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Book The Trilateral Commission and Global Governance

Download or read book The Trilateral Commission and Global Governance written by Dino Knudsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first analysis of the Trilateral Commission and its role in global governance and contemporary diplomacy. In 1973, David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski founded the Trilateral Commission. Involving highly influential people from business and politics in the US, Western Europe, and Japan, the Commission was soon preceived as constituting an embryonic or even shadow world government. As the first researcher to have accessed the Commission’s archives, the author argues that this study demonstrates that global governance and international diplomacy should be considered a product of overlapping elite networks that merge informal and formal spheres across national borders. This work has three immediate aims: to trace the background, origins, purposes, characteristics, and modus operandi of the Commission; to investigate the elite aspect of the Commission and how this related to democracy; and to demonstrate how the Commission contributed to diplomatic practices and policy-formulation at national and international levels. The overall purpose of this book is to evaluate the significance of the Trilateral Commission, with particular focus on the implications of its activities on the way we understand decision-making processes and diplomacy in modern, democratic societies. This book will be of much interest to students of the Cold War, US foreign policy, diplomacy studies, and IR in general

Book Trilateralism

Download or read book Trilateralism written by Holly Sklar and published by South End Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a classic work--a highly-readable, wide-ranging study of the Trilateral Commission and the worldwide strategies of Trilateralism. It demystifies national and international events, power, propaganda, and policy making from World War II through the sixties and seventies and into the eighties.

Book Reversing Course

Download or read book Reversing Course written by David Skidmore and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By probing beneath the obvious and carefully sifting the abundant but poorly understood evidence, Skidmore finds at the root of Carter's failed effort an irresistible pressure to reverse a liberal foreign-policy agenda in order to address the effect at home of well-organized conservative criticism.

Book Chinese Economic Statecraft from 1978 to 1989

Download or read book Chinese Economic Statecraft from 1978 to 1989 written by Priscilla Roberts and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on Chinese economic statecraft during the first decade of Deng Xiaoping’s reform and opening-up policies, from 1978 to 1989. During these years, Chinese economic engagement with the external world was tentative and experimental, with long-term strategies still decidedly under development. Prominent topics covered are China’s efforts to steer an economic course tailored to and representing what Deng Xiaoping famously described as “socialism with Chinese characteristics”; China’s quest for advanced science and technology; China’s dealings with international economic institutions, especially the World Bank; China’s engagement with other powers, including Japan, the United States, the ASEAN nations, and Europe; and the role of non-governmental organizations, including foreign policy think tanks, exchange groups, and educational institutions, in developing Chinese economic thinking and methodology during this decade. Contributors also focus on how elements of the Chinese military turned to building China’s new economic infrastructure, and on Chinese efforts to break into foreign markets. The volume ends with an overview and reassessment of earlier findings on Chinese economic statecraft in these years, by one of the leading Chinese experts on the PRC’s international policy.

Book Foreign Policy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steve Smith
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 0199215294
  • Pages : 470 pages

Download or read book Foreign Policy written by Steve Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major new textbook introduces students to the dynamic and evolving field of foreign policy. The book opens with a consideration of different theoretical and historical perspectives; it then focuses on a range of actors and the goals they seek to advance; and it ends with a series of case studies involving issues and crises relating to a wide range of different countries Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases is timely given the growing significance of foreign policyin the post-9/11 world. It will be essential reading for all students new to foreign policy.The book is accompanied by an Online Resource Centre.Student resources:TimelineWeb linksFlashcard glossaryInstructor resources:Three case studiesPowerPoint slides

Book Hanging Together

Download or read book Hanging Together written by Robert D. Putnam and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Hanging Together' charts the modern dilemma between economic interdependence and national sovereignty.

