Neutrality As A Policy Choice For Small Weak Democracies

Author : Michael F. Palo
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004395857
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neutrality as a Policy Choice for Small/Weak Democracies written by Michael F. Palo and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-07-08 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Michael F. Palo explains how a historical and theoretical examination of Belgian neutrality, 1839-1940, can help readers understand the behaviour of small/weak democracies in the international system.

Author : Cameron Hazlehurst
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192887076
Total Pages : 597 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Liberal Chronicle in Peace and War written by Cameron Hazlehurst and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Pease was at the heart of the British Liberal government from 1908 to 1915, holding the position of Chief Whip through two general elections, and a member of the Cabinet confronting domestic tumult, international tensions, and war. Pease was an unassuming participant in the deliberations of a unique gathering of political talent. His journals as President of the Board of Education from 1911 to the formation of the coalition ministry in 1915 are a closely observed, unvarnished record of what he saw and heard in Downing St and Westminster: constitutional and Home Rule crises, industrial conflict, electoral reform, women's suffrage controversies, struggles over budgets, naval estimates, and foreign policy. Despite his Quaker beliefs, Pease committed to supporting war against Germany, and his troubled conscience is laid bare in letters to his wife and friends. Replete with intimate portraits of his revered chief H. H. Asquith and the Prime Minister's social circle, the journals also provide evocative observations of the contest of ideas, arguments, and moods of prominent contemporaries, especially David Lloyd George as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Winston Churchill as Home Secretary then First Lord of the Admiralty, and Lord Kitchener as Secretary of State for War. Pease's candid accounts, augmented by the diaries and letters of others privy to Cabinet policy secrets and personal rivalries, reveal the stories not told in the Prime Minister's reports to the King. Together with the editors' biographical introduction, extensive explanatory commentaries, and bibliographical guidance, Pease's text provides a uniquely comprehensive understanding of Asquith's Liberal government in peace and war.

Author : Wim Klinkert
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004519246
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dutch Military Thought, 1919-1939 written by Wim Klinkert and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the interwar period potential future military conflict seemed particularly devastating for military and civilian society alike, thanks to developments in chemical, air and armoured warfare. This study analyses how a small state, the Netherlands, approached this conundrum and aimed to survive a future war.

Author : Guy Vanthemsche
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009327267
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Concise History of Belgium written by Guy Vanthemsche and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The small and densely populated nation of Belgium has played an important role in the history of Europe and other continents, especially Africa. It was a pioneering force in industry, trade, and finance during the Middle Ages, through early modern times and into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It introduced innovative political regimes and played a leading role in the creative arts. Yet this rich past is not widely known. This introductory history offers an accessible and rigorous overview of this small but important West-European country, synthesizing Belgium's main economic, social, political, and cultural developments from pre-Roman times until today. Today, this nation-state, born in 1830, is well-known for the rivalries between its two main language communities, and as a result is often considered a fragile or even an artificial political construct. This systematic chronological analysis of both present-day Belgium and the polities that preceded it throws fresh light on this controversial issue and demonstrates Belgium's enduring importance and influence.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264725903
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Innovative Citizen Participation and New Democratic Institutions Catching the Deliberative Wave written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-10 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public authorities from all levels of government increasingly turn to Citizens' Assemblies, Juries, Panels and other representative deliberative processes to tackle complex policy problems ranging from climate change to infrastructure investment decisions. They convene groups of people representing a wide cross-section of society for at least one full day – and often much longer – to learn, deliberate, and develop collective recommendations that consider the complexities and compromises required for solving multifaceted public issues.

Author : Nasir Ahmad Andisha
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429861443
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neutrality and Vulnerable States written by Nasir Ahmad Andisha and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a timely and concise academic and historical background to the concept and practice of neutrality, a relatively new phenomenon in foreign and security policy. It approaches two key questions: under what circumstances can permanent neutrality be applied, and what are the main ingredients of success and the causes of failure in applying permanent neutrality? By evaluating, comparing, and contrasting the two successful European case studies of Austria and Switzerland and the two challenging Asian case studies of Afghanistan and Laos, the author creates a new framework of analysis to explore the feasibility of reframing, adopting, and applying a policy of neutrality and jump start debates on the feasibility of the idea of “new neutrality”. He opens the debate by asking whether, as neutrality successfully functioned as a conflict resolution tool during the Cold War, a reframed and adopted version of neutrality could also serve the needs of the twenty-first-century world order. This is an insightful book for all scholars, students, and policymakers workingin international relations, security studies, the history of neutrality, and Afghanistan studies.

Author : Ian Budge
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019965493X
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organizing Democratic Choice written by Ian Budge and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizing Democratic Choice offers a new, invigorating theory of how democracy actually works. It also presents a challenge to democratic pessimists who would have everyone believe that neither political parties nor mass publics are up to the tasks that democracy assigns them.

Author : Herbert Obinger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019108509X
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Warfare and Welfare written by Herbert Obinger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the first half of the 20th century was characterized by total war, the second half witnessed, at least in the Western world, a massive expansion of the modern welfare state. A growing share of the population was covered by ever more generous systems of social protection that dramatically reduced poverty and economic inequality in the post-war decades. With it also came a growth in social spending, taxation and regulation that changed the nature of the modern state and the functioning of market economies. Whether and in which ways warfare and the rise of the welfare state are related, is subject of this volume. Distinguishing between three different phases (war preparation, wartime mobilization, and the post-war period), the volume provides the first systematic comparative analysis of the impact of war on welfare state development in the western world. The chapters written by leading scholars in this field examine both short-term responses to and long-term effects of war in fourteen belligerent, occupied, and neutral countries in the age of mass warfare stretching over the period from ca. 1860 to 1960. The volume shows that both world wars are essential for understanding several aspects of welfare state development in the western world.

Author : Faies Jafar
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666908096
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foreign Policy Formulation and Implementation of Small States written by Faies Jafar and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book analyzed the decision patterns leading to the foreign policy formulation and implementation of the small island Caribbean state of Trinidad and Tobago. Several models of decision-making were extracted together with those objective and subjective factors influencing the formulation and implementation process and the key actors involved.

Author : Klaus Misgeld
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 027104344X
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creating Social Democracy written by Klaus Misgeld and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: