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Book Strictly Embargoed

Download or read book Strictly Embargoed written by Vincent Kiernan and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cuban Embargo under International Law

Download or read book The Cuban Embargo under International Law written by Nigel D. White and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-24 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States embargo against Cuba was imposed over fifty years ago initially as a response to the new revolutionary government's seizure of US properties, which was viewed by the US as a violation of international law. However, while sanctions can be legitimate means of enforcing established norms, the Cuban embargo itself appears to be the wrongful act, and its persistence calls into question the importance and function of international law. This book examines the history, legality and effects of US sanctions against Cuba and argues that the embargo has largely become a matter of politics and ideology; subjecting Cuba to apparently illegitimate coercion that has resulted in a prolonged global toleration of what appears to be a serious violation of international law. The book demonstrates how the Cuban embargo undermines the use of sanctions world-wide, and asks whether the refusal of world governments to address the illegality of the embargo reduces international law to tokenism where concepts of sovereign equality and non-intervention are no longer a priority. Despite the weaknesses of international law, Nigel D. White argues that in certain political conditions it will be possible to end the embargo as part of a bilateral agreement to restore normal relations between the US and Cuba and, furthermore, that such an agreement, if it is to succeed, will have to be shaped by the broad parameters of law and justice. As a fierce re-evaluation of international law through the story of a country under siege, this book will be of great interest and use to researchers and students of public international law, international relations, and US and Latin American politics.

Book Back to Us

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  • Author : Julia Gabriel
  • Publisher : Julia Gabriel
  • Release : 2016-12-01
  • ISBN : 0999654810
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book Back to Us written by Julia Gabriel and published by Julia Gabriel. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cuban Embargo

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  • Author : Patrick Haney
  • Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
  • Release : 2005-02-20
  • ISBN : 0822972719
  • Pages : 237 pages

Download or read book The Cuban Embargo written by Patrick Haney and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2005-02-20 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States and Cuba share a complex, fractious, interconnected history. Before 1959, the United States was the island nation's largest trading partner. But in swift reaction to Cuba's communist revolution, the United States severed all economic ties between the two nations, initiating the longest trade embargo in modern history, one that continues to the presentday. The Cuban Embargo examines the changing politics of U.S. policy toward Cuba over the more than four decades since the revolution.While the U.S. embargo policy itself has remained relatively stable since its origins during the heart of the Cold War, the dynamics that produce and govern that policy have changed dramatically. Although originally dominated by the executive branch, the president's tight grip over policy has gradually ceded to the influence of interest groups, members of Congress, and specific electoral campaigns and goals. Haney and Vanderbush track the emergence of the powerful Cuban American National Foundation as an ally of the Reagan administration, and they explore the more recent development of an anti-embargo coalition within both civil society and Congress, even as the Helms-Burton Act and the George W. Bush administration have further tightened the embargo. Ultimately they demonstrate how the battles over Cuba policy, as with much U.S. foreign policy, have as much to do with who controls the policy as with the shape of that policy itself.

Book Embargo on Certain Agricultural Products

Download or read book Embargo on Certain Agricultural Products written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book No Peace  No Honor

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  • Author : Larry Berman
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2001-09-23
  • ISBN : 074321742X
  • Pages : 345 pages

Download or read book No Peace No Honor written by Larry Berman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-09-23 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this shocking exposé on the betrayal of South Vietnam, premier historian Larry Berman uses never-before-seen North Vietnamese documents to create a sweeping indictment against President Nixon and Henry Kissinger. On April 30, 1975, when U.S. helicopters pulled the last soldiers out of Saigon, the question lingered: Had American and Vietnamese lives been lost in vain? When the city fell shortly thereafter, the answer was clearly yes. The Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam—signed by Henry Kissinger in 1973, and hailed as "peace with honor" by President Nixon—was a travesty. In No Peace, No Honor, Larry Berman reveals the long-hidden truth in secret documents concerning U.S. negotiations that Kissinger had sealed—negotiations that led to his sharing the Nobel Peace Prize. Based on newly declassified information and a complete North Vietnamese transcription of the talks, Berman offers the real story for the first time, proving that there is only one word for Nixon and Kissinger's actions toward the United States' former ally, and the tens of thousands of soldiers who fought and died: betrayal.

