialist global trajectories-- 6.4 Conclusion.
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The collapse of the Berlin Wall has come to represent the entry of an isolated region onto the global stage. On the contrary, this study argues that communist states had in fact long been shapers of an interconnecting world, with '1989' instead marking a choice by local elites about the form that globalisation should take. Published to coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of the 1989 revolutions, this work draws on material from local archives to international institutions to explore the place of Eastern Europe in the emergence, since the 1970s, of a new world order that combined neoliberal economics and liberal democracy with increasingly bordered civilisational, racial and religious identities. An original and wide-ranging history, it explores the importance of the region's links to the West, East Asia, Africa, and Latin America in this global transformation, reclaiming the era's other visions such as socialist democracy or authoritarian modernisation which had been lost in triumphalist histories of market liberalism.
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• Acknowledgements Introduction: Ambiguous Transitions: Gender, the State, and Everyday Life Romania from Socialism to Postsocialism
• Chapter 1. The Times, They are a Changin': Gender, Citizenship, and the Transition to Socialism
• Chapter 2. Children of the Revolution: Gender, and the (Ab)Normality of Growing up Socialist
• Chapter 3. Career Opportunities: Gender, Work, and Identity
• Chapter 4. Love and Marriage: Gender and the Transformation of Marital Roles and Relations
• Chapter 5. It's a Family Affair: Motherhood, Reproductive Politics, and State Welfare
• Chapter 6. Good Times, Bad Times: Gender, Consumption, and Lifestyle
• Chapter 7. Revolution Blues: Gender and the Transformation from Socialism to Pluarlism Bibliography.
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Drawing on evidence that ranges from government records to historical media and oral history interviews, Ambiguous Transitions provides an accessible, intimate exploration of gender and citizenship in socialist Romania. By connecting women's everyday lives to larger political, economic, and social processes, author Jill M. Massino challenges conventional understandings of life in socialist Romania as uniformly oppressive. Organized around four key aspects of everyday life-education, work, marriage and family, and leisure-these portraits of life in the Eastern bloc shed light on the Cold War, modernity, and the salience of socialist beliefs and practices in people's understanding of post-socialism.
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• Prologue
• Apprenticeship : the education of a diplomat
• The Baker years : shaping order
• Yeltsin's Russia : the limits of agency
• Jordan's moment of transition : the power of partnership
• Age of terror : the inversion of force and diplomacy
• Putin's disruptions : managing great power trainwrecks
• Obama's long game : bets, pivots, and resets in a post-primacy world
• The Arab Spring : when the short game intercedes
• Iran and the bomb : the secret talks
• Pivotal power : restoring America's tool of first resort.

"Over the course of four decades, [the author] played a central role in the most consequential diplomatic episodes of his time--from the bloodless end of the Cold War to post-Cold War relations with Putin's Russia, from post-9/11 tumult in the Middle East to the secret nuclear talks with Iran. Upon his retirement, Secretary John Kerry said Burns belonged on 'the short list of American diplomatic legends, alongside George Kennan.' [The author] recounts...some of the seminal moments of his career. He draws on a trove of newly declassified cables and memos to give readers a rare, inside look at American diplomacy in action, and of the people who worked with him. His dispatches from war-torn Chechnya and Qadhafi's camp in the deserts of Libya and his searing memos warning of the 'Perfect Storm' unleashed by the Iraq War will reshape our understanding of history and the policy debates of the future. [The author] sketches the contours of effective American leadership in a world that resembles neither the zero-sum Cold War contest of his early years as a diplomat, nor the 'unipolar moment' of American primacy that followed...[This book is an] informed, and timely story of a life spent in service of American interests abroad, as well as a powerful reminder, in a time of great turmoil, of the importance of diplomacy."-- Dust jacket.

• Apprenticeship : the education of a diplomat
• The Baker years : shaping order
• Yeltsin's Russia : the limits of agency
• Jordan's moment of transition : the power of partnership
• Age of terror : the inversion of force and diplomacy
• Putin's disruptions : managing great power trainwrecks
• Obama's long game : bets, pivots, and resets in a post-primacy world
• The Arab Spring : when the short game intercedes
• Iran and the bomb : the secret talks
• Pivotal power : restoring America's tool of first resort.

"Ambassador William J. Burns is the most distinguished and admired American diplomat of the last half century. Over the course of four decades, he played a central role in the most consequential diplomatic episodes of his time--from the bloodless end of the Cold War to post-Cold War relations with Putin's Russia, from post-9/11 tumult in the Middle East to the secret nuclear talks with Iran. Upon his retirement, Secretary John Kerry said Burns belonged on "the short list of American diplomatic legends, alongside George Kennan." In The Back Channel, Burns recounts with vivid detail and incisive analysis some of the seminal moments of his career. He draws on a trove of newly declassified cables and memos to give readers a rare, inside look at American diplomacy in action, and of the people who worked with him. His dispatches from war-torn Chechnya and Qadhafi's camp in the deserts of Libya and his searing memos warning of the "Perfect Storm" unleashed by the Iraq War will reshape our understanding of history and the policy debates of the future. Burns sketches the contours of effective American leadership in a world that resembles neither the zero-sum Cold War contest of his early years as a diplomat, nor the "unipolar moment" of American primacy that followed. Ultimately, The Back Channel is an eloquent, deeply informed, and timely story of a life spent in service of American interests abroad, as well as a powerful reminder, in a time of great turmoil, of the importance of diplomacy"-- Provided by publisher.

• And uncivic values : an introduction / Sabrina P. Ramet
• Polish politics, April 1989-October 2015 / Aleksander Zdravkovski
• Party system and voting behavior in Poland / Michal Slowikowski and Michal Pierzgalski
• European values in Poland : the special case of ethnic and national minorities / Katarzyna Dospial-Borysiak, Agata Wlodarska-Frykowska, and Michal Klonowski
• Polish civic values in a European context / Kristen Ringdal
• Religion in public life / Maciej Potz
• Religiosity, tolerance of homosexuality, and support for gay and lesbian rights in Poland : the present and likely future(s) / Ewa Golebiowska
• National-Catholic impact on anti-semitism in Poland : report of the significant results of empirical research / Ireneusz Krzeminski
• Education : controversies surrounding socialization factors and mechanisms / Renata Siemienska
• History textbooks in Poland since 1989 : a dialogue between the past and the present / Sylwia Bobryk and Thomas Strobel
• Rock music and politics in Poland : lyrics of protest and resistance / Sabrina P. Ramet
• Film and values : Polish cinema of national remembrance / Elzbieta Durys
• Poland's media : learning from the past and fitting a new mold / Jane Leftwich Curry
• Past and present in the struggle for Polish democracy : a postscript / Sabrina P. Ramet.

