Download or read book Vodka Politics written by Mark Lawrence Schrad and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-05 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russia is famous for its vodka, and its culture of extreme intoxication. But just as vodka is central to the lives of many Russians, it is also central to understanding Russian history and politics. In Vodka Politics, Mark Lawrence Schrad argues that debilitating societal alcoholism is not hard-wired into Russians' genetic code, but rather their autocratic political system, which has long wielded vodka as a tool of statecraft. Through a series of historical investigations stretching from Ivan the Terrible through Vladimir Putin, Vodka Politics presents the secret history of the Russian state itself-a history that is drenched in liquor. Scrutinizing (rather than dismissing) the role of alcohol in Russian politics yields a more nuanced understanding of Russian history itself: from palace intrigues under the tsars to the drunken antics of Soviet and post-Soviet leadership, vodka is there in abundance. Beyond vivid anecdotes, Schrad scours original documents and archival evidence to answer provocative historical questions. How have Russia's rulers used alcohol to solidify their autocratic rule? What role did alcohol play in tsarist coups? Was Nicholas II's ill-fated prohibition a catalyst for the Bolshevik Revolution? Could the Soviet Union have become a world power without liquor? How did vodka politics contribute to the collapse of both communism and public health in the 1990s? How can the Kremlin overcome vodka's hurdles to produce greater social well-being, prosperity, and democracy into the future? Viewing Russian history through the bottom of the vodka bottle helps us to understand why the "liquor question" remains important to Russian high politics even today-almost a century after the issue had been put to bed in most every other modern state. Indeed, recognizing and confronting vodka's devastating political legacies may be the greatest political challenge for this generation of Russia's leadership, as well as the next.

Download or read book Vodka Politics written by Mark Lawrence Schrad and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-06 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russia is famous for its vodka, and its culture of extreme intoxication. But just as vodka is central to the lives of many Russians, it is also central to understanding Russian history and politics. In Vodka Politics, Mark Lawrence Schrad argues that debilitating societal alcoholism is not hard-wired into Russians' genetic code, but rather their autocratic political system, which has long wielded vodka as a tool of statecraft. Through a series of historical investigations stretching from Ivan the Terrible through Vladimir Putin, Vodka Politics presents the secret history of the Russian state itself-a history that is drenched in liquor. Scrutinizing (rather than dismissing) the role of alcohol in Russian politics yields a more nuanced understanding of Russian history itself: from palace intrigues under the tsars to the drunken antics of Soviet and post-Soviet leadership, vodka is there in abundance. Beyond vivid anecdotes, Schrad scours original documents and archival evidence to answer provocative historical questions. How have Russia's rulers used alcohol to solidify their autocratic rule? What role did alcohol play in tsarist coups? Was Nicholas II's ill-fated prohibition a catalyst for the Bolshevik Revolution? Could the Soviet Union have become a world power without liquor? How did vodka politics contribute to the collapse of both communism and public health in the 1990s? How can the Kremlin overcome vodka's hurdles to produce greater social well-being, prosperity, and democracy into the future? Viewing Russian history through the bottom of the vodka bottle helps us to understand why the "liquor question" remains important to Russian high politics even today-almost a century after the issue had been put to bed in most every other modern state. Indeed, recognizing and confronting vodka's devastating political legacies may be the greatest political challenge for this generation of Russia's leadership, as well as the next.

Download or read book Diplomacy for Professionals and Everyone written by Alisher Faizullaev and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a unique book about two types of diplomacy – international and social, that is, traditional and non-traditional. It will be useful for anyone who studies or practices diplomacy, including professional diplomats and those who want to use diplomacy in social life.

Download or read book Lessons in Diplomacy written by Leigh Turner and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2024-09-24 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is a diplomat’s life really as glamorous as a royal visit, or as dramatic as a coup d’état in Turkey? Leigh Turner is a former British ambassador who led posts in Ukraine, Turkey and Austria. In this witty globe-trotting adventure through one of the most intriguing careers a person can have, Leigh relates his interactions with royalty of both the aristocratic and celebrity kinds, and with brilliant and extraordinary people who bestowed valuable lessons. Offering astute reflections on Brexit, Russia’s war with Ukraine and the chaos of modern politics, he sheds new light on the intricacies of modern statecraft, including what we all can learn from a good diplomat or ambassador. In this entertaining and accessible first-hand account, you’ll discover how diplomats really work with spies, how immunity allows killers to escape justice, how Russia broke up the Soviet Union and then nursed its resentment at the consequences -- and how to throw, and be invited to, a great cocktail party.

