Guicciardini, Geopolitics and Geohistory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Guicciardini, Geopolitics and Geohistory write by William Mallinson. This book was released on 2021-07-23. Guicciardini, Geopolitics and Geohistory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book demonstrates that geohistory is a more effective concept than geopolitics in understanding inter-state relations, at a time of considerable confusion in world affairs, and that Francesco Guicciardini’s thoughts are an efficient medium to demonstrate not only the inadequacies of geopolitics, but that a geohistorical approach can be a more responsible way of understanding international affairs. The book introduces a fresh approach, based on the individual, on which corporate characteristics and behaviour depend, often in the shape of state interests, which are unable on their own to predict actions driven by human behaviour. The book shows how show mainstream international relations theories are stuck in paradigms, inadequate in explaining why world politics is moving in a direction that nobody could predict even a decade ago. It shows how ideology can blur clear understanding. In short, it represents a new and intellectually refreshing approach and method in understanding, and tackling, the vagaries of relations between states.
Globalisation and Second Language Identity
Globalisation and Second Language Identity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Globalisation and Second Language Identity write by Manfred Man-fat Wu. This book was released on . Globalisation and Second Language Identity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Threat of Geopolitics to International Relations
The Threat of Geopolitics to International Relations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Threat of Geopolitics to International Relations write by William Mallinson. This book was released on 2016-09-23. The Threat of Geopolitics to International Relations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Geopolitics, both in name, and in its application via geostrategy, is a controversial area of international relations. Although the practice of obtaining resources is as old as Mankind, the word came into its own with the imperial policies of the great powers in the nineteenth century, was used to justify world wars, went into decline, but was ‘taken to America’ and then re-exported to Europe after the last war by the likes of Henry Kissinger. Nowadays, the term is used unconsciously by politicians obsessed with power, often to justify war. This book tears apart the simplistic thinking of geopolitics, and proposes its replacement with the authors’ own method of ‘geohistory’, a method based on recognising that at the base of any analysis and evaluation of the international situation lie human characteristics.
A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula
A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula write by Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza. This book was released on 2010-05-26. A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula is the second comparative history of a new subseries with a regional focus, published by the Coordinating Committee of the International Comparative Literature Association. As its predecessor for East-Central Europe, this two-volume history distances itself from traditional histories built around periods and movements, and explores, from a comparative viewpoint, a space considered to be a powerful symbol of inter-literary relations. Both the geographical pertinence and its symbolic condition are obviously discussed, when not even contested. Written by an international team of researchers who are specialists in the field, this history is the first attempt at applying a comparative approach to the plurilingual and multicultural literatures in the Iberian Peninsula. The aim of comprehensiveness is abandoned in favor of a diverse and extensive array of key issues for a comparative agenda. A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula undermines the primacy claimed for national and linguistic boundaries, and provides a geo-cultural account of literary inter-systems which cannot otherwise be explained.
Kissinger and the Invasion of Cyprus
Kissinger and the Invasion of Cyprus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kissinger and the Invasion of Cyprus write by William Mallinson. This book was released on 2016-08-17. Kissinger and the Invasion of Cyprus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Can Henry Kissinger be described as a serious statesman who altered the course of relations between states? Or was he a shallow impersonator of those whom he admired, and a geopolitical engineer who treated people as collateral fodder, reducing morality to the status of a strategic and tactical tool? Using the story of Kissinger’s behaviour over Cyprus, backed up by recently revealed government documents, many critical, William Mallinson, former diplomat and leading authority on Cyprus’ history, provides an incisive analysis and evaluation of Kissinger’s approach, revealing a man who appears to have considered political strategy more important than law and ethics.
