Allies At Odds

Author : Eugenie M. Blang
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442209237

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Allies at Odds by Eugenie M. Blang Pdf

Allies at Odds examines America's Vietnam policy from 1961 to 1968 in an international context by focusing on the United States' relationship with its European partners France, West Germany, and Great Britain. The European response to America's Vietnam policy provides a framework to assess this important chapter in recent American history within the wider perspective of international relations. Equally significant, the respective approaches to the "Vietnam question" by the Europeans and Americans reveal the ongoing challenge for nation-states of transcending narrowly defined state-centered policies for a global perspective pursuant of common goals among the trans-Atlantic allies. Blang explores the failure of France, West Germany, and Great Britain to significantly influence American policy-making.

Author : T. Mowle
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004-10-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781403973320

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Allies at Odds? by T. Mowle Pdf

Why, despite their similar goals, do the policy preferences of the European Union and United States diverge on so many multilateral issues? To answer that question, Allies at Odds? thoroughly examines recent international efforts in arms control, environmental protection, human rights, and military cooperation. Evidence from 20 separate cases supports the expectations of the realist approach to international politics, which focuses on the role of power above all. Neither cultural factors nor international institutions have as much influence as some expect. This finding was as true during the Clinton Presidency as during the Bush, indicating that focusing on personalities overlooks more substantial and longer-lasting differences between the Atlantic allies.

Author : Heather Tanner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047402558

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Families, Friends and Allies by Heather Tanner Pdf

This study offers a new model of political development for northern France through an analysis of the interrelationships between the counts of Boulogne and their neighbors in Flanders, Picardy, Normandy, and England. It also illuminates the little studied relations between less powerful counts and their neighboring territorial princes. Organized chronologically from the late ninth through mid-twelfth century, each chapter provides a political narrative and an analysis of the use of kinship and alliance (formal and informal) to govern and conduct politics. The final chapter examines the formation of reputation and identity of the comital family of Boulogne. The book is part of the larger debate on feudalism, the rise of government institutions, kinship and identity.

Author : Evan N. Resnick
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231549028

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Allies of Convenience by Evan N. Resnick Pdf

Since its founding, the United States has allied with unsavory dictatorships to thwart even more urgent security threats. How well has the United States managed such alliances, and what have been their consequences for its national security? In this book, Evan N. Resnick examines the negotiating tables between the United States and its allies of convenience since World War II and sets forth a novel theory of alliance bargaining. Resnick’s neoclassical realist theory explains why U.S. leaders negotiate less effectively with unfriendly autocratic states than with friendly liberal ones. Since policy makers struggle to mobilize domestic support for controversial alliances, they seek to cast those allies in the most benign possible light. Yet this strategy has the perverse result of weakening leverage in intra-alliance disputes. Resnick tests his theory on America’s Cold War era alliances with China, Pakistan, and Iraq. In all three cases, otherwise hardline presidents bargained anemically on such pivotal issues as China’s sales of ballistic missiles, Pakistan’s development of nuclear weapons, and Iraq’s sponsorship of international terrorism. In contrast, U.S. leaders are more inclined to bargain aggressively with democratic allies who do not provoke domestic opposition, as occurred with the United Kingdom during the Korean War. An innovative work on a crucial and timely international relations topic, Allies of Convenience explains why the United States has mismanaged these “deals with the devil”—with deadly consequences.

Author : Allison C. Carey,Joan M. Ostrove,Tara Fannon
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781839093210

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Disability Alliances and Allies by Allison C. Carey,Joan M. Ostrove,Tara Fannon Pdf

For its breadth and depth of research, Disability Alliances and Allies: Opportunities and Challenges is essential reading for researchers and students across the social sciences interested in disability, social movements, activism, and identity.

Author : Gregory Flynn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000288285

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NATO's Northern Allies by Gregory Flynn Pdf

This book, first published in 1985, analyses the choices made by NATO’s northern allies during the 1970s and 80s, as well as the factors that produced these choices. Each country study investigates the historical background of the decision to align, the existence of specific enduring security preferences, and the way in which these have – to the extent they have – been reconciled in policy. The studies then examine defence policy priorities during tranquil periods, detail the factors responsible for promoting change in the way each country has formulated security priorities, and look at the way in which disputes have been played out in domestic political life. Finally, the studies analyse the broad outline of future priorities at the end of the Cold War.

Author : Barbara Elias
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108490108

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Why Allies Rebel by Barbara Elias Pdf

Analysing policy documents from nine counterinsurgency wars, Elias asks why powerful militaries have difficulty managing local partners. Revealing a critical political dynamic in military interventions, this book will appeal to academics and policymakers addressing counterinsurgency issues in foreign policy, security studies and political science.

