The Trilateral Commission and Global Governance

The Trilateral Commission and Global Governance
Author: Dino Knudsen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2016-05-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317392078

This book provides the first analysis of the Trilateral Commission and its role in global governance and contemporary diplomacy. In 1973, David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski founded the Trilateral Commission. Involving highly influential people from business and politics in the US, Western Europe, and Japan, the Commission was soon preceived as constituting an embryonic or even shadow world government. As the first researcher to have accessed the Commission’s archives, the author argues that this study demonstrates that global governance and international diplomacy should be considered a product of overlapping elite networks that merge informal and formal spheres across national borders. This work has three immediate aims: to trace the background, origins, purposes, characteristics, and modus operandi of the Commission; to investigate the elite aspect of the Commission and how this related to democracy; and to demonstrate how the Commission contributed to diplomatic practices and policy-formulation at national and international levels. The overall purpose of this book is to evaluate the significance of the Trilateral Commission, with particular focus on the implications of its activities on the way we understand decision-making processes and diplomacy in modern, democratic societies. This book will be of much interest to students of the Cold War, US foreign policy, diplomacy studies, and IR in general

Trilateralism

Trilateralism
Author: Holly Sklar
Publisher: South End Press
Total Pages: 620
Release: 1980
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780896081031

This is a classic work--a highly-readable, wide-ranging study of the Trilateral Commission and the worldwide strategies of Trilateralism. It demystifies national and international events, power, propaganda, and policy making from World War II through the sixties and seventies and into the eighties.

Reversing Course

Reversing Course
Author: David Skidmore
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1996
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780826512734

By probing beneath the obvious and carefully sifting the abundant but poorly understood evidence, Skidmore finds at the root of Carter's failed effort an irresistible pressure to reverse a liberal foreign-policy agenda in order to address the effect at home of well-organized conservative criticism.

Hanging Together

Hanging Together
Author: Robert D. Putnam
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1984
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780674372252

'Hanging Together' charts the modern dilemma between economic interdependence and national sovereignty.

Foreign Policy

Foreign Policy
Author: Steve Smith
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 470
Release: 2008
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0199215294

This major new textbook introduces students to the dynamic and evolving field of foreign policy. The book opens with a consideration of different theoretical and historical perspectives; it then focuses on a range of actors and the goals they seek to advance; and it ends with a series of case studies involving issues and crises relating to a wide range of different countries Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases is timely given the growing significance of foreign policyin the post-9/11 world. It will be essential reading for all students new to foreign policy.The book is accompanied by an Online Resource Centre.Student resources:TimelineWeb linksFlashcard glossaryInstructor resources:Three case studiesPowerPoint slides

The 'Long 1970s'

The 'Long 1970s'
Author: Poul Villaume
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2016-04-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317045602

Today it is widely recognised that the 'long 1970s' was a decisive international transition period during which traditional, collective-oriented socio-economic interest and welfare policies were increasingly replaced by the more individually and neo-liberally oriented value policies of the post-industrial epoch. Seen from a distance of three decades, it is increasingly clear that these socio-economic and socio-cultural processes also found their expression at the level of national and international political power. The contributors to this volume explore these processes of political-cultural realignment and their social impetus in Western Europe and the Euro-Atlantic area in and around the 1970s in the context of three agenda-setting topics of international history of this period: human rights, including the impact of decolonisation; East-West détente in Europe; and transnational relations and discourses. Going beyond the so-called Americanisation processes of the immediate postwar period, this volume reclaims Europe's place – and particularly that of smaller European nations – in contemporary Western history, demonstrating Europe's contribution to transatlantic transformation processes in political culture, discourse, and power during this period.

Integrated Circus

Integrated Circus
Author: Patricia Marchak
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 335
Release: 1991-08-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0773562982

When Pax Americana began to disintegrate in the late 1960s, economic leaders in corporate America joined with their counterparts in Western Europe and Japan to develop a self-interested strategy for dealing with the political and social impacts of a changing global economy. As Marchak shows, the political agenda of the emerging New Right the dismantling of the welfare state was supported by corporate-funded think-tanks which influenced public policy and by media campaigns which swayed public opinion. The New Right promoted the resurgence of laissez-faire political and economic ideas which Marchak traces back to the theories of Adam Smith. Marchak describes the changes such strategies created in the world economy and examines their effects on the United States and Canada, Western and Eastern Europe, Japan, the newly industrializing nations, and the increasingly impoverished third world countries. She includes chapters on the silicon revolution, Japanese expansion, the automobile industry, special export zones, the debt crisis, environmental issues, and international organizations.

Chinese Economic Statecraft from 1978 to 1989

Chinese Economic Statecraft from 1978 to 1989
Author: Priscilla Roberts
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 479
Release: 2022-05-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9811692173

This volume focuses on Chinese economic statecraft during the first decade of Deng Xiaoping’s reform and opening-up policies, from 1978 to 1989. During these years, Chinese economic engagement with the external world was tentative and experimental, with long-term strategies still decidedly under development. Prominent topics covered are China’s efforts to steer an economic course tailored to and representing what Deng Xiaoping famously described as “socialism with Chinese characteristics”; China’s quest for advanced science and technology; China’s dealings with international economic institutions, especially the World Bank; China’s engagement with other powers, including Japan, the United States, the ASEAN nations, and Europe; and the role of non-governmental organizations, including foreign policy think tanks, exchange groups, and educational institutions, in developing Chinese economic thinking and methodology during this decade. Contributors also focus on how elements of the Chinese military turned to building China’s new economic infrastructure, and on Chinese efforts to break into foreign markets. The volume ends with an overview and reassessment of earlier findings on Chinese economic statecraft in these years, by one of the leading Chinese experts on the PRC’s international policy.

Foreign Policy

Foreign Policy
Author: Steve|Dunne Smith (Tim|Hadfield, Amelia|Kitchen, Nicholas|Smith, Steve)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2024
Genre:
ISBN: 0192677705