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This volume contains the results of some studies presented by Egyptian and Italian scholars at the International Conference "Peacebuilding between East and West XI-XVI c.", organized in Cairo on, October 27, 2016 by the Egyptian Unity of research, as part of the academic activities of the Bilateral Project "History of Peace-building: peaceful relations between East and West (11th - 15th century)" carried out jointly by the Institute of the Mediterranean EuropeHistory of the CNR (Italy), and the University of Damanhour. The project is totally funded by the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT)(1) of the Arab Republic of Egypt and the Italian National Research Council (CNR)(2).The purpose of the Bilateral Project - and even of the aforementioned International Conference- is to carry out research in order to examine through the study of different types of documentary and narrative sources; the nature, quantity and quality of peaceful relations between Christians and Muslims in a geographical area extending from the Iberian Peninsula to the Levantin a chronological interval between the eleventh and the fifteenth centuries. Needless to say that since it is an Italian-Egyptian project, the researchers will devote particular attention in their studies to the relations between these two geographical areas.In this book, we can find the first contributions of some scholars of the two Research Units on the important theme of the complex relationships between the Christian world and the Islamic one, which characterized almost all the Middle Ages and much of the Modern Age in the area gravitating around the Mediterranean Sea.The researchers' aim is to focus their studies on episodes, geographical areas, persons and moments which represent incidents and cases of peaceful coexistence and connection, with fruitful exchanges of various kinds of knowledge, even in a general context characterized by military, religious and ideological-cultural conflict. ; Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Academy of Scientific Research & Technology ; editors in chief Prof. Ali Ahmed El-Sayed, Dr. Luciano Gallinari, Dr. Abdallah Abdel-Ati Al-Naggar ; Beiträge teilweise italienisch, teilweise arabisch in arabischer Schrift

This book aims to provide cutting edge essays by leading scholars on cosmopolitanism. Cosmopolitanism is an emerging movement in global ethics and provides a meeting point between theorists of international law, political science, political philosophy, applied ethics, economics, development studies, and international relations. The second International Conference of the International Global Ethics Association will be held in Melbourne, Australia in June 2008 on the theme of 'Questioning Cosmopolitanism' and will attract major scholars from around the world. It is envisaged that the best essays from this conference will be published in the proposed book.

The appeasement of Hitler and the Munich Agreement is a rhetorical comparison used commonly in international relations to defend politico-military action. On the basis of conceptual history and rhetorics, we examine cases of political speech in this paradigm. Firstly, we discuss time and conceptualize experience into first and second order experiences. Secondly, the roles of metaphor, metonymy and analogy in relation to thought and action are examined. We then contextualise Munich 1938, and present three cases demonstrating the political usage of this metonymy since WWII. These range from the Suez Crises to the Gulf War and on-going War on Terror. These cases show that "Munich" can be used in multiple contexts. Our hypothesis is that "Munich" has proved very instrumental politically; it has been a key element in the final push to use force on numerous occasions, and we conclude that it is a very dangerous form of anti-diplomacy.

Humanitarian issue that often raised as a problem for developing countries, is often likely linked to gender issue. Having labeled as a region with the highest violence data prevalence, Pacific Islands countries possess assorted factors that tolerates the practice of gender dominance and discrimination amongst their societies. Responding this phenomenon, the governments in Pacific Islands countries are oftentimes receiving assistance from other international relations actors, in which one of them is UN Women. With the support from Australian government, this UN body assist numerous institutions from various level in making the effort to eliminate violence against women as the most protrude form of gender based discrimination in Pacific. Involvement of other parties from diverse groups indicates the relations between actors of Multi-Track Diplomacy with the program initiated by UN Women. Using theory of Multi-Track Diplomacy and concept of Gender-Based Violence, this research identifies the participation and contribution made by a total of nine tracks in responding to violence against women issue in the Pacific. Such response itself is one of the world peace endeavors, which is also the ultimate purpose of Multi-Track Diplomacy. Result of this response shaped in their participation and contribution within variety of programs under Pacific Fund. Keywords: Pacific, gender equality, foreign aids, Multi-Track Diplomacy, peacemaking.

