Download or read book Unity and Disintegration in International Alliances Comparative Studies written by Ole R. Holsti and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1973 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unity and Disintegration in International Alliances written by Ole R. Holsti and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Theories and Approaches to International Politics written by Patrick M. Morgan and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1987 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Small States and Alliances written by Erich Reiter and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book focuses on the relations between small states and alliances. It is on why, how and under what conditions states engage in alliances. What are the benefits and costs of alliances? How are the benefits and costs of alliances allocated among their members? What determines who allies with whom? Can small states still pursue their own security interests within an alliance? Can they even become integral part of an alliance? Scholars, practitioners, policy-makers and advisors from several countries discuss these issues. They address historical, empirical and theoretical topics and give policy recommendations.
Download or read book Dominoes and Bandwagons written by Robert Jervis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1991-05-02 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fearing the loss of Korea and Vietnam would touch off a chain reaction of other countries turning communist, the United States fought two major wars in the hinterlands of Asia. What accounts for such exaggerated alarm, and what were its consequences? Is a fear of the domino effect permanently rooted in the American strategic psyche, or has the United States now adopted a less alarmist approach? The essays in this book address these questions by examining domino thinking in United States and Soviet Cold War strategy, and in earlier historic settings. Combining theory and history in analyzing issues relevant to current public policy, Dominoes and Bandwagons examines the extent to which domino fears were a rational response, a psychological reaction, or a tactic in domestic politics.
Download or read book Global Governance written by Lisa Martin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As economic, social and environmental connections among states have grown stronger and denser in the last decades, new levels and types of governance have emerged. The process of globalization, while not entirely new, has created new challenges for policymakers attempting to reap its benefits and manage its effects. This volume pulls together work on global governance that examines these challenges and looks at the patterns of governance that emerge. The work is organized into six sections. The first introduces concepts crucial to the analysis of global governance, including representation, efficiency, and hierarchy. The next two sections turn to specific patterns of governance in two realms, security and economic affairs respectively. The fourth section examines legal dimensions of governance. The fifth section concentrates on the impact of global governance on domestic politics, while the sixth looks at how concepts of norms and legitimacy structure our understanding of governance. Overall, this collection reveals a rich scholarly understanding of globalization, governance, and institutions that builds on deep theoretical roots while shedding light on major policy issues.
Download or read book Liberalization and Foreign Policy written by Miles Kahler and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inaugurates a new field of disability studies by framing disability as a minority discourse rather than a medical one, revising oppressive narratives and revealing liberatory ones. The book examines disabled figures in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the Iron Mills, in African-American novels by Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde, and in the popular cultural ritual of the freak show.
Download or read book Soviet Foreign Policy in a Changing World written by Robbin F. Laird and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Soviet Foreign Policy in a Changing World".
Download or read book Nations at War written by Daniel S. Geller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-02-13 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nations at War provides an explanation of war in international politics grounded on data-based, empirical research. The book classifies and synthesizes the research findings of over 500 quantitative analyses of war at the analytic level of the state, dyad, region, and international system. Because wars follow from political decisions, two basic decision-making models - the rational and the non-rational - are examined in relation to the explanatory framework of the volume. In addition, case analyses of two wars - the Iran/Iraq War (1980), and World War I (1914) - are provided as demonstrations of scientifically-based explanations of historical events. The primary structural factors responsible for the onset and seriousness of war are identified and the explanations are developed according to the scientific model of 'covering laws'. The conclusion presents a discussion of the potential for probabilistic conditional predictions of conflict within the context of war and peace studies.
Download or read book How and Why States Defect from Contemporary Military Coalitions written by Kathleen J. McInnis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-19 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book identifies contemporary military coalition defections, builds a theoretical framework for understanding why coalition defection occurs and assesses its utility for both the scholarly and policy practitioner communities. Drawing upon the author’s own experiences managing the Afghanistan coalition for the Pentagon, the volume builds a relevant policy and practical understanding of some of the key aspects of contemporary coalition warfare. Ultimately, it concludes that coalition defection is prompted by heightened perceptions of political and military risk. Yet the choice of how to defect— whether to completely withdraw forces or instead find another, less risky way to participate—is largely a function of international and alliance pressures to remain engaged.