Poland, like many societies across the world, is becoming more polarized in diverse areas of life, as contending forces seek to advance incompatible agendas. The polarization over values in Polish politics was evident already before communism collapsed but became more obvious in the following years and reached a crescendo after the October 2015 parliamentary elections, which brought a right-wing party into power. This volume focuses on the years since 1989, looking at the clash between civic values (the rule of law, individual rights, tolerance, respect for the harm principle, equality, and neutrality of the state in matters of religion) and uncivic values (the rule of a dictator or dictatorial party, contempt for individual rights, bigotry, disrespect for the harm principle, unequal treatment of people whether through discrimination or through exploitation, and state favoritism of one religion over others). The authors address voting behavior, political parties, anti-Semitism, homophobia, the role of the Catholic Church, and reflections in history textbooks, fi lm, and even rock music. This volume makes clear that for the foreseeable future the conflict in Poland between traditional, conservative values and liberal, civic values is likely to continue, provoking tensions and protests.
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• Introduction--
• 1. Judgments and justifications--
• 2. Constellation--
• 3. Bosnia and Herzegovina--
• 4. Kosovo--
• 5. Afghanistan--
• 6. Iraq-- Conclusion.
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Markus Kornprobst examines the common assumption that states usually respond to crises individually, rather than together. He develops an innovative approach to analyse how crisis co-management comes to succeed or fail. He argues that actors draw from repertoires of taken-for-granted ideas, forming a set of pre-judgments. These are then revisited in justificatory encounters, making various degrees of co-management possible or impossible. This judging and justifying in turn leaves an impression on repertoires put to use for co-managing the next crisis. The author uses this model to analyse the attempts by France, Germany and the United Kingdom to co-manage the crises in Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. He links individual reasoning and communication, paving the way for further research into crisis co-management, and providing novel insights into European attempts to act in international affairs.
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• Introduction, method, and lessons from the Portuguese Coup of 1974
• Stability, or not : lessons from Italy (1968-1983) and Western Sahara (1975-present)
• Stability and security : lessons that should have been learned in Somalia (1992-1993) and the British and American experience in Bosnia (1992-1998)
• Stability and development : lessons from Argentina (1960-present) and Mexico (1999-present) : attacking the state from within
• Development and governance : lessons from Vietnam (1959-1975) and Algeria (1954-1962) recreating the conditions that lead to the moral right to take control of government
• Governance and sovereignty : the British experience in Malaya (1948-1960) and some contrasting lessons from El Salvador (1979-1992)
• From sovereignty back to security, or not : lessons from Venezuela (1998-date) and Uruguay (1962-2005)
• Toward a paradigm for foreign policy and power asset management, or not : the proxy war against the Soviet 40th army in Afghanistan (1979-1989)
• Key points and lessons : what high mucky-mucks and the enlightened electorate should know about conflict and security in the contemporary global security arena.

This book will help civilian and military leaders, opinion makers, scholars, and interested citizens come to grips with the realities of the twenty-first-century global security arena by dissecting lessons from both the past and the present. * Addresses the changing nature of the contemporary global security landscape in an illuminating introductory chapter * Clearly demonstrates the evolving nature of global security through case studies * Takes a linear analytic approach, with a vignette that examines an internal security situation accompanying each chapter * Addresses the major gaps in the national and international security literature.
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• 1. The intellectual archipelago of the postwar American right--
• 2. The alternative tradition of conservative constitutional theory--
• 3. Stories about markets--
• 4. Stories about communism--
• 5. Evangelical and fundamentalist Christian stories--
• 6. Right-wing Roman Catholic stories-- Conclusion: the development of constitutional conservatism.
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Since the 1980s, a ritualized opposition in legal thought between a conservative 'originalism' and a liberal 'living constitutionalism' has obscured the aggressively contested tradition committed to, and mobilization of arguments for, constitutional restoration and redemption within the broader postwar American conservative movement. Conservatives and the Constitution is the first history of the political and intellectual trajectory of this foundational tradition and mobilization. By looking at the deep stories told either by identity groups or about what conservatives took to be flashpoint topics in the postwar period, Ken I. Kersch seeks to capture the developmental and integrative nature of postwar constitutional conservatism, challenging conservatives and liberals alike to more clearly see and understand both themselves and their presumed political and constitutional opposition. Conservatives and the Constitution makes a unique contribution to our understanding of modern American conservatism, and to the constitutional thought that has, in critical ways, informed and defined it.
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• Preface: Voices from the political wilderness
• The intellectual archipelago of the postwar American right
• The alternative tradition of conservative constitutional theory
• Stories about markets
• Stories about communism
• Evangelical and fundamentalist Christian stories
• Right-wing Roman Catholic stories
• Conclusion: The development of constitutional conservatism.

Since the 1980s, a ritualized opposition in legal thought between a conservative 'originalism' and a liberal 'living constitutionalism' has obscured the aggressively contested tradition committed to, and mobilization of arguments for, constitutional restoration and redemption within the broader postwar American conservative movement. Conservatives and the Constitution is the first history of the political and intellectual trajectory of this foundational tradition and mobilization. By looking at the deep stories told either by identity groups or about what conservatives took to be flashpoint topics in the postwar period, Ken I. Kersch seeks to capture the developmental and integrative nature of postwar constitutional conservatism, challenging conservatives and liberals alike to more clearly see and understand both themselves and their presumed political and constitutional opposition. Conservatives and the Constitution makes a unique contribution to our understanding of modern American conservatism, and to the constitutional thought that has, in critical ways, informed and defined it.
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• Introduction : A troubling pattern
• Kosovo : not perfect, but tolerable
• Afghanistan : a road to incoherence
• Iraq : the worst of all worlds
• Libya : a slippery slope
• Conclusion.

