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Hegemony and the US‒Japan Alliance

Hegemony and the US‒Japan Alliance

It is widely recognised that the increasing importance of the US‒Japan alliance is strongly linked to emerging threats in the Asia Pacific with China’s rise and the ambitions of North Korea having brought the two allies closer together. This book however seeks to question whether these factors are indeed the sole determinants of this enduring alliance. A pioneering study conducted through the lens of neo-Gramscianism this book unravels the intricate political dynamism involved in the US‒Japan alliance. It provides an innovative attempt to link the concept of alliances to hegemony and thus examines Japan’s relationship to US dominance in the region. Building on existing scholarship it also seeks to examine how Japan’s continuing dependence on the US and the burden it places of citizens living near US military bases may affect the durability of the alliance in the post-Cold War era. As such this book presents an alternative theoretical tool in the field of international relations to analyse the political nature of the alliance as well as US hegemony in the region. This book will be useful to students and scholars of Japanese Politics and foreign policymaking as well as International Relations and Security Studies more generally. | Hegemony and the US‒Japan Alliance

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US Power in Latin America Renewing Hegemony

US Power in Latin America Renewing Hegemony

An original account of contemporary US-Latin American relations this book utilises neo-Gramscian and historical materialist approaches to build a novel conceptual framework for analysing US hegemony extending critical theory in new and exciting directions. It disaggregates US power into distinct forms (structural coercive institutional and ideological) to convincingly argue that the United States is remaking its hegemony in the Western hemisphere. The first decade of the new century saw the ascendancy of leftist and centre-left forces in Latin America. The emergence and consolidation of the ‘New Latin Left’ signalled a profound challenge to the long-standing hegemony of the United States in the region. This book details the ways in which US foreign policy responded: defining hegemony as a dialectical relationship patterned by multiple and overlapping forms of power it situates US policy in the context of the Post-Washington Consensus. Making considerable use of confidential diplomatic cables published by Wikileaks it examines the interplay of different facets of US hegemony which are inextricably bound up in the neoliberalisation of the region’s political economy. This book brings clarity to what remains an open and contested process of hegemonic reconstitution and promises to be of interest to scholars working in a number of overlapping subject areas including International Relations (IR) US foreign policy and Latin American studies. | US Power in Latin America Renewing Hegemony

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US Imperialism The Changing Dynamics of Global Power

US Imperialism The Changing Dynamics of Global Power

This book offers a broad and deep examination of the dynamics of US imperialism. Petras analyzes imperialism not only as economic domination showing that its impact in the world takes many forms including cultural political and historical. He points to the disruptive effects it has on other world regional economies and cultures. Capitalism and imperialism take diverse forms but both are intimately tied to the projection of state power in the service of capital—a strategy designed to advance the geopolitical and economic interests of the US economic elite and ruling class—interests that are equated with the 'US national interest'. | US Imperialism The Changing Dynamics of Global Power

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US Foreign Policy Towards the Middle East The Realpolitik of Deceit

US Foreign Policy Towards the Middle East The Realpolitik of Deceit

This book offers a realist critique of US foreign policy towards the Middle East in the past decade. It critically examines four core foundations of contemporary US Middle East policy: US relations with Saudi Arabia after the Arab Spring; US diplomacy towards Iran and the Obama administration’s policy of engagement; the road to and aftermath of the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq; and US policy towards nuclear-armed Israel. Because of a closely guarded bipartisan consensus these four core foundations of contemporary US Middle East policy have largely evaded public criticism and scrutiny. This book argues that US strategy towards the Middle East has rarely been guided by order stability and the national interest. Rather successive administrations have created a house of cards built on a series of deceptions and constructed perceptions or myths. Combined these four aspects of US Middle East policy have ushered in a decade of political violence instability sectarian divisions and an imbalance of power which has culminated in the territorial disintegration of Iraq and countries in the Levant as well as the rise of ISIS. Moving forward requires a rational pursuit of the national interest based on realist principles. This book will be of much interest to students of US foreign policy Middle Eastern politics security studies and IR in general. | US Foreign Policy Towards the Middle East The Realpolitik of Deceit