Download or read book The Onset of World War Routledge Revivals written by Manus I. Midlarsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1988, this historical and quantitative analysis of war defines systemic world wars as conflicts of wide scope and intensity, which leave profound historical legacies in their wake. Manus Midlarsky examines various possible explanations for the onset of such past wars as the Peloponnesian War, the Thirty Years’ War, and World Wars I and II. Midlarsky develops his basic theory of systemic war, outlining the reasons for the absence of wars of this magnitude and describing the violations of certain structural conditions that are associated with the onset of world war. A timely and relevant reissue, this insightful analysis will be of particular value to those with an interest in International Relations, War and Peace Studies, Military History, and Security Studies.
Download or read book Sharing Nuclear Secrets written by John Baylis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nuclear alliances are high stakes partnerships with the potential to enhance security, goodwill, scientific and technical innovation, and economic well-being; or, they risk a state's very existence, generate social and political unrest, and fracture frameworks for international cooperation and jeopardize global reputations. Now entering its eighth decade, the Anglo-American nuclear alliance is the oldest and most complex in the world. Sharing Nuclear Secrets is the first comprehensive single-volume study of the Anglo-American nuclear relationship, illuminating both its fragility and durability. It has waxed and waned based on the preferences of presidents and prime ministers, weathered war scares, overcome isolationist impulses and imperial decline, persisted despite public antipathy, and has survived and been strengthened by scientific rivalries. Trust and ambiguity are entangled at the core of the Anglo-American nuclear relationship. The interplay between trust and ambiguity has influenced the way the nuclear partnership has been institutionalized at bureaucratic and technical levels, but also the ways in which political actors and private citizens have maintained the relationship through periods of crisis, moments of triumph, and through decades of cultural reckoning with nuclear weapons. From the days of the Manhattan Project, through the crisis of Suez and criticism of Dr. Strangelove, to the end of the Cold War, and into present day circumstances brought about by the JCPOA, AUKUS, and Russian nuclear threats over Ukraine, Sharing Nuclear Secrets reveals that ambiguity is key to keeping the balance between sentiment and interests and the corresponding equilibrium between trust and mistrust in the special relationship.
Download or read book Coalition and Connection in Games written by Silviu Guiasu and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-05-18 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coalition and Connection in Games: Problems of Modern Game Theory using Methods Belonging to Systems Theory and Information Theory focuses on coalition formation and on connections occurring in games, noting the use of mathematical models in the evaluation of processes involved in games. The book first takes a look at the process of strategy in playing games in which the conditional choices of players are noted. The sequence of decisions during the playing of games and observance of the rules are emphasized. The text also ponders on the mathematical tool of game theory in which the differences in the playing of games is seen as influenced by the number of players involved. The manuscript reviews how the von Neumann-Morgenstern theory is used in measuring the conditions on how games are played. The theory points out that games with more than two players call for the introduction of concepts and an instrument in comparison with two-person zero-sum games. The text also underscores the tendency of players to obtain a large share of the payoff, whether playing by themselves or participating in coalitions. The book is a fine reference for readers interested in the analysis of game theories.
Download or read book Asia and the Road Ahead written by Robert A. Scalapino and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 348 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 1975.
Download or read book Globalization and Armed Conflict written by Gerald Schneider and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows that expanding commercial ties between states pacifies some, but not necessarily all, political relationships.
Download or read book Western Trade Pressure on the Soviet Union written by David W. Hunter and published by Springer. This book was released on 1991-06-18 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes growing US-Soviet economic interdependence and the implications of economic pressure in their relationship. From a review of US-Soviet economic relations, the author concludes that US embargo strategies against the USSR in the past have been futile, at times even counterproductive.
Download or read book Handbook of War Studies II written by Manus I. Midlarsky and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays reflecting the most recent theoretically and empirically-oriented research on international warfare
