Spheres Of Intervention

Author : James R. Stocker
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501704154

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In Spheres of Intervention, James R. Stocker examines the history of diplomatic relations between the United States and Lebanon during a transformational period for Lebanon and a time of dynamic changes in US policy toward the Middle East. Drawing on tens of thousands of pages of declassified materials from US archives and a variety of Arabic and other non-English sources, Stocker provides a new interpretation of Lebanon’s slide into civil war, as well as insight into the strategy behind US diplomatic initiatives toward the Arab-Israeli conflict. During this period, Stocker argues, Lebanon was often a pawn in the games of larger powers. The stability of Lebanon was an aim of US policy at a time when Israel’s borders with Egypt and Jordan were in active contention. Following the June 1967 Arab-Israeli War, the internal political situation in Lebanon became increasingly unstable due to the regional military and political stalemate, the radicalization of the country’s domestic politics, and the appearance of Palestinian militias on Lebanese territory. US officials were more deeply involved in Lebanese affairs than most outside the region realized. After a series of internal crises in 1969, 1970, and 1973, civil war broke out in Lebanon in 1975. The conflict reached a temporary halt after a Syrian military intervention the following year, but this was only an end to the first stage of what would be a sixteen-year civil war. During these crises, the US sought to help the Lebanese government in a variety of ways, including providing military aid to the Lebanese military, convincing Arab countries to take measures to help the Lebanese government, mediating Lebanon’s relations with Israel, and even supporting certain militias.

Author : Susanna Hast
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317051312

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Spheres of Influence in International Relations by Susanna Hast Pdf

Current events happening around the world, especially the ’humanitarian interventions’ by NATO and the West within the context of the so-called Arab Spring, make the understanding of the role of spheres of influence in international politics absolutely critical. Hast explores the practical implications and applications of this theory, challenging the concept by using historical examples such as suzerainty and colonialism, as well as the emergence of a hierarchical international order. This study further connects the English School tradition, post-war international order, the Cold War and images of Russia with the concept of the sphere of influence to initiate debate and provide a fresh outlook on a concept which has little recent attention.

Author : Cathleen Kantner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317361404

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War and Intervention in the Transnational Public Sphere by Cathleen Kantner Pdf

The post-Cold War era saw an unexpected increase in intra-state violence against ethnic and religious groups, brutal civil wars and asymmetric conflicts. Those crises posed fundamental questions for the European Union and its member states, to which Europe has so far proven unable to develop satisfactory answers. This book contends that public debates over wars and humanitarian military interventions after the Cold War represent an evolving process of comprehension and collective interpretation of new realities. Employing innovative computer-linguistic methods, it examines the dynamics of this debate across Europe and compares it to that of the United States. In doing so, it argues that transnational political communication has shaped European identity-formation in significant ways and that, in trying to come to terms with important crises and institutional events, shared understandings of Europe have emerged. Looking at evidence from a wide range of countries, including Austria, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, and spanning a continuous period of 16 years, this book empirically analyses these shared understandings of the EU as a problem-solving and ethical community. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, EU politics, security studies, comparative politics, political communication and European integration.

Author : Alex Benchimol,Willy Maley
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 3039105396

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This book explores the ways in which intellectual and cultural publics from the early modern period to the postmodern present have actively constructed their cultural identities within the social processes of modernity. It brings together some of the most compelling recent writing on the public sphere by scholars in the fields of literary history, cultural studies and social theory from both sides of the Atlantic. Taken together, the essays in this collection offer a major re-examination of recent scholarship on the theory of the public sphere as developed by Jürgen Habermas. They also stand as a collective effort both to interrogate and to extend this influential model by exploring modern forms of intellectual and cultural activity in all their rich diversity and ideological complexity. Contributions range from the divided inheritance of Shakespeare publishing history to the new forms of mass-mediated cultural experience in contemporary Britain; from attempts at cultural regulation in the literary public sphere of the Romantic period to the postmodern political conflict played out in the American public sphere of the 1990s; and from varieties of religious dissent to modes of postcolonial criticism. The book furthers the dialogue between academic methodologies, fields and periods, and presents readers with a contested narrative of the key cultural and intellectual practices that have made up our modern world.

