This book locates ongoing events in the aftermath of September 11 in historical context, analyzes their motive forces and possible outcomes, and examines the alternatives that face the anti-globalization movement and opponents of racism and war.
What strategies can a government use to end violent ethnic conflicts in the long term? Under what conditions do these strategies work best, and what are their limitations? Are there some ethnic conflicts that governments simply cannot solve? Drawing on an intimate knowledge of the Middle East as well as the experiences of trouble spots in Asia, ......
Crisis of Religious Nationalism in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
In this learned and clarifying volume--updated and issued in paperback for the first time--the Ruethers trace the tortured and contested history of Israel/Palestine from biblical times to the subsequent conflict with Arab and Palestinian nationalism.
Johnson, author of the acclaimed Secret Agencies and an experienced overseer of intelligence (Foreign Affairs), here examines the present state and future challenges of American strategic intelligence.
Aspects of Cultural and Demographic Politics 1815-2001
Considered one of the most intractable and complex border disputes in modern European history, the sixty mile border between a small kingdom and a growing, belligerent would - be world power caused several wars in the Bismarckian era and lead to several crises in the post World War I and post World War II eras. Professor Berdichevsky skillfully ......
As the world's largest polluter and its wealthiest country, the United States has a potentially enormous impact on international efforts to protect the environment. This book examines how US foreign policy affects and is affected by global environmental change.
Recent decades have seen intensified flows of people, commodities, money, ideas, information and images on a global level. Is a unified world culture emerging? And if so, how does this relate to existing cultural divisions and to the autonomy of the nation state? In this book leading social scientists from many countries analyze to what extent we are seeing a globalization of culture. Differing explanations are offered for trends towards global unification, and their relation to an economic world-system. The contributors explore the emergence of "Third Cultures", such as international law, the financial markets and media conglomerates, as elements which transcend the boundaries of the nation state. Will the intensification of global contact produce increasing tolerance of other cultures? Or will an integrating culture produce sharper reactions in the form of fundamentalist and nationalist movements? As well as examining the extent, causation and consequences of global homogenization, the authors consider its implication for the social sciences. To what extent can sociology still retain the notion of the nation-state society as its basic unit?
Can the dominant theories in foreign policy analysis explain recent European events-particularly the twin "revolutions" of the ending of the Cold War and the proposed further integration of Europe under the Maastricht Treaty? In "European Foreign Policy" leading international scholars address the implications of this question. Analyzing foreign policy changes in the new Europe, the contributors assess the state and foreign policy, foreign economic policy, the long term future of European security and the role of multinational companies. The book also focuses on foreign policy actors in the light of major theories. The discussions range from the examination of weak power theory in the context of Nordic reactions to the Soviet coup to the agency-structure debate after the collapse of the Cold War European system. In addition, two substantial critiques by specialists from outside the field explore the issues raised in this book from a feminist perspective as well as from a post-modem view of the wider theoretical context within which foreign policy analysis is embedded. A unique contribution, "European Foreign Policy" interrogates the relationship between academic analysis and political reality by examining empirical issues in the light of contemporary theory. It will be of considerable interest to students taking courses on European foreign policy, and to scholars working in foreign policy analysis, international relations theory and the external politics of the European Community and its members.
Global Connections is a comprehensive encyclopedia with over 270 entries examining international problems and America's vital stake in them. It provides an overview of global issues that surface daily through reports in the media. This user-friendly encyclopedia guides students and the public to a better understanding of the challenges the United ......
