Crisis In The West And The East

Author : Iyad El-Baghdadi,Ahmed Gatnash
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781787386143

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The Middle East Crisis Factory by Iyad El-Baghdadi,Ahmed Gatnash Pdf

Why is the Middle East a crisis factory, and how can it be fixed? What does the future look like for its 500 million people? And what role should the West play? Iyad El-Baghdadi and Ahmed Gatnash tell the story of the modern Middle East as a series of broken promises. They chart the entrenchment of tyranny, terrorism and foreign intervention, showing how these systems of oppression simultaneously feed off and battle each other. Exploring demographic, economic and social trends, the authors paint a picture of the region's prospects that is alarming yet hopeful. Finally, they present ambitious and thoughtful ideas that reject both aggressive military intervention and cynical deals with dictators. This book, written by two children of the region, is about the failures of history, and the reasons for hope. The Middle East Crisis Factory offers a bold vision for those seeking peace and democracy in the Middle East.

Author : Oswald Spengler,Arthur Helps,Charles Francis Atkinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0195066340

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The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler,Arthur Helps,Charles Francis Atkinson Pdf

Spengler's work describes how we have entered into a centuries-long "world-historical" phase comparable to late antiquity, and his controversial ideas spark debate over the meaning of historiography.

Author : ARTHUR. GAVSHON
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-19
Category : Africa
ISBN : 036716521X

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Crisis in Africa by ARTHUR. GAVSHON Pdf

This book deals with some of the causes and effects of the east-west confrontation in African lands and among people deprived too long of their resources and rights. It presents the aims of the leading contestants in the contemporary struggle for presence, position, and power in Africa.

Author : Daniel Frei
Publisher : Greenwood-Heinemann Publishing
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCAL:B4977696

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International Crises and Crisis Management by Daniel Frei Pdf

Author : Wilson, Andrew
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300212921

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Ukraine Crisis by Wilson, Andrew Pdf

A leading Ukraine specialist and firsthand witness to the 2014 Kiev Uprising analyzes the world’s newest flashpoint The aftereffects of the February 2014 Uprising in Ukraine are still reverberating around the world. The consequences of the popular rebellion and Russian President Putin’s attempt to strangle it remain uncertain. In this book, Andrew Wilson combines a spellbinding, on-the-scene account of the Kiev Uprising with a deeply informed analysis of what precipitated the events, what has developed in subsequent months, and why the story is far from over. Wilson situates Ukraine’s February insurgence within Russia’s expansionist ambitions throughout the previous decade. He reveals how President Putin’s extravagant spending to develop soft power in all parts of Europe was aided by wishful thinking in the EU and American diplomatic inattention, and how Putin’s agenda continues to be widely misunderstood in the West. The author then examines events in the wake of the Uprising—the military coup in Crimea, the election of President Petro Poroshenko, the Malaysia Airlines tragedy, rising tensions among all of Russia's neighbors, both friend and foe, and more. Ukraine Crisis provides an important, accurate record of events that unfolded in Ukraine in 2014. It also rings a clear warning that the unresolved problems of the region have implications well beyond Ukrainian borders.

Author : Robert Bideleux,Ian Jeffries
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134719853

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A History of Eastern Europe by Robert Bideleux,Ian Jeffries Pdf

A History of Eastern Europe: Crisis and Change is a wide-ranging single volume history of the "lands between", the lands which have lain between Germany, Italy, and the Tsarist and Soviet empires. Bideleux and Jeffries examine the problems that have bedevilled this troubled region during its imperial past, the interwar period, under fascism, under communism, and since 1989. While mainly focusing on the modern era and on the effects of ethnic nationalism, fascism and communism, the book also offers original, striking and revisionist coverage of: * ancient and medieval times * the Hussite Revolution, the Renaissance, the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation * the legacies of Byzantium, the Ottoman Empire and the Hapsburg Empire * the rise and decline of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth * the impact of the region's powerful Russian and Germanic neighbours * rival concepts of "Central" and "Eastern" Europe * the 1920s land reforms and the 1930s Depression. Providing a thematic historical survey and analysis of the formative processes of change which have played the paramount roles in shaping the development of the region, A History of Eastern Europe itself will play a paramount role in the studies of European historians.

Author : William Drozdiak
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780393608694

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Fractured Continent: Europe's Crises and the Fate of the West by William Drozdiak Pdf

A Financial Times Best Political Book of 2017 An urgent examination of how the political and social volatility in Europe impacts the United States and the rest of the world. The dream of a United States of Europe is unraveling in the wake of several crises now afflicting the continent. The single Euro currency threatens to break apart amid bitter arguments between rich northern creditors and poor southern debtors. Russia is back as an aggressive power, annexing Crimea, supporting rebels in eastern Ukraine, and waging media and cyber warfare against the West. Marine Le Pen’s National Front won a record 34 percent of the French presidential vote despite the election of Emmanuel Macron. Europe struggles to cope with nearly two million refugees who fled conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa. Britain has voted to leave the European Union after forty-three years, the first time a member state has opted to quit the world’s leading commercial bloc. At the same time, President Trump has vowed to pursue America First policies that may curtail U.S. security guarantees and provoke trade conflicts with its allies abroad. These developments and a growing backlash against globalization have contributed to a loss of faith in mainstream ruling parties throughout the West. Voters in the United States and Europe are abandoning traditional ways of governing in favor of authoritarian, populist, and nationalist alternatives, raising a profound threat to the future of our democracies. In Fractured Continent, William Drozdiak, the former foreign editor of The Washington Post, persuasively argues that these events have dramatic consequences for Americans as well as Europeans, changing the nature of our relationships with longtime allies and even threatening global security. By speaking with world leaders from Brussels to Berlin, Rome to Riga, Drozdiak describes the crises. the proposed solutions, and considers where Europe and America go from here. The result is a timely character- and narrative-driven book about this tumultuous phase of contemporary European history.

