[PDF] The Great Powers And The Extension Of The War To Scandinavia eBook

Author : Patrick Salmon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 19,3 MB
Release : 2002-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521891028

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Survey of the changing position of all four Nordic states in twentieth-century international relations.

Author : Michael Jonas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 23,18 MB
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1350046361

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This study is among the first works in English to comprehensively address the Scandinavian First World War experience in the larger international context of the war. It surveys the complex relationship between the belligerent great powers and Northern Europe's neutral small states in times of crisis and war. The book's overreaching rationale draws upon three underlying conceptual fields: neutrality and international law, hegemony and great power politics as well as diplomacy and policy-making of small states in the international arena. From a variety of angles, it examines the question of how neutrality was understood and perceived, negotiated and dealt with both among the Scandinavian states and the belligerent major powers, especially Britain, Germany and Russia. For a long time, the experience of neutral countries during the First World War was seen as marginal, and was overshadowed by the experiences of occupation and collaboration brought about by the Second World War. In this book, Jonas demonstrates how this perception has changed, with neutrality becoming an integral part of the multiple narratives of the First World War. It is an important contribution to the international history of the First World War, cultural-historically influenced approaches to diplomatic history and the growing area of neutrality studies.

Author : Aryo Makko
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 46,13 MB
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 900441438X

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In European Small States and the Role of Consuls in the Age of Empire Aryo Makko offers a first account of how Sweden and Norway participated in the New Imperialism in the late 18th and early 19th centuries through consular service.

Author : Barry Buzan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 38,52 MB
Release : 2003-12-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521891110

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This book develops the idea that since decolonisation, regional patterns of security have become more prominent in international politics. The authors combine an operational theory of regional security with an empirical application across the whole of the international system. Individual chapters cover Africa, the Balkans, CIS Europe, East Asia, EU Europe, the Middle East, North America, South America, and South Asia. The main focus is on the post-Cold War period, but the history of each regional security complex is traced back to its beginnings. By relating the regional dynamics of security to current debates about the global power structure, the authors unfold a distinctive interpretation of post-Cold War international security, avoiding both the extreme oversimplifications of the unipolar view, and the extreme deterritorialisations of many globalist visions of a new world disorder. Their framework brings out the radical diversity of security dynamics in different parts of the world.

Author : John J. Mearsheimer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 30,13 MB
Release : 2003-01-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0393076245

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"A superb book.…Mearsheimer has made a significant contribution to our understanding of the behavior of great powers."—Barry R. Posen, The National Interest The updated edition of this classic treatise on the behavior of great powers takes a penetrating look at the question likely to dominate international relations in the twenty-first century: Can China rise peacefully? In clear, eloquent prose, John Mearsheimer explains why the answer is no: a rising China will seek to dominate Asia, while the United States, determined to remain the world's sole regional hegemon, will go to great lengths to prevent that from happening. The tragedy of great power politics is inescapable.

Author : Claes Ahlund
Publisher : Nordic Academic Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 50,54 MB
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9187121905

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Denmark, Norway, and Sweden all managed to stay out of World War I, but all three countries were deeply affected by it. Opening with a systematically comparative introduction to the history of the Scandinavian countries during that time period, this account then presents 13 case studies examining the impact of the war on these neutral entities. From inflation and the shortage of consumer goods to widespread poverty and political unrest - not to mention the thousands of Scandinavian soldiers who participated in the war - this unique compilation 'analyzes the military and economic consequences as well as the vital political and social issues raised by the conflict.'

Author : Tudor A. Onea
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 19,12 MB
Release : 2020-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1351975870

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What is grand strategy and what is it good for? What are great powers, and which states are great powers today? What are the grand strategies available to great powers? What are the conditions under which a certain strategy is suitable and when should it be rejected? What are the factors affecting the success or failure of a given grand strategy? The present volume provides answers to these questions by introducing a typology of great power grand strategies, as strategies of rising, status quo, and declining powers, as well as through historical illustrations of each type. The reader is thus exposed to strategies such as divide and conquer, biding your time, opportunity strike, primacy, semi-detachment, concert, and appeasement through the experiences of leaders such as Bismarck, Peter the Great, Metternich, Deng Xiaoping, Neville Chamberlain, and Stalin. This analysis is then brought to bear on present developments in the grand strategies of the United States, China, and Russia. The volume should be of interest to both the academic and foreign policy-making communities, and in particular to students of international relations, diplomacy, history, and current international affairs.