Since 9/11, why have we won smashing battlefield victories only to botch nearly everything that comes next? In the opening phases of war in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, we mopped the floor with our enemies. But in short order, things went horribly wrong. We soon discovered we had no coherent plan to manage the "day after." The ensuing debacles had truly staggering consequences-many thousands of lives lost, trillions of dollars squandered, and the apparent discrediting of our foreign policy establishment. This helped set the stage for an extraordinary historical moment in which America's role in the world, along with our commitment to democracy at home and abroad, have become subject to growing doubt. With the benefit of hindsight, can we discern what went wrong? Why have we had such great difficulty planning for the aftermath of war? In The Day After, Brendan Gallagher-an Army lieutenant colonel with multiple combat tours to Iraq and Afghanistan, and a Princeton Ph.D.-seeks to tackle this vital question. Gallagher argues there is a tension between our desire to create a new democracy and our competing desire to pull out as soon as possible. Our leaders often strive to accomplish both to keep everyone happy. But by avoiding the tough underlying decisions, it fosters an incoherent strategy. This makes chaos more likely. The Day After draws on new interviews with dozens of civilian and military officials, ranging from US cabinet secretaries to four-star generals. It also sheds light on how, in Kosovo, we lowered our postwar aims to quietly achieve a surprising partial success. Striking at the heart of what went wrong in our recent wars, and what we should do about it, Gallagher asks whether we will learn from our mistakes, or provoke even more disasters? Human lives, money, elections, and America's place in the world may hinge on the answer.
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• Contents: Introduction Part I Democratization and Europeanization in the Old World Order
• 1. Systemic change in the Old World Order
• 2. Socio-economic transition and the social disintegration
• 3. Political transition and the crisis of representative democracy Part II The Collapse of ECE democracies in the New World Order
• 4. The New World Order and the desecuritization process in ECE
• 5. The failure of catching up and the credibility crisis in ECE
• 6. The rise of hard populism and the collapse of democracy in ECE
• 7. The ECE political system: velvet dictatorship with facade democracy
• 8. ECE regional politics and the increasing Core-Periphery Divide
• 9. The civilizational crisis in the ECE region Postscript Index.
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The dramatic decline of democracy in East-Central Europe (ECE) has attracted worldwide attention, presenting a significant challenge to European models of liberal democracy. This timely book tackles the heart of this region's complexity, unpacking the socio-economic, political and cultural developments of the ECE countries. Attila Agh demonstrates the key turning point in 2010, when the region's political trajectory shifted from chaotic democracy to authoritarian rule. Moving beyond the narrow spectrum of political `event history' deployed by ECE parties and governments, the author offers a complex analysis of the changes to the region, exploring the deep, systemic causes of hard populism. Examining the fascinating relationship between ECE countries, Europe and the world, Agh outlines the future of democracy in the region, exploring perspectives of re-democratization by the new generation raised under the auspices of EU democracy. Declining Democracy in East-Central Europe provides researchers in both political and European studies with a unique insight into the rapidly diverging pathways of European democracies. Agh's detailed approach to the ECE region will also benefit experts in regional studies, moving beyond political narratives of individual countries and analysing the region as a whole.
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• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: U.S. Interventions in Film and Literature
• 1. Conceptualizing (War) Docu-Fictions
• 2. The First Gulf War
• 3. The Balkan War
• 4. The War on Terror, Part I: The Afghanistan War
• 5. The War on Terror, Part II: The Iraq War
• Conclusion: Afterthoughts on War Docu-Fictions and New Trends in U.S. War Narratives
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index.
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Historical writing and fiction are not the same thing, though historians often creatively manipulate material in imposing plot structures, selecting starting and ending points, and fashioning compelling literary characters from historical figures. In Docu-Fictions of War, Tatiana Prorokova argues that the opposite is also true-war fiction offers a kind of history that both documents its subjects and provides a snapshot of the cultural representation of the United States' most recent military involvements. She covers a largely neglected body of cinematic and literary texts about the First Gulf War, the Balkan War, the Afghanistan War, and the Iraq War to open a fresh analysis of cultural texts on war. Prorokova contends that these texts are not pure fiction, but "docu-fictions"-works of imagination that can document their subjects while disclosing the social, political, and historical link between war and culture during the last three decades. Docu-Fictions of War analyzes how these representational narratives have highlighted a humanitarian rationale behind American involvement in each war, whether the stated goals were to free the oppressed from tyranny, stop genocide, or rid the world of terrorism. The book explores the gap between history-what allegedly happened-and the cultural mythology that is both true and inexact, tangible and sensed, recognized and undocumented.
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• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4 Chapter 5.
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Over the last decades of the 20th century, and into the 21st, humor on late-night TV became a more influential part of the United States' political conversations. Not only did viewers talk about what the shows were saying, but serious journalists in newspapers and television news did as well. This book explores how Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert became popular pundits, with their commentaries often being shown on the news or quoted in the papers, and how Tina Fey's parody of Sarah Palin eclipsed the real life candidate herself. This transformation occurred after the attacks on 9/11 and the beginning of the War in Iraq, when comedy figures were often more critical and informative than traditional news sources. At the same time, they became more substantive in their critiques than political humor often had been in the past, which relied heavily on mocking political candidates' personality quirks. Using transcripts from Saturday Night Live, The Daily Show, and The Colbert Report during the presidential elections from 1980-2008, this book takes a comprehensive look at how the comedy itself transformed. In addition, the analysis includes how journalists in the Washington Post and the New York Times discussed the shows at the time, revealing how they once denigrated the programs, but came to regard them as valuable narrative resources.
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• Crushing the unions
• Seeds of demise
• Firestorm on the square
• Extremists take control
• Kid from Burlington
• Civil rights
• Mayhem in Chicago
• The tumultuous sixties
• The C.I.A. surprise
• Shaking up the NFL
• Political defeats
• Environmental triumphs
• The anti-environmentalists
• Perils of overpopulation
• Death of John Mackey
• Fighting Bob Fest
• Lizzie
• Battling Parkinson's.

• Growing up Kennedy: lessons from a political dynasty
• The making of a president: campaigning for JFK
• Joining the family business: Teddy goes to the Senate
• Striving for equality: the civil rights work begins
• Striving for equality: the civil rights cause continues
• From hawk to dove: the Vietnam dilemma
• Trying to restore Camelot: Bobby's last campaign and its aftermath
• Challenging a president: the quest for the 1980 nomination
• Shaping the Supreme Court: judicial appointment battles
• Holding on to the Senate seat: the 1994 campaign
• Pursuing peace: Kennedy's heritage and Northern Ireland
• Shaping immigration
• Escaping a quagmire: the Iraq War
• Fighting for universal healthcare: a goal fulfilled
• Coming home to port
• Epilogue: Observations on oral history.

For Kennedy devotees, as well as readers unfamiliar with the "lion of the Senate, " this book presents the compelling story of Edward Kennedy's unexpected rise to become one of the most consequential legislators in American history and a passionate defender of progressive values, achieving legislative compromises across the partisan divide. What distinguishes Edward Kennedy: An Oral History is the nuanced detail that emerges from the senator's never-before-published, complete descriptions of his life and work, placed alongside the observations of his friends, family, and associates. The senator's twenty released interviews reveal, in his own voice, the stories of Kennedy triumph and tragedy-from the Oval Office to the waters of Chappaquiddick. Spanning the presidencies of JFK to Barack Obama, Edward Kennedy was an iconic player in American political life, the youngest sibling of America's most powerful dynasty; he candidly addresses this role: his legislative accomplishments and failures, his unsuccessful run for the White House, his impact on the Supreme Court, his observations on Washington gridlock, and his personal faults. The interviews and introductions to them create an unsurpassed and illuminating volume. Gathered as part of the massive Edward Kennedy Oral History Project, conducted by the University of Virginia's Miller Center, the senator's interviews allow readers to see how oral history can evolve over a three-year period, drawing out additional details as the interviewee becomes increasingly comfortable with the process and the interviewer. Yet, given the Kennedys' well-known penchant for image creation, what the senator doesn't say or how he says what he chooses to include, is often more revealing than a simple declarative statement.
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• A crisis of legitimacy
• Crisis of confidence
• Crisis of identity
• Crisis of equality
• Turning right
• Fighting right
• Changing channels
• Dividing America
• New world orders
• Scandalized
• The roaring 1990s
• Compassion and terror
• The politics of mass destruction
• Polarized politics
• The Trump effect.

