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Global inequality and American foreign policy in the 1970s
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ISBN: 1501763938 150176392X Year: 2022 Publisher: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press,

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"This book explores the US foreign policy response to G-77's New International Economic Order through the administrations of Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan"--


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People's Diplomacy : How Americans and Chinese Transformed US-China Relations During the Cold War.
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ISBN: 9781501774164 Year: 2024 Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press,


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The Cold War and After
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ISBN: 1283457032 9786613457035 1400842492 9781400842490 9781283457033 9780691152028 9780691152035 0691152020 0691152039 6613457035 Year: 2012 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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What makes for war or for a stable international system? Are there general principles that should govern foreign policy? In The Cold War and After, Marc Trachtenberg, a leading historian of international relations, explores how historical work can throw light on these questions. The essays in this book deal with specific problems--with such matters as nuclear strategy and U.S.-European relations. But Trachtenberg's main goal is to show how in practice a certain type of scholarly work can be done. He demonstrates how, in studying international politics, the conceptual and empirical sides of the analysis can be made to connect with each other, and �how historical, theoretical, and even policy issues can be tied together in an intellectually respectable way. These essays address a wide variety of topics, from theoretical and policy issues, such as the question of preventive war and the problem of international order, to more historical subjects--for example, American policy on Eastern Europe in 1945 and Franco-American relations during the Nixon-Pompidou period. But in each case the aim is to show how a theoretical perspective can be brought to bear on the analysis of historical issues, and how historical analysis can shed light on basic conceptual problems.


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Environmental, Health and Economic Conditions during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Year: 2022 Publisher: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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The spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has evolved as a global pandemic and the disease has affected nearly every country and region. This pandemic has posed further threats to people due to the emergence of the number of novel SARS-CoV-2 strains with unknown original hosts. Since the start of the pandemic, COVID-19 has overwhelmed health systems worldwide, from crippling health resources to causing paradigms shifts in health care delivery. The various strategies taken to control viral transmission including testing process, quarantine and isolation have had dire psychological and financial implications on individuals and institutions. Furthermore, many countries have implemented lockdowns and other restrictions to curb the virus’s spread resulted in disrupted formal education, unplanned fiscal costs on emergency reliefs, and decreased productivity. This Special Issue provides an avenue for authors from various disciplines to better understand the risk factors associated with the spread and severity of COVID-19 infections. It also provides information about the influence of COVID-19 and its countermeasures on local economies, the environment, and mental health. This Special Issue contains 11 research articles and one review.


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Environmental, Health and Economic Conditions during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Year: 2022 Publisher: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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The spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has evolved as a global pandemic and the disease has affected nearly every country and region. This pandemic has posed further threats to people due to the emergence of the number of novel SARS-CoV-2 strains with unknown original hosts. Since the start of the pandemic, COVID-19 has overwhelmed health systems worldwide, from crippling health resources to causing paradigms shifts in health care delivery. The various strategies taken to control viral transmission including testing process, quarantine and isolation have had dire psychological and financial implications on individuals and institutions. Furthermore, many countries have implemented lockdowns and other restrictions to curb the virus’s spread resulted in disrupted formal education, unplanned fiscal costs on emergency reliefs, and decreased productivity. This Special Issue provides an avenue for authors from various disciplines to better understand the risk factors associated with the spread and severity of COVID-19 infections. It also provides information about the influence of COVID-19 and its countermeasures on local economies, the environment, and mental health. This Special Issue contains 11 research articles and one review.


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Environmental, Health and Economic Conditions during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Year: 2022 Publisher: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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The spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has evolved as a global pandemic and the disease has affected nearly every country and region. This pandemic has posed further threats to people due to the emergence of the number of novel SARS-CoV-2 strains with unknown original hosts. Since the start of the pandemic, COVID-19 has overwhelmed health systems worldwide, from crippling health resources to causing paradigms shifts in health care delivery. The various strategies taken to control viral transmission including testing process, quarantine and isolation have had dire psychological and financial implications on individuals and institutions. Furthermore, many countries have implemented lockdowns and other restrictions to curb the virus’s spread resulted in disrupted formal education, unplanned fiscal costs on emergency reliefs, and decreased productivity. This Special Issue provides an avenue for authors from various disciplines to better understand the risk factors associated with the spread and severity of COVID-19 infections. It also provides information about the influence of COVID-19 and its countermeasures on local economies, the environment, and mental health. This Special Issue contains 11 research articles and one review.

