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Book THE MAGSAYSAY STORY

Download or read book THE MAGSAYSAY STORY written by Carlos Peña Romulo and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book America s Dirty Wars

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  • Author : Russell Crandall
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2014-04-28
  • ISBN : 110700313X
  • Pages : 599 pages

Download or read book America s Dirty Wars written by Russell Crandall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-28 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the long, complex experience of American involvement in irregular warfare. It begins with the American Revolution in 1776 and chronicles big and small irregular wars for the next two and a half centuries. What is readily apparent in dirty wars is that failure is painfully tangible while success is often amorphous. Successfully fighting these wars often entails striking a critical balance between military victory and politics. America's status as a democracy only serves to make fighting - and, to a greater degree, winning - these irregular wars even harder. Rather than futilely insisting that Americans should not or cannot fight this kind of irregular war, Russell Crandall argues that we would be better served by considering how we can do so as cleanly and effectively as possible.

Book Woodrow Wilson and the Far East

Download or read book Woodrow Wilson and the Far East written by Russell Hunt Fifield and published by Hamden, Conn., Archon. This book was released on 1965 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Illusions of Influence

Download or read book Illusions of Influence written by Nick Cullather and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the inner workings of the "special relationship" of the United States and the Philippines, this book challenges the accepted view that portrays the relationship as one of colonial domination and exploitation, with the United States controlling the Philippines for economic and geopolitical gain. Using Philippine sources released since the 1986 revolution and recently declassified U.S. records, the author finds instead a complex structure that allowed both nations to attain their most cherished goals while sacrificing interests of lesser importance. The United States obtained a military base complex it considered essential for the projection of American power in Asia. In return, the Philippines received a favored position in the American market and billions of dollars in economic and military aid. The Philippine elite manipulated the relationship and their nation's economy, creating a "crony capitalist" system that protected a traditional social order from the demands of a restive peasantry and an emerging Filipino-Chinese middle class. Though U.S. policy made crony capitalism possible, it could also threaten it, and Filipinos learned how to steer U.S. policy along lines advantageous to themselves by resorting to nonconfrontational resistance - thwarting development plans, harassing American businesses, diverting aid, restricting trade, and making military bases the target of nationalist attacks. The author rejects the myth that U.S. policy supported economic exploitation, finding instead that American business interests were docile bystanders sacrificed to U.S strategic imperatives. But American policymakers tolerated the manipulations that allowed Filipino oligarchs to plunder the economy and reinforce their political and economic dominance. The book thus forces us to rethink conventional assumptions about dependent relationships, and shows that generalizations about client states need to be qualified by considerations of culture and political economy.

Book Philippine History

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  • Author : M.c. Halili
  • Publisher : Rex Bookstore, Inc.
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9789712339349
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book Philippine History written by M.c. Halili and published by Rex Bookstore, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Regime Change in the Philippines

Download or read book Regime Change in the Philippines written by Mark Turner and published by Department of Political and Social Change Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies Australian Nationa. This book was released on 1987 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reputation and Civil War

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  • Author : Barbara F. Walter
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2009-08-27
  • ISBN : 0521763525
  • Pages : 271 pages

Download or read book Reputation and Civil War written by Barbara F. Walter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-27 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attempts to resolve why self-determination disputes between governments and ethnic minorities so often result in civil war.

Book The Rhetorics of Sin

Download or read book The Rhetorics of Sin written by Mary Jannette L. Pinzon and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book State and Society in the Philippines

Download or read book State and Society in the Philippines written by Patricio N. Abinales and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This clear and nuanced introduction explores the Philippines’ ongoing and deeply charged dilemma of state-society relations through a historical treatment of state formation and the corresponding conflicts and collaboration between government leaders and social forces. Patricio N. Abinales and Donna J. Amoroso examine the long history of institutional weakness in the Philippines and the varied strategies the state has employed to overcome its structural fragility and strengthen its bond with society. The authors argue that this process reflects the country’s recurring dilemma: on the one hand is the state’s persistent inability to provide essential services, guarantee peace and order, and foster economic development; on the other is the Filipinos’ equally enduring suspicions of a strong state. To many citizens, this powerfully evokes the repression of the 1970s and the 1980s that polarized society and cost thousands of lives in repression and resistance and billions of dollars in corruption, setting the nation back years in economic development and profoundly undermining trust in government. The book’s historical sweep starts with the polities of the pre-colonial era and continues through the first year of Rodrigo Duterte’s controversial presidency.

Book Land Reform and Politics

Download or read book Land Reform and Politics written by Hung-chao Tai and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.

Book Dynamics of the Cold War in Asia

Download or read book Dynamics of the Cold War in Asia written by T. Vu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-12-21 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the neglected cultural front of the Cold War in Asia to explore the mindsets of Asian actors and untangle the complex cultural alliances that undergirded the security blocs on this continent.

Book Community Development Review

Download or read book Community Development Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Community Development Bulletin

Download or read book Community Development Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Community Development Bulletin

Download or read book Community Development Bulletin written by United States. Agency for International Development. Community Development Division and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Southeast Asia Among the World Powers

Download or read book Southeast Asia Among the World Powers written by Amry Vandenbosch and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1957, this classic work on the political situation in Southeast Asia at the start of the Vietnam War includes a supplement covering events up to mid-1958. An introductory chapter describes the general political and economic characteristics of this important region lying south of Communist China and east of neutralist India. Individual chapters are devoted to Indonesia, the Philippines, Indochina, Thailand, Malaya, and Burma. The concluding chapters analyze the international relations of Southeast Asia and describe American foreign policy in the area.

Book Congressional Record

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  • Author : United States. Congress
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1961
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 638 pages

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Introduction to Public Administration in the Philippines

Download or read book Introduction to Public Administration in the Philippines written by Danilo R. Reyes and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: