[PDF] The Land That Lost Its Heroes eBook

Author : Jimmy Burns
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 44,89 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Argentina
ISBN : 9780747558729

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OSis title, by the only British foreign correspondent to remain in Argentina covering the Falklands War, gives a detailed account of the military planning of the invasion. He also gives an account of the end of the regime, the debt crisis and the return to democracy under Raul Alfonsin.

Author : Jimmy Burns
Publisher : Bloomsbury Pub Limited
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 19,26 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 9780747501114

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An account of the military planning of the invasion of the Falklands, exposing the motives and nature of Argentina's military regime and the reactions of British diplomacy and intelligence. The author was foreign correspondent in Argentina for the Financial Times from 1981-86.

Author : Yossi Shain
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 23,17 MB
Release : 1995-05-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521484985

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Between States is the first book that assesses systematically the broad implications of interim governments in the establishment of democratic regimes and on the existence of states. Based on historical and contemporary democratisation experiences, the book presents four ideal types of interim government: opposition-led provisional governments, power-sharing interim governments, incumbent-led caretaker governments, and international interim government by the United Nations. The first part explores the theoretical problems of each of these models from a broad comparative perspective. It uses as illustrations historical and contemporary cases that present a wide spectrum of contexts for comparison. The second part provides extensive case studies that are intended to illustrate, appraise, amplify and criticise the analysis in volume one. These include Iran, East Germany, Portugal, Afghanistan, and Yugoslavia.

Author : Richard C. Thornton
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 34,34 MB
Release : 2004-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1412013569

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How President Reagan successfully rebuilt the Western Alliance, particularly in relations with the United Kingdom, West Germany, and Japan.

Author : Louise A. Clare
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 19,96 MB
Release : 2023-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1000845117

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This book examines British and Argentine media output in the prelude to and during the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas Conflict and acknowledges the aftermath and legacies of the media response. Yards of ink have been spilt, reinforcing the view that the Argentine Junta’s action on 2nd April 1982 was a ‘diversion’ from domestic tensions. This view, coupled with the paucity of any thorough, in-depth analysis afforded to Argentine media aspects of the War - particularly the press - necessitates this volume’s copious international study of the Conflict. Uniquely, US media output is also analysed alongside Britain’s and Argentina’s, all drawing upon Cold War historiography and media theory, with a view to contesting the traditional consensus that media outlets merely reflected government opinion during the Crisis, providing almost no effective dissent. Asserting media and culture influenced the climatic decision-making process of key actors in the Conflict, this book’s triangulated approach explores the integral, influencing role played therein by culture, and how it was not only instrumental to government actions, but also to Argentine, British and US media output. This book’s revisionist approach makes it a reference point for any nascent research on Falklands/Malvinas media reporting and Argentine and international approaches—particularly the US—to the 1982 Conflict.

Author : David A. Welch
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,5 MB
Release : 2011-06-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1400840740

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Under what conditions should we expect states to do things radically differently all of a sudden? In this book, David Welch seeks to answer this question, constructing a theory of foreign policy change inspired by organization theory, cognitive and motivational psychology, and prospect theory. He then "test drives" the theory in a series of comparative case studies in the security and trade domains: Argentina's decision to go to war over the Falklands/Malvinas vs. Japan's endless patience with diplomacy in its conflict with Russia over the Northern Territories; America's decision to commit large-scale military force to Vietnam vs. its ultimate decision to withdraw; and Canada's two abortive flirtations with free trade with the United States in 1911 and 1948 vs. its embrace of free trade in the late 1980s. Painful Choices has three main objectives: to determine whether the general theory project in the field of international relations can be redeemed, given disappointment with previous attempts; to reflect on what this reveals about the possibilities and limits of general theory; and to inform policy. Welch argues that earlier efforts at general theory erred by aiming to explain state behavior, which is an intractable problem. Instead, since inertia is the default expectation in international politics, all we need do is to explain changes in behavior. Painful Choices shows that this is a tractable problem with clear implications for intelligence analysts and negotiators.

Author : David A. Welch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 35,61 MB
Release : 1995-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521558686

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Studies of the causes of wars generally presuppose a 'realist' account of motivation: when statesmen choose to wage war, they do so for purposes of self-preservation or self-aggrandizement. In this book, however, David Welch argues that humans are motivated by normative concerns, the pursuit of which may result in behaviour inconsistent with self-interest. He examines the effect of one particular type of normative motivation - the justice motive - in the outbreak of five Great Power wars: the Crimean war, the Franco-Prussian war, World War I, World War II, and the Falklands war. Realist theory would suggest that these wars would be among the least likely to be influenced by considerations other than power and interest, but the author demonstrates that the justice motive played an important role in the genesis of war, and that its neglect by theorists of international politics is a major oversight.

Author : John Connolly
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 30,98 MB
Release : 2006-11-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0743298853

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A 12-year-old boy, mourning the death of his mother, takes refuge in the myths and fairytales she always loved--and finds that his reality and a fantasy world start to meld.