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Medicine --- Epidemiology & medical statistics --- coronavirus disease --- artificial neural networks --- SARS-CoV-2 --- ventilator --- index development index --- developing country --- Covid-19 --- population density --- Covid-19 mortality --- economic recovery --- population reduction --- China --- Saudi Arabia --- Henry Kissinger --- economic burden --- influenza-like illness --- healthcare-seeking behaviors --- air pollution --- coronavirus disease 2019 --- Greece --- GreenYourAir --- fine particulate matter --- COVID-19 --- dentistry --- pandemic --- dentist --- protective equipment --- economy resilience --- economy resistance --- economy restoration --- photochemical smog --- respiratory disorders --- prevalence --- occupational health --- infection --- trade protectionism --- economy --- energy --- input-output model --- public health crisis --- ESG --- stock price volatility --- avoid risk --- psychological distress --- depression symptoms --- anxiety symptoms --- financial variables --- COVID-19 pandemic --- district-level analysis --- risk factors --- Nepal --- coronavirus disease --- artificial neural networks --- SARS-CoV-2 --- ventilator --- index development index --- developing country --- Covid-19 --- population density --- Covid-19 mortality --- economic recovery --- population reduction --- China --- Saudi Arabia --- Henry Kissinger --- economic burden --- influenza-like illness --- healthcare-seeking behaviors --- air pollution --- coronavirus disease 2019 --- Greece --- GreenYourAir --- fine particulate matter --- COVID-19 --- dentistry --- pandemic --- dentist --- protective equipment --- economy resilience --- economy resistance --- economy restoration --- photochemical smog --- respiratory disorders --- prevalence --- occupational health --- infection --- trade protectionism --- economy --- energy --- input-output model --- public health crisis --- ESG --- stock price volatility --- avoid risk --- psychological distress --- depression symptoms --- anxiety symptoms --- financial variables --- COVID-19 pandemic --- district-level analysis --- risk factors --- Nepal


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A strained partnership? : US-UK relations in the era of detente, 1969-77
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ISBN: 9781526129383 1526129388 9781526102256 1526102250 9781781706985 1781706980 0719091756 1526102269 Year: 2018 Publisher: Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press,

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This is a monograph-length study that charts the coercive diplomacy of the administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford as practised against their British ally in order to persuade Edward Heath's government to follow a more amenable course throughout the 'Year of Europe' and to convince Harold Wilson's governments to lessen the severity of proposed defence cuts.


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The final act : the Helsinki Accords and the transformation of the Cold War
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ISBN: 1400888875 Year: 2018 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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The first in-depth account of the historic diplomatic agreement that served as a blueprint for ending the Cold WarThe Helsinki Final Act was a watershed of the Cold War. Signed by thirty-five European and North American leaders at a summit in Finland in the summer of 1975, the agreement presented a vision for peace based on common principles and cooperation across the Iron Curtain. The Final Act is the first in-depth account of the diplomatic saga that produced this historic agreement. Drawing on research in eight countries and multiple languages, this gripping book explains the Final Act's emergence from the parallel crises of the Soviet bloc and the West during the 1960s, the strategies of the major players, and the conflicting designs for international order that animated the negotiations.Helsinki had originally been a Soviet idea. But after nearly three years of grinding negotiations, the Final Act reflected liberal democratic ideals more than communist ones. It rejected the Brezhnev Doctrine, provided for German reunification, endorsed human rights as a core principle of international security, committed countries to greater transparency in economic and military affairs, and promoted the freer movement of people and information across borders. Instead of restoring the legitimacy of the Soviet bloc, Helsinki established principles that undermined it.The definitive history of the origins and legacy of this important agreement, The Final Act shows how it served as a blueprint for ending the Cold War, and how, when that conflict finally came to a close, the great powers established a new international order based on Helsinki's enduring principles.

