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Author: Melissa Yeager Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1786739631 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 312
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Agreements between nations constitute the fundamental framework for the ordering of international affairs; and their successes and failures have led to some of the great turning points in modern history. The result of a unique collaboration by historians and political scientists, this book delineates, defines and assesses the idea of pacts and alliances as a key model of political organisation. Anchored by leading academics in the field, it presents numerous case studies covering a broad chronological sweep. Through theoretical and empirical methodology, the contributors address pacts and alliances from the fifteenth century onwards including, among others, the Korean-American and Moscow-Cairo alliances, the Sevres Pact, Turkey's accession to NATO and US alliances around the world. Through a close reading of these historical diplomatic relationships, fundamental yet relatively unaddressed research questions are developed and explored. First, what are the common denominators shared by successful alliances? Second, why do pacts and alliances disintegrate? Third, is the eventual demise of pacts and alliances inevitable? Finally, what are the implications of these issues on pact and alliance making today? This is the first volume to address this wide range of issues, and to bring together researchers and theorists from the historical and political disciplines to provide original and groundbreaking theories of diplomacy. Together, these case studies explore why alliances succeed, why they fail and why it matters. Pacts and Alliances in History is therefore not only important reading for the next generation of policymakers, but will also help frame scholars' enquiries as they try to understand key events in international relations and history.
Author: Melissa Yeager Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1786739631 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 312
Book Description
Agreements between nations constitute the fundamental framework for the ordering of international affairs; and their successes and failures have led to some of the great turning points in modern history. The result of a unique collaboration by historians and political scientists, this book delineates, defines and assesses the idea of pacts and alliances as a key model of political organisation. Anchored by leading academics in the field, it presents numerous case studies covering a broad chronological sweep. Through theoretical and empirical methodology, the contributors address pacts and alliances from the fifteenth century onwards including, among others, the Korean-American and Moscow-Cairo alliances, the Sevres Pact, Turkey's accession to NATO and US alliances around the world. Through a close reading of these historical diplomatic relationships, fundamental yet relatively unaddressed research questions are developed and explored. First, what are the common denominators shared by successful alliances? Second, why do pacts and alliances disintegrate? Third, is the eventual demise of pacts and alliances inevitable? Finally, what are the implications of these issues on pact and alliance making today? This is the first volume to address this wide range of issues, and to bring together researchers and theorists from the historical and political disciplines to provide original and groundbreaking theories of diplomacy. Together, these case studies explore why alliances succeed, why they fail and why it matters. Pacts and Alliances in History is therefore not only important reading for the next generation of policymakers, but will also help frame scholars' enquiries as they try to understand key events in international relations and history.
Author: Peter Calvert Publisher: John Harper Publishing ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 552
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A concise and balanced reference guide to the international system, useful both for quick fact-checking on the essentials of agreements as well as for more detailed background and comparative research on particular topics. This new edition features full updating of all the book's traditional areas of coverage, including the activities of hundreds of international and regional treaty-based organizations and concise accounts of recent crises involving international and regional alliances.
Author: Melissa Yeager Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 0857732560 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 307
Book Description
Agreements between nations constitute the fundamental framework for the ordering of international affairs; and their successes and failures have led to some of the great turning points in modern history. The result of a unique collaboration by historians and political scientists, this book delineates, defines and assesses the idea of pacts and alliances as a key model of political organisation. Anchored by leading academics in the field, it presents numerous case studies covering a broad chronological sweep. Through theoretical and empirical methodology, the contributors address pacts and alliances from the fifteenth century onwards including, among others, the Korean-American and Moscow-Cairo alliances, the Sevres Pact, Turkey's accession to NATO and US alliances around the world. Through a close reading of these historical diplomatic relationships, fundamental yet relatively unaddressed research questions are developed and explored. First, what are the common denominators shared by successful alliances? Second, why do pacts and alliances disintegrate? Third, is the eventual demise of pacts and alliances inevitable? Finally, what are the implications of these issues on pact and alliance making today? This is the first volume to address this wide range of issues, and to bring together researchers and theorists from the historical and political disciplines to provide original and groundbreaking theories of diplomacy. Together, these case studies explore why alliances succeed, why they fail and why it matters. Pacts and Alliances in History is therefore not only important reading for the next generation of policymakers, but will also help frame scholars' enquiries as they try to understand key events in international relations and history.
