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"Former State Department advisor for Afghanistan and Pakistan and bestselling author Vali Nasr delivers a sharp indictment of America's flawed foreign policy and outlines a new relationship with the Muslim world and with new players in the changing Middle East. In this essential new book, Vali Nasr argues that the Obama administration had a chance to improve its relations with the Middle East, but instead chose to pursue its predecessor's questionable strategies there. Nasr takes readers behind the scenes at the State Department and reveals how the new government's fear of political backlash and the specter of terrorism crippled the efforts of diplomatic giants, like Richard Holbrooke and Hillary Clinton, to boost America's foundering credibility with world leaders. Meanwhile, the true economic threats, China and Russia, were quietly expanding their influence in the region. And a second Arab Spring is brewing--not a hopeful clamor for democracy but rage at the United States for its foreign policy of drones and assassinations. Drawing on his in-depth knowledge of the Middle East and firsthand experience in diplomacy, Nasr offers a powerful reassessment of American foreign policy that directs the country away from its failing relationships in the Middle East (such as with Saudi Arabia) toward more productive, and less costly, partnerships with other foreign allies (such as Turkey). Forcefully persuasive, Vali Nasr's book is a game changer for America as it charts a course in the Muslim world, Asia, and beyond. "--

POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General. --- HISTORY / Middle East / General. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / General. --- United States --- Middle East --- Islamic countries --- Etats-Unis --- Moyen-Orient --- Pays musulmans --- Foreign relations --- Relations extérieures --- INFLUENCES -- 327.2 --- SOUTH ASIA -- 327.2 --- DIPLOMACY -- 327.2 --- Relations extérieures

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"Nationalism and Multiple Modernities: Europe and Beyond explores new horizons in the study of nationalism by examining the modernity of nationalism with the theory of multiple modernities. The theory of multiple modernities has triggered a renewed debate on modernity by proposing a non-Western centric approach to the study of modernity. The volume applies the concept of multiple modernities to the study of nationalism and proposes a reformulation of nationalism as a form of cultural programmes that reflects enhanced human reflexivity. Three cases - Anglo-British, Finnish and Japanese - are investigated to examine the ways in which nationalism embodies an exercise of human agency. The volume commends the human-agency centred approach to nationalism as a way of avoiding Western-centricity in a social scientific investigation. Based on its examination of the three cases the volume suggests new directions in research into the relationship between nationalism and religion, non-Western cases of nationalism and 'Europe' as a cosmopolitan orientation."

Nationalism. --- Nationalism --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Political science --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Internationalism --- Political messianism --- Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- Group identity --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Nationalism. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies.

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"Communication is central to how we understand international affairs. Political leaders, diplomats, and citizens recognize that communication shapes global politics. This has only been amplified in a new media environment characterized by Internet access to information, social media, and the transformation of who can communicate and how. Soft power, public diplomacy 2.0, network power - scholars and policymakers are concerned with understanding what is happening. This book is the first to develop a systematic framework to understand how political actors seek to shape order through narrative projection in this new environment. To explain the changing world order - the rise of the BRICS, the dilemmas of climate change, poverty and terrorism, the intractability of conflict - the authors explore how actors form and project narratives and how third parties interpret and interact with these narratives. The concept of strategic narrative draws together the most salient of international relations concepts, including the links between power and ideas; international and domestic; and state and non-state actors. The book is anchored around four themes: order, actors, uncertainty, and contestation. Through these, Strategic Narratives shows both the possibilities and the limits of communication and power, and makes an important contribution to theorizing and studying empirically contemporary international relations"--

Communication en politique --- Communication dans les relations internationales --- Communication in politics. --- Mass media. --- Social media. --- International relations. --- Social policy. --- #SBIB:327.1H20 --- #SBIB:309H507 --- National planning --- State planning --- Economic policy --- Family policy --- Social history --- Coexistence --- Foreign affairs --- Foreign policy --- Foreign relations --- Global governance --- Interdependence of nations --- International affairs --- Peaceful coexistence --- World order --- National security --- Sovereignty --- World politics --- User-generated media --- Communication --- User-generated content --- Mass communication --- Media, Mass --- Media, The --- Political communication --- Political science --- Sociologie van de internationale betrekkingen: algemeen --- Code en boodschap: narrativiteitstheorie --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General. --- Political science / international relations / general. --- Political science / public policy / general. --- Communication in politics --- Mass media --- Social media --- International relations --- Social policy --- Communication en politique. --- Communication dans les relations internationales.

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What is China's rightful place on the world stage? Will the world remain unipolar as signs of American decline appear to be mounting? How can China maintain a harmonious relationship with its neighbors? What does China intend to do with the new power and influence that appears to be at its disposal? In light of emergent post-2008 economic realities, how should China adjust its foreign economic relations? This volume, the first of its kind, gathers a collection of translations of influential essays, talks, and papers on Chinese foreign policy, national security, and foreign economic relations written by Chinese elites. Many papers have also served as propositions for policy prescriptions to China's leaders, the vast majority of which have to date only been available in Chinese.

National security --- Monetary policy --- Renminbi --- China --- Foreign relations --- Foreign economic relations --- Renminbi. --- Foreign economic relations. --- S09/0264 --- S10/0641 --- S10/0320 --- China: Foreign relations and world politics--General works: since 1989 --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--Foreign trade and economic relations: since 1989 --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--Money and banking: since 1949 --- Sécurite nationale --- Politique monétaire --- Chine --- Relations extérieures --- Relations économiques extérieures --- CNY (Money) --- Ren min bi --- RMB (Money) --- Yuan (Money) --- Money --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / International --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General --- National security - China --- Monetary policy - China --- China - Foreign relations - 21st century --- China - Foreign economic relations

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"Leading Asian and security studies experts consider the question: What would happen if North Korea "goes nuclear?" and their answers are critical. Scholars and policymakers alike need to understand the implications not only for northeast Asian regional security, but also for the international nuclear non-proliferation regime. Moore's contributors evaluate political, economic, and security issues including: how South Korea, China, Japan, and Russia would react to such an event, and the possibility of a regional arms race; what diplomatic and strategic options the U.S. has; and how the global community's expectations regarding nuclear non-proliferation would be effected. Given the instability and mystery surrounding North Korean politics, scholarship on the implications of the country's nuclear capability is critical, which makes this volume with its unique focus a timely addition to the East Asian security studies field"--

POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / International Security. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / General. --- Security, International --- Nuclear nonproliferation --- Nuclear disarmament --- Collective security --- International security --- International relations --- Disarmament --- International organization --- Peace --- Export of nuclear materials --- Export of nuclear technology --- International control of nuclear energy --- Nonproliferation, Nuclear --- Nuclear energy --- Nuclear exports --- Nuclear proliferation --- Proliferation, Nuclear --- Nuclear arms control --- Nuclear-weapon-free zones --- Atomic bomb and disarmament --- Atomic weapons and disarmament --- Disarmament, Nuclear --- Nuclear weapons disarmament --- Antinuclear movement --- Nuclear weapons --- International control --- K9561.10 --- K9578.15 --- Korea: International politics, law and relations of North Korea -- East Asia --- Korea: Defense and military -- weaponry -- North Korea