Author: David Jayne HillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diplomacy
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
A History of Diplomacy in the International Development of Europe
Author: David Jayne HillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diplomacy
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
A History of Diplomacy in the International Development of Europe: The struggle for universal empire
Author: David Jayne HillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diplomacy
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
A History of Diplomacy in the International Development of Europe
Author: David Jayne HillA History of Diplomacy in the International Develpment of Europe
Author: David Jayne HillA History of Diplomacy in the International Development of Europe
Author: David Jayne HillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diplomacy
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
A History of Diplomacy in the International Development of Europe
Author: David Jayne HillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
“A” History of Diplomacy in the International Development of Europe: The diplomacy of the age of absolutism
Author: David Jayne HillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe
Author: Daniel H. NexonPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 140083080X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Scholars have long argued over whether the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, which ended more than a century of religious conflict arising from the Protestant Reformations, inaugurated the modern sovereign-state system. But they largely ignore a more fundamental question: why did the emergence of new forms of religious heterodoxy during the Reformations spark such violent upheaval and nearly topple the old political order? In this book, Daniel Nexon demonstrates that the answer lies in understanding how the mobilization of transnational religious movements intersects with--and can destabilize--imperial forms of rule. Taking a fresh look at the pivotal events of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries--including the Schmalkaldic War, the Dutch Revolt, and the Thirty Years' War--Nexon argues that early modern "composite" political communities had more in common with empires than with modern states, and introduces a theory of imperial dynamics that explains how religious movements altered Europe's balance of power. He shows how the Reformations gave rise to crosscutting religious networks that undermined the ability of early modern European rulers to divide and contain local resistance to their authority. In doing so, the Reformations produced a series of crises in the European order and crippled the Habsburg bid for hegemony. Nexon's account of these processes provides a theoretical and analytic framework that not only challenges the way international relations scholars think about state formation and international change, but enables us to better understand global politics today.
A History of Diplomacy in the International Development of Europe
Author: David Jayne HillSir Harold Nicolson and International Relations
Author: Derek DrinkwaterPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191534358
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Sir Harold Nicolson (1886-1968) is well known as a diarist, man of letters, diplomatic historian, gardener, and broadcaster. Nicolson's bestselling diaries and letters, his many biographies, including the highly acclaimed official life of King George V, and his numerous essays and broadcasts have made him, in the words of his friend and fellow MP Robert Bernays, an international figure of the 'second degree'. Yet there was more to this urbane man than his finely observed diary, stylish writing, and Sissinghurst Castle Garden in Kent, the joint creation of Nicolson and his wife, the writer V. Sackville-West. He also produced a rich and ambitious corpus of writing on the theory and practice of international relations. Nicolson's aristocratic background and upbringing in a diplomatic household, followed by an Oxford classical education and twenty years in diplomacy, combined to forge his distinctive philosophy of international affairs. As a young attaché in Constantinople before the Great War, and in Whitehall during the conflict, at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, and en poste in Persia and Germany throughout the 1920s, Nicolson was ideally placed to observe the maelstrom of international politics. As an anti-appeasement and wartime MP (1935-1945), he became a highly regarded authority on international relations. During and after World War II, he turned his mind to the issues of European integration, world government, and the ultimate possibility of global peace. Nicolson has been the subject of two fine biographies. This is the first study of his contribution to international thought. He emerges from it as an important international thinker, alongside theorists as diverse as E. H. Carr and Leonard Woolf. Nicolson's international thought contains elements of realism and idealism, while retaining a distinctive character and a breadth and consistency that render it unique.