Mortal Friends Best Enemies

Author : Celeste A. Wallander
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501717376

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Mortal Friends, Best Enemies by Celeste A. Wallander Pdf

Several hundred thousand members of the Red Army were stationed in East Germany when that state was reunited with its western counterpart. The peaceful transfer of these soldiers to their homeland produced a welcome outcome to a potentially explosive situation. Through an investigation of the strategies of German and Russian decision-makers, Celeste A. Wallander explores what conditions facilitate or hinder international cooperation in security matters.Wallander spent the months and years after the fall of the Berlin Wall interviewing officials and politicians from Germany and Russia. She reveals how these individuals assessed and responded to potential flashpoints: the withdrawal of Russian military forces from Germany, the implementation of arms control treaties, the management of ethnic and regional conflicts. She also examines the two states' views on the enlargement of NATO.The first detailed account from both countries' perspectives of the extraordinary contraction of Russian power and the implications of German unification, Mortal Friends, Best Enemies clearly depicts the important role European and global institutions played making the military disengagement possible. Wallander draws on these findings to develop a new institutional theory of security relations. In it she defines the techniques that international institutions can use to help states solve obstacles to security.

Author : John J. Mearsheimer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300240535

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Great Delusion by John J. Mearsheimer Pdf

A renowned scholar argues that liberal hegemony—the policy America has pursued since the Cold War ended—is doomed to fail Named a Financial Times Best Book of 2018 “Idealists as well as realists need to read this systematic tour de force.”—Robert D. Kaplan, author of The Return of Marco Polo’s World It is widely believed in the West that the United States should spread liberal democracy across the world, foster an open international economy, and build international institutions. The policy of remaking the world in America’s image is supposed to protect human rights, promote peace, and make the world safe for democracy. But this is not what has happened. Instead, the United States has become a highly militarized state fighting wars that undermine peace, harm human rights, and threaten liberal values at home. In this major statement, the renowned international-relations scholar John Mearsheimer argues that liberal hegemony—the foreign policy pursued by the United States since the Cold War ended—is doomed to fail. It makes far more sense, he maintains, for Washington to adopt a more restrained foreign policy based on a sound understanding of how nationalism and realism constrain great powers abroad. The Great Delusion is a lucid and compelling work of the first importance for scholars, policymakers, and everyone interested in the future of American foreign policy.

Author : Sebastian Rosato
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300253023

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Intentions in Great Power Politics by Sebastian Rosato Pdf

Why the future of great power politics is likely to resemble its dismal past Can great powers be confident that their peers have benign intentions? States that trust each other can live at peace; those that mistrust each other are doomed to compete for arms and allies and may even go to war. Sebastian Rosato explains that states routinely lack the kind of information they need to be convinced that their rivals mean them no harm. Even in cases that supposedly involved mutual trust--Germany and Russia in the Bismarck era; Britain and the United States during the great rapprochement; France and Germany, and Japan and the United States in the early interwar period; and the Soviet Union and United States at the end of the Cold War--the protagonists mistrusted each other and struggled for advantage. Rosato argues that the ramifications of his argument for U.S.-China relations are profound: the future of great power politics is likely to resemble its dismal past.

Author : Mark Webber
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1847792391

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Inclusion, Exclusion and the Governance of European Security by Mark Webber Pdf

How inclusive are NATO and the EU? Recently, enlargement's limits have increasingly come to be recognised, bringing with it an important debate on the balance to be struck between inclusion and exclusion. This book examines that sometimes awkward balance.

Author : Philip Zelikow,Condoleezza Rice
Publisher : Twelve
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538764664

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To Build a Better World by Philip Zelikow,Condoleezza Rice Pdf

A deeply researched international history and "exemplary study" (New York Times Book Review) of how a divided world ended and our present world was fashioned, as the world drifts toward another great time of choosing. Two of America's leading scholar-diplomats, Philip Zelikow and Condoleezza Rice, have combed sources in several languages, interviewed leading figures, and drawn on their own firsthand experience to bring to life the choices that molded the contemporary world. Zeroing in on the key moments of decision, the might-have-beens, and the human beings working through them, they explore both what happened and what could have happened, to show how one world ended and another took form. Beginning in the late 1970s and carrying into the present, they focus on the momentous period between 1988 and 1992, when an entire world system changed, states broke apart, and societies were transformed. Such periods have always been accompanied by terrible wars -- but not this time. This is also a story of individuals coping with uncertainty. They voice their hopes and fears. They try out desperate improvisations and careful designs. These were leaders who grew up in a "postwar" world, who tried to fashion something better, more peaceful, more prosperous, than the damaged, divided world in which they had come of age. New problems are putting their choices, and the world they made, back on the operating table. It is time to recall not only why they made their choices, but also just how great nations can step up to great challenges. Timed for the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, To Build a Better World is an authoritative depiction of contemporary statecraft. It lets readers in on the strategies and negotiations, nerve-racking risks, last-minute decisions, and deep deliberations behind the dramas that changed the face of Europe -- and the world -- forever.