GBP 38.99
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Education and the US Government

Education and the US Government

Originally published in 1987 at a time when central government control of education in many countries was growing rapidly this book on the historical determinants of US educational legislation was of great relevance. The book looks in detail at the history of the relationship between the US Government and the provision of educational services. It assesses the contributions made to educational legislation by key political figures such as Franklin Washington and Jefferson. The author also examines in depth the role of congress and the president the relationship between the federal government and the state legislature and the role of the judiciary in education. An account of the hard-fought battle for the right to equal educational opportunities for the American Negro and the American Indian is of considerable interest. Finally the book compares the American educational system at the time with that of other countries. | Education and the US Government

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America's Allies and the Decline of US Hegemony

America's Allies and the Decline of US Hegemony

How do America’s democratic allies perceive and respond to a relative decline in US power and influence and the simultaneous rise of China? Using the case-studies of Europe the UK Australia Canada Japan and South East Asian countries this book offers a broad assessment of the perceptions of threat and the strategies used by these allies to cope with the relative decline of America’s hegemonic power the rise of China and the transforming world order. In answering these central questions contributors focus on two complementary analytical approaches. The first examines the perceptions of systemic changes by America’s allies: how are US allies framing this issue and what kind of political discourse is emerging with regards to it? The second approach focuses on the concrete foreign policy and defence strategies put forward by these allies. The book explores the extent to which US allies are willing to support US hegemony and considers the democratic allies’ understanding of the international structure their relations to the United States and their own aspirations in this changing world order. This book will be of interest to general readers as well as scholars and students of US foreign policy foreign policy analysis and International Relations. | America's Allies and the Decline of US Hegemony

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Kissinger Angola and US-African Foreign Policy The Unintentional Realist

Kissinger Angola and US-African Foreign Policy The Unintentional Realist

Analysing US foreign policy towards Angola during the Ford administration this book provides an intriguing insight into one of the most avoidable and unfortunate episodes in Cold War history and explores the impact on Henry Kissinger’s much vaunted reputation for being guided by realist principles. Kissinger has dominated political discourse and scholarship on US foreign policy since the 1970s but although his legacy continues to generate controversy little attention has been paid to the influence of Vietnam’s collapse on the US decision to covertly intervene in the Angolan civil war. This book argues that Kissinger’s concern for personal reputation and US credibility following the collapse of Vietnam led to a harmful and unrealistic policy toward Angola. Exposure of US covert intervention exacerbated domestic and international political tensions and the subsequent showdown between the excutive and legislative branches ironically resulted in Kissinger proclaiming a new departure in US–African relations. Thus it is argued that Kissinger was an ‘unintentional realist’ rather than an intellectual proponent of realpolitik. Enhancing our understanding of Kissinger his relationship with his subordinates and with Congress and his approach to foreign policy this book will be of interest to scholars of Cold War history US foreign policy and all those fascinated by the personality of Henry Kissinger. | Kissinger Angola and US-African Foreign Policy The Unintentional Realist

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The Routledge Handbook of US Foreign Policy in the Indo-Pacific

