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"An insider's account of how politicians representing a radical minority of Americans are using "the greatest deliberative body in the world" to hijack our democracy. Every major decision governing our diverse, majority-female, and increasingly liberal country bears the stamp of the US Senate, yet the Senate allows an almost exclusively white, predominantly male, and radically conservative minority of the American electorate to impose its will on the rest of us. How did we get to this point? In Kill Switch, Adam Jentleson argues that shifting demographics alone cannot explain how Mitch McConnell harnessed the Senate and turned it into a powerful weapon of minority rule. As Jentleson shows, since the 1950s, a free-flowing body of relative equals has devolved into a rigidly hierarchical, polarized institution, with both Democrats and Republicans to blame. The current GOP has merely used the methods pioneered by its predecessors, though to newly extreme ends. In a work for readers of How Democracies Die and even Master of the Senate, Jentleson makes clear that, without a reevaluation of Senate practices-starting with ending the filibuster-we face the prospect of permanent minority rule in America"-- Provided by publisher.

• 1963
• Race
• Sex
• War
• Debt
• Diversity
• Winners
• Losers

• 1963
• Race
• Sex
• War
• Debt
• Diversity
• Winners
• Losers

Conservative columnist Christopher Caldwell has spent years studying the liberal uprising of the 1960s and its unforeseen consequences. Even the reforms that Americans love best have come with costs that are staggeringly high -- in wealth, freedom, and social stability -- and that have been spread unevenly among classes and generations. Caldwell describes the political turning points of the past half century, taking readers on a roller-coaster ride through Playboy magazine, affirmative action, CB radio, leveraged buyouts, iPhones, Oxycontin, Black Lives Matter, and internet cookies. In doing so, he shows that attempts to redress the injustices of the past have left Americans living under two different ideas of what it means to play by the rules

• 1963
• Race
• Sex
• War
• Debt
• Diversity
• Winners
• Losers

Conservative columnist Christopher Caldwell has spent years studying the liberal uprising of the 1960s and its unforeseen consequences. Even the reforms that Americans love best have come with costs that are staggeringly high -- in wealth, freedom, and social stability -- and that have been spread unevenly among classes and generations. Caldwell describes the political turning points of the past half century, taking readers on a roller-coaster ride through Playboy magazine, affirmative action, CB radio, leveraged buyouts, iPhones, Oxycontin, Black Lives Matter, and internet cookies. In doing so, he shows that attempts to redress the injustices of the past have left Americans living under two different ideas of what it means to play by the rules

• Al, Fred, and Homer's America : and mine
• The end of history!
• Kicking 41 to the curb
• Glimpsing the Emerald City
• Bedfellows
• State of the union
• Plebiscite
• Attending to Rabbit's question

"A thought provoking and penetrating account of the post-Cold war follies and delusions that culminated in the age of Donald Trump, from the bestselling author of The Limits of Power. When the Cold War ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Washington establishment felt it had prevailed in a world-historical struggle. Our side had won, a verdict that was both decisive and irreversible. For the world's 'indispensable nation, ' its 'sole superpower, ' the future looked very bright. History, having brought the United States to the very summit of power and prestige, had validated American-style liberal democratic capitalism as universally applicable. In the decades to come, Americans would put that claim to the test. They would embrace the promise of globalization as a source of unprecedented wealth, while embarking on wide-ranging military campaigns to suppress disorder and enforce American values abroad, confident in the ability of U.S. forces to defeat any foe. Meanwhile, they placed all their bets on the White House to deliver on the promise of their Cold War triumph: unequaled prosperity, lasting peace, and absolute freedom. In The Age of Illusions, bestselling author Andrew Bacevich takes us from that moment of seemingly ultimate victory to the age of Trump, telling an epic tale of folly and delusion. Writing with his usual eloquence and vast knowledge, he explains how, within a quarter of a century, the United States ended up with gaping inequality, permanent war, moral confusion, and an increasingly angry and alienated population, as well, of course, as the strangest president in American history"-- Provided by publisher

• 1. Introduction--
• 2. Affective Polarization in Comparative Perspective: How Does the American Public Compare?--
• 3. Explaining Variations in Affective Polarization in the United States and Abroad--
• 4. Conclusions.
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American political observers express increasing concern about affective polarization, i.e., partisans' resentment toward political opponents. We advance debates about America's partisan divisions by comparing affective polarization in the US over the past 25 years with affective polarization in 19 other western publics. We conclude that American affective polarization is not extreme in comparative perspective, although Americans' dislike of partisan opponents has increased more rapidly since the mid-1990s than in most other Western publics. We then show that affective polarization is more intense when unemployment and inequality are high; when political elites clash over cultural issues such as immigration and national identity; and in countries with majoritarian electoral institutions. Our findings situate American partisan resentment and hostility in comparative perspective, and illuminate correlates of affective polarization that are difficult to detect when examining the American case in isolation.
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• Introduction: Contesting the international rule of law
• America's "exceptional" international law policy
• The structure of American foreign policy ideology
• Competing conceptions of the international rule of law
• Clinton administration, 1992-2000
• Bush 43 administration 2000-2004
• Bush 43 administration 2004-2008
• Obama administration 2008-2016
• Conclusion: Between power & transcendent values

American engagement with international law has long been framed by commitment to the 'international rule of law', which persists even across divergent political and historical eras. Yet, despite appeals to legal ideals, American international law policy is consistently criticised as fraught with contradiction and distorted by beliefs in 'exceptionalism'. These contested claims of fidelity to law are the subject of this book: what does the 'international rule of law' mean for American legal policymakers even as they advocate competing commitments to international legal order? Answers are found in extensive evidence that American policymakers receive international law through established foreign policy ideologies, which correspond with divisions in both legal scholarship and diplomatic history. Using the case of the International Criminal Court, the book demonstrates that the very meaning of the international rule of law is structured by competing ideological beliefs; between American policymakers and global counterparts, and among American policymakers themselves.
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• Introduction: Contesting the international rule of law
• America's "exceptional" international law policy
• The structure of American foreign policy ideology
• Competing conceptions of the international rule of law
• Clinton administration, 1992-2000
• Bush 43 administration 2000-2004
• Bush 43 administration 2004-2008
• Obama administration 2008-2016
• Conclusion: Between power & transcendent values

American engagement with international law has long been framed by commitment to the 'international rule of law', which persists even across divergent political and historical eras. Yet, despite appeals to legal ideals, American international law policy is consistently criticised as fraught with contradiction and distorted by beliefs in 'exceptionalism'. These contested claims of fidelity to law are the subject of this book: what does the 'international rule of law' mean for American legal policymakers even as they advocate competing commitments to international legal order? Answers are found in extensive evidence that American policymakers receive international law through established foreign policy ideologies, which correspond with divisions in both legal scholarship and diplomatic history. Using the case of the International Criminal Court, the book demonstrates that the very meaning of the international rule of law is structured by competing ideological beliefs; between American policymakers and global counterparts, and among American policymakers themselves.
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• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface to the Second Edition
• Introduction
• 1. The Demise of Free Security
• 2. Confrontation
• 3. To the Ends of the Earth
• 4. Leaner and Meaner
• 5. The Nuclear Rubicon
• 6. Gulliver's Travails
• 7. Nixon's World
• 8. A New Cold War
• 9. Endgame
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Index

