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Career Officers In The Foreign Service - Us State Department (diplomatic, Counselor And Specialist Professional)
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ISBN: 1423799402 1585115185 9781423799405 Year: 2007 Publisher: Chicago : Institute For Career Research,

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The Foreign Service is the State Department agency through which the United States government conducts international affairs. Its trained personnel support the President of the United States and the Secretary of State by participating in the development, implementation, and promotion of US foreign policy and by protecting and advancing American interests abroad. There are two types of overseas posts, diplomatic and consular. Diplomatic missions are embassies, headed by an ambassador who is the personal representative of the United States President and is accredited to the government of the hos


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Gefasste Bildwerke : Untersuchung und Beschreibung von Skulpturenfassungen mit Beispielen aus der praktischen Arbeit der Restaurierungswerkstätten des Bayerischen Landesamtes für Denkmalpflege 1958-1986
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ISBN: 3874905438 Year: 1990 Publisher: München Bayerisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege


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Diplomatic security
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ISBN: 1503608980 9781503608986 9780804791052 Year: 2019 Publisher: Stanford, California

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The safety of diplomats has animated recent public and political debates. As diplomatic personnel are increasingly targeted by terrorism and political violence while overseas, sending states are augmenting host nations' security measures with their own. Protective arrangements range from deploying military, police, and private security guards to relocating embassies to suburban compounds. Yet, reinforced security may also hamper effective diplomacy and international relations. Scholars and practitioners from around the world bring to light a large body of empirical information available for the first time in Diplomatic Security. This book explores the global contexts and consequences of keeping embassies and their personnel safe. The essays in this volume offer case studies that illustrate the different arrangements in the U.S., China, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Israel, and Russia. Considering the historical and legal contexts, authors examine how states protect their diplomats abroad, what drives changes in existing protective arrangements, and how such measures affect the safety of diplomats and the institution of diplomacy. Diplomatic Security not only reveals how a wide variety of states handle security needs but also illuminates the broader theoretical and policy implications for the study of diplomacy and security alike.


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Concrete Revolution : Large Dams, Cold War Geopolitics, and the US Bureau of Reclamation
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ISBN: 022628445X 9780226284453 022628431X 9780226284316 Year: 2015 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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Water may seem innocuous, but as a universal necessity, it inevitably intersects with politics when it comes to acquisition, control, and associated technologies. While we know a great deal about the socioecological costs and benefits of modern dams, we know far less about their political origins and ramifications. In Concrete Revolution, Christopher Sneddon offers a corrective: a compelling historical account of the US Bureau of Reclamation's contributions to dam technology, Cold War politics, and the social and environmental adversity perpetuated by the US government in its pursuit of economic growth and geopolitical power. Founded in 1902, the Bureau became enmeshed in the US State Department's push for geopolitical power following World War II, a response to the Soviet Union's increasing global sway. By offering technical and water resource management advice to the world's underdeveloped regions, the Bureau found that it could not only provide them with economic assistance and the United States with investment opportunities, but also forge alliances and shore up a country's global standing in the face of burgeoning communist influence. Drawing on a number of international case studies-from the Bureau's early forays into overseas development and the launch of its Foreign Activities Office in 1950 to the Blue Nile investigation in Ethiopia-Concrete Revolution offers insights into this historic damming boom, with vital implications for the present. If, Sneddon argues, we can understand dams as both technical and political objects rather than instruments of impartial science, we can better participate in current debates about large dams and river basin planning.

American empire
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ISBN: 0520931521 1282759310 1597344605 9786612759314 9780520931527 0520243382 9780520243385 0520230272 9780520230279 9781597344609 1417525371 9781417525379 Year: 2003 Publisher: Berkeley