The Routledge Handbook of US Foreign Policy in the Indo-Pacific

This handbook provides a comprehensive survey of US foreign policy throughout the Indo-Pacific. Home to around 60 percent of the world’s population; most of the world’s largest and fastest-growing economies; around half of the world’s states with full nuclear capabilities; and a complicated web of unresolved tensions disputes and conflicts the Indo-Pacific is arguably the most diverse dynamic and contested region on Earth. US strategy there has evolved over centuries with its physical presence going broadly unchallenged since at least the middle of the last century. However the rapid development and expanding influence of China – alongside the growth of India Indonesia Vietnam the Philippines and others – as well as political and economic crises and disruptions within the United States itself mean that in recent times the US has come to occupy a newly uncertain position and perceive a range of highly unfamiliar challenges. To explore how the US has managed and continues to manage its regional history and how it approaches the modern-day landscape of an Indo-Pacific only recently normalised within international political discourse the book contains 33 newly commissioned chapters from leading experts in the field. It does so partly with help from the more traditional realms of International Relations theory as well as more critical realms. It also unpacks US policy and strategy as it pertains to regional governments states and multilateral institutions as well as to pressing issues including inter-state security human rights trade artificial intelligence and cyber strategy. It does so in four parts: History of the US in the Indo-Pacific Theorising US Policy and Presence in the Indo-Pacific The US and Indo-Pacific States and Institutions The US and Indo-Pacific Issues The book is designed to be of interest to students and scholars of the US in the Indo-/Asia Pacific; the international relations of the Indo-/Asia Pacific; and US foreign policy. | The Routledge Handbook of US Foreign Policy in the Indo-Pacific

GBP 190.00
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Short Sighted Solutions: Trade and Energy Policies for the US Auto Industry

Short Sighted Solutions: Trade and Energy Policies for the US Auto Industry

This book originally published in 1994 explores the effects of federal policies on the US auto industry in the 1970s and 80s which were designed to save jobs and help the domestic industry become more competitive. The author develops a new model based on modern oliopoly theory to estimate the effects of the voluntary Restraint Agreements (which limited Japanese imports) on the US auto market. The results demonstrate that VRAs caused price increases which adversely affected the comptitiveness of US producers. On the eve of a new Trump administration and the likelihood of new restrictions on imports to boost US manufacturing this book has particular enduring relevance. | Short Sighted Solutions: Trade and Energy Policies for the US Auto Industry

GBP 31.99
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Analyzing US Census Data Methods Maps and Models in R

Analyzing US Census Data Methods Maps and Models in R

Census data is widely used by practitioners to understand demographic change allocate resources address inequalities and make sound business decisions. Until recently projects using US Census data have required proficiency with multiple web interfaces and software platforms to prepare map and present data products. This book introduces readers to tools in the R programming language for accessing and analyzing Census data and shows how to carry out demographic analyses in a single computing environment. Chapters in this book cover the following key topics: • Rapidly acquiring data from the decennial US Census and American Community Survey using R then analyzing these datasets using tidyverse tools; • Visualizing US Census data with a wide range of methods including charts in ggplot2 as well as both static and interactive maps; • Using R as a geographic information system (GIS) to manage analyze and model spatial demographic data from the US Census; • Working with and modeling individual-level microdata from the American Community Survey’s PUMS datasets; • Applying these tools and workflows to the analysis of historical Census data other US government datasets and international Census data from countries like Canada Brazil Kenya and Mexico. | Analyzing US Census Data Methods Maps and Models in R

GBP 52.99
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US National Security Reform Reassessing the National Security Act of 1947

US National Security Reform Reassessing the National Security Act of 1947

This collection of essays considers the evolution of American institutions and processes for forming and implementing US national security policy and offers diverse policy prescriptions for reform to confront an evolving and uncertain security environment. Twelve renowned scholars and practitioners of US national security policy take up the question of whether the national security institutions we have are the ones we need to confront an uncertain future. Topics include a characterization of future threats to national security organizational structure and leadership of national security bureaucracies the role of the US Congress in national security policy making and oversight and the importance of strategic planning within the national security enterprise. The book concludes with concrete recommendations for policy makers most of which can be accomplished under the existing and enduring National Security Act. This book will be of much interest to students of US national security US foreign policy Cold War studies public policy and Internationl Relations in general. | US National Security Reform Reassessing the National Security Act of 1947

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The Political Use of Military Force in US Foreign Policy

