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This text describes all aspects of the life of a diplomat through various stages of a typical career. Though following a fictional diplomat, each chapter contains case studies based on the authors thirty years of experience as a diplomat, ambassador, and high commissioner that illustrate key issues.

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A comparative study of why certain events become, and are remembered as crises while others are not.

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While many people around the world see the United States as a model, the US response to 9/11 has undoubtedly intensified global anti-Americanism. This book reveals that goodwill toward America still exists, and that this sympathy is in peril - and that there is an immense gap between how Americans view their country and how it is viewed abroad.

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Sets out to shift the terms of the debate, acknowledging that we are nation building to protect ourselves, while demanding that we put the interests of the people being governed - whether in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo, or elsewhere - ahead of our own when we exercise power over them.

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In February 1989, the CIA's chief in Islamabad famously cabled headquarters a simple message: "We Won." This book tells the story of America's secret war in Afghanistan and the defeat of the Soviet 40th Red Army in the war that proved to be the final battle of the cold war.

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Crafting a new policy toward Iran is a complicated, uncertain, and perilous challenge. Since it is an extremely complex society, with an opaque political system, it is no wonder that the United States has not yet figured out the puzzle that is Iran.

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Working from a unique viewpoint, this volume demonstrates how the European Union's fear of its neighbors reflects Europe's identity crisis-and challenges its survival.

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In this insightful and engaging new book, John McCormick argues that the current climate of gloom makes it more important than ever to remind people about the achievements of Europe. The book makes a clear and unequivocal case that shows how the EU, in spite of its problems, has made Europe a better, more peaceful, and more prosperous place.

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Those who believe Europe to be weak and ineffectual are wrong. Turning conventional wisdom on its head Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century sets out a vision for a century in which Europe will dominate, not America. This is the book that will make your mind up about Europe.

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Providing viewpoints that offer an interpretive framework for understanding the end of the Cold War, this volume considers such questions as when the Cold War began, whether it was a genuine or a contrived conflict, and whether the West did indeed win the Cold War.

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Explore how Australian governments, during the modern period of Australia's engagement with Asia (from 1983 til today), have attempted to use their defence and foreign policies to shape the region. The book focuses on the three main campaigns the Australian government has undertaken since the early 1980s to reshape the Asia-Pacific in pursuit of its national interests.

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Explores how Australian governments have engaged with Asia over the last thirty years, attempting to use their defence and foreign policies to shape the region. Winning the Peace focuses on the three main campaigns' Australian governments have undertaken since the early 1980s to reshape the AsiaPacific region in the national interest.

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Describes the marketing strategy of the 'War on Terror' and how that strategy compelled public opinion towards supporting the spread of the war from Afghanistan to Iraq. This book investigates how President George W Bush's framing of the September 11th attacks provided the platform for creation of long term public support for the 'War on Terror'.

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Turkey has always been a crossroads: the point where East meets West, Europe meets Asia, and Christianity meets Islam. Turkey has also been a close and important American ally, but a series of converging political and strategic factors have now endangered its longstanding Western and democratic orientation.

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In recent years, despite widespread interest in feminism, women's studies, and socio-historical perspectives in general, scholars have failed to unearth a body of historical knowledge related to women in the area of American foreign policymaking--until now.

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Two international policy analysts scrutinize the increasingly important operative and support roles women play in various terrorist organizations around the world.

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What roles do women play in world politics Other contributors analyze international women's movements, the roles of women in the Green Movement and in the revolutionary movements in Cuba and Nicaragua, and the work of Jane Addams in the peace movement.

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What roles do women play in world politics Other contributors analyze international women's movements, the roles of women in the Green Movement and in the revolutionary movements in Cuba and Nicaragua, and the work of Jane Addams in the peace movement.

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Roberts seeks to show how and why world citizenship and mundialismthe building of global institutionsare essential for the human race to solve the growing problems of the environment, international violence, and other major world challenges.

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This book considers the varied roles played by the United Nations in cases where threats to peace are created by civil strife in modernizing societies. These struggles for internal supremacy are viewed by the superpowers and other states as parts of larger racial, anti-colonial, or ideological contests. Through a careful analysis of selected cases-