[PDF] Guerrilla Diplomacy eBook

Author : Daryl Copeland
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,68 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Diplomacy
ISBN : 9781588266798

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"Daryl Copeland charts the course for a new kind of diplomacy, one in tune with the demands of today's interconnected, technology driven world. Eschewing platitudes and broadly rethinking issues of security and development, Copeland provides the tools needed to frame and manage issues ranging from climate change to pandemic disease to asymmetrical conflict and weapons of mass destruction. The essential keystone of his approach is the modern diplomat, able to nimbly engage with a plethora of new international actors and happier mixing with the population than mingling with colleagues inside embassy walls. Through the lens of Guerrilla Diplomacy, Copeland offers both a call to action and an alternative approach to understanding contemporary international relations"--Publisher's description.

Author : Robert K. Brigham
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 10,18 MB
Release : 2019-06-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1501733532

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In 1960 revolutionaries in South Viet Nam created the National Liberation Front, a political and military organization committed to overthrowing the Saigon government and liberating Viet Nam south of the seventeenth parallel. The role of the NLF during the war has been hotly debated, with officials in Washington claiming from the outset that the NLF was merely a puppet of Hanoi. Based on over a hundred interviews with former Communist cadre and high ranking Party officials as well as extensive archival research in Viet Nam, Robert K. Brigham's is a definitive work that provides a focus on the NLF not found elsewhere. It contributes greatly to our understanding of the Viet Nam War and encourages a reassessment of that conflict. Brigham assesses the impact of the NLF's diplomatic strategy on the conduct and outcome of hostilities, explores the origin and pursuit of its policy objectives, and defines its true relationship with North Viet Nam. He contends that the NLF's success in convincing the world that it was independent of Hanoi was critical in upsetting the political and military balance in South Viet Nam and frustrating the U.S. war effort. In addition, he argues that differences in goals among Communists—building socialism in the north, liberating the south—resulted in disagreements over responses to American intervention, and he shows how these differences entered into foreign relations and seriously undermined revolutionary efforts.

Author : Daryl Copeland
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,71 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN :

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Diplomacy, development, and security in the age of globalization -- Cold War comfort: the world we knew -- Globalization and empire: the world we've got -- Understanding world order: the march of history -- Persistent insecurity: lessons unlearned -- Development revisited: no justice, no peace -- Science and technology: black hole or silver bullet? -- The global political economy of knowledge: working smarter -- The foreign ministry: relic or renaissance? -- Public diplomacy and foreign service: the front lines -- International policy instruments: relevant, effective, transformed -- Guerrilla diplomacy: sharper, faster, lighter -- Conclusion: none foregone.

Author : David Kilcullen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 49,88 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 0199754098

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A Senior Counterinsurgency Advisor to General David Petraeus, Kilcullen's vision of war dramatically influenced America's decision to rethink its military strategy in Iraq. Now, Kilcullen provides a remarkably fresh perspective on the War on Terror.

Author : Larry Minear
Publisher : UNU
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 29,21 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN :

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Humanitarian professionals are on the front lines of today's internal armed conflicts, working with politicians and diplomats in countries wracked by violence, in capitals of donor governments that underwrite humanitarian work, as well as within the United Nations Security Council and providing information to the media. This publication sets out a compendium of essays written by 14 senior humanitarian practitioners who led humanitarian operations in settings as diverse as the Balkans and Nepal, Somalia and East Timor, and across a time frame from the 1970s in Cambodia and 1980s in Lebanon to more recent engagement in Colombia and Iraq.

Author : David Kilcullen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 25,72 MB
Release : 2015-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0190230967

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A leading expert on counterinsurgency and counterterrorism offers a comprehensive theory of "competitive control" that will apply to the future of conflict in a world of explosive population growth, increased urbanization, the movement of population centers to the coasts, and global connective networks.

Author : Ana Arjona
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 27,41 MB
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1316432386

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This is the first book to examine and compare how rebels govern civilians during civil wars in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Drawing from a variety of disciplinary traditions, including political science, sociology, and anthropology, the book provides in-depth case studies of specific conflicts as well as comparative studies of multiple conflicts. Among other themes, the book examines why and how some rebels establish both structures and practices of rule, the role of ideology, cultural, and material factors affecting rebel governance strategies, the impact of governance on the rebel/civilian relationship, civilian responses to rebel rule, the comparison between modes of state and non-state governance to rebel attempts to establish political order, the political economy of rebel governance, and the decline and demise of rebel governance attempts.

Author : Ian Liebenberg
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 36,56 MB
Release : 2020-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1928480543

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The post-cold war era presented security challenges that at one level are a continuation of the cold war era; at another level, these phenomena manifested in new forms. Whether the issues of economics and trade, transfer of technologies, challenges of intervention, or humanitarian crisis, the countries of the South (previously pejoratively labelled “Third World” or “developing” countries) have continued to address these challenges within the framework of their capabilities and concerns. The volume explores defence diplomacies, national security challenges and strategies, dynamics of diplomatic manoeuvers and strategic resource management of Latin American, southern African and Asian countries.

Author : Juan Manuel Santos
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 28,41 MB
Release : 2021-04-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 070063066X

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This is the comprehensive account of the long and difficult road traveled to end the fifty-year armed conflict with the FARC, the oldest guerrilla army in the world; a long war that left more than eight million victims. The obstacles to peace were both large and dangerous. All previous attempts to negotiate with the FARC had failed, creating an environment where differences were irreconcilable and political will was scarce. The Battle for Peace is the story not only of the six years of negotiation and the peace process that transformed a country, its secret contacts, its international implications, and difficulties and achievements but also of the two previous decades in which Colombia oscillated between warlike confrontation and negotiated solution. In The Battle for Peace Juan Manuel Santos shares the lessons he learned about war and peace and how to build a successful negotiation process in the context of a nation that had all but resigned itself to war and the complexities of twenty-first-century international law and diplomacy. While Santos is clear that there is no handbook for making peace, he offers conflict-tested guidance on the critical parameters, conditions, and principles as well as rich detail on the innovations that made it possible for his nation to find common ground and a just solution.