The Political Use of Military Force in US Foreign Policy

From the Quasi War with France and the opening of Japan to the numerous interventions of the 1990s these events have been situated at the heart of US foreign policy. There are four different explanations as to why the US throughout its history has used military force just short of war. Some scholars have suggested that nations use military force on behalf of security objectives. Others have maintained that economic self-interest has motivated many military interventions. Recently many researchers have explored the extent to which the US has used force to promote democracy and human rights and still more scholars have argued that presidents use limited force for domestic political purposes. Assessing the utility of each of these explanations throughout US history Meernik employs both historical narrative and statistical techniques to provide a comprehensive account of these important foreign policy events. This engaging highly informative volume is particularly suited to scholars and students in the fields of international relations foreign policy military affairs and history. | The Political Use of Military Force in US Foreign Policy

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Cultural Pragmatism for US-China Relations Breaking the Gridlock and Co-creating Our Future

Cultural Pragmatism for US-China Relations Breaking the Gridlock and Co-creating Our Future

The Thucydides trap and a US-China face-off are not structurally inevitable; US-China relations are what the US and China make of them. Phua focuses on the ability to see US as US and China as China to trigger both countries’ cultural tendencies towards pragmatism. Phua examines China’s arduous journey to fit in the Westphalian system the deep cultural misunderstandings by the West of Sunzi’s The Art of War and attempts to offer an inside-out cultural synthesis of classical and modern Chinese thought as a proxy of their operational code beyond the standard clichés about Confucian and Daoist thought. He builds on Jervis’ perception and misperception as well as Alastair Johnston’s cultural realism. Readers will benefit from a culturally-Chinese western-educated and politically neutral understanding of China as China. An essential primer for academics practitioners and students of international relations diplomacy and Chinese culture. | Cultural Pragmatism for US-China Relations Breaking the Gridlock and Co-creating Our Future

GBP 34.99
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US Trade Policy China and the World Trade Organisation

US Trade Policy China and the World Trade Organisation

The last few years have been anni horribiles for in International Economic Law in general and in particular for the World Trade Organization since its inception in 1995 the guarantor of the world multilateral trade system. The increasing trade tensions a high level of US security tariffs on steel and aluminium the US boycott of the WTO Appellate Body the US-China trade war and the reasons underlining it only aggravated a disastrous world-wide economic situation at a time of tremendous global health and societal emergency due to the persistent devastating spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The book critically discusses the most salient past US administration’s unilateralist and protectionist practices. At the same time investigating the new Biden Administration’s trade approaches in order to assess whether the precedent trade trajectory is likely to continue or there is hope of reviving the US commitment to the rule-based multilateral trading system. The book’s goal consists in distilling from current legal events the reasoning that might help the next generations in obtaining what the world needs most. These are a conscious and voluntary return to multilateralism the search of new forms of effective global cooperation better trade policies a more equitable globalization sound legal arguments and solid economic reasons to combat rising nationalisms. If enacted these elements hopefully would contribute to defeat new risks of political conflicts and long-lasting trade wars. The book will be helpful to students and scholars in international and trade law political science and also professionals working in international and EU institutions. | US Trade Policy China and the World Trade Organisation

GBP 120.00
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Environmental Justice in Contemporary US Narratives

Environmental Justice in Contemporary US Narratives

Environmental Justice in Contemporary US Narratives examines post-1929 US artistic interrogations of environmental disruption. Tracing themes of pollution marine life and agricultural production in the work of a number of historically significant writers including John Steinbeck Ruth Ozeki and Cherríe Moraga this book outlines a series of incisive dialogues on transnational flows of capital and environmental justice. Texts ranging from The Grapes of Wrath (1939) to Body Toxic (2001) represent the body as vulnerable to a host of environmental risks. They identify natural disasters not just as environmental hazards and catastrophes but also as events intertwined with socioeconomic issues. With careful textual analysis Athanassakis shows how twentieth- and twenty-first-century US writers have sought to rethink traditional understandings of how the human being relates to ecological phenomena. Their work and this study offer new modes of creative engagement with environmental degradation – engagement that is proactive ambivalent and even playful. This book contributes to vital discussions about the importance of literature for social justice movements food studies ecocriticism and the environmental humanities. The core argument of the book is that artistically imaginative narratives of environmental disturbance can help humans contend with ostensibly uncontrollable drastic planetary changes.