"A creative, carefully researched, and incisive analysis of U.S. strategy during the long struggle against the Soviet Union." -Stephen M. Walt, Foreign Policy "Craig and Logevall remind us that American foreign policy is decided as much by domestic pressures as external threats. America's Cold War is history at its provocative best." -Mark Atwood Lawrence, author of The Vietnam War The Cold War dominated world affairs during the half century following World War II. America prevailed, but only after fifty years of grim international struggle, costly wars in Korea and Vietnam, trillions of dollars in military spending, and decades of nuclear showdowns. Was all of that necessary? In this new edition of their landmark history, Campbell Craig and Fredrik Logevall engage with recent scholarship on the late Cold War, including the Reagan and Bush administrations and the collapse of the Soviet regime, and expand their discussion of the nuclear revolution and origins of the Vietnam War. Yet they maintain their original argument: that America's response to a very real Soviet threat gave rise to a military and political system in Washington that is addicted to insecurity and the endless pursuit of enemies to destroy. America's Cold War speaks vividly to debates about forever wars and threat inflation at the center of American politics today.
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• On the persistence and difficulties of political community : existential roots and pragmatic outcomes of national awareness / Mark Luccarelli
• Solidarity or human rights? : national sovereignty and citizenship in the twenty-first century / Steven Colatrella
• The political landscape and the nation-state : Arendtian commons and the American Revolution / Ole Sneltvedt
• The nation in the universal language of eco-globalism / Werner Bigell
• Belonging : population genetics, national imaginaries, and the making of European genes : the case of Ötzi the Iceman / Venla Oikkonen
• National time, literary form, and exclusion : the United States in the 1920s / Bruce Barnhart
• Taking the boundaries with you : Italy and the national in the work of Luigi Di Ruscio, an Italian migrant writer in Norway / Sergio Sabatini
• Monuments carved in film : developing civic awareness through the memory of fallen anti-mafia activists / Stefano Adamo
• Nation as home : anthropological foundations and human needs / Rosario Forlenza

"One of the main difficulties facing students today is how to contextualize the post-1990 world. Bringing the Nation Back In: Citizenship, Space, and Culture in Europe and the United States takes as its starting point a series of developments that shaped politics in the U.S. and Europe over the past thirty years: the end of the Cold War, the rise of financial and economic globalization, the creation of the European Union and the development of the postnational. This volume argues we are now witnessing a break with the post-1945 world order and with modern politics. Two competing ideas have arisen--global cosmopolitanism on the one hand, and populist nationalism on the other. The former emerged in the 1990s and is characterized by discourses on globalization, feminism, and postcolonialism, among others. The latter, which emerged after the Great Recession of 2008-2009, consists of a reactionary nationalism that in the years that followed swept to power in the US and several European countries. The present volume argues this polarization of social ethos between cosmopolitanism and nationalism as a sign of a deeper political crisis, which it explores from different perspectives. Rather than taking sides the aim here is to diagnose the origins of the current impasse and to "bring the nation back in" by expanding what we mean by "nation" and national identity and by respecting the localizing processes that have led to national traditions and struggles"-- Provided by publisher

• Prologue: Speak like Newt
• The making of a renegade Republican
• A political wrecking ball
• The perfect foil
• Legitimating Gingrich
• Missing the tempest
• Scandal frenzy
• Gingrich on top
• Mindless cannibalism

"The story of how Newt Gingrich and his allies tainted American politics, launching an enduring era of brutal partisan warfare When Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, President Obama observed that Trump "is not an outlier; he is a culmination, a logical conclusion of the rhetoric and tactics of the Republican Party for the past ten, fifteen, twenty years." In Burning Down the House, historian Julian Zelizer pinpoints the moment when our country was set on a path towards an era of bitterly partisan and ruthless politics, an era that was ignited by Newt Gingrich and his allies. In 1989, Gingrich brought down the Democratic Speaker of the House Jim Wright and catapulted himself into the national spotlight. Perhaps more than any other politician, Gingrich introduced the rhetoric and tactics that have shaped Congress and the Republican Party for the last three decades. Elected to Congress in 1978, Gingrich quickly became one of the most powerful figures in America not through innovative ideas or charisma, but through a calculated campaign of attacks against political opponents, casting himself as a savior in a fight of good versus evil. Taking office in the post-Watergate era, he weaponized the good government reforms newly introduced to fight corruption, wielding the rules in ways that shocked the legislators who had created them. His crusade against Democrats culminated in the plot to destroy the political career of Speaker Wright. While some of Gingrich's fellow Republicans were disturbed by the viciousness of his attacks, his party enjoyed his successes so much that they did little collectively to stand in his way. Democrats, for their part, were alarmed, but did not want to sink to his level and took no effective actions to stop him. It didn't seem to matter that Gingrich's moral conservatism was hypocritical or that his methods were brazen, his accusations of corruption permanently tarnished his opponents. This brand of warfare worked, not as a strategy for governance but as a path to power, and what Gingrich planted, his fellow Republicans reaped. He lead them to their first majority in Congress in decades, and his legacy extends far beyond his tenure in office. From the rise of the Tea Party to the Trump presidential campaign, his fingerprints can be seen throughout some of the most divisive episodes in contemporary American politics. Burning Down the House presents the alarming narrative of how Gingrich and his allies created a new normal in Washington, introducing ruthless and destructive practices that have endured today"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction: The reinvention
• The setting: corporate renewal in a tight business culture
• The background: Japan's economic rise-stability through lifetime employment
• The core concept: aggregate niche strategy
• The impact: Japan's role in global business
• Management change: governance, stewardship, and executive pay
• Financial markets: private equity and M&A
• Managing the reinvention: culture change
• Employment and innovation: the reinvention of the kaisha
• Japan going forward: reinventing for the digital economy

