Land That Lost Its Heroes

Author : Jimmy Burns
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781408834718

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Land that Lost Its Heroes by Jimmy Burns Pdf

'A required book for anyone who wishes to understand the Argentine situation before and after the Falklands War' Graham Greene 'Full of insights about the extraordinary story of Argentina under Galtieri and Alfonsin' Max Hastings __________________ Jimmy Burns was the only full-time British foreign correspondent to remain in Argentina covering the Falklands War. In The Land that Lost Its Heroes, he gives a detailed account of the military planning of the invasion, exposing not only the hidden motives and nature of Argentina's military regime, but also the pitifully inadequate reactions of both British diplomacy and intelligence. Burns exposes the duplicity of other Western nations and the international banking community and gives a vivid first-hand account of the end of the regime, the debt crisis and the return to democracy under Raul Alfonsin.

Author : Jimmy Burns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Argentina
ISBN : OCLC:1280739362

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The Land that Lost Its Heroes by Jimmy Burns Pdf

Author : Jimmy Burns
Publisher : Bloomsbury Pub Limited
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 0747501114

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The Land that Lost Its Heroes by Jimmy Burns Pdf

An account of the military planning of the invasion of the Falklands, exposing the motives and nature of Argentina's military regime and the reactions of British diplomacy and intelligence. The author was foreign correspondent in Argentina for the Financial Times from 1981-86.

Author : Jimmy Burns
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Argentina
ISBN : 0747558728

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The Land that Lost Its Heroes by Jimmy Burns Pdf

OSis title, by the only British foreign correspondent to remain in Argentina covering the Falklands War, gives a detailed account of the military planning of the invasion. He also gives an account of the end of the regime, the debt crisis and the return to democracy under Raul Alfonsin.

Author : Richard C. Thornton
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781412013567

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The Reagan Revolution II by Richard C. Thornton Pdf

How President Reagan successfully rebuilt the Western Alliance, particularly in relations with the United Kingdom, West Germany, and Japan.

Author : T. V. Paul
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1994-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0521466210

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Asymmetric Conflicts by T. V. Paul Pdf

This book examines a question generally neglected in the study of international relations: why does a militarily and economically less powerful state initiate conflict against a relatively strong state? T. V. Paul analyses this phenomenon by focusing on the strategic and political considerations, domestic and international, which influence a weaker state to initiate war against a more powerful adversary. The key argument of deterrence theory is that the military superiority of the status quo power, coupled with a credible retaliatory threat, will prevent attack by challengers. The author challenges this assumption by examining six twentieth-century asymmetric wars, from the Japanese offensive against Russia in 1904 to the Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands in 1982. The book's findings have wide implications for the study of war, power, deterrence, coercive diplomacy, strategy, arms races, and alliances.

Author : Yossi Shain,Juan J. Linz,Lynn Berat
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1995-05-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521484987

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Between States by Yossi Shain,Juan J. Linz,Lynn Berat Pdf

Between States is the first book that assesses systematically the broad implications of interim governments in the establishment of democratic regimes and on the existence of states. Based on historical and contemporary democratisation experiences, the book presents four ideal types of interim government: opposition-led provisional governments, power-sharing interim governments, incumbent-led caretaker governments, and international interim government by the United Nations. The first part explores the theoretical problems of each of these models from a broad comparative perspective. It uses as illustrations historical and contemporary cases that present a wide spectrum of contexts for comparison. The second part provides extensive case studies that are intended to illustrate, appraise, amplify and criticise the analysis in volume one. These include Iran, East Germany, Portugal, Afghanistan, and Yugoslavia.

Author : Louise A. Clare
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000845112

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Politics, Propaganda and the Press by Louise A. Clare Pdf

This book examines British and Argentine media output in the prelude to and during the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas Conflict and acknowledges the aftermath and legacies of the media response. Yards of ink have been spilt, reinforcing the view that the Argentine Junta’s action on 2nd April 1982 was a ‘diversion’ from domestic tensions. This view, coupled with the paucity of any thorough, in-depth analysis afforded to Argentine media aspects of the War - particularly the press - necessitates this volume’s copious international study of the Conflict. Uniquely, US media output is also analysed alongside Britain’s and Argentina’s, all drawing upon Cold War historiography and media theory, with a view to contesting the traditional consensus that media outlets merely reflected government opinion during the Crisis, providing almost no effective dissent. Asserting media and culture influenced the climatic decision-making process of key actors in the Conflict, this book’s triangulated approach explores the integral, influencing role played therein by culture, and how it was not only instrumental to government actions, but also to Argentine, British and US media output. This book’s revisionist approach makes it a reference point for any nascent research on Falklands/Malvinas media reporting and Argentine and international approaches—particularly the US—to the 1982 Conflict.

Author : David A. Welch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1995-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0521558689

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Justice and the Genesis of War by David A. Welch Pdf

Studies of the causes of wars generally presuppose a 'realist' account of motivation: when statesmen choose to wage war, they do so for purposes of self-preservation or self-aggrandizement. In this book, however, David Welch argues that humans are motivated by normative concerns, the pursuit of which may result in behaviour inconsistent with self-interest. He examines the effect of one particular type of normative motivation - the justice motive - in the outbreak of five Great Power wars: the Crimean war, the Franco-Prussian war, World War I, World War II, and the Falklands war. Realist theory would suggest that these wars would be among the least likely to be influenced by considerations other than power and interest, but the author demonstrates that the justice motive played an important role in the genesis of war, and that its neglect by theorists of international politics is a major oversight.

