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Author: Brantly Womack
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1107132894
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmerica's longest wars have been 'small wars'. This book explains how power differences shape - but don't determine - international relationships.
Author: Brantly Womack
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 551
ISBN-13: 9814295272
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents asymmetry theory, a different paradigm for the study of international relations, derived from China's relationships with its neighbors and the world. This title brings together key writings on the theory and its applications to China's basic foreign policy, particularly towards the United States and the rest of Asia.
Author: Brantly Womack
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-02-13
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780521618342
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe value of asymmetry theory is demonstrated in the dynamics of the Sino-Vietnamese relationship.
Author: I. William Zartman
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780472089079
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines perceived power on the basis of which symmetries and asymmetries in the relations between parties can be identified
Author: Anthony Reid
Publisher:
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9789971694470
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArgues that neither the 'Chinese world order' of tribute relations nor the Westphalia model of sovereign equality ever operated effectively in Asia, but suggests that the past does offer strong indicators about the shape of a new order in Asia.
Author: Thomas Stephen Long
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-11-19
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1107121248
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing multinational sources, the book explores how Latin American leaders influenced US policy in the context of asymmetrical power relations.
Author: Lisa Halliday
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2018-02-06
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1501166778
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA TIME and NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK of the YEAR * New York Times Notable Book and Times Critic’s Top Book of 2018 NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2018 BY * Elle * Bustle * Kirkus Reviews * Lit Hub* NPR * O, The Oprah Magazine * Shelf Awareness The bestselling and critically acclaimed debut novel by Lisa Halliday, hailed as “extraordinary” by The New York Times, “a brilliant and complex examination of power dynamics in love and war” by The Wall Street Journal, and “a literary phenomenon” by The New Yorker. Told in three distinct and uniquely compelling sections, Asymmetry explores the imbalances that spark and sustain many of our most dramatic human relations: inequities in age, power, talent, wealth, fame, geography, and justice. The first section, “Folly,” tells the story of Alice, a young American editor, and her relationship with the famous and much older writer Ezra Blazer. A tender and exquisite account of an unexpected romance that takes place in New York during the early years of the Iraq War, “Folly” also suggests an aspiring novelist’s coming-of-age. By contrast, “Madness” is narrated by Amar, an Iraqi-American man who, on his way to visit his brother in Kurdistan, is detained by immigration officers and spends the last weekend of 2008 in a holding room in Heathrow. These two seemingly disparate stories gain resonance as their perspectives interact and overlap, with yet new implications for their relationship revealed in an unexpected coda. A stunning debut from a rising literary star, Asymmetry is “a transgressive roman a clef, a novel of ideas, and a politically engaged work of metafiction” (The New York Times Book Review), and a “masterpiece” in the original sense of the word” (The Atlantic). Lisa Halliday’s novel will captivate any reader with while also posing arresting questions about the very nature of fiction itself.
Author: T. V. Paul
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994-03-10
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780521466219
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines a question generally neglected in the study of international relations: why does a militarily and economically less powerful state initiate conflict against a relatively strong state? T. V. Paul analyses this phenomenon by focusing on the strategic and political considerations, domestic and international, which influence a weaker state to initiate war against a more powerful adversary. The key argument of deterrence theory is that the military superiority of the status quo power, coupled with a credible retaliatory threat, will prevent attack by challengers. The author challenges this assumption by examining six twentieth-century asymmetric wars, from the Japanese offensive against Russia in 1904 to the Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands in 1982. The book's findings have wide implications for the study of war, power, deterrence, coercive diplomacy, strategy, arms races, and alliances.
Author: Jutta Lauth Bacas
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2013-10-01
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 1782381384
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmong the tremendous changes affecting Europe in recent decades, those concerning political frontiers have been some of the most significant. International borders are being opened in some regions while being redefined or reinforced in others. The social relationships of those living in these borderland regions are also changing fundamentally. This volume investigates, from a local, ground-up perspective, what is happening at some of these border encounters: face-to-face interactions and relations of compliance and confrontation, where people are bargaining, exchanging goods and information, and maneuvering beyond state boundaries. Anthropological case studies from a number of European borderlands shed light on the questions of how, and to what extent, the border context influences the changing interactions and social relationships between people at a political frontier.
Author: Michael O. Slobodchikoff
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2013-04-18
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 0739178814
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPower inequalities and mistrust have characterized many interstate relationships. Yet most international relations theories do not take into account power and mistrust when explaining cooperation. While some scholars argue that power relations inhibit cooperation between states, other scholars expect interstate cooperation regardless of the power relations and level of trust. Strategic Cooperation: Overcoming the Barriers of Global Anarchy argues that although states benefit from cooperation, they are also wary of the power relations between states, making cooperation difficult. Successful and cooperative bilateral relationships are formed between strong and weak states that are power asymmetric and have mistrust of one another, but they are built in such as way as to overcome the problem of power asymmetry and mistrust. This book answers how and why states that are in power asymmetry and have mistrust of one another are able to build a cooperative bilateral relationship. It argues that states forge a relationship due to strategic needs such as economic or security needs. Slobodchikoff has developed a database composed of the whole population of bilateral treaties between Russia and each of the former Soviet republics, and examines all of these bilateral relationships. He finds that Russia indeed forged relationships with the former republics based on its strategic interests. However, despite Russia's strategic interests, it had to build a bilateral relationship that would address the issues of mistrust and power asymmetry between the states. To achieve this, Russia and the former Soviet republics created treaty networks, which served to legitimize as well as legalize the independent status of each of the former republics while also increasing the cost to Russia of violating any of the treaties. This book argues that strong treaty networks account for a more cooperative relationship between states, allowing both states to cooperate by alleviating the problems of mistrust and power asymmetry.