Author : Salim Yaqub
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501706882

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Imperfect Strangers by Salim Yaqub Pdf

In Imperfect Strangers, Salim Yaqub argues that the 1970s were a pivotal decade for U.S.-Arab relations, whether at the upper levels of diplomacy, in street-level interactions, or in the realm of the imagination. In those years, Americans and Arabs came to know each other as never before. With Western Europe’s imperial legacy fading in the Middle East, American commerce and investment spread throughout the Arab world. The United States strengthened its strategic ties to some Arab states, even as it drew closer to Israel. Maneuvering Moscow to the sidelines, Washington placed itself at the center of Arab-Israeli diplomacy. Meanwhile, the rise of international terrorism, the Arab oil embargo and related increases in the price of oil, and expanding immigration from the Middle East forced Americans to pay closer attention to the Arab world. Yaqub combines insights from diplomatic, political, cultural, and immigration history to chronicle the activities of a wide array of American and Arab actors—political leaders, diplomats, warriors, activists, scholars, businesspeople, novelists, and others. He shows that growing interdependence raised hopes for a broad political accommodation between the two societies. Yet a series of disruptions in the second half of the decade thwarted such prospects. Arabs recoiled from a U.S.-brokered peace process that fortified Israel’s occupation of Arab land. Americans grew increasingly resentful of Arab oil pressures, attitudes dovetailing with broader anti-Muslim sentiments aroused by the Iranian hostage crisis. At the same time, elements of the U.S. intelligentsia became more respectful of Arab perspectives as a newly assertive Arab American community emerged into political life. These patterns left a contradictory legacy of estrangement and accommodation that continued in later decades and remains with us today.

Author : Susanna Hast
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317051305

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Spheres of Influence in International Relations by Susanna Hast Pdf

Current events happening around the world, especially the ’humanitarian interventions’ by NATO and the West within the context of the so-called Arab Spring, make the understanding of the role of spheres of influence in international politics absolutely critical. Hast explores the practical implications and applications of this theory, challenging the concept by using historical examples such as suzerainty and colonialism, as well as the emergence of a hierarchical international order. This study further connects the English School tradition, post-war international order, the Cold War and images of Russia with the concept of the sphere of influence to initiate debate and provide a fresh outlook on a concept which has little recent attention.

Author : Jeffrey C. Alexander,Agnes Shuk-mei Ku,Sunwoong Park
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781108427838

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The Civil Sphere in East Asia by Jeffrey C. Alexander,Agnes Shuk-mei Ku,Sunwoong Park Pdf

Examines a range of contemporary social and cultural conflicts in East Asia and the echoes they have throughout the world.

Author : H. Weßler,B. Peters,M. Brüggemann,K. Kleinen-v.Königslöw,S. Sifft
Publisher : Springer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230229839

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Transnationalization of Public Spheres by H. Weßler,B. Peters,M. Brüggemann,K. Kleinen-v.Königslöw,S. Sifft Pdf

This book takes a fresh look at a widely debated question in international relations and political communication research: How can public discourses contribute to democratic governance beyond the nation state? The book combines quantitative and qualitative analyses of media content and evaluates them from a democratic theory perspective.

Author : Martha Finnemore
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801467066

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The Purpose of Intervention by Martha Finnemore Pdf

Violence or the potential for violence is a fact of human existence. Many societies, including our own, reward martial success or skill at arms. The ways in which members of a particular society use force reveal a great deal about the nature of authority within the group and about its members' priorities. Martha Finnemore uses one type of force, military intervention, as a window onto the shifting character of international society. She examines the changes, over the past 400 years, in why countries intervene militarily as well as in the ways they have intervened. It is not the fact of intervention that has altered, she says, but rather the reasons for and meaning behind intervention—the conventional understanding of the purposes for which states can and should use force. Finnemore looks at three types of intervention: collecting debts, addressing humanitarian crises, and acting against states perceived as threats to international peace. In all three, she finds that what is now considered "obvious" was vigorously contested or even rejected by people in earlier periods for well-articulated and logical reasons. A broad historical perspective allows her to explicate long-term trends: the steady erosion of force's normative value in international politics, the growing influence of equality norms in many aspects of global political life, and the increasing importance of law in intervention practices.

