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This book introduces a new perspective on risk seeking behaviour, developing a framework based on various cognitive theories, and applying it to the specific case-study of Turkey's foreign policy toward Syria. The author examines why policy makers commit...

This book examines the main reasons and challenges for the success of the human development approach both in theory and practice as an alternative to the economic growth model. Unlike the preceding research which has typically been either...

Drawing on an original UK-wide study of public responses to humanitarian issues and how NGOs communicate them, this timely book provides the first evidence-based psychosocial account of how and why people respond or not to messages about distant...

This book provides a multilayered analysis of food import dependency and its impact on food security in the Caribbean region. The study analyses the main impact of trade liberalization in the Caribbean within the WTO framework and main policy mechanisms...

War, nuclear weapons, and terrorism are all major threats to US security, but a new set of emerging threats are challenging the current threat response apparatus and our ability to come up with creative and effective solutions. This book considers new,...

This book is a study into how immigration is transforming the EU and its member-states. Kostas Maronitis contends that immigration creates utopian and dystopian visions of the European project. These visions can be found in the immigration detention...

This book provides a timely examination of the Ebola pandemic in Sierra Leone from four different standpoints: 1) a social standpoint that focuses on the way in which the vulnerable Sierra Leonian population viewed the pandemic in light of their cultural...

This book discusses the rise of polarity as a key concept in International Relations Theory. Since the end of the Cold War, until at least the end of 2010, there has been a wide consensus shared by American academics, political commentators and policy...

This book analyses how China overcame its meagre reputation in the early 1990s to become an aggressively growing military power and rising threat to the international system. The author focuses on China's new multilateral foreign policy approach,...

Thisbook presents a comprehensive source document on intelligence and securityoversight and review. It compares the oversight arrangements found in ninecountries-New Zealand, Australia, Canada, United States, United Kingdom,Germany, Netherlands, Norway...

This book argues that the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) the Libyan people played an important role in the U.S.'s decision to act, both in terms of how the language of deliberation was framed and the implementation of the actual intervention once all...

This book argues that Islam has been securitized in US foreign policy, especially during the W. Bush administration when it was increasingly portrayed as the ultimate "other." This securitization was realized through the association of Islam with unique...

This book analyses trends and changes in the European Union's (EU) humanitarian aid policy, by focusing on the performance of Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs). NGOs have developed strong relationships with international institutions but have also...

Originally published in 1912. Author: Norman Angel Language: English Keywords: Social Sciences Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are...

In Covering conflict: The making and unmaking of new militarism, Richard Lance Keeble presents a highly original, critical overview of the UK press’s coverage of wars since 1945. The US-led attacks on Iraq in 1991, Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in...

En el siguiente estudio se analizará la historia de la región en la que Estados Unidos se ha visto envuelto, una región que solía estar, y hasta cierto punto sigue estando, controlada casi en su totalidad por Gran Bretaña. ¿Es la actual "guerra contra el...

From the cradle of civilization to the modern geopolitical stage, "Empires Through Time" masterfully covers history's most influential empires, examining the foundations of their power, the peaks of their dominance, and the echoes of their declines.Time...

Giancarlo Soler Torrijos is the Deputy Ambassador of Panama to the United Nations, New York. He holds his Bachelor's Degree from the University of California at Berkeley and his Ph.D. from Oxford University, England. Before his appointment as a diplomat,...

The USA's first confrontation with terrorism wasn't in 2001. Do youknow how the Reagan Administration dealt with the prospect of Mid-Easternterrorism? What was America's policy - did we actually have a policy? Findsome surprising answers here.

The number of incidents and crimes carried out by terrorists and criminals, such as physical threats, violent attacks, assassinations, kidnapping and hostage situations are increasing by the minute worldwide. Each incident is a constant and ever...

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Considered "among the most important Cold War records to emerge thus far" by the former Beijing bureau chief of the New York Times, The Kissinger Transcripts gives us the unvarnished record of Henry Kissinger's diplomacy during the Nixon...

The thrilling true story of the daring double agents who thwarted Hitler’s spy machine in Britain and turned the tide of World War II.After the fall of France in the mid-1940s, Adolf Hitler faced a British Empire that refused to negotiate for peace...

With exclusive interviews, a Signal Corps veteran tells the full story of how cryptography helped defeat the Axis powers, at Bletchley Park and beyond.  For years, the story of the World War II codebreakers was kept a crucial state secret. Even...

In the coming five to ten years, the highest number of key global security challenges is likely to be concentrated in the Middle East, or be related to it. And the traditional most significant challenge in the Middle East is the Arab-Israeli conflict and...

Bush's Third Year - Iraqi WarRebuilding Amid Chaos Chapter 1 describes the various motives for the Iraqi War including military-imposed democracy in Iraq, oil, and vanquishing enemies of Israel under the mantle of "imminent threat from Iraq's WMD,...

This 1977 report prepared for the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the United States Senate relates much of the history that affects international relations today.For the United States, access to secure supplies of foreign oil has become an...

Technical and economic considerations no longer prevent the acquisition of nuclear weapons by nations that do not have them. The technology is now widely known and generally accessible, and the cost is not prohibitive. For an increasing number of...

