Grandeur and Misery of Victory

Grandeur and Misery of Victory
Title Grandeur and Misery of Victory PDF eBook
Author Georges Clemenceau
Publisher DigiCat
Pages 289
Release 2022-08-16
Genre Fiction
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Grandeur and Misery of Victory" by Georges Clemenceau. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Generals and Politicians

Generals and Politicians
Title Generals and Politicians PDF eBook
Author Jere Clemens King
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 314
Release 1951
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Over the Horizon

Over the Horizon
Title Over the Horizon PDF eBook
Author David M. Edelstein
Publisher Cornell University Press
Pages 241
Release 2017-09-15
Genre Political Science
ISBN 150171208X

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How do established powers react to growing competitors? The United States currently faces a dilemma with regard to China and others over whether to embrace competition and thus substantial present-day costs or collaborate with its rivals to garner short-term gains while letting them become more powerful. This problem lends considerable urgency to the lessons to be learned from Over the Horizon. David M. Edelstein analyzes past rising powers in his search for answers that point the way forward for the United States as it strives to maintain control over its competitors. Edelstein focuses on the time horizons of political leaders and the effects of long-term uncertainty on decision-making. He notes how state leaders tend to procrastinate when dealing with long-term threats, hoping instead to profit from short-term cooperation, and are reluctant to act precipitously in an uncertain environment. To test his novel theory, Edelstein uses lessons learned from history’s great powers: late nineteenth-century Germany, the United States at the turn of the twentieth century, interwar Germany, and the Soviet Union at the origins of the Cold War. Over the Horizon demonstrates that cooperation between declining and rising powers is more common than we might think, although declining states may later regret having given upstarts time to mature into true threats.

Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity

Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity
Title Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity PDF eBook
Author Abraham Joshua Heschel
Publisher Macmillan
Pages 468
Release 1997-05-16
Genre Religion
ISBN 9780374524951

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Gathers essays by the Jewish scholar, activist, and theologian about Judaism, Jewish heritage, social justice, ecumenism, faith, and prayer.

Three Forms of Sudden Death

Three Forms of Sudden Death
Title Three Forms of Sudden Death PDF eBook
Author F. Gonzalez-Crussi
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Pages 234
Release 1986
Genre Medical
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Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors?

Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors?
Title Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors? PDF eBook
Author Brent L. Sterling
Publisher Georgetown University Press
Pages 370
Release 2009-10-30
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1589017277

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A number of nations, conspicuously Israel and the United States, have been increasingly attracted to the use of strategic barriers to promote national defense. In Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors?, defense analyst Brent Sterling examines the historical use of strategic defenses such as walls or fortifications to evaluate their effectiveness and consider their implications for modern security. Sterling studies six famous defenses spanning 2,500 years, representing both democratic and authoritarian regimes: the Long Walls of Athens, Hadrian’s Wall in Roman Britain, the Ming Great Wall of China, Louis XIV’s Pré Carré, France’s Maginot Line, and Israel’s Bar Lev Line. Although many of these barriers were effective in the short term, they also affected the states that created them in terms of cost, strategic outlook, military readiness, and relations with neighbors. Sterling assesses how modern barriers against ground and air threats could influence threat perceptions, alter the military balance, and influence the builder’s subsequent policy choices. Advocates and critics of strategic defenses often bolster their arguments by selectively distorting history. Sterling emphasizes the need for an impartial examination of what past experience can teach us. His study yields nuanced lessons about strategic barriers and international security and yields findings that are relevant for security scholars and compelling to general readers.

Failed Imagination?

Failed Imagination?
Title Failed Imagination? PDF eBook
Author Andrew Williams
Publisher Manchester University Press
Pages 364
Release 2013-01-18
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1847794890

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The main purpose of this book is to explain how (mainly) American, but also British and other Western, policy makers have planned and largely managed to create an international order in their own image, the so-called ‘New World Order’. It shows how this seismic shift in international relations has developed through the major global wars of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It uses a wide variety of historical archival material to give the background to the current and historical American obsession with creating the world order, one that both reflects the American national interest but also can be said to have established the major security, economic, organisational and normative pillars of our epoch. In addition it provides excellent background reading for the current debate about American foreign policy and the origins of ‘neo-conservatism’ in international relations. This edition updates a very successful first edition of the title, with additional material to take into account changes in the global order since 2001 and the beginning of the ‘War on Terror’.