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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- The Palestinian refugee issue: At the core of the conflict -- Structure and content of the book -- Chapter 2: From principles to practicalities: Repatriation versus resettlement -- The Palestine Conciliation Commission: Early days, lost chances -- Chasing an Israeli gesture -- An offer everyone could refuse: The Gaza Plan and the 100,000 offer -- Chapter 3: A beautiful dream: The rise and fall of Project Alpha -- Establishing the Alpha Plan -- Resettlement and repatriation in the Alpha Plan -- Securing regional acceptance of the Alpha Plan -- Allied discord over Alpha -- Chapter 4: The United States and the Palestinian refugee issue -- The Villard study -- Regional turmoil and internal US division -- The United States' limited influence -- Regional shake-up and the revival of the PCC -- Chapter 5: The Johnson mission: A real college try? -- A time for greatness? -- The Johnson mission -- Getting to concretes: Johnson's second trip to the region -- Chapter 6: Kennedy and the Arab-Israeli conflict -- Domestic dimensions: Ensuring presidential support -- Presenting the Johnson plan to the parties -- Kennedy and the question of Palestine -- Chapter 7: The end of the road for the Johnson mission -- US-Israel bilateral negotiations: The Harman-Talbot talks -- A tug of war in Washington, D.C. -- A bitter representative and a special relationship -- Chapter 8: The 1967 War: Changed parameters of the Arab-Israeli conflict -- Land for peace and the Palestinian national movement -- US Palestine policy readjusted? -- Chapter 9: Conclusion -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Edited Archival records -- Interviews/oral sources -- Official documents/reports.

Washington's strategic rationale for a Northeast Asian Theater Missile Defense (TMD) system has been sound. Since the end of the Cold War, American bases & allies have increasingly come under the threat of Chinese & North Korean missiles. At the same time, joint TMD-development promised a reaffirmation of the US-Japan alliance that had been strained by both endemic trade conflicts & Tokyo's search for a new regional & international role. The problems with TMD are the result of politics interfering with this strategic rationale. First & foremost in this context has been Washington's incremental abandonment of its "strategic ambiguity" in the Taiwan Strait, a policy driven by mutually contradicting domestic developments on the island, in the People's Republic of China, & in the US itself. The present antiterrorist effort notwithstanding, the politicized TMD project is likely to stay & to continue straining great power relations in Northeast Asia. Adapted from the source document.

"From the Korean War to the current conflict in Iraq, Paying the Human Costs of War examines the ways in which the American public decides whether to support the use of military force. Contrary to the conventional view, the authors demonstrate that the public does not respond reflexively and solely to the number of casualties in a conflict. Instead, the book argues that the public makes reasoned and reasonable cost-benefit calculations for their continued support of a war based on the justifications for it and the likelihood it will succeed, along with the costs that have been suffered in casualties. Of these factors, the book finds that the most important consideration for the public is the expectation of success. If the public believes that a mission will succeed, the public will support it even if the costs are high. When the public does not expect the mission to succeed, even small costs will cause the withdrawal of support"--Provided by publisher

International audience ; The aim is to theoretically investigate the role that patriotism may play in the persistence of discrimination. Patriotism refers to attachment to one's own country, and might lead to discrimination against individuals who are not part of the country. However democratic countries strongly promote the non-discrimination norm. Then, patriotism could present individuals with a normative conflict (i.e., conflict between one's own norm and the ingroup norm), which has been shown to have a potential for attitude change. It is argued that the norms promoted by a country interact with the patriotic orientation of their citizens, producing differential patterns of attitude change. The case of changing negative attitudes toward immigrants is discussed. ; El objetivo es investigar el papel que el patriotismo puede tener en la persistencia de la discriminación. El patriotismo es el apego al propio país, y puede llevar a dis-criminar a los individuos que no pertenecen al propio país. Sin embargo los países de-mocráticos promueven con fuerza la norma de no-discriminación. En este sentido, el patriotismo puede enfrentar a los individuos a un conflicto normativo (es decir, choque entre la norma personal y la norma del grupo) que se ha demostrado que tiene un fuerte peso en el cambio de actitud. Se plantea que las normas promovidas por un país actúan junto con la orientación patrió-tica de sus ciudadanos, produciendo así modelos diferentes de cambio de actitud. Se analiza el caso del cambio de actitudes negativas hacia los inmigrantes.

International audience ; The aim is to theoretically investigate the role that patriotism may play in the persistence of discrimination. Patriotism refers to attachment to one's own country, and might lead to discrimination against individuals who are not part of the country. However democratic countries strongly promote the non-discrimination norm. Then, patriotism could present individuals with a normative conflict (i.e., conflict between one's own norm and the ingroup norm), which has been shown to have a potential for attitude change. It is argued that the norms promoted by a country interact with the patriotic orientation of their citizens, producing differential patterns of attitude change. The case of changing negative attitudes toward immigrants is discussed. ; El objetivo es investigar el papel que el patriotismo puede tener en la persistencia de la discriminación. El patriotismo es el apego al propio país, y puede llevar a dis-criminar a los individuos que no pertenecen al propio país. Sin embargo los países de-mocráticos promueven con fuerza la norma de no-discriminación. En este sentido, el patriotismo puede enfrentar a los individuos a un conflicto normativo (es decir, choque entre la norma personal y la norma del grupo) que se ha demostrado que tiene un fuerte peso en el cambio de actitud. Se plantea que las normas promovidas por un país actúan junto con la orientación patrió-tica de sus ciudadanos, produciendo así modelos diferentes de cambio de actitud. Se analiza el caso del cambio de actitudes negativas hacia los inmigrantes.