Author: Edward Grosek Publisher: ISBN: Category : International relations Languages : en Pages : 396
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The Secret Treaties of History is the first general index for locating the texts of agreements that nations entered into secretly. It lists and explains 593 secret treaties made from 1521 to 2000 among 110 nations and political entities. Each secret treaty entry in the list has the treaty's title, its contracting states, the city and date of signature, a citation to at least one source of text and/or credible information, and an annotation for its background or content. Most of these treaties were concluded for political or military ends. They are found among scores of treaty collections, in documentaries, in government reports, in research reports based on scholarly work in archives, in a small number of history books, and in articles in learned journals and articles by investigative journalists. The entire list, which makes up Chapter 1, is indexed by nation. It will be of direct use to professors and students of history, political science, and international law and, of course, to librarians and journalists. Chapter 2 is a guide to the many sources of secret treaty texts cited to in the first chapter. Chapter 3 is an annotated bibliography for the study of secret diplomacy and secret agreement making and for statements (including denials) made by American leaders on secrecy in diplomacy and treaty negotiations. Chapter 4 is an essay on the characteristics of secret treaties themselves and their signers. Chapter 5 explains the legal rules that the American President must abide by when he makes confidential, unpublished treaties with other world leaders. This chapter should interest foreign government officials, legal theorists, and international lawyers. Chapter 6 consists of an introduction to the Treaty of Crépi of 1544, four pages of photocopies of the original handwritten text of the secret articles to this treaty, and an English language translation of them. Neither the French nor the Spanish Ministries of Foreign Affairs have a copy of this treaty's secret articles, nor are they published in any other book or journal article. This text and translation will be useful to a historian or biographer who needs full information on Francis I of France or Charles V of Spain. The appendix is an alphabetized list of foreign and specialty words, abbreviations, acronyms, idioms, and phrases found particularly within treaties or used in the treaty making process. Following the appendix, are the two indexes, for Chapters 1 and 3. The Secret Treaties of History is meant for purchase by research libraries, law school libraries, historical archives, international affairs interest groups, lobby groups, and European ministries of foreign affairs.
Author: Roger Moorhouse Publisher: Basic Books ISBN: 0465054927 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 341
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History remembers the Soviets and the Nazis as bitter enemies and ideological rivals, the two mammoth and opposing totalitarian regimes of World War II whose conflict would be the defining and deciding clash of the war. Yet for nearly a third of the conflict's entire timespan, Hitler and Stalin stood side by side as partners. The Pact that they agreed had a profound -- and bloody -- impact on Europe, and is fundamental to understanding the development and denouement of the war. In The Devils' Alliance, acclaimed historian Roger Moorhouse explores the causes and implications of the Nazi-Soviet Pact, an unholy covenant whose creation and dissolution were crucial turning points in World War II. Forged by the German foreign minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and his Soviet counterpart, Vyacheslav Molotov, the nonaggression treaty briefly united the two powers in a brutally efficient collaboration. Together, the Germans and Soviets quickly conquered and divided central and eastern Europe -- Poland, the Baltic States, Finland, and Bessarabia -- and the human cost was staggering: during the two years of the pact hundreds of thousands of people in central and eastern Europe caught between Hitler and Stalin were expropriated, deported, or killed. Fortunately for the Allies, the partnership ultimately soured, resulting in the surprise June 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union. Ironically, however, the powers' exchange of materiel, blueprints, and technological expertise during the period of the Pact made possible a far more bloody and protracted war than would have otherwise been conceivable. Combining comprehensive research with a gripping narrative, The Devils' Alliance is the authoritative history of the Nazi-Soviet Pact -- and a portrait of the people whose lives were irrevocably altered by Hitler and Stalin's nefarious collaboration.
Author: Jason W. Davidson Publisher: Georgetown University Press ISBN: 1647120306 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 300
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America’s Entangling Alliances challenges the belief that the US resists international alliances. By documenting thirty-four alliances—categorized as defense pacts, military coalitions, or security partnerships—Davidson finds that the US demand for allies is best explained by looking at variance in its relative power and the threats it has faced.
Author: Paul Poast Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 1501740253 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 258
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Why do some attempts to conclude alliance treaties end in failure? From the inability of European powers to form an alliance that would stop Hitler in the 1930s, to the present inability of Ukraine to join NATO, states frequently attempt but fail to form alliance treaties. In Arguing about Alliances, Paul Poast sheds new light on the purpose of alliance treaties by recognizing that such treaties come from negotiations, and that negotiations can end in failure. In a book that bridges Stephen Walt's Origins of Alliance and Glenn Snyder's Alliance Politics, two classic works on alliances, Poast identifies two conditions that result in non-agreement: major incompatibilities in the internal war plans of the participants, and attractive alternatives to a negotiated agreement for various parties to the negotiations. As a result, Arguing about Alliances focuses on a group of states largely ignored by scholars: states that have attempted to form alliance treaties but failed. Poast suggests that to explain the outcomes of negotiations, specifically how they can end without agreement, we must pay particular attention to the wartime planning and coordinating functions of alliance treaties. Through his exploration of the outcomes of negotiations from European alliance negotiations between 1815 and 1945, Poast offers a typology of alliance treaty negotiations and establishes what conditions are most likely to stymie the attempt to formalize recognition of common national interests.
Author: Etc Great Britain Treaties Publisher: Sagwan Press ISBN: 9781340290252 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 354
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