After two decades of reinvention, Japanese companies are re-emerging as major players in the new digital economy. They have responded to the rise of China and new global competition by moving upstream into critical deep-tech inputs and advanced materials and components. This new "aggregate niche strategy" has made Japan the technology anchor for many global supply chains. Although the end products do not carry a "Japan Inside" label, Japan plays a pivotal role in our everyday lives across many critical industries. This book is an in-depth exploration of current Japanese business strategies that make Japan the world's third-largest economy and an economic leader in Asia. To accomplish their reinvention, Japan's largest companies are building new processes of breakthrough innovation. Central to this book is how they are addressing the necessary changes in organizational design, internal management processes, employment, and corporate governance. Because Japan values social stability and economic equality, this reinvention is happening slowly and methodically, and has gone largely unnoticed by Western observers. Yet, Japan's more balanced model of "caring capitalism" is both competitive and transformative, and more socially responsible than the unbridled growth approach of the United States.
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• Introduction : the reinvention
• The setting : corporate renewal in a tight business culture
• The background : Japan's economic rise-stability through lifetime employment
• The core concept : aggregate niche strategy
• The impact : Japan's role in global business
• Management change : governance, stewardship, and executive pay
• Financial markets : private equity and M&A
• Managing the reinvention : culture change
• Employment and innovation : the reinvention of the kaisha
• Japan going forward : reinventing for the digital economy

After two decades of reinvention, Japanese companies are re-emerging as major players in the new digital economy. They have responded to the rise of China and new global competition by moving upstream into critical deep-tech inputs and advanced materials and components. This new "aggregate niche strategy" has made Japan the technology anchor for many global supply chains. Although the end products do not carry a "Japan Inside" label, Japan plays a pivotal role in our everyday lives across many critical industries. This book is an in-depth exploration of current Japanese business strategies that make Japan the world's third-largest economy and an economic leader in Asia. To accomplish their reinvention, Japan's largest companies are building new processes of breakthrough innovation. Central to this book is how they are addressing the necessary changes in organizational design, internal management processes, employment, and corporate governance. Because Japan values social stability and economic equality, this reinvention is happening slowly and methodically, and has gone largely unnoticed by Western observers. Yet, Japan's more balanced model of "caring capitalism" is both competitive and transformative, and more socially responsible than the unbridled growth approach of the United States.
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• Introduction: They came
• The youngest
• The least
• The succession
• "If his name was Edward Moore..."
• The lowest expectations
• "Do a little suffering"
• "A heightened sense of purpose"
• A dying wind
• All hell fell
• A fallen standard
• A shadow president
• "The wrong side of destiny"
• Starting from scratch
• "People do not want to be improved"
• "Awesome power with no discipline"
• S.3
• "Our long national nightmare is over".

"The epic, definitive biography of Ted Kennedy--an immersive journey through the life of a complicated man and a sweeping history of the fall of liberalism and the collapse of political morality. Edward M. Kennedy was never expected to succeed. The youngest of nine, he lacked his brothers' natural gifts and easy grace. Yet after winning election to the Senate at the tender age of thirty, he became the most consequential legislator of his lifetime, perhaps even American history. Surviving the traumas of his brothers' assassinations, Ted Kennedy ultimately exerted the greatest effort keeping alive the mission of an active and caring government. He swept into the Senate at the high-water mark of the mid-century New Deal consensus and fulfilled the promise of that momentum throughout his glory years in the Senate as the booming voice of American liberalism. That voice found its greatest impact in the laws he passed that wove government firmly into American life, extending aid and opportunity to those in most desperate need. Two thousand pieces of legislation, ranging from health care to education to civil rights, bore Ted's fingerprints. He worked tirelessly to better people's lives, even after the Reagan-era push for limited government rewrote the contract between nation and citizens. He did this because he felt he owed it to those who suffered, and those with whom he empathized out of his own pain and ever-present sense of inadequacy. But Ted Kennedy was not immune to the darkness that plagued his family. He lived long enough to fail, to sin, to fall in and out of favor. The infamous incident at Chappaquiddick marked an unfortunate turning point in the youngest Kennedy's life, and it would not be his last brush with controversy. As his personal failures compounded in the public eye, he struggled to maintain the traction that had carried his agenda so far. The product of a decade of work and hundreds of interviews, Catching the Wind will be an essential work of history and biography. The first of two volumes in a sweeping narrative, it traces the extraordinary life of an American statesman from his early years through the turning point of the 1970s. It is a landmark study of legislative genius and a powerful exploration of the man who spent his career upholding his mandate in service of a better America"-- Provided by publisher.
The youngest of nine, Edward M. Kennedy lacked his brothers' natural gifts and easy grace. Yet after winning election to the Senate at age thirty, he became the most consequential legislator of his lifetime. He swept into the Senate at the high-water mark of the mid-century New Deal consensus and fulfilled the promise of that momentum throughout his glory years in the Senate as the booming voice of American liberalism. That voice found its greatest impact in the laws he passed that wove government firmly into American life, extending aid and opportunity to those in most desperate need. In his life Kennedy lived was known to fail, to sin, to fall in and out of favor. Gabler provides a powerful exploration of the man who spent his career upholding his mandate in service of a better America. -- adapted from publisher info

• Chapter 1: American Foreign Policy Ethical Traditions
• Chapter 2: What is a Moral Foreign Policy?
• Chapter 3: The Founders
• Chapter 4: The Vietnam Era
• Chapter 5: Post Vietnam
• Chapter 7: The Unipolar Moment
• Chapter 8: The 21st Century Diffusion of Power
• Chapter 9: American Foreign Policy and the Future Order.
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Americans constantly make moral judgments about presidents and foreign policy. Unfortunately, many of these assessments are poorly thought through. A president is either praised for the moral clarity of his statements or judged solely on the results of their actions. In Do Morals Matter?, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., one of the world's leading scholars of international relations, provides a concise yet penetrating analysis of the role of ethics in US foreign policy during the American era after 1945. Nye works through each presidency from FDR to Trump and scores their foreign policy on three ethical dimensions of their intentions, the means they used, and the consequences of their decisions. Alongside this, he also evaluates their leadership qualities, elaborating on which approaches work and which ones do not. Regardless of a president's policy preference, Nye shows that each one was not fully constrained by the structure of the system and actually had choices. He further notes the important ethical consequences of non-actions, such as Truman's willingness to accept stalemate in Korea rather than use nuclear weapons. Since we so often apply moral reasoning to foreign policy, Nye suggests how to do it better. Most importantly, presidents need to factor in both the political context and the availability of resources when deciding how to implement an ethical policyespecially in a future international system that presents not only great power competition from China and Russia, but a host of transnational threats: the illegal drug trade, infectious diseases, terrorism, cybercrime, and climate change.
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• Introduction: American moralism
• What is a moral foreign policy?
• The founders
• Post-Vietnam retrenchment
• The end of the Cold War
• The unipolar movement
• Twenty-first-century power shifts
• Foreign policy and future choices