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Europe’s Evolving Role in US Grand Strategy Indispensable or Insufferable?

Europe’s Evolving Role in US Grand Strategy Indispensable or Insufferable?

This book looks at the evolution of the role of Europe in US grand strategy and unpacks how US administrations have instrumentalized this relationship in pursuit of extra-European objectives. The work considers geopolitical pressures in conjunction with leaders’ strategic ideas to provide an account of the evolution of the role of Europe in the context of US grand strategy. Observers generally agree on the vague notion that Europe has been de-prioritized in Washington’s external affairs. Against this background the book makes the case that such de-prioritization of Europe in the context of US grand strategy also entails a reconceptualization of the transatlantic relationship namely as a region featuring long-standing relationships that can at times be leveraged in pursuit of non-European goals. The United States has a long history of seeking European support or acquiescence for its role as the leader of the international system but whereas during the Cold War Washington enlisted its European allies in a grand strategic struggle against a European power more recently it has sought to enlist European allies in extra-European struggles of different types. Thinking about the role of Europe in US grand strategy now requires new theoretical and empirical tools that allow for the recognition of this very fact. Accordingly this book proposes that strategic ideas on the viability of international cooperation held within the White House crucially shape what – if any - type of support the United States seeks from Europe on the global stage. In doing so the book adds important nuance to other accounts proclaiming either the proverbial death of the transatlantic relationship or the eternal and unchanging nature thereof. This book will be of much interest to students of European security US foreign policy and International Relations. | Europe’s Evolving Role in US Grand Strategy Indispensable or Insufferable?

GBP 130.00
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EU and US Foreign Economic Policy Responses to China The End of Naivety

EU and US Foreign Economic Policy Responses to China The End of Naivety

This book examines EU and US bilateral trade and investment relations with China their attempts to level the economic playing field and to narrow the ‘reciprocity gap’ in market openness. It explores the extent of EU and US policy change the underlying factors accounting for this change and compares EU and US foreign economic policy answers to an adversary increasingly perceived as an unfair economic competitor and as a systemic rival. The book covers a broad range of policy areas from ‘trade wars’ trade defense instruments their reform and use investment screening and export control to industrial policies. It makes eclectic use of different strands of International Relations International Political Economy and Policy Analysis theorizing to account for the extent of and differences in the EU and US responses. The People’s Republic of China’s stellar economic and political rise combined with the resilience of its unfair trade practices its reinforced authoritarian repression at home and its ever more assertive foreign (economic) policy has triggered a shift in perceptions of China followed by equally profound policy change in the European Union and the US. This book expertly charts and explains this significant shift in stance. This book will be of key interest to scholars students and practitioners in the fields of EU trade policymaking US foreign/ foreign economic policy EU-China-US economic relations European political economy and more broadly to European studies Asian studies International Relations International Political Economy and transatlantic relations. | EU and US Foreign Economic Policy Responses to China The End of Naivety

GBP 130.00
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Crony Capitalism in US Health Care Anatomy of a Dysfunctional System

