Reflecting post-Cold War America's shift in emphasis from foreign policy to domestic politics, these authors provide a lively, up-to-date exploration of the most crucial issues that are likely to face the country at the dawn of the 21st century. They employ a political economy approach throughout the text, examining each issue from the perspectives of historical background; U.S. interests, challenges and constraints; policy options; and recommendations for the 21st century.

America in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities in Domestic Politics

History

Rai, Kul B.

Walsh, David F.

Best, Paul J.

Americas

Pearson

Designed to be challenging but truly accessible, this book offers a carefully integrated, global approach to American foreign policy. It explores U.S. vital interests in seven major regions of the world, explains how American foreign policy was formulated in the past, and considers what the policy is likely to be in the changed international system of the 21st century. The major processes at work in the contemporary international system, the context in which American foreign policy is being made is explored in the book. This book begins with a comprehensive, systematic review of the major political, social, and economic changes at the international level in the past 15-20 years and the impact of these changes in the major regions of the world. The global economy and post-Cold War political changes are emphasized. U.S. involvement in the Cold War from a regional perspective is reviewed. A regional approach that emphasizes America's vital interests in Western Europe, Central/East Europe and Eurasia, East and Northeast Asia, China and Japan, South Asia,Latin America, Middle East, Africa. All terms are clearly definec.

America in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges and Opportunities in Foreign Policy

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

The Pugilist at Rest: Stories

This important study examines aspects of political leadership and governance in the last decades of the 20th century. Driven by innovations in science and technology, turbulent change has impacted nearly every political system and created a political environment of extreme complexity and fluidity. In this environment, previously dominant leaders, ideas, and institutions have been disempowered and new leaders and ideas empowered. This work examines seven world leaders, members of the first generation of political elites to assume power in the fluid political environment of the late 20th century. Two were heads of advanced industrial countries: Margaret Thatcher of the United Kingdom and Helmut Kohl of Germany. Three were leaders of states which underwent the transition from communist to postcommunist regimes: Lech Walesa of Poland, Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union, and Boris Yeltsin of Russia. And two were leaders of important Third World states: Deng Xiaoping of China and Rajiv Gandhi of India. Each case study includes : (1) the political-economic context, (2) the operative elements of political turbulence in the domestic political environment, (3) a profile of the leader and his or her group, (4) the leader's political program, (5) strategies and means of achieving power, (6) the policy dimension, (7) the nature and scope of change, and (8) theories and interpretations of the leader and his or her political agenda. Through such analyses, the authors illustrate the scope, depth, and meaning of the most important recent political changes worldwide. The text will suit courses in international relations and comparative politics.

Governing Through Turbulence: Leadership and Change in the Late Twentieth Century

Rai, Kul

Walsh, Dave

Social Sciences

Praeger

This book deals with the Lemkos, the East Slavic population which formerly inhabited the Southeast corner of today's Poland.  The Lemkos massively immigrated to North America before 1914. Those who remained and survived the huge battles on the Carpathian Front in World War One settled in to rebuild their lives between the wars, but World War II and its aftermath were great blows to the Lemko people. Nearly all were either deported to the Soviet Ukraine (1944-1946) or forcibly resettled in Northern and Western Poland (1947-1951)  in a thorough ethnic cleansing of the Carpathian Mountain region. Today, both in North America and in Europe, Lemkos are attempting to recover their heritage. It is hoped that this book will in some small way assist in that endeavor.

The Lemkos: Articles and Essays

Moklak, Jarosław

Europe

Carpathian Institute

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