Diplomati

Drawing on Israeli, Western, U.N., Arab, and Palestinian archives to present an objective analysis of the Arab-Israeli conflict and the fragile inner workings of the peace process.

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It has become conventional wisdom that America and China are running a superpower marathon that may last a century. Yet Hal Brands and Michael Beckley pose a counterintuitive question: What if the sharpest phase of that competition is more like a ...

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The Navy of the 21st Century, 2001 2022 presents an all- inclusive listing of the ships that have served in the US Navy since the start of the new century. The newest and sixth volume of the US Navy Warship Series provides insight into the technol...

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Sverker Åström är den klarast lysande stjärnan i svensk diplomati under det kalla kriget. Han inträdde i Utrikesdepartementets tjänst 1939 och avslutade sin bana som ambassadör i Paris 1982. Däremellan var han bland annat Sveriges FN-ambassadör oc...

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An all-inclusive, exhaustive evaluation of the foreign policy of the European Union.Ten years ago the 2009 Lisbon Treaty put into place the legal and structural foundations for the European Union to play a role as a global actor. In the decade sin...

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Israel's 2009 invasion of Gaza was an act of aggression that killed over a thousand Palestinians and devastated the infrastructure of an already impoverished enclave. The Punishment of Gaza shows how the ground was prepared for the assault an...

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Why did Putin launch Operation Z in Ukraine? Are Ukrainian forces using neo-Nazi volunteers? What is the reality of the military conflict over the past six months? What do we know about war crimes like Bucha? Have Western economic sanctions actual...

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Victor Pickard shows that the modern journalism crisis is the culmination of long-term historical tensions and structural contradictions such as an over-reliance on advertising revenue, monopoly control over media infrastructures, and a lack of in...

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In The Grand Chessboard , renowned geostrategist Zbigniew Brzezinski delivers a brutally honest and provocative vision for American preeminence in the twenty-first century. The task facing the United States, he argues, is to become the sole politi...

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Previously published as Peacemakers Between January and July 1919, after the war to end all wars, men and women from all over the world converged on Paris for the Peace Conference. At its heart were the leaders of the three great powers - Woodrow ...

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Why do human beings fight one another? In this exhilarating and bracing book, we learn the common logic driving vainglorious monarchs, dictators, mobs, pilots, football hooligans, ancient peoples and fanatics. Distilling decades of economics, poli...

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»Ingmar Karlsson skriver välformulerat, ibland med humoristiska stänk, om sitt rikt skiftande liv som diplomat. Ett utrikes liv är spännande och mycket givande läsning för den samhällsintresserade.« BTJ, betyg 4 av 5 »Boken erbjuder en bred betrak...

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Dag Hammarskjöld var en av de mest kända svenskarna i världen under 1900-talet. Han var FN:s generalsekreterare, ledamot av Svenska Akademien och han tilldelades Nobels fredspris. År 1961 dog han i tjänsten när planet han reste med störtade. Än i ...

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The brilliant untold story of three daughters of diplomacy: Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, glamorous, fascinating young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference with Stalin in the waning days of W...

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Några minuter innan midnatt, den 17:e september 1961, påbörjar ett flygplan nedstigningen mot flygplatsen i Ndola, i dåvarande Nordrhodesia. I flygplanet sitter FN:s dåvarande generalsekreterare, Dag Hammarskjöld. Men landningen fullföljs aldrig, ...

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A HUGELY IMPORTANT BOOK ELEGANTLY WRITTEN AND PERSUASIVELY ARGUED DAILY TELEGRAPH, FIVE-STAR REVIEW AN INTELLIGENT, AUTHORITATIVE, COMPELLING AND, ABOVE ALL, TIMELY' TLS Shortlisted for the Military History Matters Book of the Year Award ** F...

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The cross-border sharing of intelligence is fundamental to the establishment and preservation of security and stability. The American invasion of Iraq in 2003 was based in part on flawed intelligence, and current efforts to defeat al Qaeda would n...

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Collected here in this 4-in-1 omnibus are the most important books ever written on the art of war. The Art of War By Sun Tzu translated and commented on by Lionel Giles, On War by Carl von Clausewitz, The Art of War by Niccolò Machiavelli, and The...

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'These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the world,' said Charlie Wilson, of America's role backing the anti-Soviet mujahideen. 'And then we fucked up the endgame.' With no support for Afghanistan after ...

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I den specialbokade tågvagnen som skulle föra sex svenska toppdiplomater till det allra första mötet i Nationernas för­bund i Genève 1920 fanns en enda kvinna, som ”sov som en stock” mellan Branting...

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From April 1945, when Stalin broke the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact and Harry Truman assumed the presidency, to the final Soviet military actions against Japan, Hasegawa brings to light the real reasons Japan surrendered. From Washington to Mos...

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The diaries of the last British Governor of Hong Kong, published on the 25th anniversary of the handover In June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to try to prepare it not (as other British colonies over the decades...

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Sanctions have enormous consequences. Especially when imposed by a country with the economic influence of the United States, sanctions induce clear shockwaves in both the economy and political culture of the targeted state, and in the everyday liv...

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The year before Diana Janse went to Kabul, she was a desk officer at the European Security Department in Stockholm. It was an unglamorous and stressful job that entailed working long hours at her desk, writing instructions for the governments nego...

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This book compares Islamic and Western political formulations, highlighting areas of agreement and disparity. Building on this analysis, the author goes on to show that political Islam offers a serious alternative to the dominant political system ...

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The Allure of Empire traces how American ideas about race in the Pacific were made and remade on the imperial stage and how these ideas shaped US foreign and immigration policies before World War II. It examines how the United States emerged as a ...

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In its fight for global dominance, Communist China has thrown out the old rules of war. China expert General Robert Spalding walks us through their new playbook. Many Americans are finally waking up to the alarming reality of China's stealth war o...

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Latin America, with 8 percent of the worlds population and 30 percent of the worlds deaths from COVID-19, is Ground Zero of the pandemic. The region has also had the worlds worst economic performance in this period. Moreover, it is presently caugh...

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Originally published in 2007, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, by John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, provoked both howls of outrage and cheers of gratitude ...

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