In the middle of the 1970s, America entered a new era of doubt and division. Major political, economic and social crises-Watergate, Vietnam, the rights revolutions of the 1960s-had cracked the existing social order. In the years that followed, the story of our own lifetimes would be written. Longstanding historical fault lines over income inequality, racial division and a revolution in gender roles and sexual norms would deepen and fuel a polarised political landscape. In Fault Lines, leading historians Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer reveal how the divisions of the present day began almost four decades ago, and how they were echoed and amplified by a fracturing media landscape that witnessed the rise of cable TV, the internet and social media. How did the United States become so divided? Fault Lines offers one of the few comprehensive, wide-angle history views towards an answer.
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• TABLE OF CONTENTS Book ContributorsIntroduction- Roberto Belloni and Vincent Della Sala. Fear and Uncertainty in Europe
• Chapter 1 - Jack Donnelly. What Do We Mean By Realism? And How - And What - Does Realism Explain?
• Chapter 2 - Paul R. Viotti. Nationalism vs. Internationalism: Fears, Uncertainties and Geopolitics in Europe
• Chapter 3 - Paul van Hooft and Annette Freyberg-Inan. Europe may be done with power, but power is not done with Europe: Europe during an era of American unipolarity and of relative declinePART II: EU MEMBER STATES
• Chapter 4 - Alex Reichwein - Germany's growing power in EUrope: From multilateral collectivism towards re-nationalization and destabilization?
• Chapter 5 - Benedikt Erforth. When Power Meets Perception: France's Fight Against Terrorism in the Sahara-Sahel
• Chapter 6 - Fabrizio Coticchia. Unheard Voices: International Relations Theory and Italian Defence PolicyPART III: NON-EU STATES
• Chapter 7 - Natalia Morozova. From Ontological Insecurity To Counter-Hegemony: Russia's Post-Soviet Engagement With Geopolitics And Eurasianism
• Chapter 8 - OEzgur OEzdamar and Balkan Devlen. Man vs. the System: Turkish Foreign Policy after the Arab Uprisings
• Chapter 9 - Pauline Schnapper. British Foreign Policy in the Context of Brexit: Realism or Irrationality?PART IV: MULTILATERAL ACTORS AND ISSUES
• Chapter 10 - Sten Rynning. As NATO Looks East, Will It Stumble in the South? The Case of Protection of Civilians Policy
• Chapter 11 - Vincent Della Sala and Roberto Belloni. Realism in the EU: Can a Trans-national Actor be Strategic?
• Chapter 12 - Catherine Gegout. Realism, Neocolonialism and European Military Intervention in AfricaIndex.
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Russia's intervention in the Ukraine, Donald Trump's presidency and instability in the Middle East are just a few of the factors that have brought an end to the immediate post-Cold War belief that a new international order was emerging: one where fear and uncertainty gave way to a thick normative and institutional architecture that diminished the importance of material power. This has raised questions about the instruments we use to understand order in Europe and in international relations. The chapters in this book aim to assess whether foreign policy actors in Europe understand the international system and behave as realists. They ask what drives their behaviour, how they construct material capabilities and to what extent they see material power as the means to ensure survival. They contribute to a critical assessment of realism as a way to understand both Europe's current predicament and the contemporary international system.
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• Acknowledgments 1.Assessing China's Role in World Affairs 2.Mao's Changing Course in Foreign Affairs, 1949-69 3.Maneuvering between the United States and USSR, 1969-89 4.Chinese Foreign Relations after the Cold War 5.Patterns in Decision Making and International Outlook 6.China's Changing Importance in World Affairs 7.Relations with the United States 8.Relations with Neighboring Asian Countries 9.Relations beyond Nearby Asia 10.Outlook Chronology Glossary of Key Terms Selected Bibliography.
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Now in a fully updated edition, this cogent book examines the international relations of the PRC since its founding in 1949. Robert Sutter provides a balanced assessment of the country's recent successes and advances as well as the legacies and constraints that hamper it, especially in nearby Asia-long the focus of China's foreign policy attention.
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• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• List of Abbreviations
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Introduction
• Literature Review and Research Gap
• Theoretical Argument
• Structure of the Book
• Analytical Framework
• Realism : Neoclassical Realism
• (Neoclassical) Realism on Great Power Rivalries
• (Neoclassical) Realism on the Foreign Policy of Regional States amidst Great Power Rivalries
• Public Opinion and Foreign Policy
• State Autonomy across Different Variables
• Soft Power
• Historical Review on Soft Power
• Soft Power in Theoretical Writings
• Soft Power in Practice
• Reconceptualization of Soft Power
• State-Managed Projection
• Soft Power vs. Hard Power
• Case Selection
• The Russia : West Confrontation over the "Common Neighbourhood"
• The "Common Neighbourhood" States
• Conclusion
• Soft Power in Western Foreign Policies (2004-2016)
• Soft Power vs. Hard Power in Policies of Western Powers
• Soft Power as the Western Foreign Policy Tool
• Self-Projection
• Narratives
• International Broadcasting
• Cultural Diplomacy and Exchange Programmes
• Western NGOs and Support for Civil Society
• American Non-Governmental Organizations
• European Non-Governmental Organizations
• Foreign Aid
• American Assistance
• European Assistance
• Limitations of the Western Soft Power Policies
• Conclusion
• Soft Power in Russia's Practice (2004-2016)
• Soft Power vs. Hard Power in Russia's Policies
• Soft Power as Russia's Foreign Policy Tool
• Self-Projection
• Narratives
• International Broadcasting
• Academic Exchange Programs
• Russia's NGOs and Support to Civil Society
• Economic Ties and Foreign Aid
• Limitations of Russian Soft Power
• Conclusion
• States with Relatively Strong State Autonomy : the Case of Belarus
• Belarus Between the West and Russia
• State Autonomy Vis-à-vis Non-State Actors
• Non-State Actors under the Influence of External Powers
• Non-State Actors under the Influence of Russian Soft Power
• Non-State Actors under the influence of Western Soft Power
• Non-State Actors and External Alignment
• Conclusion
• States with Relatively Weak State Autonomy : the Case of Ukraine
• Ukraine Between the West and Russia
• State Autonomy Vis-à-vis Non-State Actors
• Non-State Actors under the Influence of External Powers
• Non-State Actors under the Influence of Russian Soft Power
• Non-State Actors under the Influence of Western Soft Power Projection
• Non-State Actors and External Alignment
• Conclusion
• Conclusions
• The Puzzle and Theoretical Arguments
• Empirical Findings
• Implications for Theory
• Bibliography.