President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative has kindled a national debate over the roles of strategic nuclear weapons, ballistic missile defenses, and arms control in U.S. national security policy. It has also underscored the important ramifications...

This text serves as an advanced introduction to the field of international history. With contributions from a range of scholars, it maps the current terrain of the sub-discipline through essays that both appraise recent historiography and analyse...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. ...

Der Kampf Um Das Reich Zwischen Dem Romischen Konig Adolf Von Nassau Und Herzog Albrecht Von Oestreich (1858) ist ein historisches Buch von Schmid, Lebrecht Christian Gottlob. Das Buch handelt von einem Konflikt zwischen dem r������mischen K������nig...

""Der Bergkranz: Die Befreiung Montenegros (1886)"" ist ein historischer Roman von Petar Petrovic Njegus, der die Befreiung Montenegros vom osmanischen Joch im 19. Jahrhundert beschreibt. Der Roman erz�����hlt die Geschichte von Marko Miljanov, einem...

""Dell'Insurrezione di Milano nel 1848 e della successiva guerra (1849)"" ����� un libro scritto da Carlo Cattaneo che racconta la rivolta milanese del 1848 e la guerra che ne segu����� l'anno successivo. Il libro analizza le cause che portarono alla...

""Delle Riforme Necessarie Alla Moneta Metallica"" ����� un saggio scritto da Leone Levi nel 1887. In questo libro, l'autore analizza la situazione della moneta metallica dell'epoca e propone una serie di riforme necessarie per migliorare la sua...

""Dell' Andamento Delle Cose In Italia Rivelazioni, Memorie E Riflessioni"" ����� un libro scritto da Luigi Pianciani nel 1860. In questo testo, l'autore esamina l'andamento degli eventi in Italia durante il periodo della sua scrittura, fornendo...

""Della Monarchia di Napoli e delle sue fortune"" ����� un libro scritto da Michele Farnerari nel 1876. In questo testo, l'autore esamina la storia della monarchia di Napoli, dal suo inizio fino alla sua fine. Farnerari analizza le cause che hanno...

""Denkw�����rdigkeiten aus der Blockade von Mainz im Jahre 1814"" ist ein historisches Buch von M. Kissel, das im Jahr 1814 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Es beschreibt die Ereignisse w�����hrend der Belagerung von Mainz durch die Alliierten im Jahr 1814...

""Den Dansk-Norske Somagts Historie, 1700-1814"" er en historisk bog skrevet af Hans Georg Garde i 1852. Bogen beskriver perioden fra 1700 til 1814 i Danmark-Norges historie, hvor landet var en del af en union mellem Danmark og Norge. Garde fokuserer...

""Della Monarchia Parlamentare V2"" ����� un libro del 1869 scritto da Pietro Castiglioni. Questo volume ����� il secondo della serie e si concentra sulla monarchia parlamentare. L'autore analizza il sistema politico italiano dell'epoca e fornisce una...

Il libro ""Dei Moti Politici Dell' Isola Di Sardegna Dal 1793 Al 1821"" scritto da Francesco Sulis nel 1858 ����� una descrizione completa dei movimenti politici che hanno interessato la Sardegna durante il periodo che va dal 1793 al 1821. L'autore...

De Vrede van Carlowitz (1883) is een boek geschreven door Robert Van Nijevelt en Van Zuijlen. Het boek gaat over de Vrede van Carlowitz die in 1699 werd gesloten tussen het Ottomaanse Rijk en een coalitie van Europese landen. Deze vrede be�����indigde de...

De Unie Van Utrecht (1878) is een boek geschreven door Pieter Lodewijk Muller. Het boek gaat over het verdrag van de Unie van Utrecht, dat in 1579 werd gesloten tussen de Nederlandse provincies. Dit verdrag was een belangrijke stap in de richting van de...

""De Staatkunde Der Nederlandsche Republiek Van 1697 Tot 1795 In Betrekking Tot Het Evenwigt Van Europa"" is een historisch boek geschreven door Jan Izaak van Doorninck in 1866. Het boek beschrijft de politieke geschiedenis van de Nederlandse Republiek...

Het boek ""De Scheiding van Belgi����� in Derzelver Gevolgen Getoetst"" is geschreven door S.P. Lipman en werd oorspronkelijk gepubliceerd in 1830. Het boek onderzoekt de gevolgen van de scheiding van Belgi����� van Nederland in 1830. Lipman analyseert...

De Republica Romana, Sive Ex Polybii Megalopolitani (1823) est liber scriptus a Lehner, Ioanne Friderico Carolo, qui tractat de historia et politica Romanae rei publicae. Liber ex Polybii Megalopolitani scriptis est excerptus et commentariis auctus, qui...

""De Unie Van Brussel Des Jaars 1577"" is een historisch boek geschreven door Johannes Cornelius De Jonge en gepubliceerd in 1825. Het boek beschrijft de Unie van Brussel, een politieke overeenkomst die in 1577 werd gesloten tussen de katholieke en...

Das Buch ""Das T�����rkische Reich in historisch-statistischen Schilderungen"" von Christian Molbech wurde 1854 ver������ffentlicht. Es bietet eine umfassende Beschreibung des Osmanischen Reiches in historischer und statistischer Hinsicht. Molbech...