Book The Practice of Power

Download or read book The Practice of Power written by Rosemary Foot and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-09-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This absorbing study examines the change in American relations with China after 1949 from hostility to rapproachement, and to full normalization of the ties in 1979. Rosemary Foot goes on to examine the relationship after normalization, a period when the United States has come to view China as less of a challenge but still resistant to certain of the norms of the current international order. The book begins by examining US efforts to build, and then maintain an international and domestic consensus behind its China policy. It then looks at changing US perceptions of the capabilities of the Chinese state. It shows how American positions on Chinese representation at the UN and on the trade embargo were subtly eroded, not least by changes in US domestic public opinion. The author argues that previous explantions of American relations with China have dwelt too single-mindedly on ideas associated with the strategic triangle and that instead we need to embed our understanding of the evolution of American relations with China within a wider structure of relationships at the global and domestic level. Reviews: `A valuable interpretative analysis of US-People's Republic of China relationships...she substantially contributes to post-Soviet era theoretical understanding. Strongly recommended for courses in foreign policy, diplomatic history, and international relations.' Choice `contains much that is valuable to those whose interests are primarily on the other side of the Pacific...The chapter on American public opinion and Chinese policy is also something which is not readily found in existing accounts of China'a post-1949 foreign relations' Times Higher Education Supplement `her analysis remains cautious and astute' The Economist

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 1929 with total page 1294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1937
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1044 pages

Download or read book Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Orders in Council and the American Embargo Beneficial to the Political and Commer  Cial Interests of Great Britain

Download or read book The Orders in Council and the American Embargo Beneficial to the Political and Commer Cial Interests of Great Britain written by John Lord Baker Holroyd Sheffield and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Munitions Industry

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  • Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special committee on investigation of the munitions industry
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1936
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1120 pages

Download or read book Munitions Industry written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special committee on investigation of the munitions industry and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 1120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Iron and Steel

Download or read book Iron and Steel written by United States Tariff Commission and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Newsletter

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  • Author : Association of Research Libraries
  • Publisher : Association of Research Libr
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Newsletter written by Association of Research Libraries and published by Association of Research Libr. This book was released on 1982 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ascent of Women

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  • Author : Sally Armstrong
  • Publisher : Random House Canada
  • Release : 2013-03-05
  • ISBN : 0307362612
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book Ascent of Women written by Sally Armstrong and published by Random House Canada. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the final frontier for women: having control over your own body, whether in zones of conflict, in rural villages, on university campuses or in your own kitchen. Recent studies by economists such as Jeffrey Sachs and social scientists such as Isobel Coleman claim that women who gain such control--who are not oppressed--are the key to economic justice and the end to violence in developing countries around the world. Ascent of Women will describe the perilous journey that brought women to this point. It will tell the dramatic and empowering stories of change-makers and examine the stunning courage, tenacity and wit they are using to alter the status quo. It is the story of a dawning of a new revolution, whose chapters are being written in mud-brick houses in Afghanistan; on Tehrir Square in Cairo; in the forests of the Congo, where women still hide from their attackers; and in a shelter in northern Kenya, where 160 girls between 3 and 17 are pursuing a historic court case against a government who did not protect them from rape. Women revolutionaries in Toronto and Nairobi, Kabul and Caracas, New York City and Lahore are making history. Women the world over are marching to protest honour killing, polygamy, stoning and a dozen other religiously or culturally sanctified acts of violence. Sally Armstrong will bring us these voices from the barricades, inspiring and brave.

Book Extraterritorial Application of Laws of Export Control Legislation

Download or read book Extraterritorial Application of Laws of Export Control Legislation written by Armand L. C. De Mestral and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Yummy Mummy

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  • Author : Polly Williams
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2007-01-02
  • ISBN : 1401385842
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book The Yummy Mummy written by Polly Williams and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2007-01-02 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Little Earthquakes, Babyville and I Don't Know How She Does It: the effervescent, canny, and downright delightful debut of Polly Williams, a spirited new voice in women's fiction. Amy Crane's daughter, the exquisite and sweet-tempered Evie, is six months old. any Amy -- who's trying to decide whether to resume her high-pressure job in PR -- adores her. But these days, Amy doesn't exactly adore herself. Even worse, the whole time she's feeling invisible and about as attractive as a barnyard animal, Amy suspects that Evie's father, Joe, is having an affair. Then Amy meets Alice, who seems to have this mommy thing down: She's single-girl-slender, for one thing, with groomed eyebrows, a smooth forehead, and killer clothes. Plus she has a sex life. In short, she's a Yummy Mummy, one of a new breed who manage to make motherhood look positively sexy. Under Alice's tutelage, Amy discovers that she's got some yumminess of her own. Joe takes notice, as does her handsome Pilates instructor. But once Amy's libido awakens from its extended slumber, a whole new set of problems develops. Filled with acute perceptions of the challenges faced by new moms, as well as the uniquely terrifying landscape of new motherhood, The Yummy Mummy is as endearing -- and as refreshing -- as a baby who sleeps through the night.