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An American Empire, constructed over the last century, long ago overtook European colonialism, and it has been widely assumed that the new globalism it espoused took us "beyond geography." Neil Smith debunks that assumption, offering an incisive argument that American globalism had a distinct geography and was pieced together as part of a powerful geographical vision. The power of geography did not die with the twilight of European colonialism, but it did change fundamentally. That the inauguration of the American Century brought a loss of public geographical sensibility in the United States was itself a political symptom of the emerging empire. This book provides a vital geographical-historical context for understanding the power and limits of contemporary globalization, which can now be seen as representing the third of three distinct historical moments of U.S. global ambition. The story unfolds through a decisive account of the career of Isaiah Bowman (1878-1950), the most famous American geographer of the twentieth century. For nearly four decades Bowman operated around the vortex of state power, working to bring an American order to the global landscape. An explorer on the famous Machu Picchu expedition of 1911 who came to be known first as "Woodrow Wilson's geographer," and later as Franklin D. Roosevelt's, Bowman was present at the creation of U.S. liberal foreign policy. A quarter-century later, Bowman was at the center of Roosevelt's State Department, concerned with the disposition of Germany and heightened U.S. access to European colonies; he was described by Dean Acheson as a key "architect of the United Nations." In that period he was a leader in American science, served as president of Johns Hopkins University, and became an early and vociferous cold warrior. A complicated, contradictory, and at times controversial figure who was very much in the public eye, he appeared on the cover of Time magazine. Bowman's career as a geographer in an era when the value of geography was deeply questioned provides a unique window into the contradictory uses of geographical knowledge in the construction of the American Empire. Smith's historical excavation reveals, in broad strokes yet with lively detail, that today's American-inspired globalization springs not from the 1980's but from two earlier moments in 1919 and 1945, both of which ended in failure. By recharting the geography of this history, Smith brings the politics-and the limits-of contemporary globalization sharply into focus.


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Watchdogs on the hill : the decline of congressional oversight of U.S. foreign relations
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ISBN: 9780691151625 9780691151618 069115161X 0691151628 1400866464 Year: 2015 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford, [England] : Princeton University Press,

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An essential responsibility of the U.S. Congress is holding the president accountable for the conduct of foreign policy. In this in-depth look at formal oversight hearings by the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees, Linda Fowler evaluates how the legislature's most visible and important watchdogs performed from the mid-twentieth century to the present. She finds a noticeable reduction in public and secret hearings since the mid-1990s and establishes that American foreign policy frequently violated basic conditions for democratic accountability. Committee scrutiny of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, she notes, fell below levels of oversight in prior major conflicts.Fowler attributes the drop in watchdog activity to growing disinterest among senators in committee work, biases among members who join the Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees, and motives that shield presidents, particularly Republicans, from public inquiry. Her detailed case studies of the Truman Doctrine, Vietnam War, Panama Canal Treaty, humanitarian mission in Somalia, and Iraq War illustrate the importance of oversight in generating the information citizens need to judge the president's national security policies. She argues for a reassessment of congressional war powers and proposes reforms to encourage Senate watchdogs to improve public deliberation about decisions of war and peace.Watchdogs on the Hill investigates America's national security oversight and its critical place in the review of congressional and presidential powers in foreign policy.

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Coexistence --- Coëxistence pacifique --- Foreign affairs --- Foreign policy --- Interdependence of nations --- International relations --- Internationale betrekkingen --- Ordre mondial --- Peaceful coexistence --- Relations internationales --- Vreedzame coëxistentie --- Wereldorde --- World order --- Legislative oversight --- United States --- Foreign relations --- Politics and government --- Legislative oversight - United States --- United States - Foreign relations --- United States - Politics and government --- International relations. --- Global governance --- International affairs --- National security --- Sovereignty --- World politics --- Congressional oversight --- Oversight, Congressional --- Foreign relations. --- Politics and government. --- Abu Ghraib Prison. --- Constitution. --- Defense Department. --- Department of Defense. --- Iraq War. --- Panama Canal. --- Senate Armed Services Committee. --- Senate Foreign Relations Committee. --- Senate committee. --- Senate watchdogs. --- Senate. --- State Department. --- Truman Doctrine. --- U.S. Congress. --- U.S. Constitution. --- U.S. foreign policy. --- U.S. foreign relations. --- Vietnam War. --- congressional war powers. --- democratic accountability. --- divided government. --- executive branch. --- fire alarms. --- foreign affairs. --- foreign policy. --- foreign relations. --- institutional changes. --- international affairs. --- military casualties. --- national security oversight. --- national security. --- police patrols. --- presidency. --- public hearings. --- public opinion. --- public understanding. --- reform proposals. --- rule of law. --- scandals. --- secret hearings. --- war powers. --- wars.