The Glory and the Burden: The American Presidency from FDR to Trump is a timely examination of the state of the American presidency and the forces that have shaped it over the past seventy-five years, with an emphasis on the dramatic changes that have taken place within the institution and to the individuals occupying the Oval Office. In this fascinating book, Robert Schmuhl traces the evolution of the modern presidency back to the terms of Franklin Roosevelt, maintaining that FDR's White House years had a profound impact on the office, resulting in significant changes to the job and to those who have performed it since. Specifically, the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, limiting a president to two terms, has largely redefined each administration's agenda. News sources and social media have also grown exponentially, exercising influence over the conduct of presidents and affecting the consequences of their behavior. Schmuhl examines the presidency as an institution and the presidents as individuals from several different perspectives. He identifies recent trends in the office and probes the relationship between the White House and various forms of contemporary media. This book is an engrossing read for a general audience, particularly those with an interest in politics, American history, journalism, and communications.
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• 1.
• Chapter 1 IntroductionKarina Paulina Marczuk Part I Poland's Good Neighbourhood Policy
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• Chapter 2 Foundations of the good neighbourhood policy of the Republic of PolandDariusz Poplawski
• 3.
• Chapter 3 Good neighbourhood treaties and public diplomacy: Polish activities in neighbouring states (2007-2014)Karina Paulina Marczuk Part II The Western Neighbourhood
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• Chapter 4 The 1991 Polish-German treaty: origin, aims and implementation. Successes, failures and prospects in the context of the migration crisis in EuropeJozef M. Fiszer
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• Chapter 5 Objectives and outcomes of the 1991 German-Polish Treaty on Good Neighbourhood and Friendly Cooperation in light of the intra-European dispute on the 2015-2018 migration crisisJens Boysen
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• Chapter 6 The role of the education sector in relations between Poland and Germany, 1991-2016Rafal Ulatowski Part III The Southern Neighbourhood
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• Chapter 7 Security as an element of good neighbourhood policy in Central Europe. Case study: Polish-Slovak relations after 1990Lukasz Lewkowicz
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• Chapter 8 Slovak-Polish relations after 1989 - Slovak perceptionsJuraj Marusiak
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• Chapter 9 Security as an element of good neighbourhood policy in Central Europe: the case of Polish-Czech relations after 1990Radoslaw Zenderowski
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• Chapter 10 On human trafficking, Schengen visas and drunken workers: Czech media representations of Poland in light of three migration issues after 2013Ondrej Daniel Part IV The Northeastern Neighbourhood
• 11.
• Chapter 11 Relations of Polish authorities with the Polish diaspora in the (post)-Soviet spacePawel Hut
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• Chapter 12 The Polish-Lithuanian treaty on neighbourly relations of 1994 and the Polish-Russian treaty on neighbourly relations of 1992 in the context of international protection of the rights of national minoritiesAndrzej Wierzbicki
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• Chapter 13 Treaty on Friendship and Neighbourhood Cooperation between Poland and Russia: implementation and challenges (a Russian perspective)Natalia G. Zaslavskaya
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• Chapter 14 1994 Treaty between the Republic of Poland and the Republic of Lithuania on Friendly Relations and Neighbourly Cooperation: successes and new challengesGediminas Kazenas Part V The Eastern Neighbourhood
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• Chapter 15 Poland and Belarus 26 years after the signing of the Treaty on Good Neighbourhood and Friendly CooperationJozef Tymanowski
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• Chapter 16 Treaty between Ukraine and the Republic of Poland on Good Neighbourhood, Friendly Relations and Cooperation. Implementation and today's challengesLyudmila Kurguzenkova
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• Chapter 17 ConclusionsKarina Paulina Marczuk.
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This volume explores the bilateral treaties concluded after 1990 between the Republic of Poland and its neighbouring states (Germany, then-Czechoslovakia, Ukraine, the Russian Federation, Belarus and Lithuania), known as treaties on neighbourly relations or good neighbourhood treaties. These treaties, through which Poland and its neighbours were able to establish their political, security and social relations, were extremely significant in that they provided a unique way for them to organise their interstate post-Cold War relations. This book analyses the consequences of these treaties and addresses a variety of issues, including security policy and cooperation, migration, national minority rights, economic cooperation, education, and cross-border cooperation.
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• Introduction / Karina Paulina Marczuk
• Foundations of the good neighbourhood policy of the Republic of Poland / Dariusz Popławski
• Good neighbourhood treaties and public diplomacy : Polish activities in neighbouring states (2007-2014) / Karina Paulina Marczuk
• The 1991 Polish-German Treaty : origin, aims, and implementation : success, failures, and prospects in the context of the migration Crisis in Europe / Józef M. Fiszer
• Objectives and outcomes of the 1991 German-Polish Treaty on Good Neighbourhood and Friendly Cooperation in Light of the Intra-European Dispute on the 2015-2018 migration crisis / Jens Boysen
• The role of the education sector in relations between Poland and Germany, 1991-2016 / Rafał Ulatowski
• Security as an element of good neighbourhood policy in Central Europe : case study : Polish-Slovak relations after 1990 / Łukasz Lewkowicz
• Slovak-Polish relations after 1989 : Slovak perceptions / Juraj Marušiak
• Security as an element of good neighbourhood policy in Central Europe : the case of Polish-Czech relations after 1990 / Radosław Zenderowski
• On human trafficking, Schengen visas and drunken workers : Czech media representations of Poland in light of three migration issues after 2013 / Ondřej Daniel
• Relations of Polish authorities with the Polish diaspora in the (post)-Soviet space / Paweł Hut
• The Polish-Lithuanian Treaty on Neighbourly Relations of 1994 and the Polish-Russian Treaty on Neighbourly Relations of 1992 in the context of international protection of the rights of national minorities / Andrzej Wierzbicki
• Treaty on Friendship and Neighbourhood Cooperation Between Poland and Russia : implementation and challenges (a Russian perspective) / Natalia G. Zaslavskaya
• 1994 Treaty Between the Republic of Poland and the Republic of Lithuania on Friendly Relations and Neighbourly Cooperation : success and new challenges / Gediminas Kazėnas
• Poland and Belarus 26 years after the signing of the Treaty on Good Neighbourhood and Friendly Cooperation / Józef Tymanowski
• Treaty between Ukraine and the Republic of Poland on good neighbourhood, friendly relations and cooperation : implementation and today's challenges / Lyudmila Kurguzenkova
• Conclusions / Karina Paulina Marczuk.

This volume explores the bilateral treaties concluded after 1990 between the Republic of Poland and its neighbouring states (Germany, then-Czechoslovakia, Ukraine, the Russian Federation, Belarus and Lithuania), known as treaties on neighbourly relations or good neighbourhood treaties. These treaties, through which Poland and its neighbours were able to establish their political, security and social relations, were extremely significant in that they provided a unique way for them to organise their interstate post-Cold War relations. This book analyses the consequences of these treaties and addresses a variety of issues, including security policy and cooperation, migration, national minority rights, economic cooperation, education, and cross-border cooperation.
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• A warning renewed
• The true size of government
• Pressures on the dividing line
• A proper blending
• Conclusion : the next-gen public service
• Appendix 1: Options for reform.