Download or read book 40 Degrees East written by Nicholas Ermochkine and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expatriate Russian Ermochkine and Polish emigre Iglikowski examine the origins, myths, and mysteries surrounding Eastern Europe's cult spirit. Among other useful information, they point out that only Russian vodka is genuine, only Polish is true, and only Ukrainian is authentic. Meanwhile, they describe the various types and brands. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Download or read book Vodka and Apple Juice written by Jay Martin and published by Fremantle Press. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jay's husband lands a diplomatic job in Warsaw, she jumps at the chance to escape a predictable life in Canberra for adventure in the heart of central Europe. From glamorous cocktail parties and dining with presidents, to snowy sleigh rides and drinking vodka in smoky bars, Jay is thrown into all that embassy life has to offer. She comes to realize that three things in Poland are certain: death, taxes, and that shop assistants won't have any change. What is less certain is whether her marriage will survive its third Polish winter.

Download or read book Vodka Diplomacy written by Phaedra Fisher and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-26 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1994 - Moscow Armed with an excellent education, naive optimism, and raw enthusiasm, a young woman takes her first steps from studying the theory of economic reform in the former Soviet Union to the reality of attempting to shape it. From the back cover: Every generation of university graduates believes they are going to change the world. My classmates and I took things one step further and really tried. The Soviet Union had collapsed in late 1991. The future was not yet written. There were no correct answers. Anything could happen. On this raw new frontier, anyone in academia or politics or business who tried to posture as an "expert" was really just guessing as best as they could. My classmates and I who studied Russian language and economics found ourselves graduating at the precise moment in history when these skills were highly valued. I leaped into the thick of the post-Soviet era, delirious with naive optimism, a thirst for adventure, and a mission to make a difference. Vodka Diplomacy is my story of what happened next.

Download or read book Dirty Diplomacy written by Craig Murray and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With all the pace and drama of a political thriller, Dirty Diplomacy is a riveting account of a young, fast-living ambassador's battle against a ruthless dictatorship in Central Asia and the craven political expediency in Washington and London that eventually cost him his job. Craig Murray is no ordinary diplomat. He enjoys a drink or three, and if it's in the company of a pretty girl, so much the better. Murray's scant regard for the rules of the game also extends to his job. When, in the first few weeks of his posting to the little-known Central Asian Republic of Uzbekistan, he comes across photographs of a political dissident who has literally been boiled to death, he ignores diplomatic nicety and calls it for what it is: torture of the cruelest sort. Murray soon discovers that this is no one-off incident: fierce abuse of those opposing the government is rife. It's not long before he is tearing around the country in his embassy Land Rover, shaking off Uzbek police tails and crashing through roadblocks to meet with dissidents and expose their persecutors. He even confronts the despotic president, Islom Karimov, face-to-face. But Murray's bosses in London's Foreign Office, ever mindful of their senior partners in Washington, don't want to upset the applecart. Karimov is an ally in the newly announced Global War on Terror. His country is host to a big American air base. The last thing they need is a battling young diplomat stirring things up. In Craig Murray, that's exactly what they've got...

Download or read book Understanding International Diplomacy written by Corneliu Bjola and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of international diplomacy, covering both theory and practice. This second edition has been revised and updated, with new material on such key contemporary issues as Syria, Ukraine, migration and the South China Sea. The text summarizes and discusses the major trends in the field of diplomacy, providing an innovative theoretical approach to understanding diplomacy not as a collection of practices or a set of historical traditions, but as a form of institutionalized communication through which authorized representatives produce, manage and distribute public goods. The book: Traces the evolution of diplomacy from its beginnings in ancient Egypt, Greece and China to our current age of global diplomacy. Examines theoretical explanations about how diplomats take decisions, make relations and shape the world. Discusses normative approaches to how diplomacy ought to adapt itself to the twenty-first century, help re-make states and assist the peaceful evolution of international order. In sum, Understanding International Diplomacy provides an up-to-date, accessible and authoritative overview of how diplomacy works and, indeed, ought to work in a globalized world. This textbook will be essential reading for students of international diplomacy, and is highly recommended for students of crisis negotiation, international organizations, foreign policy and IR in general.

