Small Nations in Times of Crisis and Confrontation - 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 Small Nations in Times of Crisis and Confrontation write by Yohanan Cohen. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Small Nations in Times of Crisis and Confrontation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The question is, how should small states behave under pressure? The analysis is of three cases: Czechoslavakia in 1938, Poland from 1939 to 1945, and Finland in 1940 and 41. The author is scrupulous in not drawing too many general lessons from these cases, but the imprudence of overreliance on great power protection and of ceding to justifications for surrender based on self-determination are made clear.
A Century of Crisis and Conflict in the International System
A Century of Crisis and Conflict in the International System - 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 Century of Crisis and Conflict in the International System write by Michael Brecher. This book was released on 2017-07-25. A Century of Crisis and Conflict in the International System available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is designed to present a fully developed theory of international crisis and conflict, along with substantial evidence of these two closely related phenomena. The book begins with a discussion of these topics at a theoretical level, defining and elaborating on core concepts: international crisis, interstate conflict, severity, and impact. This is followed by a discussion of the international system, along with two significant illustrations, the Berlin Blockade crisis (1948) and the India-Pakistan crisis over Kashmir (1965-66). The book then presents a unified model of crisis, focusing on the four phases of an international crisis, which incorporate the four periods of foreign policy crises for individual states. Findings from thirteen conflicts representing six regional clusters are then analyzed, concluding with a set of hypotheses and evidence on conflict onset, persistence, and resolution.
Little Book of Conflict Transformation
Little Book of Conflict Transformation - 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 Little Book of Conflict Transformation write by John Lederach. This book was released on 2015-01-27. Little Book of Conflict Transformation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This clearly articulated statement offers a hopeful and workable approach to conflict—that eternally beleaguering human situation. John Paul Lederach is internationally recognized for his breakthrough thinking and action related to conflict on all levels—person-to-person, factions within communities, warring nations. He explores why "conflict transformation" is more appropriate than "conflict resolution" or "management." But he refuses to be drawn into impractical idealism. Conflict Transformation is an idea with a deep reach. Its practice, says Lederach, requires "both solutions and social change." It asks not simply "How do we end something not desired?", but "How do we end something destructive and build something desired?" How do we deal with the immediate crisis, as well as the long-term situation? What disciplines make such thinking and practices possible? A title in The Little Books of Justice and Peacebuilding Series.
Imagining Ireland Abroad, 1904–1945
Imagining Ireland Abroad, 1904–1945 - 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 Imagining Ireland Abroad, 1904–1945 write by Lili Zách. This book was released on 2021-07-29. Imagining Ireland Abroad, 1904–1945 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Offering a unique account of identity formation in Ireland and Central Europe, this book explores and contextualises transfers and comparisons between Ireland and the successor states of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It reveals how Irish perceptions of borders and identities changed after the (re)birth of the small states of Austria, Hungary and Czechoslovakia and the creation of the Irish Free State. Adopting a transnational approach, the book documents the outward-looking attitude of Irish nationalists and provides original insights into the significance of personal encounters that transcended the borders of nation-states. Drawing on a wide range of official records, private papers, contemporary press accounts and journal articles, Imagining Ireland Abroad, 1904-1945 bridges the gap between historiographies of the East and West by opening up a new perspective on Irish national identity.
Citizenship under Fire
Citizenship under Fire - 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 Citizenship under Fire write by Sigal R. Ben-Porath. This book was released on 2009-03-02. Citizenship under Fire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Citizenship under Fire examines the relationship among civic education, the culture of war, and the quest for peace. Drawing on examples from Israel and the United States, Sigal Ben-Porath seeks to understand how ideas about citizenship change when a country is at war, and what educators can do to prevent some of the most harmful of these changes. Perhaps the most worrisome one, Ben-Porath contends, is a growing emphasis in schools and elsewhere on social conformity, on tendentious teaching of history, and on drawing stark distinctions between them and us. As she writes, "The varying characteristics of citizenship in times of war and peace add up to a distinction between belligerent citizenship, which is typical of democracies in wartime, and the liberal democratic citizenship that is characteristic of more peaceful democracies." Ben-Porath examines how various theories of education--principally peace education, feminist education, and multicultural education--speak to the distinctive challenges of wartime. She argues that none of these theories are satisfactory on their own theoretical terms or would translate easily into practice. In the final chapter, she lays out her own alternative theory--"expansive education"--which she believes holds out more promise of widening the circles of participation in schools, extending the scope of permissible debate, and diversifying the questions asked about the opinions voiced.
