Sustainable Security

Sustainable Security
Author: Jeremi Suri
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2016
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0190611480

How can the United States craft a sustainable national security strategy in a world of shifting threats, sharp resource constraints, and a changing balance of power? This volume brings together research on this question from political science, history, and political economy, aiming to inform both future scholarship and strategic decision-making.

Corporate Behaviour and Political Risk

Corporate Behaviour and Political Risk
Author: Frans-Paul van der Putten
Publisher: Research School of Asian African an En University
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

"This study focuses on the interests of Dutch firms and their response to political risk in China before the Pacific War. This includes very large corporations that are again active in the Chinese market today, such as Shell, Philips, Unilever, and ABN-Amro. Their behaviour in China up to 1941 is analysed and explained in order to gain a better understanding of the attitude of foreign investors towards political developments during a turbulent and formative phase in Chinese history."--BOOK JACKET.

The Practice of Diplomacy

The Practice of Diplomacy
Author: Keith Hamilton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-05-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781134847310

In the unstable international conditions of the post Cold War world, the role of diplomacy has taken on increasing importance with the greater complexity of relationships between international power centres. The Practice of Diplomacy tracks the historical development of diplomatic relations and methods from the earliest period up to their current transformations in the late twentieth century, showing how they have changed to encompass new technological advances and the needs of modern international environments. This coherent and accessible text brings the history of diplomacy fully up to date, exploring altered perspectives and newly emerging practices resulting from United Nations diplomacy and recent political developments in Eastern and central Europe, including the former Yugoslavia.

China In World History

China In World History
Author: S. A. M. Adshead
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 443
Release: 2016-01-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 134923785X

A novel approach to Chinese history is adopted here, in that the theme of the book is China's relations with the non-Chinese world, not only political and economic, but cultural, social and technological as well. It seeks to show that China's history is part of everyone's history. In particular it traces China's relationship since the thirteenth century to the emergent world order and the various world institutions of which that order is composed. Each chapter discusses China's comparative place in the world, the avenues of contact between China and other civilizations, and who and what passed along these channels.

The Sian Incident

The Sian Incident
Author: Tien-wei Wu
Publisher: U OF M CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES
Total Pages: 305
Release: 1976-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 089264026X

When Chiang Kai-shek arrived at Sian in the fall of 1936 and laid plans for launching his last campaign against the Red Army with an expectation of exterminating it in a month, he badly misjudged the mood of the Tungpei (Northeast) Army and more so its leader, Chang Hsueh-liang, better known as the Young Marshal. Refusing to fight the Communists, Chang with the loyal support of his officers staged a coup d’état by kidnapping Chiang Kai-shek for two weeks at Sian. Almost forty years after the melodrama was over, the Sian Incident still absorbs much attention from both Chinese and Western scholars as well as the reading public. The Sian Incident attempts to bring together whatever information has been thus far gleaned about the subject, and to cover all aspects and controversies involved in it. [1, xi, xii]

Inventing Asia

Inventing Asia
Author: Noriko Murai
Publisher: Asian Civilisations Museum
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780914660323

"Essays examine the widespread presence and myths of Asia in American culture in the late 18th and early 20th centuries, exploring the persistence and pervasiveness of America's fascination with the East"--OCLC