Book The  Long 1970s

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  • Author : Poul Villaume
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2016-04-28
  • ISBN : 1317045602
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book The Long 1970s written by Poul Villaume and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today it is widely recognised that the 'long 1970s' was a decisive international transition period during which traditional, collective-oriented socio-economic interest and welfare policies were increasingly replaced by the more individually and neo-liberally oriented value policies of the post-industrial epoch. Seen from a distance of three decades, it is increasingly clear that these socio-economic and socio-cultural processes also found their expression at the level of national and international political power. The contributors to this volume explore these processes of political-cultural realignment and their social impetus in Western Europe and the Euro-Atlantic area in and around the 1970s in the context of three agenda-setting topics of international history of this period: human rights, including the impact of decolonisation; East-West détente in Europe; and transnational relations and discourses. Going beyond the so-called Americanisation processes of the immediate postwar period, this volume reclaims Europe's place – and particularly that of smaller European nations – in contemporary Western history, demonstrating Europe's contribution to transatlantic transformation processes in political culture, discourse, and power during this period.

Book Integrated Circus

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  • Author : Patricia Marchak
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 1991-08-21
  • ISBN : 0773562982
  • Pages : 335 pages

Download or read book Integrated Circus written by Patricia Marchak and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1991-08-21 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Pax Americana began to disintegrate in the late 1960s, economic leaders in corporate America joined with their counterparts in Western Europe and Japan to develop a self-interested strategy for dealing with the political and social impacts of a changing global economy. As Marchak shows, the political agenda of the emerging New Right the dismantling of the welfare state was supported by corporate-funded think-tanks which influenced public policy and by media campaigns which swayed public opinion. The New Right promoted the resurgence of laissez-faire political and economic ideas which Marchak traces back to the theories of Adam Smith. Marchak describes the changes such strategies created in the world economy and examines their effects on the United States and Canada, Western and Eastern Europe, Japan, the newly industrializing nations, and the increasingly impoverished third world countries. She includes chapters on the silicon revolution, Japanese expansion, the automobile industry, special export zones, the debt crisis, environmental issues, and international organizations.

Book Foreign Policy

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  • Author : Steve|Dunne Smith (Tim|Hadfield, Amelia|Kitchen, Nicholas|Smith, Steve)
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2024
  • ISBN : 0192677705
  • Pages : 560 pages

Download or read book Foreign Policy written by Steve|Dunne Smith (Tim|Hadfield, Amelia|Kitchen, Nicholas|Smith, Steve) and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The T  r  iangle Papers

Download or read book The T r iangle Papers written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book International Order and the Future of World Politics

Download or read book International Order and the Future of World Politics written by T. V. Paul and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-07-08 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distinguished scholars assess the emerging international order, examining leading theories, the major powers, and potential problems.

Book Global Inequality and American Foreign Policy in the 1970s

Download or read book Global Inequality and American Foreign Policy in the 1970s written by Michael Franczak and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Global Inequality and American Foreign Policy in the 1970s, Michael Franczak demonstrates how Third World solidarity around the New International Economic Order (NIEO) forced US presidents from Richard Nixon to Ronald Reagan to consolidate American hegemony over an international economic order under attack abroad and lacking support at home. The goal of the nations that supported NIEO was to negotiate a redistribution of money and power from the global North to the global South. Their weapon was control over the major commodities—in particular oil—that undergirded the prosperity of the United States and Europe after World War II. Using newly available archival sources, as well as interviews with key administration officials, Franczak reveals how the NIEO and "North-South dialogue" negotiations brought global inequality to the forefront of US national security. The challenges posed by NIEO became an inflection point for some of the greatest economic, political, and moral crises of 1970s America, including the end of golden age liberalism and the return of the market, the splintering of the Democratic Party and the building of the Reagan coalition, and the rise of human rights in US foreign policy in the wake of the Vietnam War. The policy debates and decisions toward the NIEO were pivotal moments in the histories of three ideological trends—neoliberalism, neoconservatism, and human rights—that formed the core of America's post–Cold War foreign policy.