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Cold War --- History. --- Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe --- Activism. --- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. --- Allies of World War II. --- Anatoly. --- Andrei Gromyko. --- Andrei Sakharov. --- Brezhnev Doctrine. --- Capitalism. --- Capitalist state. --- Central Committee. --- Citizenship. --- Cold War. --- Comecon. --- Communism. --- Communist propaganda. --- Communist state. --- Containment. --- Criticism. --- Czechoslovakia. --- De facto. --- Dictatorship. --- Disarmament. --- Dissident. --- Domestic policy. --- East Germany. --- Eastern Bloc. --- Eastern Europe. --- Edward Gierek. --- Erich Honecker. --- Europe. --- European Economic Community. --- European integration. --- Federal republic. --- Foreign policy. --- Fredrik Logevall. --- Georges Pompidou. --- German reunification. --- Grand strategy. --- Great power. --- Hans-Dietrich Genscher. --- Henry Kissinger. --- Ideology. --- Imperialism. --- Interdependence. --- International law. --- International relations. --- International security. --- Jay Winter. --- John Lewis Gaddis. --- Leninism. --- Leonid Brezhnev. --- Marxism–Leninism. --- Mikhail Gorbachev. --- Mikhail Suslov. --- Molly Worthen. --- Moral high ground. --- NATO. --- National security. --- Nikita Khrushchev. --- Non-interventionism. --- Nuclear warfare. --- Obstacle. --- Ostpolitik. --- Peaceful coexistence. --- Politburo. --- Politician. --- Politics. --- Prague Spring. --- Precedent. --- Princeton University Press. --- Proletarian internationalism. --- Racism. --- Raymond Aron. --- Revanchism. --- Richard Nixon. --- Robert Bothwell. --- Romanians. --- Russians. --- Self-determination. --- Sino-Soviet split. --- Skepticism. --- Social democracy. --- Socialist state. --- Sovereignty. --- Soviet Union. --- Soviet Union–United States relations. --- Soviet people. --- Stalinism. --- Treaty. --- United States Department of State. --- Urho Kekkonen. --- Walter Ulbricht. --- Warsaw Pact. --- West Berlin. --- West Germany. --- Western Europe. --- Western world. --- Westphalian sovereignty. --- Willy Brandt. --- World history.


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The Chile Project : The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism
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ISBN: 0691249369 Year: 2023 Publisher: Prince­ton, New Jersey : Prince­ton University Press,

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"After a modest increase in Metro fares in Santiago, Chile, last October, twenty Metro stations were simultaneously set on fire. The fare increase was the tipping point of years of social malaise. Days later there were more than a million protesters on the streets. The people of Chile were rejecting low pensions, highway tolls, school segregation, low-quality education, and poor public-health services-the result of decades of neoliberalism. Chile was the prototype for neoliberal policies, first set up under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet with the first-hand guidance of economists from the University of Chicago. Under neoliberalism Chile was long seen as an exemplary developing economy, and a testament to the power of privatization and free trade. But all was not well. Sebastian Edwards tells the story of how Chile went from being the posterchild of market-oriented reforms and capitalist modernization to a nation rocked by violence and political upheaval. He narrates the origins of neoliberalism and the role of the "Chicago boys" in designing and implementing these reforms. He explains the tension between poverty reduction and income inequality, which led to seething discontent under the surface of strong economic numbers. The book tells the story of the signature policies first enacted in Chile that came to define the neoliberal way more broadly: the replacement of a traditional pension system with a privately managed system of individual savings accounts, openness and globalization, the fiscal rule, the taming of inflation, and austere health, education, and environmental policies. As Chile now sets out to draft a new constitution, and other countries come to terms with the same set of policies, all under the looming specter of reactionary populism, the book is an authoritative and important assessment of the success of neoliberalism at a pivotal moment in its history"--

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Chicago school of economics. --- Neoliberalism --- Chile --- Economic conditions --- Absentee Owner. --- Activism. --- Addendum. --- Adviser. --- Aftermath of World War II. --- Arnold Harberger. --- Auction. --- Augusto Pinochet. --- Bankruptcy. --- Bourgeois Dignity. --- Business school. --- Capitalism. --- Carlos Altamirano. --- Carlos Salinas de Gortari. --- Central bank. --- Chicago Boys. --- Committee on Social Thought. --- Credibility. --- Curator. --- Currency. --- Debt. --- Democratic Revolution. --- Dictatorship. --- Dissident. --- Dollar Price. --- Economic efficiency. --- Economic forces. --- Economics. --- Economist. --- Economy of Chile. --- Employment. --- Exchange rate. --- Fixed exchange-rate system. --- Foray. --- Francis Spellman. --- Fraud. --- Free Society. --- Friedrich Hayek. --- Gabriel Boric. --- Gary S. Becker. --- George Stigler. --- Henry Kissinger. --- Human capital. --- Import. --- Income distribution. --- Income. --- Industrial policy. --- Industrialisation. --- Inflation. --- Infrastructure. --- John F. Kennedy. --- Jorge Alessandri. --- Konrad Adenauer. --- Latin America. --- Liberalization. --- Louis Rougier. --- Ludwig Erhard. --- Mao Zedong. --- Market economy. --- Market fundamentalism. --- Michael Polanyi. --- Military dictatorship. --- Milton Friedman. --- Miracle of Chile. --- Neoliberalism. --- New Narrative. --- Nobel Prize. --- Obstacle. --- Orlando Letelier. --- Partial equilibrium. --- Patricio Aylwin. --- Pension. --- Policy. --- Private sector. --- Private university. --- Productivity. --- Protectionism. --- Public finance. --- Public sphere. --- Publication. --- Retirement savings account. --- Ricardo Lagos. --- Salvador Allende. --- Secondary sector of the economy. --- Sophistication. --- Talca. --- Tariff. --- The Best and the Brightest. --- The Birth of Biopolitics. --- Theodore Schultz. --- Theodore W. Schultz. --- Trade barrier. --- Trading company. --- Walter Lippmann. --- Water right. --- Wealth. --- Welfare state in the United Kingdom. --- Welfare. --- World Economic Outlook. --- Chile Economic conditions 1988 --- -Chile Economic policy.


