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Israel in comparative perspective : challenging the conventional wisdom
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ISBN: 0791495809 0585036365 9780585036366 9780791428313 0791428311 9780791428320 079142832X 0791428311 079142832X 9780791495803 Year: 1996 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,


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The actors in Europe's foreign policy
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ISBN: 0203292162 1280325151 113482758X 0203198239 9780203292167 1134827571 Year: 1996 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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Five years ago observers might have doubted that national foreign policies would continue to be of importance: it seemed inevitable that collective European positions were becoming ever more common and effective. Now the pendulum has swung back with a vengeance. The divided European responses to the prospect of war with Iraq in 1990-91, and to the war in the Balkans have made what happens in the national capitals seem divisive.The Actors in Europe's Foreign Policy is a timely survey of the interplay between the European Union's Common Foreign and Security Policy and the long-estab

Sovereignty at the crossroads?: morality and international politics in the post-Cold War era
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ISBN: 0847682145 0847682153 Year: 1996 Publisher: Totowa Rowman & Littlefield

Peace by peaceful means : peace and conflict, development and civilization
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ISBN: 0803975104 0803975112 9780803975118 1446221636 1857022815 1282559281 9786612559280 0857022814 9780857022813 9781446221631 9780803975101 Year: 1996 Publisher: Oslo : London : International Peace Research Institute ; SAGE,

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Johan Galtung, one of the founders of modern peace studies, provides a wide-ranging panorama of the ideas, theories and assumptions on which the study of peace is based. The book is organized in four parts, each examining the one of the four major theoretical approaches to peace.

Taking suffering seriously
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ISBN: 0585042853 9780585042855 0791430618 0791430626 1438402546 Year: 1996 Publisher: Albany State University of New York Press


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Economic development, social order, and world politics
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ISBN: 0585172420 9780585172422 155587620X 9781555876203 Year: 1996 Publisher: Boulder L. Rienner Publishers

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Based on methodological individualism and a public-choice approach to social theory—and sure to stimulate considerable debate—this book analyzes the interdependence of economic development, social order, and interstate conflict. Weede contrasts the rise of the West over the past 500 years with the stagnation in the great Asian civilizations, arguing that political constraints on Western rulers allowed the conditions of prosperity, i.e., law and liberty, to develop. Now, however, the West suffers a slow erosion of individual liberty and enterprise caused by an expansion of collective decisionmaking, rent seeking, and the welfare state, while the dynamic, growing East Asian societies increasingly hold individuals responsible for the consequences of their actions. Capitalism, Weede avows, is a prerequisite of democracy; and free trade promotes the global diffusion of capitalism and, ultimately, of democracy and democratic peace. Nevertheless, special interest groups within Western society enforce misguided policies—policies that simultaneously undermine democracy, Western economic primacy, and a "peace by trade" strategy that would be promising if only the West were capable of executing it.

National diversity and global capitalism
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ISBN: 0801432340 1501722158 Year: 1996 Publisher: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press,

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How does globalization change national economies and politics? Are rising levels of trade, capital flows, new communication technologies, and deregulation forcing all societies to converge toward the same structures of production and distribution? Suzanne Berger and Ronald Dore have brought together a distinguished group of experts to consider how the international economy shapes and transforms domestic structures.Drawing from experience in the United States, Europe, and Asia, the contributors ask whether competition, imitation, diffusion of best practice, trade, and financial flows are reducing national diversities. The authors seek to understand whether the sources of national political autonomy are undermined by changes in the international system. Can distinctive varieties of capitalism that incorporate unique and valued institutions for achieving social welfare survive in a global economy?The contributions to the volume present a challenge to conventional views on the extent and scope of globalization as well as to predictions of the imminent disappearance of the nation-state's leverage over the economy.

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