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"A memoir of how Washington Post journalist Dusko Doder reported from Cold War Moscow and elsewhere; then how he fought back against an attempt to retaliate for that reporting"--

This anthology features the proceedings of Don Juan Archiv Wien's symposium organized in March 2016 in cooperation with the University of Vienna and STVDIVM FÆSVLANVM. It introduces contributions which focus on and investigate 'gender', a lesser studied aspect in studies of diplomatic history. The term 'gender' quintessentially is associated with and suggests at first hand 'the female'; acknowledging this, the volume endeavours to provide a balance of both genders, and does so by looking at the cult urally relevant aspects of the male gender as well as considering both genders in their interwoven network of relationships; that is in marital, cultural, diplomatic contexts. The volume features thefollowing chapters: Women as Diplomatic Actors, Diplomacy of Queens, The Birth of the Ambassadress, Stages for Male Diplomacy.

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Politics - Topic: International relations, grade: 1,0, Sheffield Hallam University (Faculty of Development and Society), language: English, abstract: This paper has taken the discourse on changes in global diplomacy as a foundation for an in-depth case study of the Clinton Global Initiative which appeared and proved to be an excellent example for the realization of recent trends in real politics. By applying a mixed-methodology, the organizational structure and membership were investigated as to effectively be able to make statements about the initiative¿s approach towards the global issue of climate change. Via a consecutive comparison to the state-centric United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, strengths and weaknesses of the Clinton Global Initiative as an international organization could be identified, and recommendations could be given as to how modern diplomacy could be designed more effectively. This research sets out to answer the following questions: 1. How does the Clinton Global Initiative address contemporary global issues, specifically climate change? 2. What lessons can other international organizations such as the UN learn from the Clinton Global Initiative for the practice of diplomacy?Recent trends such as the communications revolution and the increasing importance of transnational non-state actors have led to increasing levels of global interdependence. At the same time, global public goods issues such as pollution, poverty, or health call for collective action at a worldwide scale. Both trends are interrelated and have led academics to recognize a development towards a ¿new diplomacy¿ that is characterized by a growing involvement of public and private actors from civil society and the business world, by flat hierarchies and inter-sectoral partnerships, by an increasing impact of individuals, and by flexible and solution-focused approaches. There is no agreed position as to whether this ¿new diplomacy¿ is to be placed in opposition to more traditional, state-centric accounts of diplomacy, or whether it rather adds to a polycentric world system.

"This ... study of China-Ethiopia relations examines why China--an economic and emerging global power--has built relations with Ethiopia and why Ethiopia has responded by singling out China as a partner in its quest for economic development. Using middle-range theory and field research, Aaron Tesfaye focuses on three sets of phenomena: political, economic, and strategic"--

'Turing writes on codebreaking with understandable authority and compelling panache.' - Michael Smith, bestselling author of Station X. >Written by Dermot Turing - the nephew of famous codebreaker Alan Turing - this illustrated account provides unique insight into the behind-the-scenes action at Bletchley Park. Discover how brilliant and eccentric individuals such as Dilly Knox, Alan Turing and Joan Clarke were recruited, the social life that grew up around the park, and how they dealt with the ever-present burden of secrecy. Learn about the origins of international intelligence co-operation, as the United States sent representatives from the Army and Navy to learn about the new codebreaking techniques being developed in Britain, and how these experiences shaped efforts to break the Japanese codes. Including a foreword by Professor Christopher Andrew of Cambridge University, author of MI5's official history The Secret World, this book brings to life the stories of the men and women who toiled day and night to crack the seemingly unbreakable enigma code.

A sweeping saga of the Spanish history and influence in North America over five centuries, from the acclaimed author of Empire's Crossroads

"On August 8, 1993, a single bullet to the head killed Freddie Woodruff, the Central Intelligence Agency's station chief in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. Within hours, police had a suspect--a vodka-soaked village bumpkin named Anzor Sharmaidze. A tidy explanation quickly followed: It was a tragic accident. US diplomats hailed Georgia's swift work, and both countries breathed a sigh of relief. Yet the bullet that killed Woodruff was never found and key witnesses have since retracted their testimony, saying they were beaten and forced to identify Sharmaidze. But if he didn't do it, who did? Those who don't buy the official explanation think the answer lies in the spy games that played out on Russia's frontier following the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. Woodruff was an early actor in a dangerous drama. American spies were moving into newborn nations previously dominated by Soviet intelligence. Russia's security apparatus, resentful and demoralized, was in turmoil, its nominal loyalty to a pro-Western course set by President Boris Yeltsin, shredded by hardline spooks and generals who viewed the Americans as a menace. At the time when Woodruff was stationed there, Georgia was a den of intrigue. It had a big Russian military base and was awash with former and not-so-former Soviet agents. Shortly before Woodruff was shot, veteran CIA officer Aldrich Ames--who would soon be unmasked as a KGB mole--visited him on agency business. In short order, Woodruff would be dead and Ames, in prison for life. Buckle up, because The Spy Who Was Left Behind reveals the full-throttle, little-known thrilling tale"--

