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A great deal has been written about the role of resilience in world politics in recent years. But where does resilience come from? From which discipline was it "imported" into world politics? A particular genealogical analysis of resilience is structuring much of the literature: resilience was born in system ecology in the 1970s. On the basis of this particular genealogy, many critical theorists argue that resilience is a form of reasoning that participates in a neoliberal rationality of governance. For them, resilience is a by-product of a neoliberal mode of governance; seen in this light, resilience is lamentable. In this article, I propose a different, more extensive genealogy of resilience. I argue that before we can conduct an analysis of the application of resilience in world politics, we must understand the diverse paths through which resilience has percolated into international politics. By tracing the diverse expressions of resilience in world politics to various markers within the history of resilience, this article contends that this is an opportune moment to move scattered scholarships on resilience a step further and better theorize the relationship between resilience and world politics.

To provide an idea of the nature and scope of changes in trade competitiveness between the CBERA countries and Mexico that have resulted from the implementation of the NAFTA, this report describes the relevant preferential or special tariff treatments, as applicable. The aspects of trade policy that apply generally to all (or most) U.S. trading partners (e.g., most-favored-nation/normal-trade-relations status, or production-sharing provisions) are not included in any detail.

"This book adopts Austrian and evolutionary approaches to interpret contemporary China's economic transformation under uncertainty, learning and experimentation. It incorporates culture, institutions, government agents and entrepreneurship to understand policy making in China"--

Statesmanship -- Setting the scene -- Opening to China -- The Nixon-Mao Summit -- Seeking stability with the Soviet Union -- Searching for peace in Vietnam -- Breakthrough and the Paris Accords -- Initial advances in the Middle East -- Negotiating styles and personal profiles -- The foreign policy process -- Strategy

Friendship : the most important social bond in Iceland in the period (c. 870-1260) -- Friendship between chieftains : 'to his friend a man should be a friend, and repay gifts with gifts' -- Kings and their friends -- Clerics and friendship -- Jobs and other friends of the gods -- Kinsmen and friends : 'let there be a fjord between kinsmen, but a bay between friends' -- Friendship loses its power : political changes in the second half of the 13th century -- Pragmatic friendship

The world has seldom been as dangerous as it is now. Rogue regimes—governments and groups that eschew diplomatic normality, sponsor terrorism, and proliferate nuclear weapons—threaten the United States around the globe. Because sanctions and military action are so costly, the American strategy of first resort is dialogue, on the theory that "it never hurts to talk to enemies." Seldom is conventional wisdom so wrong.Engagement with rogue regimes is not cost-free, as Michael Rubin demonstrates by tracing the history of American diplomacy with North Korea, Iran, Iraq, Libya, the Taliban's Afghani