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Raising cane in the 'glades : the global sugar trade and the transformation of Florida
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ISBN: 0226349500 9786612426605 1282426605 0226349489 9780226349480 9780226349503 Year: 2008 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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Over the last century, the Everglades underwent a metaphorical and ecological transition from impenetrable swamp to endangered wetland. At the heart of this transformation lies the Florida sugar industry, which by the 1990's was at the center of the political storm over the multi-billion dollar ecological "restoration" of the Everglades. Raising Cane in the 'Glades is the first study to situate the environmental transformation of the Everglades within the economic and historical geography of global sugar production and trade. Using, among other sources, interviews, government and corporate documents, and recently declassified U.S. State Department memoranda, Gail M. Hollander demonstrates that the development of Florida's sugar region was the outcome of pitched battles reaching the highest political offices in the U.S. and in countries around the world, especially Cuba-which emerges in her narrative as a model, a competitor, and the regional "other" to Florida's "self." Spanning the period from the age of empire to the era of globalization, the book shows how the "sugar question"-a label nineteenth-century economists coined for intense international debates on sugar production and trade-emerges repeatedly in new guises. Hollander uses the sugar question as a thread to stitch together past and present, local and global, in explaining Everglades transformation.

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Drainage - Florida - Everglades. --- Drainage -- Florida -- Everglades. --- Rural development - Florida - Everglades. --- Rural development -- Florida -- Everglades. --- Sugar - Manufacture and refining - Florida - Everglades. --- Sugar -- Manufacture and refining -- Florida -- Everglades. --- Sugar trade - Florida - Everglades. --- Sugar trade -- Florida -- Everglades. --- Sugar trade --- Drainage --- Rural development --- Sugar --- Industries --- Business & Economics --- Manufacture and refining --- Cane sugar --- Community development, Rural --- Development, Rural --- Integrated rural development --- Regional development --- Rehabilitation, Rural --- Rural community development --- Rural economic development --- Land drainage --- Sugar bounties --- Sugar industry --- Citizen participation --- Social aspects --- Sugarcane products --- Sugars --- Agriculture and state --- Community development --- Economic development --- Regional planning --- Agricultural engineering --- Hydraulic engineering --- Reclamation of land --- Sanitary engineering --- Sewerage --- Sweetener industry --- E-books --- commodities trading, botany, geography, united states, florida, the everglades, ecological transition, ecology, environment, impenetrable swamp, endangered wetland, emvironmentalism, sugar industry, 1990s, political storm, restoration, environmental transformation, historical, geographical, global production, interviews, government documents, us state department, politicians, era of globalization, cuba, international debates, regional competition, rural development, engineered landscapes.


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Leonard Bernstein : the political life of an American musician
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ISBN: 0520943074 9780520943070 9780520257641 0520257642 Year: 2009 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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From his dazzling conducting debut in 1943 until his death in 1990, Leonard Bernstein's star blazed brilliantly. In this fresh and revealing biography of Bernstein's political life, Barry Seldes examines Bernstein's career against the backdrop of cold war America-blacklisting by the State Department in 1950, voluntary exile from the New York Philharmonic in 1951 for fear that he might be blacklisted, signing a humiliating affidavit to regain his passport-and the factors that by the mid-1950s allowed his triumphant return to the New York Philharmonic. Seldes for the first time links Bernstein's great concert-hall and musical-theatrical achievements and his real and perceived artistic setbacks to his involvement with progressive political causes. Making extensive use of previously untapped FBI files as well as overlooked materials in the Library of Congress's Bernstein archive, Seldes illuminates the ways in which Bernstein's career intersected with the twentieth century's most momentous events. This broadly accessible and impressively documented account of the celebrity-maestro's life deepens our understanding of an entire era as it reveals important and often ignored intersections of American culture and political power.