Download or read book Order Order written by Ben Wright and published by Prelude Books. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain's first Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, smuggled wine up the Thames with the help of the Navy. Tony Blair confessed that a stiff drink and half a bottle of wine a night had become a helpful crutch while in office. Joseph Stalin flushed out traitors with vodka. The disintegration of Richard Nixon and Boris Yeltsin was largely down to drink. Winston Churchill was famous for his drinking, often taking a whisky and soda first thing in the morning and champagne ritually with dinner. But why did these politicians drink and what was their tipple of choice? How did drinking shape the decisions they made? Ben Wright, political correspondent for the BBC, explores the history of alcohol within politics, from the debauched drinking practices of eighteenth-century ministers to today, often based on his own experiences supping with politicians in Westminster bars. With exclusive interviews and in-depth research, Order, Order! uses alcohol as a lens through which to meet a remarkable cast of politicians, to understand their times and discover what drove them to drink. A story of boozy bon viveurs - but with many casualties too - and the complexity of the human condition and the pull of the bottle.

Download or read book William Sloane Coffin Jr written by Warren Goldstein and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magnet for controversy, the media, and followers, the Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr. was the premier voice of northern religious liberalism for more than a quarter-century, and a worthy heir to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. From his pulpits at Yale University and, later, New York City’s Riverside Church, Coffin focused national attention on civil rights, the anti-Vietnam War movement, disarmament, and gay rights. This revealing biography—based on unparalleled access to family papers and candid interviews with Coffin, his colleagues, family, friends, lovers, and wives—tells for the first time the remarkable story of Coffin’s life. An army and CIA veteran before assuming the post of Yale University chaplain at the youthful age of 33, Coffin gained notoriety as a leader of a dangerous civil rights Freedom Ride in 1961, as a defendant in the “Boston Five” trial of draft resisters in 1969, and as the preeminent voice of liberal religious dissent into the 1980s. This book encompasses Coffin’s turbulent private life as well as his flamboyant, joyful public career, while dramatically illuminating the larger social movements that consumed his days and defined his times.

Download or read book Envoy written by Nicholas Barrington and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-13 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicholas Barrington began his dramatic diplomatic career with a post in Afghanistan at a time the country was barely known to the world's headline writers. The narrative of his 37 year career in the British Foreign Office is woven with compelling insights on the countries to which he was posted and which are focal points of international attention: Afghanistan, Iran, Egypt and Pakistan. Serving in Iran during the political storm of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, he had to navigate his way through the drama of a new political order, while his time in Cairo coincided with the assassination of President Sadat. In his rich and varied career, Barrington served as High Commissioner to Pakistan, a subject on which he writes authoritatively. Exploring the complex power relations between Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif and examining the multifaceted conflicts in Kashmir and Afghanistan, this book sheds an invaluable new light on the interaction between Islam, the West and British Foreign Policy in the 20th Century. With erudition and wit, these unique memoirs will prove essential reading for those seeking to understand the political tensions and international issues of the post-war world.

Download or read book Multidimensional Mind written by Jean Millay and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Characterizing the mind as a maze with multiple pathways, Jean Millay explores the realms of sensory perception, resonance, trance, memory, logic, and belief.