"The political philosophy of Leo Strauss has been the subject of significant scholarly and media attention in recent years, particularly in the context of the decision to invade Iraq in 2003. During the period since then, questions have been raised regarding the influence of the works of Leo Strauss on the individuals at the highest levels of the Bush administration. This is the first book that engages with the subject in both International Relations (IR) and in other disciplines. The book offers an exploration and demonstration of the ways in which elements of Strauss' thought are visible in the activities of the Bush administration during this period in the spheres of intelligence production, think tanks, and the media. Such an undertaking is not simply to demonstrate these connections and interventions, but also to challenge the logic underpinning Straussian thought. The book enacts a deconstructive challenge to Strauss' political philosophy which unsettles the fundamental assumptions it relies upon. In doing so, it exposes the securitising imperative underpinning Straussian thought and the Straussian interventions. It thereby contributes to crucial issues relating to IR theory, and contemporary foreign policy, while asserting that these dimensions of IR can and should be dealt with in conjunction with each other. This book would be of interest to students and scholars of IR, Political Theory, Security Studies and US Foreign Policy"--

"This paper discusses the effects of the EU's external relations institutional framework on the conduct of its diplomacy. Drawing upon the academic writing in the field, we attempt to take a step further, examining how the post-Lisbon external relations architecture influences EU diplomacy in practice, combining legal analysis with policy-making. Our conclusion is that the new architecture has not yet managed to achieve its major objective to instill coherence, consistency and unity in EU foreign policy as prerequisites for a more prominent and, thereby, effective role of the EU on the international plane. Instead of streamlining cooperation and coordination of the different actors relevant to the conduct of EU foreign policy, it has given rise to turf battles among them in the effort to determine ad novo the power balances in this field." (publisher's description)

This book covers various strategic issues around maritime security in terms of how Indonesia has sought to implement its Global Maritime Fulcrum (GMF) vision, evaluating its regional impact within ASEAN. The Global Maritime Fulcrum vision was declared by President Joko Widodo to refocus Indonesias development paradigm to prioritize its maritime aspect in the Indo-Pacific. Divided across five pillars, namely: maritime culture, maritime resource management, maritime infrastructure and connectivity development, maritime diplomacy and maritime defense, the book presents that the implementation of this vision will doubtless have a significant regional impact, particularly in setting regional maritime agendas. In promoting an understanding of the challenges presented in implementing the Global Maritime Fulcrum and unpacking its multifaceted impact in the region, this book delves into Indonesias maritime vision, the existing maritime arrangements within ASEAN, and Indonesias interests in terms of its political economy relating to the maritime sector, strategic security issues, maritime diplomacy, and related regional power dynamics. Translated from Bahasa Indonesia into English, the book is relevant to scholars and policymakers in maritime studies, international relations, and regional studies relating to politics and power dynamics in Indonesia, specifically, and ASEAN more broadly.

This book examines the legitimation of Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs), focusing on the controversy between PMSCs and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). While existing studies disproportionately emphasizes the ability for companies and their clients to dominate and shape perceptions of the industry, this book offers an alternative explanation for the oft-cited normalization of PMSCs and the trend to privatize security by analyzing the changing relationship between PMSCs and NGOs. It uses the concept of 'norm entrepreneurship' to elucidate the legitimation game between these two dissimilar actors. Starting from the 1990s, the book shows that the relationship between PMSCs and NGOs has undergone a transition by literally moving from 'the barricades to the boardrooms'. After years of fierce advocacy and PR campaigns against PMSCs, today both actors increasingly collaborate in multi-stakeholder initiatives, elevating the status of PMSCs from a scorned actor to a trusted partner in the regulation of the industry. The work offers a comprehensive explanation of when and why this kind of collective norm entrepreneurship is likely to occur.

