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Diplomats --- History --- United States. --- History. --- Europe --- United States --- Foreign relations --- 20th century
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A concise guide to ambivalence, from Adam and Eve (to eat the apple or not?) to Hamlet (to be or not?) to globalization (e pluribus unum or not?).Why is it so hard to make up our minds? Adam and Eve set the template: Do we or don't we eat the apple? They chose, half-heartedly, and nothing was ever the same again. With this book, Kenneth Weisbrode offers a crisp, literate, and provocative introduction to the age-old struggle with ambivalence. Ambivalence results from a basic desire to have it both ways. This is only natural--although insisting upon it against all reason often results not in "both" but in the disappointing "neither." Ambivalence has insinuated itself into our culture as a kind of obligatory reflex, or default position, before practically every choice we make. It affects not only individuals; organizations, societies, and cultures can also be ambivalent. How often have we asked the scornful question, "Are we the Hamlet of nations"? How often have we demanded that our leaders appear decisive, judicious, and stalwart? And how eager have we been to censure them when they hesitate or waver?Weisbrode traces the concept of ambivalence, from the Garden of Eden to Freud and beyond. The Obama era, he says, may be America's own era of ambivalence: neither red nor blue but a multicolored kaleidoscope. Ambivalence, he argues, need not be destructive. We must learn to distinguish it from its symptoms--selfishness, ambiguity, and indecision--and accept that frustration, guilt, and paralysis felt by individuals need not lead automatically to a collective pathology. Drawing upon examples from philosophy, history, literature, and the social sciences, On Ambivalence is a pocket-sized portrait of a complex human condition. It should be read by anyone who has ever grappled with making the right choice.
Ambivalence. --- Decision making. --- Choice (Psychology) --- Deciding --- Decision (Psychology) --- Decision analysis --- Decision processes --- Making decisions --- Management --- Management decisions --- Ambivalency --- Decision making --- Psychology --- Problem solving --- Emotions --- CULTURAL STUDIES/General --- PHILOSOPHY/General
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"Eisenhower and the Art of Collaborative Leadership" examines the theory and practice of collaboration, and collaborative leadership, in the life and career of Dwight Eisenhower. It relates his collaborative style to his ideas about friendship, his Kansas upbringing and his family, his military training and career, and his particular practice of presidential leadership, which operated through teams and a deliberate, sophisticated system of bureaucratic consensus-building. "Eisenhower and the Art of Collaborative Leadership" elaborates an alternative interpretation of such leadership, describing Eisenhower not merely as a "hidden-hand" president, but also as a visible one at the head of a well-managed team. It is a concise portrait of one of America's most important and talented leaders, and a case study in sound leadership.
Leadership --- Friendship --- Interpersonal relations --- Management --- Presidents --- Presidency --- Heads of state --- Executive power --- Human relations --- Interpersonal relationships --- Personal relations --- Relations, Interpersonal --- Relationships, Interpersonal --- Social behavior --- Social psychology --- Object relations (Psychoanalysis) --- Affection --- Friendliness --- Conduct of life --- Love --- Eisenhower, Dwight D. --- Ai-sen-hao, --- Ėĭzenkhauėr, Duaĭt, --- Eisenhower, Ike, --- Ai-sen-hao-wei-erh, --- Ayzinhāvir, Duvāyt, --- ايزنهاور، دوايت --- Eisenhower, Dwight David,
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"What is influence and why might real influencers be those whose names we no longer remember? Ken Weisbrode embarks on an exploration to trace the most powerful strands of cultural and intellectual influence, and demonstrates it might not be what we think it is. "The influencer is a person who made an art of absence in the trade of cultural and sometimes political capital. The ones in this book represent a range of vocations, from politics to diplomacy to novel-writing, but almost all were cultural entrepreneurs. They were not puppet masters, gray eminences, unsung heroes, or Svengalis--although one or two have been portrayed thus. Rather, their influence is spread by virtue of their willful disappearance, of its perpetuation of a new language and cultural standard, and of their many conscious and unconscious imitators. The reason they had such influence was precisely because a part of their method was to be less visible in order to watch their ideas, habits, and styles proliferate without their names necessarily being affixed. [...] Yet, to understand such a modus operandi is necessary today when the proliferation of social media influencers are squandering cultural capital so quickly by the simultaneous promotion of their products, above all, themselves.""-- Provided by publisher.
