An international collection featuring leading scholars which fulfils three goals. First, it explains the advent and significance of the concept of 'International Society'; second, it subjects the concept to theoretical scrutiny, both for its internal coherence and for its applicability more broadly; ...
During the Cold War, the place of knowledge, planning, and social science expertise in modern societies emerged as the focus of a momentous debate. The debate, often carried out under the rubric of the "knowledge society," was directly linked to a fundamental question: whether the capitalist ...
Cold Warimperial overstretchPaul KennedyUnited StatesSoviet Uniondefenceforeign policydoi:10.1080/01440389208403978RenggerN. J.Arms ControlRengger, N.J., 1992. `Arms Control, International Society and the End of the Cold War', Arms Control 13, 1: 32-57....
The essential point here is that, in the realm of national security, Hillary Clinton is utterly conventional. She subscribes to a worldview (and view of America’s role in the world) that originated during the Cold War, reached its zenith in the 1990s when the United States proclaimed itsel...
Environmental cooperation in NATO was part of the changes which scientific cooperation was effecting in the international system during the entry into the post-industrial era. The making of the CCMS is the story of a crisis of adjustment to the new era, of hiccups in transatlantic relationships,...
This is probably why civil society assumed more significance with the end of the Cold War in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Civil society plays a very crucial role. Many scholars have expounded on the roles of the civil society. According to Keane, civil society has two main functions: ...
the time during which a country, a peopleetcis at war.There is a great deal of hardship and misery in wartime;(also adjective) a wartime economy.tiempo de guerra war of nerves a war, contestetcin which each side tries to win by making the other nervous,egby bluff, rather than by act...
That it was never going to be strong enough to rule unless the West suddenly decided to help it. (Which did later happen elsewhere in Asia, but only during the Cold War when the West feared that the whole of Asia might go over to their foes.) The Kuomintang also didn’t do anything...
Adam Watson has argued that during the Cold War, the Soviet Union and its allies, on the one side, and the West, on the other, constituted two separate international systems operating within the confines of a single but rather thin and heterogeneous global international society (Watson, 1992:...
under the fascist dictatorship of Franco following the Civil War (1936–39) until his death in 1975; a member of the European Union. It consists chiefly of a central plateau (the Meseta), with the Pyrenees and the Cantabrian Mountains in the north and the Sierra Nevada in the south. Offic...