Author : Johannes Bubeck,Nikolay Marinov
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108483766

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Rules and Allies by Johannes Bubeck,Nikolay Marinov Pdf

Examining more than three hundred elections in over a hundred countries, this book shows when and how states intervene in elections in other countries.

Author : Mark A. Stoler
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807862308

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Allies and Adversaries by Mark A. Stoler Pdf

During World War II the uniformed heads of the U.S. armed services assumed a pivotal and unprecedented role in the formulation of the nation's foreign policies. Organized soon after Pearl Harbor as the Joint Chiefs of Staff, these individuals were officially responsible only for the nation's military forces. During the war their functions came to encompass a host of foreign policy concerns, however, and so powerful did the military voice become on those issues that only the president exercised a more decisive role in their outcome. Drawing on sources that include the unpublished records of the Joint Chiefs as well as the War, Navy, and State Departments, Mark Stoler analyzes the wartime rise of military influence in U.S. foreign policy. He focuses on the evolution of and debates over U.S. and Allied global strategy. In the process, he examines military fears regarding America's major allies--Great Britain and the Soviet Union--and how those fears affected President Franklin D. Roosevelt's policies, interservice and civil-military relations, military-academic relations, and postwar national security policy as well as wartime strategy.

Author : Richard Payne
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1991-10-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015022249471

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The West European Allies, the Third World, and U.S. Foreign Policy by Richard Payne Pdf

Payne provides a comprehensive analysis of the underlying tensions, as well as cooperation, between the U.S. and NATO countries in out-of-area conflicts.

Author : Dario Battistella
Publisher : ECPR Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780955248856

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The Return of the State of War by Dario Battistella Pdf

On 18 March 2003, the United States attacked Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom. On 16 January 1991, the US had attacked Iraq during Operation Desert Storm. The two wars were radically different. Whereas Operation Desert Storm had been launched with the hope that a new world order might emerge, Operation Iraqi Freedom signified the return of an imperial America unilaterally resorting to preventive warfare representative of a Hobbesian conception of international politics. Why did the promise of a privileged resort to peaceful inter-state conflict resolution implied during the first Gulf War give way to the explicit triumph of the 'might-is-right' principle during the second Gulf War? Is the shift in America's foreign behaviour but a mere parenthesis or potentially the first stage of a long term process likely to undermine the currently prevailing Lockean anarchy? This book aims to answer some of these questions.

Author : John P. Miglietta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429647376

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Hitler’s Allies by John P. Miglietta Pdf

This book examines the significance of alliances in the international system, focusing on the dynamics between great and regional powers, and on the alliances Nazi Germany made during World War II, and their implications for Germany. It examines a variety of case studies and looks at how each of the respective states contributed to or weakened Nazi Germany’s warfighting capabilities. The cases cover the principal Axis members Italy and Japan, secondary Axis allies Hungary and Romania, as well as neutral states that had economic and military significance for Germany, namely Bulgaria, Iran, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, and Vichy France. Additional case studies include topics such as the German attempts to cultivate Arab nationalism, focusing on German involvement in the coup in Iraq against the pro-British government, and the wartime state of Croatia, whose creation was made possible by Germany, with the rivalry between Germany and Italy for control being a major focus. The book also includes a case study exploring the unique position of Finland among German allies as a democracy and how the country was essentially fighting a very different war from Nazi Germany. This will be of interest to students and academics with an interest in power dynamics in World War II, economic, political, strategic, and alliance theory, and scholarly debate on Nazism and Europe.

Author : John Swenson-Wright
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0804739617

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Unequal Allies? by John Swenson-Wright Pdf

This book is a major reassessment of the early Cold War U.S.-Japan security relationship. It draws on new archival material and the latest scholarship to demonstrate the constructive efforts of U.S. policymakers in building a lasting, albeit limited partnership with America's most important East Asian ally.

Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1412 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : United States
ISBN : UVA:X004331696

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Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States by United States. Department of State Pdf

Author : Associate Professor of Contemporary History Tommaso Piffer,Tommaso (Associate Professor of Contemporary History Piffer, Associate Professor of Contemporary History University of Udine)
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780198826347

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The Big Three Allies and the European Resistance by Associate Professor of Contemporary History Tommaso Piffer,Tommaso (Associate Professor of Contemporary History Piffer, Associate Professor of Contemporary History University of Udine) Pdf

The first comparative and pan-European study of the Big Three's involvement in Resistance movements across wartime Europe. From Yugoslavia to Poland and from Greece to France and Italy, the book vividly depicts and sharply analyses how this proxy war shaped the history of the post-war settlement.