Download or read book Power Politics and International Organisations written by Samar Sen and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Diplomacy written by Om Gupta and published by Gyan Publishing House. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. Diplomacy at Large No come, no go - no one seems to bother about; Chanakyapuri-II in the making; Indian diplomacy at its best; Successful Performance from Diplomatic to Cricketing Field; Changing Face of Latin American Diplomacy; Solidarity in the Golden Year of Independence; Evolve Diplomacy to Fetch Global Business. 2. State Visits: Goodwill Missions Kants Visit to Brazil; Indian NAM Camaraderie with Yugoslavia; Ticklish Issues and an Ambassador-at-large; Indian NAM Camaraderie with Yugoslavia; Its time to Befriend Again; On Firm Economic Footing; Prodigal Visits Fatherland; When a Prime Minister Travelled into History. 3. Bilateral Taste of Pudding Dalai Birthday to be a Private Affair; Gaping Holes; East-west Divide in South Block; Pakistan Scores Yet Another Diplomatic First; Lessons from Argentina Nuclear policy; This Brazilian Left Wont go Right; India has High Stakes in Hong Kong Integration; When it Comes to Sahara, Even Gujral, Surjeet, Gupta have no Say; An Analogy by Default: Korea and Kashmir; India, Pak should Stop Playing Spy Catcher; Who Divides the World into Haves and Have-Nots?; Latin Americans Stay Loyal Despite Indias Faux Pas; Kabul Decides to Divide Hindus and Sikhs; Coalition Governments are Here to Stay, World Over; 6 Diplomacy: Initiatives and Responses India must Tread Cautiously in South Africa; Parliament Plays Diplomatic Host; Friends from Central Asia; Try Tashkent This Time, Instead of Mumbai. 4. Saying it Culturally When a Pakistani Diplomat Plays Host; Latino Ties and a Farewell; Trade can Wait, Its Culture Time; Diplomacy of No-Coloured People from Africa; Sports and Diplomacy; Forging Cultural Linkages; Of Diplomatic Parties and National Days; Time for Independence Celebrations; Happy Union ; Of Venezueian Fuel, Mansingh and Caricatures; Panama Picks up Indian Ambassadors of Mania; Demolishing Language Barrier; Lalit Mansingh and his Spice Girls; Whats French for Soccer?; A Diplomats Hospitality; Saying Shalom to India; Of Parties and Delegates; Occasion-Free Interaction should be Encouraged; Partying the Night Away; Bbye India, Hello China; Of Thai Cuisine; Live Carol Band and Smiling, Santa for CRY Kids; Learning Cultural Diplomacy, the Hard Way; The Bamboo Curtain Rises; Mexican Charmer; The Guests Who didnt Come to Dinner; Desert Flavours in the Capital; Not All that Black; The Russian and the Bindi; Role of Diplomats Spouses in Foreign Land; Why did Vivan Stop Painting?; Adding Colour to a Dull Meet; A Diplomatic Victory; Oriental Features and Acceptance in Japan; Be There . 5. First Hand Experience Making their Diplomats Our Envoys: A Users Guide; Sri Lanka Sends One Ivlan Army to Catch Indian Travelers; The Nicaraguan Lesson; Rotterdam, Gateway to Europe-92. 6. Journal Cultivating Relations with Nations Through Ambassadors; Ticklish Issues and an Ambassador - at - Large; Welcome on Board, Homai Saha; Kenya has 8,000 Ambassadors in India; Former Ambassadors Flocking to Delhi. 7. In the End Its the Word Chamber Diplomacy; Common Man and Foreign Policy; The Way Australians Do It; Academic Tribute to Narayanan; Gifts from Venezuela; Dixits Diplomatic Diaries; Link with Mexico Launched; Global Diplomacy; Where Book is a World; Education Industry of Australia; Diary of an Endless Yugoslav Night; Wanted an African Cultural Centre; Move over IIC, Here Comes IHC; Reaching out to the World; Dharmshila to Panchsheel as Rescue. 8. Diplomatic Space Musical Chairs in the Embassy Bazaar; Germans and Scindias Vie Over Chancery Building; Dream-Houses ... Made of Waste. Index

Download or read book Made in China written by Elizabeth O'Brien Ingleson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Ingleson explores the roots of bilateral trade between the United States and China. Telling the story of the 1970s US activists and entrepreneurs who pressed for access to China's vast labor market, Ingleson shows how not just Chinese reform but also US deindustrialization fueled a dramatic, unanticipated shift in global capitalism.

Download or read book From Dogfight to Diplomacy written by Donald MacDonell and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2006-03-19 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MacDonell's service career began in the 1920s. Shortly before the war he became a Squadron Leader and worked at the Air Ministry during the Phoney War. When hostilities commenced he became CO of No 64 Squadron, carrying out convoy support operations and eventually fighting in the Battle of Britain. Awarded a DFC, he was given command of a squadron at Leconfield to train urgently required pilots. Eventually he was shot down over the English Channel and rescued by a U-boat, this resulted in a lengthy period as a PoW in camps throughout enemy occupied Europe and Germany. During this period he was involved with the famous 'Wooden Horse' escape and was eventually freed by advancing Russian troops.Upon his return to the UK he was promoted Wing Commander and worked on the Cabinet Office staff before moving to Headquarters Flying Training Command. He was then appointed Chief Flying Instructor at Cranwell before successfully applying for the post of British Air Attach in Moscow.