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The American Style: Our Past and Our Principles
Although the notion of national character has turned out to be of dubious validity, the notion of a national style holds greater promise. It is a postulate and a construct. It attempts to establish order in a chaotic mass of features by positing that a nation perceives the world, and its place in it, in a fashion which is never quite that of any other nation, just as no individual ever faces the world as anyone else does.
La diplomacia clásica en la era de la información: Hubert Védrine explica la política exterior francesa
France in an Age of Globalization
Clash of Globalizations
Sign in and save to read later Print this article Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Get a link Page url Request Reprint Permissions A NEW PARADIGM? What is the state of international relations today? In the 1990s, specialists concentrated on the partial disintegration of the global order's traditional foundations: states.
Classic Diplomacy in the Information Age
In This Review In This Review France in an Age of Globalization By Hubert Vedrine and Dominique Moisi Sign in and save to read later Print this article Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Get a link Page url Request Reprint Permissions In June 2000, France's foreign minister, Hubert Vedrine, published Les cartes de la France a l'heure de la mondialisation to address questions about French diplomacy.
NATO and Nuclear Weapons: Reasons and Unreason
Sign in and save to read later Print this article Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Get a link Request Reprint Permissions The history of the Atlantic Alliance is a history of crises.
Ralph Bunche
Brian Urquhart, who was Ralph Bunche's chief assistant from 1954 until Bunche's death in 1971, succeeded him as United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Special Political affairs -- a position created for Bunche by U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld in 1953. Some years ago, Urquhart published a fine and rich biography of Hammarskjöld. He has now given us a sensitive, informative, comprehensive, and often heartbreaking biography of Bunche: a great book about a great man.
Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830-1930
This dazzling book demonstrates how contagious diseases affected politics and public policy in Europe. Baldwin explains how particular nations chose specific preventive courses while emphasizing the multiplicity of factors behind their decisions. He contrasts the preventive strategy of "quarantinist" approaches, which interrupted the circulation of carriers, with "localist" approaches, which tried to remove the environmental causes of disease.
The Crime of Cambodia
The Crime of Cambodia Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia by William Shawcross Simon & Schuster, 467 pp., $13.95 “Cambodia was not a mistake; it was a crime.” This is what William Shawcross demonstrates in his careful, detailed, and incisive book. Sideshow is both masterly and horrifying.
The Best Books on US Foreign Policy
American foreign policy is something almost everyone around the world has an opinion on, and that opinion is normally fairly critical. But at the end of the day, many of those criticisms don’t correspond with one another, and there’s a fair amount of ignorance about what’s really driving it. For example, if you asked 10 people why the US went into Iraq, you’d probably get 10 different answers. Can you explain what, in your view, it’s all about?
1939: The Alliance That Never Was and the Coming of World War II
In This Review 1939: The Alliance That Never Was and the Coming of World War II By Michael Jabara Carley Facebook Twitter Email My FA Saved Articles Print Using extensive Russian and Western archives, Carley tells the sad story of the British-French relationship with the Soviet Union in 1938-39.
In Defense of Mother Teresa: Morality in Foreign Policy
As a supporter of the Carter administration's ideals who quickly became disillusioned with its performance and denounced the gap between its good intentions and contradictory policies, I appreciate the pithy and pugnacious prosecutor's brief that Michael Mandelbaum, a courageous supporter of Bill Clinton during the 1992 campaign, has drafted ("Foreign Policy as Social Work," January/February 1996).
Nazi Germany and the Jews, Vol. 1: The Years of Persecution
Friedlander's lifelong work on Nazism and the fate of the Jews in the twentieth century culminates in this volume. Hitler's obsession with the Jews was the most extreme form of "redemptive" anti-Semitism, different from (albeit related to) classical Christian anti-Semitism.
The Fall of France: The Nazi Invasion of 1940
Two years after publishing a remarkable book on France's "dark years" (1940-44), Jackson returns to the historians' battlefield with an investigation of the fall of France in May-June 1940, which he covered much more briefly in the earlier volume. Jackson's account is vivid, particularly sharp and sound in examining the deteriorating relations between France and its often condescending British ally and the increasingly bitter rivalries within the French leadership.
Democracy and Federalism in the European Union and the United States: Exploring Post-national Governance
This comparison between the institutions of the European Union and those of the United States, undertaken by a group of American and European political scientists, is stimulating and informative -- perhaps because each chapter is short and organized around a small number of concepts and arguments. There are no great surprises.
A Democratic Audit of the European Union
It is with great anticipation that one turns to a book that aims to carry out an "audit" of the European Union to find out just how democratic its institutions are and to determine what can be done to make up for any "democratic deficit," by making its institutions more responsive to the peoples of member states.
Fear: The History of a Political Idea
In This Review In This Review Fear: The History of a Political Idea This talented young political scientist examines fear as a "political tool, an instrument of elite rule or insurgent advance, created and sustained by political leaders or activists who stand to gain something from it, either because fear helps them pursue a specific political goal, or because it reflects or lends support to their moral and political beliefs-or both." He examines the role of fear in the work of thinkers from...
Hitlers Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
In This Review In This Review Hitlers Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust A challenging, powerfully argued, and morally passionate account of the extermination of the Jews by Nazi Germany. Goldhagen has done prodigious research in order to find out who the ‘willing executioners’ were and what they did.
Monsieur Taste
1. In 1963, and again in 1967 and 1968, approximately twelve hundred French men and women in Paris and Lille and in a small provincial town were asked to answer questions about their tastes in furniture, clothes, food, TV programs, music, paintings, and photos. These answers, extensive interviews, and various other surveys are the basis of Pierre Bourdieu’s enormously ambitious attempt to create a sociology of aesthetic judgment. His book was published in France in 1979.
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