"The study of emotions in International Relations is gaining wide-spread attention. Within the "emotional turn" in IR the emotion of rage however has not been given sufficient attention, instead being used as short-hand for irrationality and excess.Rage is arguably one of the oldest and most destructive emotions in human affairs. This book offers an innovative approach that seeks to split rage into its traditional manifestation of aggression and violence, and into a less visible, passive manifestation of Nietzschean Ressentiment. This model facilitates a comprehensive understanding of revisionist motivation, from the violence of ISIS to the oppositionism of Putins Russia. The aim is to illustrate how a lack of violence can belie vengeful impulses and a silent rage, and how acts of violence, regardless of brutality, are often framed as a type of justice and "moral imperative" in the mind of the aggressor. This book raises serious questions and concerns about legitimacy and order in global affairs, and offers a firm theoretical basis for the exploration of present day conflicts."--Provided by publisher.

One of the fundamental issues of international relations concerns whether, and under what conditions, stability prevails in anarchic systems, these being systems in which all authority and institutional restraints to action are wholly endogenous. This book uses the tools of game theory to develop a comprehensive theory of such systems and details both necessary and sufficient conditions for stability. The authors first define two forms of stability: system and resource stability. International political systems are said to be stable when no state confronts the possibility of a loss of sovereignty. Resource stability, in contrast, requires that the current distribution of wealth and power among states can change only due to differences in the vitality of economies. The theory developed in this book refines the classic balance-of-power theory and formally incorporates into that theory the consideration of endogenous resource growth, preventive war, war costs and the imperatives of geography, revealing a fundamental conflict between the concepts of 'balancers' and 'central powers'

This work offers both qualitative and quantitative analyses of how the presence of nuclear weapons effects conflict escalation rates among international states. The qualitative section of the book focuses on the volatile Indo-Pakistani relationship and clearly demonstrates that the addition of nuclear weapons has served to retard conflict escalation between the two.

Abstract Introduction Health care in post-war situations, where the system's human and fixed capital are depleted, is challenging. The addition of a frozen conflict situation, where international recognition of boundaries and authorities are lacking, introduces further complexities. Case description Nagorno Karabagh (NK) is an ethnically Armenian territory locked within post-Soviet Azerbaijan and one such frozen conflict situation. This article highlights the use of evidence-based practice and community engagement to determine priority areas for health care training in NK. Drawing on the precepts of APEXPH (Assessment Protocol for Excellence in Public Health) and MAPP (Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships), this first-of-its-kind assessment in NK relied on in-depth interviews and focus group discussions supplemented with expert assessments and field observations. Training options were evaluated against a series of ethical and pragmatic principles. Discussion and Evaluation A unique factor among the ethical and pragmatic considerations when prioritizing among alternatives was NK's ambiguous political status and consequent sponsor constraints. Training priorities differed across the region and by type of provider, but consensus prioritization emerged for first aid, clinical Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses, and Adult Disease Management. These priorities were then incorporated into the training programs funded by the sponsor. Conclusions Programming responsive to both the evidence-base and stakeholder priorities is always desirable and provides a foundation for long-term planning and response. In frozen conflict, low resource settings, such an approach is critical to balancing the community's immediate humanitarian needs with sponsor concerns and constraints.

Abstract Introduction Health care in post-war situations, where the system's human and fixed capital are depleted, is challenging. The addition of a frozen conflict situation, where international recognition of boundaries and authorities are lacking, introduces further complexities. Case description Nagorno Karabagh (NK) is an ethnically Armenian territory locked within post-Soviet Azerbaijan and one such frozen conflict situation. This article highlights the use of evidence-based practice and community engagement to determine priority areas for health care training in NK. Drawing on the precepts of APEXPH (Assessment Protocol for Excellence in Public Health) and MAPP (Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships), this first-of-its-kind assessment in NK relied on in-depth interviews and focus group discussions supplemented with expert assessments and field observations. Training options were evaluated against a series of ethical and pragmatic principles. Discussion and Evaluation A unique factor among the ethical and pragmatic considerations when prioritizing among alternatives was NK's ambiguous political status and consequent sponsor constraints. Training priorities differed across the region and by type of provider, but consensus prioritization emerged for first aid, clinical Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses, and Adult Disease Management. These priorities were then incorporated into the training programs funded by the sponsor. Conclusions Programming responsive to both the evidence-base and stakeholder priorities is always desirable and provides a foundation for long-term planning and response. In frozen conflict, low resource settings, such an approach is critical to balancing the community's immediate humanitarian needs with sponsor concerns and constraints.