Contemporary Issues in Soviet Foreign Policy: From Brezhnev to Gorbachev By Frederic J. Fleron Jr. (editor), Erik P. Hoffmann (editor), Robbin F. Laird (editor)
2008 | 536 Pages | ISBN: 0202363260 | PDF | 34 MB
This survey of writings on the debates about and events relating to Soviet foreign policy concentrates on the Gorbachev period. Changes in Soviet theory and foreign policy decision making are covered in the first section. Twelve articles examine Gorbachev's policy towards a number of different geographic regions, and several more assess the permanence of Gorbachevs foreign policy changes.

A Superpower Transformed: The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the 1970s by Daniel J. Sargent
English | January 2, 2015 | ISBN: 0195395476, 0190672161 | True EPUB/PDF | 456 pages | 3.2/27 MB
During the 1970s, American foreign policy faced a predicament of clashing imperatives-US decision makers, already struggling to maintain stability and devise strategic frameworks to guide the exercise of American power during the Cold War, found themselves hampered by the emergence of dilemmas that would come to a head in the post-Cold War era. Their choices proved to be of enormous consequence for the development of American foreign policy in the final decades of the twentieth century and beyond.

Thorsten Wojczewski, "The Inter- and Transnational Politics of Populism: Foreign Policy, Identity and Popular Sovereignty "
English | ISBN: 303116847X | 2023 | 360 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Populism has lately experienced a meteoric rise to become one of the most widely used terms in academic and wider public discourses and a supposedly defining feature of both domestic and world politics. Situated at the intersection of International Relations (IR), Political Theory and Comparative Politics, this book makes a critical intervention into the burgeoning IR scholarship on populism and problematizes the often hyperbolic and sweeping usage of the term as a general descriptor for non-centrist politics of different persuasions. The book seeks to move into a different theoretical direction and broaden the empirical focus of existing IR research. Theoretically, it bridges the gap between theories of populism and IR by bringing the Laclauian, discursive approach and IR poststructuralism together in a theoretical framework. The proposed framework moves away from the search for the policy preferences and impact of populism, and instead conceptualizes foreign policy and world politics as potential sites for practicing populism, ranging from the articulation of societal grievances to the construction of populist identities such as 'the people'. Empirically, the book takes IR scholarship beyond the predominant focus on the populist radical right and single-country and -region studies. Building on the discourse analysis of an original data set, it offers a comparative analysis of right-wing and left-wing populist discourses in different world regions as well as populist cross-border collaboration and identity construction.

Anne-Marie Brady, "Foreigners and Foreign Institutions in Republican China "
English | ISBN: 0415528658 | 2012 | 278 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Republican China attracted an uncommon diversity of foreign interests, groups, and individuals, which included missionaries, adventurers, diplomats, academics, humanitarians and refugees, as well as hedonists and tourists. By exploring the diverse nature of foreign activities in Republican China, this book complicates the dominant narratives of the imperialistic foreigner and Chinese victim, and moves beyond the depiction of foreigners as privileged and the Chinese as simply weak. The spaces and relationships examined in the essays in this volume reveal a complex series of interactions between foreigners and the people of China which go far beyond one-way transmission or exploitation. Indeed, this book examines how diverse and sometimes seemingly peripheral foreign individuals and communities influenced literature, education, trade, sexual morality, warfare, and architecture in China and in the process were themselves profoundly changed, in ways that are as remarkable as those experienced by the Chinese they had come to observe, meet, exploit, conquer, assist, or change.

Foreign Policy – January 05, 2023
English | 102 Pages | PDF | 37.47 MB

Chinese Foreign Policy in Transition By Guoli Liu (editor)
2004 | 430 Pages | ISBN: 0202307530 | PDF | 63 MB
Since the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, and particularly after the opening brought about by economic reforms roughly thirty years thereafter, China has become an influential player in regional and global affairs. Increasingly, both American and European policymakers examine Chinese foreign policy as a flexible, pragmatic, and significant element in world affairs. This has accelerated in the middle of the new first decade of this century, as business firms and political officials have developed interests in the sources, processes, and significance of China's reemergence as a global force. This volume examines how, in conjunction with rapid economic growth and profound social transformation, China's foreign policy is experiencing significant transition.The purpose of this truly deep and probing collection is to deepen Western understanding of the sources, substance, and significance of Chinese foreign policy--with a focus on the post Cold War environment. Contributors include academic specialists, area researchers, and distinguished journalists, all with firsthand experience in the field of China studies. The volume is divided into four parts: (1) theory and culture; (2) perspective and identity; (3) bilateral relationships; and (4) retrospective and prospective essays on Chinese policy concerns. The volume is sensitive to changes in national leadership and Communist Party structure as well as continuity and change in foreign policy. As Lowell Dittmer of the University of California notes in his Foreword, "precisely because it is so difficult to do well, the analysis of foreign policy is often conducted rather tritely.Thus it is a real pleasure to find assembled here a treasure trove of some of the finest work by some of the field's most penetrating minds. This is fortunate, for at the core of this volume is one of the biggest and most portentous questions to confront the world at the outset of the twenty-first century. That question is: in the decades to come, what role will China play in the world? As the homeland of about a fifth of mankind, this question is almost guaranteed relevance whatever the fate of China's domestic economy."

Assignment Russia: Becoming a Foreign Correspondent in the Crucible of the Cold War (Audiobook)
English | July 20, 2021 | ASIN: B099X923WM | M4B@64 kbps | 13h 1m | 449 MB
Author and Narrator: Marvin Kalb
A personal journey through some of the darkest moments of the cold war and the early days of television news.

Jordan E. Taylor, "Misinformation Nation: Foreign News and the Politics of Truth in Revolutionary America"
English | ISBN: 1421444496 | 2022 | 288 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Fundamentally reshapes our understanding of the causes of the American Revolution and the pivotal role foreign news and misinformation played in driving colonists to revolt.

Bente Scheller, "The Wisdom of Syria's Waiting Game: Foreign Policy Under the Assads"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1849042861 | PDF | pages: 277 | 1.6 mb
Syrian foreign policy, always opaque, has become an even greater puzzle during the Syrian revolt. Irrespective of the regime's international isolation in the wake of its violent response to domestic protest, it has paid lip-service to international peace plans while unperturbedly crushing the rebellion. The rare televised appearances of President Assad have shown a leader detached from reality. Has he-in his own words-'gone crazy'? In this book long- time Syria analyst and former diplomat Bente Scheller contends that Bashar Assad's deadly waiting game is following its own logic: whatever difficulties the Syrian regime has faced, its previous experience has been that it can simply sit out the current crisis.

Spyfail: Foreign Spies, Moles, Saboteurs, and the Collapse of America's Counterintelligence by James Bamford
English | January 17th, 2023 | ISBN: 1538741156 | 496 pages | True EPUB | 1.43 MB
James Bamford, the bestselling author ofThe Puzzle PalaceandBody of Secrets, unveils a hidden cabal of foreign powers that have spied against America to reveal the incredible spygames, secrets, and cyberweapons they've hatched, unlocked, and stolen-and how U.S. intelligence has utterly failed to stop them.