Book The Capital Crisis and Labour

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  • Author : Paul Willox
  • Publisher : Uppsala, Sweden : [Uppsala University] ; Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksell International
  • Release : 1980
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book The Capital Crisis and Labour written by Paul Willox and published by Uppsala, Sweden : [Uppsala University] ; Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksell International. This book was released on 1980 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Socialist States in the World System

Download or read book Socialist States in the World System written by Christopher Chase-Dunn and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1982-12 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the role of socialist states in the capitalist world economy? How do the dynamics of capitalism distort and limit national economic planning as an instrument of socialism? Answers to such questions, based on the world-system perspective, are propounded and attacked in original essays. Histories of particular states, including the Soviet Union, Vietnam, Jamaica and Eastern Europe, are also examined.

Book Political Realism And International Morality

Download or read book Political Realism And International Morality written by Kenneth Kipnis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is always appropriate to ask whether an expedient foreign policy is morally justifiable, just as it is always appropriate to ask whether a morally defensible policy is consistent with the national interest. The ongoing dialogue between morality and realpolitik gives much of foreign policy debate its characteristic bite. In this collection of essays, a distinguished group of philosophers, political theorists, and lawyers– including Russell Hardin and Marshall Cohen–explore these contrasting themes. In essays that are at once insightful and accessible, noted political thinkers examine the tension of the conflicting demands of morality and national self-interest in the context of the foundations of international order, the possession and use of nuclear weapons, recourse to war, and the prospects for peace. A final postscript addresses the question of the responsibility of intellectuals in the national foreign policy debate. This book will appeal to scholars and students in any discipline dealing with international affairs as well as to lay readers who wish to explore the implications of taking morality and reason seriously in foreign policy.

Book National Journal Reports

Download or read book National Journal Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1981-07 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Islamophobia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen Sheehi
  • Publisher : SCB Distributors
  • Release : 2010-12-03
  • ISBN : 093286399X
  • Pages : 286 pages

Download or read book Islamophobia written by Stephen Sheehi and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2010-12-03 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islamophobia: The Ideological Campaign Against Muslims examines the rise of anti-Muslim and anti-Arab sentiments in the West following the end of the Cold War through GW Bush’s War on Terror to the Age of Obama. Using “Operation Desert Storm” as a watershed moment, Stephen Sheehi examines the increased mainstreaming of Muslim-bating rhetoric and explicitly racist legislation, police surveillance, witch-trials and discriminatory policies towards Muslims in North America and abroad. The book focuses on the various genres and modalities of Islamophobia from the works of rogue academics to the commentary by mainstream journalists, to campaigns by political hacks and special interest groups. Some featured Islamophobes are Bernard Lewis. Fareed Zakaria, Thomas Friedman, David Horowitz, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Irshad Manji, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, John McCain, Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama. Their theories and opinions operate on an assumption that Muslims, particularly Arab Muslims, suffer from particular cultural lacuna that prevent their cultures from progress, democracy and human rights. While the assertion originated in the colonial era, Sheehi demonstrates that it was refurbished as a viable explanation for Muslim resistance to economic and cultural globalization during the Clinton era. Moreover, the theory was honed into the empirical basis for an interventionist foreign policy and propaganda campaign during the Bush regime and continues to underlie Barack Obama’s new internationalism. If the assertions of media pundits and rogue academics became the basis for White House foreign policy, Sheehi also demonstrates how they were translated into a sustained domestic policy of racial profiling and Muslim-baiting by agencies from Homeland Security to the Department of Justice. Furthermore, Sheehi examines the collusion between non-governmental agencies, activist groups and lobbies and local, state and federal agencies to in suppressing political speech on US campuses critical of racial profiling, US foreign policy in the Middle East and Israel. While much of the direct violence against Muslims on American streets, shops and campuses has subsided, Islamophobia runs throughout the Obama administration. Sheehi, therefore, concludes that Muslim and Arab-hating emanate from all corners of the American political and cultural spectrum, serving poignant ideological functions.