Author: Antony BestPublisher:
ISBN: 9781556557682
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
British Documents on Foreign Affairs
Author: Antony BestPublisher:
ISBN: 9781556557682
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
British Documents on Foreign Affairs
Author: Malcolm YappPublisher:
ISBN: 9781556557651
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The Cuban Connection
Author: Eduardo Sáenz RovnerPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807888583
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
A comprehensive history of crime and corruption in Cuba, The Cuban Connection challenges the common view that widespread poverty and geographic proximity to the United States were the prime reasons for soaring rates of drug trafficking, smuggling, gambling, and prostitution in the tumultuous decades preceding the Cuban revolution. Eduardo Saenz Rovner argues that Cuba's historically well-established integration into international migration, commerce, and transportation networks combined with political instability and rampant official corruption to help lay the foundation for the development of organized crime structures powerful enough to affect Cuba's domestic and foreign politics and its very identity as a nation. Saenz traces the routes taken around the world by traffickers and smugglers. After Cuba, the most important player in this story is the United States. The involvement of gangsters and corrupt U.S. officials and businessmen enabled prohibited substances to reach a strong market in the United States, from rum running during Prohibition to increased demand for narcotics during the Cold War. Originally published in Colombia in 2005, this first English-language edition has been revised and updated by the author.
Zeki Kuneralp and the Turkish Foreign Service
Author: Yücel GüçlüPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443879754
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 599
Book Description
This book is not a conventional biography. It is not only a portrait of a larger-than-life Turkish diplomat, whose Foreign Service career spanned almost four decades – from 1941 to 1979 – but also offers a glimpse into the evolution of the organization of the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and provides an account of the attitudes and methods of the Ministry’s officials. A good biography should cast light upon its subject’s times as well as his – or her – life; upon the way things were done, as much as upon the way a particular individual reacted and behaved. As such, in this book, not only is Zeki Kuneralp the man addressed but also the great developments of his time are explored extensively. The book blends biographical narrative with explorations of various aspects of the foreign policy issues with which Kuneralp was involved. The book treats in detail the major problems with which Kuneralp was directly concerned at each of his postings: that is, meeting the right people abroad, promoting Turkish interests, reporting to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, subordinating local matters to the political and economic goals of Turkey, and conducting diplomacy so as always to be in accord with Ankara’s policy makers, whose big picture he always kept in mind.
War Termination as a Civil-Military Bargain
Author: Shawn T. CochranPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137527978
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
War termination reflects a civil-military bargain and affects relevant decisions made by political leaders. For the leader embroiled in protracted war, this risk dictates whether he or she will commit more resources to the fight or else cut the state's losses and get out.
Britain and the Origins of the Vietnam War
Author: T. SmithPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230591663
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
British foreign policy towards Vietnam illustrates the evolution of Britain's position within world geopolitics, 1943-1950. It reflects the change of the Anglo-US relationship from equality to dependence, and demonstrates Britain's changing association with its colonies and with the other European imperial spheres within Southeast Asia.
British Documents on Foreign Affairs--reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print: Soviet Union and Finland, January 1949-December 1949
Author: Vietnam and the Unravelling of Empire
Author: T. SmithPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137448717
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
The Vietnam War and Indian independence devastated British policy towards Asia. The Labour Government failed to understand its commitments. Yet some senior British officers were prepared to work alongside Asian nationalism in order to secure British interests. This created a radical local fusion of imperial, diplomatic and humanitarian policies.
British Documents on Foreign Affairs--reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print: Eastern Europe (General), Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary, January 1949-December 1949
Author: Safehaven
Author: Martin Lorenz-MeyerPublisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826265863
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
"A detailed study of the development and collapse of the Safehaven Program initiated by the Federal Economic Administration, advocated by Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, and reluctantly supported by Britain and France that focused on averting post-World War II German aggression by investigating and confiscating German assets in neutral countries"--Provided by publisher.