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Book Common Sense and Foreign Policy

Download or read book Common Sense and Foreign Policy written by John D. Stempel and published by . This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After nearly half a century of working in the world of international politics and foreign relations, John Stempel brings a unique perspective on the question of how to understand foreign policy and participate effectively to improve decisions that will determine how we live with the rest of the world. Whether as a citizen, aspiring participant in foreign affairs, or a jaded veteran of wars and peacekeeping, Common Sense and Foreign Policy will help you understand the complexities of the subject, stimulate you to find useful information and increase your cross-cultural understanding.

Book Common Sense in Foreign Policy

Download or read book Common Sense in Foreign Policy written by William Robert Shepherd and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Power Rules

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  • Author : Leslie H. Gelb
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2009-03-17
  • ISBN : 0061714542
  • Pages : 358 pages

Download or read book Power Rules written by Leslie H. Gelb and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative account of the use and misuse of power in international affairs, from one of the nation's leading foreign policy thinkers and Pulitzer Prize winner.

Book Common Sense in Foreign Policy

Download or read book Common Sense in Foreign Policy written by Harry Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Common Sense

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  • Author : Sophia Rosenfeld
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 0674057813
  • Pages : 362 pages

Download or read book Common Sense written by Sophia Rosenfeld and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Common sense has always been a cornerstone of American politics. In 1776, Tom Paine’s vital pamphlet with that title sparked the American Revolution. And today, common sense—the wisdom of ordinary people, knowledge so self-evident that it is beyond debate—remains a powerful political ideal, utilized alike by George W. Bush’s aw-shucks articulations and Barack Obama’s down-to-earth reasonableness. But far from self-evident is where our faith in common sense comes from and how its populist logic has shaped modern democracy. Common Sense: A Political History is the first book to explore this essential political phenomenon. The story begins in the aftermath of England’s Glorious Revolution, when common sense first became a political ideal worth struggling over. Sophia Rosenfeld’s accessible and insightful account then wends its way across two continents and multiple centuries, revealing the remarkable individuals who appropriated the old, seemingly universal idea of common sense and the new strategic uses they made of it. Paine may have boasted that common sense is always on the side of the people and opposed to the rule of kings, but Rosenfeld demonstrates that common sense has been used to foster demagoguery and exclusivity as well as popular sovereignty. She provides a new account of the transatlantic Enlightenment and the Age of Revolutions, and offers a fresh reading on what the eighteenth century bequeathed to the political ferment of our own time. Far from commonsensical, the history of common sense turns out to be rife with paradox and surprise.

Book COMMON SENSE IN FOREIGN POLICY

Download or read book COMMON SENSE IN FOREIGN POLICY written by HARRY. JOHNSTON and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Foreign Policy Begins at Home

Download or read book Foreign Policy Begins at Home written by Richard N Haass and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A concise, comprehensive guide to America's critical policy choices at home and overseas . . . without a partisan agenda, but with a passion for solutions designed to restore our country's strength and enable us to lead." -- Madeleine K. Albright A rising China, climate change, terrorism, a nuclear Iran, a turbulent Middle East, and a reckless North Korea all present serious challenges to America's national security. But it depends even more on the United States addressing its burgeoning deficit and debt, crumbling infrastructure, second class schools, and outdated immigration system. While there is currently no great rival power threatening America directly, how long this strategic respite lasts, according to Council on Foreign Relations President Richard N. Haass, will depend largely on whether the United States puts its own house in order. Haass lays out a compelling vision for restoring America's power, influence, and ability to lead the world and advocates for a new foreign policy of Restoration that would require the US to limit its involvement in both wars of choice, and humanitarian interventions. Offering essential insight into our world of continual unrest, this new edition addresses the major foreign and domestic debates since hardcover publication, including US intervention in Syria, the balance between individual privacy and collective security, and the continuing impact of the sequester.

Book Smart Power

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  • Author : Ted Galen Carpenter
  • Publisher : Cato Institute
  • Release : 2008-06-12
  • ISBN : 1933995947
  • Pages : 277 pages

Download or read book Smart Power written by Ted Galen Carpenter and published by Cato Institute. This book was released on 2008-06-12 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States confronts a host of foreign policy problems in the 21st century, yet the Republic’s security strategy is increasingly muddled and counterproductive. The litany of misplaced priorities and policy failures grows ever larger. Disagreements over Iraq policy as well as other matters have soured Washington’s relations with its long-time European allies. NATO, the centerpiece of Washington’s transatlantic policy for nearly six decades, is foundering in Afghanistan and displays a growing lack of cohesion and relevance. Tensions between the United States and Russia are on the rise as authoritarianism has reemerged in that country and Moscow resists Washington’s assertive policies, especially the ongoing expansion of NATO into traditional Russian spheres of influence and the repeated displays of contempt for Russian interests in the Balkans and other regions. American policymakers grapple with the prospect of new and volatile nuclear powers, most notably North Korea and Iran. It remains to be seen whether Washington’s strategy of using multilateral negotiations involving North Korea’s neighbors to induce Pyongyang to end its quest for nuclear weapons will succeed. The more hardline strategy of imposing economic sanctions and considering the use of military force is clearly not working with regard to Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Other problems, such as the Taiwan issue, are just clouds on the horizon at present, but they have the potential to cause serious trouble in the coming years. The Taiwan problem highlights the danger inherent in Washington’s habit of making ill-advised security commitments to small, vulnerable client states that are not crucial to America’s own security and well being. In the case of Taiwan, such an obligation could lead to armed confrontation between the United States and China. Ted Galen Carpenter examines these and other foreign policy challenges that America confronts in the 21st century and diagnoses what is wrong with Washington’s current approach. Throughout these essays, he outlines an alternative strategy that would protect America’s security while avoiding unnecessary and unrewarding military adventures.