Author : Scott Erb
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 1588261689

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German Foreign Policy by Scott Erb Pdf

Despite an array of predictions that Germany's foreign policy would be unable to adapt easily to the postunification, post-Cold War environment, it has in fact remained effective, even as it evolves in response to myriad challenges. Scott Erb analyzes German policy, with an emphasis on the transitions from 1980 to the present. Erb argues that Germany's success in dealing with a rapidly changing world rests on principles of multilateralism and cooperative institution building developed during the Cold War. These principles are especially well suited now, he finds, as interdependence and turbulence bring traditional notions of sovereignty and self-interest into question. Germany, he concludes, offers a sound model of foreign policy in an age of globalization.

Author : Nicholas Ryan Howard
Publisher : Nicholas Ryan Howard
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780999346891

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Mortal Enemy by Nicholas Ryan Howard Pdf

Vant Hu’l is cursed. Dragged to the center of a wasteland by a ruthless malevolence, the legendary warrior discovers a cavern filled with devious riddles and fiendish traps. Upon solving the labyrinth, he is confronted by a hideous creature. A beast with unimaginable abilities. A being of unspeakable evil… Death. Without a shred of clemency, the demigod presents Vant with a choice: do his sinister bidding out in the world, or suffer an eternity of horrifying torment. Thus begins Vant’s quest out of the badlands, through the hostile wilderness, into the clutches of twisted townships, and finally toward conflict with the vile stewards of a corrupted civilization. But Vant will not go it alone. In the midst of his journey, he develops an unlikely companionship with a clever and venturesome teenage girl, the expert survivalist Skii Tavee. They also form an alliance with two newfound — but questionable — companions: Kram Grammie, the sneaky con man who is as crafty as he is klepto, and an off-kilter eccentric bizarrely known as The World’s Worst Magician. United, they set out to dispatch their foes, rescue the innocents caught in the crossfire, and unite the forces of a world gone astray, all while reconciling with their own haunting pasts. "Mortal Enemy: Legends of Grim #1" is a tale like no other. It is a relentless whirlwind of action and adventure. A saga of conflicted heroes and devious villains. A journey rife with darkness and struggle, yet also wicked humor. It is jam-packed with nightmarish scenarios, fantastical environments, rich mythology, incredible weapons, unique technologies, and characters dripping with personality, with shocking surprises awaiting you at every turn. Come experience Death… if you dare.

Author : James Carroll
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
Page : 739 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798200953769

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Mortal Friends by James Carroll Pdf

From the author of the National Book Award–winning An American Requiem and the classic bestseller Constantine’s Sword comes the story of Colman Brady, an Irish farmer who involves himself in the Irish rebellion of the early 1920s and later escapes to Boston where he rises to and falls from political power and seeks a second chance through the life of his son. Richly imagined scenes, a complex plot, and masterful writing combine fact and fiction; characters like Mayor Curley of Boston and the Kennedys come to life in this classic saga of Irish-America as seen through the eyes of one revolutionary as he makes the daring choices that will shape not only his fate, but his beloved son’s.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1134 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124517769

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Cumulated Index to the Books by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jane Stanton Hitchcock
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061940514

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Mortal Friends by Jane Stanton Hitchcock Pdf

“Murder, blackmail, and betrayal, all set against the glittering backdrop of Washington society.” —The Today Show No one knows the world of high society better that New York Times bestselling author Jane Stanton Hitchcock—and no one captures its behind-the-scenes scandals and secrets better. In Mortal Friends, the Edgar® Award-nominated author of Trick of the Eye and Social Crimes offers readers a comedy of manners and murders which Barbara Goldsmith describes as a “dizzying dash through the heights of Washington society, a high velocity novel with more twists than a corkscrew.” Dominick Dunne said, “I had a great weekend with this book.” Find out how the other half live—and die—by spending some quality time with Mortal Friends.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2520 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : American literature
ISBN : PSU:000045663147

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The Cumulative Book Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Quotations, English
ISBN : UOM:39015031226866

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Treasury of Wisdom, Wit and Humor, Odd Comparisons and Proverbs by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mary Cowden Clarke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : English language
ISBN : UVA:X000737411

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The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare by Mary Cowden Clarke Pdf

Author : Kristina Forest
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781250294890

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I Wanna Be Where You Are by Kristina Forest Pdf

A debut young adult rom-com about an African American ballerina who finds love on the road to an audition. "In a world where it's easy to lose faith in love, I Wanna Be Where You Are is a brilliant burst of light. A dazzling debut." — Nic Stone, New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin and Odd One Out When Chloe Pierce’s mom forbids her to apply for a spot at the dance conservatory of her dreams, she devises a secret plan to drive two hundred miles to the nearest audition. But Chloe hits her first speed bump when her annoying neighbor Eli insists upon hitching a ride, threatening to tell Chloe’s mom if she leaves him and his smelly dog, Geezer, behind. So now Chloe’s chasing her ballet dreams down the east coast—two unwanted (but kinda cute) passengers in her car, butterflies in her stomach, and a really dope playlist on repeat. Filled with roadside hijinks, heart-stirring romance, and a few broken rules, Kristina Forest's I Wanna Be Where You Are is a YA debut perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Sandhya Menon.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1168 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Baltic States
ISBN : UOM:39015065494521

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Bibliographic Guide to Slavic, Baltic, and Eurasian Studies by Anonim Pdf