In his 1961 Farewell Address, President Eisenhower famously referred to the emergence of a "military-industrial complex" so powerful that it threatened to warp America's political institutions and economy. However, the military was not the only part of government that was growing by leaps and bounds. Over the next half century, the size of the federal government expanded at a breakneck pace in almost every category, and today the government as a whole is genuinely elephantine. In The Government-Industrial Complex, government-reform expert Paul Light not only traces the expansion of the federal government over the past few decades, but also explains why it has taken the shape that it has. In marked contrast to governments in other wealthy countries, America's relies heavily on private contractors over actual government employees. Drawing upon Eisenhower's description of the military-industrial complex, Light shows that the federal government now depends on more than 9 million contract employees to faithfully execute the laws. To do this, he offers short histories of the roles of various presidents and the impacts of war on the changing size of government. He also highlights the Trump administration's early strategies on downsizing and deconstructing government. In this landmark account of the nature and scope of national governance in the United States, Light stresses that achieving the right balance between public and private responsibilities is key in making government both more efficient and more responsive.
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• Grenzgänger und Brückenbauer : Zeitgeschichte durch den Eisernen Vorhang zur Einleitung / Jürgen Danyel und Jan Claas Behrends
• "Für mich war immer frappierend, dass die Polen, auch wenn sie ganz unterschiedlichen politischen Lagern angehörten, doch immer irgendwie miteinander reden konnten" / Christoph Klessmann
• "Ich sehe mich nicht als Brückenbauer, sondern als Tunnelbauer : Wir graben einen Tunnel und horchen auf die Klopfzeichen auf der anderen Seite" / Karl Schlögel
• "Als ich 1977 den ersten Samizdat in Prag in der Hand hatte, hätte ich mir den Umbruch von 1989 auch nicht vorstellen können" / Wolfgang Eichwede
• "Wir treten hier nicht mit Nationalmannschaften auf, sondern wir haben den Anspruch, Historikern über die Systemgrenzen hinweg Möglichkeiten der Kommunikation zu eröffnen" / Klaus Zernack und Michael G. Müller
• "Ich halte die auswärtige Kulturpolitik der Bundesrepublik für das Grösste, was sie überhaupt geschaffen hat" / Włodzimierz Borodziej
• "Also eigentlich war 1976 die Entscheidung, man muss das anders angehen : die Rettung der Substanz ist zu begrenzt, wenn das Land zugrunde geht" / Jerzy Holzer
• "... mein persönliches Schicksal ist mit der deutsch-polnischen Geschichte verknüpft" / Anna Wolff-Powęska
• "So konservativ wie die Historiker bei uns in Deutschland waren, so konformistisch waren sie in Russland" / Dietrich Beyrau
• "Wenn die Leute keine Angst mehr haben, dann hat so ein Regime keine Chance : Dann ist es nur noch eine Frage der Zeit" / Hans Henning Hahn
• "Ich habe diese Möglichkeiten sehr intensiv genutzt, weil ich als geborener Pessimist jedes Mal dachte, dass es die letzte Reise sein könnte" / Miroslav Hroch
• "Grenzgänger und Brückenbauer" : einige Schlussbetrachtungen / Claudia Kraft
• Biographien der Gesprächspartner
• Personenregister.

As a response to the Great Depression and an expression of executive power, President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal is widely understood as a turning point in American history. In How Public Policy Became War, David Davenport and Gordon Lloyd go even further, calling the New Deal ""America's French Revolution, "" refashioning American government and public policy in ways that have grown to epic proportions today. Roosevelt's decisions of 1933 were truly revolutionary. They reset the balance of power away from Congress and the states toward a strong executive branch. They shifted the federal government away from the Founders' vision of deliberation and moderation toward war and action. Succeeding presidents seized on the language of war to exert their will and extend their power into matters previously thought to be the province of Congress or state and local governments. Having learned that a sense of crisis is helpful in moving forward a domestic agenda, modern-day presidents have declared war on everything from poverty and drugs to crime and terror. Exploring the consequences of these ill-defined (and never-ending) wars, How Public Policy Became War calls for a re-examination of this destructive approach to governance and a return to the deliberative vision of the Founders. ""If we are constantly at war, "" the authors write, ""America becomes a nation under siege.
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As a response to the Great Depression and an expression of executive power, President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal is widely understood as a turning point in American history. In How Public Policy Became War, David Davenport and Gordon Lloyd go even further, calling the New Deal ""America's French Revolution, "" refashioning American government and public policy in ways that have grown to epic proportions today. Roosevelt's decisions of 1933 were truly revolutionary. They reset the balance of power away from Congress and the states toward a strong executive branch. They shifted the federal government away from the Founders' vision of deliberation and moderation toward war and action. Succeeding presidents seized on the language of war to exert their will and extend their power into matters previously thought to be the province of Congress or state and local governments. Having learned that a sense of crisis is helpful in moving forward a domestic agenda, modern-day presidents have declared war on everything from poverty and drugs to crime and terror. Exploring the consequences of these ill-defined (and never-ending) wars, How Public Policy Became War calls for a re-examination of this destructive approach to governance and a return to the deliberative vision of the Founders. ""If we are constantly at war, "" the authors write, ""America becomes a nation under siege.
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• Part I: The mission. What have I done? ; Earning my calluses ; Mission impossible? ; Freedom and fear
• Part II: What we got right. Pushing out the border ; Shrinking the haystack ; Zigging and zagging ; "The system worked"
• Part III: Where we need to improve. Connecting the dots ; Black swans and oily ducks
• Part IV: Homeland security in the age of Trump. Are we safer? ; A road map.