Americans constantly make moral judgments about presidents and foreign policy. Unfortunately, many of these assessments are poorly thought through. A president is either praised for the moral clarity of his statements or judged solely on the results of their actions. In Do Morals Matter?, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., one of the world's leading scholars of international relations, provides a concise yet penetrating analysis of the role of ethics in US foreign policy during the American era after 1945. Nye works through each presidency from FDR to Trump and scores their foreign policy on three ethical dimensions of their intentions, the means they used, and the consequences of their decisions. Alongside this, he also evaluates their leadership qualities, elaborating on which approaches work and which ones do not. Regardless of a president's policy preference, Nye shows that each one was not fully constrained by the structure of the system and actually had choices. He further notes the important ethical consequences of non-actions, such as Truman's willingness to accept stalemate in Korea rather than use nuclear weapons. Since we so often apply moral reasoning to foreign policy, Nye suggests how to do it better. Most importantly, presidents need to factor in both the political context and the availability of resources when deciding how to implement an ethical policyespecially in a future international system that presents not only great power competition from China and Russia, but a host of transnational threats: the illegal drug trade, infectious diseases, terrorism, cybercrime, and climate change.
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• The symphony of power
• Exercising power
• Iran: great Satan's Bane
• Somalis, Haiti and the Yugoslav Wars: good intentions and the road to hell
• Colombia: the plan that worked (mostly)
• Afghanistan: war without end
• Iraq: a curse
• Africa: a success story
• Russia: Opportunity missed?
• Georgia, Libya, Syria and Ukraine: to intervene or not intervene
• North Korea: Crazy like a fox
• China: competition, conflict or something new
• Lessons learned

"Since the end of the Cold War, the global perception of the United States has progressively morphed from dominant international leader to disorganized entity, seemingly unwilling to accept the mantle of leadership or unable to govern itself effectively. Robert Gates argues that this transformation is the result of the failure of political leaders to understand the complexity of American power, its expansiveness, and its limitations. He makes clear that the successful exercise of power is not limited to the use of military might or the ability to coerce or demand submission, but must encompass as well diplomacy, economics, strategic communications, development assistance, intelligence, technology, ideology, and cyber. By analyzing specific challenges faced by the American government in the post-Cold War period--Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, North Korea, Syria, Libya, Russia, China and others--Gates deconstructs the ways in which leaders have used the instruments of power available to them. With forthright judgments of the performance of past presidents and their senior-most advisors, first-hand knowledge, and insider stories, Gates argues that U.S. national security in the future will require learning, and abiding by, the lessons of the past, and re-creating those capabilities that the misuse of power has cost the nation."-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction : the puzzle and the argument
• Between offensive liberalism and defensive realism : four approaches to grand strategy
• Explaining changes in grand strategy
• The road to offensive realism : the evolution of U.S. grand strategy in the early Cold War, 1945-50
• From preponderance to détente after the Cuban Missile Crisis
• From détente to the "second Cold War" : from Kennedy to Carter
• Reagan's turn to the second détente
• Making the world in its own image : the post-Cold War grand strategy
• The post-9/11 period : the emergence of offensive liberalism
• Obama : from defensive liberalism to defensive realism : systematic changes lead to the end of the first liberalization project
• America first : the Trump grand strategy in a comparative perspective
• The past, present, and future of American grand strategy : some final observations

American foreign policy is the subject of extensive debate. Many look to domestic factors as the driving forces of bad policies. Benjamin Miller instead seeks to account for changes in US international strategy by developing a theory of grand strategy that captures the key security approaches available to US decision-makers in times of war and peace. Grand Strategy from Truman to Trump makes a crucial contribution to our understanding of competing grand strategies that accounts for objectives and means of security policy. Miller puts forward a model that is widely applicable, based on empirical evidence from post-WWII to today, and shows that external factors--rather than internal concerns--are the most determinative.
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• Introduction : the puzzle and the argument
• Between offensive liberalism and defensive realism : four approaches to grand strategy
• Explaining changes in grand strategy
• The road to offensive realism : the evolution of U.S. grand strategy in the early Cold War, 1945-50
• From preponderance to détente after the Cuban Missile Crisis
• From détente to the "second Cold War" : from Kennedy to Carter
• Reagan's turn to the second détente
• Making the world in its own image : the post-Cold War grand strategy
• The post-9/11 period : the emergence of offensive liberalism
• Obama : from defensive liberalism to defensive realism : systematic changes lead to the end of the first liberalization project
• America first : the Trump grand strategy in a comparative perspective
• The past, present, and future of American grand strategy : some final observations.

"American foreign policy is the subject of extensive debate, both political and theoretical, looking for causes in domestic factors which might be the driving forces of bad policies. Benjamin Miller seeks to account for changes in US international strategy be developing a theory of grand strategy that captures the key security approaches available to US decision-makers in times of war and peace. From Truman to Trump makes a key contribution to our understanding of competing grand strategies, from some combination of realist or liberal, defensive or offensive approaches, that accounts for objectives and means of security policy. Miller puts forward a model that is widely applicable, based on empirical evidence from post-WWII to today, and shows that external factors-rather than internal domestic concerns-are the most determinative"-- Provided by publisher.

• Part One INDISPENSABLE
• Useful Young Men
• The Quiet Conservative
• Climbing the Ladder
• "Your Buddy, Colin"
• Part Two FORTY-ONE
• Appointments
• The First Invasion
• A Much Bigger War
• Deciding Not to Go to Baghdad
• The Soviet Collapse
• Cheney's Blueprint
• Departures
• Part Three INTERREGNUM
• On the Outside
• The Returns
• Part Four FORTY-THREE
• From the Very Start
• September 11 and Its Aftermath
• The Two Tribes
• The Nondecision
• The Road to Baghdad
• Chaos
• Part Five DISPENSABLE
• Isolation
• Epilogue

"A sweeping history of the intertwined careers of Dick Cheney and Colin Powell, whose rivalry and conflicting views of U.S. national security color our political debate to this day. Dick Cheney and Colin Powell emerged on the national scene more than thirty years ago, and it is easy to forget that they were once allies. It was Cheney who pressed for Powell's appointment as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, over the initial skepticism of the White House. And the two men collaborated closely in the successful American wars in Panama and Iraq during the George H. W. Bush administration, riding together in joyous victory parades. But from that pinnacle, conflicts of ideology and sensibility drove Cheney and Powell apart. Under George W. Bush, they fell into ever-deepening conflict. Cheney personified the idea that America should use its unrivaled power to reorder the world, using military force and ignoring objections from its longstanding allies. Powell believed that the United States should operate through diplomacy as much as possible, relying on the alliances it had forged. In this wide-ranging and deeply researched reassessment of these two major figures, James Mann explores each man's biography and philosophical predispositions to show how and why this deep and permanent rupture occurred. Through dozens of original interviews and surprising revelations from presidential archives, he brings to life the very human story of how this influential friendship turned so sour and how their enmity colored the way America acts in the world."-- Provided by publisher

• The bellwether of American decline
• The 1980s : Roy Cohn's Orwellian America
• The 1990s : elite exploits of the new world order
• The early 2000s : reality TV terror
• The late 2000s : heirs to the crash
• 2010-2016 : revolution shakedown
• 2016-2019 : "A treat more extensive than is widely known"
• Epilogue: End times road trip.

