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Case studies help identify the emerging trends and influences that dominate the political decision making and policy behavior of many states in the Middle East. The chapters investigate foreign policy challenges and debates in various states, changing relations and balance of power between them, and the continuing role of the US in the region.

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Rethinking State-Non-State Alliances explores how the Kurds' interactions with the U.S. transformed them into a considerable player in the Middle East while addressing how these transformations reshape the U.S. foreign policy. The book investigates the agency of non-state actors by putting the U.S.-Kurdish relationship within the broader International Relations context.

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China's diplomatic strategy has changed dramatically since the mid-1990s, creating both challenges and opportunities for other world powers. This title provides a framework for understanding China's security diplomacy and guiding America's China policy.

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This original contribution largely based on unpublished material to the biography of an American president and to the diplomatic history of the United States traces Franklin Roosevelt's contacts with the French from his childhood until the end of his life.

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Offers both a theory of how the domestic political context affects foreign policy decisions in general and a fresh interpretation of FDR's post-Munich policies based on the insights that the theory provides. This book develops a political approach to decision-making.

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This book offers a step-by-step analysis of key stages in the development of the Russian-American relationship since the late Cold War. Through its lenses one can perceive the roots of the Crimean crisis of 2014 as well as the path to a more promising future for the two global powers as well as the world. -- .

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This book offers a step-by-step analysis of key stages in the development of the Russian-American relationship since the late Cold War. Through its lenses one can perceive the roots of the Crimean crisis of 2014 as well as the path to a more promising future for the two global powers as well as the world. -- .

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Leading experts examine how leadership perceptions by US and UK policymakers have influenced policies in the Middle East since the Cold War.

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Leading experts examine how leadership perceptions by US and UK policymakers have influenced policies in the Middle East since the Cold War.

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When first mentioned in 1994, the concept of human security represented a significant first step in understanding that security dilemmas could no longer be seen as purely geopolitical phenomena that revolve around the nation-state. This book explains the progress made toward human security since then and the steps that remain to be taken.

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When first mentioned in 1994, the concept of human security represented a significant first step in understanding that security dilemmas could no longer be seen as purely geopolitical phenomena that revolve around the nation-state. This book explains the progress made toward human security since then and the steps that remain to be taken.

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The AWACS debate represents one of the most critical events in the history of American diplomacy. It locked the Reagan administration and opponents of the AWACS in a fierce battle over American policy in the Middle East. Nicholas Laham looks at the political lessons to be drawn from the debate.

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In early 2009, at the start of a new administration in Washington, the Brookings Institution Press published The Obama Administration and the Americas: Agenda for Change , offering a roadmap for a fresh approach to U.

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This book describes the processes of nation and state building in Slovenia. It follows the Slovenian evolution from a former Yugoslav republic to one of the most successful postcommunist countries in Central Europe.

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The book critically addresses the relationship between sport and diplomacy posing new questions of these two enduring features of global society. -- .

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The book critically addresses the relationship between sport and diplomacy posing new questions of these two enduring features of global society. -- .

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This book investigates the issue of sports diplomacy and refers to the place and role of sport within public diplomacy. Its subject includes the use of sport to shape relations with other states, to build the states international image and the diplomatic subjectivity of international sports organizations.

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This book investigates the issue of sports diplomacy and refers to the place and role of sport within public diplomacy. Its subject includes the use of sport to shape relations with other states, to build the states international image and the diplomatic subjectivity of international sports organizations.

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Since September 11, the threat of terror gives the failed state problem an immediacy and an importance that transcends its previous humanitarian dimension. With the new implications of state failure for peace and security, preventing nation states from failing, and reviving those that do fail, has become a strategic, as well as moral, imperative.