Author : William S Schlamm
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1341653951

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Germany and the East West Crisis the Decisive Challenge to American Policy by William S Schlamm Pdf

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Author : P. E. Caquet
Publisher : Springer
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319341026

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The Orient, the Liberal Movement, and the Eastern Crisis of 1839-41 by P. E. Caquet Pdf

This book focuses on the Eastern Crisis of 1839-41, closely examining the first instance of coordinated Western intervention in the Middle East during the modern era. Readers can explore topics such as how culture, domestic politics, and ideology shaped diplomacy in this landmark crisis, and the importance role played by religion - including, alongside mainstream Christianity, the Protestant Zionist movement. Highly informative and fully researched, this book suggests that the Eastern Crisis - and its associated diplomatic and military efforts - marked the first of many modern-era attempts to “improve” the region by moulding it in a Western image, providing scholars with a new perspective on this period of history.

Author : Marko Lehti,Henna-Riikka Pennanen,Jukka Jouhki
Publisher : Springer
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030220594

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Contestations of Liberal Order by Marko Lehti,Henna-Riikka Pennanen,Jukka Jouhki Pdf

This volume explores the Western-led liberal order that is claimed to be in crisis. Currently, the West appears less as a modernizing or civilizing entity leading the way and more as being engulfed in a deep crisis. Simultaneously, the West still appears to be needed in order to imagine the global order by promoters of liberal peace as well as its opponents. This book asks how and why “crisis” is needed for constituting “the West,” liberal, and global order and how these three are conjoined and reinvented. The book encompasses narratives endorsing and rejecting the West and the liberal international order, as well as alternative visions for a post-Western world conceived within the rising and challenging powers. The study is of interest to scholars and students of international relations, critical security studies, peace and conflict research, and social sciences in general.

Author : Attila Melegh
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9637326243

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On the East-west Slope by Attila Melegh Pdf

Melegh's work offers a powerful analysis of the sociological and symbolic meanings of East-West in Europe after the end of the Cold War. While the fundamental poles of East and West remain, both their meaning and their relationship to one another have shifted profoundly since the late 1970s. Melegh exposes the underbelly of liberal characterizations of East-West, highlighting the polarizing effect of extreme nationalism and ethnic racism. The theoretical underpinnings of this work involve the ideas of preeminent theorists such as Karl Mannheim, Michel Foucault and more recently Maria Todorova and Iver Neumann. This work casts into fine relief how the "East-West Slope" oriented negatively from West to East has emerged from liberal characterizations of this project. The book analyzes the historical change in East-West discourses from a modernizationist type to a new/old civilizational one. In addition, this is one of the first attempts to link post-colonial analysis to developments in Eastern Europe.

Author : Harry V. Jaffa
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442217133

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Crisis of the Strauss Divided by Harry V. Jaffa Pdf

“Leo Strauss (1899-1973) was the greatest mind in political philosophy in the twentieth century, and possibly in other centuries as well. That, I am well aware, is a judgment I share with very few, if any.” So writes Harry V. Jaffa in his epilogue to this volume. Including an extensive unpublished essay entitled “Straussian Geography: A Memoir and Commentary,” Crisis of the Strauss Divided brings together a collection of Jaffa’s published arguments defending and explaining that judgment, written during the 40 years since Strauss’s death. The volume includes arguments of those who have disagreed with Jaffa about Strauss's teaching and about the nature of political philosophy. These wide ranging exchanges explore many of the great themes of political philosophy and, in particular, the implications of Strauss's thinking for America and modern civilization.

Author : William Siegmund Schlamm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Germany (West)
ISBN : UOM:39015010332834

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Germany and the East-West Crisis by William Siegmund Schlamm Pdf

An analysis of the "new Germany", followed by a discussion of the confused premises upon which the West - the United States in particular - has built its policies. By a former editor of "Fortune" magazine.

Author : Isabelle Tombs,Richard Smith
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351769129

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The Polish Crisis and Relations with Eastern Europe, 1979-1982 by Isabelle Tombs,Richard Smith Pdf

This volume presents a collection of diplomatic documents describing Britain’s relations with Eastern Europe from 1979 to 1982, with special focus on the crisis in Poland. After coming to power in 1979, the Conservative Government of Margaret Thatcher reaffirmed a policy of ‘differentiation’ between the Soviet Union and the rest of Eastern Europe, and between individual countries; concurrently it encouraged states to exercise a limited amount of independence. This policy was soon put to the test when in 1980 Solidarność, the Solidarity trade union led by Lech Wałęsa, challenged the power of the Party state in Poland. Political demands, social unrest and economic crisis culminated in the imposition of martial law in December 1981, finally suspended in December 1982. The volume maps the UK response, in consultation with Western partners, to the unfolding crisis in Poland, the threat of Soviet intervention and the impact on other Communist states in Europe. The volume also provides a flavour of bilateral UK relations with Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia; highlighting themes such as human rights and trade. This volume will be of great interest to students of British Politics, Eastern European Politics, Cold War History, Diplomacy Studies and International Relations in general.

Author : Lionel Gelber
Publisher : Springer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1975-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349024643

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Crisis in the West by Lionel Gelber Pdf