"From New York Times bestselling author Sarah Kendzior comes the bitingly honest examination of the calculated rise to power of Donald Trump since the 1980s and the erosion of American liberty. The story of Donald Trump's rise to power is the story of a buried American history - buried because people in power liked it that way. It was visible without being seen, influential without being named, ubiquitous without being overt. Sarah Kendzior's Hiding in Plain Sight pulls back the veil on a history spanning decades, a history of an American autocrat in the making. In doing so, she reveals the inherent fragility of American democracy - how our continual loss of freedom, the rise of consolidated corruption, and the secrets behind a burgeoning autocratic United States have been hiding in plain sight for decades. In Kendzior's signature and celebrated style, she expertly outlines Trump's meteoric rise from the 1980s until today, interlinking key moments of his life with the degradation of the American political system and the continual erosion of our civil liberties by foreign powers. Kendzior also offers a never-before-seen look at her lifelong tendency to be in the wrong place at the wrong time - living in New York through 9/11 and in St. Louis during the Ferguson uprising, and researching media and authoritarianism when Trump emerged using the same tactics as the post-Soviet dictatorships she had long studied. It is a terrible feeling to sense a threat coming, but it is worse when we let apathy, doubt, and fear prevent us from preparing ourselves. Hiding in Plain Sight confronts the injustice we have too long ignored because the truth is the only way forward"-- Provided by publisher.

• The Church committee
• Ford, Cheney, and Rumsfeld
• Carter strengthens oversight
• Reagan, Meese, and Iran-Contra
• Bush, Barr, and the power of the presidency
• Clinton, Reno, and impeachment
• George W. Bush, 9/11, and the return of the imperial presidency
• Obama, Snowden, and drones
• The 2016 campaign
• The president-elect and the "deep state"
• The transfer of power
• Loyalty
• Obstructing the Mueller investigation
• The collapse of congressional oversight
• The disinformation presidency
• The loudest voice
• Trump, Barr, and the gutting of congressional power
• Checks and balances
• Impeachment
• Deadlock

Three-quarters of Americans believe that a group of unelected government and military officials secretly manipulate or direct national policy in the United States. President Trump blames the "deep state" for his impeachment. But what is the American "deep state" and does it really exist? To conservatives, the "deep state" is an ever-growing government bureaucracy, an "administrative state" that relentlessly encroaches on the individual rights of Americans. Liberals fear the "military-industrial complex"-a cabal of generals and defence contractors who they believe routinely push the country into endless wars. Every modern American president-from Carter to Trump-has engaged in power struggles with Congress, the CIA and the FBI. Every CIA and FBI director has suspected White House aides of members of Congress of leaking secrets for political gain. Frustrated Americans increasingly distrust the politicians, unelected officials and journalists who they believe unilaterally set the country's political agenda. American democracy faces its biggest crisis of legitimacy in a half century. This sweeping exploration examines the CIA and FBI scandals of the past fifty years-from the Church Committee's exposure of Cold War abuses, to Abscam, to false intelligence about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, to NSA mass surveillance revealed by Edward Snowden. It then investigates the claims and counterclaims of the Trump era, and the relentless spread of conspiracy theories online and on-air. While Trump says he is the victim of the "deep state", Democrats accuse the president and his allies of running a de facto "deep state" of their own that operates outside official government channels and smears rivals, both real and perceived. The feverish debate over the "deep state" raises core questions about the future of American democracy. Is it possible for career government officials to be politically neutral? Was Congress's impeachment of Donald Trump conducted properly? How vast should the power of a president be? Based on dozens of interviews with career CIA operatives and FBI agents, In Deep answers whether the FBI, CIA or politicians are protecting or abusing the public's trust.
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• Introduction: in the shadow of the Cold War--
• 1. George H. W. Bush: new world order, old world president, 1989-1992--
• 2. Bill Clinton: new think, 1993-1996--
• 3. Bill Clinton: the return of old think, 1997-2000--
• 4. George W. Bush: a new Cold War, 2001-2004--
• 5. George W. Bush: Truman redux, 2005-2008--
• 6. Barack Obama's flexible response, 2009-2012--
• 7. Barack Obama's soft containment, 2013-2017-- Conclusion: Donald Trump and the end of the Cold War shadow?
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This book offers a bold re-interpretation of the prevailing narrative that US foreign policy after the Cold War was a failure. In chapters that retell and re-argue the key episodes of the post-Cold War years, Lynch argues that the Cold War cast a shadow on the presidents that came after it and that success came more from adapting to that shadow than in attempts to escape it. When strategic lessons of the Cold War were applied, presidents fared better; when they were forgotten, they fared worse. This book tells the story not of a revolution in American foreign policy but of its essentially continuous character from one era to the next. While there were many setbacks between the fall of Soviet communism and the opening years of the Trump administration, from Rwanda to 9/11 and Iraq to Syria, Lynch demonstrates that the US remained the world's dominant power.
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• Prologue: It was all a lie
• Race, the original Republican sin
• Family values
• The long con
• Confederacy of dunces
• Machinery of deception
• What are they afraid of?
• The anti-American patriots
• The empire's last stand
• How do lies end?

"An indictment of the Republican Party from one of the most successful Republican political operatives of his generation"-- Provided by publisher.
Stevens spent decades electing Republicans at every level, from presidents to senators to local officials. Here he offers a devastating portrait of a party that has lost its moral and political compass. Stevens shows how Trump is the natural outcome of five decades of hypocrisy and self-delusion, dating all the way back to the civil rights legislation of the early 1960s. Racism has always lurked in the modern GOP's DNA, as has the rank hypocrisy of the party's claims to embody "family values" and fiscal responsibility. Stephen helped to create the modern party that kneels before a morally bankrupt con man-- and now he wants nothing more than to see it held accountable. -- adapted from jacket

• Prologue: It was all a lie
• Race, the original Republican sin
• Family values
• The long con
• Confederacy of dunces
• Machinery of deception
• What are they afraid of?
• The anti-American patriots
• The empire's last stand
• How do lies end?