Crony Capitalism in US Health Care Anatomy of a Dysfunctional System

The US political system has come to depend upon money too much. The US health care industry spends the most on political lobbying among all the 13 industrial sectors in the US economy. The government regulatory agencies at both federal and state levels have been captured by the health industry interest groups meaning that the regulatory agencies respond to the interests of the industry but not those of citizens. This book employs a broad theoretical framework of crony capitalism to understand US health care system dysfunction. This framework has not been applied before in any serious manner to understand the shortcomings in the US health care system. Specifically the book examines the role of seven key players using this framework - politicians/interest groups pharmaceutical companies private health insurers hospitals/hospital networks physicians medical device manufacturers and the American public. Crony capitalism is a destructive force and is rampant in US health care system causing much waste inefficiencies and malaise in the system. Current efforts and initiatives such as patient-centered medical homes and precision medicine for improving/reforming the system are of mere academic interest and tantamount to taking aspirin to treat cancer. They do not even pretend to address the root cause of the problem namely crony capitalism. Offering prescriptions to fix the U. S. health care system based on a comprehensive diagnosis of the dysfunction this book will be of interest to researchers academics policymakers and students in the fields of health care management public and non-profit management health policy administration and economics and political science. | Crony Capitalism in US Health Care Anatomy of a Dysfunctional System

GBP 16.99
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US-Pakistan Relations Pakistan s Strategic Choices in the 1990s

US-Pakistan Relations Pakistan s Strategic Choices in the 1990s

US foreign policy-making from the end of the Cold War to after 2001 is crucial to understanding the years of strong US engagement with Pakistan that would follow 9/11. This book explains Pakistan’s strategic choices in the 1990s by examining the role of the United States in the shaping of Islamabad’s security goals. Drawing upon a diverse range of oral history interviews as well as available written sources the book explains the American contribution to Pakistani security objectives during the presidency of Bill Clinton (1993-2001). The author investigates and explains the dynamics which drove Islamabad’s pursuit of nuclear weapons its support for the Taliban and its approach towards the indigenous uprising in Indian Kashmir. She argues that Clinton’s foreign policy contributed to the hardening of Islamabad’s security perspectives creating space for the Pakistani military establishment to pursue its regional security goals. The book also discusses the argument that US-Pakistan relations during this period were driven by a Cold War mindset causing a fissure between US global and Pakistan’s regional security goals. The Pakistani military and civilian leadership utilized these divergent and convergent trends to protect Islamabad’s India-centric strategic interests. The book addresses a gap in the relevant literature and moves beyond the available mono-causal explanations often distorted by a mixture of intellectual obfuscation and political rhetoric. It adds a Pakistani perspective and is a valuable contribution to the study of US-Pakistan relations. | US-Pakistan Relations Pakistan�s Strategic Choices in the 1990s

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Deglobalization China-US Rivalry in the Innovation Economy

Deglobalization China-US Rivalry in the Innovation Economy

The emerging conflict between the US and China has an inherent tendency towards a development of deglobalization. It is the historical prerequisites for this deglobalization that are examined in this book. These assumptions are largely based on what is termed the second wave of globalization based on increasing technological competition between the US and China as well as China's expansion along the New Silk Road. In this book the author makes a distinction between the Old Globalization and the New Globalization. The Old Globalization was characterized by competition over costs in general and wage costs in particular while the New Globalization is categorized by new competencies and skills especially technological capabilities and technological innovations. The second wave which is driven by technological innovations lays the foundation for a counter-strategy on the part of the US to stem the Chinese technological expansion. It is this new strategy that confines the second wave of globalization from China and lays the foundation for deglobalization. The book analyses US-China relations from a fresh perspective namely a systemic thinking approach. The focus is the emerging innovation economy which leads to tension and deglobalization. The book is grounded in evolutionary economics and uses conceptual generalization in its descriptions analysis theoretical reflections and real-world cases. The key message is that the economy of the future will be characterized by coordinated wave movements: economic growth mainly controlled by private capital alternating with economic downturns that necessitate collective solutions and government interventions. The book offers policy suggestions which include promoting effective macroeconomic policies and extending microeconomic cooperation schemes related to the innovation economy. | Deglobalization China-US Rivalry in the Innovation Economy

GBP 130.00
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Israel and the United States Six Decades of US-Israeli Relations

