By Joseph Frankel (auth.)
Read or Download National Interest PDF
Best international & world politics books
Interpreting And Implementing The Trips Agreement: Is It Fair?
This publication considers even if the WTO contract on `Trade-Related facets of highbrow estate Rights' (TRIPS) turns into a motor vehicle for selling higher foreign fairness and engagement with the realm economic system or a device for filthy rich international locations to extract over the top rents from poorer international locations. Can journeys garner the mandatory measure of legitimacy and public belief to carry financial improvement?
Paradigm Lost?: Transitions and the Search for a New World Order
This booklet examines significant historic post-war transition sessions, with specific emphasis at the modifications and similarities of the yankee event after either global wars of this century and with the post-Cold conflict transition at present underway. Jablonsky presents a strategic imaginative and prescient that includes a multilateral, great-power method of the diplomacy of our period.
International Relations Theory and Regional Transformation Paperback
Nearby transformation has emerged as a big subject of study up to now few many years, a lot of it looking to know the way a sector alterations right into a area of clash or cooperation and the way and why a few areas stay in perpetual clash. even if the best theoretical paradigms of diplomacy have anything to claim approximately neighborhood order, a entire therapy of this topic is lacking from the literature.
The Great Powers and the International System
Do nice leaders make heritage? Or are they pressured to behave through ancient condition? This debate has remained unresolved on account that Thomas Carlyle and Karl Marx framed it within the mid-nineteenth century, but implicit solutions tell our rules and our perspectives of historical past. during this ebook, Professor undergo F. Braumoeller argues persuasively that either views are right: leaders form the most fabric and ideological forces of historical past that in this case constrain and compel them.
- An Introduction to Australian Public Policy: Theory and Practice
- The EU-Japan Security Dialogue: Invisible but Comprehensive
- Security Threatened: Surveying Israeli Opinion on Peace and War
- Bringing Transnational Relations Back In: Non-State Actors, Domestic Structures and International Institutions
- Sharing International Responsibilities among the Trilateral Countries
- Explaining the Iraq War: Counterfactual Theory, Logic and Evidence Paperback
Extra resources for National Interest
Example text
F. pan-Arabism or panAfiicanism, or the messianic ideas in Polish history); They need not be fully articulated and co-ordinated and they can be contradictory; They do not require a 'feasibility study' and are rarely if ever costed; They are determined by political will rather than by capabilities-ideology is a strong determinant. The influence of power is ambivalent: while an ambition mSty be due to the people's awareness of the power of their state, it can be likewise due to their awareness of their powerlessness and their escape into daydreams, as in the cases above-mentioned under 3.
The relationship between declarations and actual aspirations The major distinetWns proposed/37 and policies is generally unclear. As no scientific tools exist for its determination, we are reduced to impressionistic guesses and to hunches. Thus Mr. Wilson's denial (mentioned above) of a foreseeable federal future for Europe, may refer to his aspiration or to his proposed policy arrived at on the basis of his estimate of the present situation in Europe, or to some combination of both. Even if he chose to clarifY this statement authoritatively himself, we could not be sure whether his argument accurately represented his views or that his views on the subject were constant and clear.
E. mainly economic and political interests, for ideological reasons. Salience/63 In 1969 Mr. Luns, the Netherlands foreign minister for seventeen years, similarly, in retrospect, assessed the way the Dutch had handled the West Irian issue which, he said, was peripheral to their interests but central to their principles. The United States in Vietnam is another example. 4 Tradition based upon historical experience. Although the qualities of importance and urgency can be and sometimes are assessed on the basis of a rational evaluation, tradition often prevails, especially when the situation is unclear and/or time is pressing.