"An indictment of the Republican Party from one of the most successful Republican political operatives of his generation"-- Provided by publisher.
Stevens spent decades electing Republicans at every level, from presidents to senators to local officials. Here he offers a devastating portrait of a party that has lost its moral and political compass. Stevens shows how Trump is the natural outcome of five decades of hypocrisy and self-delusion, dating all the way back to the civil rights legislation of the early 1960s. Racism has always lurked in the modern GOP's DNA, as has the rank hypocrisy of the party's claims to embody "family values" and fiscal responsibility. Stephen helped to create the modern party that kneels before a morally bankrupt con man-- and now he wants nothing more than to see it held accountable. -- adapted from jacket

• Japan and the New Silk Road: Diplomacy, Development, and Connectivity
• 1. Central Asia on Japan's Diplomatic Agenda: Security, Resources, and Humanitarianism
• 2. Silk Road Diplomacy of the DPJ Cabinets: Continuity, Inertia, and Change
• 3. Japan's Aid in the New Silk Road: Developmentalism, Securitisation, and Likely Prototype for Belt and Road?
• 4. Energy Silk Road: Anticipation and Adaption in Japan's Resource Diplomacy
• 5. Japan, China, and Asian Connectivity: Competition, Cooperation, and the Weaponisation of Infrastructure Finance?
• Conclusion.
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This book presents a study of Japanese involvement in post-Soviet Central Asia since the independence of these countries in 1991, examining the reasons for progress and stagnation in this multi-lateral relationship. Featuring interviews with decision-makers and experts from Japan, China, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, and the Philippines, this book argues that Japan's impact on Central Asia and its connectivity has been underappreciated. It demonstrates that Japan's infrastructural footprint in the New Silk Road significantly pre-dated China's Belt and Road Initiative, and that the financial and policy contribution driven by Japanese officials was of a similar order of magnitude. It also goes on to show that Japan was the first major power outside of post-Soviet Central Asia to articulate a dedicated Silk Road diplomacy vis-a-vis the region before the United States and China, and the first to sponsor pivotal assistance. Being the first detailed analytical account of the diplomatic impact made on the New Silk Road by various Japanese actors beyond formal diplomacy, this book will be useful to students and scholars of Japanese politics, as well as Asian politics and international politics more generally.
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• List of Figures and Tables List of Japanese Terms Acknowledgments List of Acronyms Introduction
• 1. Japan's Regional Geoeconomic Strategy
• 2. Foreign Economic Policy, Domestic Institutions, and Regional Governance
• 3. Geoeconomics of the Asia-Pacific
• 4. Transformation in the Japanese Political Economy
• 5. Trade and Investment: A Gradual Path
• 6. Money and Finance: An Uneven Path
• 7. Development and Foreign Aid: A Hybrid Path Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.
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Since the mid-1990s, Japan's regional economic strategy has transformed. Once characterized by bilateralism, informality, and neomercantilism, Japanese policy has shifted to a new liberal strategy emphasizing regional institution building and rule setting. As two major global powers, China and the United States, wrestle over economic advantages, Japan currently occupies a pivotal position capable of tipping the geoeconomic balance in the region. Japan's New Regional Reality offers a comprehensive analysis of Japan's geoeconomic strategy that reveals the country's role in shaping regional economic order in the Asia-Pacific. Saori N. Katada explains Japanese foreign economic policy in light of both international and domestic dynamics. She points out the hurdles to implementing a state-led liberal strategy, detailing how domestic political and institutional changes have been much slower and stickier than the changing regional economics. Katada highlights state-market relations and shows how big businesses have responded to the country's interventionist policies. The book covers a wide range of economic issues including trade, investment, finance, currency, and foreign aid. Japan's New Regional Reality is a meticulously researched study of the dynamics that have contributed to economic and political realities in the Asia-Pacific today, with significant implications for future regional trends.
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• Prologue: The Velvet Hammer
• In the Magnolia City
• The warden's son
• God came today
• A long dark night
• Miracle man
• Out of the backroom
• The asterisk club
• Troika
• Shit detector
• Big leagues
• To the last drop of blood
• The ratfuck
• The dark side
• Morning in America
• Fencing master
• Black Monday
• The handler
• Jigsaw puzzle
• Fly fishing with Shevy
• The curtain falls
• Winners and losers
• Desert diplomacy
• Eyes of a killer
• From the souk to Madrid
• A call to action
• The cruelest turn
• The virus
• Scorched earth
• Grave and deteriorating

"Co-authored by the Chief White House correspondent at The New York Times and the Washington columnist at the The New Yorker, this is a biography any would-be power broker must own: the story of legendary White House chief of staff and secretary of state James A. Baker III, the man who ran Washington when Washington ran the world. In the latter half of the twentieth century, no Republican won the presidency without his help, and the men he counseled in the Oval Office--Gerald R. Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush--defined more than one generation of American life. Campaign manager, chief of staff, treasury secretary, and ultimately secretary of state, James A. Baker III understood better than anyone how to make Washington work and how to pull the levers of power at home and abroad. A suave and profane Texas Democrat, Baker worked as a wealthy Houston lawyer until his best friend, George H. W. Bush, drew him into Republican politics. His first dramatic win was in 1976 as the delegate hunter who secured the Republican nomination for Ford against a challenge from Ronald Reagan. His next job, as Bush's campaign manager four years later, maneuvered Bush onto the ticket with Reagan and Baker into the most powerful office in Washington other than the Oval Office: White House chief of staff. In his years in the White House and in the cabinet, Baker was the avatar of a style of politics and governance that valued pragmatism and deal making over purity. He went from win to win--reforming the tax code, negotiating the first Middle East peace talks, managing the dissolution of the Soviet Union--until his capstone victory, as field marshal for the younger Bush's Florida recount battle, helped divide the country forever. In today's era of gridlock, The Man Who Ran Washington is an electrifying escape"-- Provided by publisher

Najnowsza książka Krzysztofa Daukszewicza - znanego i cenionego satyryka, który od wielu lat obserwuje naszą rzeczywistość - to satyryczny rozrachunek z polską sceną polityczną ostatnich miesięcy, gdzie niepodzielnie obok pandemii rządzi pewien mieszkaniec Żoliborza. Ale tak naprawdę tę książkę napisali wszyscy, którzy wraz z obecnym rządem wstali z kolan. I Pan, i Pani, i chamska hołota, i nasi wybrańcy z ulicy Wiejskiej. Tym razem jednak do współpracy Krzysztof Daukszewicz zaprosił swojego syna, by był "młody gniewny" i "stary wkurwiony"

• The puzzling resilience of neoliberalism
• Explaining the resilience of neoliberalism
• Neoliberal policies and supporting actors
• Neoliberal resilience and the crafting of social blocs
• Creating support : privatization and business power
• Blocking opposition : political representation and limited democracy
• Locking-in neoliberalism : independent central banks and fiscal spending rules
• Lessons. Neoliberal resilience and the future of democracy