Israel and the United States Six Decades of US-Israeli Relations

This unique volume intensively studies the nature and extent of US - Israeli relations from 1948 through the Bush and Obama administrations. Leading experts in the field (including Israeli and North American scholars from a variety of political perspectives) contribute original essays on the principal political religious ethnic military economic and juridical connections between the United States and Israel. Specific topics covered in this new book include: the pro-Israel lobby in the United States; the US Jewish community and its relations to Israel; evangelical Christians and Israel; military and economic ties between the United States and Israel; the threat of a nuclear Iran for both countries; and the impact of American jurisprudence on Israel. Section introductions from the editor effectively contextualize the issues and provide students with an in-depth understanding of the past present and future of the US - Israel relationship. | Israel and the United States Six Decades of US-Israeli Relations

GBP 130.00
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Trade and Human Rights The Ethical Dimension in US - China Relations

Trade and Human Rights The Ethical Dimension in US - China Relations

This title was first published in 2002: Utilizing the case of the 1994 US decision to delink China’s human rights record from most favoured nation status Susan C. Morris addresses the critical issues where commercialism and human rights converge. This insightful addition to the literature on US foreign policy on human rights draws on both political and economic theory touching upon the relationships between labour conditions and production business and freedom of association management and bargaining and ultimately the relationship between economics and human justice. Empirically the work draws on US Congressional proceedings and debates throughout the decade of the 1990s. Although the trade and human rights debate has long been ingrained in the rhetoric of scholars the research approaches the issue within the context of communism’s last major threshold making it a valuable contribution to the field of international relations. | Trade and Human Rights The Ethical Dimension in US - China Relations

GBP 32.99
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Trade and Human Rights The Ethical Dimension in US - China Relations

Trade and Human Rights The Ethical Dimension in US - China Relations

This title was first published in 2002: Utilizing the case of the 1994 US decision to delink China’s human rights record from most favoured nation status Susan C. Morris addresses the critical issues where commercialism and human rights converge. This insightful addition to the literature on US foreign policy on human rights draws on both political and economic theory touching upon the relationships between labour conditions and production business and freedom of association management and bargaining and ultimately the relationship between economics and human justice. Empirically the work draws on US Congressional proceedings and debates throughout the decade of the 1990s. Although the trade and human rights debate has long been ingrained in the rhetoric of scholars the research approaches the issue within the context of communism’s last major threshold making it a valuable contribution to the field of international relations. | Trade and Human Rights The Ethical Dimension in US - China Relations

GBP 74.99
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The Earth Around Us Maintaining A Livable Planet

The Earth Around Us Maintaining A Livable Planet

Soil contamination . public lands . surface and groundwater pollution . coastal erosion . global warming. Have we reached the limits of this planet's ability to provide for us? If so what can we do about it?These vital questions are addressed in The Earth Around Us a unique collection of thirty-one essays by a diverse array of today's foremost scientist-writers. Sharing an ability to communicate science in a clear and engaging fashion the contributors explore Earth's history and processes-especially in relation to today's environmental issues-and show how we as members of a global community can help maintain a livable planet. The narratives in this collection are organized into seven parts that describe: Earth's time and history and the place of people on it Views of nature and the ethics behind our conduct on Earth Resources for the twenty-first century such as public lands healthy forests and soils clean ground and surface waters and fluctuating coastlines Ill-informed local manipulations of landscapes across the United States Innovative solutions to environmental problems that arise from knowledge of the interactions between living things and the Earth's air water and soil Natural and human-induced global scale perturbations to the earth system Our responsibility to people and all other organisms that live on Earth. Never before has such a widely experienced group of prominent earth scientists been brought together to help readers understand how earth's environment works. Driven by the belief that earth science is and should be an integral part of everyday life The Earth Around Us empowers all of us to play a more educated and active part in the search for a sustainable future for our planet and its inhabitants. | The Earth Around Us Maintaining A Livable Planet

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