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In his thousand-day presidency, John F. Kennedy led America throuh one of its most difficult and potentially explosive areas. With the Cold War at its height and the threat of communist advances in Europe and the Third World, Kennedy had the unenviable task of maintaining US solidarity without leading the western world into a nuclear catastrophe. In ''Kennedy''s Wars'', noted historian Lawrence Freedman draws on the best of Cold War scholarship and newly released government documents to illuminate Kennedy''s approach to war and his efforts for peace. He recreates insightfully the political and intellectual milieu of the foreign policy establishment during Kennedy''s era with vivid profiles of his top advisors - Robert McNamara, Dean Rusk, Robert Kennedy - and influential figures such as Dean Acheson and Walt Rostow. Tracing the evolution of traditional liberalism into the Cold War liberalism of Kennedy''s cabinet, Freedman evaluates their responses to the tensions in Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam. He gives each conflict individual attention, showing how foreign policy decisions came to be defined for each new crisis in the light of those that had gone before.Readers will follow Kennedy as he wrestles with the succession of major conflicts - taking advice, weighing the risks of inadvertently escalating the Cold War into outright military confrontation, exploring diplomatic options, and forming strategic judgements that would eventually prevent a major war during his presidency. ''Kennedy''s Wars'' offers a dynamic and human portrait of Kennedy under pressure: a political leader shaped by the ideas of his time, conscious of his vulnerability to electoral defeat but also of his nation''s vulnerability to nuclear war. Military and Kennedy enthusiasts will find its balanced consideration of the president''s foreign policy and provocative ''what if'' scenarios invaluable keys to understanding his accomplishments, failures, and enduring legacy.

" This is a valuable collection, well organized and professionally edited." -- Terrorism and Political Violence " There is, in short, a great deal in this book that will be of interest. It will be a useful addition to the all-too-small literature on successful peace processes, as well as offering new comparative insights to the literature on the countries concerned." This book is about ending guerrilla conflicts in Latin America through political means. It is about peace processes, aimed at securing an end to military hostilities in the context of agreements that touch on some of the principal political, economic, social, and ethnic imbalances that led to conflict in the first place. The book presents a carefully structured comparative analysis of six Latin American countries-- Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Colombia, and Peru-- which experienced guerrilla warfare that outlasted the end of the Cold War. The book explores in detail the unique constellation of national and international events that allowed some wars to end in negotiated settlement, one to end in virtual defeat of the insurgents, and the others to rage on. The aim of the book is to identify the variables that contribute to the success or failure of a peace dialogue. Though the individual case studies deal with dynamics that have allowed for or impeded successful negotiations, the contributors also examine comparatively such recurrent dilemmas as securing justice for victims of human rights abuses, reforming the military and police forces, and reconstructing the domestic economy. Serving as a bridge between the distinct literatures on democratization in Latin America and on conflict resolution, the book underscores the reciprocal influences that peace processes and democratic transition have on each other, and the ways democratic " space" is created and political participation enhanced by means of a peace dialogue with insurgent forces. The case studies-- by country and issue specialists from Latin America, the United States, andEurope-- are augmented by commentaries of senior practitioners most directly involved in peace negotiations, including United Nations officials, former peace advisers, and activists from civil society.

A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy

The Emergence of the Global Political Economy challenges assumptions that the international political economy is a recent phenomenon. Instead, this volume asserts that the current global political economy began to take shape around 1500 and that some of today's key processes were already perceivable hundreds of years ago. The author explains the interdependence between long-term economic growth, global political leadership and global war and how this interdependence has evolved over the past 500 years, and includes discussions of: the ascendance of Western Europe and the significance of the 1490s the military superiority thesis sequences of leadership and of challenge to the global political economy the importance of commodities from sugar and cloth to slaves and bullion.

This major new book introduces and examines the latest developments in European foreign policy. It provides a complete overview of the ways in which the very nature of foreign policy in Europe has changed and advances new insights into contemporary European foreign policy analysis. The book is structured around three parts. Part one provides a concise overview of the latest theories and concepts in this growing field of study and research. Part two assembles and reviews a series of contemporary issue areas including security and defense, economic foreign policy, diplomacy, national cooperation, human rights, and sovereignty. Part three mirrors and builds on Part two by providing an applied case study to each of the preceding topics. Throughout the book the authors address and incorporate both the national and European Union levels of foreign policy and explore the complex interactions between the two. The result is a book that will be essential reading for all students and researchers seeking a deeper understanding of European foreign policy today and the wider implications for future foreign policy analysis in politics and international relations.

It is argued that ASEAN (Association of South-East Asian Nations), with a weak formal mandate, has been more effective in enhancing regional security and order as well as economic development than other Regional Organs in Asia. As a regional organization, how ASEAN has repeatedly overcome its fallen short of resolving such conflicts. Threats of terrorism, competition over nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, and an unresolved dispute over land comprise some of the main areas of tension between these countries.

La obra de Hix y Høyland (con cuatro ediciones en inglés) constituye uno de los textos más influyentes que se han publicado sobre la Unión Europea. Desde su primera edición en 1999, ha contribuido a

'This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else.' Following the success of his best-selling The Future of Freedom, Fareed Zakaria describes a world in which the United States will no longer dominate the global economy, orchestrate geopolitics, or overwhelm cultures. He sees the 'rise of the rest' - the growth of countries like China, India, Brazil, Russia, and many others - as the great story of our time, and one that will reshape the world. The tallest buildings, biggest dams, largest-selling movies, and most advanced cell phones are all being built outside the United States. This economic growth is producing political confidence, national pride, and potentially international problems. What does it mean to live in a truly global era? Zakaria answers these questions with his customary lucidity, insight, and imagination.

Starting with a typology of ASEAN external agreements, the authors go on to provide an original reading of plurilateral agreements as 'joint' agreements. The book then offers both a clarification of the effects - direct or indirect - of external agreements within the legal orders of ASEAN Member States, and an explanation of the effects of external agreements within the legal regime of ASEAN. The authors conclude with a discussion of the role of ASEAN centrality and the role of the secretariat in shaping it.

In a revised and updated edition, Chomsky untangles the intricacies of the US-Israeli-Palestinian relationship. He covers the significant developments of the 1980s and 1990s, aiming to provide a corrective to the mythmaking that has obscured the real history of peace negotiations in the region.

NEWTON BOWLESThis book analyses the negative and positive aspects of the UN organization. It sets out a full account of UN security, doctrine and action; disarmament strategies; criminal juristiction; human rights issues; globalization and poverty contradictions; and UN financing worries.

En Política exterior española. Un balance de futuro se presenta una perspectiva de gran angular de la política exterior española, en la que se conjuga el pasado con el presente y, sobre todo, con las perspectivas de futuro. A lo largo de sus dos volumenes se desgranan las claves que afectan a la configuracion de la politica exterior española y que marcaran el futuro de la misma. Jose Maria Beneyto, Juan Carlos Pereira, Celestino del Arenal, Francesc Granell, Miguel Hernando de Larramendi, Emilio Casinello, Florentino Rodao o Esther Barbe, entre otros muchos destacados historiadores, politologos, juristas, periodistas, economistas, diplomaticos y politicos en activo, se dan cita en esta obra colectiva para presentarnos la pluralidad de actores, el marco de accion, asi como las areas principales de la accion exterior de una potencia media como España. La pluralidad de voces que se han logrado reunir responde al espiritu de una politica de consenso de la que nos habla Marcelino Oreja en el prologo de la obra, y que constituyo su leitmotiv como ministro de Asuntos Exteriores.