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Transformational diplomacy.
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ISSN: 10177566 ISBN: 9789291981144 9291981141 Year: 2007 Volume: no. 103 Publisher: Paris Institute for Security Studies

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The attacks of September 11 2001 spectacularly demonstrated that America’s main security challenges did not stem from traditional power rivalries but rather from ‘grey areas’, failed or badly governed states which are breeding grounds for extremism. Today the emphasis has shifted from focusing on relations between states to acting directly on states themselves, so as to pre-empt the growth of terrorism, arms proliferation, genocide, civil wars etc. After the concept of the ‘global war on terror’, President George W. Bush put forward his ‘freedom agenda’ aiming to promote democracy as a response to the security challenges facing the world, in particular in the Middle East. But overthrowing tyrants and holding elections is not enough to create a stable and well-governed democracy and can even, in some cases, complicate matters, as events between 2003 and 2005 in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Palestinian Authority and Egypt have shown. This is where ‘transformational diplomacy’, the concept inaug-urated by Condoleezza Rice in early 2006, comes in. Basically this consists in working with the partners of the United States with a view to ‘build and sustain democratic, well-governed states that will respond to the needs of their people and conduct themselves responsibly in the international system.’ To enable this to happen, it is first of all American diplomacy which must transform itself, so as to become less ‘analytical’ and more operational, characterised by direct involvement in foreign societies rather than just being restricted to the realm of foreign policy. This Chaillot Paper explores the scope and limits of this ‘transformative’ action: is the realist paradigm, that of interpower rivalries, really no longer relevant ? Can diplomats transform themselves into active promoters of good governance ? Are other countries ready to accept them in this role, or will they accuse them of interference ? Can transformational diplomacy really change the world ?


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Global powers in the 21st century : strategies and relations.
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ISBN: 9780262622189 0262622181 Year: 2008 Publisher: Cambridge MIT press


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European diplomacy in practice : interrogating power, agency and change
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ISBN: 1138570028 9781138570023 Year: 2018 Publisher: Abingdon Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

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This book aims to show practice approaches at work in the fields of European diplomacy and security broadly conceived. It sets out to provide readers with a hands-on sense of where research on social practices and European diplomacy, security and foreign policy currently stands. The book reviews how practice approaches have evolved in International Relations (IR) and brings together an unique set of contributions which highlights how insights from practice approaches can be applied to advance research on a number of key issues in these fields. While the debate about practices in IR goes beyond the case of diplomacy, the latter has become a showcase for the former and this book continues the debate on practices and diplomacy by zooming in on the European Union. Examples of issues covered include the evolution of EU-NATO relations seen from the perspective of communities of practice, burden sharing as an anchoring practice for European states’ involvement in crisis management operations, the practical knowledge shaping the EU’s responses to the Arab Uprisings, agency as accomplished in and through EU counter-piracy practices and the political resistance to Israeli occupation and the non-official recognition of Palestine performed by EU diplomats. Thus, by focusing on specific practices and analytical mechanisms that contribute to understand the transformations of European diplomacy, security and foreign policy, this book provides essential readings to anyone interested in innovative ways to grasp the contemporary challenges that face the EU and its member states. The chapters originally published as a special issue of European Security. (Provided by publisher)


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World politics since 1989
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ISBN: 9781509546725 1509546723 9781509546749 150954674X Year: 2021 Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press,

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A brilliant account of how the world squandered the opportunities of the post-Cold War era. --

At war's end : building peace after civil conflict
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ISBN: 9780521834124 0521834120 9780521541978 0521541972 9780511790836 131609927X 1107149436 0511214324 051179083X 0511302843 1280515856 0511216114 0511210744 0511212518 9780511210747 9780511214325 9780511216114 9781280515859 9780511212512 9781107149434 9780511302848 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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All fourteen major peacebuilding missions launched between 1989 and 1999 shared a common strategy for consolidating peace after internal conflicts: immediate democratization and marketization. Transforming war-shattered states into market democracies is basically sound, but pushing this process too quickly can have damaging and destabilizing effects. The process of liberalization is inherently tumultuous, and can undermine the prospects for stable peace. A more sensible approach to post-conflict peacebuilding would seek, first, to establish a system of domestic institutions that are capable of managing the destabilizing effects of democratization and marketization within peaceful bounds and only then phase in political and economic reforms slowly, as conditions warrant. Peacebuilders should establish the foundations of effective governmental institutions prior to launching wholesale liberalization programs. Avoiding the problems that marred many peacebuilding operations in the 1990s will require longer-lasting and, ultimately, more intrusive forms of intervention in the domestic affairs of these states. This book was first published in 2004.


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L'un sans l'autre
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ISBN: 2213027749 9782213027746 Year: 1991 Publisher: Paris Fayard

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Pendant quarante-cinq ans, le monde a vécu sous la tutelle de deux empires aux ambitions radicalement contradictoires, encore que contraints, par leur commune peur de l'apocalypse nucléaire, à un minimum de complicité. Cette époque est révolue. Le putsch manqué de Moscou a précipité la déroute d'une Union soviétique en passe de perdre jusqu'à son nom.Suivant de près celle qu'il venait de remporter sur l'Irak de Saddam Hussein, c'est pour Georges Bush une formidable victoire: le voilà désormais sans l'autre ", débarrassé de la super-puissance que ses prédécesseurs n'avait cessé, depuis 1945, de trouver en travers de leur route. S'ils conservent, avec le Japon et l'Allemagne, d'opulents rivaux commerciaux, les Etats-Unis n'ont plus pour le moment d'ennemi, et aucun de leurs partenaires ne paraît vraiment de taille à beaucoup influencer leurs décisions.Jamais, au cours des siècles, puissance n'a été aussi près d'exercer l'hégémonie mondiale. Il est grand temps pour l'Europe de se réveiller si elle ne veut pas que le " nouvel ordre international " en gestation consacre son effacement.

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