Created in the wake of the greatest tragedy to occur on U.S. soil, the Department of Homeland Security was handed a sweeping mandate: make America safer. It would encompass intelligence and law enforcement agencies, oversee natural disasters, commercial aviation, border security and ICE, cybersecurity, and terrorism, among others. From 2009-2013, Janet Napolitano ran DHS and oversaw 22 federal agencies with 230,000 employees. In How Safe Are We?, Napolitano pulls no punches, reckoning with the critics who call it Frankenstein's Monster of government run amok, and taking a hard look at the challenges we'll be facing in the future. But ultimately, she argues that the huge, multifaceted department is vital to our nation's security. An agency that's part terrorism prevention, part intelligence agency, part law enforcement, public safety, disaster recovery make for an odd combination the protocol-driven, tradition-bound Washington D.C. culture. But, she says, it has made us more safe, secure, and resilient. Napolitano not only answers the titular question, but grapples with how these security efforts have changed our country and society. Where are the failures that leave us vulnerable and what has our 1 trillion dollar investment yielded over the last 15 years? And why haven't we had another massive terrorist attack in the U.S. since September 11th, 2001? In our current political climate, where Donald Trump has politicized nearly every aspect of the department, Napolitano's clarifying, bold vision is needed now more than ever.
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• Chapter 1. Prologue: Interests Versus Ideals
• Chapter 2. Introduction
• Chapter 3. The "Enlightened Realism" of George H.W. Bush, 1989-1993
• Chapter 4. William Clinton: The Pragmatic Idealist, 1993-2001
• Chapter 5. George W. Bush, Realism and Neoconservatism, 2001-2009
• Chapter 6. Barack Obama, the Idealistic Realist, 2009-2017, Part I: The Middle East and East Asia
• Chapter 7. Barack Obama, the Idealistic Realist, 2009-2017, Part II: Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Global Problems
• Chapter 8. Donald Trump and "America First, " 2017-.
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This volume discusses the presidential foreign policies of the post-Cold War era, beginning with George H. W. Bush and ending with the first 17 months of Donald Trump's presidency. During this period, the United States emerged from the Cold War as the world's most powerful nation. Nevertheless, the presidents of this era faced a host of problems that tested their ability to successfully blend realism and idealism. Some were more successful than others.
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• 1. The question of ideology
• 2. The age of ideology in foreign policy
• 3. Anti-communism fixed
• 4. The Johnson administration and the defence of freedom in Vietnam
• 5. Doctrine, dominoes and democracy in the Nixon-Kissinger foreign policy
• 6. The exceptionalism of Ronald Reagan: ideology and Cold war, from intensification to end
• 7. George W. Bush administration: terrorism, Iraq and freedom
• 8. Ideological framings of American foreign policy: the domestic legacy.
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A comprehensive account of ideology and its role in the foreign policy of the United States of America, this book investigates the way United States foreign policy has been understood, debated and explained in the period since the US emerged as a global force, on its way to becoming the world power. Starting from the premise that ideologies facilitate understanding by providing explanatory patterns or frameworks from which meaning can be derived, the authors study the relationship between ideology and foreign policy, demonstrating the important role ideas have played in US foreign policy. Drawing on a range of US administrations, they consider key speeches and doctrines, as well as private conversations, and compare rhetoric to actions in order to demonstrate how particular sets of ideas - that is, ideologies - from anti-colonialism and anti-communism to neo-conservatism mattered during specific presidencies and how US foreign policy was projected, explained and sustained from one administration to another. Bringing a neglected dimension into the study of US foreign policy, this book will be of great interest to students and researchers of US foreign policy, ideology and politics.
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• 1. Introduction
• 2. The impact of the Cold War on the Asia-Pacific
• 3. From unipolarity to uncertainty: 1991-2018
• 4. The United States and the post Cold War transformation
• 5. China: The ascent to global economic, political and military influence
• 6. Japan: Re-emergence after a long decline
• 7. DPRK and ROK: Issues of identity
• 8. Democratization and the evolution of Taiwan
• 9. Southeast Asia: America's relative decline and China's rise
• 10. Conclusion: Looking ahead.
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This fully revised fourth edition of Michael Yahuda's successful textbook brings the subject up-to-date, introducing students to the international politics of the Asia-Pacific region since 1945. Following an evaluation of the legacy of the Cold War the author assesses the uncertainties of the post-Cold War era, the weakening of America by its prolonged warfare in the greater Middle East, by the enlarged war on terror and by the financial crisis of 2007-8. Amid the decline of the liberal world order and the rise of China, the author examines Chinese attempts to establish a new order. Analyzing politics in terms of the interplay between global, regional and local developments, this new edition also features, Discussion and evaluation of the Trump presidency and its implications for the Asia-Pacific region. Examination of the continued rise of China, especially under the more assertive personal Party dictatorship of Xi Jinping and its impact on the region. Analysis of the resurgence of Japan as a major power and its attempt to counter China's assertiveness by a coalition of regional democracies. Assessments of the repercussions of these developments on the regional `hotspots' of the Korea Peninsula, a democratic Taiwan and a disjointed Southeast Asia. This new fourth edition will continue to be a core text for students of Asian politics, international relations and Cold War history.
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This fully revised fourth edition of Michael Yahuda's successful textbook brings the subject up-to-date, introducing students to the international politics of the Asia-Pacific region since 1945. As well as assessing the post-cold War uncertainties that challenged balance and power with the region, the book also examines the first two decades of the new millennium, which includes no let up on the 'war on terror', new political administrations in all the key player-states and increased cooperative security between some nations, polarised by volatile relationships between others. Analyzing politics in terms of global, regional and local trends, this new edition features: Discussion and evaluation of the Trump Presidency and its implications for the Asia-Pacific region Analysis of Japan's more assertive foreign policy Examination of the continued Rise of China under Xi Jinping in terms of politics, security, economic dominance and territorial conflicts in the region Ongoing debates concerning the 'war on terror' and how this shifts, forms and reforms relationships Explanation of how America's war's in the greater Middle East and the financial crash of 2008 undermined the American led international order. This new fourth edition will continue to be a core text for students of Asian politics, international relations and Cold War history.
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• 1. In Tehran with Sean Penn.
• 2. United States Tells Iran to become a Nuclear Power.
• 3. The U.S., Iran and the Nuclear Accord.
• 4. Iran, Hizbollah, and Israel: The Real Story.
• 5. A Brief History of U.S.-Iranian Relations.
• 6. Who Rules Iran.
• 7. Iran's Protest Movements -
• Part 1:
• 8. Iran's Protest Movements -
• Part 2:
• 9. The Shah, Monarchists and TV Pretenders.
• 10. Iran's Ethnic Minorities: Turmoil on the Borders.
• 11. What the U.S. Media Didn't Tell You.
• 12. Learn the Lessons of Iraq.
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Based on frequent, first-hand reporting in Iran and the United States, The Iran Agenda Today explores the turbulent recent history between the two countries and reveals how it has led to a misguided showdown over nuclear technology. Foreign correspondent Reese Erlich notes that all the major U.S. intelligence agencies agree Iran has not had a nuclear weapons program since at least 2003. He explores why Washington nonetheless continues with saber rattling and provides a detailed critique of mainstream media coverage of Iran. The book further details the popular protests that have rocked Tehran despite repression by the country's Deep State. In addition to covering the political story, Erlich offers insights on Iran's domestic politics, popular culture, and diverse populations over this recent era. His analysis draws on past interviews with high-ranking Iranian officials, the former shah's son, Reza Pahlavi, and Iranian exiles in Los Angeles, as well as the memory of his trip to Tehran with actor Sean Penn. Written in skillful and riveting journalistic prose, The Iran Agenda Today provides inside information that academic researchers find hard to obtain.
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• Bouncing Back?
• Japan, Inc.
• American Alliance
• Lost Decades and Disasters
• Dissent
• Abe's Japan.

Japan, anchored by its traditions, transformed by American post-war Occupation, and globally recognized for its technological innovations, manufacturing prowess, and pop culture, faces powerful challenges from within and without. How Japan chooses to handle these problems and opportunities will determine its future for decades to come. In this book, Jeff Kingston - one of the most lucid analysts of Japan today - takes readers on a fascinating journey through this country's contemporary history, exploring the key developments and forces, both at home and abroad, that are shaping Japan in the twenty-first century. Whether Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's transformative agenda of "Abenomics" and "proactive pacifism" toward a rising China and a belligerent North Korea can set Japan on the path to greater prosperity and security remains to be seen. But having won a third term as president of the Liberal Democratic Party in 2018, Japan's ongoing transformation is very much in Abe's hands.
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• Acknowledgments Introduction Piotr H. Kosicki and Kyrill Kunakhovich PART ONE: POLITICS AND POLICIES
• 1. 1989 Compared and Connected: The Demise of Communism in Poland and Apartheid in South Africa Adrian Guelke and Tom Junes
• 2. Islam as Ideology and Tactic: Soviet Central Asia and Afghanistan Vera Exnerova
• 3. European Lessons for China: Tiananmen 1989 and Beyond Martin K. Dimitrov PART TWO: IDEAS AND IDEOLOGIES
• 4. Dialogical Democracy: King, Michnik, and the American Culture Wars Jeffrey Stout
• 5. The Virtue of Not Inventing Anything Istvan Rev
• 6. The Rule of Law after the Short Twentieth Century: Launching a Global Career Martin Krygier PART THREE: MYTHS AND MYTHMAKING
• 7. Catalyst of History: Francis Fukuyama, the Iraq War, and the Legacies of 1989 in the Middle East Samuel Helfont
• 8. Social Movement vs. Social Arrest: The Global Occupations of the Twenty-first Century Mehmet Doesemeci
• 9. Euromaidan and the 1989 Legacy: Solidarity in Action? Valeria Korablyova Bibliography Contributors Index.
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The fall of communism in Europe is now the frame of reference for any mass mobilization, from the Arab Spring to the Occupy movement to Brexit. Even thirty years on, 1989 still figures as a guide and motivation for political change. It is now a platitude to call 1989 a "world event, " but the chapters in this volume show how it actually became one. The authors of these nine essays consider how revolutionary events in Europe resonated years later and thousands of miles away: in China and South Africa, Chile and Afghanistan, Turkey and the USA. They trace the circulation of people, practices, and concepts that linked these countries, turning local developments into a global phenomenon. At the same time, they examine the many shifts that revolution underwent in transit. All nine chapters detail the process of mutation, adaptation, and appropriation through which foreign affairs found new meanings on the ground. They interrogate the uses and understandings of 1989 in particular national contexts, often many years after the fact. Taken together, this volume asks how the fall of communism in Europe became the basis for revolutionary action around the world, proposing a paradigm shift in global thinking about revolution and protest.
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• Acknowledgments Introduction
• 1 Making Nations and States
• 2 Good News, Bad News: Before and After 1989
• 3 Hero-Free Wars and Ethnic Purity
• 4 Albania Implodes, Kosovo Arms
• 5 Contested Heroes: Alexander the Great, Mother Teresa, and the Republic of Macedonia
• 6 To Europe, for Some: Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Croatia
• Epilogue: Greater This or Greater That, Alone or in Europe Guide to Further Readings Index.
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With more than 25 years since the collapse of communism, the end of the wars and billions of dollars in aid, the Balkans are still characterized by corruption, state capture, and decidedly unmodern states that are often either weak or authoritarian. Taking the contemporary Balkans as a starting point, Making and Remaking the Balkans studies the region's history combined with observations based on more than twenty years of field experience. Primarily concerned with current issues in the Balkans since 1989, this book explains why the region has endured such a prolonged and fraught transition to democracy and eventual membership in the European Union. The young and educated have largely left. Governmental crisis and economic stagnation is the norm and much-needed regional cooperation has been suppressed by renewed nationalism. Wars on corruption have proved to be largely rhetorical. Making and Remaking the Balkans offers a systematic study of the issues the entire region faces as it struggles to complete the European integration process at a time when the European Union faces bigger problems elsewhere.
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• Introduction : the unstable state
• The Afghan trap
• At the dawn of the forever war
• Waves flanked by arrogance
• In for the rudest of awakenings
• The counter jihad
• The next dirty war
• Until we meet in Damascus
• Regions of savagery
• Collateral damage, indirect benefits
• Attacking our team
• Pawns in the game
• Extinction of the grayzone.