Inhalt: Annäherung im Zeichen der Katastrophe; Dimensionen der Kaschmirproblematik; Wurzeln der Gewalt; Radikalisierung des Konflikts in den 1990er Jahren; Von der Eskalation zur Entspannung: Der "Kampf gegen den Terrorismus"; Dialog und Annäherung: Erste Gehversuche; Politisches Kalkül und Skepsis bestehen fort; Das Erdbeben und seine Folgen: Chance und Herausforderung zugleich; Fazit: Hoffnung auf weitere Annäherung.

The diplomatic relations between the Medici Grand Duchy of Tuscany and Safavid Persia constitute a very interesting subject of study in the context of deepening of relations between Europe and what was called the 'Levant.' Although there were never any practical political or commercial consequences, the analysis of the Medicis' 'Persian diplomacy' may still reveal something about diplomacy in the early modern period, its practices and, more generally, how Europe and Persia 'looked at' and related to each other. The documentation produced by the grand ducal secretariat in the course of more than a century of roughly regular interaction is incredibly rich and varied and even if some of it is already known, a very large part of it remains unexploited.The main aim of this thesis is to reconstruct the genesis and development of diplomatic relations between Tuscany and Persia in the seventeenth century through careful and scrupulous archive research and the continuous comparison of manuscript and printed sources with recent studies. The aim is to frame these relations within a broader Mediterranean and global context in which knowledge, the ability to gather information and, to a certain extent, the ambition to be able to project oneself beyond one's own 'local' dimension, also played an important role. In addition to an in-depth analysis of Medici-Safavid diplomacy in the strict sense, the research also aims to provide a new 'case study' of modern diplomacy, its practices and networks. Finally, thanks to the identification of unpublished documentation, its comparative analysis with that which is known (and a reinterpretation of this through new perspectives) and the publication of several documents in the thesis, the research also aims to provide a solid corpus of sources on which to base further future research work. ; Les rapports diplomatiques entre le Grand-Duché de Toscane des Médicis et la Perse safavide au XVIIe siècle constituent un sujet d'étude très intéressant concernant l'approfondissement des relations ...

The diplomatic relations between the Medici Grand Duchy of Tuscany and Safavid Persia constitute a very interesting subject of study in the context of deepening of relations between Europe and what was called the 'Levant.' Although there were never any practical political or commercial consequences, the analysis of the Medicis' 'Persian diplomacy' may still reveal something about diplomacy in the early modern period, its practices and, more generally, how Europe and Persia 'looked at' and related to each other. The documentation produced by the grand ducal secretariat in the course of more than a century of roughly regular interaction is incredibly rich and varied and even if some of it is already known, a very large part of it remains unexploited.The main aim of this thesis is to reconstruct the genesis and development of diplomatic relations between Tuscany and Persia in the seventeenth century through careful and scrupulous archive research and the continuous comparison of manuscript and printed sources with recent studies. The aim is to frame these relations within a broader Mediterranean and global context in which knowledge, the ability to gather information and, to a certain extent, the ambition to be able to project oneself beyond one's own 'local' dimension, also played an important role. In addition to an in-depth analysis of Medici-Safavid diplomacy in the strict sense, the research also aims to provide a new 'case study' of modern diplomacy, its practices and networks. Finally, thanks to the identification of unpublished documentation, its comparative analysis with that which is known (and a reinterpretation of this through new perspectives) and the publication of several documents in the thesis, the research also aims to provide a solid corpus of sources on which to base further future research work. ; Les rapports diplomatiques entre le Grand-Duché de Toscane des Médicis et la Perse safavide au XVIIe siècle constituent un sujet d'étude très intéressant concernant l'approfondissement des relations ...