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We All Lost the Cold War
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ISBN: 1400812496 1282751824 9786612751820 1400821088 9781400821082 069101941X 9780691019413 1400804809 1400804817 Year: 1995 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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Drawing on recently declassified documents and extensive interviews with Soviet and American policy-makers, among them several important figures speaking for public record for the first time, Ned Lebow and Janice Stein cast new light on the effect of nuclear threats in two of the tensest moments of the Cold War: the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 and the confrontations arising out of the Arab-Israeli war of 1973. They conclude that the strategy of deterrence prolonged rather than ended the conflict between the superpowers.

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Nuclear warfare. --- Nuclear weapons. --- Arab-Israeli conflict --- Arab-Israeli conflict. --- Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. --- Cold War. --- Atomic warfare --- CBR warfare --- Nuclear strategy --- Nuclear war --- Thermonuclear warfare --- War --- Nuclear crisis control --- Nuclear weapons --- Atomic weapons --- Fusion weapons --- Thermonuclear weapons --- Weapons of mass destruction --- No first use (Nuclear strategy) --- Nuclear arms control --- Nuclear disarmament --- Nuclear warfare --- Jewish-Arab relations --- Israel-Arab conflicts --- Israel-Palestine conflict --- Israeli-Arab conflict --- Israeli-Palestinian conflict --- Palestine-Israel conflict --- Palestine problem (1948- ) --- Palestinian-Israeli conflict --- Palestinian Arabs --- Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct. 1962 --- World politics --- History --- Soviet Union --- United States --- Foreign relations --- 1960 U-2 incident. --- Abstention. --- Allen Dulles. --- Allied-occupied Germany. --- Andrei Gromyko. --- Anti-imperialism. --- Anti-war movement. --- Assassination. --- Berlin Blockade. --- Berlin Crisis of 1961. --- Berlin Wall. --- Blockade. --- Ceasefire. --- Censorship. --- Cold War II. --- Communist revolution. --- Containment. --- Coup d'état. --- Cuban Missile Crisis. --- Dean Rusk. --- Decapitation. --- Declaration of war. --- Deterrence theory. --- Dictatorship. --- Disarmament. --- Disinformation. --- Dissolution of the Soviet Union. --- Doomsday device. --- Dr. Strangelove. --- Embargo. --- Era of Stagnation. --- Evil empire. --- Failed state. --- Fallout shelter. --- George Ball (diplomat). --- Glasnost. --- Henry Kissinger. --- Hungarian Revolution of 1956. --- Impeachment. --- Impunity. --- International crisis. --- Jimmy Carter. --- John F. Kennedy. --- John Foster Dulles. --- John Mueller. --- Joseph Stalin. --- Leonid Brezhnev. --- McCarthyism. --- McGeorge Bundy. --- Minimal deterrence. --- Minister without portfolio. --- Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. --- Moscow Conference (1941). --- Mutual assured destruction. --- NATO. --- Nikita Khrushchev. --- Nuclear blackmail. --- Nuclear disarmament. --- Nuclear holocaust. --- Old Bolshevik. --- Operation Barbarossa. --- Perestroika. --- Persecution. --- Pessimism. --- Political prisoner. --- Pre-emptive nuclear strike. --- Preventive war. --- Proxy war. --- Purge. --- Quarantine Speech. --- Ridicule. --- Roswell Gilpatric. --- Roy Medvedev. --- Saturday Night Massacre. --- Sergei Khrushchev. --- Soviet Empire. --- Soviet Navy. --- Soviet Union. --- Soviet Union–United States relations. --- Soviet people. --- Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. --- Soviet–Afghan War. --- Stalinism. --- Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. --- Superiority (short story). --- Surgical strike. --- The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence. --- There is no alternative. --- Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany. --- War at Sea. --- War of Attrition. --- War of ideas. --- War termination. --- War-weariness. --- War. --- Warfare. --- Why England Slept. --- Yom Kippur War.

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