The Management of Savagery of tells the story of the parallel rise of international jihadism and Western ultra-nationalism. Since Washington's secret funding of the Mujahideen following the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in the 1970s, America has supported extremists with money and hardware, including enemies such as Bin Laden. The Pentagon's willingness to make alliances abroad have seen the war coming home with inevitable consequences: by funding, training, and arming jihadist elements in Afghanistan, Syria, and Libya since the Cold War and waging wars of regime change and interventions that gave birth to the Islamic State. Meanwhile, Trump's dealings In the Middle East are likely only to exacerbate the situation further. Blumenthal excavates the real story behind America's dealing with the world and shows how the extremist forces that now threaten peace across the globe are the inevitable flowering of America's imperial designs of a national security state. And shows how this has ended with the rise of the Trump presidency.
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• The public agenda in the information age
• A history of the public agenda, 1975-2014
• The character of the public agenda, 1975-2014
• Broadcast news and the public agenda, 1968-2010
• Media choice, news agendas, and the public agenda
• Building consensus on public priorities : can the public agenda be focused?
• Political responsiveness and the public agenda
• What happened to "us"?
• Appendix A: Coding the "most important problem" question
• Appendix B: Computing diversity and volatility in the public agenda
• Appendix C: Measuring agenda-setting and alternate time series models
• Appendix D: Collecting data on the media system and using ridge regression
• Appendix E: Analyzing the Pew Excellence in Journalism News Coverage Index
• Appendix F: Coding major presidential addresses
• Appendix G: Public agenda and house hearings data of the Policy Agendas Project.

The transformation from an undifferentiated public to a surfeit of interest groups has become yet another distinguishing feature of the increasing polarization of American politics. Jill Edy and Patrick Meirick contend that the media has played a key role in this splintering. A Nation Fragmented reveals how the content and character of the public agenda has transformed as the media environment evolved from network television and daily newspapers in the late 1960s to today's saturated social media world with 200 cable channels.The authors seek to understand what happened as the public's sense of shared priorities deteriorated. They consider to what extent our public agenda has "fallen apart" as attention to news has declined, and to what extent we have been "driven apart" by changes in the issue agendas of news. Edy and Meirick also show how public attention is limited and spread too thin except in cases where a highly consistent news agenda can provoke a more focused public agenda. A Nation Fragmented explores the media's influence and political power and, ultimately, how contemporary democracy works.
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• Foreword
• Introduction: Changing Japan?
• Chapter 1: National identity and the study of contemporary Japan
• Chapter 2: Sedimentation of the pacifist identity
• Chapter 3: Abe's convictions and ideological background
• Chapter 4: Deconstructing Abe's narrative on constitution change, school education, security policy and regional leadership
• Conclusion: A limited change for Japan
• Bibliography
• Index.
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Over the course of the twentieth century, Japan has experienced a radical shift in its self-perception. After World War II, Japan embraced a peaceful and anti-militarist identity, which was based on its war-prohibiting Constitution and the foreign policy of the Yoshida doctrine. For most of the twentieth century, this identity was unusually stable. In the last couple of decades, however, Japan's self-perception and foreign policy seem to have changed. Tokyo has conducted a number of foreign policy actions as well as symbolic internal gestures that would have been unthinkable a few decades ago and that symbolize a new and more confident Japan. Japanese politicians - including Prime Minister Abe Shinzo - have adopted a new discourse depicting pacifism as a hindrance, rather than asset, to Japan's foreign policy. Does that mean that "Japan is back"? In order to better understand the dynamics of contemporary Japan, Kolmas joins up the dots between national identity theory and Japanese revisionism. The book shows that while political elites and a portion of the Japanese public call for re-articulation of Japan's peaceful identity, there are still societal and institutional forces that prevent this change from entirely materializing.
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• List of figures and tables
• 1 Neoliberalism: a politics for yacht owners
• 2 Neoliberal work and incomes: nice for some
• 3 Every last molecule on earth: neoliberalism's "nature"
• 4 Neoliberal health: US exceptionalism
• 5 Education: public good or finishing school?
• 6 Politics: a threadbare democracy
• 7 President Trump: the end of neoliberalism?
• 8 Conclusion Index
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This book is about the transformation of America that has occurred over the past thirty-five years, as capitalist logic has expanded into previously protected spheres of life. This expansion has had devastating effects on the potential for human development. Looking at how human beings create themselves and their worlds on material foundations of health and the natural environment, through work and politics, the book chronicles how neoliberalism has limited human potential. At a time when neoliberalism's effects are stirring various forms of popular resistance and opposition, this is a manifesto of sorts for the range of processes that need to be confronted if human potential is to be freed from the increasingly cramped quarters to which neoliberalism has confined it. -- .
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• How have presidents addressed race since 1964?
• We're one America : racial rhetoric in Lyndon Johnson's 1964 campaign and Richard Nixon's 1972 campaign
• Back to basic values : Ronald Reagan's 1984 campaign and George H.W. Bush's 1988 campaign
• One America redux : Clinton's 1996 campaign
• New strategies for the right? : George W. Bush's 2004 campaign
• An old message to reach new groups : Obama's 2012 campaign
• Strategy, rhetoric, and the future : does it matter what presidents say about race and ethnicity?
• Epilogue : Trump.