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Musicians --- Artists --- Political activity --- Bernstein, Leonard, --- Amber, Lenny, --- Bānsutain, Renādo, --- Bernshṭain, Leʼonard, --- Bernshtėĭn, Leanard, --- Bernstaĭn, Leonard, --- Bernstain, Leonarnt, --- Bernstayn, Leonard, --- Bernstein, L. --- Bernstein, Lenny, --- Bernstein, Leonardus, --- Bernstein, Louis, --- Bernsteins, Leonards, --- Boensitan, Lunnade, --- Bŭrnsteĭn, Lenard, --- Striboneen, Randel, --- Μπερνστάιν, Λέοναρντ, --- Бърнстейн, Ленард, --- Бернстайн, Леонард, --- Бернштэйн, Леанард, --- ברנשטיין, ליאונרד, --- バーンスタイン, レナード, --- レナード・バーンスタイン, --- 伦纳德·伯恩斯坦, --- 伯恩斯坦, 伦纳德, --- Political activity. --- Political and social views. --- Musiciens --- Biography --- Biographies --- Activité politique --- 20th century. --- american culture. --- american history. --- artists. --- biography. --- blacklisted. --- career. --- classical music. --- cold war america. --- composer. --- engaging. --- exile. --- famous musicians. --- fbi files. --- folk heroes. --- iconic musicians. --- leonard bernstein. --- library of congress. --- maestro. --- modern history. --- music lovers. --- musical career. --- musical theater. --- new york philharmonic. --- new york. --- nonfiction. --- political activist. --- political outcasts. --- popular culture. --- progressive politics. --- retrospective. --- revolutionaries. --- state department.


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Uprooted : how Breslau became Wrocław during the century of expulsions
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ISBN: 1283163837 9786613163837 1400839963 Year: 2011 Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press,

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With the stroke of a pen at the Potsdam Conference following the Allied victory in 1945, Breslau, the largest German city east of Berlin, became the Polish city of Wroclaw. Its more than six hundred thousand inhabitants--almost all of them ethnic Germans--were expelled and replaced by Polish settlers from all parts of prewar Poland. Uprooted examines the long-term psychological and cultural consequences of forced migration in twentieth-century Europe through the experiences of Wroclaw's Polish inhabitants. In this pioneering work, Gregor Thum tells the story of how the city's new Polish settlers found themselves in a place that was not only unfamiliar to them but outright repellent given Wroclaw's Prussian-German appearance and the enormous scope of wartime destruction. The immediate consequences were an unstable society, an extremely high crime rate, rapid dilapidation of the building stock, and economic stagnation. This changed only after the city's authorities and a new intellectual elite provided Wroclaw with a Polish founding myth and reshaped the city's appearance to fit the postwar legend that it was an age-old Polish city. Thum also shows how the end of the Cold War and Poland's democratization triggered a public debate about Wroclaw's "amputated memory." Rediscovering the German past, Wroclaw's Poles reinvented their city for the second time since World War II. Uprooted traces the complex historical process by which Wroclaw's new inhabitants revitalized their city and made it their own.

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World War, 1939-1945 --- Forced migration --- Social change --- City and town life --- Collective memory --- Influence. --- Deportations from Poland. --- History --- Wrocław (Poland) --- Oder-Neisse Line (Germany and Poland) --- Social conditions --- 1940s. --- Allied powers. --- Allied victory. --- Allies. --- Breslau. --- Central Europe. --- Eastern Europe. --- Europe. --- Gdansk. --- General Conservator. --- German occupation. --- German territories. --- German territory. --- Germans. --- GermanАolish border. --- Gnienzo. --- Jan Zachwatowicz. --- Joanna Konopinka. --- Karol Maleczynski. --- Krakow. --- London Foreign Office. --- Poland. --- Poles. --- Polish leaders. --- Polish names. --- Polish national cult. --- Polish people. --- Polish residents. --- Polish settlers. --- Polish state. --- Polish takeover. --- Polonization. --- Potsdam Conference. --- Poznan. --- Second World War. --- Soviet Union. --- Soviet dismantling. --- Szczecin. --- Warsaw. --- Washington State Department. --- Wrocalw. --- Wroclaw. --- age-old Polish. --- archival materials. --- better future. --- communist government. --- cultural life. --- discrimination. --- ethnic Germans. --- ethnic minorities. --- forced migration. --- forced migrations. --- foreignness. --- historians. --- historic preservation. --- historical names. --- homogenous nation. --- integration. --- local history. --- mass migrations. --- modern society. --- national border. --- nonintervention. --- patriotic appeals. --- political map. --- political power. --- population exchange. --- postwar Poland. --- postwar challenges. --- postwar history. --- reconstruction. --- renaming operation. --- self-reassurance. --- settlement boundaries. --- settlers. --- tradition. --- transportation connections. --- war. --- wartime destruction. --- western territories.

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