Book Common Sense in Foreign Policy

Download or read book Common Sense in Foreign Policy written by Harry Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Common Sense in Foreign Policy

Download or read book Common Sense in Foreign Policy written by Edwin Borchard and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A common sense foreign policy

Download or read book A common sense foreign policy written by Harold Edward Stassen and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Analyzing Foreign Policy

Download or read book Analyzing Foreign Policy written by Derek Beach and published by Red Globe Press. This book was released on 2012-02-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genuinely international in scope and drawing on a wide range of examples from around the world, this important new text provides an accessible introduction to the key elements of foreign policy analysis. Analyzing Foreign Policy examines the wide range of factors that explain why states and other actors behave in the way they do. Showing how theory can illuminate practice, Derek Beach explores how different theoretical approaches - including structural realism, liberalism and constructivism - can be applied to deepen our understanding of events and actions. The book covers all aspects of the policy process - from what states want and how decisions are made through to what states actually do across security, economic and diplomatic policies. Derek Beach also assesses whether we are witnessing a fundamental shift in the nature of foreign policy as a result of globalization and the rise of new non-state actors. The concluding chapter introduces readers to the various research methods available for the study of foreign policy. Engagingly written, this text is the ideal starting point for all who wish to understand and explain the drivers of contemporary foreign policy.

Book Common Sense in Foreign Policy  Classic Reprint

Download or read book Common Sense in Foreign Policy Classic Reprint written by Harry Johnston and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Common Sense in Foreign Policy The germ of this little work lay in a series of articles contributed to the Daily Graphic in the summer-autumn of 1903, entitled 'Empires of the Future.' The predictions ventured upon, in these sketches of the trend of history-in-the-making, have been somewhat closely fulfilled - as any curious person may see for himself by reading the articles in the Daily Graphic for the period mentioned. This coincidence is only cited as some excuse for my producing at this juncture a more elaborate work, dealing partly with actuality, but almost more with futurity. The reader will find neither the text nor the maps presenting the political delimitations of the world as they would appear in an accurate work on geography issued in the winter of 1912-3. The author's forecast of the probable frontiers in the Balkan Peninsula will, perhaps, not accord with the immediate settlement under discussion at the Conference now sitting. Bessarabia may remain for some time yet under the Russian flag, Ruthenia under that of Austria; Poland is still a province of Russia, and the Philippines are a dependency of the United States; Germany and France have not yet come to terms in regard to the Lorraine frontier and Luxemburg, nor is Germany the acknowledged mistress of a Congo Empire or the most potent State in a great confederation of Central European kingdoms. But such things as this book forecasts may well come to pass, and it is not unprofitable that we should consider how our own aotion may assist or retard them and in what way the British Empire would be affected by this and that redistribution of territory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book The Sovereignty Solution

Download or read book The Sovereignty Solution written by Anna Simmons and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sovereignty Solution is not an Establishment national security strategy. Instead, it describes what the U.S. could actually do to restore order to the world without having to engage in either global policing or nation-building. Currently there is no coherent plan that addresses questions like: If terrorists were to strike Chicago tomorrow, what would we do? When Chicago is burning, whom would we target? How would we respond? There is nothing in place and no strategy on the horizon to either reassure the American public or warn the world: attack us, and this is what you can expect. In this book, a Naval Postgraduate School professor and her Special Forces coauthors offer a radical yet commonsensical approach to recalibrating global security. Their book discusses what the United States could actually do to restore order to the world without having to engage in either global policing or nation-building. Two tracks to their strategy are presented: strengthening state responsibility abroad and strengthening the social fabric at home. The authors’ goal is to provoke a serious debate that addresses the gaps and disconnects between what the United States says and what it does, how it wants to be perceived, and how it is perceived. Without leaning left or right, they hope to draw many people into the debate and force Washington to rethink what it sends service men and women abroad to do.

Book American Dove

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  • Author : Zachary Shirkey
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 2020-11-16
  • ISBN : 0472132172
  • Pages : 213 pages

Download or read book American Dove written by Zachary Shirkey and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zachary C. Shirkey argues that the United States is overly reliant on the active use of force and should employ more peaceful foreign policy tools. Force often fails to achieve its desired ends for both tactical and strategic reasons and is relatively infungible, making it an inappropriate tool for many US foreign policy goals. Rather than relying on loose analogies or common sense as many books on US grand strategy do, American Dove bases its argument directly on an eclectic mix of academic literature, including realist, liberal, and constructivist theory as well as psychology. Shirkey also argues against retrenchment strategies, such as offshore balancing and strategic restraint as lacking a moral component that leaves them vulnerable to hawkish policies that employ moral arguments in favor of action. US withdrawal would weaken the existing liberal international security, economic, and legal orders—orders that benefit the United States. Rather, the book argues the United States needs an energetic foreign policy that employs passive uses of force such as deterrence and nonmilitary tools such as economic statecraft, international institutions, international law, and soft power. Such a policy leaves room for a moral component, which is necessary for mobilizing the American public and would uphold the existing international order. Last, Shirkey argues that to be successful, doves must frame their arguments in terms of strategy rather than in terms of costs and must show that dovish policies are consistent with national honor and a broad range of American values. American Dove offers a framework for US grand strategy and a plan for persuading the public to adopt it.

Book Common Sense Or Chaos   On Foreign Relations and Armaments

Download or read book Common Sense Or Chaos On Foreign Relations and Armaments written by Anna Ruth Fry and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Common sense in foreign policy

Download or read book Common sense in foreign policy written by Harry Hamilton Johnston, Sir and published by London, Smith. This book was released on 1913 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: