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Book Foreign Foes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dave Galanter
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2012-12-11
  • ISBN : 1471109089
  • Pages : 361 pages

Download or read book Foreign Foes written by Dave Galanter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hidran race and the Klingon Empire have been at each other's throats for seventy years, and Captain Jean-Luc Picard has been asked to do the near-impossible: take the U.S.S. Enterprise™ to the planet Velex to mediate a treaty that will end the conflict between these two aggressive species. Things get off to a rocky start -- then turn deadly as the Hidran ambassador mysteriously dies, and kills a Klingon delegate as a last act of vengence. When Lt.Worf is charged with the ambassador's assassinaton, and Commander Riker and Counselor Troi are trapped far below the surface of the planet, Captain Picard must not only act to save the Hidranas and Klingons from each other, but to save his Klingon officer from a hideous death sentence...

Book Of Friends and Foes

Download or read book Of Friends and Foes written by Mark J. C. Crescenzi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do countries form reputations? Do these reputations affect interstate politics in the global arena? Reputations abound in world politics, but we know little about how state reputations form and how they evolve over time. We frequently use words like trust, credibility, resolve, integrity, risk, known commodity, and brand, to name a few, overlapping with reputation like a Venn diagram. As a result, the concept of reputation often gets stretched or diluted, weakening our ability to ascertain its role in cooperation and conflict. In this book, Crescenzi develops a theory of reputation dynamics to help identify when reputations form in ways that affect world politics, both in the realms of international conflict and cooperation. A reputation for honoring one's obligations in a treaty, for example, can make a state a more attractive ally. A reputation for war and conflict can trigger more of the same, leading to a cycle of violence that exacerbates security challenges. While these processes of cooperation and conflict seem distinct, they are linked by a common use of the information held in each state's reputation. In each case, states use reputational information in an attempt to resolve the uncertainty they face when crafting foreign policy decisions. With this theory in place, Crescenzi uses a blend of historical and empirical analysis to convince the reader that reputations do indeed matter in world politics. Moreover, we are able to identify patterns of reputation's influence in international relations. He demonstrates that over time and across the globe, reputations for conflict exacerbate crises while reputations for cooperation and reliability make future cooperation more likely.

Book Star Trek   The Next Generation  Foreign Foes

Download or read book Star Trek The Next Generation Foreign Foes written by Greg Brodeur and published by . This book was released on 1994-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hidrans and the Klingons have been bitter enemies for years. Now Captain Jean Luc Picard has been asked to do the near-impossible: mediate a treaty that will end the hostilities between these two aggressive races.

Book Friends and Foes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rebecca K. C. Hersman
  • Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
  • Release : 2012-01-10
  • ISBN : 9780815798965
  • Pages : 156 pages

Download or read book Friends and Foes written by Rebecca K. C. Hersman and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreign policy in the post–cold war era is profoundly complex, and so too are the institutions that share the responsibility to guide and manage America's relations with other countries. Policymakers struggle within porous and fragmented institutions, in which policy is driven more powerfully by clusters of like-minded individuals than by disciplined organizations. The nation's political parties face deep divisions over foreign policy and are unable to forge a coherent vision for the future. Congress is increasingly polarized along ideological lines, while traditional internationalist foreign policy spans a truncated political center. Few aspects of U.S. politics are more contentious or controversial than the respective roles of Congress and the executive branch in formulating foreign policy. In this complex environment, scholars, pundits, and policymakers look to the public and high-profile battles between Congress and the president as a bellwether of the future of U.S. foreign policy.In reality, foreign policy is often shaped, debated, and made out of public view. In Friends and Foes, Rebecca K. C. Hersman shifts the focus away from headline-grabbing events and disagreements to the day-to-day interactions that form the backbone of policymaking.Hersman illustrates the ebb and flow of foreign policy development through many examples and anecdotes. She also includes three in-depth case studies from the mid-1990s: the controversial transfer of three U.S. warships to Turkey; the dispute over relaxing sanctions against Pakistan because of concerns about that nation's nuclear proliferation record, and the 1995–97 battle over the Chemical Weapons Convention. The book also illuminates the role of the media in influencing the outcome of foreign policy decisionmaking. Countering the conventional wisdom that a president and a Congress of the same political party are best able to "get things done," Friends and Foes sheds new light on the institutional dynamics, conflic