A continuación la traducción de la reseña que acompañó la publicación de la versión original en inglés de este intrigante y sorprendente libro, que fuera publicado en octubre de 2018: Si uno siguiera los eventos en Estados Unidos a través de alguno de los canales de las principales cadenas de noticias, inevitablemente concluiría que todos están en contra del Presidente Trump y que el mundo entero detesta todo lo que él representa.Si éste fuese el caso, entonces, ¿cómo es que él se las ingenió para ser electo y con qué propósito?¿Cuál sería su reacción ante la insinuación de que fue el mismo Dios quien ungió a Donald Trump como presidente de Estados Unidos aún antes de que él anunciara su intención de postular su candidatura.Si hubiera algo de verdad en la narrativa que de manera incansable presentan los canales de "Fake News" (noticias falsas), entonces, los americanos habrían elegido como su presidente a una persona que entre otras cosas es un blanco supremacista, un enfermo misógino y un lunático patán.¿Es así?¿Quién es Estados Unidos en el contexto de la comunidad internacional?¿Qué países se han posicionado del lado correcto de la historia y cuáles lo han hecho del equivocado, y por qué? ¿Quedó la Guerra Fría en el pasado, o aún continúa?¿Se justifica la construcción de un muro en la frontera que divide a Estados Unidos de México?¿Existe una manera realista de financiar su construcción y que sea México quien la pague?¿Debería el Presidente Trump ordenar la invasión militar de Venezuela?¿Quién inició la "Guerra Comercial" y quién va a resultar el ganador de la misma?El Presidente Trump ha prometido que hará que América Sea Estupenda de Nuevo; ¿"de nuevo" como cuándo?Éstas y muchas otras preguntas son abordadas y factual y elocuentemente respondidas a lo largo de este muy especial libro.Leerlo es obligatorio si usted es un ciudadano americano próximo a emitir su voto en las elecciones de mitad de período que se llevarán a cabo el próximo 6 de noviembre de 2018, dado que contiene un mensaje de parte de Dios que usted necesita recibir y entender antes de hacerlo.

An urgent and deeply necessary work, Dear Zealots offers three powerful essays that speak directly to our present age, on the rise of zealotry in Israel and around the world. "Concise, evocative . . . Dear Zealots is not just a brilliant book of thoughts and ideas-it is a depiction of one man's struggle, who for decades has insisted on keeping a sharp, strident and lucid perspective in the face of chaos and at times of madness." - David Grossman, winner of the Man Booker International Prize From the incomparable Amos Oz comes a series of three essays: on the universal nature of fanaticism and its possible cures, on the Jewish roots of humanism and the need for a secular pride in Israel, and on the geopolitical standing of Israel in the wider Middle East and internationally.Dear Zealots is classic Amos Oz-fluid, rich, masterly, and perfectly timed for a world in which polarization and extremism are rising everywhere. The essays were written, Oz states, "first and foremost" for his grandchildren: they are a patient, learned telling of history, religion, and politics, to be thumbed through and studied, clung to even, as we march toward an uncertain future.