Influence (Psychology) --- Influence (Psychology) --- Religious aspects --- Christianity.
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This unique collection of essays lays the groundwork for the study of the intersection of European integration and transatlantic relations in the 1980s. With archives for this period only recently being opened, scholars are beginning to analyse and understand what some have called a peak moment in the European project and others have called the Second Cold War. How do these moments intersect and relate to one another? These essays, by prominent scholars from Europe and the United States, examine these and related questions while challenging the '1980s' itself as a useful demarcation for historical analysis.
European federation --- National security --- National security. --- Guerre froide --- History --- Europe --- United States --- European Economic Community countries. --- Pays de l'Union européenne --- États-Unis --- Relations --- Foreign relations --- Economic policy --- Politics and government --- Economic conditions --- Unité --- Politique et gouvernement --- Relations extérieures --- Politique économique --- Political science --- International Relations --- General. --- European Economic Community countries --- Guerre froide. --- Unité. --- National security policy --- NSP (National security policy) --- Security policy, National --- International relations --- Military policy --- Government policy --- Common market countries --- European common market countries --- Arts and Humanities --- Relations extérieures --- États-Unis --- Unité. --- Politique économique
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In foreign policy, the Trump administration has appeared to depart from long-standing norms of international behavior that have underwritten American primacy for decades in a more interdependent and prosperous world. In this book, a diplomat and a historian revisit that perception by examining and reproducing several of their own essays during the past twenty years. The essays reveal that Trump's style exaggerates tendencies towards unilateralism already present in the actions, if not the policies, of previous presidents, and in their neglect of three imperatives: collective security, regional integration, and diplomatic imagination. It is not too late, however, to remedy the problem by learning the lessons of the recent past. James E. Goodby is Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, USA. He is a retired diplomat who was involved in the creation of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and in the negotiation of the limited nuclear test ban treaty, START, the Conference on Disarmament in Europe, and cooperative threat reduction (the Nunn-Lugar program). Kenneth Weisbrode is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Bilkent University, Turkey. He is a former defense analyst who has worked at the Atlantic Council of the United States, the European University Institute, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and the United States Institute of Peace. .
United States --- Foreign relations --- International relations. --- Diplomacy. --- Politics and war. --- Foreign Policy. --- International Relations Theory. --- Military and Defence Studies. --- Coexistence --- Foreign affairs --- Foreign policy --- Global governance --- Interdependence of nations --- International affairs --- Peaceful coexistence --- World order --- National security --- Sovereignty --- World politics --- War --- War and politics --- History --- International relations --- Political aspects
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In foreign policy, the Trump administration has appeared to depart from long-standing norms of international behavior that have underwritten American primacy for decades in a more interdependent and prosperous world. In this book, a diplomat and a historian revisit that perception by examining and reproducing several of their own essays during the past twenty years. The essays reveal that Trump's style exaggerates tendencies towards unilateralism already present in the actions, if not the policies, of previous presidents, and in their neglect of three imperatives: collective security, regional integration, and diplomatic imagination. It is not too late, however, to remedy the problem by learning the lessons of the recent past. James E. Goodby is Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, USA. He is a retired diplomat who was involved in the creation of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and in the negotiation of the limited nuclear test ban treaty, START, the Conference on Disarmament in Europe, and cooperative threat reduction (the Nunn-Lugar program). Kenneth Weisbrode is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Bilkent University, Turkey. He is a former defense analyst who has worked at the Atlantic Council of the United States, the European University Institute, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and the United States Institute of Peace. .
International relations. Foreign policy --- Politics --- Polemology --- communicatie --- politiek --- internationale betrekkingen --- International relations. --- Diplomacy. --- Politics and war. --- Foreign Policy. --- International Relations Theory. --- Military and Defence Studies.
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Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict, 1988-1994 --- Conflit du Nagorno-Karabakh, 1988-1994 --- Afghanistan --- Azerbaijan --- Uzbekistan --- Farghona (Uzbekistan) --- Azerbaïdjan --- Ouzbékistan --- Farghona (Ouzbékistan) --- Politics and government, --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement --- Conflit du Nagorno-Karabakh, 1988-1994Afghanistan --- Farghona (Ouzbékistan)Politics and government, --- Azerbaïdjan --- Ouzbékistan --- Farghona (Ouzbékistan)
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