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The Community of Nuchi Du Takara ("Life Is the Ultimate Treasure") in Postwar Okinawa

Local Subjectivity within and against Empire

By Masamichi (Marro) Inoue
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Political Science, International Relations

Explores the conflict between Okinawans and the post-WWII US-Japan military alliance through the concept of nuchi du takara

Chasing Greatness

On Russia's Discursive Interaction with the West over the Past Millennium

By Anatoly Reshetnikov
Subjects: History, Russian History, Political Science, International Relations, Political Theory
Series: Configurations: Critical Studies of World Politics

How a millennia idealizing political greatness has affected Russia

Communicating the Other across Cultures

From Othering as Equipment for Living, to Communicating Other/Wise

By Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Political Science, International Relations, History, Intellectual History

Exposes how we have constructed and marginalized the Other across cultures, and suggests creative global solutions for inclusive multiculturalism

Liberalism and Transformation

The Global Politics of Violence and Intervention

By Dillon S. Tatum
Subjects: History, Political Science, International Relations

The messy history of emancipatory liberalism

People's Wars in China, Malaya, and Vietnam

By Marc Opper
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, China, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History

The true measure of an insurgency’s success begins after victory

The Burden of the Past

Problems of Historical Perception in Japan-Korea Relations

By Kan Kimura
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Korea, Political Science, International Relations, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History

A rigorously historical investigation into the ongoing issues in Japan-Korea relations and how and why both governments have acted—and not acted—to address them

Persecution and Rescue

The Politics of the “Final Solution” in France, 1940-1944

By Wolfgang Seibel
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, History, European History

A new look at the politics behind the negotiations that shaped the fate of the Jews in occupied France during World War II

Britain and World Power since 1945

Constructing a Nation's Role in International Politics

By David M. McCourt
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Political Theory, History
Series: Configurations: Critical Studies of World Politics

After the fall of its empire, Britain still holds sway

Atrocity, Deviance, and Submarine Warfare

Norms and Practices during the World Wars

By Nachman Ben-Yehuda
Subjects: Sociology, Political Science, International Relations, History
Series: Configurations: Critical Studies of World Politics

In an era of changing ethics, the submarine has inaugurated a new type of unrestricted naval warfare

Defacing Power

The Aesthetics of Insecurity in Global Politics

By Brent J Steele
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, History, Media Studies, Cultural Studies

How do nations create and maintain images of power?

From Revolution to War

State Relations in a World of Change

By Patrick J. Conge
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Comparative Politics, History

Explores the relationship between war and revolution

Civilizing the Enemy

German Reconstruction and the Invention of the West

By Patrick Thaddeus Jackson
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Political History, History, European History

The origins of modern civilizational discourse

Defending the Holy Land

A Critical Analysis of Israel's Security and Foreign Policy

By Zeev Maoz
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Middle and Near Eastern Studies, History, Middle Eastern History

A landmark analysis of the entire history of Israel's defense and foreign policies and a fundamental reassessment of its security doctrine

Building the Cold War Consensus

The Political Economy of U.S. National Security Policy, 1949-51

By Benjamin Fordham
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, History, American History, American Politics

Explains the basis in domestic politics of the political consensus in support of large defense spending in the early stages of the Cold War

Ralph J. Bunche

Selected Speeches and Writings

Edited by Charles P. Henry
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, History, American History, American Politics, African American Studies

Restores the forgotten legacy of a leader for peace

Images and Arms Control

Perceptions of the Soviet Union in the Reagan Administration

By Keith L. Shimko
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, American Politics, History, Soviet History

A study of foreign policy decision making as seen through the relationship between the Reagan administration and the Soviet Union

The Foreign Establishment in China in the Early Twentieth Century

By Albert Feuerwerker
Subjects: History, American Religious History, Political Science, International Relations, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Views the impact of foreign imperialism on China during its apogee, the early republican era (1910 to 1920)

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