An exploration of the factors behind neoliberalism's resilience in developing economies and what this could mean for democracy's future Since the 1980s, neoliberalism has withstood repeated economic shocks and financial crises to become the hegemonic economic policy worldwide. Why has neoliberalism remained so resilient? What is the relationship between this resiliency and the backsliding of Western democracy? Can democracy survive an increasingly authoritarian neoliberal capitalism? Neoliberal Resilience answers these questions by bringing the developing world's recent history to the forefront of our thinking about democratic capitalism's future. Looking at four decades of change in four countries once considered to be leading examples of effective neoliberal policy in Latin America and Eastern Europe-Argentina, Chile, Estonia, and Poland-Aldo Madariaga examines the domestic actors and institutions responsible for defending neoliberalism. Delving into neoliberalism's political power, Madariaga demonstrates that it is strongest in countries where traditional democratic principles have been slowly and purposefully weakened. He identifies three mechanisms through which coalitions of political, institutional, and financial forces have propagated neoliberalism's success: the privatization of state companies to create a supporting business class, the use of political institutions to block the representation of alternatives in congress, and the constitutionalization of key economic policies to shield them from partisan influence. Madariaga reflects on today's most pressing issues, including the influence of increasing austerity measures and the rise of populism. A comparative exploration of political economics at the peripheries of global capitalism, Neoliberal Resilience investigates the tensions between neoliberalism's longevity and democracy's gradual decline.
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• The puzzling resilience of neoliberalism
• Explaining the resilience of neoliberalism
• Neoliberal policies and supporting actors
• Neoliberal resilience and the crafting of social blocs
• Creating support : privatization and business power
• Blocking opposition : political representation and limited democracy
• Locking-in neoliberalism : independent central banks and fiscal spending rules
• Lessons : Neoliberal resilience and the future of democracy

An exploration of the factors behind neoliberalism's resilience in developing economies and what this could mean for democracy's future Since the 1980s, neoliberalism has withstood repeated economic shocks and financial crises to become the hegemonic economic policy worldwide. Why has neoliberalism remained so resilient? What is the relationship between this resiliency and the backsliding of Western democracy? Can democracy survive an increasingly authoritarian neoliberal capitalism? Neoliberal Resilience answers these questions by bringing the developing world's recent history to the forefront of our thinking about democratic capitalism's future. Looking at four decades of change in four countries once considered to be leading examples of effective neoliberal policy in Latin America and Eastern Europe-Argentina, Chile, Estonia, and Poland-Aldo Madariaga examines the domestic actors and institutions responsible for defending neoliberalism. Delving into neoliberalism's political power, Madariaga demonstrates that it is strongest in countries where traditional democratic principles have been slowly and purposefully weakened. He identifies three mechanisms through which coalitions of political, institutional, and financial forces have propagated neoliberalism's success: the privatization of state companies to create a supporting business class, the use of political institutions to block the representation of alternatives in congress, and the constitutionalization of key economic policies to shield them from partisan influence. Madariaga reflects on today's most pressing issues, including the influence of increasing austerity measures and the rise of populism. A comparative exploration of political economics at the peripheries of global capitalism, Neoliberal Resilience investigates the tensions between neoliberalism's longevity and democracy's gradual decline.
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• Introduction
• Part I. From security isolationism to promoting regional multilateralism. Understanding why states pursue regional security multilateralism ; Japan and its regional security isolationism during the Cold War ; Rethinking regional security isolationism and multilateralism
• Part II. The pivot toward regional security multilateralism. The making of the Nakayama Proposal ; Delivering and defending the Nakayama Proposal ; The Miyazawa Initiatives and Japan's leadership in creating the ASEAN Regional Forum
• Part III. Japan's role in regional security multilateralism. Japan and regional security multilateralism, 1994-2000 ; Japan and widening regional security multilateralism
• Conclusion

This book asks why, in the wake of the Cold War, Japan suddenly reversed years of steadfast opposition to security cooperation with its neighbors. Long isolated and opposed to multilateral agreements, Japan proposed East Asia's first multilateral security forum in the early 1990s, emerging as a regional leader. Overcoming Isolationism explores what led to this surprising about-face and offers a corrective to the misperception that Japan's security strategy is reactive to US pressure and unresponsive to its neighbors. Paul Midford draws on newly released official documents and extensive interviews to reveal a quarter century of Japanese leadership in promoting regional security cooperation. He demonstrates that Japan has a much more nuanced relationship with its neighbors and has played a more significant leadership role in shaping East Asian security than has previously been recognized.
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• Understanding why states pursue regional security multilateralism
• Japan and its regional security isolationism during the Cold War
• Rethinking regional security isolationism and multilateralism
• The making of the Nakayama proposal
• Delivering and defending the Nakayama proposal
• The Miyazawa initiatives and Japan's leadership in creating the ASEAN Regional Forum
• Japan and regional security multilateralism, 1994-2000
• Japan and widening regional security multilateralism

This book asks why, in the wake of the Cold War, Japan suddenly reversed years of steadfast opposition to security cooperation with its neighbors. Long isolated and opposed to multilateral agreements, Japan proposed East Asia's first multilateral security forum in the early 1990s, emerging as a regional leader. Overcoming Isolationism explores what led to this surprising about-face and offers a corrective to the misperception that Japan's security strategy is reactive to US pressure and unresponsive to its neighbors. Paul Midford draws on newly released official documents and extensive interviews to reveal a quarter century of Japanese leadership in promoting regional security cooperation. He demonstrates that Japan has a much more nuanced relationship with its neighbors and has played a more significant leadership role in shaping East Asian security than has previously been recognized.
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John Paul II was the first non-Italian pope in over 500 years, and the first Slavic pontiff in history. Shortly after his election to the papacy in 1978, he launched a series of visits to his native Poland, then in the midst of dramatic social changes that heralded the end of Communism. In this groundbreaking book, James Ramon Felak carefully examines the Pope's first four visits to his homeland in June of 1979, 1983, 1987, and 1991 in the late Communist and immediate post-Communist period. Careful analysis of speeches, press coverage, and documents from the Communist Party, government, and police show how the Pope and the Communist authorities engaged one another. Felak gives equal attention to John Paul's political and religious messages, highlighting how he astutely maneuvered between the rising hopes of the Polish people and the dangerous fears of a dying regime. The Pope in Poland recreates and explicates these dramatic visits that played a major role in the collapse of Communism in Poland as well as laid out a papal vision for Poland's post-Communist future.
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In this landmark global history Kristina Spohr explores how world leaders responded to the 1989 revolutions--from Berlin to Beijing. In post-Wall Europe they reinvented Western Cold War institutions, while post-Square China reinvented communism as state capitalism--a duality in the world order that still endures.
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• Introduction
• What is legitimacy and what is consensus?
• A chequered past : the long history of intervention
• The last hundred years : the impact of the Great War, the Second World War and the Cold War
• The Gulf War : a new dawn?
• Kosovo : legitimacy to the fore
• Sierra Leone : idealism masks realism
• Afghanistan : clarity in crisis
• Iraq : reality bites
• Libya : designed for the return of legitimacy
• Syria : realism reasserted
• Conclusion