Drugs, money, cartels?these were what FBI rookie Scott Lawson expected when he was sent to the border town of Laredo; instead he was deskbound writing intelligence reports about the drug war. Until one day he was asked to check out a tip from a source: a horse was sold at an Oklahoma auction for a record-topping price, and the buyer was Miguel Treviño, one of the leaders of the Zetas, Mexico's most brutal drug cartel. The source suggested that Treviño was laundering money through American quarter horse racing. If this was true, it offered a rookie like Lawson the perfect opportunity to infiltrate the cartel. Lawson teamed up with Alma Perez, a more experienced agent, and, taking on impossible odds, set out to take down one of the world's most fearsome drug lords. In Bloodlines, Emmy and National Magazine Award?winning journalist Melissa del Bosque follows Lawson and Perez's harrowing attempt to dismantle a cartel leader's American racing dynasty built on extortion and blood money. With extensive access to investigative evidence and in-depth interviews with key players, del Bosque turns more than three years of research and her decades of reporting on Mexico and the border into a gripping narrative about greed and corruption. Bloodlines offers us an unprecedented look at the inner workings of the Zetas and U.S. federal agencies, and opens a new vista onto the changing nature of the drug war and its global expansion.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | An inspiring and urgent memoir by the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine?a pioneering diplomat who spent her career advancing democracy in the post-Soviet world, and who electrified the nation by speaking truth to power during the first impeachment of President Trump.Marie Yovanovitch was at the height of her diplomatic career when it all came crashing down. In the middle of her third ambassadorship?a rarity in the world of diplomacy?she was targeted by a smear campaign and abruptly recalled from her post in Kyiv, Ukraine. In the months that followed, she endured personal tragedy while simultaneously being pulled into the blinding lights of the first impeachment inquiry of Donald Trump. It was a time of chaos and pain, for her and for the nation.Yet Yovanovitch was no stranger to instability and injustice. Born into a family that had survived Soviet and Nazi terror, she first saw the corrosive effect of corruption in Somalia while cutting her teeth as a diplomat in the male-dominated world of the 1980s State Department. She was an eyewitness to the 1993 constitutional crisis in Russia and the street fighting in Moscow. And she rose to the top of her profession in the crucible of the former USSR, where she saw how President Vladimir Putin adeptly exploited corrupt leaders in neighboring countries and undermined their developing democracies.Nowhere was Putin's aggression clearer than in Ukraine, where Russia meddled in elections, launched cyberattacks, peddled misinformation, illegally annexed Crimea, invaded the Donbas, and attacked Ukrainian ships in the Black Sea. But when Yovanovitch was abruptly recalled from her post and Ukraine's democratically elected president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, found himself set upon by Trump, it became clear just how dangerously close to the edge America itself had strayed.Through it all, Yovanovitch tirelessly advocated for the Ukrainian people, while advancing U.S. interests and staying true to herself. When she made the courageous decision to participate in the impeachment inquiry?over the objections of the Trump administration?she earned the nation's respect, and her dignified response to the president's attacks won our hearts. She has reclaimed her own narrative, first with her lauded congressional testimony, and now with this powerful memoir: the dramatic saga of one woman's role at the vanguard of American foreign policy during a time of upheaval, for herself and for our country.A Publishers Marketplace 2021 Buzz Book?A brilliant, engaging, and inspiring memoir from one of America's wisest and most courageous diplomats?essential reading for current policymakers, aspiring public servants, and anyone who cares about America's role in the world.??Madeleine K. Albright?First through the breach, Ambassador Yovanovitch showed Americans what courage and patriotism looks like. More than essential reading, Lessons from the Edge is thoroughly engaging and impossible to put down, showing us how an introverted career diplomat overcame the most vicious of smear campaigns to become a foreign service legend.??Congressman Adam Schiff?At turns moving and gripping and always inspiring ... a powerful testament to a uniquely American life well-lived and a remarkable career of dedicated public service at the highest levels of government.??Fiona Hill, New York Times best-selling author of There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century

A dazzling and insightful look at the Australian federal election 2019.What went wrong for Labor and how did Scott Morrison achieve his remarkable victory? In this dazzling report from the campaign trail, Erik Jensen homes in on the insecurities that drive Bill Shorten and the certainties that helped Scott Morrison win. He considers how each man reflects, challenges and comforts the national character.Who are Morrison's "quiet Australians"? What did Shorten Labor fail to see? And will fear always trump hope in politics? The Prosperity Gospel sheds new light on the politics of a divided nation."Arthur Sinodinos says the election is a crapshoot. He's in a car park in Nowra, waiting for Morrison. 'The momentum has been with us at different times, especially in Queensland,' he says. 'Central Queensland, even the outer suburbs of Brisbane. It's a narrow pathway to victory, with the odds going the other way. But it ain't over until it's over.' Despite everything, Arthur Sinodinos has an honest face. He does not look confident." -Erik Jensen, The Prosperity GospelThis issue also contains correspondence discussing Quarterly Essay 73, Australia Fair, from Susan Carland, James Walter, Carol Johnson, Travers McLeod, Isabelle Reinecke, and Rebecca Huntley

Nachrichtendienstforschung ist, vor allem in Deutschland, haufig stark geschichts- oder praxisorientiert ausgerichtet. Gesellschaftstheoretische Arbeiten zu Nachrichtendiensten sind Mangelware. Das Buch adressiert diese Lucke unter Ruckgriff auf systemtheoretische Herangehensweisen. Diese erlauben eine theoretisch fundierte Betrachtung grundlegender Inhalte von Nachrichtenwesen wie Geheimnissen, den Umgang mit Unsicherheit oder bestimmten nachrichtendienstlichen Funktionen fur die Politik. Dadurch werden einerseits neue theoretische Perspektiven fur die Intelligence Studies"e; eroffnet und andererseits der Anschluss an aktuelle Diskussionen der Internationalen Beziehungen und der Internationalen Politischen Soziologie ermoglicht.