Author : David A. Welch
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400840748

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Painful Choices by David A. Welch Pdf

Under what conditions should we expect states to do things radically differently all of a sudden? In this book, David Welch seeks to answer this question, constructing a theory of foreign policy change inspired by organization theory, cognitive and motivational psychology, and prospect theory. He then "test drives" the theory in a series of comparative case studies in the security and trade domains: Argentina's decision to go to war over the Falklands/Malvinas vs. Japan's endless patience with diplomacy in its conflict with Russia over the Northern Territories; America's decision to commit large-scale military force to Vietnam vs. its ultimate decision to withdraw; and Canada's two abortive flirtations with free trade with the United States in 1911 and 1948 vs. its embrace of free trade in the late 1980s. Painful Choices has three main objectives: to determine whether the general theory project in the field of international relations can be redeemed, given disappointment with previous attempts; to reflect on what this reveals about the possibilities and limits of general theory; and to inform policy. Welch argues that earlier efforts at general theory erred by aiming to explain state behavior, which is an intractable problem. Instead, since inertia is the default expectation in international politics, all we need do is to explain changes in behavior. Painful Choices shows that this is a tractable problem with clear implications for intelligence analysts and negotiators.

Author : Ivan Perkins
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442222724

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Vanishing Coup by Ivan Perkins Pdf

This thoughtful and engaging book offers the first extended analysis of coups, a central factor shaping world history and politics. Ivan Perkins introduces a new theory to explain why a military coup or revolution is such an unthinkable prospect in advanced democracies. Focusing especially on the first three coup-free states—the Venetian Republic, Great Britain, and the United States—the book traces the evolutionary origins of political violence and the historical rise of republican government. Perkins concludes with a new explanation for the “democratic peace” and shows why coup-free states form enduring alliances.

Author : Jonathan Kirshner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691186252

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Appeasing Bankers by Jonathan Kirshner Pdf

In Appeasing Bankers, Jonathan Kirshner shows that bankers dread war--an aversion rooted in pragmatism, not idealism. "Sound money, not war" is hardly a pacifist rallying cry. The financial world values economic stability above all else, and crises and war threaten that stability. States that pursue appeasement when assertiveness--or even conflict--is warranted, Kirshner demonstrates, are often appeasing their own bankers. And these realities are increasingly shaping state strategy in a world of global financial markets. Yet the role of these financial preferences in world politics has been widely misunderstood and underappreciated. Liberal scholars have tended to lump finance together with other commercial groups; theorists of imperialism (including, most famously, Lenin) have misunderstood the preferences of finance; and realist scholars have failed to appreciate how the national interest, and proposals to advance it, are debated and contested by actors within societies. Finance's interest in peace is both pronounced and predictable, regardless of time or place. Bankers, Kirshner shows, have even opposed assertive foreign policies when caution seems to go against their nation's interest (as in interwar France) or their own long-term political interest (as during the Falklands crisis, when British bankers failed to support their ally Margaret Thatcher). Examining these and other cases, including the Spanish-American War, interwar Japan, and the United States during the Cold War, Appeasing Bankers shows that, when faced with the prospect of war or international political crisis, national financial communities favor caution and demonstrate a marked aversion to war.

Author : Grace Livingstone
Publisher : Springer
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319782928

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Britain and the Dictatorships of Argentina and Chile, 1973–82 by Grace Livingstone Pdf

This book explores the links between the British government and the dictatorships of Argentina and Chile, 1973-82, using newly-opened British archives. It gives the most complete picture to date of British arms sales, military visits and diplomatic links with the Argentine and Chilean military regimes before the Falklands war. It also provides new evidence that Britain had strategic and economic interests in the Falkland Islands and was keen to exploit the oil around the Islands. It looks at the impact of private corporations and social movements, such as the Chile Solidarity Campaign and human rights groups, on foreign policy. By analyzing the social background of British diplomats and tracing the informal social networks between government officials and the private sector, it considers the pro-business biases of state officials. It describes how the Foreign Office tried to dissuade the Labour governments of 1974-79 from imposing sanctions on the Pinochet regime in Chile and discusses whether un-elected officials place constraints on politicians aiming to pursue an ‘ethical’ foreign policy.

Author : Andreas Campomar
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780698152533

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Golazo! by Andreas Campomar Pdf

The definitive book about the national identities, heroes, and dramatic stories from Latin American soccer throughout history, perfect for World Cup reading. “Golazo!” means “amazing goal!” And the word perfectly captures the unique, exuberant, all-encompassing, passionate role that soccer plays in Latin America. Andreas Campomar offers readers the definitive history of Latin American soccer from the early, deadly Mesoamerican ballgames to the multi-billion dollar international business it is today. Golazo! explores the intersection of soccer, politics, economics, high and low culture, and how passion for a game captured a continent. The triumphs, the heartbreaks, the origins and the future, the political and the personal—Golazo! is the perfect book for new fans and diehard followers around the world.

Author : David Rock
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1987-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0520061780

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Argentina, 1516-1987 by David Rock Pdf

N this comprehensive history, updated to include the climactic events of the five years since the Falklands War, Professor Rock documents the early colonial history of Argentina, pointing to the colonial forms established during the Spanish conquest as the source for Argentina's continued reliance on foreign commercial and investment partnerships. The collapse of Argentina's close western European ties after World War II is thus seen as the underlying cause for her current economic and political crisis.