The Political Economy Of Transitions To Peace

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Much attention has focused on the ongoing role of economics in the prevention of armed conflict and the deterioration of relations. In The Political Economy of Transitions to Peace, Galia Press-Barnathan focuses on the importance of economics in initiating and sustaining peaceful relations after conflict.Press-Barnathan provides in-depth case studies of several key relationships in the post-World War II era: Israel and Egypt; Israel and Jordan; Japan, the Philippines, and Indonesia; Japan and South Korea; Germany and France; and Germany and Poland. She creates an analytical framework through which to view each of these cases based on three factors: the domestic balance between winners and losers from transition to peace; the economic disparity between former enemies; and the impact of third parties on stimulating new cooperative economic initiatives. Her approach provides both a regional and cross-regional comparative analysis of the degree of success in maintaining and advancing peace, of the challenges faced by many nations in negotiating peace after conflict, and of the unique role of economic factors in this highly political process. Press-Barnathan employs both liberal and realist theory to examine the motivations of these states and the societies they represent. She also weighs their power relations to see how these factor into economic interdependence and the peace process. She reveals the predominant role of the state and big business in the initial transition phase ("cold" peace), but also identifies an equally vital need for a subsequent broader societal coalition in the second, normalizing phase ("warm" peace). Both levels of engagement, Press-Barnathan argues, are essential to a durable peace. Finally, she points to the complex role that third parties can play in these transitions, and the limited long-term impact of direct economic side-payments to the parties.

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Genre : Political Science
Author : Galia Press-Barnathan
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Release : 2009-07-05
File : 268 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780822973584


From Embargo To Ostpolitik

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Examines the development of Soviet-West German relations from both the Russian and German sides.

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Genre : History
Author : Angela E. Stent
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2003-10-30
File : 352 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0521521378


Cold War Politics In Post War Germany

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During the Cold War, the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), a divided nation on the front-line of the East-West confrontation, came down with pneumonia every time the superpowers sneezed. Due to the East-West confrontation splitting Germany in two, the Cold War remained irrevocably linked to the question of German unity. In The Politics of Foreign Policy in Post-War Germany , David Patton develops the links between Cold War international pressures, and German domestic coalitions. The book examines a politics in uncertain times, with three major shifts in Cold War relations disrupting politics-as-usual in the Federal Republic. In the early 1950s, external pressures led to a wrenching internal debate over rearmament. Twenty years later, the thaw in Cold War tensions set the stage for a fierce domestic showdown over détente with Eastern Europe. In the early 1990s, Chancellor Helmut Kohl took full advantage of the end of the Cold War to implement his controversial unification policy. At each juncture, the Federal Republic experienced intense debates over national unity, the increased stature of the chancellor in the policy-making process, the emergence of new domestic alliances and a sudden foreign policy reversal. Patton's examination of these three periods reveals how the Federal Republic has changed, yet stayed the same, in the post-war era.

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Genre : Political Science
Author : D. Patton
Publisher : Springer
Release : 1999-02-14
File : 218 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780312299613


The Political Economy Of Regional Peacemaking

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An expansive investigation of the efficacy of trade agreements, economic sanctions, and other economic strategies for promoting peace

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Steven E. Lobell
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Release : 2016-02-02
File : 277 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780472053070


Economic Warfare Or Detente

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This book analyzes East-West economic and political relations in the context of the policies of the major Eastern and Western countries. The authors, a group of international scholars, examine the potential use of East-West trade as an instrument to influence Eastern policies, and they assess the effects of U.S. unilateral imposition of embargoes and sanctions against the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries. They conclude that although East-West economic relations suffer during times of increased international tension, trade between them is an important stabilizing element.

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Genre : Political Science
Author : Reinhard Rode
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2019-03-04
File : 293 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780429709265


Helsinki 1975 And The Transformation Of Europe

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It was in Europe that the Cold War reached a decisive turning point in the 1960s, leading to the era of détente. The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), with its Final Act in Helsinki in August 1975, led to a rapprochement between East and West in the fields of security, economy and culture. This volume offers a pilot study in what the authors perceive as the key issues within this process: an understanding over the ‘German problem’ (balancing the recognition of the post-war territorial status quo against a formula for the eventuality of a peaceful change of frontiers) and the Western strategy of transformation through a multiplication of contacts between the two blocs. Both of these arguments emerged from the findings of an international research project on ‘Détente and CSCE in Europe, 1966-1975’, funded by the Volkswagen Stiftung and headed by the two editors.

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Genre : History
Author : Oliver Bange
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Release : 2008-07-01
File : 218 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780857450166


Quest For Economic Empire

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German unification evoked ambivalent reactions outside its borders: it revived disquietingmemories of attempts by German big business during the two world wars to build an economic empire in Europe in conjunction with the military and the government bureaucracy. But thereare also high hopes that German finance and industry will serve as the engine of reconstruction in eastern Europe, just as it played this role in the postwar unification of western Europe.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Volker Berghahn
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Release : 1996
File : 244 Pages
ISBN-13 : 1571819312


The Economic Consequences Of The War

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This exploration of the statistical evidence on Germany's post-war reconstruction sheds new light on the foundations of German economic power.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Tamás Vonyó
Publisher : Cambridge Studies in Economic History: Second Series
Release : 2018-02-22
File : 295 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781107128439


Deutsche Mark Diplomacy

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Whether economic sanctions work at all, and how they work if they do, are questions that have long been debated by scholars of international relations. Using a new analytic approach, which distinguishes between positive and negative sanctions and between specific and general sanctions, this book aims both to demonstrate the importance of economic linkage and to explain the variety of forms it can take. Deutsche Mark Diplomacy draws support for its theoretical arguments from a careful study of Germany's efforts to gain political leverage over Russia via economic means from 1870 into the 1990s. Focusing on two major powers over a long period, during which regimes changed and issues varied, Randall Newnham finds strong evidence to show that positive forms of linkage such as foreign aid and trade or credit incentives are more effective than negative types such as embargoes. His book significantly expands our understanding of the role played by economic sanctions in international politics at the same time that it offers a more systematic way of explaining German foreign policy.

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Genre : Political Science
Author : Randall E. Newnham
Publisher : Penn State Press
Release : 2009-03-02
File : 366 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780271046426


Visions Of The End Of The Cold War In Europe 1945 1990

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Exploring the visions of the end of the Cold War that have been put forth since its inception until its actual ending, this volume brings to the fore the reflections, programmes, and strategies that were intended to call into question the bipolar system and replace it with alternative approaches or concepts. These visions were associated not only with prominent individuals, organized groups and civil societies, but were also connected to specific historical processes or events. They ranged from actual, thoroughly conceived programmes, to more blurred, utopian aspirations -- or simply the belief that the Cold War had already, in effect, come to an end. Such visions reveal much about the contexts in which they were developed and shed light on crucial moments and phases of the Cold War.

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Genre : History
Author : Frédéric Bozo
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Release : 2012
File : 367 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780857452887