Cold War as Cooperation
Title | Cold War as Cooperation PDF eBook |
Author | Roger E. Kanet |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 450 |
Release | 1991-06-18 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 134911605X |
A study of superpower co-operation since World War II, this book examines the regulation of USA/USSR rivalry, and outlines the power of regional states to constrain and manipulate them for their own interests.
International Cooperation in Cold War Europe
Title | International Cooperation in Cold War Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Stinsky |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2021-04-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1350169048 |
Formed in 1947, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) was the first postwar international organization dedicated to economic cooperation in Europe. Linking the universalism of the UN to European regionalism, both Cold War superpowers, the USA and the Soviet Union, were founding members of the UNECE. Building on the League of Nations' difficult heritage, and in an increasingly challenging political environment, the UNECE's mission was to facilitate European cooperation transcending the boundaries set by the Cold War . With a number of competitor organizations set against it, the UNECE managed to carve out a niche for itself, setting norms and standards that still have an impact on the everyday lives of millions in Europe and beyond today. Working against an overwhelming geopolitical trend, UNECE succeeded in bridging the Cold War divide on several occasions, and maintained a broad system of contacts across the Iron Curtain. This book provides a unique study of this important but hitherto under-researched international organization. Incorporating research on the Cold War, the history of internationalism and European integration, Stinsky weaves these different threads of historical enquiry into a single analytical narrative.
Planning in Cold War Europe
Title | Planning in Cold War Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Michel Christian |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 582 |
Release | 2018-10-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3110532409 |
The idea of planning economy and engineering social life has often been linked with Communist regimes’ will of control. However, the persuasion that social and economic processes could and should be regulated was by no means limited to them. Intense debates on these issues developed already during the First World War in Europe and became globalized during the World Economic crisis. During the Cold War, such discussions fuelled competition between two models of economic and social organisation but they also revealed the convergences and complementarities between them. This ambiguity, so often overlooked in histories of the Cold War, represents the central issue of the book organized around three axes. First, it highlights how know-how on planning circulated globally and were exchanged by looking at international platforms and organizations. The volume then closely examines specificities of planning ideas and projects in the Communist and Capitalist World. Finally, it explores East-West channels generated by exchanges around issues of planning which functioned irrespective of the Iron Curtain and were exported in developing countries. The volume thus contributes to two fields undergoing a process of profound reassessment: the history of modernisation and of the Cold War.
An Introduction to International Relations
Title | An Introduction to International Relations PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Devetak |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 593 |
Release | 2011-10-17 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1139505602 |
Invaluable to students and those approaching the subject for the first time, An Introduction to International Relations, Second Edition provides a comprehensive and stimulating introduction to international relations, its traditions and its changing nature in an era of globalisation. Thoroughly revised and updated, it features chapters written by a range of experts from around the world. It presents a global perspective on the theories, history, developments and debates that shape this dynamic discipline and contemporary world politics. Now in full-colour and accompanied by a password-protected companion website featuring additional chapters and case studies, this is the indispensable guide to the study of international relations.
Intelligence in the Cold War
Title | Intelligence in the Cold War PDF eBook |
Author | Lars Christian Jenssen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Behandler forskellige landes efterretningstjenesters virke og samarbejde under "den kolde krig".
From Coexistence to Cooperation
Title | From Coexistence to Cooperation PDF eBook |
Author | Edward McWhinney |
Publisher | Martinus Nijhoff Publishers |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 1991-08-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780792314011 |
In four short years the international landscape has been completely reorganized. The major political fault line of the Cold War has been for the most part erased, and the foundations have been laid for an entirely new era in international relations. Serious focused analysis is urgently needed to help facilitate the process of ending the Cold War'. This volume, the product of a Canada-Soviet bilateral conference of jurists and other scholars, specialized in International Law and International Organizatin, and International Conflicts-Resolution, held at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver in June 1990, attempts to provide such analysis. Written by a professionally and scientifically distinguished team of Canadian and Soviet experts, it deals with such issues as the winding up of the Nuclear and General Disarment process, the current main proposals on strengtening the United Nations and on reforming and modernizing its main arenas and institutions, new approaches to International Trade and Commerce on a multilateral basis, developing new norms of International Environmental Protection Law, and the Intrnational protection of Human Rights. It is characterized above all by a common emphasis, Soviet and Canadian, on pragmatism, and on a rigorously empirical, problem-oriented approach and offers not merely a description of international Law as it might now happen to exist. The result is a suprisingly far-ranging consensus, not merely on the major World Community problems that should be deemed ripe for present study, but also on their most desirable, practical and realizable solutions.
When Opponents Cooperate
Title | When Opponents Cooperate PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin Miller |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9780472088720 |
A multilevel theory of international relations that accounts for intended and unintended outcomes of cooperation and conflict