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Why have Israelis and Palestinians failed to achieve a two-state solution to the conflict that has cost so much and lasted so long? In Paradigm Lost, Ian S. Lustick brings fifty years as an analyst of the Arab-Israeli dispute to bear on this question and offers a provocative explanation of why continued attempts to divide the land will have no more success than would negotiations to establish a one-state solution. Basing his argument on the decisiveness of unanticipated consequences, Lustick shows how the combination of Zionism's partially successful Iron Wall strategy for dealing with Arabs, an Israeli political culture saturated with what the author calls "Holocaustia," and the Israel lobby's dominant influence on American policy toward the Arab-Israeli conflict scuttled efforts to establish a Palestinian state alongside Israel. Yet, he demonstrates, it has also unintentionally set the stage for new struggles and "better problems" for both Israel and the Palestinians. Drawing on the history of scientific ideas that once seemed certain but were ultimately discarded, Lustick encourages shifting attention from two-state blueprints that provide no map for realistic action to the democratizing competition that arises when different subgroups, forced to be part of the same polity, redefine their interests and form new alliances to pursue them. Paradigm Lost argues that negotiations for a two-state solution between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River are doomed and counterproductive. Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs can enjoy the democracy they deserve but only after decades of struggle amid the unintended but powerful consequences of today's one-state reality.

This timely book analyses 'soft power' in the light of neoclassical realist premises as part of the foreign policy toolkit of great powers to expand their sphere of influence. Vasif Huseynov argues that if nuclear armed great powers compete against the same type of powers to expand or sustain their sphere of influence over a populated region, they use soft power as a major expansive instrument while military power remains a tool to defend themselves and back up their foreign policies. Presenting his model of soft power, the author explores the role of soft power projection by great powers in the formation of the external alignment of regional states. He focuses on the rivalries between Russia and the West (i.e. the EU and the USA) over the states located between the EU and Russia (the region known as the "common [or shared] neighborhood") and on two of these regional states (Ukraine and Belarus) to test his hypotheses.

Introduction: The Spanish fever -- Rival empires -- Sturdy Spain -- Sunny Spain -- Hispanism, Hispanismo, and the Hispanic Society of America -- Collectors and collecting -- "Castles in Spain made real" -- The Spanish blaze -- Conclusion: The "back-and-forth" style

The issues -- The economy -- Culture and politics -- The future

Every minute 24 people are forced to leave their homes and over 65 million are currently displaced world-wide. Small wonder that tackling the refugee and migration crisis has become a global political priority. But can this crisis be resolved and if so, how? In this compelling essay, renowned human rights lawyer and scholar Jacqueline Bhabha explains why forced migration demands compassion, generosity and a more vigorous acknowledgement of our shared dependence on human mobility as a key element of global collaboration. Unless we develop humane 'win-win' strategies for tackling the inequalities and conflicts driving migration and for addressing the fears fuelling xenophobia, she argues, both innocent lives and cardinal human rights principles will be squandered in the service of futile nationalism and oppressive border control.

chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 Introduction to Rare Earth Metals -- chapter 3 Assessment of Rare Earths scarcity -- chapter 4 The optimal extraction path of Rare Earth Metals for China -- chapter 5 Adjustments in the regulatory framework of the Chinese Rare Earths sector -- chapter 6 Conclusions.

Inspired by Michel Foucault's 'The Order of Things', this text tells a story about epochal change in the modern world. While both books are concerned with how we moderns think about ourselves and our world, this work emphasizes the conceptual links in the ways we think, talk, get things done, conduct ourselves, and run societies

"Un peuple a-t-il le droit de libérer un autre du tyran qui l'opprime ? Si cette intervention est légitime, est-elle toujours opportune ? Ces questions furent au coeur de controverses brûlantes qui divisèrent la philosophie libérale à partir de la Révolution française, jusqu'à la fin du XIXe siècle. En prenant comme fil directeur la pensée de John Stuart Mill, auteur en 1859 des "Quelques mots sur la non-intervention", dont il propose une nouvelle traduction, cet ouvrage met en lumière les enjeux de ce riche débat, qui mêla considérations morales, politiques, stratégiques, historiques et même économiques. Les origines du problème philosophique du droit d'ingérence sont ainsi exhumées."--Page 4 of cover

This book introduces the field of hermeneutics through a critique of military operations in Afghanistan. Following a brief survey of modern political history of the country, the authors examine the link between cultural factors and the inefficiency of nation-building operations. Additionally, the project discusses contending academic approaches to culture, and identifies shortcomings in their theoretical propositions for military operations in failed states. Ultimately, this volume contextualizes the evolution of hermeneutical thinking and the benefits it provides in assessing the transformation of culture through military intervention.

"Offering a comprehensive, up-to-date examination of the complex web of wars and proxy wars, revolutions and counter-revolutions that are ripping the Middle East apart, this book puts these events in their historical context and leads readers through the labyrinth that is the new Middle East. This book asks the questions no one else will: why are there so many hereditary heads of state in the Middle East when the Prophet Muhammad did not appoint a successor? Why do the Western countries claim to want democracy in the Middle East yet support dictators? Why did Israel become a democracy and the Arab states did not? Why are there so many wars in the Middle East? And, most importantly, what happened to the hope and optimism of the Arab Spring? M. E. McMillan offers fresh answers to these difficult questions, giving readers a new understanding of what's really going on in the Middle East"--