The Janus Face Of International Politics

Author : Willem H. Gravett
Publisher : Ethics International Press
ISBN 13 : 1871891922
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Janus Face of International Politics written by Willem H. Gravett and published by Ethics International Press. This book was released on 2022-03-03 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work investigates the ‘Janus face’ of international relations, refracted through the prism of the duality of Jan Christian Smuts, as it manifested in his contribution to the League of Nations and his struggle against the emerging peace treaty. A predominant characteristic of international relations is its requirement to face two different ways at the same time - its Janus face. States profess their adherence to lofty ideals for humanity alongside the pursuit of their own immediate self-interest. This phenomenon in the behaviour of states has been referred to as the distance between vision and reality, and the gap between rhetoric and reality. International relations is, and is likely to remain, suspended between these two extremes: on the one hand, the pursuit of utopian ideals for the world, and, on the other, a defence of narrow self-interest, often prompted by the dictates of the realpolitik of the moment. How, then, are the values that underlie the founding of the first cornerstone of the current international order — the League of Nations — to be understood? An under-explored case study in understanding the complex framework of international relations is that of the visionary and controversial South African, Jan Christian Smuts (1870-1950). On the one hand, Smuts was one of the principal authors of the Covenant of the League of Nations, and the person directly responsible for the recognition of human rights as a founding value of the Charter of the United Nations. On the other, the Premier of racially segregated South Africa.

Author : WILLEM H. GRAVETT
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781804412558
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book JANUS FACE OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS written by WILLEM H. GRAVETT and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stanley Hoffmann
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Janus And Minerva written by Stanley Hoffmann and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1987-01-04 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kenneth Neal Waltz
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theory of International Politics written by Kenneth Neal Waltz and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 1979 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forfatterens mål med denne bog er: 1) Analyse af de gældende teorier for international politik og hvad der heri er lagt størst vægt på. 2) Konstruktion af en teori for international politik som kan kan råde bod på de mangler, der er i de nu gældende. 3) Afprøvning af den rekonstruerede teori på faktiske hændelsesforløb.

Author : Jacco Bomhoff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108485480
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Double-Facing Constitution written by Jacco Bomhoff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how constitutional orders engage with and are shaped by their exteriors.

Author : Peter Trubowitz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400838800
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics and Strategy written by Peter Trubowitz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-14 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do some national leaders pursue ambitious grand strategies and adventuresome foreign policies while others do not? When do leaders boldly confront foreign threats and when are they less assertive? Politics and Strategy shows that grand strategies are Janus-faced: their formulation has as much to do with a leader's ability to govern at home as it does with maintaining the nation's security abroad. Drawing on the American political experience, Peter Trubowitz reveals how variations in domestic party politics and international power have led presidents from George Washington to Barack Obama to pursue strategies that differ widely in international ambition and cost. He considers why some presidents overreach in foreign affairs while others fail to do enough. Trubowitz pushes the understanding of grand strategy beyond traditional approaches that stress only international forces or domestic interests. He provides insights into how past leaders responded to cross-pressures between geopolitics and party politics, and how similar issues continue to bedevil American statecraft today. He suggests that the trade-offs shaping American leaders' foreign policy choices are not unique--analogous trade-offs confront Chinese and Russian leaders as well. Combining innovative theory and historical analysis, Politics and Strategy answers classic questions of statecraft and offers new ideas for thinking about grand strategies and the leaders who make them.

Author : Raymond Hinnebusch
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1847795226
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The international politics of the Middle East written by Raymond Hinnebusch and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This text aims to fill a gap in the field of Middle Eastern political studies by combining international relations theory with concrete case studies. It begins with an overview of the rules and features of the Middle East regional system—the arena in which the local states, including Egypt, Turkey, Iran, Israel and the Arab states of Syria, Jordan and Iraq, operate. The book goes on to analyse foreign-policy-making in key states, illustrating how systemic determinants constrain this policy-making, and how these constraints are dealt with in distinctive ways depending on the particular domestic features of the individual states. Finally, it goes on to look at the outcomes of state policies by examining several major conflicts including the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Gulf War, and the system of regional alignment. The study assesses the impact of international penetration in the region, including the historic reasons behind the formation of the regional state system. It also analyses the continued role of external great powers, such as the United States and the former Soviet Union, and explains the process by which the region has become incorporated into the global capitalist market.

Author : James Hampshire
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745671411
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Immigration written by James Hampshire and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immigration is one of the most contested issues on the political agenda of liberal states across Europe and North America. While these states can be open and inclusive to newcomers, they are also often restrictive and exclusionary. The Politics of Immigration examines the sources of these apparently contradictory stances, locating answers in the nature of the liberal state itself. The book shows how four defining facets of the liberal state - representative democracy, constitutionalism, capitalism, and nationhood - generate conflicting imperatives for immigration policymaking, which in turn gives rise to paradoxical, even contradictory, policies. The first few chapters of the book outline this framework, setting out the various actors, institutions and ideas associated with each facet. Subsequent chapters consider its implications for different elements of the immigration policy field, including policies towards economic and humanitarian immigration, as well as citizenship and integration. Throughout, the argument is illustrated with data and examples from the major immigrant-receiving countries of Europe and North America. This book will be essential reading for students and researchers in migration studies, politics and international relations, and all those interested in understanding why immigration remains one of the most controversial and intractable policy issues in the Western world.

Author : Baker Catherine Baker
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474446213
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making War on Bodies written by Baker Catherine Baker and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vibrant collection of essays reveals the intimate politics of how people with a wide range of relationships to war identify with, and against, the military and its gendered and racialised norms. It synthesises three recent turns in the study of international politics: aesthetics, embodiment and the everyday, into a new conceptual framework. This helps us to understand how militarism permeates society and how far its practices can be re-appropriated or even turned against it.

Author : Emmy Eklundh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1783489928
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics of Anxiety written by Emmy Eklundh and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-04-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Develops the concept of anxiety as a tool of political theory that draws together current political problems, from austerity and migration to security and terror