A Library Journal Best Book of 2014A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of 2014New York Times bestselling author Karen Abbott tells the spellbinding true story of four women who risked everything during the Civil War.Seventeen-year-old Belle Boyd, an avowed rebel with a dangerous temper, shot a Union soldier in her home, and became a courier and spy for the Confederate army, using her considerable charms to seduce men on both sides. Emma Edmonds disguised herself as a man to enlist as a Union private named Frank Thompson, witnessing the bloodiest battles of the war and infiltrating enemy lines. The beautiful widow Rose O'Neal Greenhow engaged in affairs with powerful Northern politicians and used her young daughter to send information to Southern generals. Elizabeth Van Lew, a wealthy Richmond abolitionist, hid behind her proper Southern manners as she orchestrated a far-reaching espionage ring?even placing a former slave inside the Confederate White House?right under the noses of increasingly suspicious rebel detectives.With a cast of real-life characters, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, General Stonewall Jackson, Detective Allan Pinkerton, Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln, and Emperor Napoléon III, Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy shines a dramatic new light on these daring?and, until now, unsung?heroines.

How did we get from the end of the Cold War to Trump and Putin?

Document from the year 2015 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Africa, grade: 95, University of California, Berkeley , course: Peace & Conflict Studies, language: English, abstract: This paper is intended to trace the evolution of conflict diamond mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the success of international effort by means of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme to eliminate conflict by means of civil war, war, terrorism or insurgency. By evaluating the Kimberley Process and synthesizing the views of different authors, organizations and critics, I determine whether or not the process has accomplished what it set out to do and if it should be kept. Diamond mining is part of the cycle of natural resource exploitation that plagues the Democratic Republic of the Congo as well as many other parts of Africa, for decades in diamonds and centuries in human labor and other resources. The diamond issue was lowly ranked on the international radar for decades and became a clear priority during several civil wars in Africa in the 1990s. The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme is an international effort that was put in place to eliminate conflict diamonds from being sold and financing war, insurgent groups or terrorism.

This book discusses the rise of Putin in Russia and Erdogan in Turkey to authoritarian power in the context of the global debate over the fragility of democracy and the persistence of authoritarianism. It is both historical and theoretical in it treatment of the politics, economics and international relations of Russia and Turkey.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Politik - Region: Westeuropa, Note: 19,5/20, Sciences Po Paris, Dijon, Nancy, Poitier, Menton, Havre, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit untersucht die Medienpropaganda in Italien unter dem faschistischen Staatsoberhaupt Mussolini. Sie betrachtet die Differenz zwischen Realität und propagandareichen Medien, insbesondere inwieweit der Duce das Verhältnis beeinflusst und verbogen hat. Außerdem wird auf die Thematik der Gleichschaltung eingegangen und die Lage in Deutschland als Beispiel und mögliche Erklärung, genutzt, denn im faschistischen Italien und nationalsozialistischem Deutschland ergibt sich eine vergleichbare Faschismusforschung.Um die Medienpropaganda in Italien gänzlich zu verstehen scheint aus diesem Grund die Parallele zum nationalsozialistischen Deutschland zwischen 1933 und 1944 angemessen. Das Ziel dieser Hausarbeit ist es, die enorme Macht über die Bevölkerung zu zeigen und wie Mussolini mit jener Macht profitierend umging und die italienische Bevölkerung unter seine Kontrolle zu bringen. Die Arbeit ist in zwei Hauptpunkte aufgeteilt, jeweils mit zwei Unterteilen. Im ersten wird über die Gleichschaltung in Deutschland und über Mussolinis diktatorisches Leben berichtet. Der zweite Teil konzentriert sich explizit auf die Medienpropaganda, insbesondere auf die Filmindustrie und auf die Bildwerbung. Zum Schluss wird auf die These nochmal direkt eingegangen und Mussolinis Strategie aufgedeckt.

Historical Dictionary of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, a bibliography and more than 700 cross-referenced entries on UNESCO's initiatives, programs, projects, normative instruments, and partners over the past 76 years.