Exploring case studies from the first Gulf War to the Syria crisis, this book discusses different approaches to the use of international law and the role it plays in international power politics. Analysis of the post-Cold War overseas military involvements of Western powers has focused on their legality and legitimacy, allowing for a conflation of the concepts and distracting from the true source of international legitimacy. Demonstrating compliance with international law can be helpful, but it plays a secondary role to other, more powerful considerations such as national interest and shared national security concerns. Exploring the key drivers for decision-makers, this book identifies the impact of previous experience on the use of international law in the quest for legitimacy ahead of launching military action. Patterns in approach and of relations between close Western allies (in particular the UK and US) are identified, offering valuable lessons for future strategic decision-making. This book will appeal to scholars and students of International Relations and International Law. Think Tanks focussing on International Relations and the use of force and practitioners working in the realm of foreign policy with a focus on the UN and international law will also be interested in the study and conclusions drawn.
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• Introduction-- Part I. The Diverse Paths Taken in Transition:
• 1. Review of key debates at the beginning--
• 2. Reforms and results of transition: first some facts-- Part II. Choice of Strategy: Was it History? Politics? Or People?:
• 3. Historical legacies: hysteresis vs critical juncture--
• 4. Reform commitment of political leaders and populations--
• 5. The role of technocrats--
• 6. External incentives and pressures-- Part III. Domestic Vested Interests and Reforms:
• 7. The old guard: politicians, technocrats, and red directors--
• 8. Formation of the oligarchs--
• 9. Corruption: pervasive, persistent and pernicious-- Part IV. Outcomes and Prospects:
• 11. The transition tapestry: wefts of history, warps-at choice--
• 12. Quo vadis post-communa?: an epilogue.
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Nearly thirty years after the fall of the Soviet Union, debates over paths to market liberalization have produced numerous studies across the social sciences. This groundbreaking work from Oleh Havrylyshyn offers a new perspective. Havrylyshyn, a former official in the post-independence Ukrainian government, provides a unique, primary source account of the people and problems at the heart of economic transitions. Grounded in three decades of data, along with experiential research gleaned from nearly thirty countries, this book contains the most up-to-date assessment of economic transitions in post-communist regions. It critically examines questions of gradual versus radical reforms, the relationship between democracy and market liberalization, and how history, individual personalities, and foreign influence determined political choices. Thorough research and accessible style make this work a valuable resource for students and specialists of economics, political science, and history as well as readers generally interested in international studies, government, and business.
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"This book documents Reagan's childhood, political career, and presidency, arguing that Reagan compiled the worst civil rights record of any President since the 1920s; it explores his blithe indifference to the legacy of slavery, assaults on Affirmative Action and Voting Rights, a war on Drugs that ensnared the poor and people of color leading to the carceral state, and his hostility to the Black freedom struggle"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction
• America's relationship with genocide
• A policy-opinion nexus: legitimating inaction on genocide?
• Words versus deeds in America's relationship with genocide
• Domestic responses to genocide: public opinion versus public behaviour
• America and the first genocide of the twenty-first century
• Determining factors in the making of the US Darfur policy conclusions
• Conclusion
• Epilogue

• America's relationship with genocide
• A policy-opinion nexus: legitimating inaction on genocide?
• Words versus deeds in America's relationship with genocide
• Domestic responses to genocide: public opinion versus public behaviour
• America and the first genocide of the twenty-first century
• Determining factors in the making of the US Darfur policy conclusions

• America's relationship with genocide
• A policy-opinion nexus: legitimating inaction on genocide?
• Words versus deeds in America's relationship with genocide
• Domestic responses to genocide: public opinion versus public behaviour
• America and the first genocide of the twenty-first century
• Determining factors in the making of the US Darfur policy conclusions

• America's relationship with genocide
• A policy-opinion nexus: legitimating inaction on genocide?
• Words versus deeds in America's relationship with genocide
• Domestic responses to genocide: public opinion versus public behaviour
• America and the first genocide of the twenty-first century
• Determining factors in the making of the US Darfur policy conclusions

"Why do we allow our governments to get away with "bystanding" to genocide? How can we, when alerted to the mass slaughter of innocents, still not take a stand? Reluctant Interveners provides the most comprehensive answers yet to these confronting questions, focusing on the complex relationships between the citizenry, the media, the political elites, and institutions in the most powerful nation in the world, the United States of America. Eyal Mayroz offers a sobering account of the interactions between the governing and the governed, and the dynamics which transformed moral concerns for the lives of faraway "others" into cold political calculations. Exposed are the processes that turned the promise of "never again" to a recurring reality of ever again, the role of the office of the presidency in their advancement, and the resultant image of America as seen by the rest of the world. In a time of ubiquitous social media and populist revival, a greater role for the U.S. citizenry in decision-making on responses to genocide may be in the cards. The question is, in which directions will these trends take American foreign policy?"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction
• 1. Banishing Remains
• 2. The Hole in the Flag
• 3. Nostalgia and the Remains of Everyday Life
• 4. Recovering National Victimhood at the House of Terror
• 5. Secrets, Inheritance, and a Generation's Remains
• 6. A Past Returned, A Future Deferred Conclusion.
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In Remains of Socialism, Maya Nadkarni investigates the changing fates of the socialist past in postsocialist Hungary. She introduces the concept of "remains"-both physical objects and cultural remainders-to analyze all that Hungarians sought to leave behind after the end of state socialism. Spanning more than two decades of postsocialist transformation, Remains of Socialism follows Hungary from the optimism of the early years of transition to its recent right-wing turn toward illiberal democracy. Nadkarni analyzes remains that range from exiled statues of Lenin to the socialist-era "Bambi" soda, and from discredited official histories to the scandalous secrets of the communist regime's informers. She deftly demonstrates that these remains were far more than simply the leftovers of an unwanted past. Ultimately, the struggles to define remains of socialism and settle their fates would represent attempts to determine the future-and to mourn futures that never materialized.
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• 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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• The obsolescence of right and left
• Patriot first?
• Socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for the rest
• The system of corruption
• The silence of the CEOs
• The core contradiction
• The vicious cycle
• From stakeholder to shareholder capitalism
• The power shift
• The last coping mechanism
• The triumph of oligarchy
• The furies
• How oligarchies retain power
• Why democracy will prevail
• A final word to Mr. Dimon

"Millions of Americans have lost confidence in our political and economic system. After years of stagnant wages, volatile job markets, and an unwillingness to deal with profound threats such as climate change, there is a mounting sense that the system is fixed, serving only those select few with enough money to secure a controlling stake. With the characteristic clarity and passion that has made him a central civil voice, Robert B. Reich shows how wealth and power have interacted to install an elite oligarchy, eviscerate the middle class, and undermine democracy. Using Jamie Dimon, the chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase as an example, Reich exposes how those at the top propagate myths about meritocracy, national competitiveness, corporate social responsibility, and the "free market," to distract most Americans from their accumulation of extraordinary wealth, and power over the system. Instead of answering the call to civic duty, they have chosen to uphold self-serving policies that line their own pockets and benefit their bottom line. Reich's objective is not to foster cynicism, but rather to demystify the system so that we might instill fundamental change and demand that democracy works for the majority once again"-- Provided by publisher