Author : Marc Lynch
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0231113234

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State Interests and Public Spheres by Marc Lynch Pdf

Using contemporary Jordan as a model for the changing dynamics of the Arab regional system, this book looks at four pivotal events that have defined the modern Jordanian state.

Author : Giandomenica Becchio
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031512629

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The Doctrine of the Separate Spheres in Political Economy and Economics by Giandomenica Becchio Pdf

Author : Janet S. Fulton,Brenda L. Lyon,Kelly A. Goudreau
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780826110671

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Foundations of Clinical Nurse Specialist Practice by Janet S. Fulton,Brenda L. Lyon,Kelly A. Goudreau Pdf

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Author : Mladen Ančić,Jonathan Shepard,Trpimir Vedriš
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351614290

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Imperial Spheres and the Adriatic by Mladen Ančić,Jonathan Shepard,Trpimir Vedriš Pdf

Although often mentioned in textbooks about the Carolingian and Byzantine empires, the Treaty of Aachen has not received much close attention. This volume attempts not just to fill the gap, but to view the episode through both micro- and macro-lenses. Introductory chapters review the state of relations between Byzantium and the Frankish realm in the eighth and early ninth centuries, crises facing Byzantine emperors much closer to home, and the relevance of the Bulgarian problem to affairs on the Adriatic. Dalmatia’s coastal towns and the populations of the interior receive extensive attention, including the region’s ecclesiastical history and cultural affiliations. So do the local politics of Dalmatia, Venice and the Carolingian marches, and their interaction with the Byzantino-Frankish confrontation. The dynamics of the Franks’ relations with the Avars are analysed and, here too, the three-way play among the two empires and ‘in-between’ parties is a theme. Archaeological indications of the Franks’ presence are collated with what the literary sources reveal about local elites’ aspirations. The economic dimension to the Byzantino-Frankish competition for Venice is fully explored, a special feature of the volume being archaeological evidence for a resurgence of trade between the Upper Adriatic and the Eastern Mediterranean from the second half of the eighth century onwards.

Author : Carmen J. Nielson
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774826945

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Private Women and the Public Good by Carmen J. Nielson Pdf

In 1846, a group of women came together to form what would become one of nineteenth-century Hamilton’s most important social welfare institutions. Through the Ladies Benevolent Society and Hamilton Orphan Asylum, they managed and administered a charitable visiting society, orphan asylum, and aged women’s home. At this time, in other parts of the Western world, the public sphere and women’s exclusion from it were reshaping political and gender relations. Although charitable women in Hamilton managed essential social services in the community, and although these efforts were publicly financed, their work was still defined as “private.” In Private Women and the Public Good, Carmen J. Nielson explores the history of this pioneering charity and demonstrates that despite its notable political significance, women’s charitable work failed to challenge the staunch division of private and public spheres.

Author : Corinna Peifer,Stefan Engeser
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030534684

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Advances in Flow Research by Corinna Peifer,Stefan Engeser Pdf

This second edition provides a review of the current flow research. The first, thoroughly revised and extended, part of the book, addresses basic concepts, correlates, conditions and consequences of flow experience. This includes the developments of the flow model, methods to measure flow, its physiological correlates, personality factors involved in the emergence of flow, social flow, the relationship of flow with performance and wellbeing, but also possible negative consequences of flow. The second, completely new, part of the book addresses flow in diverse contexts, in particular, work, development, sports, music and arts, and human computer interaction. As such, the book provides a broad overview on the current state of flow research – from the basics to specific contexts of application. It presents what has been learned since the beginning of flow research, what is still open, and how the mission to understand and foster flow should continue. The book addresses researchers and students who are interested in flow, as well as practitioners who seek for sound research on flow in their field of expertise.