Free Download Films with Legs: Crossing Borders with Foreign Language Films By Rosemary A. Peters; Veronique Maisier
2011 | 255 Pages | ISBN: 1443832049 | PDF | 2 MB
Films With Legs: Crossing Borders with Foreign Language Films addresses the ways international cinematic traditions both erect borders and blur them or tear them down. Each chapter of this book examines real and perceived borders, their representations on the screen and their manifestations in filmic texts that can also be cultural documents and political statements. The fifteen articles included here discuss films made by twenty-four directors, with dialogues in nine foreign languages, representing cultural aspects from twelve countries and five continents. From Algeria to Bulgaria, Germany to Israel, India to Argentina, the films studied in this book have legs that cross many borders and take their audiences on distant journeys. Simultaneously, these films comment on the ever-expanding nature of cinema itself, of filmic language and of film as language, and discuss how borders are constructed on the screen, not just in fences and walls and boundaries, but also in dialogue and dialect, speech and accent and silence.

Free Download Between Foreign and Family: Return Migration and Identity Construction among Korean Americans and Korean Chinese By Helene K. Lee
2018 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 0813586135 | PDF | 2 MB
Winner of the 2019 ASA Book Award - Asia/Asian-American SectionBetween Foreign and Family explores the impact of inconsistent rules of ethnic inclusion and exclusion on the economic and social lives of Korean Americans and Korean Chinese living in Seoul. These actors are part of a growing number of return migrants, members of an ethnic diaspora who migrate "back" to the ancestral homeland from which their families emigrated. Drawing on ethnographic observations and interview data, Helene K. Lee highlights the "logics of transnationalism" that shape the relationships between these return migrants and their employers, co-workers, friends, family, and the South Korean state.While Koreanness marks these return migrants as outsiders who never truly feel at home in the United States and China, it simultaneously traps them into a liminal space in which they are neither fully family, nor fully foreign in South Korea. Return migration reveals how ethnic identity construction is not an indisputable and universal fact defined by blood and ancestry, but a contested and uneven process informed by the interplay of ethnicity, nationality, citizenship, gender, and history.

A Dictionary Of Foreign Words And Phrases | 7.33 MB
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Title: A Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases
Author: Bliss, A. J.;
Year: 2023

Free Download Walter L. Hixson, "American Foreign Relations: A New Diplomatic History"
English | 2015 | pages: 587 | ISBN: 0415841062 | PDF | 16,0 mb
American Foreign Relations: A New Diplomatic History is a compelling narrative history of American foreign policy from the early settlement of North America to the present. In addition to economic and strategic motives, Walter L. Hixson integrates key cultural factors―including race, gender, and religion―into the story of American foreign policy. He demonstrates how these factors played a vital role in shaping the actions of the United States in world affairs. Beginning with the history of warfare and diplomacy between indigenous peoples and Europeans before the establishment of the United States, this book shows the formative influence of settler colonialism on the country's later foreign policy and the growth of American empire.

Free Download Francesca Capone, "Returning Foreign Fighters: Responses, Legal Challenges and Ways Forward"
English | ISBN: 9462655707 | 2023 | 323 pages | PDF | 11 MB
This book, a follow-up publication to the 2016 volume Foreign Fighters under International Law and Beyond, zooms in on the responses that the international community and individual States are implementing in response to (prospective and actual) returning foreign fighters (FFs) and their families, focusing on returnees from Syria and Iraq to European countries.

Free Download Awakening to China's Rise: European Foreign and Security Policies Toward the People's Republic of China (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BYKZMNNY | 2023 | 9 hours and 28 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 269 MB
Author: Hugo Meijer
Narrator: Nigel Patterson

Free Download The New South Faces the World: Foreign Affairs and the Southern Sense of Self, 1877-1950 By Tennant S. McWilliams
2007 | 176 Pages | ISBN: 0817354719 | PDF | 12 MB
"In his study of the New South and foreign affairs, Tennant McWilliams raises a central question: why have southerners failed to develop a realistic attitude about U.S. relations with the rest of the world? He notes that throughout their history southerners have encountered failure, poverty, guilt, defeat, and ridicule and that their experiences seem at odds with the notions of invincibility that have fueled the flames of American idealism. Yet McWilliams points out that southerners have joined with northerners in accepting the ideas of a mission to extend the American way of life to people around the world. Thus, he asks, what happened between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of the cold war that can help explain the failure of realism to dampen the crusading spirit in the South."-American Historical Review

Free Download Identity Discourses and Canadian Foreign Policy in the War on Terror
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031258509 | 394 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2 MB
This book examines how popular narratives of Canadian identity became implicated in Canada's foreign policy in the Global War on Terror. McDonald argues that Canada's decisions to join the 2001 Afghanistan War yet abstain from the 2003 Iraq War became politically possible because parliamentarians linked these policies to similar narratives of an enduring Canadian identity - even while re-imagining their meanings. These decisions are explored through politicians' mobilization of three discourses: Canada as America's neighbour, Canada as protector of foreign civilians, and Canada as a champion of multilateralism. This book challenges conceptions of national identity as entirely stable or fluid and contests predominant arguments that downplay the role of identity discourses in Canadian foreign policy. The relevance of these narratives is assessed by exploring the rhetoric of Canadian foreign policy in light of contemporary international challenges, including the Donald Trump presidency, the COVID-19 pandemic, and Russia's War on Ukraine.

Free Download China's Foreign Policy Contradictions: Lessons from China's R2P, Hong Kong, and WTO Policy (Audiobook)
English | February 08, 2022 | ASIN: B09RRKJPMC | MP3@64 kbps | 10h 1m | 271.99 MB
Author: Tim Nicholas Ruhlig
Narrator: Jamie Renell
Throughout the post-Mao reform era, China has championed the principle of sovereign state control, which holds that states should not intervene in the affairs of other states. Yet, as Tim Nicholas Rühlig argues in China's Foreign Policy Contradictions, in recent years they have not actually acted this way. Chinese foreign policy actions fail to match up with official rhetoric, and these inconsistencies - in combination with China's growing power - will have dramatic effects on the future shape of international order.

Foreign AffairVolume 102 Number 2, March-April 2023
English | 216 Pages | PDF | 12 MB