The diplomatic relations between the Medici Grand Duchy of Tuscany and Safavid Persia constitute a very interesting subject of study in the context of deepening of relations between Europe and what was called the 'Levant.' Although there were never any practical political or commercial consequences, the analysis of the Medicis' 'Persian diplomacy' may still reveal something about diplomacy in the early modern period, its practices and, more generally, how Europe and Persia 'looked at' and related to each other. The documentation produced by the grand ducal secretariat in the course of more than a century of roughly regular interaction is incredibly rich and varied and even if some of it is already known, a very large part of it remains unexploited.The main aim of this thesis is to reconstruct the genesis and development of diplomatic relations between Tuscany and Persia in the seventeenth century through careful and scrupulous archive research and the continuous comparison of manuscript and printed sources with recent studies. The aim is to frame these relations within a broader Mediterranean and global context in which knowledge, the ability to gather information and, to a certain extent, the ambition to be able to project oneself beyond one's own 'local' dimension, also played an important role. In addition to an in-depth analysis of Medici-Safavid diplomacy in the strict sense, the research also aims to provide a new 'case study' of modern diplomacy, its practices and networks. Finally, thanks to the identification of unpublished documentation, its comparative analysis with that which is known (and a reinterpretation of this through new perspectives) and the publication of several documents in the thesis, the research also aims to provide a solid corpus of sources on which to base further future research work. ; Les rapports diplomatiques entre le Grand-Duché de Toscane des Médicis et la Perse safavide au XVIIe siècle constituent un sujet d'étude très intéressant concernant l'approfondissement des relations ...

The diplomatic relations between the Medici Grand Duchy of Tuscany and Safavid Persia constitute a very interesting subject of study in the context of deepening of relations between Europe and what was called the 'Levant.' Although there were never any practical political or commercial consequences, the analysis of the Medicis' 'Persian diplomacy' may still reveal something about diplomacy in the early modern period, its practices and, more generally, how Europe and Persia 'looked at' and related to each other. The documentation produced by the grand ducal secretariat in the course of more than a century of roughly regular interaction is incredibly rich and varied and even if some of it is already known, a very large part of it remains unexploited.The main aim of this thesis is to reconstruct the genesis and development of diplomatic relations between Tuscany and Persia in the seventeenth century through careful and scrupulous archive research and the continuous comparison of manuscript and printed sources with recent studies. The aim is to frame these relations within a broader Mediterranean and global context in which knowledge, the ability to gather information and, to a certain extent, the ambition to be able to project oneself beyond one's own 'local' dimension, also played an important role. In addition to an in-depth analysis of Medici-Safavid diplomacy in the strict sense, the research also aims to provide a new 'case study' of modern diplomacy, its practices and networks. Finally, thanks to the identification of unpublished documentation, its comparative analysis with that which is known (and a reinterpretation of this through new perspectives) and the publication of several documents in the thesis, the research also aims to provide a solid corpus of sources on which to base further future research work. ; Les rapports diplomatiques entre le Grand-Duché de Toscane des Médicis et la Perse safavide au XVIIe siècle constituent un sujet d'étude très intéressant concernant l'approfondissement des relations ...

The diplomatic relations between the Medici Grand Duchy of Tuscany and Safavid Persia constitute a very interesting subject of study in the context of deepening of relations between Europe and what was called the 'Levant.' Although there were never any practical political or commercial consequences, the analysis of the Medicis' 'Persian diplomacy' may still reveal something about diplomacy in the early modern period, its practices and, more generally, how Europe and Persia 'looked at' and related to each other. The documentation produced by the grand ducal secretariat in the course of more than a century of roughly regular interaction is incredibly rich and varied and even if some of it is already known, a very large part of it remains unexploited.The main aim of this thesis is to reconstruct the genesis and development of diplomatic relations between Tuscany and Persia in the seventeenth century through careful and scrupulous archive research and the continuous comparison of manuscript and printed sources with recent studies. The aim is to frame these relations within a broader Mediterranean and global context in which knowledge, the ability to gather information and, to a certain extent, the ambition to be able to project oneself beyond one's own 'local' dimension, also played an important role. In addition to an in-depth analysis of Medici-Safavid diplomacy in the strict sense, the research also aims to provide a new 'case study' of modern diplomacy, its practices and networks. Finally, thanks to the identification of unpublished documentation, its comparative analysis with that which is known (and a reinterpretation of this through new perspectives) and the publication of several documents in the thesis, the research also aims to provide a solid corpus of sources on which to base further future research work. ; Les rapports diplomatiques entre le Grand-Duché de Toscane des Médicis et la Perse safavide au XVIIe siècle constituent un sujet d'étude très intéressant concernant l'approfondissement des relations ...