Book Journal of Education

Download or read book Journal of Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New England Journal of Education

Download or read book New England Journal of Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Culture and Foreign Policy

Download or read book Culture and Foreign Policy written by Howard J. Wiarda and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political culture refers to the basic values, ideas, beliefs and political orientations by which countries, societies, and whole regions are guided. The underlying belief systems that shape cultures and societies and cause them to behave in certain, often distinct ways. The puzzle or query that chiefly concerns this author is why the United States (US) and its foreign policy have such a hard time understanding cultures and societies other than their own. This provocative book argues that the US needs to end its attitudes of superiority and condescension toward other nations and cultures and redirect its foreign policy accordingly. After an introduction that sets forth the main theoretical and conceptual arguments, the next chapters explore all the main areas of the world. The Conclusion pulls all these themes together, analyzes the common patterns that emerge, and suggests new directions for U.S foreign policy.

Book The International Socialist Review

Download or read book The International Socialist Review written by Algie Martin Simons and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Official Proceedings of the     International Irrigation Congress

Download or read book Official Proceedings of the International Irrigation Congress written by International Irrigation Congress and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The International Good Templar

Download or read book The International Good Templar written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Implacable Foes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Waldo Heinrichs
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2017-05-01
  • ISBN : 0190616768
  • Pages : 640 pages

Download or read book Implacable Foes written by Waldo Heinrichs and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On May 8, 1945, Victory in Europe Day-shortened to "V.E. Day"-brought with it the demise of Nazi Germany. But for the Allies, the war was only half-won. Exhausted but exuberant American soldiers, ready to return home, were sent to join the fighting in the Pacific, which by the spring and summer of 1945 had turned into a gruelling campaign of bloody attrition against an enemy determined to fight to the last man. Germany had surrendered unconditionally. The Japanese would clearly make the conditions of victory extraordinarily high. In the United States, Americans clamored for their troops to come home and for a return to a peacetime economy. Politics intruded upon military policy while a new and untested president struggled to strategize among a military command that was often mired in rivalry. The task of defeating the Japanese seemed nearly unsurmountable, even while plans to invade the home islands were being drawn. Army Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall warned of the toll that "the agony of enduring battle" would likely take. General Douglas MacArthur clashed with Marshall and Admiral Nimitz over the most effective way to defeat the increasingly resilient Japanese combatants. In the midst of this division, the Army began a program of partial demobilization of troops in Europe, which depleted units at a time when they most needed experienced soldiers. In this context of military emergency, the fearsome projections of the human cost of invading the Japanese homeland, and weakening social and political will, victory was salvaged by means of a horrific new weapon. As one Army staff officer admitted, "The capitulation of Hirohito saved our necks." In Implacable Foes, award-winning historians Waldo Heinrichs (a veteran of both theatres of war in World War II) and Marc Gallicchio bring to life the final year of World War Two in the Pacific right up to the dropping of the atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, evoking not only Japanese policies of desperate defense, but the sometimes rancorous debates on the home front. They deliver a gripping and provocative narrative that challenges the decision-making of U.S. leaders and delineates the consequences of prioritizing the European front. The result is a masterly work of military history that evaluates the nearly insurmountable trials associated with waging global war and the sacrifices necessary to succeed.

Book Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States

Download or read book Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 1150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prior to 1870, the series was published under various names. From 1870 to 1947, the uniform title Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States was used. From 1947 to 1969, the name was changed to Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers. After that date, the current name was adopted.

Book A Digest of International Law as Embodied in Diplomatic Discussions  Treaties and Other International Agreements

Download or read book A Digest of International Law as Embodied in Diplomatic Discussions Treaties and Other International Agreements written by John Bassett Moore and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The International Trade Union Movement

Download or read book The International Trade Union Movement written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book International Review of Missions

Download or read book International Review of Missions written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: